The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-13
Every Train Yesterday Brought in Sta
bles and Horsemen by the Score to
Witness the Big Events.
THURSDAY is PACING DAY
COleridge and Unbeaten Ruben
stein Meet i'm the 2:20 Class.
Mary Best Favorite i'm the S21.375 Flu.
turity Stake for Four Year-0lds-
Arion and Directum Matched.
special to the Indianapolis ,Journal.

SpeCldl 10 the lHuldHdpOuS JOuTndi.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Aug. 12.-Yester-
days rain has perfected the Nancy Hanks
2O4 track for the great meeting which
opens tomorrow. Every train yesterday,
last night and to-day has brought horses
and horsemen. The attendance OF lovers
of the light harness horse will be larger
than ever before at any of Terre Haute's
successful meetings and people coming
from nearly every State. To-morrows
programme includes the $4,000 purse for
two-year-olds. the 2:25 pace, purse, $1,000.
and the 2:2e trot for $1,000 There will be at
least ten starters in the two-year-old event.
and 1t will be very hard TO pick the win
ner. the colts all going well. and
four or five of them have about equal
speed. though their records are not the
same. Bowerman Brothers had two
tries. Scourene. br c., 2:2ll2 by Milton and
Bucyrus, b. c., 2:2312. by Milton, and will
start the last named. 1t had been intended
TO start Scourene, but she was taken Ill
Friday. The favorites Will be Whalebone.
bl. c., by Sable Wilkes; Bucyrus. Marie D..
gr. f., by Patron and Bufflnton, by Sable
Wilkes. Deck Wright, 2:19A, will not start
in the 2:25 pace, as he broke down one day
last week in a workout mile. He had been
thought TO be better than three heats in
2:15. There are fifteen on the list to pay
the starting Zee, ana IL Is InOuBnt lnat
at least ten will answer the call bell,
among the best of them being George
STAIRS Syrena, who has shown something
like 2l5; the converted trotter Gazette. Do
ble's Nutpan, whose miles in 2:ls easily
made and Whirligig. In the 2:26 trot
there are seventeen which start, and OF
these few have been in the circuit, and il
will take good guessing TO place the best
of them in their respective positions.
FOUR-YEAR-OLD FUTURITY.
On Tuesday comes the big race for the
four-year-old FutUrity stake, worth $zl,S75.
in which Mary Best with her Cleveland
record of 2:1212. is the decided favorite, but
there are Dancourt, who won the Futurity
at Detroit. with Silicon. Margrave and
Wilmarch to contend with her for the
supremacy. Five OF the starters won
money and place at Detroit-Dancourt. Sill
icon, Margrave, Wistful and Lea. 1t viii
be a great battle and the skill of Hickok.
Goldsmith, Diekerson Fuller and other
past masters will be in evidence. On the
same day is tbs, the 2lo tr0t IN whieh h A;ze1e ;nt
est of horsemen With them will be Walter
Wilkes. Azote will be the fayorite. The
other races on Tuesday are the 2;S5 trot for
$2000 and the four-year-old and under trot-
ters, eligible to the 2:2S class, Rex Amer
icus barred. There are big nelds IN Doth or
Wednesdays programme has the three
year-old Futurity, which opened for Sll5OO.
and in which there will be seven starters
Nellie A, Van Lear Ella Woodbine, Alli-
bel, Celaya, Directors Flower and Ak
mite. The latter and Nellie n. viii be the
favorites. Nellie A. worked mile Friday
in 2:20, last half in los, but there was
difference OF opinion as 10 ner torh. m Insae mere
colts. In the three-year-old pace the same
day are Lena, Hill. who has been here sew
the races; Bremen, Salisbury's Rokeby and
seven others, among which are Whirligig
and Buck Franklin. Then there Is the 2;23
trot for 5000 and the 2:50 pace for SlO0.
In both there Is likely 10 be surprisingly
The expected sensational 5000 2:2O pace
is on Thursday. Every one expects 10 see
in it the hardest fought contest of the
Rubenstein will be the favorite unless the
Indiana contingent from the northern part
of the state, which is coming mere IN rss ogs-
Coleridge should force that phenomenal
PAGER to the first place in the betting. Joe
this year. will also be prominent factor.
Neither of these three famous ones has
met one of the others in race Ruben
stein went a mile in 2:20 yesterday. last
half i'm :04I2. and he has paced half IN
less than 1:O2 Coleridge; iis, VINO nad peen ai
ord of 2:23l2 last year. was set 10 pacing,
and in May, at indianapolis, in the first
mile in 2:l1 His work on the 2;0i track
during the past week has been decidedly
2:05 must be beaten by the horse that wins
the race SO, between him and Rubenstein,
ii is expected Mascots worlds race record
of 2:O4 made on this track the same day
that Nancy Hanks got her record, viii be
lowered. There are eighteen nominationss
for the rr1Ge;rg race and a least SvSa He]en % %l;
Aiti 21ih; Amelia, 2:21lk and Budd Do
ble's back horse Direction.
DAY FOR PAGERS.
Thursday will be the great day for pac-
ba Il a
purse of $1,000 for two-year-olds and one OF
s., 600 for a 2:1O class. In the first OF these
are the five fastest two-year-olds, and the
PIP worlds record, which Directly made at
Buffalo, will be lowered either by him or
one Of the other four. which are Judge
Hurt, whose mile in 2:l5 Wednesday was
easily made; Carbonate, Princess. Eulalia
and Theodore Shelton. The 210 pace ought
10 be between John r. Gentry and Re-
p, Atlantic King. Free Coinage, Kissels
Dallas, Rosewater and Webber Wilkes. In
the 2:4O trot. purse N'5QO, the l;sd same H, DAY:
the ten or twelve which viii start Red
Pointer. the fast colt with no record. Is in
prepared here has shown a mile in 22o.
on Fridays programme are five races.
Shiff @ih q %x. %hleh Pixey. s Ryland re- Belle yars
| and Walter f. for starters. In the Citi-
zens purse Of 5000 for 2:l5 trotters Azote
Herschel, Alaminto and Trevillian to fght
| for second place and five or six others 10
be In their company at the start In the
212 pace for $1,000 Lena Hill ana BuilInont
| Will be the favorites. There are eleven
| nominated for the 215 pace. and nearly all
| have yet to show how fast they can 20.
In the 2:50 trot. for two-year-olds purse:
| $780, Oakland. Baron. Axworthy and
| Praytell. by Axtell. are the favorites.
The three events on Saturday are the
| 5000 2:2O trot; the S2.000. 2SO trot, and the
! $1,000 PIG trot. OF the seventeen nominated
| in the first there Ballona. Miss Nc
Gregor and Stronita for favorites. John
| Splan's Newcastle ought TO win the 2.SO
| trOt.
President McKeen. OF the Fair Associa-
| tion. has decided not 10 have two OF the
| three judges from this city. as at first an
| nounced. but only one. Mr. r. c. Lewis.
OF Ottawa, ILL.,. will be one OF the outside
| judges Mr. Ed Upton. of Lexington, had
| been selected for another but he declined.
] Mr.. w. r. Beauchamp will be the Terre
/ Haute representative in the stand. Mr..
Clem Creveng the starter. will be re-
| lieved of any OF the duties OF judge after
| the horses are started. Mr.. John Patterson,
| of this city will be chief timer.
The report in Chicago papers that the as
sociation was interested in arrangements
| for a prize fight one day during the week
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