New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-08
HARNESS RACING.
PETER THE GREAT WONDERFUL
YOUNG TROTTER.
J. MALCOLM FoRpEs's CRACK ForR-YEAR- OLD
WINS THE 5000 EMPIRE CITY STAKE Al
THE GRAND CIRCUIT MEETf>G-hE'"Rp

/ Tho race Of the week = tho Grand Circuit mot
ing and one Of the highest class harness events
over seen was the ZIP Empire city stake on YES
tordav's programme. Though large held OF
hor-cs were engaged I'm g. and few were absent
when the bell rang n m" consensus oi opinion
that fl lay between three horses These were ''ord
Vincent Peter the Great md the unneaten colt
who Is IT, which had never lost neat III ms rae
Ing career
In n the dav AZ Hartford when Peter the Great
heat Charley Herr in such fast time with the great
est Of ease the hOrsemen could not sec anything III
the race but Lord Vincent though the decisive
victory Of who Is II over ONyhee at headville han
some thinking
Tho money went IN J Malcolm Forbess grand
Young stallion. and the Portsmouth trotter who
Is II got second money the first fast heat taking
all tho fight out Of the son NJ 81. Vincent
How good Peter the Great is WIS not really de-
veopcd Ivy the race for though It seems rank non
sense 10 cav that n four-ycnr-old horse won IN
iog I'm 207 that IS the only expression thA' ]" any
way indicates how easily he finished
who Is 7, trottcd two miles that we're only soc
ond IN merit % the other four-y ear-old TOT ne WAS
sadly ncrfered with In getting away the hrst neat
and had 10 tro the last haf In l"29' 10 ee' up ''o
third place
The dav was bright and a shade y cast Wind tenn
rored Tho rays Of the sun and made 10 much more
ENJOYABLE than on the previous day. The value of
reputation was never more conclusVely shown than
I'm q comparison between the attendance on inc
TWO DAYS Twenty thousand people came out 10
coo ,h,,o VOL used PAGERS race q three heat con-
toef s,oouds back ~ their records while only n'e
tnone,nd were present 10 SEQ race that VIII go
doUn In the record rs the fastest stake event the
world has ever seen one can easily SOC how MT
Forbes is we'll equipped for any stallion race III
the future
e.,,'o fo~ . o. rgcers In the early selling Coney
,t, e,,.ri,c h,t fha showing he made at
1,oo5,.rio u.oor no WAS forced leave his hobbies
AT home and at 'na,'og & ''. .',,or, rrat
good N'tle horse Toho-gnn was soon Installed IN me
popular fancy For big acd they 60, OF IN s9 S''
shape ana qNl'KIF- N.'"''H INV" Wv I.
and winning easily Concy showed speed enough
20 lose me "'''' '" '' "''N - ,.,,,'. 49, ..al1
when he was ovorhauling his field handiiy no made
one Of those Rocky Mountain "s'e"@ons ana 'oS'
any chance he had
.t, ,... ...'i'.,1a tl, ,..', oo,ncd A. the
IN we Se''"u No '..D ""'. o. ''1 ''P W. r,,,. 60,
q superb drive by Charles Lockwood. but though
she came fast in the lasf end Of tho mile she
co'd nor P"'' r''cn inc NIUE ,'-s T n.."'
i,- lro noe Without % r,ihlic record when he
started IN the FIRST heat yesterday
,o. ella ,~ o. s.. .,roo nov. WIN n erand
nor me year 20 '''' enc ~, -, s.".'
Held the hfleh' particular STATS were b0'u vincent
Peter the Great and the unheaten gray ghost Who
Is i This WAS The PIP trot ~ @'". and named
the Empire city In a royal entry lst there We're
fcu ohsenfo.s and the ONLY TWO were hardly count
.. .t....
90 as loSSlnl" factors To iiIe' b''u 'Hibs
we're IN the front row and hv happy fate the
, 49,. No.. ia
Two HNllNltIS ''"l anu LOU li''l'' WIZ S'"N
fv elJo
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,,.-s - q h.s,,.if,l sen5or p..er .h. croa. and
h,s ,ht.t o,,,oo.ist ,.ra ,oovfrr very faat whom
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