Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-10
NOTES ABOUT HORSES.

The Grand Circuit AaceS-Fast Heats Made by Monkey Rol1a-The De-
 Landmark Sold.
 The grand circuit races are to open to- morrow at Rochester and on Tuesday of | next week at Springfield, after which the | followers of the big circuit meetings will | meet at Hartford where the races com mence at Charter Oak park on Tuesday afternoon, August 20.
 The stewards of the National Trotting association made good arrangement of meetings for this year. During former seasons the jump has been from the last meeting in New York state to Hartford, then back to Springfield and from there to New York or Philadelphia, but this season the arrangement of the stopping places in rotation prevents any unnecces- sary travel as the followers go from Roch- ester to Springfield and from there to Hartford.
 T. o. King, the secretary of the Hart ford association, has not yet announced what special attraction he has secured for the Charter Oak races, but he will be quite sure to provide some extra feature for the patrons of the circuit meeting. He was at the Cleveland races and as he saw the won derfully fast performance of 0. J. Ham lin's three-horse team it is more than prob able that he made arrangements with the owner of Village farm at Buffalo to show this trio of flyers at Hartford.
 This is @ new way of hitching horses for speed trials by the watch and if it becomes popular the record books will require new column for fast miles of horses hitched three abreast
 What is of interest in connection with l this performance is the fact that MT. Ham lin raised all of these three horses, cache them being sired by his famous stallion, | Hamlin's Almont, jr. The race for rec ord has been referred to as one of the greatest sights ever seen on a race track | It fairly rivaled the hippodrome specta- l cles of ancient Rome. Ed. Geers, the ia | nous driver of racing horses, who is en- gagged as trainer for MT. Hamlin, was seat | ed in the light skeleton wagon when the three horses were sent under the wire for | the first record of the kind. They made the first quarter in 34 seconds and were at the half mile pole in 1:074 and at the he ale n the remartab1e nl'ans tims of 2:14. The crowd went wild over this impressive sight, and when the time was announced there were so many calls | for MT. Hamlin that the old gentleman had | to go up into the judges stand and bow his Acknowledgements to the spectators.
 The Buffalo breeder stated that this was
 the first time the team had been hitched
 this way. The three horses were Globe,
 2:194, pole; Justina, 2:sO, center; Belle
 Hamlin, 2:12a, outside.
 As MT. Hamlin is one of the regular pat
 rons of the grand circuit races at Hartford it is very likely that his fast trio will be
 exhibited there at the coming meeting. ABOUT MONKEY RoLLA. c. D. Smith, who has charge of William
 Neely's pacer, Monkey Rolla, 2:15A, is giv-
 ing his favorite horse a rest this week.
 The pacer was shipped last week from
 on Tuesday in the 2:16 pacing class. As
 previously stated in these columns Monkey
 Rolla won second money, $250, at Pitts
 and has made several creditable perform
 ances. At Detroit he won the fastest heat
 in the race, and in the sixth heat MT.
 Neely's pacer and Maggie R were side by
 side at the wire when they distanced all the
 other horses in the contest. The judges have
 been unfavorably criticized for giving this
 heat, which ended the race, to Maggie R
 The Detroit papers generally conceded the
 heat to MT. amith, although some of then
 thought the heat should have been called { dead heat, none of the papers of Detroit giving the heat to Maggie R. It appears
 that the judges were anxious to end the
 race, and it also appears that the starting judge was @ western man and that Maggi, ! R. is western horse.
 At Cleveland Monkey Rolla in the frs
 heat was close to the winner in 2:154. II
 the next heat MT. Smiths pacer struck hi knee, which has incapacitated him iron showing his best speed since. Monke' , Rolla has made the fastest race heat .thi season of any horse owned in New Eng land.
 LANDMARK SOLD. During the past week s. H. Cruttendel visited Haverhill, Mass, where his trotte
 Landmark has been in training. Whil , there he met two parties who wanted t
 buy his trotter. Landmark made yer
 fast mile, after which MT. Cruttenden sol the horse for a long p1:ce. The forme , owner stated that the price was private , but that he received all he asked for tn trotter.
 The Hubinger's pacer Blanch won thir money last week at Worcester.
 King William, valuable pacer owne by MT. Brown of Fairfield, dropped dea on the track at the close of the first heat i l a race last week.
 The City Missions.
 The heat seemed to have no effect i . diminishing the attendance at the people
 meeting last evening. These meetings cor
 tinue without interruption through tn s summer, and furnish pleasant place c : gathering for many who are not regular al
 tendants at churches Last nights meet ing was in charge of MT. Otis w. Barker t who is assisting MT. Mossman, superir
 tendent of the mission, during the summe, l l MT. Watson V. Coe made brief addres: s and Miss Nellie Lamb, member of th . Dwight Place church, aided by the singh 8 ! of two solos.