Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-06
PHALLAS WON.
May6y Cobb Beaten for $4,000 in
Three Straight Heats
Supremacy of the Great Speed
Stations at Last Ended.
Abe Wisconsin Horse Now Without O
Peer-Heavy Betting and the
Favorite Wins,
THE GREAT STALLION RACE,
PHALLAs BEATs MANLY COM.

PHALLAs BEATS MANLY COBB.
CLEVELAND, D. July 4.-Phallas won tn,
Sl5, 900 race with Maxy Cobb to-day in thret
straight heats. Cobb never showed his most
in front during the entire race. Time, 2.14
21t4, 2.2ni. Fourteen thousand people were
in attendance, aud the track ard weather
could not have been batter. John Murphy
drove Maxy Cobb and Ed Bither sat behind
Phsllas. Pools started even, but before the
first heat Phallas brought go to Cobb's 80.
-Four attempts were made to start. At the
beginning Maxy Cobb had the pole, but when
word was given be was three-uuarters of a
length to the rear. After the quarter post
was passed Phallas was two lengths ahead,
Murphy tried the whip but it did no good,
The second aud third heats were unin
teresting.
This was one of the greatest purses ever
offered on an American course, and the race,
like that b.tween Ten Brock aud Mollie Nc.
Carthy, at Louisville on the fourth day of
July, 1876, attracted general attention
throughout the country, even from persons
who ordinarily take little or no interest in
races.
THE HORSES n THEIR WORK..
MaXey Cobb arrived here on Monday from
New York in o special car, accompanied by
his driver ard trainer. Phallas was put in
condition at tho Cleveland driving park by
Edwin Bither, who has driven him ever since
his initial race and who is also the driver of
Jay. Eye-See. Phsllas was not forward for
the time OF year, but owing to the lateness of
the season he has not, until quite recently
been given hard work He was exercised and
speeded a mile in ZIG nearly two weeks ago
and in the meantime has shown some swift
quarters. MaXey Cobb has been taking his
work at the Fleetwood course in New York.
II 5000 -~A-IAl A. ia
1t was currently reported that he had shown
a speed considerably better than the record
given to the public.
Phallas ia a dark brown stallion by Dictator,
out or Betsy Trotwood, by Clark Chief, son of
Mambrino Chief. He is eight years old, l54
hands high. and strong but neatly built. He
was bred in Lexington, Ky, by Co. Richard
West, and sold when two years of age to j. 1.
Case, the present owner. The sum paid for
him did not exceed $500. 1t was not until
sometime subsequent that he gave evidence of
attaining great speed. His first education
was given at agricultural fair races in Illinois,
and his first noted race, and one in which he
Cleveland driving park in 1888. He was
brought to the park early in the season and
keyed up for his debut on July 5, going against
Hotspur Girl; Nettie R., May Bird, Index
and Mambrino Clay, winning the last three
beats of q five mile race in 2:294, 2:2S3 and
2:lSf. HIS mile in 2:1S4 was up to
that time the best ever made in an initial
race. Soon after this race he was taken s
Fleetwood park, in New York, and there he
met Msjolica. Both horses were then just
beginning to attract attention, and when the
arrangements were perfected to have the new
candidates for turf honors meet on Fleetwood
course the opinion prevailed that Phallas
vor of Phallas marked the betting, but Ma
jolica was in fine condition and gave the
country a surprise by leading In the race, with
a best mile in 2:174. Later, in Chicago, the
two horses met again. The race occurred in
that city July 10 for o best three out of five.
The betting was extrayagantlyi in favor of Ma.
jolica. But this meeting had another surprise
in store, for Phallas easily turned the tide of
victory, winning the last three heats in 2. 165,
2.20 and 2. 20f. This race ended the strife
between these two famous horses. After his
victory over MaJolica, Phallas was brought to
the Cleveland park and trotted with
Duquesne and Index, taking the last three
the record of 2.153 had never been beaten,
except by Smuggler, who had a record of 2 10.
Early in the season of 1884 he was again
brought to the Cleveland park to be- tutored
for the course, and his first race of that season
was with Clemmie G. and three others in
the occasion with a time of 2.13f for the
fourth heat. The remainder of the season he
spent on an exhibition tour, but did not lower
his record.
Maxey Cobb is a handsomely built bay with
white hind ankles. Few horses on the tulf
have such symmetry of form as the stallion
champion. He is sixteen hands in height. |
He was sired by Happy Medium and his dam
was Fanny jennings, by Prince Nebo. He
was foaled in Philadelphia, but when quite
young was sold for a small sum and shipped
TO Nebraska, where he was given his first
schooling for the turf, Later he did some
rural racing on the tracks of that state, but
showed no notable speed until the spring of
1888, when he was brought to the Cleveland
park and underwent preparations for the
campaign. The first race in which he figured
came off at the Cleveland park, July l. A
field of eleven horses were competing.
George V. led in the first heat in
2.2l5, but was left in the second,
of 2:2Ot, 2;23 and 2:2lb. Ho then did the cir
cult to the closing half OF the season with I'M
certain success, scoring about an equal num-
Der of victories and defeats. Last season he
was edged up" in excellent shape and trotted
q few races with unbrOken success. Late in
the fall he was driven against time and in the
Providence in the 2:l3f, which is the fastest
mile ever made by a stallion. He was given
his early training by Edward Pyle, after
which j.. w. Paige, the first driver of Rarus,
travelled him in Nebraska until his present
owner, Issdore Cohnfeld, of New York. pur-
chased him in 1884, and "Honest John Muir
ply" became his driver.
The Winners on the turf yesterday were:
Washington Park Estrells, Flora L.. and
Farrell; Modesty, Binette, Verano Alta,
Yalenta, Ttoubadour Irish Pat. Musk, The
Ute /; Grismer, Our friend and Keokuk, five
heats Major Picket, Slocum, Grey.
Brighton Beach Parthodox, RanerO, Mock.
ing Bird ; Lucy Lewis, Baron Favont, Dan
X. Shelby Barnes. Tattler, Eva X, !; Sterrit,
Three Cheers, Bahama Exile, Annie L.,
Florence M. ; King Far, john Sullivan, Dir
~ Blonde.
Detroit, Mich.-Jewett, Westmore, Billy
Brownell and onwardEdoabie teams-tims
1926, 1921, 2:S0-best time on record.