The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-29
zig Turf G2inners
Of 1901.

Nearly hundred thousand dollars was
divided by the four leading money Win
ners OH the national trotting circuit dur
ing the season just closed. Champion
Cresceus in his campaign won scarcely
$1,000. The wonderful work of the Dig
prize winners is the more remarkable in
contrast TO the victor belong the spoils
but the race for money is not necessarily
to the feetest.
The top-notcher of the year was Audu-
bon Boy. The total of his winnings was
$l9,650 Eloata led the trotters, and was
close behind the son of j. j. Audubon
with $19GtG Dan Patch, the unbeaten
offspring of Joe Iatchen, won total of
S13,SCO and was second of the PAGERS.
Jay Hawker took second money Of the
trotters, netting a total of $4,000.
Two of these four Were given races.
and the showing was the more remark
able or this account.
Ele;tta's Splendid Record.
Eleata's record was phenomenal in the
early season. Had she not lost her eorm
toward the close she would likely nave
won nearly $4,000.
Stating with victory in the rich Mer-
chants and Manufacturers stake, in the
opening meeting at Detroit, she was sue
cessful in every race in which she started
until she reached Readville.
Here Onward Silver lowered her colors
for the Massachusetts stake. Once again
she won, at Hartford, but she was plainly
off FORM and at Saratoga she retired for
the season.
Eleata was d green mare wher she be-
gar the season at Dover. She had won
over fourteen starters for a small stake.
She was hardly considered as possible
ity, in the Merchants and Manufacturers
Yet she won handily, made a new rec
ord for the event, 2:0SA, and trotted the
fastest heat shown by a four-year-old
during the year.
Upset by Onward silver.
Her victory at Detroit was followed by
another at Cleveland. She skipped Co.
lumbus and Buffalo, but won at Glens
Falls SO easily that she was picked to
win the Massachusetts stake. Onward
Silver, however, upset the talent and took
the race.
Though she won in straight heats at
Providence and took the Charter Oak, she
could not do justice to herself in either
race and was wisely retired after poor
showing a Saratoga. For a green trot-
ter, however, and one which sold two
years before for $500, her record is eX-
ceptional
Country Jay, who pushed Eleata so
hard for first money, would undoubtedly
have made a record for himself but for
the black flly.
He ran second to the daughter of Den
yer Prince for the Merchants and Manu-
facturers stake at Detroit and was
beaten by her in close races at Cieve-
land and Glens Falls. In fact, in every
race in which the two started he had TIE
i'll luck to be beaten in close contests.
AT Detroit he beat 2:1O, and again al
Cleveland, but each time Eleata did just
bit better. AT Buffalo, with Eleata out,
he appeared to be "a sure winner, but
Nepa Simmons upset his calculations and
won, with the son of Jay Hawker again
beaten by the narrowest OF margins.
At Glens Falls he won race on the
first day OF the meeting, but on the sec
ond day and at Providence he again sue
cunbed to his hoodoo, the black flly
Eleata.
Not until Syracuse was reached did he
succeed in lowering her colors, but even
then his bad luck held, and Neva Sim
mons led the pair.
CHI of these second moneys added ID
his total of winnings, however, and al
Readvifle he took the Blue Hill stakes
worth $4,000 and swelled the amount to
nearly its final proportions. At Cincin.
rau he was beaten by Captor, but a
1srre Haute he won prohtless victory
and retired.
fAcelieHl as the showing Oh n1te1ta a!lo
Country Jay was. the work of Audubon
Roy among the PAGERS was better. He
Itartcd his campaign with a sensation
He beat Shadow Chimes at Cleveland IL
his inst race although the latter was
tipped TO win hands down. He made tbs
mark 2:09A for himself, hut he kept l:
less than q week.
At Columbus he covered mile III 2:0Slz
in a winning race and followed at Buff
-1oIa ,faY
was made at Readvilie. when he passed
the wire in 2:0Sss, while a fnal trial at