The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-02
NEWS OF THE HARNESS HORSES.
James A. Murphy Wants to Back Serpol
for $4,000 n Side.

James A. Murphy. the former owner OF Star
Pointer. l ;5DA Is reported TO have said at
Detroit concerning Jack Currys gray stallion
Serpol. 2:l0:
i believe he can beat any trottng stallion
In sight While don't like to walk. would
he willing to 20 n good ways to bet $4,000
that nobody can name Il stallion good enough
to.tako his measure"
Warren Stoner. the young Kentuckan who
controls the horse, offered at Cleveland to bet
$1,000 with Nick llIbinger that Serpol can
trot quarter in O:2U. and $500 more that he
can 20 TO the half mile POLE in one minute.
Stoner and Jack Curry. the driver of Serpo.
have bought subscriptions to all OF the bic races
OF the year. including the $4,000 Charter Oak,
the $4,000 Massachusetts,. the $1,000 Doug
las. the $4,000 Pennsylvania. and the $1,000
Empire City Purse to be trotted for at the New
York Grand Circuit meeting.
For the first time In many years Cleveland
failed TO equal Detroit in the speed rate of the
Grand Circuit meeting. The average for
thirty.io four heats trotted at the former city was
2:l2h while the average for thirty mine heats
at Detroit was PAP. The average OF the PAGER.
at Cleveland was 2:OHa for thirty six heats.
twenty-ons ot:which were paced in 30 or
better, At the Blue Ribbon meeting twenty
I'VE niles wery rseed of in 2;l0 or better BY
the siJewhesers with the weeks average
2;OStt for thirty-hve heats
Temper. the little chestnut mare thut low
cred her record to 2:l2', in the 2:i9 race at
Cleveland, Is probably the fastest trotter OF her
high, and weighs only about 100 o Inus On
the half.milc track at Elyria, o.. II fortnight
ne ;FE she wps T.. fepa:ately timed mile ln 2:i3
MamGIino King, being by Elyria out OF Tom,
pest. 2;2Ii. by Sunshine. She was once sold
The tr5tting meeting al Fort Wayne which
was scheduled to open the -ireat Western Cir
cult next week. has been declared or, owing
Wayne was for three years a member OF the
Grand Circuit. but was dropped last spring.
track is Inaccessible. and meetings there
have pot been financially successful With
Fort Wayne out Of il. the Greqt Western Cir
;. Followers OF the Grand Circuit say that Tom
kcating,s much-taI ked- of green PAGER Coney ia
California since Don I.owslls day lie can go
throe-puarters of u mile like a runaway, but the
m fnIi course H, Is too on1 t2r him: and he some.
the winter and spring sensational stories con-
corning the phenomenal speed Of Coney were
having 1t that he could pace faster thar either
Searchlight or Anaconda. As he was eligible
to the three minute class many hersemen ex-
slow races through the Grand Circuit. A. yet.
h0Weysr' he has not won a race Coney wears
was running down his legs after the race for
the Chamber OF Commerce stake at Detroit.
three, year-o!i chestnut geidinC iiiiIy hbs:hire
defeated held Of aged horses. trottinG his
winning miles IN, 2;l7+. ~. and is, with
son by three-year- old and the critics say the
ynunRstsr can beat il several seconds. The
Goshen. and is driven by Ira Ryersou lie is
not eligible to start IN either the $4,000 H21rsr
r hut he Will the erbaTy meet S6e VIM f
% FennsEy rSrss t"f rs s4tss lie