The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-01
Che Curt.
MATCH HORSE RACE
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May Be Run For Quarter Mile
Championship.
LOCAL RUNNER ASPIRES
DINA WATTS is BACKED TO
BEAT THE RECORD.
LOCAL RUNNER ASPIRES
Her Owners Will Wager 81 900 That
She Can Beat Big Dutch and Lu
Watkins, the Fastest Two Quarter
Horses In the West-May Take
Place In Salt Lake.

If the owners of three fast horses
Lake association next week can be got
together q match race that will likely
decide which is the fastest quarter mile
horse in the world may be arranged.
These three animals, Dina Watts, Big
Dutch and Lu Watkins, are undoubted-
ly as fast for the distance a any other
three in the country.
The Evans Bros, owners of Dina
Watts, declared yesterday that they
would match their mare against the
other two for side bets of $1,000, and
probably more. They seem to have the
utmost confidence that their animal can
reach the worlds record for a quarter
or three-eighths of mile, and. they
said that they would back her and
secure more heavy backing against Big
Dutch and Lu Watkins.
IF there is any chance for this race, .
said George Evans yesterday afternoon,
Il will put up a forfeit with The Her
aid to bind a match for $1,000 If the
owners of Big Dutch and Lu Watkins
arrive tomorrow and want to have such
a race III post 800 forfeit. If both
the match with either one of them
FaSC OneS coming.
Big Dutch and Lu Watkins are ex-
pected today. They have been racing
in Montana, Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, and have carried off many
purses, for they are very swift ami
mails. They will race at the meet at
Agricultural park during next week,
and they will likely be favorites in
most races in which they enter. Both
of them are old campaigners and have
won many races in all parts of the
country.
Big Dutch. years old, is an Ore
son horse, and is a phenomenon. for
he weighs over 1900 pounds, and looks
more like a dray horse than a short
distance racer. He was not bred for
racing, and he has no long pedigree.
No one knows his sire or his dam But
the story is told of him that one day in
Oregon he ran away with a pillow and
he ran so fast that real racers could
not catch him in a cross country chase
After that he was put on the track.
His most famous exploit was the time
he ran quarter in twenty-five seconds
on frozen track in eastern Oregon
last December. He has been all
though the northwest during the past
spring, where he has. done some won
derIul work. He made three and one
j
1898, and the record for four furlongs
is 46 seconds. His time for three
elghths of a mile at Anaconda last
August was S41s seconds, a half second
less than the worlds record
Lu Watkins Record.
Lu Watkins. years old, made a half
mile in 40 1-5 at Boise City some days
ago, beating Sea Queen, which raced
mere during the last meet. She was
beat by Big Dutch on Friday at Boise
IN half-mile, but the time was not
given. She has made three eighths of
a mile in 34A seconds, which is one
fourth OF a second lower than the rec
ord
Dina Watts is, of course, well known. |
for she has been seen on Salt Lake
tracks. The Evans Bros, who own her. |
maintain that she can step the quarter
IN Y seconds, though they give no in
stance of her having done So On the |
hrst day of the recent meet at Agri- |
cultural park she beat Bluesign. Ethel |
Otto, Antimeer and Phil Ward in a
quarter-mile race, her time being given |
at a seconds in each of two heats.
What Record Is.
The record for quarter of mile is
~ seconds, made by Bob Wade at
Butte on Aug. 20, 1890. But the time |
mas been approached very closely by |
Lu Watkins and Big Dutch under I'M
favorable conditions and heavy weights.
Dina Watts is out to pasture Just
now, said Mr.. Evans, land | would |
hardly like to put her in such an i'm
oortant race under two weeks train
ng. But If we can make a match I
shall have her ready in that time