The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-19
WITH TROTTER AND PAGER
NEW TROTTING ASSOCIATION
RULES ON TRIAL
Their Application So Far Has Not
Raised the Amended Code In the
Estimation of Horse Men
Away with the Purse-GOOd
Strings Of TrOtters.

Away with the Purse-GOOd
Strings of TrOtters.
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE trial
which the new rules of the National
Irotting association has received at the
! early meetings this season has not
Iaised the amended turf code in the
estimation of horsemen. At the recent
Belmont park meeting at Philadelphia
a match race for $3.50 a side was trot-
/ ted between H. H. Yarnalrs Miss Mil
Ter, by Marion, and H. Frohrer'S James
Strathmore, by Pickaway Boy, and as
the starters were tWO-y ear-oidS their
owners agreed to race at haf-mile
heats. James Strathmore won the
money in straight heats, trotting in
| 1:3S1a and 1:40S but his owner is likely
to find that he scored a dearly bought
victory when he gets ready to race the
youngster again. Under the forced
! construction put upon rule 43 by the
board of review at its special meeting
| here in April James Strathmore's per-
formance constitutes a bar, the same
as if his 1884, had been made at a
nile instead of half mile. The prac-
teal effect will be to render the young
trCtter worthless for racing purposes,
for he is no longer eligible to any class
except the LAO class and the free-for-
! ALL
Rule 29, as amended by the February
congress, taking away the authority
given to the judges to declare void the
deciding heat of a race where fraud is
! involved, had it's first trial at Balti-
! more. In one of the races the Judges
became convinced when the deciding
heat was trotted that a horse that was
not the best one had been allowed to
win by the collision of two other driv-
! who O n lxaan from,
finishing in front.
| Under the old rule, they would have
had the power to declare this heat void,
substitute new drivers behind the
| horses they believed were being pulled,
and call the field out for another heat.
! In fact, just such a thing was done at
Baltimore one year ago. with the result
/ that fraud was defeated and the best
horse won. But the Baltimore judges
| this year had to let the heat stand and
award the race to the horse that finish
&c in front. They assessed a fine Of
500 against each Of the drivers suspect
| ed CT pulling, ard declared off all bets
oil the last heat. Pools on the result
Of the race were not declared off, how
ever This affair seems to confirm the
View taken at the turf congress by ..
| j. Canpau and other horsemen, that
! the amended rule would enable the job
| bers to get away with the purse and the
sion or any punishment more severe
| than a fine.
| The action of the Hartford, Detroit,
| and other track mana gers in announc-
| ing as a part of the published condi-
tioEs governing Their RAGS that certain
| objectionable rules will not be enforc-
| ed has caused an important difference
! of opinion among horsemen respecting
the right Of an associate member of the
| n. I. A. to suspend the operation of
any part of the turf code on it's track.
The Detroit Driving club has just an
nounced that the new rules will not be
| observed at the Grand Circuit meeting
there next month, the club having de-
! cided to conduct its races under the
| national rules as they stood before any
! Of the radical innovations were made
| by the biennial congress in February
last AS stated several weeks ago, the
| managers of the Hartford meeting have
| nullified the license rule by announcing
! that it's requirements will not be exact
ed at the Charter Oak summer meet
| irg. Ard, although the accuracy of
, the statement has been denied, this
| course was taken after consulting high
officials in the N. T. A. and receiving
from them the advice or opinion that
such a course would not subject the as
sOciare member to any penalty. w.
| 3. Fasig goes so far as to say that If
an associate member were to state in
the published conditions governing its
races that conditional entries would be
accepted it could not be rightfully pun
ished for violating the rules although
| it is well known that a heavy fine is
the penalty prescribed for accepting
| conditional entries under ordinary cir
cumstsnceS His view is that what
would be an undoubted offense when
| the associate member assumed to con-
duct it's races under the N. T. A. rules
| VIII QyopnriOnC wOl,lG he no Offa,oc
| at ali in case the pub ished conditions
governing the races oxpress:y waived or
modified any of these rules.
| When the chs stnut trotter Hans Nc
| GregCr defeated Democracy, KELVIN
and a lot of other PAGERS in 2:12A,
| ing last week, he scored the fastest
mile of the season, if not the fastest
! mile ever tro.ited in that part of the
| country so early in the year. Hans
McGregor is chestnut gelding, seven
years old, by Black Hawk McGregcr,
a son of Robert McGregor, 2:17A. His
| dam is Juno, by Ben Hatch, grandam
| a Kansas mare of unknown breeding
The horse was raised at Newton, Kan,
| by j. L. AXtell, and made his first ap-
| pearance on the turf in 1895, cam
paigning through the middle West,
where he gained a record of 2:19A.
! This mark he lowered to 2:12% in a race
tered at the covered mile track near
Buffalo and was fitted there by John
| Kinney for this years campaign. He
is the first trottter to gain a record
of 2:15 or better in $685.
The string of~trotters and PAGERS that
John Kelly has been training for James
Butler at East View farm in West
chester county will be shipped to Hart
ford this week to await the July meet
! ing at Charter Oak park. Although
the former president of the driving
club lost one of his fastest horses when
Baron Crisp died a few days ago, KEEL
sly still has a formidable stable The
four-year-old pacing gelding, Ed B.
Young, 2:22, by Direct, 2:O51h, out of
Lily Largtry. by Nephew, is a whrl-
wind this spring. Kelly let him step a
mile in 2:151s over the half-mile track
at the farm last Thursday, moving him
quarter in 0:911s under restraint. On
er Of Delmarch, 2:11h, expressed the
opinion that the black gelding would
equal the record Of his sire. Directum
Kelly, the young trotter that made
| two-year-old record of 2:23M in 1896,
has grown into a grand looking four
year-old. Trainer Kelly drove him
mile in 2:191a over the farm track last
week in company with the chestnut
mare Anne Allerton, 2:15A. Owen
Butler holding the reins over the lat
| ter. 1t was nip and tuck between the
| two trotters from start to finish.
Directum Kelly is by Direct, out CT
Rosa Ludwig, by Antero, 2:16h,
| grandam by thoroughbred Limerick
| Boy. Mr.. Butler recently bought the
| dam of his fast young stallion in Cali
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