The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-03
RIOTERS ON THE TRACK.
- sEAsON OPENS Tbs WEEK
IN PSI MISES GRE AT THINGS

-;-cipal Events Forecast, With a
Nd About the Horses That May
,,ava scords-suuoPs Chances
Il Ns1.on and STEAMBOAT After a New
e,.r,on Record-Some Big Purses
! Cfs:ed-
CCopvright.)
NV YORK, May 2.-The trotting season
the east opens this week. The programme
tba southeastern circuit names Tuesday,
f.. as the opening day. and the gentle
mems driving park, Baltimore, as the place.
4 Resides Baltimore this circuit includes
spbradelphia. Pittsburg and Washington.
<5sr p the trotters will be at Belmont
. .rs philadelphia, and week later they
rrI have moved to Point Breeze. MAY &c
-u find them at Homewood park, Pitts
sr-7 and on June they will be back again
Baltimore at Pimlico track. From there
.ssy will 60 to Washington for the races
zbich begin June 9.
Each Of these meetings will last four DAYS.
nd. as liberal purses will be given, some of
r. hest trotters in the east will contest in
Ne various classes.
Fairmont park, Philadelphia, will also in
agurate its season May 5, and Fleetwood
psTk. New York, will follow week or 80
srer In fact this week marks the real be-
inning of a season which promises to in
Eude as much of interest to lovers of good
horse as any that has gone before. A survey
K the tracks where the flyers have been
mbered up during the early spring, shows
much good work that horSemen have
nreiicted phenomenal results for the season.
asst year was remarkable not SO much for
Individual performances, as for the great
humber Of young horses showing speed
Unusual for their age, ard almost certain to
|develOp into genuine wonders under good
handling. Indeed 80 favorable is the pros
rect aud so evident the increase of popular
Interest in the trotting turf. that it seems
worth while, just as the season is opening
to forecast its principal events, be-
/ fore speaking of the noble animals whose
performances will be the theme of world
wide comment. The lesser circuits, and the
meetings at numberless parks throughout
the country are subsidiary to the interest
\ in the great event of the season, the grand
circuit, in which the speediest of the trotters
will try conclusions. The grand circuit
meetings are in every way the biggest of
4 the year. They take place on the finest
tracks and the largest purses are given.
They are attended by enormous crowds
Of people; it is nothing unusual for
10000 spectators to gather at
one of these meetings. They take place in
the height of the season after the horses
have been tried ard gotten in trim at the
mn0T meetings, and when enthusiasm runs
high among the hackers Of the most prom
isinc.
The cities in the grand circuit are Pitts
burg Cleveland. Buffalo, Rochester, Pough-
ksersie, Hartford, Springfield, New York
ant Philadelphia. The initial meeting will
take place a Homewood park, Pittsburg,
about the middle Of July. Unusually hand
some purses will be offered in the 2:2O, 1928,
2:-j, 2:27, 2:30 and other classes for trot-
ters, and the 2:17. 2:20 and 2:25 classes for
PAGERS.
The horses that will contest at the open
ing NEE ting will go through the circuit
Probably they will be seen next at Cleve-
land, then at Buffalo. At Rochester they
will appear Aug. II. Here the great
Flower City stakes of $4,000 for horses
that Gao trot better than 2:30 will be won
Alter Rochester comes Poughkeepsie and
then the great meeting at Charter Oak Park,
Hartford, when the big purses will be Of
fered in the fastest classes.
Among the many notable horses that will
be seen On the grand circuit this season will
be Margaret s., 2:12l% the biggest winner
NN ~hO III NuAS AooS oSdbDb)y IIOIuGSDahb,
@:l4l3; Leopold Rose, 2:l51l: Mocking Bird,
2:l63{: Pixley, 2:l6 Rosaline Wilkes, 2:141l;;
Namhrino Maid, 2:17K McDoel. 2:15L;
Parmlico. 2:l6$4; Keno F., 2:T; Walter E..
2;lS; Alfred S., 2:1615; Simmocolon, 2:19:
Stevie, 2:19; Nancy Hanks, 2:141%; Miss
Alice, 2:19& st. Elmo, 2:1S34; Maggie B.,
2lS Alvin, 2;16, and host of Others with
records we'll under 2:30.
The only one Of the great campaI gners
surely out of the race is Prince Regent
2:l619, who made a grand showing last year
aud was the pride of his owner, G. j.
Hamin of Buffalo. Great things were ex-
pected of him this season, and his death
from pneumonia, April II, was universally
regarded as pity.
Outside the circuit the three horses which
will be watched most closely are Sunol,
Nelson and STEAMBOAT. That the handsome
daughter Of old Electioneer has not, in the
last two seasons, reduced her marvellous
record as q 3-year-old BIOS, affords no
reason to believe that she can never get
down to 2:0S14, and carry off the honor so
long held by Maud s. Sunol is six years
younger than Maud s. was when she made
her record, and she should get down to it if
She lives, and escapes accident. There are
many who believe that she will certainly
get down to 200 this season. She is now in
prime condition at Senator Stanford7s Palo
Alto farm, according to latest reports. l
have heard horsemen comment upon Sunols
chances, and the most Uufavorable criti-
cism they express is that she is a sprinter
or, IN other words, that she makes fast time
oy virtue of remarkable spurts rather than
by steady work from the start
Passing from the queen to the lesser dig
nltarles we come to a group of four 5-year-
olds that will appear in one of the greatest
events OF the season, the stake race to be
trotted on the kite-shaped track at Inde-
pendence, Ia, during the summer meeting.
IIhey are Alabaste-. Margaret S.. Nancy
RANKS and Allerton. 1t will probably be
the most stubbornly contested race ever
witnessed. There was a report last year
That Nancy Hanks was 'done for;n that her
lore legs had given out, and that the
great expectations she had raised by her
splendid work were never to be re-
allzed. There was nothing in it except
that she was little out of condition. She
Is IN hne form now, and there is no question
that she VIII lower her record, barring
accidents. The same story WAS told about
AAertoa after the great Expectation stakes
IN Detroit in July, but he is all right this
year. In fact. the four trotters named are
all In prime condition, and they will be
saved for this event Nancy Hanks is
known as the great unbeaten, a title which
explains itself She is the property Of H
boswell of Lexington, Ky.
Leaving the trotters for moment, there
should be good work done by the PAGER this
season, and the beating of Johnston's record
oi zO64 is not an unreasonable expecta'
uon. Roy Wilkes, 2:0S1l is the nearest &c
~, out there are others with perhaps al