The age-herald., 1901-05-14
TrOttng, Pacing o~ss,. ssiess Dses,. .ss ssisss BYAr cAFFHH and Racing World

Knowing the two drivers and the two horses as we do, if we were called upon for, a long g-distance guess we would fix 1t about this way Ketchum will score up very fast, get away from the wire at two-minute clip, and take Cresceus to the quarter pole in 31A seconds, Geers laying back two open lengths with his smooth going gelding, measuring his even strides like the regular strokes of Car liss engine; Ketchum and the stallion will kiss the shadow of the half-mile post as the watch marks 1:02A, while Geers has settled a little deeper into the cushion and Is steadily holding The Abbott three open lengths back of his fast flying rival; Ketchum will probably ease his horse around the lower turn and be at the three quarter post in 1:33%, The Abbott still two and a half or three lengths back. At this critical and interesting stage of the con- test the silent man. will be seen to raise himself a little, lean forward just a shade and begin his brilliant finishing tactics that have made him victor over the best drivers in the world on hun dred tracks. The Abbott gliding, stealing along the smooth surface like the shadow of a fleeting cloud, will have his nose at lis adv..sary's wheel at the seven-eighth pole; he will collar him at the long-dis- tance lrark, and beat him out just a bare half length, doing the last quarter in time any where rom 29 to 31 seconds, as the speed of Cresceus makes it necessary. We don't know what you boys are going to do, but we are going to see that horse race' if 1t is not too dusty to ride the trucks" about that time.
 Joe Thayer of Lexington.
 Joe Thayer of Lexington, Ky, went
 from Georgia up into the blue grass coun- try some years ago, and has become
 one of the leading trotting horse men
 of the country owner, driver and buyer, and one of the cleverest gentlemen in
 that land of generous noble people. He
 has owned many of the fastest two-year-
 olds in Kentucky. He developed Rex Americus as a 2-year-old, drove him an
 exhibition mile in 2:15, and sold him 10
 c. J. Hamln of Village Farm for $15,- 900. He now owns the Bondsman, who was in that remarkable Futurity of 1899,
 won by Borolma, and trotted some won derfully fast heats back in the bunch,
 worked trial in 2:11, and has been rest
 ing lately for the contests of this year.
 We hope he may take the stallion rec
 ord, for his owner Is an honest man, and
 the best judge of a racing prospect we
 ever knew.
 Evolution of the Horse.
 Under this head Professor Cooley of the
 Massachusetts Agricultural College. con-
 tributes a paper to the Chicago Record
 reviewing agricultural progress generally,
 and in a paragraph on horses, says: Two
 instances of remarkable development of
 horses within the century may be men, tioned-the American trotter and the
 Kentucky saddler. In the former instance
 the unnatural trot and pace, by selec-
 ton, breeding, development and training
 have acquired the speed rate of a mile
 in 2:03A and 1:59A respectively, with a long list of performers of miles faster than 2:10 The perfection of a breed of horses taking each of five different gaits at word from their riders, which every Kentucky saddler must do, is another monument to the agricultural skill of the age" The American Roadsters.
 The roadster Is essentially an American production. Enterprising breeders have developed the ideal animal and the work has been crowned with financial success.
 The American horse stands at the head of roadsters and trotters. It should be the policy of every breeder to breed the horse that will bring him the most mon- ey, and to do this he must produce one that is especially fitted for the road for in that class more money Is paid than In any other. The majority do not pay enough attention to this great quality. but endeavor to get speed at the expense OI OtHtT HlOSI qudhticS. The man who breeds horses intelligently for the road can usually place his pro- duce in commanding position.
 The fast horses that have been bred in almost every state in the Union to which well-bred slres and dams have been taken bear witness to the fact that the success full breeding of trotting horses is not con- fined to any state or locality, or depend ent on any soil or climate The man who thinks of breeding trotting horses in this country and not consider climate so much as blood science of breeding and the cor rect, intelligent development of his an- | imal.
 Tommy Britton, 2:o6H.
 Tommy Britton. 2:O61k the stout son ot | Liberty Bell, that wintered with Ed | Geers' stable at the Selma track in 1898, | campaigned by Geers the following season | and then sold for $20,O00 to a Chicago | syndicate, will be driven in his races this year by James T. Rainey of Lexington, Mo-, who bad charge of John R. Gentry, | 2:OO1h in 1894 He made a great killing | with Gentry at the Detroit Grand Circuit meeting in the PIP pacing class Rainey backed him heavily at attractive odds and took S16,O00 out of the pool boxes, besides the large purse. Rainey invested his winnings in fine farm which he still owns