Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09


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which the representative from Tennes-
see defeated the Californian in 2:1Si,
2:14d and III. AT Buffalo he had only
Gossip Jr. and Emma to beat, and his
fastest heat was 2:161. At Rochester he |
defeated Belle Hamlin in a special in |
2 :133, and at Poughkeepsie he carried off
the free-for-all, his best time being 2l33 |
At Philadelphia he captured the free-for-
all with ease, putting in the first heat in
2:14i. The browning performance of
the season and of his pacing career took |
place at the autumn meeting of the Terre
Haute Trotting association. October
in the free-for-all pacing class he met
his stoutest opponent of the season in the
roam gelding B. B., who was second in each
heat. Hal Pointer won in 2:O9a, 2:123
and :13, thus winning the double honor
of having to his credit the fastest heat in
a race and the fastest three heats on
record.
Next in line come the marvelously fast
and fortunate bay mare Cricket 2:10,
who in one brief season has leaped from
the realms of obscurity to the highest
honors of the turf Cricket is by Stein
way, dam by Dolphin, and came from
California in the Pleasanton Farm Stable.
Steinway is by Strathmore, dam Abbess
dam of Solo, :2S3), by Albian; I'd dam
by Marshall Ney, and he has three
year-old record of 2 :25a. Cricket opened
the ball at Grand Rapids on July o, win
ming the 2 30 pacing class, the best time
being 2 :29i. At Saginaw the following
week she captured the 2:25 and 9 80
classes and reduced her record to 2:174,
and week later at Detroit, she won
again in the 2 % class i'm 2:1Sb, 2 253
and 2 IA and in the 2 80 class in 2:274,
2:l43 and 217. At Cleveland she met
strong field but was again victorious.
Maggie b. won the first heat in :l5l,
Dallas the second in 2:l1d, after which
she reeled off the race in 2:l6, 2:l44 and
2:l44. Rochester found her again to the
fore, and after losing the second heat in
2:lSi, she won the race in 2 :14i, 2: IL and
2:l6. At Chicago she added new laurels
by winning the :25 class in straight
heats, 2 IA, 2:l31 and 2:125. At indie
pendence, Ia, in the 2 20 class, she won
the third, fourth and fifth heats in 2 :l24
2:123 and 2:l34. and at the same meeting
against time, she achieved her present
record of 2l0.
Adonis, another member of this illus
trious Californian band, though only five
years old, was early in the field, and as a
three-year-old, had the phenomenal
record of , :l4t. AS four-year-old he
only knocked off the odd fraction, and
this season he crossed the mountains and
joined issue with the great PAGERS of the
East. At Detroit he gathered in the free
for-all pacing class in 2:l64, . 203 and
2 :lS3. At Cleveland he was defeated by
Hal Pointer, but not till he had won a
heat in , liz. At Rochester he won he
free-for-all, his fastest heat being ZIG
Adonis is by Sidney 40, dam said to be
by Captain Webster 1Ol76.
The chestnut gelding Dallas, by AL.
> mont Boy 6274, dam Ravena, by Black
= Hawk Traveller, is the last of the great
quintette. He opened the season with q
record of 2:244, and closes it with one OF
2:114. On July he won the Bingham
House Stake in the fifth, sixth anC
seventh heats, 2:lSt, 1920 and "a, ant
at the same meeting won the 2 % class il
2l74, 2:l7l and 10. Pittsburg founC
=, him again in front in 2:l93, 2:22i ant
2:24S, and at Cleveland, though defea tet
by Cricket, he won the fas test heat Of
the race in 2:llt. At Buffalo he had his
revenge on the California mare, as after
she had won the first and second heats il
- 2:l54 and 2:l3l, he won the next three
heats in 2;l44, 2:lG3 and 2lGi. In tn,
Insurance Stake at Hartford, he CLOSED
the race in straight heats in 2 :l74. . 10!
and 2:l44, and at Springfield the follow
ing week, he repeated the trick in the
, $1,000 stake in 2:l74, 2:l64 and Ala
:, Dallas, in speed and stamina, ranks wei
a up with his confreres. While these five
;, are the bright particular stars of the
pacing horizon, three others deserve
= special mention. The four-year ole
;, stallion Winslow Wilkes, 2:l44, is by
Black Wilkes, dam by Almont; the roar
;, gelding B. b., 2:l34, is of unknown
breeding, while the two-year-old col
Manager, 2;264, is by Nutwood, dan
> Carry, by George Wilkes; I'd dam by
Green's Bashaw. In this list of eigh
fast PAGERS we have one of the unknown
a breeding, one distinctly pacing bred ant
the balance of trotting ancestry.