A steed as black as the steeds of night 

 Was seen to pass as with eagle flight. 



— Thos. Buchanan Read. 



UHLAN 



Champion Trotter for Nine Years 

 Record 1:58 



HLAN 1:58 became the champion trotter of the world 

 in October of the year 1912 and his reign lasted 

 nine years almost to the day, being but once ser- 

 iously menaced in the intervening period, and that by the 

 stallion champion Lee Axworthy, who came within a quarter 

 of a second of equalling the record of the incomparable 

 black gelding, and might have lowered it had he been tried 

 another year. That was in 1916, and five years elapsed 

 before a new champion seized the crown. 



So much has been said in praise of Uhlan that one hesi- 

 tates to attempt to add to that which has been so worthily 

 bestowed upon a subject so worthy. Much as the word king 

 and its derivatives have come to be disliked, it is, perhaps, 

 still safe to say that Uhlan bore his kingly honors in a man- 

 ner befitting the current conception of a king before the 

 last world war proved that the modern king was oft-times 

 worse than common clay. But Uhlan was not that sort of 

 king. He was kingly in every sense; in the way he carried 

 himself; in the way he did that which he set out to do; in 

 his bearing after he had done it. He made one proud to 

 say that the American trotter has that quality which justifies 

 our devotion to him. He entertained thousands and the 

 entertainment was royal. The trainer whose skill prepared 

 Uhlan for the great things he did is preparing an intimate 

 story about him, and it goes without saying that it will be 

 eagerly read by many thousands of those whose cheers have 



