The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-18
ALIX IS NOW INTERESTING.
SEE IS EXPECTED TO LOWER THE
 RECORD OF NANCY HANKS.

In One Heat She Made Mile in 2Oe and
 Again She Lowered That Time to 2:O5 1-4
 When 1t Was All Over She Was Still Full of Life.
 Terre Haute, Ind, Aug. T.-To-night Alix is the most interesting trotter in the world and she is expected to lower Nancy Hanks record. She went the third and last heat in the free-cor-all trot to-day. in 2:05k, equalling the race record made by Directum. but she had won the first two heats in 2:06 and 2:06h making an average of 2:05 5-6 for the three heats. by far the fastest ever trotted. After 1t was all over she was still full of life.
 It was her first appearance in a race on the Nancy Hanks 2:04 track and she had tiresome experience waiting for the others to start each of the three miles, but she stood the test superb!y and scored again and again, while Ky land T. and Pixley acted badly. In none of the three heats was either of the three starters competitor with her for the first place. Walter E. was lame and was distanced in the first heat. In the third heat Ryland T. trotted the third quarter in 3l, but Alix led home easily. Ryland T. threw shoe while scoring for the second heat which caused delay and when he came out again he broke badly at the wire as he had done once in the first heat. Pixley was breaking as they tried time and again to get away. When they did get the word Alix led to the half with Pixley second. To the three-quarters Ryland T. closed up on Pixley, and they entered the stretch along side, both back of Alix several lengths. Pixley made a skipping break and Ryland went ahead 8 length, which he maintained under the wire, with Alix a length ahead. After scoring several times for the third heat Pixley's har- ness broke and there was more delay. When the horses came out again Starter Crelin announced that Alix would be driven to beat the record, and the association had waved the distance rule. There were half dozen attempts to send the horses before the starter gave the word. At the first quarter Alix was five lengths ahead of Ryland T., with Pixley further back and Belle Vera bringing up the end of the long procession. They came home in the same order. Alix moved along with all the spirit and energy she might have been expected to show in the first heat, and when it was seen that the last half was made in 1:O1k there was general expression of the opinion that she would have done bet ter than 2:O5 if pushed to it in the first half. The time by quarters in the three heats was as follows: First heat, :S1%, 1:o4A, 1:341k, 2:06.
 Second-:32, 1:04A, 1:34H, 2:O6A. Third -:31A, 1:O4, 1:S41s, 2:O5A.
 Directum's three heats were 2:14k, 2I3k and 2:05A.
 In the trot for two-year-olds of the 2:50 class Oakland Baron won the first heat in 2:23A, and apparently had no competitor, but in the next heat Ak worthy, son of Axtell, owned by A. B. Dardling of New York, fought for first place from the half to the wire, where the winner lead no more than a head in 2:161A, the record for the two-year- old this year.. The Axtell colt was as frisky as a kitten.
 Doc Sperry did not meet with serious opposition in taking the three straight heats of 2:15 pace. Azote, the favorite in the 2:15 trot was badly beaten by Trevillain. He broke in the third and fourth heats and fell back in the third heat to ninth place in the first half, and recovering good place again broke on the three-quarters, giving him hard task to get in fourth.