The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-17

J. w. Knox, Streator.
Time-2:S9!, 2:S7l4, 2:87i, 2:S6i.
Olga Cossack. ............ l
Cation, Joliet.
Fay Pulling. .......... .............2
Jsrseyvllle, Ill.
Hayes, Clinton, Ia,
Tims-2:52f, 2:504.
THURSDAYS FLY Frs.
1t made the cards Of the Driving Park
Association Stockholders sprout when they
saw the crowd that filed the grand stand,
surging about the pool boxes and hugging
the fence in the infeld on Thursday after.
noon. Judge Smith wore custsrd-p
smile and before he called the 8 20 pace re-
marked that he had been given to under
stand that one Of the races of the day (refer
ing to the race at hand) had been Axed, ad-
ing that the judges would protect the pub
lilo and'stop all nonsense.
The admired of all was the little three.
year old son of VIM. NJ. Flynn, the scorer
card nan. He was handsomely dressed in
a rich Lord Fauntelroy suit and upon the
back of Warden Reedy's pony was, IS la
dy expressed it, lust too cute for any
thing" He is q pretty little fellow with
long golden curls aud makes an ideal Lord
Fauntelroy. Mr.. and Mrs Flynn should be
proud of this hondsone boy, whom Mr.. F.
covo I'LL ho q ,ocLau onmo DON
An icy breeze blew Off the top of the
grand stand and wandered down the backs
Of the gang" at ths;closs of the frs. heat.
Fred Arthur sold faverite in al pools, the
auction selling ten TO eight and. nine, the
book makers, taking about the same odds
and the French Llutuals selling, nearly two
tickets on Arthur to one ON Maggie R.
These splendid colts had the race to them
selves. They are very fast and it would
have been the wanianness of folly for own
ers of other horseS entered to, starr, as tho
chance of not being shut out was about one
in one hundred. After scoring twice they
got the word but Fred Arthur had hay in
his teeth a nd att empting to use the bit for q ,
sooth pick lost the heat by aneck. 1t was
q good race all the way around and the
sime was highly appreciated.
Fred Arthur showed himself TO be race
horse in the second heat. He had switched
the kinks outaof his tail and when the word
was given shot ahead Of Maggie like mod
fled meteor. He set the pace and held it,
but the time, was not az, good. Indeed il,
was so much slower than that made in the
first heat, tina. the knowing ones among the
sports began to smell a large juicy fake and
plunged on the field. In the third heat the
great" drivers up behind these horses,at-
tempted to heal the probable wounds IN the
credulity of the judges by putting up what
the crowd seemed to think battle for blood.
First Fred was on the lead and then Mag
gle woald set the pace This thing was re-.
pested three times during the heat. the
farce at length winding up by Fred winning
by couple of lengths. But the time con-.
sumed in this manouvering was something
fearful to contemplate. The fourth and
fifth heats went to Maggie r, and those who
were in the ring puffed out their toad like
forms with importance and gazsd with SD
perior wisdom upon the suckers" But
their toad-like increase in girth was short
lived, for the judges, who had carefully
wiped the sand out of their eyes, fined
Grimes, the driver of Fred Arthur, fifty dol.
lars and costs, and declared all pools of,
although the heat and first money we're Civ
en- to Maggie R.
II ever race for gore was trotted it was
when the 80 trot was on. Bassinger Boy
sold favorite in all of the pools during the
races, but the sports dropped their rolls on
him in mutusls in the first heat, which was
J won by Bird, the black daughter of Star.
light. The Roy broke badly in this heat
and when the field entered the stretch, was
. hundred yards to the rear, but he made it
lup in the last four hundred feet and would
have taken the heat if he had had fifty feet
more to Co. He had an easy tssk in beating
the field home in the three succeeding heats,
however, but Bird bothered him somewhat,
making it necessary to bring his pace down
to s lower figure, thus shutting out Black
, Crook.
The colt race for pools Of 1886, was about
as interesting as any procession can be,
Dora COssack, the offspring of Cations great
J sire of trotters, Don Cossack, kept up the
: COssack reputation. IfIowa's phenomenon
} -Axtell, had been here, Don would have
! been distanced, but as Axtell was no: pres.
} ent she would have distanced what field
there was had not distance been waived.
She took the race in three straight heats
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