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"A black head and a chestnut exchanged the greetings
of a nezi.' day"

KING AND QUEEN

A COLLOQ^UY

PRIVATELY PRINTED
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iSOMBROSA, looking from its
eminence down toward Santa Bar-
bara and the Pacific, arched by the
cloudless blue of California and basking in
its sunshine, had something of dreaminess
this particular spring morning, and that it
was perhaps which led a black head and a
chestnut, as they exchanged the greetings of
the new day across one of the paddock fences,
to drop involuntarily into a tone softly remi-
niscent.

"Do you know," remarked the chestnut,
"that life passes Hke a dream to me since I
got back home? I was born in California —
what a time ago it was, too! — it hardly seems
possible — "

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"Never mind just how long!" the black in-
terrupted gallantly. "Ladies are not expected
to tell their ages!"

"But Queens need not dissemble such de-
tails!"

The chestnut head was lifted proudly
and held high in the air a moment. The bril-
liant eyes swept the horizon, with a look as of
seeing far beyond it — imperial visions of the
past maybe.

"Really, there's no use trying to conceal
my age," she went on. "The whole world
knows it. And then, there's all that family
of mine! My only regret for the East, by
the way, is because my two youngest are back
there, at Memphis. At school — ^yes, Mr. Geers
is educating them. They're doing beauti-
fully, too, from all I hear. It was hard for
me to say good-bye to my baby when he went
away, and I can't help feeling a bit lonely
at times without him. But of course I know

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it is all for the best. He has his name and
the honor of his family to maintain and must
live up to them. Still, the idea that I might
never see him again — one can never tell; go-
ing away so far and in these times — "

After a pause she continued:
"And then, there are quite a few of my
grandchildren now. Some of them in the
2:10 list, too. My oldest daughter is four-
teen and has a baby of her own in Massa-
chusetts (you were born there, were you not?)
that they tell me wonderful things about.
I'm very proud of them all — prouder, in fact,
than of having been the world's first two-
minute trotter myself. . . Let me think back.
Like my sex, I'm not strong on dates and
figures, but it was surely in nineteen-three that
I trotted that first two-minute mile at Read-
ville.

"Nineteen-three! That would be eight-
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een years ago, wouldn't it?" she mused. Then
proceeded :

"All those years have gone by and no
other mare has approached my record of
1 :58j^ that I made a few weeks later, at Mem-
phis. Of course I know you finally beat it —
after a good many trials." — There was just
a touch of feminine malice in the last re-
mark.— "I felt rather put out about it when
I heard the news. . . . No, you needn't try
to apologize for what you did" — this as the
black head's owner was about to interject
something — "because, you know, you're every
inch a King! The King, I mean!"

She corrected herself so gracefully, bow-
ing as she did so, that he whom she saluted
as sovereign in his turn made a deep obeis-
ance, the black muzzle flecking the luxuriant
grasses in which he stood, while his great eyes,
with their "look of eagles," glowed brightly
with appreciation of a royal compliment.

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"Yes," she continued, "I've forgiven you,
fully, for two reasons. One was the way you
did it — it and the other marvelous feats you
accomplished. The other is that since I've
come to know you personally I have found
it impossible to do otherwise. You remem-
ber, it was down at Curies, on the James
River, in Virginia, we first met, half-a-dozen
years ago? I can't say, though, that we had
then but a bowing acquaintance. It wasn't
until we met again here any real friendship
was possible. It rather surprises me, too,
that we've become so chummy. I never made
friends quickly, and if I'm not mistaken,
neither did you. But now that we are on a
truly friendly footing, why — "

The black head gave another sweeping
salute :

"It's charming of you to put it that way,
Your Majesty. But then, may not a Queen
be friendly with a King, if not with much of

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anyone else? I have no such long reign to look
back upon as have you, but it's quite a while
at that. Nineteen-twelve — ^that's nine years.
And for that matter, it was two years before,
in nineteen-ten, that I first beat two minutes
and became a champion. But even then you
had seven years the start of me."

"I suppose we are both getting old. We
must be, the way we have wandered," replied
the queen. "I mean, wandered in our conver-
sation. What I started out to say was how
like a dream life has passed since I got back
to California; what a luxury it is to be here,
and know I'm here to stay. I used so to long
to come back! And to wonder if I ever would!

"I was only four when they first took me
East. Nobody had ever heard of me then.
I was just learning — ^just a school-girl, one
might say. I suppose I did learn rather fast,
for it was only the next season that I became
Queen. In the meanwhile I had made one

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'Doc received it from the Crown Prince's ozvn hands'

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trip back here — to Santa Rosa, where I was
born — I've never seen the dear old place
since! And two years later I spent the win-
ter here, with Budd Doble as my major-
domo. Then it was back East once more and
to the very ends of the earth — across the
Ocean and all over Europe. Then back to
God's Country again, but not back here till
now. When I think of all the traveling I've
done, the worlds I've seen, the places I've vis-
ited, it fairly makes my brain whirl.

"Always I had a royal time — but how one
tires of it! You know; you've had the same
experience."

The King murmured a word of assent.
"But go on," he said, "what you are saying
interests me intensely."

"Well," continued the Queen, "there was
that day in Berlin, for instance, when His
Imperial Highness, the Crown Prince, pre-
sented that superb trophy — it's up there on

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the hill, in the Trophy Room, this moment
— in commemoration of my appearance there.
The Boss couldn't be there that day, so Doc
received it from the Crown Prince's own
hands. That was certainly one of the big
moments of my career. Still, I can't say I
ever liked Germany. Vienna was incompar-
ably more attractive than Berlin, while Mos-
cow surpassed everything.

