The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-01
Broncho's Races on.

La Sale, ILL.,, Oct. 1.-The BrOncho
Will race no more this season as a
result of strain of a hgament. The
injury is not considered a lasting one.
A New York dispatch says: Discus
sion Of the various alleged reasons
for the tragic death of little Freishon
at Gravesend track on Friday has TAX
en- wide grounds. Old horsemen said
the Brooklyn track is in parts sadly
In need of new soil, and several in
stances of horses having been Grip
pied because of missteps at various
times. due to the uncertain footing,
wero mentioned.
Others said the practice of racing
horses in blinkefs had become entirely
too common. and that 1t was not a
rare sight to see nearly an entire fell
OF runners go to the post with the So
called 'rogues' badges"
Still others. and probably these last
were the men who hit the mark. de-
clared that the present-day trainers
were too fond of putting infant"
jockeys in the saddle. A large field
Is frequently found with apprentices
greatly In the majority, and, as it fol-
lows that apprentices are necessarily
premium on accidents, especially in
races where everything depends upon
which horse first reaches the turn,
Whether this state of affairs is one
that can be regulated by enactment at
the hands of the ruling body of the
turf is open to argument. But some-
thing must be done to minimize the
dangers which are only too palpable
every day when there is a big field,
else the pleasure of a large portion Of
the race-going crowds will be spoiled
and the sport thus will lose in popu-
laritv.
The current meeting at Gravesend
will end on Saturday. On Saturday,
the closing day, the Kings Highway
Steeplechase, the Prospect Stake for
2-year-olds and the Oriental Handican
for all ages will be the attractions.
Brighton Beach's six-dav October
meeting begins on Monday, October !.
The Produce Stake, run in two divi-
sions. for colts and FLIES, will be the
feature of the first day. The gross
value of the two stakes will be So, 900.
Each division of the stake will be ut
six furlongs. The feature of the sec
ond dav will be the cup preliminary at
a mile and a half, weight for age.
The Brighton cup, at two and a quar-
ter miles, will be run on Saturday.
In the early days of harness racing
nearly every noted trotter that APP
peared was horse with a history
full of romance. which added not a
little to public interest in the sport
Unlike the thoroughbred racer whose
ancestry was always recorded and
who usually passed direct from the
stud where he was raised to the train
ing stable in which his turf career be-
gan at two or three years OF age. the
early trotters were often of unknown
breeding and antecedents, whose apti-
tude for learning to step fast came to
light accidentally and late in life.
Dutchman, the most famous trotter
of seventy years ago, worked in a
brickyard before he broke the worlds
record: Flora Temple, the first to
trot mile in 1920, was discovered at
the tail of travelling drover's wagon
In Duchess county. and was sold for
$13 when four years old; st. Julien,
2:11 Ia, pulled milk wagon in or
ange county in his early years, and
hundreds of other old time trotters
almost equally noted were of equally
obscure origin.
Nowadays the breed of trotting
horses is hardening, and its best rep
resentatives are, with few exceptions,
bred in the purple, just as the runners
are, and brought out on the circuit
tracks at an early age, before there is
room for romance in their lives. Very
rarely of late years. and not often in
the early days of the trotting turf,
has any great horse seen SO many ups
and downs. especially downs, as Lot
ia Crabtree's bay gelding, Nut Boy,
81 1-2, winner of two $4,000 races
thus far this season and of more
money in purses htan any other har-
ness horse OF the year.
Nut Boy made his first appearance
last season when he was nine years
old. In the hands of C. N. Payn, an
old time reinsman of Philadelphia, he
came out in the 2:45 class at POTTS.
town. Pa, late in August. and before
the close of the campaign trotted
twelve races, nine of which he won,
gaining a record of 2:15 IA on a half
mile track.
His performances and his advanced
age were so unusual for green horse
In these days that the owners of some
of the trotters he defeated on the half
mile tracks last fall suspected him of
being a ringer-in other words, an
outclassed horse with a fast record
masquerading in the slow races under
a false name. He was protested at
Bethlehem, Pa, last year for the first
time, but the writer having investi-
gated his career, and acting as one of
the judges, refused to accept the pro-
test, and his winnings were paid over.
In this race. the horse threw driver
Payne out, breaking the sulky and
after running away for nearly two
miles, he was caught and hooked to
jogging cart. He won this race with
ease.
At Trenton. N. j., he was protested
for Identification, and under the rules
1t became necessary for Mr.. Payne to
prove the history OF the horse before
his winnings were paid over. This he
could not do further than to state that
he got Nut Boy from a dealer in Sec
ond hand horses in Philadelphia who
represented that he was raised in the
west and was by Nutpine, 2:15 IA,
dam by Smuggler. 2.15 LA.
These meager facts were reported
to H. Gocher, secretary of the Nation
al Trotting association, and he at once
started to investigate the antecedents
of the alleged ringer. Mr.. Gocher re-
membered Nutpine as the first colt
foaled at John H. Shuts Parkville
farm. and as having been given away
years ago by the generous Brooklyn
breeder. Learning that the son of
Nuptwood, 2:1S 3-4, and Maggie