The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-30
sPKEDINa IN TILE RAIM.
Road Riders Rushed to Cover When the
Downpour Came Yesterday.

|
Rain yesterday interfered with what promised
| to be one OF the best days OF the season at
| Speedway Park. Robert j.. 2:01h. the fastest
OF tho PAGERS. had been specially prepared for a
| tit with the champion wagon horse Bumps.
! 2:O3h. from Chicago. and was on the road with
! the expert reinsman. +. II. BOVINE. behind him
| when the clouds began to leak. Nathan Straus
/ had Cobwebs ready for brush with the
| Chicago trotter Lucille. 2:0D4. and was going
up to the speeding ground north OF Washington
| Bridge when tho sudden downpour forced him
10 seek shelter at the Speedway Inn. between
| the bridges
Scores OF horses and hundreds OF pedestrians
were on the road when the long threatened
| downpour began and there were lively scenes
as the crowd set out for home. More than one
trotter covered the ground as he had never
done before. 1t was q free-for-all race. In
which tho man with the slow horse got tho
worst drenching The good old stallion Cart
Lyon. 2:l7'.. II years old. but looking
like colt, rose to tho occasion and outfootcd
everything in sight between High Bridge and
Tooth street in tho general rush to cover.
Michael Reid, the white haired. clean shaver.
lorid-iaced Harlem contractor sent litts
Madison Chief. 2:l7'i. scurrying homeward at
clip which made all hands stare.
The veteran rensman. Jim Dougrsy. who
drove American Girl to her record OF 2l8r.
in 1874. was among those who found shelter
at the Speedway Inn In the morning. Until
Dougrev turned up at the trotting meeting
last week with tho big. handsome gray gslding
Brandywine. 2:20t4. a good many horsemen
supposed he was dead. He dropped out OF
sight in 1899 after his brilliant campaign with
7. T. s., 2:l9'4. in the Grand Circuit and for
ten years nevor mounted n sulky. The old
timer is now a hotel keepsr at Saratoga Lake.
W hia frat iait tn IUn pa
though he saw few trotters in motion. owing
to the rain. pouGrey grew enthusiastic as he
viewed the picturesque hillside park and the
on 6 stretch OF sot earn r2ah; a. a. smooth and
Two heard lot about the Speedway. but it
beats everything that, been said about it,"
Brandywinc here Just once. He ought to hold
his own with the gooh ones. hadn't he? How
Nathan Straus answered Dougrey with the
question:
quarter nS the other day pulling two men in
wagon that weighs 223 pounds?"
like tG 81 Goud hH. Hi is od sfa
to beat the rest OF them
II drove him . quarter in ;32't. smother in.
wagon and held the watch" said straus, WV
Doucrey Just think OF trotter pulling two
mon In wagon at hat clip. Why lrsmember
CARS Tor showing HIM Gnar,.r only a li,tI.
fnstsr than that with Brown George. hooked
with Il running mrle to pull him along IL was
over at the Old Fashion track. about 1895. Mr.
Bonner said 1t was the fastest quarter he had
ever timed a trottinG horse. and he sent me
tho cigars for driving 1t. | aftervard drove
Brown George and mate aga inst Dexter at the
halt track in Boston whore Dexter first
beat Flora Temples record OF 2:l9'4. That
was in 1851"
Didn't you write treatise once on training
trotters| asked young horsoman in the
party.
We'll. not exactly that but some thing like
II. maybe. chap out West who was going to
publish Il horse book wrote and asked mo to
give him nv views on How to BE Successful
on I'll" Trottng Turf | answered: First get
your trott.r. When you have got one. kesp it
To Yourself: Then Skin everybody except tho
owner or course. | had no idea he would
print Il. but he did. Just the same
DouGrey says the gray trutter Brandywine
that he sold to 10y Mannard on Friday is BY
sphinx. 2:2+'.. tho son Of Electioneer. and
that he /" out Q, Fanny Munger dam Of Tom
Mttler's Old Wapsie trotters Blue Charley
2:22. and Wonder. 2:2l i, by Panic. the son OF
Ethan Allen. The entry list for the Empire
City tro' ting meeting stated that Brandyuine
was by Splnk out OF al marc by Ethan Allen.