Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-14
SPEEDY ONES.
.orTING OUTLOOK THIS SEA
 .oN IS VERY BRIGHT.

,,cuit Entries Are Numerous and
 .u the Cracks = Simultaneous ....: ... ss Buffalo and Indianapolis.
 ,sping Meet at Saginaw.
 .re to take the trotting and
 < the past month as any indica-
 that might be expected later on,
 trotting season is at its zenith
 big meetings are in progress,
 1896 will prove the most suc-
 n the history of the sport.
 before sa early ill the season
 rs appeared as great a number of .s5sh class performers at both gaits sbown up during the past few
 the early meetings, both east
 <.
 Is in ? :08 111 was recorded during
 spt meeting at Omaha by the
 Incl and 2:10 has already been
 n the east. The number that - ,,ced close to 2:10 and shown E. bility to go much faster is re-
 sIe. While the trotters do not, as - - come to their speed so early as
 ,ars. yet there have been several
 re come close to the 2:12 mark,
 ,sn in the slow classes heats in
 nd better have been of common
 snce,
 ..--t the spring heetings showing .. ceptional speed, not only in iso-
 ases, but at almost every meeting
 all classes, it must necessarily be |sd that when the big purses and
 of the grand circuit are the Ito be gained the class of the con- Is and the speed which will be led will, unless all signs fail,
 that of any previous year.
 lo. too, it is well known that the
 of the racing stables is reserved
 se events. Indeed many of the Is have not started a single horse
 confining their energies entirely
 ting their pupils in condition for races, knowing well that extreme
 and condition only will secure ut of the money,
 He the grand circuit proper does pen until the 14th of July, with ...;s:a, .;sas--- [ieh. ) meeting, the trot- arnival under the auspices of the hWestern Breeders association at lngton park, Chicago, really in- Bates the great trotting meets of Blowing Washington park, the sta .iaye the choice of two high class zngs to fill in the week prior to the .il circuit meeting at Saginaw. ' are Grand Rapids and Windsor, both of which have been arranged grand circuit scale and are within shipping distance of Saginaw. Blowing Saginaw and each occupy. b week are Detroit, Cleveland, Co bus, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and ly New York, where the circuit be wound up unless Philadelphia leone to the front with a meeting elmont or Point Breeze, which is improbable, as the antipool selling lation in Pennsylvania is even stringent and has had a more essing effect than in New York is was the plan as originally ar- cd by the stewards of the grand cir at q time when it was generally Osed that neither Buffalo nor Koch would give meetings, and when York alone upheld the eastern end le great chain of which Buffalo, ester, Hartford and New York but few years ago, prior to ad- legislation, the most powerful bers Since this programme was out, however, Buffalo has boldly ed the arena and announced its imitation to give a meeting, and, its old time energy and liberality, d list of purses which will bear able comparison with those of any le members of the "big ring. too, Rochester will undoubtedly the fore with q meeting which complete the eastern chain and continuous racing in the old cir inc up to the final meeting of the chain at Fleetwood.
 Buffalo has taken the same dates ose assigned by the circuit stewards dianapolis, there will necessarily division of the stables after the Wayne meeting, but there will be a vast number of horses ill train pr the various classes that a diyi- of the stables can easily be made till leave abundant high class ma for both places, so that there will appreciable difference in the quail the racing.
 to the meeting at Fleetwood. noth- eed De feared, for the great stables, ers and horses will all get together for the New York meeting, and ream of the trotting turf will wind 8 grand circuit of 1896 over the 8 and hills of Fleetwood's $ famous most satisfactory evidence of the gth and popularity of trotting is despite the depressing effect of dis ging legislative action and the un- actory condition of business gen. :, which it would naturally be sup would have a powerful effect up sport from financial standpoint, hac not ip uoarc hoar a cpaSQn