The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-30
SEASON RECORDS
Old Harness Horses Have Kept
to the Front.
No New Performers Have Made
Sensational Time.
DAN PATCH IMPROVED.
Lowered His Worlds Mark by
Adolf a Dust Shield.
LOconda Excels as PAGER, TrOt-
ting HOnors to Susie n.

light harness performer has come out
this season and placed in jeopardy the
crowns worn by Lou Dillon, Major Del
mar, Cresceus. Dan Patch, Prince Alert
and Darrell. it has been a year of sensa-
tional pacing and trotting and the
champions of 1905 compare all around
with the cracks of the sul1y of other
years.
The king of all light harness horses,
Dan Patch, has reduced his worlds
record to 1:55A, which he accom-
plished on october Z, aided by the dirt
shield. This champion of champions
is now 8 years old and is an Indiana
production, having been fOaled near
Oxford, that state, the then properly
of Dan A. Messner, Jr. He was trained
and driven the first year of his turf
career by Mr.. Wadden, man ~ years
of age.
Dan Patch. before he became an ex-
hibition horse, won nineteen stralgnL
races, meeting all corners through the
grand circuit and losing but one heat,
being defeated at Brighton Beach by
Martha Marshall in 2:09. The great
stallion showed this was 4 huke by
coming back the second heat in 200 u
Lost One Heat at Lafayette.
The only other heat he ever lost was
in the second race he started in at
Lafayette, Ind, Milo G. beating him IN
the slow time of 2:1S1a though he
was then racing on half-mile tracks.
The champion is an example of like De
get like and his sire, Joe Patehen,
2:O1A, was one of the most brilliant
race horses that ever wore harness
The enormous sum of $4,000 has
been refused for Dan Patch and Flying
Fox sold to M. Blanc for Sl9l,255 IS
the only horse in the world S history
which ever sold for as much as the
sum recently offered for the greatest
light harness horse of any age.
To Loconda, the brown pacing stall
lion belongs the honor of the fastest
harness mile of the year in race. IN
a second heat at Lexington on October
he paced a mile in 2:O2 fiat. LOGON
da is now years old and holds the one
and one-half miles record, 3:15 a,
which is 0:021s faster than Dr.
Strong's worlds trotting record at that
distance
Loconda also held the worlds stall
lion race record, pacing or trotting, in
1904 and has been a grand circuit win
ner of prominence since his first APP
pearance in fast company in 1902. He
is also the. son of a great horse, being
by Allerton, 2:09 II. Save the Plattef
and Axten. Loconda. is about the best
horse bred by the noted turfman, g
w. Williams, GaEesburg, Ill
Susie n. Best of New Ones
Susie N, T. w. Murphy's great FLY,
though beaten by Miss AdbeH in the
Kentucky futurity must be regarded
fhe champion trotting 3-year-old of the
year. She won four stakes including
the Kentucky and the Stock Farm and
Horse Review futurities and scored
record of 2:095z This equals the best
mark of 1904 made by Grace Bond,
and il has never been beaten but once,
that in a race by Fantasy. 2:0S u
Susie \. is kentucky production
and is by Moko. the premier sire of
the famous Walnut Hall Stock farm OF
L. Y. Hardness
To Isightsome. winner of the Ken
lucky Futurity, belongs the hOnors of
/ the 2-year-old champion of the year
Her mark, 2:141z, has been but three
times beaten by a FLY of this age in
ia ce-namely, jamie 7. and Katherine
A. PA, and Grace Bond, z:l4 a .
lLightsome was bred by James Dodge,
Paris, Ky, and is daughter OF the
great race horse Constantine, 2:12 y !.
Hazel Patch. POP q, which he
scored at Lexington Oct. z, is the
champion bush horse of the season,
and driven by the veteran reinsman
+ J. w FIack has the right to the dis
tinction of being the most spectacular
harness horse of the year. 1t IS said
that the great pacing stallion was
trained under a system of Spir1tuaI1sm
and after a race is turned into a stall
and left to cool out in company Of
supposed mysterious bodies.
Is a Remarkable Case.
If this be true Hazel Patch is surely
one of the most remarkable horses
that ever swept down the quarter
stretch. He is d Wisconsin production
and is by Nut Patch, a horse without
a fast record. Hazel Patch had a
mark of 2:05H at the beginning of
/ the season, but this is the first year
the bush stallion has shown signs of
/ being a genuine sensation.
Ethel's Pride closed the season
with the record of being the fastest
living mare of the year in the list of
/ new 2:1O trotters. Her mark of
+ 2:O62z was beaten half second by
l-Sadie Mac, but that promising can
didate for trotting queen honors is
dead Ethel's Pride's best win was
I the Pennsylvania She is a daughter
LOT the great race horse Directum,
2:05 Il and is product OF Delaware.
| She is now years old.
+ Bonalet, the winner of two pacing
/ Futurities, is the champion S-year-old
I PAGER OF the year, and her mark OF
t2:O9A ties the worlds 3-year-Old
pacing hlly record, held by Little
Squaw. She is a daughter of Bonnie
4 Direct and is CaHfornia's contribution
to the light harness champions of
Maud Keswicl1 Heads PAGERS.
Maud Keswick's second heat in the
Tennessee at Lexington, 2:03 q, put
her at the head Of the new 2 10 PAGERS
OF 1905. She halls from Canada and
is a daughter Of Keswick, 2:1SA In
/ another season she may force the
pacing queen, Darrell, to step aside, as
I in two of her heats in the Tennessee
she showed flashes of two minute
speed. Looking back at the season as
a whole, while sensational horses were
i rare. good judges say the average
| class race called for better material in
a winner than any year that can be
/ recalled at any of the big meetings.
YOUNG ROOSEVELT WAS Ut"
Outshone All the Rest Of the Team in