BUFFALO PARK. 



For thirty years the sound of the recall' bell has been 

 heard and the word "Go" given on the famous Buffalo 

 trotting track. This classic ground has been the pioneer in 

 making trotting horse history. It was there in 1867 that 

 Dexter, the white-legged, blaze-faced conqueror electrified 

 the country by trotting in 2:17^, beating the world's 

 record. In 1872 Lucy, the peerless daughter of George M. 

 Patchen, trotted to a record of 2 :i8>4 at Buffalo when she 

 defeated American Girl, Goldsmith Maid and Henry. In 

 1874 Smuggler, by one of his thunderbolt rushes, won a 

 heat, beating the stallion record, and then lost his race, a 

 victim of heavy shoes and toe weights, the honors in the 

 championship contest going to Thomas Jefferson, "the 

 black whirlwind of the North." 



In 1878 all eyes were again turned to Buffalo during 

 the Grand Circuit meeting, when Splan cut the world's 

 record to 2 '.i^H with Rarus. 



When the first bell rang at Buffalo, Budd Doble and 

 Orrin Hickok were boys. Dan and Ben Mace were in 

 their prime. Splan's warwhoop was just beginning to be 

 heard in the land. The younger generation of drivers like 

 Ed Geers, "the silent man from Tennessee," and McHenry 

 of Freeport, followed in due course. "Pa" Hamlin was 

 just starting in the business of breeding trotters, the suc- 

 cess of which has made him a personage as widely known 

 in the country as the President. 



[The above was written in 1895. The last meeting held over 

 the Buffalo track was in 1896]. 



