Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-12

Javins and Charles White. partook OF
lunch provided by Mr.. Morrison. then took
their leave.
Three other races are being talked about
to be gone at Brightwood on wednesday
next, when the Ada D.-Gaiety match is to
De decided One is TO be trot, In which
Lonnie Corbn will have Howard o.. Benz
nett Duckett, Clara Wink; Peter Taylor.
MI Clark, and Harry Halght. Happy Steve.
4 ms quartet are very evenly rated in speed
and should furnish close and interesting
race. There viii also be a race for a purse
81 Siev between PAGERS entered by II. G.
Coppefthlte. Timothy Shugrue John Collins
and Lee Dorsey. and the matinee VIII prob
ably wind up with match between tina
PAGERS, Bob Ingersoll and Miss White. This
pair have met on several ct,asions in races
with other horses but there is san much
difference of opinion as TO which has the
greatest speed
Ed Bryan. q geiding ten years old
smashed another worlds record at Point
Breeze Park, Philadelphia. last week Moro
than fifty years ago on Long Island, N Y,
a sorrel gelding called Prince trotted three
miles TO wagon in 7.53is The record
stood to Princes credit until last Wednes-
day. when Ed Bryan. to wagon. went the
same distance i'm 1904. the last mile being
uotted faster than either of the other two
Two weeks previous TO this performance
Ed Bryan broke n two mile-to-w wagon rec
ord which stood to the credit of the famous
Dexter for more than forty years Bryan
got mark OF 216A in race at Mount
Holly about two months ago.
Marion Wilkes, trotter. 2.0SL and John
r. Gentry, jr. PAGER, ,2.lsA, broke the
Brightwood track team record at the matt
nee last Wednesday, going a mile in 22G
fiat. The previous record, held for ten
years by a pair of horses driven by Benja-
min McCauley, is said to have been 229
Marion Wilkes and John r. Gentry. jr.,
were driven by their owner, Charles Nc
Dermott. They went the mile in gale of
wind that lifted the dust from the track
In binding clouds, and ii is probable they
Will shortly be sent another heat under
more favorable conditions when they will,
in all probability, clip several seconds off
of their present mark.
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II. c. Copperthite Is possessor of a colt
that is to figure in famous events next
year. The youngster is a son of Pilot Me-
dunn, whose mark to cart is 2:09A, while
his dam is Ida c., 2;13A. lie viii shortly
be placed in the hands of Tom Cannon.
who viii prepare him for the great Futurity.
to be gone at Lexington next year The
colt has given indications of having whole
lot of speed.
Tom Craven, well known to running horse
men in Washington and throughout the
country, who mas had Clover Hampton at
Benning for month or more is preparing
to leave for New Orleans, where he will
race the mare this winter. Glover Hampton
is by the imported horse Northampton out
of Cloverdale II, daughter of Spendthrift
She is now at Pimlico, where IL is expected
she will start in race tomorrow and her
performance will be watched with much
interest by the lovers of galIopers in this
city. Wilson Chamberlain, who formerly
conducted a breeding farm near Charlottes-
vile, Va, and who is also well known to
horsemen here and elsewhere, will accom-
pany Mr.. Craven. Mr.. Chamberlain has
string of eight colts working on the Bright
wood track Five of them are by Merry
Day, two by kasson and one by Chiswick
All are yearlings. One, Betsy Binford by
Merry Day, out of Lizzie Truet is said
TO have worked a quarter of a mile at
Benning in % 10 seconds, the fastest trial
for the distance ever gone over that track
by one of her age. Messrs. Chamberlain
and Craven will start for the south with
their stables Immediately after the Benning
meeting closes.