IN AMERICA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1444, 31 January 1885, Page 3

IN AMERICA

We give below a table extracted fr> m the Twrf, Meld and Farm , showing “the successive best records for one mile in harness since Flora Temple first beat 2 20 with date and place of performance

m. b. Flora Temple, Kalmazoo, Mich., October 15, 1859 2 19^ Dexter, Buffalo, N.Y., August 14, 1867 ... ... 217 i Goldsmith Maid, Milwaukee, Wis., September 6,1871 2 17 Goldsmith Maid, Mystic Park, Boston, Mass., June 9,1872 ... 216 j Goldsmith Maid, East Saginaw, Mich., July 16, 1874 ... ... 216 Goldsmith Maid, Buffalo, N.Y., August 7.1874 2 15£ Goldsmith Maid, Rochester, N.Y., August 12, 1874 214 r Goldsmith Maid, Mystic Park, Boston, Mass., Sept. 2,1874 ... 2 14 Barns, Buffalo, N.Y„ August 3, 1878 213 J St Julien, Oakland, Cal,, October 25, 1879 2 12| St Julies and Maud S., Rochester, N.Y., August 12, 1880 2 Ilf 8t Julien, Hartford, Conn., August 27.1880 211 J Maud 8., Chicago, 111., September 18.1880 2 10| Maud S., Pittsburg, Pa., July 13, 1881 210 J Maud 8., Rochester, N.Y., August 11,1881 210 i Jay-eye-see, Providence, R.I, August 1, 1884 2 10 Maud S., Cleveland. 0., August 2, 1884 2 9| Maud S., Lexington, Ey., November 11, 1884 2 9i We may add to this that it was a matter of astonishment when, in 1810, a chestnut horse trotted a mile at Philadelphia, “ to a sulky," in 2min 48£seo, and that Pelham, in 1849, ran the distance in 2min 28seo, and Highland Maid, in 1853, in 2mm 27sec.