Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-12
Gamy Old Paio Alto.


But on the sunset slope there was
determined owner of a crippled stall
lion, and be had In his employ an in
dustrious old trainer. After the east
ern landscape had begun TO whiten
with the early SHOWS. they repaired 10
the lightning kite track ut Stockton,
and after repeated failures, his leg
soothed by cocaine, game old Palo Alto
cut half second from the mark set by
the brown son of Jay Bird and Gussle
Wilkes, placing the stallion record at
2:0Sf. But poor old Palo Alto was
worn out by the wearying preparation
and fell an easy prey TO pneumonia,
and died IN his luxurious stall at the
great establishment whose name he
bore. 1t IS curious coincidence that
during the afternoon in which the old
horse was breathing his last, Jack was
winning the third fastest four heat race
on record at that time over the same
track at Detroit where Palo Alto met
the only two defeats of his eventful
career, once by Jack IN the fastest four
heat race ever trotted up TO that time,
and once by Wilton. About this time
Marvin placed about every world S
record TO the credit of the sons and
daughters of Electioneer, but the great
est of all was the mile IN 2;l0l by the
little 2-year-old stallion Arion. since
sold to j. Malcolm Forbes of Boston,
owner of the queen Nancy Hanks,
2:05l, for sl25,000. Those who saw
Nelson 60 his fastest mile at Comstock
track can realize the grandeur of the
performance of n 2-year-old colt, Just
fifteen hands high and weighing only
$50 pounds, only three-quarters of a
| second slower than the time IN which
the mighty Maine horse marched his
| merriest mile The stallion PAGERS.
too, more than held their own. The
| great races il the ee-for-all class late
in the year, lay between Roy Wilkes.
Guy and Grants Abdallah, while the
converted trotter Direct won. with only
q single defeat, the greatest series Of
races on record.
The racing season Of 1892 IL vet toe
| young 20 warrant any prediction as 70
| what IS SPECIAL peculiarities may be-
/ though u has already eclpsed any
| former wear n It's brilancy. The
| wholesale destruction OF records
/ already great. NAV prove TO be only
| fairly begun, for ordinarily there arc
/ few horses ia record breaking condl
/ ton until late in the fall, and the we
AMI backward spring would lead &
/ the supposition that the horses ar
{ backward IN their work also. The
/ marked features Of most meetings g.
\ far this year has been the sensational
| PAGERS that have come from uneE
/ pected quarters, snd WITH p gsmenes
I With which thev have never before e
/ PLAYED as class have fought oct rsce
Of divided heats IN unprecedented time
FlvisT 3ih ssd Mascot.
/ third heat hy FLYING Jih IN 90
and ffth by Mascot III 207l a.
/ examples. lt - probable tha
She hsil-hesrnE pneumatic suikl
/ should have the credit for share Of
this. for. elieved - q portion Of &C.
draft, many a speedy b8t faint hearted
/ horse can - a whole mile a. close t.
hls ffst ehp. The - certainly true q
the short tFsg ones like Mascot. Cd
ths little bay geldlng was a. fat a.
ghost lasi sesslp. hat wenid cough
up a the stretch II snF horse carr
him fast from ths sire. Hut he "a.
dfaW fhe hitie wheels srsod gam
race. ii Is eniiFfly pfobs e thst d
fore Nnief 9Fefeosts heoene fhF rag
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