The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-29
HOLTON RACES.
Fast Time, Fast Track and Fast
Records.
Kansas Chief Takes a Record OF
2:12 3-4.
TOPEKANS WHO WENT.
A Large Number of Them and
More Going.
Careful and Critical Review By
a Competent Horse Man.

fairly good attendance for hrsI oay
event. The weather was very warm,
and no wind to impede the speed of the
horses, so that exceptionally fast time
was made. The special train which
leaves daily during the races from the
Rock Island depot at 12:40 p. M took
a fairly good attendance of horsemen
from Topeka. Among them were Will
liam Bradbury, Charles Eagle, George
Burghardt, Albert Parker, o. P. Up
degraf and son, John Gardiner. R. T.
Kreipe, w. N. Van Valkenberg, John
Van Vechten, viii Norton, Charles
Sampson, your correspondent and
others.
The 2:24 pace was the first race call
ed. and twelve starters came up for
the word. It contained about the same
field of horses that started in Topeka
in the 2:23 pace, but instead of the fast
heat being 2:21 as it was in Topeka,
Kansas Chief took a record Of 2:12sz
and won the race.
The fight in this race was between
Kansas Chief and Frank Erwin, as will
be seen from the summary below.
There was one circumstance connected
with this race that your correspondent
thinks, to say the least, was unfOrtu-
nate. Ding, the bay mare owned by
Miss Wilson of Valencia, was set back
in the second heat to the eleventh posi-
ton for alleged running, she having
finished third. 1t is a very difficult
track for judges to note runs and foul
driving, as scarcely anything can be
seen of the horses after they leave the
wire until they pass the three quarter
pole coming home. Especially is this so
when the track is a little dusty, as was
the case yesterday. To assist the judges
in detecting breaks and foul driving,
Secretary Beauchamp was sent out as
patrol judge to watch the horses on the
first turn, and he reported that Ding,
after leaving the first quarter, ran
nearly a quarter of a mile and passed
all the other horses and took the pole.
This seemed an incredible statement
to the judges, as Ding was so tightly
hobbled that it seemed impossible for
her to gain anything by running, but
Mr.. Beauchamp was very positive that
she did. and the judges were compelled
to take his statement for it.
Mr.. Hart, who drove Ding, claimed
that she did not leave her feet at all
Subsequent circumstances make it very
conclusive that Mr.. Beauchamp was
mistaken, as Lulu, in the fourth heat
q mare of about the same color and
driven by person wearing about the
same color of clothes, did the same
thing and was set back, and her driver
made no objections. The fact that al
most every other driver in the race
stated that they did not see Ding run
at all, and that Lulu, of about the same
color and general appearance ran the
last heat at about the same position
and had no hobbies on, makes it clear
that Miss Wilson's horse was dealt
with unfairly.
This circumstance was hardship
upon Miss Wilson as her mare would
have had a good position to start with
in the fourth heat, and in that heat
she lead the field until the three quar-
ter pole, and it is probable that she
would have finished a close second, if
not taken the heat, if she had been al
lowed to start in her position. Your cor
respondent was in the judges stand at
the time and knows all the circurn-
stances, and is sure that the judges
were honest in their decision and
knows that no intentional wrong was
meant.
The following is the summary of the
race:
First race. 2:24 pacing. Purse. $500.
Kansas Chief. Big, by Tenday
17Ta5l< en- EFTi92 FTHi2 h nv Good
wood. Jr. (F. Ervin) ........ 2 4
Crystal Maid, b. m. (Jarvis) II
I. Il, b. g; (AslhbrooH1 .,...;-
Ding, b. m (HarD -........-12 II 3 z
Lula, b.. IN. (Stutliff) ........1O Z 4
Arravana, b. $. (Reaver) ...... 6 6 8
Dictate, b. h. (RObinsOn) ..... 10 s 5
Correct, b. g, Delaney. 5 10 dr.
p J., b. h (Harris) ...-..--.. s DR.
Woodtord, o. ...----....--.---9 DIR
Time. 2:12A; 2:13H 2:14; 2:1S
In the next race, the. 2:25 trOt there
was another unfortunate decision, but
the result was not so bad, as the only
difference it made was to give the
horses another heat. In the fifth heat
there was a close finish between Heir
Medium, owned by John Lonberg of
Topeka, and Myers Invincible. Heir
Medium trotted every heat in the race
without making q break. In this heat
Myers InVincible made break on the
home stretch, but rapidly recovered
himself and finished so closely that two
of the judges thought he was ahead of
Medium trotted the full mile and in
case of a close finish where. it was ac-
knOwledged that her competitor NV
ers' InVincibla made a break a fair
Interpretation of the rules would have
given the heat to Heir Medium but all
of the spectators and a large portion
of the people in the judges stand.
thought Heir Medium finished ahead.
Notwithstanding Those who have been
talking that Heir Medium is a gutter
have got a hard proposition to get over
in studying this summary. She was by
far the freshest horse of the lot when
she came out for the last heat and
mare. Silver Simmons fast heats in the
beginning of the race had evidently
made him tired, and the little bay mare
was a little too much for him. The re-
slut of this race was no surprise to the
friends of Heir Medium. While she has
not been doing very well in the races