The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-07-11

Active Interest in the SpOrt-Pennsyl-
vanians Who Made a Bluff Which
Didn't Work-A Maine Veteran Among
the Drivers.
The first exhibition of the Maine
Horse Breeders Association upon their
new kite-shaped mile track at Old Or
chard village closed Saturday with two
holly contested trotting races.
The weather was again showery and
threatening. which had a depressing eff
feet as to attendance, the grand stand
not as yet having been rooted. There
were probably not over thousand spec
tators present at any one time.
The races were started promptly, trot-
ted in alternate heats and yet with all due
diligence on the part of the judges,
Messrs. Pompilly, Whittier and Smith, it
was half past six before they got through.
Ten heats were trotted-four in the 2.34
class and six in the 2.33 class.
If the concourse was not large it was
decidedly animated and as usual at Sara
toga, Long Branch and other fashionable
watering places, ladies were betting about
as freely as gentlemen. One wealthy
Boston lady invested at least several
hundred dollars on her favorite and the
vigorous manner in which she protested
against one of the heats being judged
''dead'' showed that she had due re-
gard for her dollars but she had to lose
them just the same through misplaced
confidence.
2.24 C1ass-Purse $1,000.
The first race called was the 224 class.
There were eleven nominations in the
field and despite the weather seven
horses appeared to contest. They drew
positions: Elyrina 1, Gretchen 2, Ella
K. 8, Maggie 4, Hulda s, Present.
In the first heat there was quite COM
bat to the first half mile between
Gretchen, Maggie and Ella K, but mean
time Appleton Webb's Present steadily
shot to the front and won the heat in
2.28a. Gretchen was second, Ella K.
third, Maggie fourth, Elyrina fifth, Hulda
sixth.
In the second heat there was change
of affairs. There was some sharp fight
ing for positions in the whole field and
they finished Elyrina first, Present Sec
ond, Hulda third, Maggie fourth, Gret-
chen fifth, Ella K. sixth. Time, 228.
In the third heat there was lively work
from beginning to end. The leader
Elyrina lost the pole, being headed by
both Present and Ella K. But Elyrina
finally got down to business and won the
heat, though it was close finish with
three horses in a bunch. In this struggle
Elyrina was first, Ella K. second, Maggie
third, Present fourth, Gretchen fifth,
Hulda sixth. Time, 2.244.
The fourth and deciding heat was very
exciting, a part of the horses coming in
under the whip for positions. They
finished, Elyrina first, Ella K. second,
Present third, Maggie fourth. Time,
2.27.
The $1,000 purse was thus won-Elyrina
$500. Present $3.50, Ella K. $3.50 and Gret-
chen 800.
1913 CIass-Purse $1,000.
There were IS entries for this race, and
seven horses appeared to contest. 1t
proved long and hard fought race. Po-
sitions were drawn as follows: Bull
first, King Charles second, Dora Thorne
third, Themis fourth, Allspur fifth, Ath-
lete sixth, and Black Donald seventh.
The last named horse was the favorite in
the betting.
The first heat witnessed many changes
in positions, Athlete finishing first, Dora
Thorne second, Black Donald third,
King Charles fourth, Themis fifth, Bull
sixth, Allspur seventh. Time, 2.294.
In the second heat the rain fell lightly
and again there were changes. This
time Dora Thorne finished first, with
King Charles second, Black Donald
third, Athlete fourth, Allspur fifth, and
Themis and Bull distanced. Time, 1882
The third heat was a hot one from be-
ginning to end. Dora Thorne and Ath-
lete finished so near nose and nose that
the judges declared it dead heat. Ath-
lete trotted the heat without skip, and
Dora made but one skip and that was
hardly noticeable. King Charles was
third, Black Donald fourth, Allspur
fifth. Time, 2.304.
The fourth heat witnessed change in
the situation, with grand fight at the
finish, three of the horses going under
the wire nearly neck and neck. The
heat was awarded to King Charles, with
Dora Thorne second, Athlete third,
Black Donald fourth and Allspur fifth.
Time, 2.344.
For the fifth heat there was good
deal of unnecessary scoring and monkey
ing by some of the drivers. Finally the
starting judge, MI. Pompilly, brought
them to time by announcing that any
horse that came to the stand ahead of
the pole horse would be fined 500. This
secured prompt send off. King Charles
was again the winner with Black Donald
second Athlete third Dora fourth All