The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-09
Grand Circuit Facts.


1906 1906
Total races $4,000. IA 146
Total heats 100000. .457 429
Total starters ...... 1922 1,142
Average time 5000. 2:09.85 2:09.50
Best time .......... 1903 2:00&
Money distributed ..$2SS,025 $293,725
From time standpoint the showing
OF the 1906 grand circuit is record
breaking. The 429 heats of the sea-
son were trotted and paced in the
average time of 2:09.50. This not only
excels last seasons grand average of
2:09.S5. but eclipses that of 1904,
2:O9.77, which has stood as the fastest
ever attained. Last year the best
average for an individual meeting was
2:O8 183-22S at Columbus. for 50
heats, which was a worlds record.
This year this was twice broken. At
Readville 70 heats averaged 2:08 37-7S,
while at Columbus IS heats averaged
2:0S 1920. which latter is now the
record. For single heat the 300 ga
OF the PAGER Bolivar, at Readville,
which equalled the worlds race record
In field of horses, far surpassed the
high water mark of last year, Pan
Michael's 1903 at Cincinnati, which
was also beaten this year by four
other performers, viz, Ecstatic
2:01 3-4, Graft 2:02 Ia, The Broncho
1902 3-4 and Angus Pointer 1902 ga.
Last year the fastest heat trotted in
race on the circuit was the 2:O4 IL
OF Wentworth at Columbus. This year
Sweet Marie trotted in 1903 ga at
Syracuse, which Is at once the race
record for the circuit and the worlds
record for regular class race.
The pecuniary aspect shows that
$293,725 was disbursed at eight meet
ings this year, as against $28S.025 at
nine last year. This Is total gain of
$500. despite the fact that one race
at Columbus and four at Cincinnati,
worth 5000, had to be declared OF.
Last year the richest trotting purse
was worth but $4,000. This year
there was one worth $13,500. The rich
est pacing purse was worth $4,000.
the same as last year.
The heaviest money-Winning horse
Of 1906. is the trotter Nut Boy,
2:07 Ia, who won $15,162. Last year
Sadie Mac. 2:06-1-4, led with $4,000
"a sum which was also exceeded by
the second trotter on this years list,
Brilliant Girl. winner OF $12,7S7. Last
year Angola, 2:07 ga, was second
with $10,439. Last year three was also
a third trotter that won over $4,000
Bon Voyage (3) 2:123-4, who was
credited with $10.250. Ore. 2:05 Ia,
third this year, falls short of this
mark with $9,145 to his credit.
Last year there was no PAGER of
overshadowing merit or consistency
on the circuit, and the three leading
winners were Allerson 2:05 IA, with
$4,565; Nathan Straus. 1903 1-2, with
$4,195, and Stein, $2:06, with $3,62s.
This year no less than three different
ones won more than did last years
leader. vix.: Ardelle, 2:O43-4, with
$1O,177; Rudy Kip, 2:04 IA, with S.
551, and Hal c., 2:O5 1-2, with $4,717.
Ardelle has the remarkable record of
having started at every one of the
eight meetings in the circuit, and won
all her engagements save one. in
which she was, third. Rudy Kip has
the distinction of having started in
seven races at six meetings, winning
them all land losing but two heats out
OF nineteen contested. The largest
number of races won by any trotter
was six, by Nut Boy, who was de-
feated but once, when he was third.
Sweet Marie trotted and won five con-
secutive races, without a defeat and
with the loss of but a single heat.
The grand old man" of the sulky,
Edward F. Geers, retains his peren-
NAL primacy as the leading money
winning driver of the circuit. His
winnings amount to $29,589, which
slightly exceeds his last years total
of $29,429. The returned prodigal,"
Myron f. McHenry, is a close second,
with $25.710 to his credit, while
Thomas w. Murphy is third, with ST.
794, and ]. c. Curry, fourth, with $751;
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