The evening times., 1895-08-09
TRACK AND STABLE.

From the time the harness racing season
opened until the present something like 500
trottng and pacing horses have reduced
| their records far below what they were
| last year. OF this number not less than 10
horses have gained records of 2: 1 or better.
Fifteen years ago there were but two horees
| 10 the world, with marks as good as that
| st. Julien, Eli 3-4, and Maud g., 2:11
Ia. This should give pretty good idea
Of the headway that is being made with the
/ harness race horse.
Yet these 76 horses are not the sum total
of the trotters and PAGERS that have gone
miles in 2:12 or better This number does
not take in one horse that last year had
record better than 2:OS Ia
There are many PAGERS and trotters that
last year had mark as good or better
than 2:OS IA. Among these trotters were:
Pjxley and Azote, 2.O8 Ia; Martha Wilkes,
2:08; Fantasy, 2:06; Directum, EOS Ii;
Nancy Hanks, 2:O4, and ABx, 2:O3 3-4
Among the PAGERS that last yearsh had q
mark of 2:0s Ia or better are: Blue Sign,
May Marshall and Hall Braden, 2.CS Ia;
Hal billiard, 2:O7 81; silkwood, Ontonian
and Will Kerr, 2:07 1-2; W. Wood, 2:e7;
Manager and Guy, 2:06 3-4; Roy Wilkes,
2:O6 1-2; johnson and Jay-Eye-see, 2;O6
Ia; Saladjn, 205 3-4; Direct, 200 1-2;
Hal Pointer, 2.O4 1-2; Mascot and Flying
Jib, 04; John Il. Gentry, 2:O3 3-4; Robert
j., FOL 1-2; Joe Patchen, 2:O4 Ia; On
line, 2:04, and others.
From the opening of the racing season
this year up to the present time at lea st
eight horses, all OF them with a mark as
good as 2:OS IA to start with have sheared
their records. Among the trotters are:
Azote, 2:0s IA to 2:O6 1-2; William Penn,
2:12 Ia to 2:O7 IA. Among the PAGERS
are: Fidol, 2:1O IA to 2:O5 Ia; Coleridge,
2:09 3-4 to 2:O6 Ia; Rnbenstein, EOS Ia
to zoe 12; Ben D., 2:13 Ia to 2:06 3-4;
Angie D.. ,2:11 IA to 2:O7; Aileen, 2:19 Ia
to 2:O7 IA.
This is surely a remarkable showing for
the harness brigade, and yet the list here
given is nothing like complete.
The announcement of walbaum, the head
of the Saratoga racing association, that
he Will close his meeting on the ED Of this
month, looks as though he wanted TO rid
himself of race tracks and race horses all
in heap. He has given it out that he will
sell his horses on the Gay after he ends his
races. Walbaum has a great deal of
money bound up in race tracks that have
heretofore made big profits, that are now
worthless for racing purposes, because Of
laws have prohibited bookmakug.
What will probably be the lightest stIky
Of them all is being built for the pacing
horse Johu r. Gentry. II is to weigh not
more than eighteenpounds
Taplight was one of the most promising
colts early In the season, but at Lexington
he got knocked around pretty roughly in
race, aud since has shown little ability
as a race horse. He has, it is said, come
around all right, and is now doing most
eucourag ging work. He is credited with
running five furlOngs in 1 :O1 the other day.
He is in the Futurity, and il is now believed
will give good account of himself when he
faces the starter for the s67 600 run.
1t is now given out that Fleschmau's |
S25, 900 horse, Halma, Is as good as ever, |
and that there may be a match race be- |
tween him and Lissak ARA uged To settle |
the question as to which is the better g. +.
year-old- This pair is looked upon as the |
greatest of the Western horses OF their age |
of the year, though some hold that Flying |
Dutchmau is the peer of any Of them.
Nearly all OF the runners that have been at |
the Oakley meeting will go to st. Louis. !
Betting goes In the Future City according !
to the taste of the bettor, and there the man /
who ohas a good thing canlay ydownhismoney |
to his hearts content There are more |
than 500 horses at the st. Louis track.
Trotting. pacing and running in the Vir- !
ginia, Maryland and Dela ware circuit be-
gins this month The first meeting will be
at Cape Charles City August 20-23, for
which entries close August Is. The purses
for the meeting foot up So 600. The sec
ond meeting takes place at Upper Marlboro,
Md, August 27-30, for which entries close
August 20 The purses here aggregate $3,-
900. The third meeting will be held at
Easton, Nd, September SO. The purses
amount 10 s. 500, and entries close August
20. The fourth meeting occurs at Eikton,
Nd, September 1913. The purses amount
10 SO, 900 Entries close September 3. The
fifth meeting is in connection with the Bal
Iimore County fair at Timanium, Septem-
Der 1920. The purses foot up S3,7OO, and
entries close September 10. There is to be
at all OF the meetings.
The great pacing race between Robert