The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-03
WITH TRorTER AND PAGER.
John Nolan Now the Largest Winner of the
Ycar-HiS Remarkable Campaign.

John Nolan Now the Largest Winner of the
Ycar-His Remarkable Campaign.
To the surprise OF nearly all horsemen Louis
ville's fall meeting last week. in spite Of rain.
turned out to be one OF the most brilliant trot-
ting meetings ever held anywhere In or out Of
the Grand Circuit. The Louisville track has not
heretofore been classed with the fastest OF the
Western courses, and previous meetings there.
while always notable and sometimes brilliant.
never reuched the high standard of this year.
when records were smashed by wholesale.
The contest for the Preparation Purse, which
. opened the meeting. goes into the records OF
harness racing as the fastest four-heat race
ever trotted by three-year-olds. The three
heat winners. ]. A. McKerron, Charley
Herr and Cuprum. beat 2:14 in every
round. and Cuprum's last heat in 2:12X
was only q quarter Of a second slower
than McKerron's first heat In 2:12H.
The winner is the third great three-year-old
that has como from Marcus Days Montana
breeding farm this year. the others being DR..
6pellman, 2:13K, and Laurela. 2:15k. All
three started out green this season. and all
were got by Prodigal. 2:16. the brother to
Patron. 2:14k. and Patronage tsire Of Allx.
2:03H). Cuprum's dam Is the eight ear-old
mare Camiola. by Dictator. out Of Belle Hewitt.
,2;39h. by Alexander's Belmont. j. A. Nc
Kerron. tho fast colt that gained q record Of
2:12K In the first heat, and was distanced In
the last, will be remembered as the three-year-
old that trotted a mile in his work In 2:13A at
Denver in June. He halls from California, and
/. Is by Nutwood Wilkes. 2:16h. the son OF Guy
Wilkes. 2:15k. that is the sire also OF the fastest
hree-year-old trotter Of the year. Who Is 1t.
2:12. McKerron's dam Is a daughter OF Direc-
tor. 2:17.
John Nolan's winning performance In the
$4,000 Douglass Purse at Louisville last week
places the shapely big Prodigal gelding at the
head Of all winners Of the year up to date and
his mile in 2:08 in this race makes him the
fastest four-year-old OF the season. likewise the
fastest green trotter that has ever appeared.
That is. no other horse ever gained 30 fast a
record his first year out. James Buffers in
yincible colt Directum Kelly heads the list OF
Grand Circuit winners; with something more
than $lh;1oS to MS s credit II q campaign OF five
OF illness at the height Of the season has
enabled Dosk S SSIs9 o t9 tb take }os the lead and %.t e
Of 2;0sh made by the son Of Direct in his
although the thrse-year.old t%rotter Charley
hrst honors Should tho Kentucky FutITiRty ftsHii
70 the son Of Alfred q, Tomorrow; John No:
most remSrRabls campaigns ever made by a
tGottlng horse. Starting In the 800 class at
and though beaten both times by the Caiifor.,
t SaPSe fonr-ysSr,oId iplit tho heats and
winning milo Of his career. His next
start was at St Joseph Mo. where,
rist. Major Chow and other sensational green
ones 10 straight heats, cutting his record down
20 2:l3.. IL was here that W. o. Foote saw
hHIm and bought him FOR J. Il HubInger Of New
horse. Foote did not start him again until the
opening OF the Grand Circuit at Detroit. The
{ raw four-year-old started there in the 2:12
glass and won again reducing his record %
during the campaign, failed to win any part Of
the purse. He did not start at Columbus.
but won AZ Fort Wayne the following
for the $1,000 purse for 2;3O %trotters. getting
second money; At Glens Falls. he trotted a
heat every day between showers FOR three days,
but g9n his race In straight heats AZ Boston
going from there TO Hartford. where. on Sept
y. he pulled down the Charter Oak purse ahd
lowered his record TO 2:00lS. After the Hart
ford race he was. laid up nearly three weeks,
his next start having been at Louisville.