The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-05
CAP. JACK WAS SPEEDY.
Took the I'll Trst at Rigby Handi-
ly Yesterday.
THREE FASTEST MILES IN NEW
ENGLAND FOR SEASON.

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Back G,elding's Show OF speed AAe
| Attendance Was Good ana the spur
Better at the scarboro PARK.
There wos great sport at Rigby Thur s.
day afternoon and the large cro"u pros
emit or it was as big as thai OF "eunes-
dav although the weather looked threat
enino earIy in the afternoon, enjoyed rare
| snort There were three races on the
card. the 10 trot, the ala pace. and the
o I, trot. The afternoon was one full OF
| evcitement for the 2. IS trot WAS fought
every heat from wire to wire and the con-
test was not ver--untii the finish of the
last heat, it taking five to settle the
question of supremacy.
| During the afternoon the judges made
an announcement of great interest to the
friends of Dan O., who was given a
mark of 2. OF l-2 in the third heat OF the
2. os pace Wednesday afternoon. 1t was
announced that mistake was made IN
the time announced, that it should have
been 2. 90 IA instead of 2.07 IA, and they
announced that was the time of the heat.
K.The first race called was the 2.1S trot
with eleven starters. Eleanor W. drew
the pole in the first heat with NeVa
Wilkes second, T. T. D. third. Suzette
fourth and Hattie r. fifth. None OF the
| fayorites made any effort to win the nrst
| heat, making 1t rather warming up
mile, Eleanor W. going to the lead at
| the word and remaining there the entlre
mile, winning out in a.15. NeVa Wilkes
was good second.
| The second heat brought the favor1tes
to the front for soon after the word Hat-
| tie r., Suzette, Success and Neva Wilkes
set sail for the lead and fought 1t out IN
grand style, Neva Wilkes winning bysa
| nose, although Success was SO nearly
even with her that it was almost impos-
| sible to tell which won. Success was
second, Hattie r. third, Suzette fourth.
In the third heat it was fight from start
| to finish, Success Inakingaa grand drive
in the stretch and winning by neck
from Timbrel. who made gallant strug-
1 gle. but was hardly equal to the task.
Nsya Wilkes finished third, but Suzette
and Hattie r. were scarcely heard from.
--..It was now pretty evident that 1t
would take a pretty good horse to beat
Success for heswas fine form and DEM
crest was handling him in mastery
| fashion. The fourth heat was similar
to the third, Success dropping back at
the start, but coming strong in the stretch
and winning out by neck, Timbrel SEQ
ond. Neva Wilkes third. In the fifth heat
| the bay gelding Celibate, who had been
| looked upon as = possible winner after
the heats had been split up made play
for the heat and after taking the lead at
the quarter an maintaining 1T to the
three-ouarters pole Success collared him
and drove him off his feet winning out
in abba. It was great race.
The second race of tho afternoon was
the 2. 10 pace, five horses appearing at
the wire. Theodore Shelton was the ia
vorite in the battling, bringing $50 in
pool of Sa7O. Winfield brought $75, Ada
| P. SIS and the field $50. In the first heat
Queen Vitelo showed great speed and
won the heat from Winfield, who gave
her merry race in from the half mile
: pole. In the second heat Winfield pulled
l.
ion, knocking second off the time of
the first heat The third and fourth heats
we're easy for Winfield for he had specific
burn, and won each handily. Winfield
lis a tried racer. He has record of
|g1112, made in the west last year, and
was beat out in one race by nose in a
Q. OS IA heat. He has paced a half this
year in a race in OF Ia
The last race of the afternoon was the
eli trot. This race like the 208 pace
of Wednesday, was the cause of intense
feeling and excitement, all coming about
over the scoring of the horses for the first
heat. A1cidalia drew the pole and the
scoring began. she acted very badly, 60
| ing slow and at a pace, and it seemed as
I though they would never get Strengthened
out In the meantime the field began
scoring down ahead OF her, and were
continuously called back. When she
did got squared away, however, the others
were off. First one would break and
thsn another, and they made life miser-
able for the spectators in the grand stand.
After scoring for IS minutes they were
sent away with Alcidalia three lengths
behind. Captain Jack went to the front
on the turn and kept the lead throughout
the mile, the field closing in on him on
the stretch. but he won easily with bar
rels of speed to spare, reaching the wire
inthe fast time ofs20 91-2.
The second heat of this race made the
hair of the nervous ones stand on end.
The first heat squared Alcidalia away, so
that when they cams down for the word
she was right on hand. The horses were
given good start and before they turned
into the back stretch Aloidalia had taken
Tho mole and was sailing down to the
half at a 2. OS gait. The other four horses
.Iosed ND on her, but it wasn't until the
no ward pole was reached that Capt.
lock set sail for the leader. Down the
stretoh they came, Alcidalia under the
whip, but Capt. Jack had too much
e,,aed and won by nose.