The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-30
HOLTON RACES.
Still Faster Time-Track Get
ting Faster Each Day.
Grover Cleveland Takes a Rec
ord of 2.1O 1-2.
in THE 2.17 PACE.
The Races the Most Remarkable
In Kansas.
Nothing Too Good Can Be Said
For the Track.
IN THE 2.17 PACE

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the same as the day before.A few more
went up from Topeka than on the first
day, and a large attendance is expected
from there today. The racing was first
class and was characterized by the
closest contest and fastest time of
the season in the west. But little crit
icism was heard upon the decisions of
the judges, who We're the same as the
day before, except that NJ. A Low act
ed in the place of Albert Parker. Be
1ieving that the true friends of the
manly sport of horse racing can best
serve the interests of horsemen by ex-
posing every appearance of jobbery,
your correspondent has only two com
plants to make.
In the PLY pace was the great daugh-
ter of ShadeIand Onward. Belle Acton,
the property OF the WoodIine Stock
farm, Fullerton, Nebraska. She has not
started in a race since her great per
fOrmance as a yearling in 2:20, then
making her the champion pacing year
ling of the world which honor she has
ever since held. She is now four years
old and apparently in the pink of con-
d1tlOn. She worked up so easily to the
second place in the first heat in the
fast time of 2:101a that her driver
seemed to be scared at the prospect of
winning and taking low mark. The
fact that her owners intend to take her
through the grand circuit and the
through the race, led most people to
think that she could have won if her
driver cared to have her. The great
reputation OF Gould & Miller. much of
Which is due to the performance of this
mare, as we'll as the large Investments
they have in extremely fast horses,
should be sufficient incentive for them
to keep themselves above suspicion 1t
is q matter of regret that intelligent OBJ
servers could come to no other cOncIu-
sion than that they were trying to
= a = al M 7V-frr h.,
mare out.
The first race called was the unfn-
ished half mile dash and repeat. which
was easily won by the North TOpeka
horse Black Tom. They got away in a
bunch and came that way to within
on hundred yards of the wire when
Black Tom drew away, winning easily
Ply an open length.
The summary of this race is as fol-
lows:
First race, unfinished. half mile. run
ming and repeat. Result of race: Black
Tom Won, Dandy NJ. second, Ansloum
third. Lena Martin, Miss Cakes, Bos-
ton Boy, Juneberry and Fox also ran.
In the 2;35 trot was Stella b, a brown
mare driven by Bert Shank is bred
away up in the purple, being the daugh-
ter of son of ElectiOneer dam by
George Wilkes, and is entered in the
great stakes of the grand circuit and
her performances in her training being
so phenomenal that people had a right
observed that she came within two or
three hundred yards of the wire with
lightning speed, and then stopped al
most still, it put a bad look upon her
performances.
Aside from these two circumstances.
Belle Acton's and Stella BIS, it was ap-
parent that the other horses We're be
ing driven to win in both races.
In this 2:35 trOt the first half of the
third heat was trOtted in 1:O61h and the
full mile in PIG. In the first heat De
pendent, owned by L. 0. SwOpe of IN
dependence, Mo, who had such bad
luck at Topeka in breaking sullzies.
went off with lightning speed and was
never headed. winning the heat in 2:19H
an extremely low mark for a green
horse and one that may well make Mr.
SWOpe proud This makes the third
colt from the same dam that has taken
records better than 2:25.
The summary of this race is as fol-
lows:
Second race, 2:35 trotting. Purse $500.
Lee Graham BIS. by Counsellor
(Johnson) -....... .-........3 I
Dependent b. h. by Campbeu's
Eleetioneer Delaney .....1 Il
Stella 3 b. mr. (Shank) ........7 2 g
Lone Star State BIS. (CampbelD2
Vendor b. h. 90 'ROurxe) .....6 2
Harry W g. g. CT Erwin) - 5
Maggie c b. m. (Saville) ...--.S 6
Elvia G Medium b. m. (Tyler) 3 dr.
Time. 2:1914; 2:1S1a ;2:161a: 2:19K
The 2:17 pace was phenomenal and
was won by Russell T. Grover Cleve-
lanQ ndQ taken the fastest heats. one
in 2:1012 and the other in 2:1315. Rus
sell T. came up for the money. having
been kept back to the sixth and fifth
places respectively in the first two
heats.
on account of the way the betting
was going on prior to the third heat
as Russell T. was being heavily back
ed by the hOrsemen to win the third
heat, the judges became suspicious that
Grover Cleveland intended to Law up
This he did, allowing the others to pass
him between the quarter and half mile
not a very good place for horse to
quit if everything was all right. There
ish of this heat as to whether or not
the driver of Grover Cleveland should
be punished but the judges concluded
to watch carefully the next heat which
demonstrated that the fast work of the
first heat had been too much for Grover
Cleveland. and it was quite clear that
he was unable to come back after be-
ing strung out SO thoroughly in the
first two heats
The following is the summary of this
race:
Third race, PLY pace. Purse $500.
Russell T., b g by Miller's
Russell (Trapp) ..-...--.6 1
Grover Cleveland. Oh. by
Wilkerson CAIaddox) .....1 6
Belle Acton b mCRobinsOn)2 6 2 , g.
Norward blk Daily ...4 > 2
Belle Colley b m (Bliss) --..3 3 8
DR.. Kelley b 9 CDeIaney)...5 7dr
Time, 2:1O7z; 2:137a; ,2:137A; 2:157s
2;191S.
The last race called was the three
quarter mile dash DR. Malcolm won by
a scratch being hard pressed by Drew