The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-24
TRACK AND PADDOCK.

Axtell stands close sixteen hands and
weighs about 200 POUNDS.
Thistle, 2:l91z. the -year-old brother
TO Gold Leaf. worked three miles one day
last week in 2:1555, 2:l52l, 2:l515-
The quarters of the new team mile record
! by Belle Hamiin and Globe on the Kirk
wood (Del.) down hill kite were 3415, 33sz,
81. 3l5z.
Some day Nancy hanks viii best ?: 0S3[
SO far that the timers will lake a second
look at their watches and then compare
them" says John Splar.
Belle VerR stepped q half in 1904 at
Terre Haute last week. She can trOt fast
enough 10 make the air whistle as she sails
I BY. and was a good baby trotter.
c. J. Ban;in says the hlly Fantasy, by
Chimes, out of Honora, by Almonarch,
2 .245z will come nearer breaking the two
yesr-oid record than any FLY he ever bred.
The runner which accompanied Nancy
Hanks when she trotted in 2:111z at Bel
mont course, was brought from the west
by Adam Forepaugh, Jr. After the race
I be was named Abe Lincoln.
That speedy colt. Whitney, four years
old, by Fonso, dam Irene, by Lexington, Is
reported to have broken down at ST. Louis.
He held the record for one mile and seventy
yards IN Az, made with l20 pounds up
at Garfield parS, August IS, 1881
Snapper Garrison rode the race of his
/ life on Maidstone at Monmouth, beating
Stratbmeath, 3 much superior horse, by
nose, despite Major Covington's riding
The thousands OF surprised spectators
cheered the Snapper for ten minutes.
Trotting men are talking of Nancy
Hanks unsuccessful attempt to lower
Sunors record of 2 0S14 at Belmont park.
The best she could co was 2:ll4 although
her previous record is 2:09. Budd Doble
still has confidence Nancy tired bit in
the last quarter.
c. w. Williams has announced that
Allerton would appear On the Mason City.
Ia, track during the September races TO
lower the two-mile record. Secretary
Stewart is arranging TO secure string of
good horses for the meeting, and there Is
every reason to believe that the racing will
be all that can be desired.
Delmarch, with record of 2:1115, and
/ St. Vincent. 2:201l, are IN training at Tay-
lor's park, Freeport, Ill. The frat week in
August DeImRrch will start at Davenport,
Ia. against Allerton, for purse Of $4,000,
! sixty per cent to the winner and forty per
cent 10 the loser. II will be the first APP
pearance this season of the great stations.
Last years sensational but knock-kneed
PAGER, Frank Oxman. comes out this sea-
son a much-improved horse, aud the
chances are that be will DE world beaten.
at Peru, Ind, he opened the campaign in
the 2:lS class and won, pacing the three
heats in 2:171S, 2:2015 and 2:20. His pre-
vious record was 2:lo15.
The fastest heat trotted in a race on any
track this year was reeled off by the bay
mare Sadie M, by Prince Orloff, at the
Belmont course. The time hung out was
2:174, and some of the watches made ii
l2:17. The brown gelding Conway, which
was so successful all through the south
eastern circuit, drove Sadie M. out and
made the pace.
Marcus Daily, with both the Suburban
and the Realization 10 his credit. heads the
list of winning owners at the recent Sleeps
head meeting with $50 900. Foxhall Keene
comes next with SOS, $50, for over $50, 600 OF
which his Alice Bruce colt is res ponsiDle.
Mike Dwyer's stable earned $50, 2s5, and
Bill Daly's luck brought him IN 1920.
August Belmont, with Lady Violet and
Corduroy, won IS, $50, and w. r. Jones,
with Charade, added IS, $40 to his bank &C
count.