The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-09
THE. LEXINGTON RACES
SOMETHING ABOUT TESTER
 DAYS CLASSIC.
Peter Stirling, the Colt Owned by Chicago Man, Won the 3-year- old Futurity, Walnut
 Hall Second.

Hardness colt, Walnut Hall came pret- ty close to making the Standard oil man | land the Kentucky futurity for 3-year old trotters two years in succession. Last ,ar Foreno. his Moke Ally. won 1t in PHO If. and yesterday Walnut Hall was second to Peter Sterling in 2:11 1-2. sec | ond and quarter slower than Ferenos' mark.
 Peter Stirling is a chestnut gelding that was bred on the Riverside Park farm at Berlin. Wis, where D. C. Palmeter, of lishment Yesterday made the fourth start of the colt this year, and he has never been beaten. The only time he has been extended much was at Evansville, 2:16 1-4 from a good field. He is a well bred youngster. his sire being Baronmore CHA 1-D, and his dam Medis, who was
 eTs Black Gf 6erpe and G:1D. He has been handled since his yearling days by J. F. Chandler. who drove him to victory yesterday. Flaw thorne. the lilly that finished behind the Horse Review Futurity to Rowellan, and second to Walnut Hall at Cincin- natl last week. She won 5000 purse at Terre Haute, though trotting the second heat In 2H IA.
 The chestnut Ally. Mary P. Leyburn. who finished fourth behind Hawthorne yesterday. is the property of the owner of Boralma-Lawson of Boston. He gave the sum of $10,ooo for her for the avowed purpose of winning the race that she fin- fshed third in yesterday. Last year she met Walnut Hall in the 2-year old Flu turity and boat him one heat in 2:2, fighting hard for the others, but yester- day Walnut Hall beat her as he did last year. In her first effort this season she was beaten bv Hawthorne at Terre Haute after winning the first heat in 2:16 IA.
 Rowellan, winner of the Horse Review Stakes at Hartford, Conn.,, took sick early this season and his condition was such bot nf If n mp the final payments in the 3-year-old Kentucky Futurity. He came round all right, however, and has developed into one of the star 3.year-olds of this season. have caused trouble if he had been in the Lexington race yesterday. About the biggest stumbling black that would have been in yesterdays race would s t have been been Forbs. The colt is sired by Bingen (2:O6 1-4,) out of the trotting queen Nancy Hanks (2:OD. The colt has started twice mark being 2:H IA A few weeks ago he strained ligament and Forbes having an eye out for the future was afraid of hurting him and scratched him in yes
 terday's Futurity at Lexington.
 Quite a party of Montgomery gentle men are in Lexington and from the boom which the meeting there opened yester- day the ten days promise to be full Of good things.
 Yesterday for the first time this season
 the most royalty bred 2-year-old thor oughbred in America was beaten-Mr Whitneys Hanover youngster, Yankee:
 Clarence Mackays colt Heno, beat him in the rich Matron Stakes that was the feature of the opeping day of the Morris
 Park meeting. Heno ran close second to Endurance by Right when Schorr' } great lilly won the third special at Gravesend on the 18th of September. The Ally ran the six furlongs in 1:0S 3-5. the former track record being :O9 2-5. and the
 gameness with which Heno hung to her in that race proved him to be high class colt. Though the time was little slower than in the past yet yesterday 8 races was a close running to the F'uturi- ty in public interest. Nest of the Mont gomery money went in on Yankee, but there Is no kick coming as 1t must have been a hard fought race.
 Squire Brown.