"And now everything is swept away
there! They tell me the Crown Prince is an
exile in a little fishing village in Holland. In
Vienna thousands of people are starving to
death. And Moscow — ^but I just can't bear
to think of it! Who could have imagined
such things then?'*

"Who, indeed !" answered the King. "That
Crown Prince of yours — I never saw him,
for I only passed through Germany, and did
not appear there — is at least alive and well.
Probably he still gets some fun out of exist-

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ence. But think of the Russian royal fam-
ily— and, for that matter, of everybody who
was anybody there. Truly, it is safer to be a
King of the Turf than a Kaiser or a Tsar!"

Then the luminous eyes in the black head
brightened suddenly and their owner added:
"They say the days of kings and thrones —
human ones, I mean — are passing. But
there's one King regnant among men yet.
King Albert of Belgium! Ah, there's the
true monarch ! Like the rulers of old, he led his
own armies in battle, instead of staying out
of harm's way, like that Kaiser and Crown
Prince, and letting the rest do the fighting!
There will always be a throne in Belgium,
and a King upon it, while Albert the First
lives!"

"Why, how enthusiastic you are!" ejacu-
lated his hearer.

"And why shouldn't I be?" came the
answer. "You may have received trophies

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from the hands of Crown Princes. But I —
have borne a King on my back ! King Albert
himself, it was! When he visited America,
he came here to Santa Barbara; yes, to Asom-
brosa. He had heard of me — Hke the real
King he is, he loves kingly horses. He wished
to see me, and when they brought me out, he
expressed tlie desire to mount me. That, in
your own phrase, was one of the big moments
of my career! He sat me like a King, for he
rides as royally as he reigns. After I had
trotted down to the beach with him, with the
blue sky and sea and tlie white surf and gleam-
ing sand for a background, they took my
photograph with him in the saddle. 'The
Two Kings*, they called the picture. What
a pity you were then still in the East and did
not meet His Majesty!"

"Yes?" was the response, with a soup-
con of ironic inflection. "But then, I have met
kings of all kinds. And have been loved by

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many. Kings of my own kind, to be sure
but real kings, for all that. Kings, like King
Albert, who had been victors on the field of
battle, themselves bearing its brunt. John A.
McKerron was the first of them. We had
quite a romance. Then there was the great
Bingen, a King from whom many Kings are
descended — ^yourself among them, for are you
not his own son?" The black head bowed
reverently. "But why name them all? I
must not, however, forget The Harvester.
There were two Kings at Curies Neck when
you were both there! And even you will ad-
mit that he is of the real race of monarchs.
''But of all my royal adorers," she contin-
ued reflectively, a tone of sadness creeping
into her accents, *T think oftenest of Kre-
pesh, because of his terrible fate. Do you
recall Krepesh? The great grey horse, the
Orloff trotting King, who ruled the Russian
turf when I was there?"

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"Remember Krepesh? I should say I do!
He was still supreme three years later, when
I made my Russian tour."

The Queen mused a moment.

**How well I remember the day I posed
with Krepesh — the American Queen and
the Russian King — for our portraits together!
There was a background of beautiful trees,
heavy with rich foliage, and those silvery
birches shining through them. The picture
was striking — a great success. Krepesh was
a marvel to his Russians because he had trot-
ted in 2\09y2, but when I showed them a half
in :59^2 seconds at Moscow, over that dead,
sandy track, I gave them new ideas of speed.
Just the same, you couldn't help admiring
Krepesh! He was so picturesque, with such
a gallant air! And such an idol! The ap-
plause he got was deafening, always. Kre-
pesh, the King! And those Bolsheviks killed
him!"

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'The American Queen and the Russian King'

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"Russia! Krepesh!" murmured the black
King, reminiscently. *' Could anyone ever for-
get them? I had a wonderful time there, my-
self, but my luck wasn't with me. The clim-
ate got me just as The Boss arrived for Der-
by Day. Doc had worked me in 2:04 and I
was all ready to show those Russians a mile
in two minutes. But instead of that, the vets
were at work trying to keep me from dying.
You have always to take some bitter with the
sweet and that was my one supreme disap-
pointment. The day I had that accident —
that quarter-boot, you know, that came loose
and tripped me — and Hamburg Belle beat
me (that race is still the world's record, by
the bye — 2:0154 and 2:01^) was nothing
like so great a one. For I had another chance
with her and defeated her without an effort.
But that was my only chance in Russia. How-
ever, I never think of Hamburg Belle if I
can help it — it makes me too sad. A few

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months later she was dead, you know. If I'd
known that was coming I'd have let her beat
me again that second time, too!

"Still, I made up for what happened — or,
rather, what failed to happen! — in Russia
that same fall after I'd got back home, by
that mile in 'fifty-eight at Lexington, and
back in 'three and a quarter, hitched double
with Lewis Forrest. Frankly, I like to think
of that rather than Russia!"

"I don't blame you. Still, I like to close
my eyes once in a while and see rise up be-
fore me that Moscow race track — as it was
then, not one track, but three of them, two
small ones inside the main track, the sirroi,
big enough to take care of a thousand race
horses, and that wonderful grand stand, with
those groups of monumental sculpture high
up against the clouds; and, over on the other
side, the grand stand at the running race
track. It made America look commonplace,

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eh? And then you have to say this for the
Russians — that they did love the trotters and
when they wanted a big crowd at the running
track, had to take some trotters over there and
race them! If one tells that here in the U. S.
it sounds like a fairy tale. But true it was,
just the same."

