The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-16
MOTH MILLER WON,
Famous Castleton
Captured First Heat
Handily.
THEN THE RACING COMMENCED.
Col. Thayer's Gelding Nips
Six Seconds From Gin
ton Track Record.
THEN THE RACING COMMENCED

Clinton, Sept. 15.-The event in the
racing at Worcester East fair brought
more than 14OO persons to the grand
stand. No tickets were sold after 2
O'Clock. Hundreds were turned away
from the ticket office. The racing had
not we'll begun at that hour. The event
of the afternoon was the race between
Col. John e. Thayer's Moth Miller and
Castleton, which was brought from Bal
timore, Nd, especially to have go for
the purse of $500 which was offered for
a race between these stars. Castletor
was beaten in three heats. incidentally
Moth Miller dropped the track record
six seconds to 2:1312.
The first was a splendid heat. Moth
Miller was driven by Allie Trout; cas-
tleton by John Quinn of Readville. Once
around the half-mile track the splendid
racers went, Castleton slightly in the
lead at the pole. On the last eighth of
the second half, Moth Miller pulled for
ward but not soon enough, and Castle
ton won by neck Two rods beyond
the Wire Moth Miller was leading. The
time was 2:19l2 and very slow for the
horses. In the second heat Moth Miller
dropped the time half a second, and
came under somewhat more handily
than Castleton had done before. The
last heat was a speedier thing than has
ever been seen on this track. The SUI
periority of Moth Miller was demon
| strated beyond a doubt, and the track
got record that local horsemen say
Will not be beaten in many day
AS Moth Miller came under the wire
"a winner, with some to spare, the cheers
of the people in the grandstand could
be heard half mile away
Moth Miller's record of 2:0715 was
made on mile track, while Castleton's
higher record was made on a half-mile
track. 1t had been thought that Moth
Miller'S lack of experience on the half
mile might defeat him.
The racing in the 2:24 class was tame.
Fink and Casque having it all their own
way in three straight heats. The run
ming race was also tame affair.
The event for the 2:30 class was dis
tinctly interesting, or would have been
if the last heat had not been run after
all the people left the grandstand and
in the dim twilight Rex won the first
two heats handily, but in the third
dropped back to second place
Blue Boy, who had been trotting three
tNiiN Nv = 81 opbEd tilt neat. nED bODDle
Burns grabbed heat. This brought the
time to later than o'clock. The Judges
gave the horses 10 minutes to get on to
the track again. They hung back until
the sun sank quite out of sight and the
back stretch looked like a gray cat in
the twilight.
The heat was running match All
the horses ran on the back stretch ex-
cept Blue Boy and that horse broke
and ran little. Bobbe Burns took an
other heat The horsemen We're loath
to trot it off tomorrow, and at O'clock
the drivers and the judges were still
trying to agree upon a division Of the
prize money.
Summary:
2:24 CLASS, TRoT AND PACE-THREE
IN FlVE-PURSE $3.50.
Fink W. W. g. F. A. McAuliffe,
Casque, b. g., Alexander Graham,
WhitinsNille ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . .
Tom H., s. g. Walter Warren,
shrewsbury ,,....,...............1 7 3 4
Can Can, b. g.. Knapp Forshner,
Time. 229ls, 2:27la, 2:23la, 1924
IiALF-MlLE RUNNING RACE-PURSE.
S10O
STIR Gazer, b. g. George Mckinney,
Brighton tMelingy) ...............1 I
Lightning Jack b. h., j. Fred Kav
Clinton (HalD .................... Q
Minnie, L., II. J. McDermott, Lowell =
Time. .53, .52b