The Portland daily press., 1899-08-15
She Gets a Lower Mark
Than was Intended.
Driver Charles Jordan Of South,
Portland Suspended.

| Ing n mixture CT stake and class races
that gives promise Of exceeding In inter-
est any thing witnessed en- Mains's parlor
track within year.
| The orening day was full Of interest,
though the programme did not seem to
offer anything especially good, as there
were but two events on the card, and
both of them slow CLASSES. hut as the af-
ternoon progressed the sport began to
deepen in excitement. The features cf
the opening day were the suspension of a
driver and the marking of two green
trotters.
Weather conditions were OF tie best
and tina track was what the horsemsn
all t, rmed "just right" The attendance
was fair for a first day.
AIR. A. II. Merrill Of Dangers, Mass,
who hos so efficiently served as starter
In all the east,rn circuit events this sea-
son, was 10 the stand. and associated with
him as judges were Messrs. Hugh Sweeney
Of Portlsnd and Edward Cogswsll of the
Boston Traveller. The duty of the jadges
was rendered doubly hard by condition
which arose In the second race OF the day,
ard which resulted In a shake-up among
the drivers
The a20 stake race was cleared from
the card in short order. The Hartford
mare LucratIva. which won third money
In the seyen.heas race at Rigby two
weeks ago, and lowered her mark to
214 IA, was rated as the best thing in
the ted Of seven starters. The stallion
Bovor, from Pittsneld. Mass, looked
good to few OF tire guesssrs on form, but
Lucrative had most of the hacking with
her. She fully justified the high rating
the sporting fraternity had given her.
She won the race, right eff tie reel. trot-
ting three even miles ard never once
isopai dizlng her Righy mark. The gold
ing Mix ado. from the Maplshurst farm,
LancaIter, Mass, crowded the fayorite
onos or twice In each heat, but hadn' L
speed enough to be with her at the finish.
The excitement OF the afternoon was
centered in the 2s2 trot, GLASS event.
The tavorite at the beginning of the race
was xL's Brother, q three ,year-oid geld
ing which was sold here fortnight ago
for S5j0) to Thomas Pratt OF Clinton,
Ct, well.known summer visitor ut Old
Orchard. Before tcdny's race his hor Sc
had no mark, through he had finished a
close second In two fast miles on the
RigLy course at the last meeting.
But in picking probable winner "the
talent" bsd failed to take into account
another green one-Emma d. a mare that
was raised at Buckheid, a daughter of
Mr. Rnssell's old Black Nathan, once a
fsy ,rite Maine stallion. Emma ID. Ia
eight years old ard was never hitched to
. "biks" till two months ago, and never
figured in a race before yesterday. Last
week she showed her owner workout
mile in 3 20 Ia over the State Fair track
at Lewiston, and that convinced MIR.
Russell that he had prize. The profess
sional men at Rigby yesterday hadn't
heard Of Emma DIS Lewiston perform
ance, which accounts for their overlook
ing her In their blackboard prophecies.
Jld2ing from what transpired during
the afternoon, Mr.. Russell had no inten-
tion OF sacrificing his mares chances Of
winning bigger money In future events,
but he slipped up In his reckoning, and
It is to the credit of the men who effiel.
ated in the judges stand that Maine now
has new performer inside the 2. l6 class.
XL's Brother took the first two heats.
being forced to mark of IL IA In the
opening heat and q is s.4 in the next. He
had many brush up the back stretch
ard down as far as the draw gate, but
from there home nobody except Uncle
Jock Bowen seemed to have any desire to
get near him.
This judges didn't like the appearance
OF things. Emma ID. and Norval Red
had beth shown great bursts of speed on
the back side of the course. and it looked
from the stand as If they could have fin-
ished aigreat deal stronger than they did.
John Rearmer was callsd down from
Norval Reds sulky, despite his pleadings,
aud Mr.. Mcdonald was substitute. Then
Mr.. 6atcoUb, weliknown reinsmau,
was hailed and told to get his racing
togs on, as he was needed in the race.
While he was making ready. the Buckiield
mare slowly logged up the stretch, and
the eagle eye Of the judges took note
thas up near the draw gate groom ran
up to her and let out her check-rein a
few notches.
The starter called her back TO the wire,
and her driver, Charles Jordan of South
Portland, WAS informed that he might
hand over the reins to Driver Gatcomb.
One af the judges went down to the track
and carefully readjusted the checkrein
that had been loosened. 1t was evident
that there was trouble shsad for Charlie
Jordan.
The result of ths shin of drivers was
that Emma y. resled on three strai ght
heats, the first of them in 2 10 81, and
won the race With ease Thare wasn't