The sun., 1905-12-24
HARNESS HORSES OF THE YEAR
NEW WORLD MARKS FOR PAGERS
SET BY DAN PATCH.
Sadie Macs Death Tragedy OF the Grand
Clrcuit-Swe Marie and wentworth
Go Fast Miles-Best Performances of
Season Compared With Records.

tragic scene in the light harness racing
drama Of the year occurred during the meet
Ing at Charter Oak Park, Hartford. The only
new world championship marks of 1905
were by the PAGER Dan Patch. but the pacing
mare The Broncho, and the trotting mare,
Sadie Mac, made new race records Tor their
sex Until her death in the sulky at Hart
ford, Sadie Mac seemed to have all the great
stakes garnered and the calamity was sad
blow to Miss X. L. Wilks, who is the only
woman now prominent in Grand Circuit
racing. New Workers may recall that her
Iaares Rhea w. and Easter Belle won the
roadster championship for pairs at the Ma
tional Horse Show of 1904.
Miss Wilks has her homo at Cruickston
Park Farm. near Gait, Ont. with ORC
Wilkes. 2Il. at the head Of the stud, but Sadie
Mac was not homebred. Instead the mare
had been bred by the late j. Malcolm Forbes
OF Boston, although born the property Of
the Hon. j. NJ. Johnson. Calais, Me, AS
three-year-old Sadie Mac lost only a single
heat the winnings including the 100000
Kentucky Futurity. and she closed the season
with the record of 2Ilh. +. Z, Smathers
owned the mare as four-year-old and used
her for matinee races. one event at Pittsburg
being won by her In 2.osh and 2;o0h. Miss
Wilks bought Sadie Mac for $4,000 at auction
In New York during the fall of 1904
This season Sadie Mac had trumphal
progress, making the opening heat of her
first race the gig class at Detroit, in 2O0j!
and winning in straight heats. This eQlalled
the worlds record to harness made by Susie
j. at Brighton Beach in lJJ.. Sadie Mac fol-
lowed up by winning the first money in the
$4,000 race at Buhalo, ?l0 class. and the stake
of the same value and conditions at Read
Vile, where she lowered her record to 2:OG...
The S., 900 race for the 2l2 class at Provi-
foil nd on DDon m n q
9nSe tropbe o tbc charter Oak oak ace for the
2:o0 class Mt Hartford
II was n heavy clinginr tr1ck the start
oeihg deiay'u untl laVe 10 uiS up 'ht so'ls'
Sadie Mac was the favorite AGAINST the field.
o9. nau cue "n ] ,i' m ,bran hon|s o SoGio
euso Vi 'it !n o'ta y, thora,'h
Mac naae ,he game s.rutsie ol Ia 'LoFouRh- tt t.
at the seven-cighths pole in the fourth heat
the mare heaved a great sigh and waobled in
the heavy going, then. recling about until she
stumbled in the grass Just outside the track.
died in a few moments In her two racing
SEASONS IstN' ""n. " ,-,to .,i ,t, ,,ooo as
western mare hhs'o'"' 'o'h ,ne p'nUo VI
assa, n h"t her 'n vic,oras wero % not won m in
a. oor,,,or,i,o NOV tb,+ r,oda tho raoa-
tne coil'l,ia,.us 'eS wy ,tia. VII hna ,t"t
,1 ,.orId;s ,hararion
Dan Patch made his first public start on
new eS'i record o. over r'' the llamlne track m and
,bat he u wnnderf ~ horse ',t
nyIegton Dan Dan patcb Vent " nile With
LeAlheun Iin ~ % my ,I q
Ryemnbis a nile in ~ wiihomt n natomakcr
This overthrew Star Pointers worlds re-
tniS onSi nY tilu St"i o'. ~ o3ii al IA
fo,p iris taah maa VI i,I H. hon Pt,,' 'ho
potn pan fdtcl anu Auuupou boS, Ml9
due thIs marx ltT af ReadVllle' m The World ! race
record for a pacing mare was made by lho
Broncho. 2n3!+ .,.,. O.. ,,-,.
Among the trotters neither Sweet Marie
nor llVerton lufnlshcd ,tne schsatioh that
mao peen eNpeCtS1 boih lne NIhnu Niltult
ana une ally ibSt
pMins " d Sirn,'i r - a. = r. =, j
latlon. Inc Grand Clronit ended az leflns-
ION, as the yeloM leNeI Hudlanllue loICe
the calling of Of the Memphis meeting. ana
adverse Jaws VIII prooaply keep lhe lfack
closed; mere was no Hetllhe1 ~ NlcEeiehu
OF a. aiG t Ie ps 0s drny e; bsin.,
e attendance. % "a and further PROOF of the popu-