The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21
COLD FOR RACING.
But Some Very Warm Sport Was Seen at
Rigby Yesterday.

rather forbidding for racing put Tor all
that the races which were witnessed at
the park yesterday afternoon were of the
finest and most interesting OF the season.
| The crowd for such cold day was ex-
tremely large and among those present.
were great many ladies. 1t Is expected
that the attendance today Will DC the
largest of the meet and 1t surely Will II
the weather is fine for the programme
is a most attractive one.
In all yesterday eight heats were pulled
off and every finish in these heats was
close and exciting.
1t took two heats to settle the 2.32 class
Which was left over unfinished from
Tuesday. Mildreth H., owned py .. >.
Jordan of Portland, won the two heats
and the race. In the last heat the three
heat winners Julia, Ben Mcs7regor and
Mildreth H., were punched and crowdlng
cnessanother hard when Julia went OF
her feet. She slowed around and collided
| with Ben McGregor who was 1rln 9
behind and the result was Mlldreth d.
finished the race alone and the sulkles OF
the two horses were badly damaged and
their drivers thrown out but fortunately
neither of them were injured. The time
for these last two heats was the best of
| the race.
| The 2.24 class proved to be most ex-
citing one. There. were eight starters and
every horse was out for the big slice OF
| the prize.
| In the first heat Beatrice, brown mare
owned by G. P. Drake OF Lewiston,
proved TO be an easy winner and dropped
her record of 1898 1-2 down to 2.1o "a
The finish of the heat was exceedingly
close, Winsome, a.grey gelding, making
Beatrice step out SO lively that she
knocked five seconds off her former record.
The second heat was almost as fast as
the first. Frank Hayden, who was
driving Beatrice would not allow her to
| be headed for the mile and the driving
was one of the features of the heat Once
more n. E. Kimball who was up behind
Winsome made Hayden step out with
| Beatrice for the heat. There was little to
chose between the two horses as they
| came to the wire, but Beatrice fns lily
stuck her nose past the grey's and took
| the heat in 2.19 1-2.
In the third heat the race was made all
the more exciting by the entrance of a
new factor in it. DR.. Fanduis, the colored
| owner of Benvoneto Boone held his horse
| in the bunch until the stretch. Winsome
and Beatrice were having lively tussle
coming down the stretch, but when a
short distance from it the Boone horse
closed up the intervening space and shot
ahead past the two leaders like an arrow
from a bow the crowd went wild With de-
| light and cheered the sensational finish
until they were hoarse. 1t was a most
exciting end of an exciting and interest
ing heat, and the Boone horse has new
mark of 2.20 IA on account of it.
There was another surprise in store for
the crowd in the fourth heat of this race.
Up to this time it had looked to be a
question between Beatrice and the Boone
horse. 1t was too dark to tell how the
horses went along the back stretch, but
the Boone horse went off in the lead and
broke badly on the third turn dropping
back into third turn. dropping back into
third place. Winsome led half way down
the stretch when Lucky Boy, belonging
to c. N. Trefethen of Portland, stepped
out of the bunch and came down under
the wire with plenty of speed to burn,
winning the heat inia walk, and at the
same time new record of 2.21 IL The
race was put over until twelve o'clock to-
day.
One of the interesting features yester-
day afternoon was the race in which the
lady drivers took part. 1t was by no
means tame exhibition, but the horses
were driven with great skill from the be-
ginning and the mile was made In very
quick time. The jockeying of the drivers
for positions on the back stretch was well
done, and in fact there have been many
races on Rigby's track which were not
handled as well as this one was. The
lady drivers were all handsomely attired
in bloomer costumes and they showed
that they understood their business from
the start. Merrill, one of Nelson's get,
driven by Mrs. Stanouth of Rigby park,
took the two heats which were trotted
with ease and the race was put over until
today as unfinished.
For good racing this meet of Maine
horses is the best that has been seen at
Rigby this season and the best of it is
every horse which contests i'll these
events is we'll known in this section of the
state.
| The summarizes:
2.24 Class-Trot or Pace-Purse $500.
(Unfiinished.)
Beatrice m, by Bayard Wilkes,
dam by Daniel Boone( Hayden)1 2 2
Lucky Roy, 6, by Roy Wilkes.
dam by BRUSSELS (Ramsdell)
Benvoneto Boone, b g, by the