The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-21
GRAND CIRCUIT.
Promising Races Be-
gin at Readville
Today.
GUESSING ON ROAM WILKES.
First Contest For Futurity
by Three-year-
olds.

When the bell rings for the COM
mencement of the grand circuit races
at Readville, today, there will be in
augurated the most promising race
meeting for the light harness horse that
the big line has furnished this season.
1t was only two years ago that Star
Pointer paced to his record of 1894,
achieving the distinction of being the
ilrst two-minute horse and stamping
the Readville track as one of the fast
est in the country. This season the
Footing is faster than ever, and with
Searchlight, Anaconda and Roam
Wilkes in the 2:04 pace, there should be
some miles close to the two-minute
mark.
This race will attract the attention of
all lovers of extreme speed. Search
hight and Anaconda have met a couple
Of times this season, and the black
stallion has shown conclusively that he
IS the superior of any other horse in
his class that he has been pitted against
so far. Anaconda can give him an
argument, and the Heating contingent
thought at one time that he could beat
Searchlight. Up to the present time,
the bay gelding has not come up to
expectations, but he has been in sew
eral most consistent races. The new
SleInent IN this race, on which no one
mas much of line, is Roam Wilkes
Just how good Roam Wilkes is this
season, no one knows for sure.
Eddie Bass has been working the
morse, and there are not a few who
nave the impression that he is faster
this season than ever He certainly
looks tit for the race of his life, and a
few days ago at RIgby he stepped a
mile close to 2:OS, and finished good and
strong.
Another fast pacing race is promised
when the 2:07 PAGERS come together.
There will be a big field in this race,
ana from the form shown by the horses
named, the heat winners viii have to
go faster than the class would indi-
cate In the 2:10 pace the class is
even better than the 2:07, for it will
orlng together some eight or ten of the
pest PAGERS in the country, barring the
half dozen in the fastest flight. Col.
John b. Thayer's Moth Miller will have
10 meet in this race such fast ones as
The Maid, The Swift Will Leyburn,
Hontas Crooke and Hal B., beside sew
eral others Hal b. is considered one
OF the best of the great Hal family,
ana will undoubtedly be picked as the
likeliest of the lot.
trotters are concerned, centres in the
2;l0 and 219 trots, and the New Eng
land tuturity for three-year- olds. The
honor OF winning any of these three
races would fill with delight the heart
OF any breeder or horse owner.
This will be the first time that three
year-oldS have contested for the New
England futurity. 1t is a stake inaug-
urated three years ago, and from now
n will Iao
Dig meeting at Readville. Last season
the two-year-old division of the stake
was contested for, and of the trotters
the best proved to be the Hon. Frank
Jones California bred colt, Idolita.
That was the only race the youngster
started in last season. and the race for
the three-year-old division will mark
his second appearance in company.
Tom Marsh has not worked the colt any
very fast miles, but has shown he has
considerable brush for a little way.
1t will be a great lot of youngsters
that the Maplewood farm candidate will
have to meet; for Extasy, which last
season scored a mark of 2:10h, in the
pacing division of the Kentucky futur-
1ty has been set to trotting by Charles
Marvin, the bringer out of champions.
Before leaving Kentucky for Readville,
where she arrived last week, the most
favorable reports were received as to
the manner in which she drummed out
some fast trials. She has already been
miles in 2:161a, and this is the fastest
reported mile of any of the candidates
save two.
Some of the best of the grand circuit
trotters will come together in the Mas
sachusetts stake for 2:13 trotters. Royal
Baron, the winner of the M. and M.
stake at Detroit will be one of the
starters, and while he will not have to
measure strides with the lion hearted
Kingmond, he will find a likely candi-
date from the same stable in Tom Boy.
She has shown surprising speed in her
late races. Then there is Lecco, the
little stallion which has won all his
races this season, and SO easily that no
one knows how fast he can go.
Another New England starter will be
Peter the Great, which won the Ken
lucky futurity last fall, and was sub
sequently purchased by j. Malcolm
Forbes of Boston. Greenbrino, who
showed his gameness last week at Rig
by, will also be a starter, and many
who witnessed his last race think well
of his chances.
Fred Kohl, with his tin cup record of
2:07%, is racing well in company, and
cannot very well be overlooked when
one is figuring on the winner. Surpol, if
not lame, as reported, should be a fac
tor, while the field is a more than ordi-
narily good one.
AS good lot of horses as one could
pick out has been entered in the 2:1O
class. The New England queen, Alcid-
ALA, will be before the public for the
second time this season, and will have
for company Dare Devil, the pride of
the Village farm; Benton NJ, once the
most promising stallion in New Eng
land; Cresceus, which last week took
a race record of 2:07A, this, with The
Abbot, while at the same notch, being
the record for trotters for the season.
Capt. Jack, Dione, Dan Cupid, Gay
ton, Monterey, Oakland Baron, Pilatus
and Caracalla-all going to make up
the greatest field that ever scored for
the work in the 2:10 trot.
49, ~ir~- frc~1 tho c~~tn~t trct 70 tho
slowest, there is the 2;30 class, in which
= +. =. ~, .it.. !. ,fol.- 4ne>4 tccoru OF
2 :l0i2 will be the star He Will have
to meet The Queen, the black mare
driven by Geers which was awarded
one heat over Kingmond in the nj. and
NJ. stake. Halle Rocket, the pacing
bred mare in John Conleys stable
which is on the tab to go into the 2:10
list, makes up a trio that should fur
nish the hottest kind of a race, while
a lot of unraced ones make up the
field.