The Newtown bee., 1897-09-17

Roxbury Station showing a handsome
youDgster he raised. G. G. Peck of New
town exhibited tQuaker Boy" a fast
PAGER with race record of Ia IA and
j. B. Merwin exhibited his stallion.
Those who exhibited colts were B. 3.
Beach, Howard G. Clark, M. Ell. Feeney,
Will Connors, 2. E. Squires and Robert
Donnelly. There were some promising
ones in the lot. s. 3. Smith of Roxbury
exhibited his handsome trotting bred
horse, and j. W. Newton, Edward Tread
well and W. G. Lathrop had handsome
carriage horses.
The interest Of the day centered
around the trotting events and it was
fine racing. The grand stand was filled
and along the home stretch the fence was
lined with eager spectators. The events
were the 2 so class for purse of 800
| and the 2.32 class for purse of 5000. In
the 80 class there were seven starters
and it was race from start to finish,
Ben Star finally pulling out winner az
ter hot tussle with his opponents. This
horse was to be sold at auction On the
grounds on Thursday. Following is the
summary:
Ben Star, chg T. e. Donovan, Shelton 1121
Oliver Q Big S. Lathrop, Danbury 1914
Caleb P b g A. s. Coffin Washington Hol-
low. 2542
Eel Patchen Big G. F Pixley New Milford 2 3!a
School Girl Oh m 1. 8. Coan Shelton cess
Maceo Chg e. s. Bowers Sandy Hook 4 6ds
Elsa m. Corson q. Mead Bridgewater Dis
Time, 2.4O, 2.3sl,2, 2.87, 2.s7.
The 2.32 class was very exciting
There were five starters and
BROWN DICK, rat WINNER,
took the first heat, not making a skip
during the entire heat. In the second
heat Richford Maid wrested the pole
away from Dick and it was pretty race
Richford Maid winning on Dicks break
in the home stretch. The third heat wai
the hottest of all. Richford Maid led il
the home stretch bat Dick, who through
out the race showed great speed dowr
the stretch passed under the wire nose
ahead and took the heat. The fourth
heat was a surprise. Quartercup, wht
had been acting badly levelled do wn anC
while Brown Dick pressed him very
hard coming home, q bad break of Dicks
allowed Quartercup to come in first, Dicl
being second. In this heat Ed Marsh
who was driving Quartercup, lost q
pounds of his weight out of his sulky
seat. This unfortunate happening los
him the heat as according to the rules o
the trotting association he must b.
thrown out Of the race, for not coming
in with correct weight. This gave tn
heat and race to Brown Dick, though
the accident was d severe disappoint
ment to New Milford friends of Quarter
cup for he showed great form in the las
heat and was footing very fast. TIL
summary follows:
Brown Dick Big l. B. Harris. Newtown 12I
Richtord Maid blk. IN s. P. Reed. Falls
> Village, 212
Speckles, GIN W. Carey Mt Kisco 455
Syracuse, GIN D. Gardner, Millerton 544
Quartercup, Big H. o Warner. New Mil
ford, 33
Time, 2 80, 2.32, 2.32, 232.
r. S. Tomlinson of Newtown acted q
starting Judge in his usual efficient man
ner. His associates in the grand stan'
were Edward Taylor, of Sandy Hook
r. G. Tousey of Long Hill and L. z
Curtis of Woodbury.. Between the heat
the New Milford band furnished goo
music. The side shows and vendors wer
not very numerous and while goo
many patropized them they had to tall
pretty loud and fast to get much of
crowd about them.
the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Ma
chine Co. sent an exhibit on Wednes
day and were given space. Evitts (
Staub also had some agricultural nipple
ments on the grounds that attracts
much attention. The New Milford fai
,, played in luck this year, Thursday cor
tinuing the unbroken record of fin
weather. Exciting races and goo
crowd were anticipated, the result @
which will appear in our issue of mex