Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-09-21
LORD DERBY
Walks Away from RoraIma
With Apparent Ease.
Seventeen Other Heats in Five Races
Trotted at ReadyIIc.
Cresccus and The Abbot fer $4,000 Purse.
Today, if Weather Permits.

feat BOralma without apparent effort
ths afteroon, in straight heats. The
Lawson horse seemed to be outclas Sc /
ana utterly unable 20 hold Lord Derby
pn the home, stretch, ana in the last
two heats GeerS eas1d the Hamil
hursc up perccptioly.
The time. considering the heavy wiad
that blew straight up the back s.retcn
ana net the horses for a ful! half mile
was remarkably fast. In two OF The
| te:,iS I3oraI:Ha led until within 200
"a! Gs cf the wire. at one time In the
last heat, being four lengths to tn
scGd; but Lord Derby was driven in
mastery fashion by the vetert Geei s.
Nho was warmly appiauded.
Seventeen other heats Were tTot Il
during the afternoon and five races fin
jsAed before dark. TWO of these c IN
| over from Wednesday. but each nece s
STATED extra heats. Tie track YVES dry
and fast but the weather was cherries
aad the last race wcs run off in q l'ght
rain which has increased, tonight. to
| Il doWnpOur. and may possibly prevent
tn big 10000 race. tomorrow. batWe n
| tie champion trOttcr Cresceus and The
Abbot
Three races had been completed when
the crack tlotters came onto the TIA k
for the big event Cf the day. Botn
horses looked to be in excellent cundi-
lion and after scoring twice we given
ne word.
Lord Derby. VINO had drawn the poe
made no attempt II head of Eoralma.
| Gees seemingly keeping the biz geld
ing well in hand. Gatcomb. however
sent the non Sc sailing ont around the
| turn and at the quarter had taken the
,ole and was leading by length and
Il half. Both horses went the r ext quar-
.er Against the stiff wind III 81 seconds
Bolalma dropping back as the half was
reached although till leading ,he' eby
about half a length. Still Ceers K pit
back Lord Derby ana showed no dis
position to chGflenac the brown sal
lion. although Keeping right up all the
time. the third quarter was t:otted in
III, seconds.
vt the turn into Tie stretch Geers
cent Lord Derby up on the outsid. and
-GO yards from the wire the two racers
we've on even terms. But it was only
lur 4 moment. The Lawson horse did
net fnlter. but only Il Cresceus or The
blot could have held the burst Of
,.DrrG which Lord Derby showed in
that dash 10 the wire. Boia.,nl was
simply outclaSsel BY 4 faster animal
anj Lord Derby ven bv a good length.
Eeforc the second heat Mr.. Lawson
had I. short conference with his driver
With the result that no attempt was
made TO send Huralma out in front.
For nearly thr,.c-qlIartCIS of a mic tn
two sped along side Ey side in quick
time Int neither ATTEMPTED 10 nun out
ahead. Lord Derby was the first to
freak the spell and pushed out ahead
lust before the turn was reachei. In
vain did Gatcomb call on Boralma az
.hcugh res rying the whip until Just
before the end. Against Lord Derby':s
,Tonderful burst of speed Boralma's at
tempt seemed weak ana feeble
Just before reaching the wire Geers
pulled up and won by two lengths.
Lord Derby going easy yet accomplish
ing the mile in 2.0Is4
Having tried both pushing ard Il
Waiting game, Gatcomb decided to
trike carly and hard in the third neat.
so away went Boralma in the lead be
fore the quarter pole was reached. The
lead was steadily increased all the
way down the back stretch, Boralma
Ill one time being over four lengths to
The good But even before the half
vas ,eached the Hamlin horse was
teadily creeping up. At the half il
was three lengths, at the tive-eighths
two. at the three-quarteTs one. and 1t
the stretch the two flyers came with
i;oralma at the pole ana Lord Derby
1T his flank.
In a few seconds the crow shouted
'Roralma" and il seemed as il the
Lawson horse might last to the wire.
But again came that burst Of speed b.
Lord Derby which Boralma could not
match and once more he swept past
the Lawson horse into the lead ana up
10 the wire. the space between the two
Increasing at every stride until amid
the roar Of shouting thousands the
Iamlin horse passed the judges stand
4 winner by three lengths.
That portion of the crowd which ar
lived early sa,y some fine racing in the
minor events while waiting for the big
fellows to come out. Two races came