"Speaking of the runners," rejoined the
King, "did I tell you of my little adventure at
Saratoga? No? Well, then, you know the
thoroughbreds race there — at 'the Spa' as they
call it — every year in August. It resembles
the big European meetings, in environment
and atmosphere, more than any other on this
side. The Boss runs up there often from New
York to enjoy it. That summer he had been
riding me in Central Park and didn't want to
give up the pleasure I afforded him. So he
took me to Saratoga with him. That was in
'fourteen, as I recall it. Those running horse-
men, as you are probably aware, know nothing

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about a modern trotter, especially how fast he
is. So one morning The Boss gave them a
little demonstration. I don't wish it under-
stood as boasting, but I did carry The Boss,
at 192 pounds, an eighth, over grass, in 13 sec-
onds, a 1 :44 gait. After they'd compared
their watches and got their breath, they admit-
ted it was doubtful if there were many thor-
oughbreds at the Spa that could sprint such an
eighth, with that weight up. Those thorough-
breds look down on a trotter and sniff about
his being 'plebeian' or 'half-bred' and it did me
a world of good to put tliem in their places
for once."

"Correct!" responded the Queen, with em-
phasis. "I never saw Saratoga, but what you
did there reminds me of something I once did
myself. It was late in the fall — that fall of
nineteen-three — after I'd trotted in 'fifty-eight
and a half at Memphis, had pulled The Boss
in even time to wagon and beaten Major Del-

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mar for the Gold Cup, all inside a few days.
They brought me to New York and The Boss
decided to sprint me on the Speedway. I did
the quarter, to wagon, for him, in 25% seconds
— that's a 1 :43 gait. They had two runners to
pace me. Doc driving one, the other under
saddle, but they got lost along the road some-
where. There was no talk of front runners or
windshields in connection with that little per-
formance, my friend! Not much!"

For a moment more she said nothing, then
resumed :

"By the way. That New York Speedway?
Is it still in existence?"

"No, not as you knew it. It is now but a
memory of the past to the trotter. They have
turned it over to the autos and" —

Before he could get farther she broke in :

"Hideous things ! How I hate them ! ! But
you were saying — ?"

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"That I have my memories of the Speed-
way, too. I never told anyone this, but
you might like to know it. Just ten years
after that quarter of yours there. The Boss
stepped me down that same strip of dirt and
I did it in twenty-six seconds, in the rain. Not
bad, eh?"

"Did you really?" She gazed at him with
a new look of respect, but ignoring any
farther expression of wonderment, went on
gaily:

"In the rain, did you say ? Believe me, you
don't know what rain is! You should have
been along with us in Austria, at Baden, the
summer of nineteen-nine, when The Boss
drove me an exhibition there, to wagon — five
hundred meters — I did it at a 1 :52 gait. I
abhor slang — ^but you should have seen my
finish! Rather, you couldn't have if you'd
been there! It didn't just rain. It was a
deluge! What a ducking we got! But do

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you know, I enjoyed it! Actually! For the
crowd cheered like mad and at every step I
took, with the water splashing under my feet
as if I was trotting through a mill-race, I
could hear the applause! It still rings in my
ears, in my day-dreams! I've been told that
Maud S., when she reigned as queen, long
before we were born, when she got an ovation,
would stop on the track, turn her head toward
the stand, and as it were, bow to it. I was
not that self-conscious. But the cheers and
the hand-clapping — I loved it! Didn't you?'*

It was the King's turn to assume the in-
souciant :

"Well, of course," he replied, in a slight-
ly bored manner, "I won't say I didn't. But
it got to be such an old story. Still, that very
last time — my farewell appearance, I mean —
when Doc hooked Slats with me at Lexington
and I trotted a mile in 1.54^ — I don't think
I ever heard quite such a roar from the stand

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as that day. Perhaps it was because I was
on fire myself. Dear old Slats! He was all
in half-way through the stretch and I had to
drag him from there home. They had begim
to cheer before we got to the seven-eighths,
and I could hear them calling to me to come
on! It was glorious — I'll not deny it. But,
on my honor, not even that made me so happy
as just to have The Boss on my back and feel
the comradeship existing between us."

A light, wonderfully soft, glowed in his
eyes. He fell silent. Then his courtesy re-
asserted itself.

"It's rather curious, if you stop to think
of it," he proceeded, after a pause, "that The
Boss drove each of us to wagon in exactly the
same time — two minutes flat. Do you know,
I've often wished it had happened so we might
have turned 'round together! There would
have been something for moving pictures that
would have made the Man o'War-Sir Barton

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"Jtist to have The Boss on luy back and feel the coniradcship
between us"

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affair tame in comparison. I'd have wanted to
be as good that day, though, as the day The
Boss drove me that half in fifty-six and a quar-
ter to wagon at Randall, and — "

"And you'd have needed to be!" was the
crisp rejoinder. A fiery light flamed into the
Queen's eyes, her nostrils suddenly dilated and
a quiver thrilled her frame.

"Well," the King returned amiably, quick
to mollify her threatened outburst, "the critics
have quarrelled for years about which of us was
the faster, so I can't see any need for us to do
so ourselves. What I had in mind when I
spoke was not any wild idea of outspeeding
you, but just the sight we would have been
from the grandstand! The Boss to drive one
of us and Doc the other."

"Yes," the Queen answered, more sub-
duedly, "that would have been something to
see! If it had ever happened, I don't think
Mabel Trask and Saint Frisco would have

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seemed quite so thrilling! We would certain-
ly have been complete foils for each other —
and I should have given you the inside posi-
tion to finish with, so my bronze figure might
have been outlined against your black one.
The artistic effect would have been exquisite!
But the most beautiful, wonderful things
never happen!"

