Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-13
TROTTING TOPICS.
The Great Race Between
AriOn and Kebir.
How WestmOnt Made His
2:01 3-4 Record.
A Los Angeles Bred 2-Year-0ld Trots
in 1922 3-4.
Matters of Interest to Admirers of the
Trotting and Pacing HOrse-That

The Chicago lnter-Ocean publishes q
foot note to their report of Directs rec
-ord-breaking trip against the watch at
independence. It was to the effect that
Westmont held the pacing record of the
world, and that Direct was not king by
beating Johnston's record. The above
note must have been put in by some
green man on sporting matters. The
Associated Press was imposed upon and
sent out the Inter Oceans comment,
and as result many people who are not
posted on such matters believe that
Direct does not hold the fastest record
ever made by a PAGER or trotter. The
HERALD did not publish tie dispatch,
but consigned it to the waste paper
basket, where it belonged.
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The Inter Ocean sporting writer should
receive leather medal for his impor-
tant discovery. Every turf paper and
every man posted on such matters has
known for years that Johnston's 2:061
was the fastest record ever made by a
PAGER living or dead.
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Westmont has a record of 2 :1334. The
record was made in the same way that
Direct made his 206 except that the
former record was made on an elliptical
and not on the kite-shaped track. That
2:01M record of Westmont is the best
record for PAGER hitched to runner;
but how in the world any one can COM
pare such record with Direct, John
ston, Hal Pointer, Roy Wilkes or any of
the other star PAGERS, is simply beyond
comprehension. Direct pulled sulky
xn7hy yOh how yl,1x xl,o1
$50 pounds. A runner hitched to a
wagon ran around the track in order to
urge Direct along, as was the case when
Nelson, Sunol, Allerton, Stamboul and
other celebrated performers made their
records.
When Westmont paced in 2:O134 he
was hitched to running horse. The
running horse pulled the sulky and
Westmont along. 1t was no trick to
make such time. Direct could pace in
! minute 55 seconds in that style, pro-
vided he was trained to go that way.
Why, gelding called H. B. Winship
trotted mile in 2 :06 when hitched to
a running mate, yet everybody knows
with mark of 2:082, because it was
made according to the rules set down
and not by artificial aid.
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Alcazar was bred in this county by L.
j. Rose. He was sold couple of years
ago at public auction in New York city
for 5000 or $28, 900 to Pabst and
Vehlein Brothers. Word reaches here
that the former has sold out his interest
to the latter firm for $4,000. This was
a lucky purchase, for the value of Alca-
zar was increased at least $4,000 by the
performance of Kebir, 2-year-old colt
bred in this county. This colt trotted a
mile in 2:2234 in the second heat of the
gleat 2-year-old race race at Sacra
mento, won by Arion in the record
breaking time of 22l.
The Examiner publishes the follow
ing report of the greatest 2-year-old
trotting race on record:
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"But it has in the second heat that
the race was trotted. Marvin had
Arion going level when the word came,
and he sent him around the first turn
like rocket. Kebir went after him
again and got on his wheel. AS the
watches were ticking off the quarters
the men who held them began to look
at each other in wonder. These two
colts never wavered once or made bob
BILE. Marvin sat still and let Arion go
as he would. The game little fellow,
trotting like ghost, rated his quarters
in almost the same notch. Down the
stretch, when he got close to the stand,
he seemed to fly, Kebir coming along
after him and trotting quite as nobly.
Thirty yards from the wire Marvin
pulled the colt up. In half jog he
sailed under and the watches stopped at
2:2l. Three lengths behind him Kebir
reached the wire in 2:22$4.
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Such race was never trotted by two
two-year-olds.
In the first mile they came the last
half at 2:21 gait, and in the last they
went to the half in Ill, and came home
in 10.
Palo Alto holds many records, but
none more honorable than this, for it is
the race record of the world. Palo
Altos Sunol has the two-year-old's rec
ord against the watch of 2:18, but this
mark of 2 .21 in the second heat of con-
tested race is as great as that. And
then the colt was pulled up, for what
reason Marvin alone knows, but it is
believed that he could have gone the
mile in 2 20 had he been driven Out, ,and
it is further believed by competent
judges that this colt can, If allowed to
do it, beat Sunol's two-year-old mark.
would show such a clip as would take
mans breath away.
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Arion is a bay fellow and typical
Electioneer. His dam is the old mare
Manette, by Nutwood, himself great
sire of early speed, and next to Election
eer the one destined to outshine all
other sires in the ranks of record-mak-
ing youngsters. This performance to-
day will stand long time. Kebir,
though beaten in the race, trotted his
two heats like campaigner, and against
the watch or in race he will make
showing that will raise him to valua-
BILE property.
XIV
The remarkable decision of the judge
at the grand circuit meeting at Philadel-
phia in the free for all pacing class was
commented on in the HERALD. The
position taken by the sporting editor OF
this paper is conceded in with the lead
ing turf paper in America. A New
York paper says:
Such decision is inexplicable. The
iudraa had No shadow Of authority to