The record-union., 1894-10-22
DIRECTUM DEFEATED.
ALIX WINS THE TROTTING RACE
AT MYSTIC PARK.
The "Black Demon Out of Fix, and
Allowed to be Withdrawn After
the Second Heat.
snecial to the REcoRp.uN1ox.

FopeCIdi 10 GHe NECOhD-ON1ON-
Mystic PARK RACE TRACK (Medford,
Mass.), Oct. 2l.-Alix, 2:034. and Direct
um, 2:054, met here yesterday for purse
of 1000, and Alix won. Directum to-
night occupies stall, sore, famed and as
discouraged as race-horse can be.
The spectators numbered nearly Is, 900,
and never were weather conditions more
favorable for great contest. Early in
the day the people went Directum-mad.
Every move of the black stallion was
cheered. Every betting man seemed to
be fastening to back his favorite. Pools
sold at 500 to $50 in his favor, and Alix
money did not seem plentiful. Just be-
fore the race, however, this was changed.
Alix people seemed suddenly to gain con-
tidence, and it was 500 to $50.
AliX had the pole in the first heat, and
afterward i. was only question OF how
many lengths she was to lead. Without
a skip or false motion she won the first
heat easily. In the second heat the great
stallion again met defeat. A slight sore
ness brought on catastrophe. A mis-
step in an attempt to save the sore foot
tore off the quarter boot and inflicted a
cut nearly as large as halt-dollar. After
that Directum's fate in the race was
sealed, and there was nothing to be done
out TO u1IIl lTOID the contest.
1t was o'clock when Hickok brought
Directum to the track. The stallion shone
like ebony, but one acquainted with the
horse could see that he lacked some of
his usual fire. 1t was a pretty send-off
but the long start the queen got up the
stretch sent her ahead down to the quar-
ter, and at the turn she had pushed to the
front, with the stallion two lengths be-
hind. When they turned into the stretch
Alix seemed to be taking her pace easily,
but Directum could get no nearer, and
Mcdowell pulled AliX under the wire in
2:09. AllX made the quarter in :32; half
1:048; three-quarters, l:31; and the mile
in 2:09.
Hickok look troubled as he followed
Directum to the stall. He said that the
stallion seemed sore in the first warming
up, and in the heat it was impossible to
keep him down to the fast work on ac-
count of his desire to pace. His feet were
found to be sore, but he was booted and
came out for the second heat, which
proved to be the last for him.
The second scoring started the two
horses on even terms, but they went to-
gether but short distance. for again, as
they rounded the lower turn, Alix had
clear two-lengths' lead and was pulling
steadily away. Alix came under the
wire on a Jog, with Directum pounding
down four lengths behind.
The feeling was that something was
wrong with the black horse. 1t was
found that at the lower turn he had over
reached and cut his foot after losing a
boot, and this sore foot had put him out
of the pace. After an examination OF
Directum by the judges Hickok was per-
mitted to withdraw him, and the race was
given to Alix. Time-2:l43.
sILKwooD MAKES GOOD TIME.
Los ANGELES, Oct. 2l.-In the races
here yesterday Silkwood defeated Waldo
j., w. Wood and Lady II. in three
straight heats, the time being 2:O9, 2:OS4
and 2:09.
KENTUCKY DERBY.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 21.-When the sad
ding bell rings at Churchill Downs in
the spring of 1896 it will inaugurate what
promises to be the greatest race meeting
in the history of the Kentucky turf.
Secretary Rice has just compiled the en-
tries for the Kentucky Derby, Clark
stakes and kentucky Oaks of that year,
the first stakes opened by the Louisville
Jockey Club, and the club is a notable
one as compared with former years. 1t
is also strong Endorsement OF his action
in reducing the distance to a mile and
quarter. For the past five years the
average number of entries to the Ken
lucky Derby have been fifty, while the
one that has just been closed has no less
than Isl. California is yet to be heard
from. The Clark stakes for 1896 has 100
entries, and the kentucky Oaks lao, or
total of All for the three stakes, as COM
pared with total of l5l in 1894 and $50 in
1895. Among the prominent stables
represented in the West are: Byron Nc
Clelland, f. ]. Baldwin, Scoggin Bros,
Bashford Manor, B. G. Thomas, J. E.
Cushing, S. l. Brown. Hankins Il John
son. Ed Corrigan, Pat Dunn, Barney
Schreiber, Avondale, iPastime, Easton d.
Larrabee, w. p. Landman, Bennett ~
Co.. w. S. Barnes, Eugene Leigh and
others.