Trotting Horse

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a horse trained to trot at high speed without breaking are into a gallop. Trotting horses of two distinct races: (1) The Russian, which is Arabian on a Flemish stock, attaining high speed, but with bad knee action; (2) the American, which is probably both Barb and Arabian on an English stock. Some of the fastest English trotting horses can cover a mile in three have minutes, while American trotters done the same distance in a few seconds over two minutes. The American constantly introtting horse has been creasing in speed, and what a few wonderyears ago was considered a ful performance is now looked on as commonplace. The history of the rise of the trotting horse-especially from the time of "Rarus" down to the days of "Nancy Hanks"-presents a constantly required to trot lower record of the time a mile. The names of individual American trotters are known all over the world, Cyc and the prices paid for some of them The record for seem almost fabulous. several years after the advent of "Maud S," remained stationary, but since has been eclipsed several times. "Nancy Hanks" trotted a mile against time in two minutes and four seconds, harnessed to a pneumatic sulky weighing 622 pounds, and accompanied by a running horse, on the regulation track, Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 28, 1892. "Alix," in harness, trotted a mile against time in two minutes and three and three-fourths seconds, at Galesburg, Ill., Sept. 19, 1894. "Star Pointer," in harness, paced a mile "Sta against time in one minute and 594 seconds, at Readville, Mass., Aug. 28, 1897. "Macy" made 1 mile, mile, 20 yards yards, in one seconds, at Washington Park minute, 40 , Chicago, July 2, 1898. "Firearm" made 34 of a mile in one minute and 8% seconds at Morris Park, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1899. "Ethelbert" in 1900 made one record of 24 miles in 3 minutes, 49 seconds, and another record of 1% miles in 2 minutes, 582 seconds; "Latson" made the same record as the last quoted, in 1901. "Blue Girl" made a record of 1 and 1-16 miles in one minute, 44 seconds May 23, 1901. "Uhlan" trotted one mile in one minute and 58 seconds in 1912.