The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17
Especial to the PRESS.l

Can DO Better Stfll-The Story of the
Races.
Especial to the PRESS.)
Old Orchard, August l6.-Good day, good
crowd and good track, these conditions to-
gether with splendid fields of horses made
up great days, sport at the Kite track
today.
The 2.23 trot, in which Wild Oats had won
heat yesterday when the rain caused a
postponement was first called. In the first
attempt Wild Oats led at the quarter and
held that position all the way, finishing in
2.lS. K. L. Robinson and Dot both made
losing breaks in the first quarter, but man
aged to come second and third, neverthe-
less. Wild Oats again led the field all the
way in the third heat, the time being the
same as before, 2.1s. Old 'sJack'' Bowen
made determined drive for good place in
this heat, with Yankee Luck. and captured
third money by coming second.
Another unfinished race was the 2.25
pace, with g. O. Taylor winner of two
heats. Mooney was up in place of Garth be-
hind Annie Rhea, who started favorite
on Wednesday and Came very close to win
ming the second heat. They swung into the
hCme stretch on the same terms and it was
case of whip all the way to the wire.
Taylor held what slight advantage he had
despite the desperate efforts of Mooney to
hold him, and won the heat and race in 2. .16
IA. Hicks carried MONEYS horse pretty
wide all the way from the three quarters,
the horses coming Gown in the middle of
the track, but the judges did not consider
him guilty of any unfair work, inasmuch
as he kept his horse going straight .and cid
not interfere with Annie Rhea by swerving.
1t was great lot of starters that came
out for the 2.N trot. one of the best ever
seenUin this state. Of the seven, Mahlon
was the one most fancied by the wise ones
but few of them expected him to do the
trick in three straight. Big F. caused con-
siderable trouble in the attempt at getting
away for the first heat and when they
finally got the word broke his check a few
yards from the wire and narrowly escaped
getting distanced. George II. was in the
lead to the half. which was made in .O7 l-2.
Mahlon was not prominent up to this point,
but Woodbury. pulled him out of the ruck
ard he came through mis- field like whirl-
wind, fnising in FL "a with quite lot UP.
his sleeve. Woodbury. did not touch him once
with the whip, but foran that his time for
the last half must have been very close to.
LOG as he was three or four lengths behind
the leader in the first of the third quarter.
His performance stamps him as one of the
greatest of Maine race horses, and gave him
the race record of the track Tor tretters.
In the second heat Woodbury. again laid
back until after reaching the half, when he
cut loose and led the field home by two
lengths in 2.15 Ia. Merry Bird was on his
good behavior in .this heat and Bowen
landed him second. There was nothing to
force Mahlon in the third heat and he held
the lead from wire to wire in 2.l5 3-4, the
last half in LOG 3-4 without b. ing urged il.
the least. Tom Marsh with Vega came fast
in the stretch, but was not good enough to
trouble Mahlon, securing second money,
however, as the result of the drive
What looked like a very evenly matched
field of nine, started in the 226 trot, and
had the talent guessing to pick winner
This race was another proof of the beauti-
full uncetainty connected with horse racing.
The lot went we'll punched to the turn for
home in both the first and second heats
Walker, with Kitty Mack making a drive
from this point and winning the first heat
in 2l9 3-4 and the second in the same time.
Hollister was second in the first, Newport
in the second. Nine out of ten people
present thought it was cinch for Robert
McGregor's daughter in three straight.
lnsthe third heat Katie Mack led to three
quarters, where Cebolla, Newport and
Hollister came up and made the pace go
warm that she broke and finished fourth,
Cebolla getting the heat in 2.2l IA. Cebolla
and Katie Mack had it between them in
the fourth and it was merry clip all the
way. Near the distance mark the brown