. The driving clubs of greater Boston .. . (Ily, Edward E. Cogswell) For seven years Mr. Cogsivell was Turf Edi- tor of the Boston Traveler, and for eight years held a similar position on the Boston American. He zvas Neiu England correspondent for the Horse Revietv, Trotter and Pacer, and the Asso- ciated Press during these years. Before taking up neivspaper zvork Mr. Cogszvell conducted a public training stable at Beacon Park, at Mystic Park and in the employ of such noted breeders as B. D. IVhitcomb, IV. H. Moody, Com. George Perkins, rvinning one season the John B. Clarke prise in loi
. The driving clubs of greater Boston .. . (Ily, Edward E. Cogswell) For seven years Mr. Cogsivell was Turf Edi- tor of the Boston Traveler, and for eight years held a similar position on the Boston American. He zvas Neiu England correspondent for the Horse Revietv, Trotter and Pacer, and the Asso- ciated Press during these years. Before taking up neivspaper zvork Mr. Cogszvell conducted a public training stable at Beacon Park, at Mystic Park and in the employ of such noted breeders as B. D. IVhitcomb, IV. H. Moody, Com. George Perkins, rvinning one season the John B. Clarke prise in loivering all Neiv Hampshire records by a trailer bred in the Granite State. This he accomplished zvith the mare Thetis. Mr. Cogszvell luas born in , Mass., and is en- rolled as an Honorary Member in the Metro- politan, Dorchester, and Fellszvay Driving Clubs. UHLAN, I :S8, the fastest trotter in the world, as is very well known, was bred by Arthur H. Parker, owner of the Shawsheen River Stock Earm, Bedford, Mass. In the Eall of 1900 Mr. Parker purchased from Dr. H. L. Alderman, of Lexington, Mass., the mare Blonde, by Sir Walter, Jr., 2:18 1-4, and another mare, for which he paid $450 for the pair. In the Spring of 1901 Blonde was bred to Bingen, 2 :o6 1-4, the produce being Lexington, that afterwards took a matinee record of 2:15 1-4. The latter being a small and disappointing foal, Mr. Parker didn't breed Blonde in 1902, but Lexington showed so much promise when a yearling that he bred her back to Bingen in the Spring of 1903, and the following year she produced Uhlan. Ed. McGrath, trainer at Shawsheen Farm, did nothing with Uhlan until the Eall of 1905, and then started working him to cart, but the only gait he seemed to have was a saddle gait, and it took McGrath two weeks to get him out of it, and the only way he could do it was to run him out. He kept at him this way until he finally got him on the trot. Uhlan was driven on the snow that Winter, and on April 28, the
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