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present manner of track building, training and vehicles. 

 There are rapid strides in these directions, and a track 

 coated with rubber, and a sulky that will propel the horse 

 are possibilities. In fact, the rubber track is feasible and 

 would be the fastest, safest and best track in the world. 

 Let some enterprising man take hold and build one and 

 the present records would be knocked into smithereens. 



[Ten years after the above was written the world's record for 

 trotters was cut to 2:02 1 4 by Cresceus, while on September 29, 

 1899, The Abbot trotted an exhibition quarter at Louisville, Ky., 

 in twenty-nine seconds. — Ed.] 



A hundred years from now (1995) when the trotting 

 record will be about i 45 and the pacing record about 

 1 42^4, when trotting horse history and trotting breeding 

 will be advanced by the experience of a century, the name 

 of Bonner will stand in sunlight brightness as one, prob- 

 ably above all others, that has done most in the interests 

 of the American trotter, during the infancy of the breed, 

 to make it successful. The Bonners are a family of trot- 

 ting horse admirers and benefactors. Robert Bonner, 

 David Bonner, Alley Bonner, are names known the world 

 over and identified with all that is pure in the love of that 

 great animal. 



There is nothing that "draws at the gate" like a bit- 

 terly fought, game contest. One sees it to-day, and wants 

 to see another to-morrow. It's simply nature, the spirit of 

 fight that is born in every living being. 



