The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-09
OUR NEW RACE TRACK
Visited by Reporter-Some of the
Horses CHARTERED There
Horse News.

Horse News.
II is ostimateu Unat there will be So,
600, 600 offered in purses in the United
! States this year.
! Larabie the best two-year-old in 1894
| has been entered in $50, 900 worth of
stakes.
John r. Gentry, Joe Patchen, Mascot,
Flying Jib and Online are five PAGERS that
are eligible to nothing slower than 2:0i
while Hal billiard and Hal Pointer can
start i'm nothing slower than 2:05. Ham
! lin says Hal Pointer is faster than ever.
! Flying Jib cannot be counted on rs a
race horse, and the owner Of Online has
not announced yet whether he would be
| raced or not. The other five however
will be campaigned and when they meet
| i'm the big free for alls will furnish n race
worth going q days journey to see.
Great things are expected of Hal Pointer
who is said to have been made over. He
/ is game campaigner and will keep them
all going the full mile.
A trip to the new fair grounds shows
the new track to be in elegant position,
and the trainers on the grounds fixing
themselves comfortably for their summers
work The agricultural society is making
| improvements on the grounds constantly.
| The driveways have been marked out and
trees are being planted in various parts
of the ground. The inside of the track
has been sown in oats and grass seed
which will improve the looks of that part
Of the grounds. Mr.. Williams, the track
| keeper, is doing his work TO perfection.
The track is becoming packed and the
horses are beginning to go along a little.
| OF course il Is too early for much fast
work but they are beginning to brush
quarters and cighths Thursday Morford
drove Max u. quarter i'm # seconds and
! Friday G. c. Taylor drove his pacing
horse Hinder by Orphan, a quarter i'm 40
and an eighth in Is seconds. Hinder will
not be started this year without 1t is late
! in the fall He has a wonderful burst of
speed but was sick last winter.
In the first row of stables next the east
side fence can be found sam Donahay
with his string. Sam has Minting 2:29h
as three year old, Atlantic Jr, 2:34h,
| Black Cecil 2:4iA as a two year-old, MGr-
| ling Casey a green mare owned by Ralph
| Cook and three -ycar-Old by Ellcrslie
| Wilkes owned by c. G. Cook. sam Is
very comfortably fixed He has with
him as helpers Fred Campbell and Grant
| Harrison.
Morford is in the second alley from the
gate. He has Chimes Boy 2:17lt, High
| Waltz, a three year old; Nellie Chimes, a
| three year old; Max Il 2:29l& as a three
year old; Lucy Hall, a green PAGER, Bar
ME Monroe, green trOtter; Patonchie
2:27l%; Wanda, Il green trottcr and Nam
brinO Almont, an ll-month old PAGER that
shows fast now. He also has "A number
of brood mares that have been bred to
| Chimes Boy. He has as assistant driver
! Sylvester Grove and John McIlvaire, Wal
| lace Bradcn and John Decker as "swipes. I"
Charley Nell has nine head belonging
to John G. Welty in the last row of stalls
to the right of the entrance. He has nice
large rOOmy stalls and his horses are in
elegant condition as in fact all the horses
at the track are. Nell is working Karl
X, 2:2SA, Pilot Boy, 1874 as a three year
old; Amelia, by Pilot Medium, Maggie
G. Atrose, by Atwood; Lady Harrison
2:2ST; Monroe Girl, 2:32H Lady Elyria,
three year old and Brown Wilkes filly
Mr. Nell thinks a good deal of Lady
Elyria She is full sister to Gertrude
2:11&, and gives promise Of being fast
Nell will also get Bessie Chimes 2;27H
Monday and Jemima later on in the sea-
son. He has as helpers Charles Bcebout,
Edward Swinehart and George Rushong
The brown mare Minerva Bells owned
by NJ W. Fribley, Of Hopedale, Ohio, has
fOaled large brown colt by Jim Riddle.
The youngster is eligible TO the kentucky
Futurity to be trOttcd in 1898, and Is a
brother to J. X. L., the three year old
that John Hines will campaign and
which showed his ability to trot in 2:3O
as n two year old.
The old drivers are in evidence at the
Center Square, Pa, this spring Last
Thursday, James Petit, who is seventy
six years old, drove one Of his horses "A
mile in 2:25A, while :. Gilbert, seventy
four years old stepped Thornwood a mile
in 2:25T.