The Portland daily press., 1895-10-16
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.l

Trots Resulted.
ESPECIAL TO THE PRESS
Freeport, October 15.-Several years ago
some of the gentlemen of this town con-
cieved tho idea of building a trotting
track, and they built a good one. 1t is
located on local field on the outskirts
of the town. A better site could hardly
have been selected, for the field is al
most as smooth as the floor of a ball
room and the soil is we'll adapted for
the making of fast time without hurting
the feet of the trotters In other words,
it possesses that quality des cribed as
"springiness - The track is arranged
with exceptionally long stretches for a
half-mile course. The turn are perfect
half circles. The track is just five in
ches longer than half mile the measure
ments being taken three feet from the
pole. Horsemen who saw the track for
the first time today described it as little
Rigby. They could, of course, have CIV
Ell it no warmer praise.
For two years the local flyers have been
showing what they could do on the
track, but it was not until the time of
the Gray fair last August that the Free
port Park Association definitely decided
| to give fair. Then the Freeport men
took off their coats and went to work.
They had good deal to do. A grand
stand must be brfilt a judges stand like
! wise and also a new set of stables to ac
commodate the horses from away. 1t was
last evening when the last rails were
driven home on these structures. The
grand stand lacks roof and the judges
stand is not covered in, but these de-
ficiencies will be remedied next year.
Then too the fence will be completed
around the park. Now the Freeport
small boys can see the races without hay-
ing to resort to the time-honored expedi-
ent of crawling under the fence. Tne
fence isn't there.
Necessarily the exhibits at the park are,
this year, not very extensive but the
poultry, agricultural and domestic dis
plays at the hall in the village are excep-
tlonally large and fine for q town show.
But if the exhibits at the park were no
extensive, the people who went there to-
day to see the races, and they are usually
in the majority, were not disappointed.
The fields in both the two events Oh
the card were large and included many
well-known horses. In the judges
stand, President Smith of the association
acted as starter, and if starting races
was his regular business, he would COM
mand gilt-edge pay, which is reputed to
be about $40 day; He LELAND handled 1tt the
judges were VIM. Smell, owner of the
famous old trotter Jack Sprat, and VIM.
R. Fields of Brunswick.
Fred c. Moulton and Harry M. Cush-
ing acted as timers
The races began with running dash,
not on the programme. Mr. BUCK, one
of the owners of the chestnut stallion
Cashier, was driving that horse around
the track. He was going in the oppo-
site direction to that usually followed
and was hugging the pole. He WAS met
by another of the flyers and couldn't
get out of the way. There was rattle
as the sulky wheels came together, and
bound for Canada, with the wind all out
of the rubber tires on the light sulky
and Mr. Buck hanging to the wreck.
Forty men shouted "whoa" as Cashier
cantered by, but they didn't succeed in
frightening him, and as soon as Mr.
Buck got into position to handle the
ribbons he easily stopped his horse. The
tdamage was confined to the sulky wheels
which were smashed and twisted until
they looked like tangled punches of
The first regular event was the three
minute class. and it was won by King
Bird a Brunswick horse, in straight
heats. 1t was an exciting race, however,
Mary Matt. with Phinney up, being a
GOOD second in two of the heats, and
fsa L. holding that place in the other
The summary:
Three-minute Glass
King Bird, b g. (MorrilD, II
Mary Matt, b m, (Phinney), 422
lisa l.. b m. CLARK, 25 5
Emma Nelson, ch m, (Jordan), 33 3
Sappho. bl NJ, g. Woodbury., 6 4
Jennie W., &, (Crooker), "a
Harry Seer. br g, (Fowler), 677
Samantha ch m, (Morton), 81 s
Time-3. 40, q 40, 2.59 1-2.
Then came the O. 80 class and it was a
good race, although it too went in
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