The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-09


all pace, has this to say of our gal
liant Strong Boy:
aThe event of the day was the
free forall pace, B in >, for purse
of $500.
] Everybody had heard so much of
Strong Boy that they were anxious
to see the noted little PAGER. When
he appeared on the track there was
great applause which was heartily
Joined in by the ladies. He is a
noble looking little animal, irons gray
in color, and probably the fastest
piece of horse flesh that ever appear
cd on the track. The other starters
in the race We're Gold Dust and
and Maud III; but they were not in
it from the start.
Strong Boy made the three heats
without Il break and without being
urged by his driver. In the last
heat his driver let him out little
and he finished the mile in 2:2451
the best time ever made on the
track. As he came down the home
stretch like an animated piece of
mechanism, the crowd became
excited, and he passed under
the wire amid shouts and waving
of handkerchief. His owner, j. j.
Bright, of Point Pleasant, was in
the judges stand during the race
and watched his horse with com
placent smile"
And from the Journal we take the
following:
sStrong Boy completely caught
the crowd by his elegant work.
This remarkable four year-old has
now a record of 2:163, made less
than three weeks ago. He is a
handsome, rather small gray STALL
ion and has graceful movement
Mr.. Bright paid $4,000 for the horse.
Early this season he was offered
$4,000 fer him, and Wednesday it
is said he refused $4,000 for this
animated horseflesh. Some compe-
tent horsemen said yesterday that
before the season was over he will
be worth to Mr.. Bright at least S25-
600. Not a bad kind of horse to
own"
The same papers say that on Sat
urday he gave an exhibition pace,
at the request of the people, and
made a mile in 2:2O4 on heavy
track.
ED. REGIsTER:-In the State Ga
zette of last week, under the sensa-
tional headlines, "Robbed,' &C., APP
pears an article presumably edito-
riaD so outrageously false and Sian
derous that it cannot be passed
unnoticed
That any one so ignorant as the
writer of this article shows himself
to be, should attempt to criucise the
action of the gentlemen who were
the judges in the free-for-all trot at
the Fair last week, is only thing
to be laughed at, but when his
ignorance leads him to Insult gen.
tlemen who were placed in the stand
to watch the interests of the con-
tending horses as we'll as the inter-
ests of those who had staked their
money on them, it is time TO call a
halt.
The judges of this day were Mr..
George P. Stout, ex-Treasurer OF
Meigs county, Ohio; Mr.. George NJ.
Newton, of Hartford City, w. Va;
Mr.. John Lewis, of Charleston, w.
Va, all of them gentlemen ADORE
suspicion, and to charge that they
were governed by any interested
motives in their decisions is but to
echo the bowling of a gang of dis
appointed toughs, who were found
in their usual occupation of robbing
the public. These were the chaps
who were shouting their slurs and
insults at the judges. 1t was not
expected that one of our newspa-
pers would champion the cause OF
such people. The judges were right
in their decisions. They only did
what is done every day on the trot-
ting turf, where decency and fair
play prevail. When the judges OF
race see the fastest horse losing
they at once suspect that steal is
on hand, and it is their duty 10 stop
it, and this is why the rules give
them SO much power. They can
tai Q the owners horse out of his
hands, as in this case, and put up
any driver they may select; and it
is an almost every day occurrence
on the best tracks, and more, it is
the life of the trotting interests.
But for this check on your bowling
pool buyer, the public would be
systematically fieeced until they
would cease to take any interest in
or attend trotting races. When the
men who put up jobs on the public
are pinched now and then, how they
do squeal when caught.
sNo rouge Ger felt the halter drov