New-York tribune., 1901-04-01
THE SPEEDWAY.
THOUSANDS OUT TO SEE THE OPENING
OF THE SPRING DRIVING SEASON.


/ The spring driving season on the Speedway opened
| with a rush yesterday Horsemen who have gone
up the road nearly every pleasant Sunday since the
! driveway was opened thought the throns OF horses
and spectators the largest ever seen there. III
was estimated that ten thousand or more were out
/ before dinner and the afternoon crowd was even
larger. With the wind blowing from the south. and
the surface of the road dry as powder house.
the dust rose in clouds soon as the bruShinS
began. For time when the speeders busiest.
the air flied with particles Of earth that
the upper end Of the Speedway was completely
obscqred To the spectators down near Washins, ,
of yellow fog bank they burst into view below
the bend in the road.
Brushes followed one another in such rapid
cession that the spectators often at loss TO
determine whether particular horse was leading
bunch bringing up the rear in a drove of
flyers that had just passed. Large was the
throng, many of the best road horses missing
and some of those seen on the Speedway did not
take part IN the brushes. their believing il
is vet early send them along at speed.
Nathan Straus had both Cobwebs. PIP. and Alve-.
20912 out for airing. but neither figured in the
trials of speed That CObwebs is still the idol OF
the onlOOkers was shown by the wave OF hand-
@ m ib wo d % j me 9ne horse that every
man. woman and child seems to know. and though
he met his match last year he is still the king In
popular favor.
was one Of the conspicuous young horses on
the road. He arrived early and stayed long, and
in all big throng met trotter he could not
step away from with David GoOdman's bay
horse Freetand. 2174; L. de Wardener Hollub's
chestnut mare Hattie Walter. 2:23i4. unknown
gray PAGER and two or three others behind
him trip the speeding ground, and in
another he. outfooted the fast and loose big bay
fessional reinsman Possibility is only four-year-
old and this is his first season the Speedway
He lTal lJ- larip hO hia
sire: Lord Eldon and his dam. Impression. by
is handsome and bIoodlike enough for a show horse
and moves like a 2:lO trotter.
John f. Cockerps Swift. 216i. and David
Lamar's diminutive mare Teto. 214h4 got together
early in the day. and went down the road time
and again in series of rasping brushes AT the
first trial the honOrs the trotters
stepping ii off neck and neck like double team
but Swift afterward defeated the little by
half length Teto is barely fourteen
hands high, and she somewhat handicapped
two humdT pounds. With j G. curry driVing
Mr. Lama fast PAGER Red Lawn, 21eia Teto
One of the finest spectacIes Of the day was fur
ntshed by w c. Floyd-Joness fast young mares,
Peppina. 21stz. and Knoxena 2:2ss. in double hsr-
ness The handsome seal brown trOtters moved
together like horse. and that a fast one. They
defeated Red Lawn by just head in a splendid
contest. and with much the worst OF the just
missed beating Hugh ReiIys old trotter Com
on the Speedway that could step with them Old
Porter. a horse that once trotted against Arion
others. Albert De Cerneas fast pacing stallion DOM
hey. jr.. 2l1.
Moth Miller. 2:07 at once ths fastest and
busiest PAGER the road. Only once. II at all,
he beaten. and this In an unequal con-
test when Or. Randell. his driver started him IN
pursuit OF Alexander Frankenstein's little bay
horse Grant, 2I7tt. Moth Miller gained rapidly on
his rival. closing up twenty lengths In brushing
from the bend to the half mile post Grant ap-
peared 10 be in front they passed that
point. all out and moving very fast. but Dr.
RandelI kept driving his doughty little roam
until the positions reversed. From an even
start Moth Miller afterward easily defeated Grant
and p Eaters Bay paoer Farvie s Aas5s @ere
easily beaten by the little roam horse. who met
came together in a spirited brush. Highland Lassie
winning after pretty ,,, contest Then the little
them both by short head in the most exciting
Mr. Thompson. Of Staten Island. brought out a
fast PAGER in Berkshire Courier 2:1O. beating B. T
Kearnss black PAGER Drex 2:16st: Dr. A. L. NeIden's
bay PAGER Whistle. go and Bonnie Kirkland 217ts
This horse formerly owned by r. H. Plant
OF Macon, Ga. He is n newcomer the Speedway.
the Chestnut Stallion Mcshedd. Eli In 5T,v,as
hnish with Bonnie Kirkland the TWO PAGERS were
the chestnut horse Headlight -
Among others seen in the throng Colonel H
D. Mix with his little chestnut trotter Ambo 2:1slb
She a good brush from r. D. Wilams's black
trotter Curlew. James L., 2O913 driven by John
Washington Smith. displayed more speed than he
has shown IN years. beating Drex quite d-cisively
Red Lawn, 216%. driven by j. @ Curry. won a
raspuE brush from c. r. Jarvis's bay PAGER The
Dude, 2I31a. L. J. Kahn's handsome PAGER George
Wallace. 2l7A. beat Thomas F. Russelrs brown
trottcr Sprightly two lengths. Hattie Walter,
won hrfs FrCu
2I7ls; Whistle, 22o, and Trixie W. 221A. Drex
beat F. W. SChidwaChJer's chestnut trotter Ball
Bearing Dombey, jr-. 2:1, took the shine of
Charles Weilands bay trotter Russell T.. 219i4
Alice L., 2l2l4, with a stranger behind her,
fast enough 10 beat half a dozen rival PAGERS
John j Timmius with his brown trotter Harry
Davis 2.1ii. took Commodore Porter into
McShedd. 2l7, beat George Huber's bay trotter
and there We're scores of other spirited bouts
among the fast ones.
NOMINATIONS FOR KENTUCKY FUTURITY.
Lexington. Ky. March 5l.-Horace Wilson secre-
tary OF the Kentucky Breeders Association an
nounces that 1873 mares have been named in the
rich kentucky Futurity. value. S21 600 foas OF
1901, which closed March 15 This number In
109 less than the mares nominated in the record
breaking 1900