/// luck his portion — cruel fate! 



Yet listed he his name among the great. 



— J. J. Holden. 



MAJOR DELMAR 



Champion Trotting Gelding for Six Years 

 Record 1:59% 



AJOR DELMAR 1:593/4, by Delmar, out of Expec- 

 tation by Autograph was one of the greatest racing 

 geldings of all time and it was in that particular 

 line of endeavor that he achieved his most enduring fame. 

 Among his victories were those scored in some of the more 

 important stake races on the Grand Circuit. And yet, while 

 many of his assaults on time were losing performances it 

 is a remarkable fact that he trotted no less than thirteen 

 miles in 2:03 or Ijetter a feat no other trotter of his day 

 accomplished or very nearly equaled and that alone serves 

 to show that the big son of Delmar was what has so often 

 been called "a trotter above ordinances." 



He came out as a star of the first magnitude in the season 

 of 1902 in charge of the late Alta McDonald who started 

 him in an even dozen races against the pick of the year's 

 trotters and he was returned victor in nine of them and ended 

 the campaign with a record of 2:0d^A. 



It happened in his case, as in the cases of many other 

 fast-record holders before and since, that there were no 

 classes for him in 1903 and he was used largely for exhibi- 

 tion purposes. He raced twice against The Abbot, whose 

 star was setting, and beat him on both occassions in ridicu- 

 lously slow time. After that there was no foeman w^orthy 

 of his steel except Lou Dillon and the only time she met him 

 that year was in the Gold Cup race to wagon, at Memphis, 

 where he was beaten in two straight heats in 2 :04'%, 2 :04%. 



