The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-16
MATINEE AT ST. PETER.
Fine Sport on Saturday for the Lovers
of Racing.
From MONDAYS Daily

The citizens of st. Peter and those who
went from Mankato to see the race at
the former named town were treated to
some royal sport Saturday afternoon.
The members of the driving club have
been looking forward to this event for
some time, being anxious to meet the
best horses and horsemen the city down
the river afforded in friendly contests
of speed. The crowd at the fair grounds
was small one. Over half of it was
from Mankato. This is no fault of the
st. Peter Driving club, as it had adver
tised the races well long before they
were to occur The cause for the lack of
attendance was FOOTBALL game at the
college campus. The races were well con-
tested, and despite a strong, cold wind
the time was good. No heat in any race
going below l:23, while Articulate paced
a half in 1:l0%; and had she had a
horse to act as pacemaker, shecould have
shaded that time at least two seconds
O. X. is certainly like the festive cat
with nine lives. Two weeks ago he was
a very sick horse, and Gates Phillips
would not have been much surprised to
see him cash in, but he rallied and got
well and Saturday he paced good race
against R. NJ Dodd's new purchased Pac-
ing Billy, winning two heats, l:l6 and
lis, truly a remarkable performance
for a horse that should have been in the
hospital at beast week or two. Tenn
pest by Tempter, owned by Mr.. Brady
of st. Peter and driven by Art, Evan
son is great and green mare. Less
than two months ago she weaned a fine
Allen G. colt and with about four weeks
work paced the st. Peter track in 2:27.
She won a good race Saturday, pacing
the first heat in l;l2 with Buster an
easy second. in the second heat of this
race there was an unfortunate occur
ance. On account of the very high wind
and the noise made by the horses scoring
Mr.. John Graham, who was behind Dus-
ter did not hear the word go, consequent
ly after passing the stand he pulled his
horse to nearly dead stop and before
he was aware of his mistake the other
horses were so far ahead that all chances
for winning the heat were out of the
question. In justice to horse and driver,
however, we will say that in the opinion
of many but for this unfortunate occur
ance the summaries would have shown
him winner as beyond all question. Tat,
owned by President Weaver, also covered
herself with glory. She seems to be
getting better all the time. Two weeks
ago on the best track we have had this
year she could hardly reach lis while
Saturday on track far from good and
against an unusually strong wind she
trotted Ills pulled down to jog.
Appelles trotted very fact in spots
and was. we'll handled by his driver and
owner, Mr.. P s. Thomas, but despite
his bursts of speed he could not quite
reach. 1t did not seem to be his day
Alice Woodford, four yearold fill,
owned by Sam Gray of st. Peter prove
fast colt in this race, but as yet some
what unreliable. When she is thorough
|, ly educated and used to company, sh
will be hard proposition to beat. Sh
is good gated and good headed and look
like a sure enough trot boss.
The driving club will hold a matinee a
Sibley park Friday afternoon and the s.
Peter boys have been invited to pal
ticipate and will probably accept.