The idea seemed to preoccupy the King.
In fancy he seemed to behold this marvelous
spectacle which, between them, they had
evoked. Then he went on:

"If you want my opinion, what the turf
needs most today is something of that kind.
I mean, two world's champions, pitted against
each other purely for glory and the splendor
of the sight. You spoke just now of Mabel
Trask and Saint Frisco. Think of the sensa-
tion they created, yet neither of them was a
two-minute trotter, and their duels were com-
mercial propositions. Not that they didn't

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race for blood. They did. But it was money
they really raced for, first, last and all the
time. We never did that, either of us, after
The Boss got us."

"I never did, at any time in my life," said
the Queen proudly.

*T did a few times, before I became King,
never after that. There were fortunes to be
won, too, by both of us, had we done so."

The Queen's figure quivered disdainfully.

"Ah, yes! The promoters, exploiters and
gamblers! What wouldn't they have given
to get hold of us. Think what was done with
Cresceus, the King I dethroned. And that
Man o'War-Sir Barton race. That was a
commercial affair through and through.
Why, the movie rights had even been sold
weeks before the two horses met! It was no
race at all, into the bargain. Sir Barton was
far from the horse he had been and Man
o'War simply ran away from him. Yet they

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tell me when the picture was thrown on the
screen the operators made it look like a real
contest, the people fairly went mad with en-
thusiasm and there were cyclones of applause.

"I wonder what would have happened if
the movie fans could have seen you and me
racing together! But I was too far in ad-
vance of my time for that. The films were
just getting going when I made the two-
minute trotter a reality."

"Well, they've had me on the cinema," re-
joined the King. "Not in a race, though.
And between us, I thought the picture was
nothing. But, they tell me, it went like wild-
fire, even if it wasn't circused like Man o'War
and Sir Barton. Getting back to Saratoga,
though, while I enjoyed my outing there, and
they certainly treated me well, I discovered
that the racing was only a pretext for the bet-
tinjr. And ever since I have been still proud-
er to be a trotting than a running King, as

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you are a trotting Queen. Neither of us ever
won money enough to pay a season's expenses,
but if you would mean anything as a runner,
get into the peerage, with no thought of a
crown, you must win a hundred thousand at
least. Glory there is a matter of dollars and
cents, I found out."

"But," said the Queen gravely, "such fame
is transient! Who remembers these runners,
these 'big winners,' for more than a season?"

"Who remembers them? Nobody! That
is, nobody but the men for whom they won
money. And they forget them over night.
Yet Your Majesty, who never won a penny
and whose record (as you allow me to recall!)
dates back eighteen years, remains as famous
as ever. Lou Dillon's name is still a house-
hold word the world around!"

"The compliment of a King!" The Queen
spoke with pride yet humility. "And if I
still am a Queen, and you, Uhlan, a King, it

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is because we have reigned over a sport, not
so-called of kings, but of sportsmen, in whose
memories and hearts we remain."

APPENDIX

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LOU DILLON l-.S^y.

The First Two-Minute Trotter

World's Champion Trotter, 1903-1912

Chestnut mare, star and snip, near hind ankle white ;
height, 15.014 hands. Foaled 1898. Bred by Mess
Henry and Ira Pierce, Santa Rosa Stock Farm, Santa
Rosa, Cal. Purchased by Mr. C. K. G. BilHngs, May,
1903, at Cleveland, O.

Sire, Sidney Dillon 23157, sire also of Helen Stiles
2 m%, Ruth Dillon, 4, 2 :0634, Dolly Dillon, 2 :06K (to
wagon), Stanley Dillon 2:07% and 107 others with
standard records ; and of the dams of Emma Harvester,
4, 2:04%, Expressive Lou, 3, 2m%, Lou Billings, 3,
2:08%, Dillon Axworthy, 3, 2:10>4, etc., etc. Sidney
Dillon by Sidney, 2:19%, son of Santa Claus, 2:17%,
by Strathmore 408, by Hambletonian 10; his dam,
Venus, two mile record 5:04, (dam also of Adonis
2:11%, Cupid 2:18 and Lea 2:18%), by Captain Web-
ster 10173, son of Williamson's Belmont.

Dam, Lou Milton (dam also of Cornelia 2:19%,
Redwood 2:21%, Aileen 2:26% and Ethel Mack, 3,
2:29%), by Milton Medium 2:25%, son of Happy
Medium 400, by Hambletonian 10. Milton Medium's
dam Fan (dam also of Hattie 2:29%), by Sackett's
Hambletonian 1727, son of Hambletonian 10.

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Some Performances of Lou Dillon

1903

Cleveland, O., June 16, 1903. To beat 2:14, trot-
ting, to wagon.

Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon

Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

Time— >^ j^ ^ Mile

:33 \my2 1:35)4 2:06%

(Note: Previous world's amateur record for trot-
ling mares, 2:07, by Lucille.)

Cleveland, O., June 29, 1903. To beat 2:06^,
trotting, to wagon.
Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon

'Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

Time— ;^ 3^ % Mile

:31% 1:03>^ 1:34 2:04^

(Note: Previous world's amateur record for trot-
ters, 2:05^, by Lord Derby.)

Cleveland, O., July 11, 1903. To beat the world's
record for trotting m.ares, to sulky, 2:03^.

Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon M. Sanders won

Time— >^ K M Mile

:31>4 1:01^ \\Z2y2 2my2

Cleveland, O., July 31, 1903. To beat the world's
record for trotting mares, to sulky, 2:03j/^.

Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon M. Sanders won

Time— ^ 3^ Ya Mile

1:00^ 1:3 IK 2:02^

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Brighton Beach, C. 1., Aug. 17, 1903. Exhibition.

Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon M. Sanders won

Time— 34 >^ Y^ Mile

:28>:i :59 1 rSO^^ 2:03^4

(Note: The fastest first quarter ever trotted.)

