The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03
TWENTY HEATS
We're Trotted and Paced at Old
Orchard Yesterday.
And Twelve of These Were Done in Better
Than 2.15-The Story of the Afternoon
Sport.
ESPECIAL TO THE F fREss.l

Old Orchard, August 2-All the Old
Orchard race track needed to make it's
midsummer meet a success was fair
weather. With that once settled, all
else come in it's natural course. Today
was filed with good sport, in which sew
eral individual records went to smash
and surprises were meted out in rapid
succession.
Between the noon hour and the going
down of the sun 20 heats were run off
in four races, the last of which goes over
diminished into tomorrow's S programme.
Twelve of the 20 were better than q 15
Caprice, owned by John O'Connor of
Boston, was the best among the seven
trotters in the 2. Is class, but she did not
show her gait till two heats had been
taken from her, one of them by Lynne
Bel and the other by Vega. Jim Golden
drove the Boston mare three winning
miles in order to take the final heat
away from and Vega had to to lower her
mark to 2.13.
There was a sensation in store in the
80 pace R. M. DurlaDd's Templeton
was generally regarded as sure winner,
- uo oouiu only 10 neIu uoWu 10 d
steady gait. Driver Loeb sue
ceeded for two heats in mastering the
nervous gelding and won hands down.
But in the next heat Templeton dupli-
Gated his Lawrence performance, max
ing wild plunge before the first mark
was reached, following it by another
worse one from which he did not re-
cover in timeito preventS being shut out.
Pilgrim, New Jersey stallion that has
been only two months PAGER, and who
has a three-year old trotter got mark
of 220 3-4. succeeded Templeton in
the lead to the van for three consecu-
tive heats, the fastest of which was paced
in 2. 3-4.
:, The 2. Il pace was 1nany-sided affair.
First Vitello, the talents first choice,
took a heat; then Jewell. driven by his
new owner. Mart Detnarest, captured
two. Jewell was now looked upon as a
probable winner, but headid not succeed
in fulfilling the prophecy. Vitello beat
him out in the two final heats.
The judges, after listening to vigo-
rous 'fkick' looked askance at the sum
mary and announced all bets off. This
decision naturally displeased few, but
the majority of the spectators heartily
applauded it.
The 2.17 pace was the event that
dragged along till sunset, and then had
to- be postponed till tomorrow. Daisy
Dean was the best thought Of The fin
ish of the first heat found her among
the tailers, but she warmed up TO her
best gait in the next two and lead the
field under the wire. The judges thought
Rathburn was not driving Eliza K. to
her fastest clip, and gave him a word
of caution, with the result that in a
whipping finish he took the next heat.
Alcinta took the next, after close fight.
The three heat inners in this list
will Cott1n thnlTs tom AFT I 10
The remaining events on the card are
the 2 25 pace, 2 % trot and 2. 80 trot
The Myrtle Peek attractions were sand
wiched in between the heats. Miss
Peak rode Roman standing race in
l. 81 1-2 Miss Edna succeeded IN beating
out the riderless running horse, covering
the mile in l. so 1-2
The summaries:
2. Is CLASS, TRoTTING. PURSE $500.