The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-12

/ around the Dack stretch again ana IL
| looked for the time being as though
she was going to make a runaway race
of it. But as the turn was made into
the home stretch the bunch behind
/ her began to move up and Miss Afable
! dashed out of It and was at Nettie C-'s
/ launches at the head of the stretch.
BY this time the crowd was wild with
| excitement and the yells went up Miss
Anable wins. but like a streak Of
lightning Clear Knight, who was we'll
to the back OF the bunch broke
through with a rush and was followed
on the outside by Lady Chatham and
then ensued a race down the stretch
which does not occur very often on
any running track in the country
With whip and spur busy the jockeys
on the four leaders rode like demons,
and right behind them were the other
four horses in the race. A hundred
yards from the finish Nettie c. was
| beaten The pace she had set for the
entire distance told on her and Miss
Affable got her head IN front. Clear
Knight and Lady Chatham we're gain
ing ground on the outside with every
jump, especially Clear Knight, who
was running most remarkably Fifty
yards from the finish Clear Knight was
on even terms with Miss Anable and
nosed her out at the finish and Lady
Chatham went under the wire a nose
behind Miss Affable. Nettie c. was but
a half a length behind the winners, in
fact a blanket would have covered
these four horses at the finish and the
rest of the horses in the race were
right at their heels. Cheer after cheer
greeted the winner OF as pretty race
as was ever run and then there we're
mora cheers when the announcement
was made that the record for the race
had been broken. It was a great race
and the runners who we're in it win
enter most of the run ming races to be
pulled off on the other days of the
race meeting 50 some fine sport is IN
prospect
The Harness Racing.
Although the Derby was far and away
the feature of the opening day of the
race meeting which is to continue eacn
day until Saturday there was some eX-
ceptional racing IN the harness classes,
and If it can be taken as criterion OF
what is to follow the predictions tnat
this race meeting would furnish the pest
racing that has ever been seen in KAN
sas were well within the truth. Three
harness races were on the programme,
the 2-year-old trot, the 2:15 trot and the
2:35 pace. It took three heats to decide
the first one; five to decide the 2.35 pace
and after five heats had been trotted IN
2:15 class the race was continued until
tomorrow Miss Densmore. grand
chestnut mare, owned by F. L. Wacholz,
of Forest City, Ia, won the 2-year-olo
/ trot. Bill Barley Corn, a sorrel geldlng,
/ owned by S. c. Friend of Randolph, won
mare, owned by L Nelson, OF Taylor,
I Tex, and Mac Henry. a chestnut stall
lion, and half brother Of John R. Gen
! try, and owned by J. NJ. Simpson OF NC
! Pherson, United States internal revenue
collector, with two heats each to their
credit, viii trot a heat today to decide
I the race.
OF the 81 original entries for the ?
year-old tr0t, but six faced the starter.
( The past performances of Miss Dens-
more and Moving evidently scared the
great majority Of the horses out of the
race And no wonder for the time made,
2.25 in two heats and 1928 IN the other
were brilliant performances for 2-year-
olds- Miss DensmOre and Moving had
a real monopoly on the race but they
fought it out nip and tuck in each OF
the three heats, and their finishes were
all exciting. Miss Densmore was a trif1e
lame but like a thoroughbred stuck to
her work and did some beautiful work
She took the first heat, was beaten out
by a length for the second by Moving
and took the third heat and race in
rafting drive through the stretch
There were eleven starters in the 2:S5
pace and Silver Kee the favOrite in the
betting, took the first two heats handily.
There was all sorts Of trouble in getting
the horses started in the heats of this
race because of their number and Sill
yer Kee was responsible for a good deal
Of it. He refused to turn for scoring
unless led around by a sWipe- Bill Bar
ley Corn, who finished last in the first
neat, SecOnu IN the second neat, won
the next three heats and the race. Esv-
cry one of these heats he won only af-
ter heartbreaklng drive in the stretch
with Lucille Hal This race furnished
some Of the finest pacing that has been
seen in Topeka and the time IN the sec
ond and third heats was exceptionally
fast for this class of horses.
With but five starters in the 2:15 trot
a great race, which was unfinished, was
pulled of Harry Johnson, a big sorUeI
geldtng, won the first heat after a hard
fight with all the other horses in the
race and Mack Henry took the next two
and then came Dimple, who finished last
in the first heat and fourth in the sec
| ond, and second in the third She seem
ed TO hit her stride and get second
wind in the fourth heat and beat Mack
Henry out in a hot drive down the
I stretch BY this time it was seen that
there were really only two horses in
the race and Harry Johnson was drawn.
In the fifth heat Dimple and Mack
Henry raced for almost the entire nails
as a team with AIcarmo and Major
Swift having a race on their own hook
many lengths away for third place.
/ Dimple succeeded in nosing out at the
finish under a. hard drive. Starter Ken
/ nedy announced that Mack Henry and
/ Dimple would have twenty-five minutes
I to prepare for the deciding heat of the
race and he said that the Derby would
not be run until after this heat. The
/ crowd was getting trifle impatient for
the Derby as It was then after 6 o'clock
so it was decided to run it off before
this deciding heat So long a time was
] wasted at the post by the Derby horses
that it was after sundown, IN the esti-
nation of the judges, when tie
/ Mack Henry -DimpIe heat was
called. According to the rules a driver
does not have to start his horse after
sundown and Mack Henry's driver said
that he, was unwilling TO start. He Of
/ fered to divide first and second money
4 with Dimple's owner, but this was not
agreeable and Dimple's driver insisted
that it was not sundown and that the
heat should be trotted. The judges de-
! cided it was sundown and continued the
race until today. While Dimple would
probably have won the race if the heat