The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11
AFTER THE RECORDS
Cresceus and Dan Patch Will Both
Try to Make New Marks :
r.fr at Memphis. -,
Dan Patch Has Better Chance-De-
cline of California as a Speed
Producing State.

CreSCeuS and Dan Patch, KINGS OF the
PAGERS and trotters respectively, will both
try to lower their records at the Memphis
harness: meeting, and horsemen are in
dulging in considerable speculation In re-
gard to their prospects for success, mas
much as the season Is drawing near a
close, and this will be practically the last
chance of either horse this year. Prob
ably Cresceus never will have so good an
opportunity hereafter to get below his
present mark, for he is now eight years
old. and has been campaigned hard ever
since he was a 3-year-old.
Ketchan, the owner of Cresceus, thinks
his horse will step fast mile at Memphis
If weather conditions are favorable. The
general opinion, however, is that the mon
arch of the trotting track will hardly break
the record. 1t has frequently been pointed
out that Cresceus had too hard season
last year, especially in view of his activity
in the stud during the winter, to do much
this year. Still Cresceus has not been
raced much this season, and is said to be
in fine fettle. Just how good he Is re-
mains to be seen.
Dan Patch is younger horse, and has
a better chance to make q new mark than
Cresceus. His work this season has been
remarkably even. He has paced half doz-
en- miles in 2:01 or better, and this week
went in 2:01 fiat over the Terre Haute
track which was said to- be at least two
or three seconds slow. The Memphis
| track is a fast one, and II the: weather
| conditions are right, and the horse is at
his best, he will probably equal or beat
1894.
| The Decline of California.
California, once the center of interest
in the trotting world. has fallen low in
the list Of speed producing states within
the last few years. When Leland Stan
ford, w. w. Corbitt and L. ]. Rose main
tanned large stables Of trotters and cam
paigned the grand circuit every year,
California was famous for its fast har-
ness horses: The great mare Sunol, the
| first horse to reduce the record Of Maud
S, after that record had stood for years,
and the game stallion Palo Alto, who
euualled Maud SIS mark of 2:08A, and
held the; stallion record for some time,
were central figures in Senator Stan
! ford's stud. With the death Of the three
men mentioned, however, and the retire
ment of Monroe Salisbury, there was a
marked dropping off in the exodus each
spring from the Pacific coast Of fast trot-
tiers and PAGERS, which was only In Ii
lslight degree made good by the work OF
4 the late Tom Heating, who was master
hand at picking up fast performers at
! either harness gait and getting them into
grand circuit form. This season there
has been practically nothing doing along
the line Of trotting meetings, so far as
Pacific coast horses are concerned, the
only representative Of much merit from
that section being the little PAGER Prince
1Direct. wa ~ -.
! : There comes however from California
the news that there is in that state a s.
year old who has already shown himself
entitled to a place in the front rank OF
trotters of his age this year. This horse
is Aristo,. who recently won a stake In
I 2:22A, 2:19A, 2:17k. and 1t Is notable
fact that his pedigree contains the blood
of six Of the best known and most sue.
T cessful stations that were ever taker
: from the east to the west-Guy Wilkes
! 2:15A; Director, 2:17; Reavis' Blackbird
= 1922; General Benton, 234h; Electioneer
and Nephew, 2:36.
49,, New Remedy for Laying Up.
In speaking of the novelty races tried
at Brighton Beach this year, in which the
winner Of the first heat went to the stable
| etc.. horseman of long experience sug'
, gests that If the racing managers really
, desire to put stop to. laying up heats
they will reverse the order of the Brighton
Beach plan, and send the last horse in .eacf
. heat. to the stable. There is no doub
whatever but that action of this kline
' would have the desired effect, for there
would surely be no laying up, and the race
for position would be just as brisk among
the tail enders as. 1t would among thu
leaders. The plan would meet with some
objection, but many would really like tt
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