The Portland daily press., 1898-09-17
GRAND CIRCUIT CLOSED.
Rigby's Racing Season Ended Yes.
terday After noon.
TWO TAME RACES RUN OFF in
STRAIGHT HEATS.

Anaconda, VINO HOiQs the WOrlu's rive
Year Old Gelding Record. the Winner
of the 2.0S Pace-The 2. SO Trot Proved
Cinch for Genevieve, the Favorite.
Rigby's racing season, and the grand
cicruit season as we'll, ended yesterday
with two races that were rather tame
compared with the sport served upon
some of the days of the meeting. The at.
tendance was not large, still there were
more people ON the grounds than are
usually seen on the last day of a race
meeting.
There were only two events to be dis
posed of, and they were run OH In such
slick shape that the fun was all over
few minutes after three O'Clock, and the
Boston sporting men had ample time to
cash in their checks after the concluding
heat and catch the $50 train for home.
The 2.oS pace came up first. That had
been looked forward to as one of the feat
ures of the meeting, but Anaconda had
such q cinch on it that much of the in
terest in the contest was lost. Anaconda
is California gelding, with mark OF
2.Oa "a, made this year at Cleveland, and
which stands as the worlds record for a
five.year. old gelding. Tom Heating, his
trainer, has the distinction of having the
handling Of string which includes
Klatawah, 200 IA, the fastest three
year-old PAGER; Searchlight, 2.04 1-2, the
fastest four-year- PAGER, and Anacodna,
the fastest dve-year-old pacing gelding
in the world. In the same string is
Dionne, whose mile in 2.O6 IA, made this
week at Rigby, is duplicate of the
fastest trotting mare record of the year.
Anaconda has been beaten but twice
this season, the first time at Hartford,
when he had an Off day and was
distanced. He sold at 500 in the pools
yesterday, Indiana bringing $50 and the
field SIS. Indiana is four-year-old with
a mark of 400 Ia, made on the grand
circuit this year. Another horse that sold
we'll tor place was Refna, the mare
which DR.. Frost of Worcester recently
bought of the veteran driver, clock
Bowen.
In the first heat Indiana showed the
way over three fcurths of the course, with
Passing Belle in second place. When they
swung into the home stretch Anaconda
cut loose and left them as if they We're
tied finishing the mile in 400 Ia
The next heat was off the same piece.
Up the back stretch the favorite1 appeared
to be in pocket, but in rounding the
upper turn he found his way to the front
and busted the faces of the field.
The third time out Driver Heating
made sure thing of it by keeping in the
lead from wire to wire. A hot drive for
a place by Indiana, Retina and Quad
riga, made that heat interesting.
The 2.32 trot was hardly worth
mentioning. Genevieve, chestnut FLY
from the Lookout farm, South Natick,
Mass. had things all her own way. She
had been selling in the pools at two to
one The first two heats were slower than
buggy drives, but in the third Genevieve
was let out for record, and succeeded in
knocking a full second off her mark,
finishing the mile in 2. II IA. King NAL
colin, who won second money, is owned
in Norwell, Mass, and Regal Nelson, the
other competitor in tho race, was raised
at Livermore Falls.
The summary:
ooo Observation-Disclosures $4,000.