Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-31
VIRGINIA BREAKS
MATINEE RECORD
STEPS EXHIBITION MILE IN
2:10 FLAT
EVENTS HOTLY CONTESTED
May Day Meeting Of the Driving Club
at Agricultural Park Productive
of Keen Sport-AthaW Pi-
Ioted to Victory
EVENTS HoTLY CONTESTED

A crowd filling the spacious grand
stand to overfiowing, a perfect after
noon, fast time in every event, a mile
record shattered, and an exceptionally
well balanced program-these were
some of the features that helped to
make the matinee held by the Los An
geles Driving club at Agricultural park
yesterday afternoon one Of the best
that has been given in many months.
The fast footers in some of the diff
ferent events were so evenly matched
that neck and head decisions were
the rule, rejecting much credit on Sec
retary Redpath in CHASING the entries
to produce such keenly contested races.
C. ]. Clevelands sorrel mare Vir-
ginia was scheduled to go an exhibition
mile, the object being to lower her
matinee record of PIP, and also to
secure the beautiful Garland cup, for
which she had been a contestant. She
came to the wire to a perfect stride,
passed the expectant crowd in the
grandstand and dashed by the first
quarter in :33 Ia; She was now be-
ginning to feel her footing and went
to the half in los Ia the three quar-
ters pole was made in 1877 IA; then,
moving like clockwork and with grey
hound-like strides, she entered the
back stretch and flashed under the wire
in 2:10 fiat. A mighty cheer greeted
the announcement that she had broken
her record, and came within second
of the track exhibition record held by
Primrose at 2:09.
Seven horses were entered in the first
race, the 2:40 trot for the Los Angeles
Driving club cup, but Mr.. Carruthers
Fora, and Mr.. Willis Colonel Bricker
were scratched. w. c. Brains Van
Neer took the first two heats and the
race. The first heat, in 2:33, was easy
for Van Neer, but in the second heat
Mr.. E. E. Sherwood's Zenomiba gave
the big sorrel a lively tussle in the
stretch, and almost nosed him out.
This heat was done in 2:32 1-2, very
good time for 2:40 horses.
Two horses We're also scratched in
the second race, the 2:3O pace, for the
Berry cup. Notwithstanding that only
two horses started in this race, it took
three heats to decide the winner. In
the first heat Mr.. Lusk's Otto u got
away we'll and held the lead through
out, Gladys M breaking badly at the
first eighth pole. She made up the lost
ground, but the effort was too much for
her and she was not strong enough
for Otto in the stretch. Otto u also
was away first in the second Sheat,
but Mr.. Myers game little mare had
passed him before the half was reached
and she was never headed after that.
They were both away to a good start
in the third heat Otto went in the
air several times during this heat, but
he came to stride again so quickly that
he lost very little ground on that ac-
count.
George T. Beckers, driving his zom-
broette, annexed the 1926 trot. G. A.
Founder with Conners-formerly Ante
lope-was the contender with Beckers.
Evidently a change of owners does
the old campaigner Athaio good, for he
really won a race yesterday. This
horse has started at every matinee
given by the club this season, and the
best he could ever do was to secure
one heat. DIR. Hagan piloted him to
victory among a fast bunch OF per-
formers yesterday, winning both heats
in close finishes. 1t may have been the
Doctors driving that won, or 1t may
have been because he lost his bonnet
after the word was given to go. The
Doc" came into the finishes with his
hair streaming a la Ysaye
j. A. Fairchild's Bonnie Ailse took
the 2:2O pace In straight heats from
Mr. Burners Mistake, formerly Ad-
miral Dewey. Mistake is very high
strung horse and will have 10 be edu-
Gated up to having the whip used on