Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-04
HARNESS HORSES
step FAST MILES
FIRST DAY OF MEETING AT
AGRICULTURAL PARK
GLENN TAKES 2:27 PACE
Founders celdlns Fights II Out With
Virginia and Captures Long End
Of Purse-FIve Heats With
out a Winner

Fast time and ideal weather marked
the opening Of the California circuit
yesterday afternoon at Agricultural
park. The prediction that in the fast
PAGES the horse that got the money
would have to go better than a 2:10
clip was demonstrated to be no base
less conclusion. While the 2:13 pace
will take another heat to decide, three
of the five heats run in this race
yesterday were caught below the antici-
pated mark.
Three thousand lovers Of harness
racing were on hand to lend their
support to the revival Of the sport in
Southern California. The majority of
them came with the winners all picked
to their own satisfaction. and the Paris
mutual and auction pools were well
patronized. No accidents of a serious
nature marked the afternoons racing,
and while there were several mixups
which tended to upset the talents Sc
lections, the majority of the footers
raced to form.
Glenn Takes Fast Pace
Glenn, George A. Founders fast little
chestnut gelding rewarded his hackers
by winning the only race that was
concluded yesterday the 2:27 pace for
the L. j. Christopher $1,000. Glenn and
Cleveland's mare Virginia, fought &
great battle for the long end of the
purse in this race, and with little
would have cinched the race in straight
heats. The full field of seven wheeled
for the wire in the first heat, Glenn
being on the pole and Virginia in the
third position. Virginia nicely handled
by Delaney, nosed out Glenn for the
inside alley rounding into the back
stretch, and the field was we'll punched
at the three-quarters pole. After that
it was a three horse race, with
Springer's Argyle stepping along in the
reckoning.
1t was anybody's coming into the
stretch but Virginia responded game
ly to the whip and a hundred yards
from the wire evidently had the heat
bundled up with a lead of three-quar-
ters of a length. But the big mare
spoiled all her chances by going into
the air fifty feet from the wire, while
Glenn, who was coming along like a
stake horse, pounded over with Argyle
hanging on to the third position. But
for her fatal break Virginia had the
race without the possibility of a doubt
and while she came right back and
took the next two Glenn repeated in
the fourth and fifth.
Sadler sent the field away with
good start in the second heat, but it
was Virginia's race after the half pole
was left behind. Cleveland handled this
horse in grand shape. the fastest mile
of the race being stepped in this heat,
the mare nosing over the line in 2:1O
fiat.
Virginia Contender
The third heat also went to Cleye-
lands mare. There was little to chose
between the three horses that were
worth reckoning with, Glenn, Virginia
and Argyle until the three~quarter pole
Argyle looked a bit dangerous here
but spoiled everything as the last
eighth pole flashed by, Springer's horse
going up while Virginia and Glenn
fought it out. Virginia was hammered
by Delaney and Durfee laid the whip
on Founders gelding, but they came
between the stick with Virginia, lead
ing by good length.
Glenn showed but little of the effects
of his three miles and came up for the
fourth fresh and ready to battle for
the money. Given fair start it was
another three horse race. ]. A. c., the
only horse that escaped the distance
flag in the third heat never having a
look in. Argyle appeared to have the
race at the head of the stretch but was
nosed out by Virginia and Glenn in the
final drive, the latter flashing between
the sticks with a sizable streak of
uaylight between him and the mare
His staying qualities gave the fifth
heat and race to Founders gelding. 1t