The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-13
She Also Tied Nancy's Best Quarter,
1854 Seconds, and Did the Last
Half in LOO 3-4, a POI 1-2 Gait.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT FRIDAY
Carbonate Robs Directly Of His
TwO-Year-0ld Pace Record.
Expressive Takes 2:16 Trot, Lowering
His Record, and kissers Dallas the
2:11 Pace-0tber Trots.
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TERRE HAUTE. Ind. Sept 12.-Alix to-
day trotted the mile in 2:Oi on the same
track where Nancy Hanks fixed the worlds
record at 2:O4 Sept. 2s, 1892. The mile
to-day ought to have been 2:03is. Andy Nc
Dowell, who drove Alix, and Monroe Sails
bury, both are so firm in the belief that
she can beat the record that she will be
started again on Friday. The trouble to-
day was around the turn in the first quar-
ter, where the track scrapers had left a
pile of dirt, which scared Sweet Little
Alix' and caused her to fail TO go the
quarter as fast as she had been rated be-
fore the mile was begun. When Monroe
Salisbury caught the first quarter in S2
seconds he shook his head. There was
something wrong, but he did not know
just what until Mcdowell told him. The
second quarter was made in S1A seconds.
reaching the half mile ball in :0314, a half
second slower than Nancy Hanks passed
1t two years ago. But the little mare came
home as no trotter ever did before, going
the last half in 1:005. She made the third
quarter in :29$1, Nancy's wonderful time
for this same quarter, which horse
men have been puzzled about ever
since. but she came around the
fourth corner of the "four cornered
track and on home in 81 seconds. half
second faster than Nancy did. If Nancy
and she had been racing from the three
quarters she would have beaten her In by
a neck.
Alix was first brought out about o clock.
but she did not seem to be right The air
was cool and the wind blowing In fitful
laI for lfnrc xxvf,f oh
might have TO face it. 1t was 5:15 O'clock
when she was again brought out after
being given a warming up mile. Still she
did not seem to carry herself in a manner
to give promise OF a mile better than her
own record of 2:04$4 made at Indianapolis.
Horsemen said she was a trifie lop-sidec In
her gait Mcdowell went under the wire
several times before he had the runner
back of him and far on the outside and
nodded for the word. Under the wire on
both sides of the track. and up in the
grand stand in line with the wire were
perhaps one hundred expert timers.
NOT A BAD START.
Alix did not impress them when she got
away that she had started fast enough
and when the half was caught in 1904
there was little or no hope of ever beating
her own record. The runner was driven
along side and then the racing queen be-
gan stepping as never did a trotting horse.
She was steady and doing her best in
sponse to McDowells calling on her down
the stretch. The whip did not touch her,
but McDowelrs voice had pleading tone
in 1t which could be heard in the stand as
he came around the last turn. All things
considered, it was a far more wonderful
performance than that OF Nancy. The fol-
lowing is comparison Of the work Of the
twin queens Of the trotting turf in their
record-breaking miles:
Quarter. Half. s-q'r's Mile.
Nancy Hanks..:sl 1:oSA l'GsA 1:s2h l:ssh 2:Sa 2.Ss
Altx ................:5z :5z l:USA l.SS zM
Time by quarters:
First Second. Third. Fourth.
Nancy Hanks. 81 BIZ :2sA :slh
Time by halfs:
First
First half. to third. Last half.
Anney AiiR ..s....:i:Ss Hanks l i:Si iSi's ii iSos
At indianapolis last week Alix made her
first half mile in 1:o2 fiat. the quarters being
:30% and :3lA. Had she done as well to-day,
with her last half in 1:00al, her mile would
have been done in the world record time OF
2:03h The twin queen Is six years old, by
Patronage H43; dam Atlanta, by Attorney:
grand dam Flirt, by Gen. Hatch, and was
bred by Daniel Hayes, OF Muscatlne, Ia
Il
2:l0. Last year she won the Columbian
free-for-all trot at Chicago, taking the
record of 2:O7A. Since the opening of the
present season Alix has been abroad in a
blaze of glory, and has done some tall
marching. In June, at Council Bluffs, Ia,
Norris Jones drove her in 2111z as an "eye-
opener" July she found an easy victim
in Robbie p, and then came east TO join
Salisbury's string. At Saginaw. July 4.
straight heats, best time 2:oss.. The week
following, at Detroit, she was in bad form
and was beaten out by Lord Clinton and
Cleveland she won in straight heats in the
average time Of 2:0S&. AT Buffalo Pamlico
won a heat from her in 2:1o. but Alix won
Terre Haute she defeated Pixley Ryland
T., Walter E. and Belle Vara I'm straight
heats. Time, 2:os. 2:Oe5k. 29sN. fastest three
Wayne both she tied her 2.05lz. and at In
dianapolis last week reduced II to 2:o4z.
THE TIME QUESTIONED.
Tonight there is gossip that some OF the
watches did not catch Alfx as fast as
2:04 the time being from 204 is to 2:04iz.
The official timers say they agreed on 2:04.
except one. whose watch is alleged to have
got out of fix during the mile.
Carbonate, the two-year-old gray colt
owned by Dubois Bros. Of Denver. also
old PAGERS from 2:l0A, made by Directly
dam d5nnS Maggie Sae0Gfa'e M s:s by superior s''
In the class races the WORK OF Express
sive, Salisbury's three-year-old daughter
OF Electioneer. was phenomenal She won
a six-heat race. and won the fourth heat
I'm 2121a the fastest mile for a three-year-
old this year. The race was something OF
a repetition of the one she won at Fort
Wayne two weeks ago. which was six
heat affair with many OF the same con-
testants. and in which she made record
OF 2:l34 She favorite I'm the pools
and In the first two heats she was a Gloss
contestant with Gertrude In the third
heat both Expressive and Gertrude broke
badly in the first quarter. and Nina Me-
dunn won in slow time. Expressive is the
mare whose withdra wal from Fleetwood
last Saturday caused the sensational ac-
tion OF the judges there In expelling Mon
roe Salisbury.
In the 2:l7 pace, Gazette and Tommy
B-owr had dead heat in the fifth. and
the race went over until tomorrow Tn
der the rules only these two will start
tomorrow TO settle the race. Summaries:
2:lis pace: stake. $3.50 Continued from
yesterday
Klssel's Dallas by Indian
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