Readville. Mass., Aug. 24, 1903. To beat the
world's record for trotting mares, to sulky, 2:02;>^.

Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon M. Sanders won

Time— >^ Ya H y2 Y% Ya ^'k Mile

:1534 :30^ :45M 1:00^ 1:1.S34 1:31 1:46 2:00

Separately each quarter:

Istqr. 2dqr. 3d qr. 4th qr.

:30>4 :30i^ :3034 :29

Separately, each eighth :
1st 2d 3d 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

:15% :15 :15 :15>< :15 :\SYa :15 :14

(Note: The world's first two-minute mile by a
trotter; previous world's trotting record, 2:02^4, by
Cresceus.)

Cleveland, O., Sept. 1, 1903. To beat her own
world's amateur trotting record, to wagon, 2:0AY-
Lou Dillon, ch m, b}^ Sidney Dillon

, Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

Time— J4 Y2 Y\ Mile

:32 1:023/^ 1 :33>4 2:04^4

Cleveland, O., Sept. 12, 1903. To beat the record
of Maud S., 2:08^, trotting, to high-wheel sulky.

Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dilloa M. Sanders won

Time— 34 y'l Y\ Mile

:32>4 1:04 1:35 2:05

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(Note: The fastest mile ever trotted to high-
wheel sulky, without pneumatic tires.)

Cleveland, O., Sept. 19, 1903. Exhibition, trot-
ting, to wagon.
Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon _..

Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

Time— 5^ J^ % Mile

:33>4 1:05% 1:36^ 2:05>4

(Note : Last half in 59 J^ seconds ; last quarter in
28% seconds.)

Lexington, Ky., Oct. 10, 1903. To beat 2:04>^,
her own world's amateur trotting record to wagon.
Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon

Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

Time— % >^ % Mile

:31 1:01 1:30% 2:01%

Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 20, 1903. Free-for-all trot,
amateur drivers, to wagon, for Memphis Gold Cup.
Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon

-_ _ Mr. C. K. G. Billings 1 1

Major Delmar, b g, by Delmar._

Mr. E. E. Smathers 2 2

Time— % >< % Mile

1st heat :30 1:00 1:32 2:04%

2d heat :32% 1 :03>< 1:33 2:04%

(Note: World's race record for trotters to wagon,
for both one and two consecutive heats, driven by either
amateur or professional reinsman. World's record for
two consecutive heats in a race to either wagon or
sulky.)

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'When I heat Major Delmar for the Gold Cup"

KING AND QUEEN

Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 24, 1903. To beat her own
world's record of 2 :00, trotting,

Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon M. Sanders won

Time —

% % Vs y2 H Va % Mile

:15M :30 :44% :59>^ 1 :14>4 1 :28>4 1 :43j^ 1 :58>^
Separately, each quarter :

1st qr. 2dqr. 3d qr. 4th qr.

:30 :29i^ :29 :30

Separately each eighth:
1st 2d 3d 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

:15>4 :1434 :1434 :14K :14M :14M :15 :15

Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 28, 1903. To beat her own
world's amateur trotting record, to wagon, 2:01^.
Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon. ~

Mr. C K. G. Billings won

Time —

Vz Va y?. V^ Y^ Va % Mile

:15 ■29y2 -My :S9y 1:14^ 1:295^ 1:45 2:00

Separately each quarter:

Istqr, 2dqr. 3d qr, 4th qr.

:293^ :29^ :30>^ :30>^

Separately each eighth:
1st 2d 3d 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
:15 '.Uy :Uy :15 ilSy :14^ :15^ :15

New York Speedway, N. Y. City, Nov. 11, 1903.
Special exhibition, to wagon.
Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon _

_ _ Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

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Time — % Yt.

1st heat :29 :59

2d heat :25% :58><

(Note: First quarter of second heat the fastest
ever trotted or paced, to any hitch.)

Produce of Lou Dillon

1907— Lou Billings, 3, 2:08^4, b m, by John A. Mc-
Kerron 2:041^.

1908— Gretchen B, b m, by John A. McKerron2:04>^.

1910— Mack Dillon, 6, 2:21^, ch g, by John A. Mc-
Kerron 2:04>4.

1911 — Ben Billings, pacer, 6, 2:0554, b g, by Bingen
2:0654-

1913- -Expressive Lou, 3, 2 :08j^, b m, by Atlantic Ex-
press 2:07%.

191^1 — Virginia Lou, b f, by The Harvester 2:01.

1915 — Bay colt, died as a weanling, by The Harvester
2:01.

1917— Harvest Lou, 3, 2:17^4, ch m, by The Har-
vester 2:01.

1919— Harvest Dillon, 3, 2:1034, b c, by The Har-
vester 2 :01.

1920— Etawah Dillon, pacer, 3, 2:08^^, b c, by Etawah
2:03.
(Note: Gretchen B., Lou Dillon's foal of 1908,

is the dani of Minuet 2:09)4, Harvest Grant, 4,

2:10^, Dr. Culpepper, 2, 2:14%, Harvest Sprite, 3,

2:19>^ and Girl of the Fields, 2, 2:2634, trotting, 5,

2 :08, pacing.

Expressive Lou, Lou Dillon's foal of 1913, is dam

of Gordon Dillon, 3, 2:04-34.

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Lou Billings, Lou Dillon's first foal, is dam of
Hastings Echo, 4, 2:20><.

Ben Billings, Lou Dillon's foal of 1911. has a
three-year-old trotting record of 2:17%., in addition to
his six-year-old pacing record of 2:05^.)

Some Performances by Lou Dillon's Foals
By Loii Billings

North Randall, O., Aug. 9, 1910. To beat 2:3034,
trotting.

