The herald., 1894-12-19
NEW RECORDS POSSIBLE
REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE OF
ALIX.
Something About tho Racing Career Of
tho Little Oussn of
tho Turf"


tho Turf"
Monroe Salisbury is authority for the
statement that the people of Los Ange-
les will be permitted to see ON Saturday
next the most notable race meet ever
held in the world. That's q strong
statement, but il comes from man
who is in position to know.
On that day, at Agricultural park.
there will be four track events. and a
world bsater will be in every event.
Not only that, but it will be no sur
prise to tn ose on the inside if worlds
record is made at this time and place,
and it is not impossible that two
records will Ego smash"
Robert j.. 2:Ol1a, with the worlds
record. will 70 to beat this record, and
horsemen who have seen the work of
the great PAGER since he appeared at
Agricultural park, are looking for him
to do this very thing.
Alix. 2:0334 the peer OF all trotters,
will also go against her own worlds
record. The little mare stands good
chance OF accomplishing the feat. Yes.
terday, driven by her driver AMY Nc.
Dowell. she went a helf in 2:001a, and
the last quarter was negotiated in
0:2919, W hich is better than 200. Ed
Geers, who watched this performan CO
with watch in hand, says it is the
fastest quarter ever trotted, and he
confidently expects "the queen" to
lower her worlds record on Saturday.
track and day being favorable. Monroe
Salisbury. owner of Alix, asserted yes-
terday, Immediately after the little
mare had clipped off that quarter, that
Alix ia in better condition and making
faster time in Los Angeles than she
ever made before in her career.
All the horses at the track are in
splendid condition and are being
worked out every day.
Another event OF interest will be the
race between Flying Jib. 2:04. and
Burke, the champion bicyclist.
Southern California horsemsn will
take great interest in the great free for. all
trot, in which Azote. 2:0S14; Klamath.
2:121a the great Santa Ana horse and
Nightingale, 2:10. the champion two
and three trotter, are entered.
Azote is the largest horse on the turf
today, and has won more races during
this season than any yther horse.
Something of an idea of the value of
the entertainment to be afforded on
Saturday may be gained from the fact
that Mr.. Salisbury refused an offer OF
$500 to exhibit his string at the Chicago
horse show just before he started for
this city.
Alix. the Queen, is Salisbury's PRIDE
She commenced her 1894 campaign at
Council Bluff, Iowa, against a com.
parativsly com mon field OF horses and
beat them with ease. At Saginaw,
Mich. which was her next engagement.
che WAS victorious in coed
time. AT Detroit she struck the ''grsnd
circuit" where the greatest harness
horses of the world are to be found. She
met the great stars OF the free-for all.
First one took her by the throat latch
and carried her a mile. then u fresh one
took her and carried her from there to
win. In this way they beat her.
Up to this time Mr.. Salisbury had sx-
ercised no control over her although he
owned controlling interest in her.
Then and there he took complete cor.
troll of her and directed as to her train
ing, driving, feeding, grooming, shoeing
and handling in every detail. Her in
terminable jogging, practiced BY so
many trainers, and the workouts twice
a week, so common, we're forbidden, and
she was fed and exercised so as to build
her up and give her strength and courage.
At Cleveland, after ten days of Sails.
bury's attention, Alix met the same
field that beat her at Detroit. She was
a beaten mare, however. and the talent
of the grand circuit" plunged into the
-4ol pat ha 10
was different mare from the one they
had met in detail and beaten and won
in one, two, three order, dumping the
pool box. At Buffalo Alx was still
better and beat big field there in faster
time than at Cleveland. After Buffalo
came Terre Hsute. where Nancy Hank
made her 2 :04. II is great racing GER.
ter and the population turns out in
crowds to see the races. Alix had been
winning card for two years, and on
the day of the free-for- the crowds
filled the grand stand and center field.
1t was q race that will live in history
and story. The stayter let them score
at will. and the felders against Alix
willed to score all day, and they came
pretty near it. Thirteen times they
came down for tho word be-
fore stupidity in the stand
eaid ''go." The horse selected
by the combine to push her the first
heat had all he could do to tell the color
of Alix's hair. The mile WAS in 2:06.
The next heat saw more endless scor-
ing, and another fresh horse rushed ont
to push the mare had all he could do to
beat the flag. as the time was again in
2:06 After that the fielders asked Sal
iehury to waive distance, which he gen =
erously did. There we're at least or 10
scorings before the word was given. and
the little sorrel mare went to finish the
greatest race ever trotted by any horse.
The mile was made in 2:0514. Meas-
ured by time it eclipses ali previous
performances. Measured by the scor-
ings and by time it is simply incompar-
able.
This race placed her above all other
trottsrs in horse history-"The racing