Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-26
GRAND CIRCUIT
HORSES CONTEST
HIGH CLASS PERFORMERS IN
THREE RACES
Closing Days Card for Harness Meet
Is Best of the Fall Sessions
Offering at Agricultural
Park

The fall meeting of the Los Angeles
Harness Horse association came to a
close yesterday afternoon after five OF
the best events of the meeting had
been decided and 1t is announced that
the session was the most successful
in the history of the association.
Grand circuit performers held the
feature events of the card, if any one
of the races could be called feature
over the others, and the contests were
of a class seldom witnessed elsewhere
than on the grand circuit.
Hazel Patch, zolock and Dedalion
met in a free-for-all pace and, al
though the majority of the spectators
picked the race 1928, the heats ex-
AS was expected, Hazel Patch won
in straight heats, Zolock took second
money and Dedalion, which outfooted
the coast stallion in the final heat Tor
second place, was third.
Patch invariably set the pace and
was never headed in the circuit of the
course In the first heat the three
quarters pole but Patch breezed on the
course easily and was strong enough
at the finish to win by full head
from Zolock.
In the second heat Patch repeated
the performance, passing the judges
stand two lengths ahead of Zolock
which was an equal distance in front
of Dedalion.
Dedalion went out in the third heat
and chased the pacemaker, and 70
lock dropped out of the contention at
the three-quarter pole, allowing De
dalton to fight it out with Patch,
which won by three lengths.
The three meetings of Patch and
Zolock have served to demonstrate the
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although track conditions in all the
heats between them have been such
that any approach to the track or coast
records was impossible.
Another event which excited much
interest was the 2:09 trot. Jupiter b
was scratched out of this event and
John Caldwell, from the stable of j:
c. kirkpatrick and holding record OF
2:O9 made on the grand circuit, and
Helen Norte, belonging to Judge Hen
ry c. Brents and holding grand cir
suit record of 2:09 Ia, were left to
fight it out.
Helen Norte, with a grand burst of
speed, took the lead at the eighth pole
and made the pace throughout the
first heat. With a gap of one full
length TO the good, she seemed a GER
tain winner until she broke at the
last sixteenth and John Caldwell got
the verdict.
The second heat was a great contest,
with both trotters fighting it out
through the stretch to the wire, Cald-
we'll winning by a nod. In the thlrd
heat Norte took the lead and held 1t
to the quarter pole, where she broke
and Caldwell passed her. In attempt
ing to make up lost ground, Norte
broke again at the seven-eighths pole
and Caldwell breezed home four
lengths ahead.
These heats, until spoiled by Norte's
breaking tactics, We're grand contests
and the audience was on it's feet to
witness the nose finishes in the first
two trials The trotters raced true to
form until the breaks and good time
was made in two heats.
A coast record was shattered in the
fifth race, when Briney K, owned by
w. II. Berry, and driven by r. A.
Smith, trotted a mile to a wagon in
2:15 in his one effort at beating 2:2O.
This is the best time for a mile ever
trotted to a wagon on the coast tracks.
The 2:40 trot was the greatest race
ever witnessed in Los Angeles. Three
entries went to the post in the first
heat and Soma took an early lead, |
which she increased with every stride
until she passed under the wire win
ner. Immediately after the start the
race took on the appearance of pro-
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soon separating the contestants.
California Poppy was in an unkind
mood and refused to move out of |
Jog. being distanced in the first heat. |
1t was jokingly intimated by a spec |
tator that Poppy misunderstood the
conditions of the race and therefore
refused to finish ahead of the two min
utes and forty seconds limit.
AS Poppy heroically struggled with
herself and refused to heed the cluck-
ing of her driver, II. $. Garland, she
was greeted with an ovation greater
than that given to O'clock when he won
the first heat against Hazel Patch last
Thursday After a grand effort Poppy
passed the Judges stand without set
ting a dangerous mark against her fu-
ture performances, regardless Of the
delay occasioned by her leisurely move
ments.
Gen Boode spoiled all his chances OF
winning by repeatedly losing his stride
and breaking. The same performance.
repeated six times during the second
heat, spoiled the race and made it an
easy win for Soma.
Soma made the circuit in good time
in each heat and was trying through
out to go at her best clip, regardless
of the walkover, practically. which she
had.
The first race OF the afternoon was
the deciding heat in the unfinished
1927 pace from Friday and the pop
ular choice, Victor Platte, after trail
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