Lou Billings, b f, 3, by John A. McKerron — Lou Dil-
lon. Dickerson won.
Time — 2:12^4-

North Randall, O., Aug. 12, 1910. To beat 2:12>i
trotting.

Lou Billings, b f, 3, by John A. McKerron — Lou Dil-
lon. Dickerson won.
Time— 2:11>4.

Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1910. To beat 2:11>^,
trotting.

Lou Billings, b f, 3, by John A. McKerron— Lou Dil-
lon. Dickerson won.
Time— 2:10><.

Columbus, O., Sept. 29, 1910. To beat 2:10>^,
trotting.

Lou Billings, b f, 3, by John A. McKerron — Lou Dil-
lon. Dickerson won.
Time— 2:08^.

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By Ben Billings

Lexington, Ky., Oct. 3, 1916. To beat 2:25>4,
pacing.
Ben Billings, b g, by Bingen — Lou Dillon. Logan won.

Time— 2 :07.

Detroit, Mich., July 25, 1917. 2:17 pace; purse
$1,200.

Ben Billings, b g, by Bingen — Lou Dillon

Jamison 10 1 1 1

J. E. C, b c, by Sunny Jim Shuler 3 3 2 2

Ardelle, ro m, by Al Stanley Whitehead 5 5 3 3

Frank R., bl g, by Bingara Fleming 4 4 8 5

Nine others started.

Time— 14 >4 M Mile

:32 1:043^ 1 :35>^ 2:0654

31^ 1:03 1:34 2:05 14

33 1:051^ 1:36^ 2:07><

:333^ 1:05 1:35 2:07>4

Kalamazoo, Mich., Aug. 1, 1917. 2:14 pace;
purse $1,000.
Ben Billings, b g, by Bingen — Lou Dillon...

Jamison 1 12 7 1

Spy Direct, b h, by Walter Direct Geers 2 10 1 1 4

Butt Hale, b g, by Senator Hale...Murphy 3 2 5 5 2
Jay Mack, chh, by Liberty Jay.-.McDonald 5 3 7 2 3

Seven other starters.
Time— >4 >^ ^ Mile

:32^ 1:0334 1 :35>^ 2:07^4

:31i4 1:02>^ 1:33^ 2:06^^

:3134 1:04 1 :35j4 2:07%

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:32^ 1:05% 1:37% 2:09%

:ZSy2 1:08% 1 :39>^ 2:12

By Expressive Lou

North Randall, O., July 19, 1916. Three-year-old

trot, sweepstakes; value $1,770.

Expressive Lou, b f, by Atlantic Express — Lou

Dillon Murphy 1 1

Harrod's Creek, Brownie Watts, Jack Mooney,

Lightsome Watts, Cochato Jay, Lotto Watts, Sister

Susan and Peter Bing also started.

Time— % Yz % Mile

:31 1:02% 1:35 2:09%

:3234 1:06 1:38^ 2:11%

Detroit, Mich., July 25, 1916. Three-year-old

trot, Hotel Wayne Sweepstakes; value $1,020.

Harrod's Creek, ch c, by General Watts

_ - Engleman 2 11

Expressive Lou, b f , by Atlantic Express

_ Murphy 12 2

Three others started.

Time— % ^ % Mile

:32>4 1:045^ 1:363^ 2:08%

:34% 1:09% 1:41 2:11%

:32 1:04 1:35 2:10

Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 11, 1916. Matron Stake,
three-year-old trot; value $5,888.
Expressive Lou, b f, by Atlantic Express — Lou

Dillon Murphy 1 1

Bingen Silk and Lightsome Watts also started.

Time— 2:13%, 2:11.

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Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 30, 1916. 2:17 trot,
three-year-olds ; stake $2,000.
Expressive Lou, b f, by Atlantic Express — Lou

Dillon Murphy 1 1

Native Judge, Stella Maris, Libya, Brov/nie Watts,
Balmacaan, Berton and Cochato Jay also started.

Time— 2:10>1 2:12.

Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 13, 1916. "American Horse
Breeder Futurity," three-year-old trot ; value $6,000.
Expressive Lou, b f, by Atlantic Express — Lou

Dillon Murphy 1 1

Suldine, Lotto Watts, Bingen Silk, General Yorke,

Cochato Jay, Balmacaan also started.

Time— 14 y. Ya Mile

:33 1:05 K^ 1:3734 2:09^4

:34 1:07 1:395^ 2:09^^

North Randall, O., Aug. 24, 1916. Champion
Stallion Stake, three-year-old trot; value $7,640.

Volga, ch f, by Peter the Great White 1 1

Expressive Lou, b f, by Atlantic Expr's...Murphy 2 3
Bingen Silk, br c, by Bingen Chandler 3 2

Four others started.

Time— 2:07>4, 2:09^.

Lexington, Ky., Oct. 3, 1916. Kentucky Futurity,
three-year-old trot; value $14,000.

Volga, ch f, by Peter the Great White 1 1 1

Harrod's Creek, ch c, by General Watts

Engleman 2 2 4

Expressive Lou, b f, by Atlantic Express

.- Murphy 4 5 2

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Three others started.
Time— 2 :06>4, 2 :07, 2 :04>4.

Expressive Lou, in her three-year-old campaign,
won $12,645.

By Harvest Lou

Kutztown, Pa., Aug. 24, 1920. Three-year-old
trot ; purse $300. Half-mile track.
Harvest Lou, b f, by The Harvester — Lou Dillon

„....Goodhart 1 1

Six others started.

Time— 2:17>4, 2:18^.

