jay-eye-see
Year of Birth:
1878
Immortal:
Yes
Elected as Immortal:
1990
Year of Death:
1909
Gait:
Trotter
Record:
t,2:10; p,2:06 3/4
Sire:
Dictator
Dam:
Midnight
Sire of Dam:
Pilot Jr.
Biography:
Son of Dictator and Midnight, Jay-Eye-See was the world's first 2:10 trotter. This milestone in harness racing history was recorded at Providence, Rhode Island on August 1, 1884, reducing by a quarter of a second the world mark set by Maud S. three years earlier. The black gelding was only king for a day, however. Maud S. lowered the record to 2:09 3/4 the very next day in Cleveland, Ohio. Although his career was at the trot, Jay-Eye-See was double-gaited and in 1892, at age fourteen, he paced a 2:06 3/4 mile, one second off the world record. He died in 1909 at age thirty-one.
Bones exhumed from grave, Racine, WI and now in storage
Published in the Harness Racing Museum's 1994 book, The Immortals