The San Francisco call., 1905-06-24
GREEN HORSES
PROVE SPEEDY
Sharp Competition Expected
at Fresno in the Raisin
City Stake for PAGERS
SENSATIONAL TRIALS
Fast Miles Are Shown by a
Number of Those Entered
for the Rich Event

An average of a little more than nine
entries TO each race makes the Fresno
programme OF harness racing for the
Breeders meeting, which opens there
July Ie, have a healthy look The best
race on the programme from the stand
point OF a contest with fast heats and
the winner hard TO guess is the Raisin
City Stake of $500 for PAGERS OF the
a:20 class.
There are an even dozen swift side
wheelers named in this event More
than half of them have shown better
than 2:l5 in their work. while the
others are almost unknown quantities
having been in training back in the
bushes" Touts and railbirds are un-
able TO exist there and consequently the
speed of a horse is known only to his
trainer. Among those known to have
in the money speed" are ]. ID. Spring
ers Argyle, which has worked a mile
in 2:09 3. Z. A. Servis' DR.. j., which
reeled of d mile in 2:l2 recently: Wal
ter Trefry's Little Joe. which paced in
2:l4 in his work last year. but has
never started; Cresco Wilkes, a young
son of Nutwood Wilkes which took a
three -year-old record of 2:I7 last year
and is expected to pace into the 2:l0
list this season; Frank Wrights Pearl
Sinclair, a green mare which is a half
sister to his fast PAGER Kelly Briggs.
2c091z and Nellie r. a mare bred at
Eureka, Humboldt County. and owned
by Joseph Long There is not one of
the foregoing but can pace a mile bet
ter than PIP. yet the owners of the
others believe they can beat them. so
the race should be a corker. especially
as the purse is the largest of the meet
ing.
Some fast trotting and pacing have
been done at Overland Park track.
Denver, since the meeting opened there
last Saturday. AS predicted in these
columns the PAGER Harold ID by Dex-
ter Prince won the first pacing race of
the meeting. He did not have TO beat
2.lS to secure first money, and this
must have been easy for him as he
worked miles in 2:l2 at Pleasanton be
fore he was shipped TO the Colorado
track.
The showing made by the James
Madison mare Confienza. which won
her race, the 2:20 trot, in straight
heats. gives evidence that she will full
all the promise of her three-year-old
form when she was expected to be a
coming champion. She got out of sorts,
however, and has failed TO be much Of
a money winner for her owner. Edward
Gaylord. the popular Denver sportsman.
Her new record made in this race is
s-Isiz She is yet several seconds be-
hind the mark of her full sister Tuna,
2:0Sls the fastest four-year- trotter
last season, which is owned by J. de la
Montanya Of this city,
wonderfully fast mile for green
horse TO pace was made at Pleasanton
last Saturday by c. L. Grfith's five
year-old stallion Bonnie Steinway
This young horse has never been reg
ularly trained until with the past two
months. He was worked some last fall.
however On Saturday last he paced
mile in 2:OS. the first half in LOS Y
ard the last half i'm l:02h. Bonnie
Steinway. as his name indicates. was
sired by John r. Boyd's stallion Stein
way. which died a few months ago.
His dam is Bon Bon, the $4,000 mare,
which produced Bonnie Direct (2:05 Il
and BOnsilene (2:14A)- Mr.. Griffith
viii race Bonie Steinway on the Grand
Circuit next year in all probability.
The popular and conservative reins-
man, Ed Geers. does not expect TO see
any horse beat Lou Dillons record in
his lifetime. He is quoted by the Mem
phis correspondent of a Cleveland
paper as saying: 4 do not believe l will
ever live to see such another wonder
ful mile as Lou Dillon stepped when
she took her record.
This does not mean that Mr. Geers
thinks the limit of trotting speed has
been reached, but that it will take a
longer time than he expects to remain
on earth TO produce a horse that can
beat l:5sh. and that is the general
opinion among horsemen, as Lou Dill
Ion is a wonder.
The directors of the Pacific Coast
Trotting Horse Breeders Association
VIII meet at the Office of the secretary
next Tuesday to decide upon the place
10 hold the August race meeting of the
association. Propositions have been
received from both Santa Rosa and
San Jose.
There will be good purses to race for
over at Missoula, Mont, in September
Four $1,000 stakes are offered for trot-
ters and PAGERS. Entries close July TO-
California owners who race at home
this year will have time to ship TO
Montana after the State Fair at Sac
ramento closes and race their horses at
Missoula- There will be several weeks
Of good racing at other points in Mon
tana and Idaho.
The Grand Circuit is just a month off
IL will open on July "a at Detroit
which is always one OF the most sue
cessful meetings held during the year
Following Detroit comes Cleveland
with $4,000 hung UP for racing at the
historic Glenville track. Buffalo comes
next, and so as not to be outdone by
any other meeting. offers the magnifi-
cent sum of $4,000 in purses. The
week following Buffalo was refused by
the Empire track people and Pough-
keepsie viii step into the breach. The
order OF towns is then as follows:
Readville. August 21-25; Providence
August 2s TO September /: Hartford
September as; Syracuse September
lf-15; Columbus, September 1922:
Cincinnati. September 25-2s, and Mem
phis. October 1926.