The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-10
BROOKSIDE WON RACE.
GAME HORSE BROKE RIVERSIDE
 TRACK RECORD 4.
MT. Walkers Fast White Stallion Went a Mile in Fourth Heat in 2:l2M-Good Sport
 Yesterday.


 John Carpenter made the track record
 by showing a mile in 2.l2 1-2. In the
 first Eeat of Thursdays unfinished race
 a quarter of a second was clipped off of this mark Brooksde, MT. Walk
 CTS white stallion, did the mile in
 2:1s l-4, winning the unfinished race
 of Thursday.
 It was a remarkable performance, | and every person at the track yester-
 day congratulated himself. for 1t was l the grs atest exhib tion of speed shown
 at the local track since the days or
 the great kremlin (209) and John Car
 penter (2:l. l-2.)
 It will probabiy be a good many days
 before anything like the killing pace of that first mile yesterday is dupli- clted, but that one nea; in .tself was
 worth going many miles 10 see.
 Two things were demonstrated by the | great performance. First, that the | track at Riverside is one of the fastest in the country and second that all arguments against the use of hobbies
 arc obsolete. It was known that
 Brookside was game all through, but after his unsat sfactory showing | Thursday such a thing as his smash!1 ing a track record was as big a surprise as the proverbial clap of thunder out of clear sky. Ii was sll due to the
 hobbies. The Improvement that he showed yesterday over Thursday after
 noon was something remarkable, and
 forever sets at rest the arguments against the use of horse suspenders."
 Three times the horses-Bl ookside, Sunshine and Jenks-scored down, and at the fourth they got the word to a | good start. A blanket would have cov- cred the three of them. That it was to | be a royal old horse race, was shown the first crack out of the box. At the first turn Boen, with the white stallion, pinched Newell with Jenks. Whether l the foul was intentional or not, is neither here nor there. The fact re- mains that it was a foul and for the minute Newell was cut out of the heat. | Then hot fight ensued between Brook side and Sunshine. Like well-match- | ed team, they flew down the track, the quarter being done in :32 and the half in 1:05. The pace was terrific and the 1 Brown Hal horse was simply run off his feet though he came gamely at the finish q good bit behind Jenks. Like a cyc.ona Boen turned into the stretch with the stallion. As he round- ed the last turn, men looked at their watches incredulously, and a roar went up as the stocky white animal paced down the stretch game and true, and looking as fresh as at the start. From the minute that the horses rounded the last turn it was plainly apparent what Boen's object was-to shut the others out, but he was fairly burning up distances like dry gras in prairie fire. and was me; cilessly flashing the stallion with his whip. The red dis tance flag was in use, and he was do- iF1n hi atfFp both of the horse behind him caught at the flag. He reckoned without his host, however. Just behind him something gray flashed and Jenks gamely paced in-about c:l4 1t must have been. good bit back came Sunshine looking pretty tired.
 When they got away for the next heat, Brookside got off In front and held that position to the wire, that coveted goal being reached in 2:lS. Jenks got away badly and from the wire to the half 1t was procession Brookside Sunshine and Jenks. At the half however Newell challenged the black horse and for a few seconds 1t was as pretty a fight between them as one wants to, see. Jenks's staying qualities and gameness were in his fa- vor and turned the scale. With ter rife burst of speed, he drew away from Sunshine and set sail for the flying leader. It was outside the range of possibility, however, to even get with
 in striking distance of that white bun dle of speed, and when Brookside landed the heat 1t gave him the race, he having won the first heat Thursday.
 The first heat yesterday is stated the fastest that has been seen here in many years. It breaks tho track record for race, as Kremfn's two heats in 2:09 were exhibition affairs and John Carpenters mile was a quarter of second shy og yesterday.
 Brookside has a racing mark of o:11 IA, made some years ago in Chil- llcothe O., although l. was claimed at he time that he went In 2:09. Now as to disqualifcations. According to the strict letter of the rule book, Brook sid. should have been barred on sev- cral points. IL is a question if the stallion should not have been disqual- fled when he threw his shoe Thursday and again for an alleged foul in the first heat that day and lastly for the 10 Il yesterday. The race Is over, how ever. and there is so much admiration | for the wonderful speed. gameness and | grit of the stallion that there ts no kick | coming anywhere. His owners deserve | the gratitude of everybody interested | In local racing for the wonderful exhi- bition.
 While he did not win the race. MT. Jackson's gray pacer, Jenks, did de- cidedly the most consistent work of any of the horses. In the five heats he was second every time, pacing game and true without a skip In the five heats, and he was good second in the marvellous 2:I3 1-4 heat of Brook side. If the stallion had been disqual. flied Jenks would undoubtedly have been given the race, as he had Sun shine skinned. But ifs" don't go
 The result of the two days racing is as fellows Brookside, W. g. (Boen). .......1 3311 Jenks. g. 2. (NewelD. D.........2 22222 Sunshine. blk. h., (Kelly). ...31133
 Time. 2:24 12; 2:24; 2:27; 2:t2 i-4; 2:lS.