The Portland daily press., 1898-09-15

Downs for Favorites.
1t was strictly high class racing that
the one thousand people witnessed at
Rigby yesterday afternoon, and the day is
deserving of q place in the list of Rigby's
best PERFORMS :.
Another mi g, dangerously close to two
minutes has been turned over its smooth
course. Joe Patchen was the bidder for
honors there, and while he did not quite
equal his own record, or duplicate the
2. 90 1.2 trick OF Star Pointer, he did give
the grand stand crowd a chance to cheer
the finish of the fastest, mile ever paced
in a race over the Rigby track. He did
the mile in 2.0l ga, at sunset, in the face
of breeze from the sea that was chilling
There is little doubt that had the Patchen-
Chehalis been started earlier in the after
noon, as the patrons of the track had
reasonably expected it would be, the heat
would have been made i'll faster time.
Joe Patchen, the new Rigby king, is
black stallion, by far the handsomest of
tie big ring performers. He is owned by
Mr.. G. w. Marks, a Chicago shoe man,
who does little reins handling as
pastime. Though there was $500 at stake
in his match against Chehalis, Mr..
Marks chief object in bringing his horse
down here was to try the Maine track
and, if it met his expectation, to send his
stallion to beat his own record Of
2.01 IA, and, if possible, make a new
worlds stallion race record ~ O.
The Patchen horse is a son of Patchen
Wilkes, and his mother was Josephine
Young, by Joe Young. He has been raced
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
tried every kind of a race track from O
half mile bull ring to the best in the
country. He has won thousands OF dollars
for his owner a.-o has been handled by
good, bad and indifferent trainers, four
teen of them in all. His mark of 2.01 Ia
was made at Columbus Ohio. when he
beat Star Pointer. His greatest previous
performance in the east was a mile in
400, with his owner in the sulky.
Chehalis, the other horse in the match.
was bred in Oregon by Mr.. J. Beach. and
up to two weeks ago was owned by Frank
Frazer. He was brought to Boston by Ed
Mills, for client of his, whose name
has not yet got into print. The horse
has mark of 2.04 Ia made this season
in the second heat of a race at Cleveland.
He has won this year in Cleveland,
Buffalo and Glen Falls. Some of bis per-
formances have been SO remarkable that
he has been regarded by the turf prophets
as coming two-ininute PAGER.
HOW THE RACE WAS WON.
The other two races of the afternoon
had dragged little and the sun was
about to disappear behind the Oak Hill
woods when the matched PAGERS come out
for the word. Mr.. Marks was up behind
his horse and Jere o Neil drove Chehalis.
A runner, hitched to sulky, came out
to urge them on.
The first heat was simply a work out
for them. the two drivers being content
to keep side by side till the last fifty
yards, when Mr.. NJ arks let out the
Chicago stallion little and landed the
heat.
The next time out they got away in
good form, the runner on the outside
about two lengths in the lead. They went
down the stretch like the wind, the
Patchen horse gaining on his opponent at
every stride, till as they rounded the turn
Chehalis showed UP two lengths in the
rear. This gap kept lengthening as they
went up the back stretch. The leader
passed the quarter mile post in 30 IA
seconds, the half in 1.0l, 6 the three
quarters in l.3O IA, and completed the
mile in 2.0l 3,4.
AS they came home the crowd In the
grandstand arose and shouted Justify.
The Chicago stallion appeared fresh when
he went under the wire, but the hot pace
had tired his rival, who finished four
lengths behind.
THE STAKE RACES.
Bingen, q consistent little fve-year-old
stallion owned by j. Malcolm Fobes OF
Boston, whose performances here last
year and in 1896 were record breakers,
won the all trot in straight heats,
lowering his record from 200 IA to
s.OS IA. The pool box managers had
heavily DdCke0 1ilS <aUuOtU, IfOlu Un0 EtiSG
Aurora, N. Y Village farm, selling him
at 500 to $50 for Bingen. But it was
decidedly an off day with The Abbott.
He proved bad actor in the first two
heats and finished last, barely missing
the flag in the second heat. In the third
mile he found his trotting gait too late
to overtake the son of May King. Bin
gems three miles, in 2.0S S-4, a.l01-2
and 2.Us IA, were the best consecutive
heats trotted by stallion this year.
The 219 pace was another throwdo
for the pool box. The favorite named
three was Egozen, Cleveland, O..
stallion formerly named Zenith, whose
mark is 2. o6. He Same near being n fat
failure, it being only by the hardest kind
of q drive in the last heat that he eaved |
his entrance money.
Lady Of Manor, Village farm entry.
won the race without getting down to
her mark of 2.07 3-4. In the third baat