UHLAN 1 :58

World's Champion Trotter, 1912-1921

First Two-Minute Trotter in the Open

Black gelding, foaled 1904; feather in forehead,
left front coronet, both hind pasterns white ; height,
15j^ hands. Bred by Mr. Arthur H. Parker, Bedford,
Mass. ; passed, August, 1907, to Mr. Charles Sanders,
Salem, Mass. ; from whom he was purchased by Mr.
C. K. G. Billings, September, 1909.

Sire, Bingen 2:06^^4> sire also of Lucile Bingen
2:03>'4, Admiral Dewey 2:04>4, Sis Bing 2:06j^, The
Leading Lady, 3, 2:07, Bingen Silk, 3, 2:07^, J- Mal-
colm Forbes, 4, 2 :08 and 250 other standard perform-
ers ; of the dams of Lee Axworthy 1 :5854 (champion
trotting stallion), Straight Sail 2:0434, Hollyrood Bob,
3, 2:04>4, Arion McKinney 2:05^, King Watts
2:0Syl, and over 120 other standard performers. Bin-
gen, by May King 2 :20, son of Electioneer 125, son of
Hambletonian 10; dam. Young Miss (dam of six stand-
ard performers), by Young Jim 2009, son of George
Wilkes 2 :22, son of Hambletonian 10. (Note : Bingen is
the first and only horse to sire a two-minute trotter, Uh-
lan 1 :58, and the dam of one, Lee Axworthy 1 :5834-)

Dam, Blondella (dam also of Indian Hill 2:11^
on half-mile track, Lexington, amateur matinee record

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to wagon 2:153-4 ^rid Uhleen, dam of Uhlan Brooke
2:06^, all by Bingen; and of Blackwood 2:19^, by
Alliewood 2:09>4), by Sir Walter Jr., 2:1834, son of
Sir Walter 2:24^, son of Aberdeen 27, son of Ham-
bletonian 10. Sir Walter, Jr.'s dam, Kate Clark, by
American Clay 34, son of Cassius M. Clay, Jr. 22, son
of Cassius M. Clay 18, son of Henry Clay 8.

Some Performances of Uhlan
1908

Readville, Mass., Aug. 25, 1908. The Blue Hill
Stake, 2 :30 trot ; value $4,500.
Uhlan, bl g, 4, by Bingen R. Procter 111

Three others also started.

Time— 2:10^, 2:10^^, 2:11.

Columbus, O., Sept. 21, 1908. 2:10 trot; purse
$1,200.
Uhlan, bl g, 4, by Bingen R, Procter 111

Thirteen others also started.
Time— ^ 3^ ji Mile

:Z\y2 x-my^ 1:343^ 2:0734

:313^ 1:03 1 :35>4 2:0734

:3234 1:041^ 1:363^ 2:08>4

(Note: 2:073-4 a new world's record for four-
year-old trotting geldings.)

Columbus, O., Oct. 1, 190S. 2 :09 trot ; purse $1,200.

Uhlan, bl g, 4, by Bingen R. Procter 5 11

Locust Jack, gr g, by Keller Thomas...McHenry 12 2

Ten others also started.

Time— 2:09M, 2:08^, 2:073/<.
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Lexington, Ky., Oct. 13, 1908. Walnut Hall Cup,
2:15 trot; value $3,000.

Uhlan, bl g, 4, by Eingen R. Procter 1 1 1

Eight others, including Spanish Queen, also started.

Time— M Y^ Va Mile

:34 1:07 1:38^ 2:09>^

:32>4 1:03^ 1:343^ 2:07y2

:32 \m% 1:35M 2:07>^

1909

North Randall, O., Aug. 10, 1909. 2:07 trot;
purse $1,200.
Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen R. Procter 1 1

San Francisco, Sterling McKinney, Nahma, Lady
Jones, Wilkes Heart and Spanish Queen also started.
Time— ^ Yz Ya Mile

:31j4 1:03^ 1:36 2:06>^

:31^ 1:01^ 1:3354 2:03>^

(Note: Previous world's record for five-year-old
trotting gelding 2:0Sy2, by Major Delmar.)

Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1909. 2:07 trot; purse
$1,200.
Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen R. Procter 1 1

Five others also started.

Time— 2:0834, 2:0754.

North Randall, O., Aug. 25, 1909. Match, trot-
ting; purse $ .

Hamburg Belle, b m, by Axworthy Andrews 1 1

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Procter 2 dis

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-Yat K Va Mile

:31 1:01 1:31 2:01^

:30i^ '.S9y2 1:30 2:01^

(Note: Until 1924 the world's record for both

one and two consecutive heats in a trotting race.)

Readville, Mass., Sept. 3, 1909. Match, trotting;

purse $ .

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen R, Procter 1 1

Hamburg Belle, b m, by Axworthy. Andrews 2 2

Time— >4 y, Ya Mile

:31^ 1:02^ 1:33^ 2:04^

:31 1:01 >4 1:32 2:03>^

Columbus, O., Sept. 24, 1909. To beat his own
world's record of 2:03>^ for five-year-old trotting
geldings.
Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen R. Procter won

Time — Ya Y^ H Mile

:31 1:02 1:32 2:02^4

1910

North Randall, O., July 9, 1910. To beat 2:10,
trotting, to wagon.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

Time— ^ Y2 H Mile

:32 1:02 1:33 2:02^

North Randall, O., Aug. 8, 1910. To beat 2 :02^,
trotting, to wagon.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

Time— 14 Y2 H Mile

:3034 :59^ 1 :30>4 2:01

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North Randall, O., Aug. 12, 1910. To beat 2:01,
trotting.
Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Charles Tanner won

Time— K K Va Mile

:29>:i :59 1:29% 1:58%

Separately, each quarter:

Istqr. 2dqr. 3d qr. 4th qr.

