RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



when you come to think of it, in one man's life- 

 time, from 19 to 10,539, seems to be almost beyond 

 belief. . . . Besides such record-breakers as 

 Dexter, 2.17^; Rarus, 2.13^; Maud S., 2.o8|, and 

 Sunol, 2.o8J, I own or have owned, Alfred S., rec- 

 ord 2.i6J; Edwin Forrest, record 2.18 trial 

 2. i if ; Pickard, record 2.i8i; Ansel, record 2.20; 

 Music, record 2.2 ii; Molsey, record 2.2 if; Joe 

 Elliott, the first horse to trot a public trial in 2.15 J; 

 May Bird, record 2.21; Peerless, trial 2.23! to 

 wagon driven by Hiram Woodruff the fastest 

 mile the great driver ever drove any horse ; Elf rida, 

 record 2.13^; Grafton, record 2.22^; Pocahontas, 

 record 2.26f trial 2.17!; Startle, the first Eastern- 

 bred three-year-old to get a record of 2.36, and the 

 first horse to trot a public trial on Fleetwood in 

 2.19. To this list I could add Maud Macey, Lady 

 Stout, and several others with records better than 

 2.30; to say nothing of Lady Palmer and Flatbush 

 Maid, the first team to trot a public trial in 2.26, 

 over thirty years ago." 



Among the brood mares enumerated by Mr. Bon- 

 ner were Russella, own sister to Maud S. ; Jessie 

 Kirk, dam of Majolica, record 2.15, and Miss Ma- 

 jolica, 2.24^; Daybreak, by Harold (sire of Maud 

 S.), dam Midnight (the dam of Jay-eye-see) ; Lady 

 Stout, the first trotter to beat 2.30 as a three-year- 

 old; Lady Winfield, sister to Sheridan, record 

 2.20J; Lucy Cuyler, trial to skeleton wagon 2.15^, 

 and a half mile to top road wagon at Fleetwood in 

 1.05; Manetta, trial 2.i6, and Maud Macey, trial 

 2.i6|. The performances of these horses were made 



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