The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-19
YESTERDAYS RACES.
A Detailed Account of Speed Events
of the Day.

OF Jne LAY.
Three events were scheduled for YES
terday's speed programme, but as only
two of the entries to the 300 class, trot-
ting, We're eligible to start the race was
declared off, and the 2:35 trot and pace
was called, the latter being followed by
the running race of mile heats. The
former resulted in quite close contest
The winner turned up in Skyland Girl,
the bay pacing mare by Simmons, out of
Mamie Woods, 2:20, the roam mare
by Woods Hambletonian, formerly own
ed by r. j. Reynolds, of Winston-Salem.
She was driven by Geo. j. Dyer. OF
Lynchburg, Va, her trainer Second
money went to the Chestnut PAGER Prince
tell, but the brown gelding Rowdy Bob
son Of Alamance Farms, premier sire
Gregorian, was really the contending
factor in the contest, was driven by w.
l.. Bass. the Richmond Va, trainer.
He trotted a good game race, finishing
second in the third and deciding heat
As a contest little can be said of the
running race. The summary tells the
tale
In the judges stand the same officials
had charge as on Tuesday.
Summary:
2:35 class, trotting and pacing. purse
$500. Skyland Girl, c. NJ, by Simmons,
Mamie Woods, by Woods HANDLE
tonian. Dyer Ill
Princetell, CHI. g., by Drextell (Neelyl
.22.3.
Rowdy Bob, b. e, by Gregorian, BASS
Time, 2:30, 2:30. DDS.
Purse $40, heats, running.
w. j. Harden, b. g., by Iroquois,
CEnglekingl, 1.2.1.
Grandma. or. M, by Woodlands. 2.1.2.
Lockwood, c. g., by, the Jacobete, 3D..
Time, / 10. 1:4G12, 1:4SA.
RACE NOTES.
The race programme for today is
made up of the 2:20 trot and pace, a
running race of mile heats and the $50
trot. Among the starters in the former
are such good ones as the owned trot
tiers. Maggie Carroll, 2:19A, and
Firewood. 2:20A, owned respectively by
Samuel Walton, Falls Mills, and Joseph
Lassiter, Richmond, and the local horse
Rubico, the property of George Nj.
Harden, of this city. Maggie Carroll
will be driven by Tom Cannon, while
William Bass will team Firewood, and
the owner of Rubico will be up behind
that compactly made, good looking
brown gelding. Rubico is a son of the
magnificent race horse Pamlico, 2:10,
and he would seem vertically a chip of the
old block as he has started a dozen times
or more this season, earned a record of
2:24A and failed only in a single in
stance to connect with the money. In
the 2:30 trot, which is for the very re-
spectacle purse of $500, the largest of
the meeting.
Tom Cannon will start Col. z. III.
Lybrook's good roam mare Queen Bess,
by Blue Bird; Colin Steele has Little
Stakes, winner of the $50 trot and pace
on Tuesday; William Chairman will pilot
Matte Hail. The Alamance Farm en-
try, and William Bass will be up behind
Rowdy Bob, who is owned by Il. II.
Pace of this city.
The running race, purse $500, will be
good. In referring to Alamance farms
beautiful brown colt, Giles Mebane on
yesterday, the types gave it that her
sire, John r. Gentry, was purchased by
Mr.. Holt at cost of one thousand dol
lars, when it should have been just ten
times that sum or an even ten thousand
dollars.
The Alamance Farm stable also in
cludes the very speedy PAGER Defender,
by Gregorian, a fine looking chestnut
gelding bred and owned by Capt. James
n. Williamson, of Elon College, by
whom he is highly priced.
Among the prominent North Carolina
breeders and owners of fine horses, here
are Mr.. l.. Banks Holt, Of Graham;
Col Bennehan Cameron, of Stagyille,
DIR. W. II. Capehart, of Avoca Col. Z.
H. Lybrook, of Winston; Maj. i. II.
Emory Of Weldon, accompanied by
George h. Gaines, of Richmond, Va,
and NJ w. Ransom, of Weldon.
Major Emory is here, both as visitor
and in the interest of the approaching
Roanoke and Tar River Fair, Of which
he is president, while Col. Lybrook is
looking after affairs connected with the
Winston Salem Fair and race to be
held next week. and Secretary Webb is
doing good work for the Burlington
Fair, which follows that at Winston.