The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-13
HARNESS HORSE GOSSIP.

Searchlights Checkrein Is All Right, SAYS
the 8. p. c. A.-Balancing Peter the Great.
In regard to the story sent out from Yonkers
last week. to the effect that tho Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals had threat
ened to interfere with the use OF the overdraw
check rein carried by ]. II. Bronson's crack
PAGER Searchlight. 2:03k. W. II. Mccarthy. the
trainer OF the horse. had this to say to q re-
porter OF THE SUN:
Nobody ever threatened to stop the use OF
the check. or to cut it. either. I'D like to see
somebody cut 1t. He wouldn't cut another one
for while. guess. The whole truth about
the matter WAS this An agent OF the BerGh
society came up to the track one day, showed
me letter some body in Boston had written to
him about the severe check used on Searchght.
and wanted tn know what there was in It, He
was the poitest man you ever saw. and never
said word abou. cutting the check or having
anybody arreste !, or anything OF the kind.
When l told him Searchlght wasn't checked
near rs high as Anaconda or twenty other
horses named. he said he guessed the man
in Boston couldn't have seen the horse he was
writing about. It's oil nonsense to talk about
Search!ight being checked high. Why. we
don't even use a check bit on hinl-just q strap
under his chin. Anaconda wears a check
pulled UP about four holes higher than Search
| him when he paced last Friday. did you p
The Importance OF perfectly balancing a
trotter and the difficulty sometimes ex-
| perienced by trainers in doing so. is strikngly
| illustrated by J. Malcolm Forbes's wonderful
| fonr-year-old colt. Peter the Great. in his work
come down the homestrstch OF the Empire
CITY tgaef n og Ne ip ~ 231a Ia week can
meetmr Henry liter was thinking about send
ing the son OF Pilot Medium home for the sea-
son without starting MIN. liter says no never
fectiy balanced. All sorts OF experiments were
tried. Finally the clever young New England
shooting tho great colt with nine oNsses Tor.
ward and four and hall ounces bsAs0ij an Il
wong %esh ON tie ohsr 0nf
track in 0:30%. at s2:05 gait HE ot6yS Kill,
| and he seemed to lie going within hiuttblk ~
10Y, and Bingen, IN his stable. ForbtHas
any future stallion races. ,...
Although George IL. Ketcham drove Gre sceus
Sf the S3s sh Tfen ne
the Grand Circuit meeting last week. i o
Toledo horseman is reported to have said ,atior
| u Bingen would go on trot he would ".
not or sPS 0iiS S esen
BinGen. think well, Of the erratio son OF I'm
King was shown when they scratched Pise tina
"at to ss snfe 'st SGd the to his adj
that Cresceus can beat Bingen in a'e OF vi
| heats. and that Peter the Great can tasSf Ohm
both into camp. That the question OF supre-
| macy among the great trotting stations out
| this year ought to be settled ny big rac :.
followers Of harness racing. Western horse
men contend that Tommy Britton. pos. can
| chance to do It. At the Louisville meeting OF
Sept. $3.50. as he is entered against Crssceus
| and Bingen there.
Trainer litter says that Admiral Dewey. the
yearling colt BY Blnyen. 2:06a. out OF Nancy
Hanks. 2:O4. is the likeest young trotter, that
| youngstsr knows nothing except trot. and acts
as though he might some day do netting
worthy OF his name and his parentage, Ma.
rion. the hrat-b born OF Nancy's brooi. Ia three
years old 1t was the intention OF her owner
| to work her this year. but she has been sick
nearly all summer. The daughter OF Arion Is
said TO be good gated and fairly promising
| but liter thinks she ia no such prospect az
| Admiral Dewey,