:29% :29>4 :30% :29

(Note: Previous world's record for trotting

geldings, 1 :59%, by Major Delmar. This mile in

1 :58% the first ever trotted "in the open," in two

minutes or better.)

Readville, Mass., Aug. 30, 1910. To beat 2:01,
trotting, to wagon.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Mr. C. K. G. Billings lost

Time— >4 y2 % Mile

:29% 1:00 1 :30>4 2:02K'

Hartford, Conn., Sept. 9, 1910. To beat 2 :CH%,
trotting, to wagon.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

Time— ^ >^ % Mile

:30K \'.0\y2 1:32% 2:01%

Allentown, Pa., Sept. 21, 1910. To beat world's
trotting record over half-mile track, 2:06%.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Charles Tanner won

Time— % % % Mile

:32 1:03% 1:35 2:05%

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1911

North Randall, O., Aug. 7, 1911. To beat 2:01,
trotting, to wagon.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

Time— ^^ yi Ya Mile

:29>4 :59^ 1:30 2:00

Separately, each quarter:

1st qr. 2d qr. 3d qr. 4th qr.

:29K :30>4 :30K :30

North Randall, O., Aug. 11, 1911. To beat 1 :00,
trotting, to wagon; half-mile dash.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Mr. C. K. G. Billings won

Time— ^'^ yi ^ Half

:14 :28K' :43 :56j^

Separately, each quarter:

Istqr. 2dqr.

:28i^ :27^

Separately, each eighth:

1st 2d 3d 4th

:14 :14>< :143^ :13>4

Goshen, N. Y., Aug. 24, 1911. To beat his own
world's half-mile track trotting record, 2:0534-

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Gharles Tanner won

Time— ^ >4 Ya Mile

:31 1:01 1:32 2:02^

Separately, each quarter:
Istqr. 2dqr. 3dqr. 4th qr.

:31 :30 :31 :?>OYa

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KING AND QUEEN

White River Junction, Vt., Sept. 19, 1911. Ex-
hibition, trotting, half-mile track.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Charles Tanner won

Time— K Vi Va Mile

:31>4 1:013^ 1:32^ 2:0A%

Lexington, Ky., Oct. 4, 1911. To beat the track
trotting record, 2:01^.

^ '"""*> ^* ^, ^J ^.-.J3^

Time— >4 y2

Ya

Mile

am :57K

1:28M

1 :59^

Separately, each quarter:

Istqr. 2d qr.

3dqr.

4th qr.

:28K :28i/^

:31

:Z\%

1912

Moscow, Russia, June 14, 1912. Exhibition, trot-
ting.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Charles Tanner won

Time— >4 Y^ Ya Mile

:30 1:00 1:30 2:04

(Note: Not an official performance, but four
seconds faster than tlie Russian trotting record, 2:08.)

Lexington, Ky., Oct. 8, 1912. To beat the track
record, trotting, his own 1 :59j^.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Charles Tanner won

Time— ^ 3^ Ya Mile

:30 :59 1:28 1:58

Separately, each quarter:
Istqr. 2dqr. 3dqr. 4th qr.

:30 :29 :29 :30

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(Note: Previous world's trotting record, 1 :58^,
by Lou Dillon, in 1903.)

Lexington, Ky., Oct. 11, 1912. To beat the
world's record for trotting teams, 2:07^.
Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen, and Lewis Forrest, bl g,

by General Forrest Charles Tanner won

Time— ^ >^ ^ Mile

:31M 1:00^ 1:3194 2m%

1913

North Randall, O., July 7, 1913. To beat the
track record, trotting, his own 1 :58^,

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Charles Tanner lost

Time— >4 Yi Ya Mile

•29Ya '■S9Y2 \-29Y4 1:59>^

Grand Rapids, Mich., July 28, 1913. To beat the
track trotting record, 2:06%.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Charles Tanner won

Time— ^ Y2 Ya Mile

:29>^ :59M 1:31^ 1:59^

Goshen, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1913. To beat his own
world's half-mile track trotting record, 2:02^.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen _ Charles Tanner lost

Time— >4 3^ ^ Mile

:30>4 :59M 1 :32>^ 2:03^

(Note : The only half ever trotted in 1 :(X) or bet-
ter on half-mile track.)

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Hamline, Minn., Sept. 5, 1913. To beat the state
trotting record, 2-S)Sy^.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Charles Tanner won

Time— 54 ^ ^ Mile

:30 :59% 1:30% 1 :59>4

Galesburg, 111., Sept. 19, 1913. To beat the track
trotting record, 2 :03%, by Alix.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen .Charles Tanner won

Time— 54 J4 Ya Mile

:30 1:00 1:30^^ 2:0034

Lexington, Ky., Oct. 6, 1913. Quarter-mile dash,
to establish a trotting record.

Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen Charles Tanner won

Time~>^ Y^

iUYa '27

Separately, by eig'hths :

1st 2d

:13% :1354

Lexington, Ky., Oct. 9, 1913. To beat 2:03, the
world's record for trotter with running mate.
Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen, and Slats, b g, thorough-
bred „ Charles Tanner

Time — Ya Y^

Ya

Mile

:28K :57>^

1:2SY4

1:5454

Separately, each quarter :

1st qr. 2d qr.

3dqr.

4th qr.

:28% :28>4

:28

:29K

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1914

Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1914. Exhibition, trot-
ting, to saddle, grass course.
Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen. „

Mr. C. K. G. Billings (192 lbs) won

Time — :13.

Lexington, Ky., Oct. 8, 1914. Exhibition, trot-
ting, to saddle.
Uhlan, bl g, by Bingen

Mr. C. K. G. Billings (193 lbs) won

Time — :13^.

1Snfi Xhi^'C^l'^n Vii