Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-08-14
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Cresceus and The Abbot.

record of 2:O7A.
CRESCEUS' BRILLIANT CAREER.
His career as a six-year-old in 1000
was very brilliant won, and he
closed the season with u record of
2:O4.
His first start was at Pitsburg, on
July 4. in a match race with Tommy
Britton, which he won with ease in
2:1O, 2:1O. On July %, at Cleveland,
he won the 2:0S trot, beating Grafton
Boy, John Nolan, Tommy Brittoh,
Kingmond and Charley Herr, in
2:O71s, 2:06%.
At Columbus, o., Oh August 2, he
won the free-for-all trot for trotting
stations in 2;O7A, 2:O6, 2:O6, which
still stands as the fastest three heats.
He started in another special against
Tommy Britton, at Chicago, on Aug
ust II, and he won handily in 2:OGh,
2:O71s.
He started at Syracuse, N. Y, Aug
ust 20, to beat 2:O5A, but lost, trot-
ting the mile in 2:O61s.
On September 5, at Hartford, Conn,
he again started to beat Directum's
record of 2:05A and trotted in 2:O4A
His next start was in the great S2O,-
600 stallion trot, at Readvlle in
which Charley Herr came so near
beating him.
Charley Herr won the first and sec
ond heats in 2:O714, 2O7H, but Cres-
ceus won the next three in 2:07b,
2:OSA, 2:1OA.
At Cleveland, O., October G. ne re-
duced his record to 2:O4 in an exhibi-
ton mile. On October 13, over the
half-mile track at Toledo, he started
to beat 2:10H, and trotted. the mile
in 2:09% On the same day he start
ed to beat 2:15 to wagon, and went
the mile in 2:1S%. The following
week he was shipped to Terre Haute,
Ind, and made two more attempts to
lower his record, but failed.
He went into winter quarters at the
close Of 1900 in fine shape, and was
given jogging work alllast winter, and
his great performances this year show
that he is just now coming to his full
powers. When he trotted that great
race at Detroit, on July IS, stepping
the second heat in 2:05, and defeating
| Charley Herr with such ease, it was
conceded by all who saw him that he
was in the best condition of his life.
But the following week, at Cleveland,
when he wrested the championship
| from The Abbot, and trotted to q new
record of 2:02%, all were willing to
place the crown on the great Ohio
bred stallion But the great son of
Robert McGregor still further aston
ished the turf world by reducing the
record to still lower figure (2:02H)
at Columbus. The fractional time of
these two record breaking miles Was
0:30, 1:01, 1:31A, 2:02A; 0:29%
O:59A, 1904, 2:O2A During his
career Cresceus has started in thirty
four races won twenty, was second in
nine, third in four and fourth in one.
1t is a peculiar fact that he has never
| been unplaced in any of his races.
THE ABBOT'S PERFORMANCE
ance as a four-year-old in the great
NJ. and M. Stake, at Detroit, on July
| l3. He won the second heat in 2:11N,
but the race was won. by Rilma. He
next started in the 2:20 class, at De-
troit, but was beaten.
At Cleveland the following week he
won the 2:1S trot in straight heats in
2:12A, 2:11R, 2:14A. He was defeat
ed the next week at Ft. Wayne, after
winning the first and second heats, in
the 1928 trot. The race was won by
Pastoral. Time, 2:13A, 2:13h, ,2:131s,
2:15A, 2:21h,
At Readville, August %, he won the
2:30 trot, beating great field OF
horses in straight heats in2: 14A, 2:13,
2:14A. HewOn the 2:1S trot at Hart
ford, Conn, on September 3, in
straight heats in s:15, 2:16N, 2:16A
On September 23, at Portland, Me-,
The Abbot won the 2:2S trot Rilma
won the third heat. Time, 2:1SA,
2:13A, 2:1Ok, 2:15A. Then came the
2:4O trot at Readville ON September
27, which he won in 2:15, alba,
2:131s.
After losing the first heat to Pearl
inc c. in the 2;29 trot at Lexington,
KY, he won in 2:14h, 2:13, 2:15h,
2:15%.
At Louisville, on October IS, he
started in the 2:1Strot, and, after win
ming the first heat in 2:13, he was dis
tanced in the fourth heat.
In his five-year-old form, in 1898, he
started in ten races, and won seven