New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-15
For THE TROTTING SEASON.
SOME REMARKABLE WORK ALREADY.

and the real beginning Of the annual of har-
ness contests between the best horses OF the East
and the West will take place until tomorrow.
when all the Cracks come together on the
trotting In Detroit. There Turner, Gold
smith, Geers. Andrews Trmble and other trainers
from the Atlantic Coast States will start their
horses against the Western flyers driven by Hckok.
Doble MciIenry. Curry. Kelly and Mcdowell. and
together these extensive stables and many others
vii! come down the Inc OF the Grand Circuit. re-
newlng their contests in successive weeks at Cleve
land Buffalo, Rochester. Poughkeepse, Hartford
and New-York.
The spring campaign OF the present gives
promise Of a great year the trottng turf. The
minor meetings have this year brought light
unusual number OF high-class trotters and PAGERS.
In addition to these there are many more In sight
that yet have not been in public or II seen
at all have been kept under by their not
scrupulous drivers. This is particularly Of the
East.
The most promising horse of the early circuits in
this part OF the country is the chestnut ged!ng
Cobwebs. He bred by the late Leland Stanford
of California and sold for few hundred dollars at
OF KellOggs auctions in this city last winter to
Joseph Turl. who drove him the road until the
training season opened The horse then went to
W. c. Trimble, OF Newburg. who brought him out
at the Cornwall meeting on Decoration Day. Later
he started at the Point Breeze meeting in Philade
phia and a great race there. taking record Of
216i4 with every appearance OF ease. Trmble
has the horse at the Cleveland track where he is
entered at the Grand Circuit meeting. He has lately
worked mile in PA. Cobwebs is by Whips 2:27i9.
a son of Eectoneer and the thoroughbred
Lizzie Whips. by Enquirer Cobwebss dam is Molly
Cobb by General Benton
Trimb,e brought out another horse of high class
at Philadelphia in Nomnator. who trotted to a
! record of 2l7i4. and has since repeated his
work in PISA and 215. Nominator Is full brother
10 Nominee 2l7i4 and is horse OF remarkable
breeding uniting. he does. the hood OF the four
famous o.d-time trotters-Goldsmith Maid. PA:
Lady Thorn 21sH; Lucy. PISA and Jay Could
2:%is
For few weeks after the opening OF the spring
campaign the Long Island trotter Amboy swept
everything before him in the 22o class Ear,y In
June he trotted the Holmesburg haf-mie track In
2l3a. which regarded equal to 2io
mile course But his driver gave the Old horse
grucing work. along with short rations. and he
rapidly ,ost flesh and spirits with the result that
when he ought 10 be now winning in Grand Cir
cult company ne is meeting defeat by second-rate
trotters In minor races.
The extensive and formidable stable with which
c. J. Hamlin. OF Buffalo, takes the fed this
season includes two horses whose work every horse
man follows with interest They the irotting
Fantasy. by Chimes and the PAGER Robert
j., by Hartford one is the prospective queen Of
the trotting turf and the other Is looked upon by
many turfmen as the probable pacing champion OF
1894 At Hamilton, Ont, July 3. Ed Geers
drove the four-year-o.d daughter Of Chimes AMI
Howard an exhibition heat in 2lo. This Is the
fastest mile troited prior to the opening Of the
Grand Circuit season. and. considering the con-
servative policy Of Geers trainer the per
Torrance indicates most brilliant future Tor
Fantasy Last season she improved nearly ten
seconds between July and October when her three
year-o.d record OF 2Css. made The tail angu-
ar young mare IS generally claimed as the pures'.
easles, gated trotier that has appeared. and
whatever may be her merit IN actual contest 1t IS
believed by nearly ali horsemen that before the
season ends she VIII lower the record OF Nancy
Hanks on the same day that Fantasy trotied IN
go Geers drove Robert J. in 2O7. A year ago at
this time the siken-fared PAGER had not been
moved faster than 2ij. and at the c.ose OF The
campaign universally believed that he coud
have beaten the 204 OF Mascot and Flying Jlo
The rivalry between these three PAGERS promises to
be one Of the features OF the campaign. Flying lib
has already shown a mile In 2G'= with the last
quarter In 3Oi4 seconds on the track al CouncH
Bluffs Iowa. Mascot Is this season In the stable oil
John T. Turner. and although that able and nsiuie
trainer seems be using every effort to keep the
true condition of the Buffalo crack concealed 10 Is
all but certain that Mascot IL faster and better to-
day than ne has been before at the outset OF
the campaign After his matches race at BetI 9ln
las, year. the conqueror OF Flying J!D ana Hal
Pointer went wrong and acquired the habit Of break
Hands he appears TO be as steady as Sver In
pcious-looklng hlppodrome race at Fhladeiphia on
June y Mascot was defeated BY saadln IN 2.y,,3
and 80 y week later he started 10 beat 2'oS, but
failed 10 pace faster than 2l91a
Phenomenal PAGERS are numerous In the West ms
season. The race OF the two-year-old sidewheelers
most remarkable on record IN me hrst Hra, iou.
youngsters came 20 the wire almost heads apart N
In the next heat Princess first at the finish in
2I ana then the stout eask cot rd PHSS 'S wns
Winner Is by Monroe sasbuy champion pacing
stallion Direct. 2c5ls and Judge Hurt Is son of
the Texas trottng horse William ~ HIli, 2;@ 49,
Another sensational pacing performance at the
old colt Online. Starting against field Of aged
them in straight heats in 2IOia. 2oa. and 21l'.;
3npe is Nsbpask ,b,. abe IKE nr %1"y ro %l
ting bred. being by shadeland onward. 2Isiz. on,
CHEF son Of Rysdyhs Hambetonan. His Council
Bluffs race was the fastest ever paced Dy Tour,
colt t'-} from Kentucky to eclipse the performance
within a week after It was male en r,,v Ruben.
his three winning heats in 21i9 z:o9.. and 2lo's
paced by a four-year- rod kubenstelh , never
sor eorfn 70 He troting colt Of
fashionable blood lines his sire being Baron Wi,kes
by Arlstos son Of Daniel Lambert BY Et tord'
without finding his limit Is Lord Ferguson an,
ns, psGeGy y F5 ese OF o" Lord
is by Ferguson. son OF George WiIkes ana M daim
Iady sn nlnan by Of ea wh owned George
Wilkes when that horse was king Of ne turf ora
On the same day thht ltuDeHstel. ucica ~ ~
Ferguson the Ave year-old PAGER Vassar won the
for-all at Windsor beating among others ss5 tne
the measure Of Mascot. Hal Pointer and FLYING
Jb. Vassars three heats were paced IA z ~;
ting Belle vara 2OSh and is himself con
yerted trotter, having gained hree-yeaf-od
record Of 2:2i& at that way of going Another con:
verted troter that is possessed OF 90 speea
Indianapolis This was Colerldge, by ~. Gay,
2:is dam Susie Wilkes by Red Wilkes The morse
has a trottirg record of 223i2. made In lss2 AL
the Indiana meeting he started for the hrst time
PAGER. and In the second neat Oh winning
race took a record OF 2:llh , 49,
OF the Western trotters that have appeared TIP up
10 this time Pamlico Is apparently the pest Ihls
handsome little stallion defeated Lord clinton In
straight heats at Tfln, Ohio trotting the fastest