Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10
HARNESS HORSE WORK

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Next Tuesday September IL. the horses
on the Maryland and Virginia circuit start
a five days campaign at Prospect PARK
Baltimore. There are ten trotting ana pac
ING and n number OF running events sched-
uled for the meeting. Eight or ten "ash-
tnRton horses Will take part In this arair.
Among them are Peter Taylor's gelding.
Irish Jack, TO start In the PIP pace; Tom
Canuon's Miss Clean. to measure speed
with other entries in the 2.18 pace; John
OKeefes handy gelding L. J. K. that goes
in the 222 pace. and II. c. Copperthite
Maid Marion. in the 2.25 pace. T. +. Han
Bedford Boy will also be In the 2.l2 pace;
and his S. D. X. will start In the III trot-
while j. j. Fletcher's Silver Socks will be
in the 30 trot. The Prospect Park meet
inc Is expected to be one of the most inter
esting yet held on this circuit. and Will
draw a large number OF Washington people.
The Labor day matinee at Brightwood
furnished three interesting trotting and
pacing races The first was for trotters or
the go class. This was won by Myron H.
after Peter Taylor's Mr.. Clark. a horse that
had been laid up for weeks with a bad foot.
had taken two heats. Henry Oppenheimer's
FInlra Grattan was third each heat. The
time of the race was slow. considering the
real merits of the horses. Mr.. Clark taking
the first and fourth heats in 2.45 and 2..e.
and Myron II. the second. third and hfth
heats in 2.37L. 2.3T and 2.3I.
Timothy Shugrue's Harry c. won the
hrsl. third and fourth heats of the 10
pace. Grafton Hilleary's Prince A. taking
the second heat. The time was 2 29lt, 2.2Ik.
$50 and 90. Pee Wee got third money
and William Chambers Alex T.. fourth.
The exciting race of the day was the free
for-aII. with Cascade. Sir Electroid and
Nellie NJ, the latter newcomer to these
parts as the contending horses. Stephen r..
Collins plotted his horse. Cascade: the vet
cram James Marrow was up behind Nellie
NJ. and Frank Thomas drove ]. G. Benton s
ST. Flectroid. Mr. Collins was novice as
against the other drivers. and Cascade ac-
co-dingly met defeat. finishing second three
times in succession to the Benton horse in
2.26i,. 225 and 22Ih. MIR. Collins has
driven Cascade over the Brlghtwood course
four seconds better than the time of the
best heat of this race. and 1t is understood
stands ready To bet $3.50 or 500 that his
horse can beat either Sir Electroid or Nellie
Nj In 4 match race.
Bedworth. jr.. was turned over yesterday
to the Washington parties who recently
bought him. Bedworth, jr.. won his last
Thursday. The race was Jog for him,
the fastest OF the three heats being in 2 l4s4
Bedworth. ir.. is an exceptional horse. He
il nine years old. His sire was Bedworth.
q Maryland stallion. and his dam thor
uughbred mare. He has a mile track record
of 2.O61.. and 1t is claimed half-mile track
mark of 20Sli. and It is further claimed
that he holds the worlds stallion record
for three heats in race won, 2OS1a, 2.0912
and 2.0Sls. This race. 1t Is asserted, was
gone over the Gentlemen's Driving Park
track Baltimore. Bedworth, jr.. was bred,
trained and driven by w. d. Bell of Ches-
tertown. Md. The price paid for him by
Washington men was 5000. The horse IS
now in the hands of Driver Frank Thomas.
who left with him yesterday for Wheeling.
w. Va, where he starts in free-for-all
race this week. Thomas has Niger Boy
entered in the 100 pace, and Sir Electroid
named to start in the 2.22 trot at the
Wheeling meeting,
J. w Weber. 4th and III streets northeast.
has chestnut sorrel mare with one foot
behind white, and star. that does the eyes
of the horse lover good to look upon Her
name is Elnora. She is a daughter of the
good stallion Elyria, and her dam was a
standard mare. Elnora has no mark. but 1t
is said has shown quarter in 81 seconds
and half in los. Mr.. Weber bought her
at a blue ribbon sale at Cleveland She Is
a delightful driver and when cut loose on
the Potomac river speedway. shows her
heels to many OF the good ones there. FL
nora has had no track work since Mr.
Weber has had her. but his friends are urg-
ing him IN give her a chance to show what
there may be in her as a racing mare.
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General Felix Angus of Baltimore will
give silver cup to the winner OF a novel
SOrt N horse he a Ia
at Timonium next year. General Angus
made this announcement at Timon!um on
Thursday. The event will be known as a
thread the needle race" The conditions
are that each contestant Is to select lady,
who Is to take her stand at the starting
point on the track. When the race is
started the riders are to circle the track,
and when they reach the starting point dis
mount and hand a needle and thread to a
lady, AS soon as she threads the needle
she is 10 hand il to the rider. who remounts
his horse and races around the track again,
when he dismounts and gives second
needle and thread to the lady. Az soon as
she can tread and present him the second
needle he remouuts and races to the finish
Of the one and one-half miles. The rider
of the winning horse in the race who has
complied with the conditions governing 1t
is TO win the cup
The speedy gelding Prince +. L.. has had
a singular career. If stories told about him
are true The horse is well known to local
turfmen. Before he became a racer he
was owned by Maryland gentleman. who
drove him on the road. One day he jumped
over a hedge fence and almost bit the
shoulder of of man who tried to help
him out OF his predicament This dis