The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-23
WHIPPING FINISHES
At DRIVING MATINEE
Large Crowd Braves Soft Ice
to See Races at Lake
Como

Nearly 5000 lovers of the horse gather
ed on the ice at Lake Como yesterday to
witness the decision of the annual light
harness >matine of the St. Paul Driving
association.
Minneapolis and other cities in the state
were represented on the ice in the persons
of sportsmen and many of the entries in
the well filed programme were from the
Flour City.
There were three races carded and in
two of them the contests were spirited
and well up to the average, while in the
other each heat was fought out with whip
and voice and the finishes were on the
nose and neck order.
The first race was free for all pace
I'm which six first-class performers were
carded. Prince Stevens, from the string
of W. B. MacLean, and Billy Boggs, who
finally proved to be the winner, were
looked upon before the race as likely to
put up the most interesting struggle. An
accident in which Prince Stevens and
Silver. another horse of the MacLean
! stable, were involved in a runaway spoiled
the chances of the former, and as his
heels were badly bruised in kicking loose
the shafts of his sulky. he was drawn
before the race.
Charles Dewey and Warren D. both
winners at matinees of the association
| heretofore, showed lameness in the pre-
limlnary warmup and were drawn also.
This left but three in the contest and
/ Billy Boggs squeezed home first in each
! of the three heats run off. Nut Breaker,
gray in the stable of l. S. Gillette,
never quite good enough when il came to
the final pinch. Goshen Jim, belonging
to Frank Day, was always third, to the
disappointment of his owner and his
friends.
This race, was a sweepstakes of SO
with $25 added by the association. The
fastest time of the matinee was hung
up after the first heat, 1:06 fat.
The second race was free for all trot
with seven entries; Silver, who was
vens was drawn and Clifford was dis
tanced in the first heat, leaving five to
fight it out.
The winner turned up in Doc Almont,
belonging to Clem Morrow. He won in
straight heats. having to pace hard for
the decision in the second and third trials.
Porter. the runner up, an erratic beast.
fouled Susie b in one heat and finished
running in the final effort. He was sec
one in each number
Maggie, pretty little mare from the
Aberdeen stables. was given third money,
and Elva Mac fourth. Susie B, green
mare owned by George Washington
Brown, made a determined effort in two
heats and in the second heat was halted
to a walk, when Porter swerved at the
start. She might have been further
cident.
The hardest fought race of the day was
the named pacing event in which six of
the speediest ones in the Twin Cities We're
carded to go. Brown Dick, owned by w.
L. Stockney, earned the decision after
five fierce struggles Dick broke shoe
in his last race when well in the lead and
had to be drawn out today After being
laid up in the initial heat, he pressed on
and finished second in the two succeed
ing trials and came on with burst of
speed and endurance which won the final
two heats.
Each effort was a tight fit from flag fall
to finish, and in three of the heats in this
race the animals came up to the finishing
line with drivers whipping, shouting and
driving to the last ounce.
M, fast brown PAGER, owned by J.
Meehan and driven by ]. F. Paisley, won
the second and third heats. but was given
third money for not finishing better than
third in the last heat of the day
Brown Dick simply outclassed his COM
pany and in the final heat came away at
the end rather easily. The summaries: