New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-11
HARNESS RACING.
BRILLIANT TROTTING AT THE GRAND
CIRCUIT MEETING.

The two thousand persons who attended the
opening of the grand circuit meeting at Empire
City Park yesterday two Of the most brilliant
trotting races Of the year The track light
ming fast and with high class horses engaged the
speed average for the day surpassed anything ever
before recorded in the Grand Circuit. heats hav
ing been trotted the of 2:0S to the mile.
The first heat of the meeting disclosed the re-
markabe speed possibilities OF the track. The 212
race for the curtain raiser 1t brought
field of ten with the Philadelphia mare. Bay
Star. hot favorite In the auction pools she sold
for 800 Tudor Chimes and Big Timber for $50
each Farris CIeorgianna and Nell Gwynne for $40
each and the field for $40 When they got the
word Jack Kinney hustled the favor1te through
the bunch and out in front before the first turn
rounded. With the others strung out behind
her the little bay mare rugged with a hickory
stick strapped to her face and extending foot
beyond her ears as a means of checking her up
stepped to the gilded pole which marks the
half mile IN 1:o4 and then came sailing home under
pull in POS This nearly two seconds faster
than her best previous performance, and il came
with great surprise 10 the majority of horsemen-
Tudor Chimes and Farris finished second and third
respectively, only scant length behind the winner.
and both trotters have beaten 2:O9.
II $50 to SIS the favorite after this
hibiton of speed. which in actual contest had been
beaten this year by only two trotters-Cresceus and
Georgena. Bay Star trotted in front from
finish, beating her field easily as before in
200 for the mile. Amos Rathbun brought GIL
Seaman's gray Nell Gwynne up with rush
in the homestretch and beat Edward Bowne's good
looking. going bay geldng Farris for second
place. The third heat fell Jack Kinney's high
going trotter equally hollow style. Big Timber
and Hesperus fighting for the place and forcing
her out in 2O9A.
The winner is a plain looking bay mare. rather
under size. She IS owned by Edward Winter. Of
Philadelphia. She worked a mile in 2I0 before
leaving home last July, and believed to be
probable winner of the $4,000 Detroit. She
has suffered from curbs. and was not in shape 10
start. Her record was 2:2Sl5 at the outset of the
campaign. AT Hartford last week she trotted a
heat in 2O924.
Remarkable as was the performance of Bay
Star, II was excelled in the POS by the won
derful young trotter Lord Derby. of c. ]. Hamlins
string Starting against such famous horses as
Clayton. 2:OSl4; Grattan Boy. EOS; Lord Vincent,
20s%4, and Charley Herr, 2:O9 Lord Derby won in
straight heats with -consummate ease, Keeling of
his miles in 2:O7, 207 and 20S. The winner is five
yearold bay gelding that started in his first race
less than two months ago. No other horse ever
trotted in 2:O7 in his first campaign. and only
Cresceus and Alix have trotted three faster heats
than those won by Lord Derby yesterday
In the betting before the start Lord Derby sold
for so in auction pools of $3.50 few turfmen believ
ing that he had a chance to win in such company
pursued his usual tactics trailing the field TO the
horse up with rush in the homestretch. When
Lord Derby made these PUSHES he simply smoth-
cred all his competitors, and then logged home IN
Henry, the driver of Clayton. expressed the opinion
that Lord Derby is the greatest trotter ever bred
by C. J. HamlIn. not even excepting The Abbot,
who is expected lower the worlds record OF
Alix, 2032a before the close of the campaign. Lord
Derby Will start in the Pennsylvania Stake. at
Lexington. next month, meeting the best trotters
Of the whole country. Those who him
yesterday will be surprised If ne falls to win the
The ESQ pacing race yesterday long drawn
out and devoid Of interest, compared with the
two trotting contests one heat trotted in the
wagon race for road horses, A E Perrin winning
10 with Zembia in 215. Only three horses started.
The others G. X. G. Billings's Frauker. from
Chicago. anu De Witt 9. FIanagans Carbon,
2lOl4. from Morrstown, y. J.
The meeting Will be continued to-day with the
2.05 and 2.O9 races for PAGERS and the $50
for trotters. Summaries:
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