. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol XVIII. So I. So. 31S BUSH STREET SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, JAN. 3, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAH. SEVENTY YEARS' PROGRESS. Evolution of the American Trotter From Boston Blue to Maud S. It was sometime in 1S20 that a dun-colored gelding called Boston Bine was matched to trot a mile inside ihree minutes under saddle. The race took place on a measured mile over lhe Lynn (Mass.) turnpike, and Boston Bloe won in 2:39. This horse was foaled in Maine, in the Kennebec valley, not far from Waterville. In the same year the Boston Jockey Clnb offered a purse o
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol XVIII. So I. So. 31S BUSH STREET SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, JAN. 3, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAH. SEVENTY YEARS' PROGRESS. Evolution of the American Trotter From Boston Blue to Maud S. It was sometime in 1S20 that a dun-colored gelding called Boston Bine was matched to trot a mile inside ihree minutes under saddle. The race took place on a measured mile over lhe Lynn (Mass.) turnpike, and Boston Bloe won in 2:39. This horse was foaled in Maine, in the Kennebec valley, not far from Waterville. In the same year the Boston Jockey Clnb offered a purse of $1,000 for any horse that would trot inside three minutes to harness, and Boston Blue cohered the same distance in 2:o7 to a gig improvised for the occasion. Judging from what descriptions we have read of this vehicle, it must have weighed at least 110 pounds. The modern track sulky weighs from 42 to 46 pounds. It is now claimed by Mr. H. C. Burleigh, of Vassalboro, Maine, that Boston Blue was a horse originally called Suwar- row, first owned by David Nourse, who,ran freight scows or batteanx between Waterville and Augusta on the Kennebeo, and used Suwarrow to "cordell" his boats over the rapids and sand-bars in the river. Mr. Nourse sold Suwarrow to Mr. Offin B. Palmer, who Uok the horse down to Boston, where he changer! his name to Boston Blue and won the purses above mentioned. This is the story of Boston Blue as gi/en to the Spirit of the Hub by Mr. Burleigh. The evolution of the trotter from that date to the present hour, has been slow and sure. Thousands of minute details that are now known to the veriest neophytes in training, were then wholly unknown even to the early wizards of the sulky, such as James D. McMann, Hiram Woodruff, William Wbeelau, George Spicer and Horace Jone3. In 1S43 Hiram Woodruff bought the pacer James K. Polk, 2:26, with the firm belief that he could convert him into a trotter. He kept him two years and gave it up in disgust, the most a
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