The St. Louis Republic., 1904-10-09
TR0TTING SEASON FOR 1904 CLOSES
WITH THIS WEEKS MEMPHIS MEETING
Diamond Handicap Gets the Place of Honor the Opening Day
of the Grand and Great Western Circuits the Tennessee
City-Egbles Include the Best Horses in Counry-Ree-
ords of TrOtters and PAGERS.

WRITTEN FoH THE. SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
After the successful week OF the Ken
.ucky Trottirs Horse Breeders Associa-
tion. the star performers Of. the Grand
Circuit and Great Western Circuit will
contest for honors at Memphis. which will
close the trotting season for 1904.
As curtain raiser October IS the Dia-
{ E7ond Handicap has been given the place
OF honor on the opening day. This is a
stake event that closed August l with the
most remarkable entry list ever received
I.y stake of it's kind Horsemen evident
ly selected the Diamond Handicap as the
race in which to settle all the seasons
arguments.
The list Of eiigibles includes the follow
Ing. with records:
John Taylor. ::css.: The Roman. 2:ss..: Hal
Fry. 2!ssi5: Silver Sign. 2:I0: Doctor Strong.
2:os: billy Foster Boy. 2:Il: Jim Ferry. 40.
Prince Selma. 2:iots: Sxee; Marie, 2:ls5.: Di-
rect View. 2:tsl: coHsu.ia S, 2:Gl: Mary
Gage. ;:ilH: Alexander. 2:osi.: s,aEley Dillon.
2:ois.: Lady Gall Hamilton. s:Iiir Dan Wilkes.
2:as... and Early Reaper 2:osn
Not only does the list include almost
twice the number Of extremely fast
horses that were ever before named in an
event Of this kind but the race VIII bring
together the stars OF the Eastern and
Western circuits. and force the horses
that have been winning in the slow-class
stake down the Grand Circuit to meet
Lcises Of equal speed for the first time
For instance. Sweet Marie, Stanley Dbl
Ion, Hal Fry, Snyder McGrezor and q
few others that started the season with
out records and have been winning stake
events for slow-ciass horses, Will for the
as DR.. Strong, Consuela s. George G.,
etc This stake should prove to be the
race Of the year. and under ordinary CON-
ditions the seasons race record will be
lowered by the winner.
As usual, the $s,000 gold CUP race for
amateur drivers will be a feature of the
FIRST day At the present time it looks as
IL this race will be another contest be-
present indications are. however. that II
Will hardly be so one-sided an affair as il
was a year ago. Major Delrar has al
ready trotted a number OF the most bril-
liant miles OF his career, and is in all re-
spects a much-improved horse. Lou Dill
lon has. on the other hand. shown very
little improvement. This state Of affairs
leads Major Delr1ar's admirers TO con-
clude that he has very good chance 10
win the prize. Both horses are being spe-
cialIy prepared and pointed for this
event, and will not start In any other
race during the season
"A NEW r EA1 ShE-
A new feature Of tire programme Is the
Kentucky Stock Farm Stake for s-year-
old trotters. for 1880. This race is a fu-
turity event. and has heretofore been
trotted in Kentucky. As the Memphis
association had no stake OF this nature, it
decided TO try and purchase this one from
the Kentucky Stock Farm.
The effort resulted in the stake being
transferred to the Memphis programme:
No less than ffty-one 3-year-oids are eligi-
BILE since the last payment and about If
teen Of them. including Lord Reyelstoke
year. have already shown 2:Ie speed.
Another stake race in the Memphis pro-
gramme that is bound TO attract attention
Is the Emerald Handicap for 206 PAGERS.
Ten have already shown their ability to
pace close to e0f. and for the first time
this season such sensational PAGERS as
Morning Star. Baron Grattan. and others
that started the season without record
will be forced to meet older horses of
equal speed. IL half Of these horses will
be the best bStting event on the pro-
gramme. The list of eligibies includes
Ssfreet. 20s: Riley R. 2osS4: Foxie Curd.
217; Joe Pointer. 2:oe1a: Locanda. 2:os=.
s.. 2:01: Doctor Madara. 2.0S: King Direct
2:9s1z: Baron Grattsn.2:ost Winfield STRAIT
ton. sOsh: Ben F., f?osa. and Morning
Star 2.04s
The now famous Transyimulia Stake for
trotting and pacing mules in harness is |
OF course. fixture. and Is this year schet- |
lied for Tuesday. October p.
RECORDS FOR YEAR.
While the general high class of racing |
was maintained during the season OF 1901 |
and the records made for different ages
and both sexes were good. yet no cham
oionship records were broken with the ex-
cept,on of the five-heat race for 3-year-ofd |
trotters. which was made by Alta Ak |
worthy at Cincinnati last week
Following are the best records OF the |
Fear:
Two Year Old A!,hasham. b. C.. by Al
:
Two Ye1r-Oid Fiiiy-PelIenonf D. T. hy
ZoHui,ro. I'll: tcm Daisy G. Hill, by Al