The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-09-04

| participate in the race on tho ground that Ah,
had better record; that her nsme had formerl,
! been Fannie D., and ~ such sho had beenlrulet
of the Bulfolo track.
| The judges accepted tho protest, but re-
auired it to be reduced to writing, and after u
interval of about An hour, the following pape
Wa fled:
Judges St. Paul Driving Park:
Iproteat Nettie B. in tho $50 race; also ir
the 2:S7 race, for trotting under assumed nam.
During the trotting of this, the second. heat
| . quecr, and, to tho old horsemeu present, On
unsccountable delusion seemed to take hold
! Ut tho three Judges. While the
horses were passing tu The half mile and thence
t. the home stretch and down. these gentlemen
discovered or thought they did. that Nettie's
driver was holding her in, and hence that there
waa cJlluaion between him and Hack's driver.
In jidy tho delusion spread and tho word
went out that tho marc could beat the horse
and that the heat should be declared "off."
long parley ensued aud the more ''chin music
there WA the 6rmer became the conviction
that that wicked driver munt be unscated and
tho heat driven over again with new driver
for the marc.
The driver and owner were both called and
badgered to find out what they bad to say. The
driver emPhatically denied knowing the marc
by any other name OF that he knew OF her hav-
ing any record At all. He bad been driving her
oluCC lA0t bQIluks
The owner, Hardy, was next subjected to iu-
diclal investigation. He denied the record
part of the story and said the marc was ten
years old; that he had owned her two yoars,
and that he knew nothing of her having any
other name. As to collusion on the part of the
driver, he was not aware of it. If any other
man could make her trot faster than her regu-
nc would like to SEQ it done. a. he wanted to
have the swag. He admitted protests had
heretofore been filed against bis mare. but said
they had invariably been withdrawn, and ~ to
the charges made against him that her time
had been suppressed at Mankato, he claimed
that such was the fact. but that it was done in
accordance with an understanding with the Sec
retary and treasurer Of that association.
The judges sgain had q long discussion over
tho vexed question, and finally with the aid of
Gt o. A. Nash, who assumed tho role Of mentor
to the disquieted trio decided the second to be
mo heat" on the ground that Nettie was not
driven properly i.e, for all that was in her" :"
and that the hea. must be trotted over and
new driver assigned to drive tho mare.
This decision was decidedly what Dick Swiv-
eller would call ''stunner." to the horeemen
and othera who had watched the race attentive
~, and could SEQ no signs of jookcyinR or col
iusion ON the drivers psit The action of the
judges was freely commented on, a their de-
cision Was avowedly based, not on the protest
filed, but on the assumption of unfair driving
Tho further injustice Of deposing the driver
and substituting another in his stead, on pre-
text at least very doubtful, was SO glaring that
many disinterested persons did not hesitate to
denounce it as q ossly improper.
However, there was nO recourse, and one of
the judges, Mr. Cross, was assigned to drive
the mare. Haroy. the owner, interposing no
objection, Mr.. Cross mounted the sulky, and
the heat was trotted-black winning, with Care
less second, Nettic third. Smoker fourth, Lady
Hess fifth and Peerless sixth. Time, 2:4011.
In trotting the heat after passing the first
quarter. Nette broke badly, and before she
could be brought down had dropped consid er-
ably to the rear. While OH the three-au arter
stretch she recovered and got down to work,
and thence on to the wire behaved nobly, but
could not recover lost time. This heat hardly
justified the confident assertion previously
made by the judges ss to the mares ability to
beat Mack. nor their suspicious IS to the jock
eyicg of the driver. But all this failure was
satisfactorily accounted for by the VI ispered
intimation that after trotting the "void'' heat
the driver bad neglected grooming his animal
and bad slyly given her pail of water, 80 de-
termined was he that abe should not win. lie
this as it may, it is certain that with the able
driving of Mr.. Cross she did not accomplish
what she had done with her own drive. Verify
aOme things are easily accounted fori