The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-03
IT WAS GREAT RACING
Searchlight Paced Three Fastest
Heats of the Season.
CLIPPED A HALF-SECOND
The Maid Created Sensation by Win
ming the Postponed $40 Pace.
and Established New
Worlds Record.


day of great racing at the Columbus
Driving club. The weather was ideal
and the track was very fast. Search
light paced the three fastest heats of
the season-2:03A, 2:04A and 2:04-and
clipped half second off his record.
The Maid created a sensation among
the turfmen by winning the postponed
2:10 pace after failing to finish better
than third in any one of the four heats
paced Tuesday. The Maid also estab-
lished new worlds record for 4-year-
old mares, when she paced the fifth
heat of the race in 2:05 3-5. The best
previous record was 2:06A made by the
Maid at Cleveland last week
The 2:04 pace, despite the fast time,
was won by Searchlight apparently
without an effort. The gelding is I'M
doubleday the fastest PAGER out this
season, and he was almost a prohibi-
tive favorite in the betting. His per-
Torrance in the first heat was nothing
short of sensational. There were six
starters-Bessie Bonnehill, Anaconda,
Frank Bogash, Searchlight Directly
and Chehalis. Anaconda took the lead
at the start and it was evident that
McHenry was determined to drive
Searchlight out for Anaconda went the
first quarter at almost a two minute
CLIP Searchlight moved up slowly, and
1t was a pretty race all the way to the
three-quarters, with the horses neck
and neck after they passed the half,
and Directly close behind. The horses
came into the stretch, Searchlight shot
ahead and held the lead. passing under
the wire two lengths ahead of Ana
conda without being urged. The official
time bv oIIartprS was 20I M
2:03h. A protest was at once raised
against the time, it being claimed that
the heat was made in 2:O2A, the half
being made in :59A instead of :01. This
was the time caught by number of
horsemen. The official timer indicated
that the third quarter was made in
:2SA, considerably under a two minute
gait. The protest was not urged, how
ever, and the quarter of second Keeps
Searchlight in the 2:04 class. The geld
ing won the two remaining heats with
as much ease as the first. The pace
was too hot for Chehals and after
staying one heat he was distanced.
Ace, the horse which showed much
speed in the 2:10 pace Tuesday, disap-
pointed his hackers in the finish to-
day, not being able to get better than
fourth place in the concluding heats.
While Ace was generally considered a
sure winner, he having taken two heats
who pinned their faith on the Maid,
and they were the only ones not sur
prised when the mare outfooted the
field in three consecutive heats.
The Queen was favorite in the 2:24
trot and won the race easily in straight
heats
Tudor Chimes was heavily backed in
the 2:12 trot, but the geldng never had
a show to win. Bonatella took the first
heat and dropped back in the next two,
Dr. Leek taking the second and Altoka
the third. Bonatella won the next two
heats and the race, being hard pushed
in the fourth by Altoka and in the fifth
by Tudor Chimes. The favorite made
| a magnificent squirt at the finish in the
last heat and was only beaten out by a
head
Results:
2:10 pace, purse $1,000 postponed from
| Tuesday)-The Maid won fifth, sixth
and seventh heats; time, 2:05%, 2:O7&
! 2:0S% Ace won third and fourth heats
! and was second: time, 2:05A. 200. Eylet
won second heat in 2:07A and was third.
! William Nc won first heat in 2:071a.
| 2:04 pace, purse 50 000-Searchligh won
in straight heats; time, 2:03A, 2:04A.
| 2:04 Anaconda second, Frank Bogash
| third. Bessie Bonnehill and Chehalis
also started. 2:2t trot. purse $1,000
| The Queen won in straight heats: time,
| 2:11A, 2:12A. 2:12h; Owyhee second,
| Chainshot third. 2:12 trot, purse $4,000
-Bonatella won first. fourth and fifth
| heats; time, 2:10A, 2:10A, 2:11A AL
| toka won third heat in 2:13 and was
second. DR.. Leek won second heat in
2:10& and was third,