St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-04

| fiat, the last quarter being made in
| thirty seconds. AS the mare came
| under the wire, the crowd arose with
I one movement to cheer the gritty little
| trotter. One place only was there sor-
| row, and that in the California camp,
where the darkies who hang around
the Directum stable were trying to
figure out how it all happened.
The second heat was a. surprise. On
the second trial they were sent off
with Fantasy and Directum side by
side, and the mare was leading into
the turn. when she went off her feet.
Geers pulled her right down, however,
and she was pulling ahead again when
she went off her feet again and ran
clear to the quarter before the Ten
nessee sphinx could hold her Then he
pulled her clear back, and Directum
had it all his own way and trotted
in easily in 2:121a. David B was second,
with Kentucky Union fourth. Fantasy
was away back at the head of the
stretch.
The third heat was a warm one, the
two best CneS being together all the
way. Fantasy started on the outside,
but she worked well to the front in
the turn, and at the quarter there was
less than a length of open air between
Directum's sulky and Fantasy's nose
1t was SO seconds. Down the line they
went without a break, the same stretch
of distance between them all the way
to the half. Another 80 quarter made a
l:06 half. Then Fantasy rounded to in
the turn, and at the three-quarter
pole, which they struck in LBS, the
mare had her nose in Directum's flying
Soi1 off
swung out and into the track and
Fantasy slipped like an eel between
him and the pole. 1t was nip and tuck
clear to the wire then, and although
the horses time did not come up to the
record breaking time of the fourth
quarterf in the other heat, they came to
the string in 81 seconds, 2:09 fiat for the
mile. Fantasy led by neck. The
others were the same as before.
And then came another disappoint-
ment, for at the first turn in the fourth
neat Fantasy again went off her feet,
and the second heat was repeated, eH..
cept that Fantasy came around slow.
The secret of the break was revealed
when Geers pulled up at the wire and
examined her left fore foot Fantasy
had turned shoe, one-half cutting
across the frog and also cutting into
the quarter. Geers brought her out for
the last heat, however, although many
of the crowd thought she was perma-
nently lame. But 300 or 400 remained to
see it out. and they were well re-
paid. The time was slower than the
previous heats, but it was a close heat
and such a one as did all credit to
a full five-heat race. Directum had a
good advantage in the pole again this
time, but Fantasy buckled down to
work right at the start and was soon
swinging in close behind the Califor-
nian. Both were working finely, and
soon Kentucky Union and David B
were hopelessly behind. At the quar-
ter both were going like the wind,
32ls being the figures, equal to Direc-
tum's gait for the same space in the
first heat. And in the straight stretch
they kept it up to the second, making
the half in Los, the fastest first half
in the race. But they couldn't keep
1t up and on the third quarter the
time went up to SO. AT the head of the
stretch they were close and coming
down the first line, one and then the
other appeared to be ahead, but as they
came in front of the grand stand Fan
tasy pulled away a bit and Geers had