Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1893-10-26
FlLB LENA HILL.
|roxas Racer Lowers the
worlds Record.
| ouBBN OF THE TURF.
arf,l Horse Made the Race In
crowds Go Wild and Greet
,.x.e aud Driver Coleman
Tu,nuItuous Applause.

e Oct 26.-Fifteen thousand
low Lena Hill break the worlds
! old nscing race record, the Dali
s 4.ord the Texas pacing or trottlng
3 = sS0 and come within 2 IA seconds
E{nline,s pace against time in 2;1l.
81 ii, ,',ben she did it $4,000 people
- her to the echo and cheered
msn the driver. Then they threw
- ,s for Billy Hill and then another
4 everybody. .st
&snsions to being handsome, with
- and strings and things all
VI ~, Nd her. answered the tap of the
a sor the first race Tuesday. She
81 : curious way of looking straight
y :. ! and holding her head down.
8 rs 3 one thing that caught the at
Y Of the women, her beautiful
" brown skin. The man in the sulky
white satin jacket and cap and
u white ribbon tied to his whip.
80 curious enough to know
IN horse this roguish brown was
"A ght programmes and when they
- for No. 4 on the card found it
Il Lena Hill. A man looking for
'srld beating 2-year-old would pass
i l,y and pick another one out, for a
IN locker would never seize her.
6bara were three starters in the race,
ma Mite and Elijah E.
aena was nearly length behind
h. the word was given to go, but
Inbred yards away she went by them
Il they were tied. AS she rounded
NJ the back stretch she was going
4 lightning. She was increasing her
Re at every stride and marching along
steadily as clock. When the
stches caught the half in 1:06 1-2 the
ly question in the minds of horse
bile was, has she wind enough to
bDe to the wire at that pace?
She kept ,oming right along, though,
et as easy as she goes in $50 in her
|ercising.
Coming into the stretch Coleman
bk wide turn and then how she did
|me, putting her feet down hard and
rapidly they looked like four steam
Iedrivers at work. She rushed on to
E wire Disobeying all rules, push
3 the policemen away from the gates,
en- with watches in their hands
shed out on the track to see her work
& through the stretch like a cyclone.
omen climbed on top of their seats in
9 grand stand, the fences were alive
IT'D all sorts and conditions of people.
very human being in that vast en-
Dsure was on his, her or its feet
for point of vantage, not
I one aeeting instant taking their
es off of the flying horse. The privi-
ye men, the sideshow people. bar
epers, snakecharmers and all cast
siness and the sordid love of money
TO the air and crowded around the
ace and got on top of it and hung
er eraning their necks and stretching
cir eyes to see it all.
Not once did the wonderful horse
RI her head to look at the thousands
10 were looking at her. She was at
lding to business and her business
st then was the smashing of records.
'ver once did she take one step on
toes. Coleman was leaning away
er his sulky coaxing her along Look
neither to the right nor having
en- touched with the whip gently only
Ice in her rapid fight she finished
tn wind and speed still in store.
When the official timekeeper an
unced that she had won the race at
. IA there was mighty roar from
people in the grand stand and scat
ed along the race track. Nothing
1t was ever seen in Texas before.
lena Hill is owned by w. NJ. C. Hill
TINS city and was bred. by him at the
u stock farm in this county. She
Il be 3 years old next spring. Her
u Performance, which won for her a
aonal reputation, was at Fort
ayne, Ind, on Aug. 10, 1898.
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