The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-04
LIGHT HARNESS RACING.
winnings Well Divided Among the Cam
palKners plans Tor 1907.

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-It costs about seven times more TO train
and campaign a light harness horse than a
running horse" remarked a veteran reins-
man the other day. One thing that adds to
the expense is that %trotters and PAGERS are
out Of business when rains make a track
too heavy. The owners and associations
lose thousands of dollars every season by wet
weather making the tracks unfit for racing
Yet, by plugging along, the experienced
stable managers. despite the handicap OF
mandatory laws against poolselling and
racing in several States. made something
over and above expenses this season. There
are more opportunities for horses Of minor
class OF Of undeveloped speed In light harness
horse racing than on the turf. so that while
the stakes and purses are smaller there Is
every chance OF meeting stable bills by a
shrewd placing Of ~trotters or PAGERS in the
outfit. II the company is too fast on the
Grand Circuit the drivers have a multitude
Of minor circuits and half mile tracks to CAM
| paign on. The big money races are those
Of the Grand Circuit-Cleveland. Buff alo.
Poughkeepsie. Readville. Hartford. Column
bus and Cincinnati. At these meetings and
the two weeks to follow at Lexington sixty
~trotters won. 81 600 or over. but only three
won 10000 or more. Forty PAGERS earned
81, 900 or more at the same meetings and three
won in excess OF $1,000.
Miss Lolita Crabtree. the actress, has at
tanned great prominence in light harness
horse racing with q stable managed by her
brother. Her bay gelding Nut Boy. by Nut
pine, heads the list OF money winners in the
trotting division with sl9. l72. The gelding
ended the season with a record of 2:O71I,
which good judges think Nut Boy will cut by
a couple OF seconds at least next year. In
1905 the only woman to have a stable on the
Grand Circuit was Miss Katherine l.. Wilks
Of Gait, Ont, whom New Workers will remem-
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pair. Rhea W. and Easter Bellies, at the Mad
ison Square Garden Horse Show. Miss Wilks
had in Sadie Mac, 2:06A, the queen OF the
1905 Grand Circuit. u noeaten by her kind
until the sensational death of the mare on
the Charter Oak track in September. Miss
wilks had a share Of the winning homo rs Of
1908. winning among other races the Ken
lucky Futurity for two-year-olds with Ken
lucky Todd. The brown colt was second on
the only other start. winning $3.50 for Miss
Brilliant Girl, a bay mare by James Mad
laon. Stands second on the 1905 list OF trotting
winners with tl2. 1871. being first Ave and 81 cond
old bay colt Silioo, by Moko,. owned by John
r.. Madden, the turfman, Is third on the list.
The colt started but ones s6o IN me /, ntueky
began his racing career with the %trotters,
pulled on a great co1p IN TINS race; Sweet
s Mfrte: a8s' on 1ae tS Ss'9 money %sge earning "a She 'T "a sis s ]
with t4,34O, i've firsts in as many starts. w.
Kelly Of Brooklyn leads the treater New
York hOrsemen on the roll, being NTH through
the performance OF his black gelding ORC.
by Little Corporal, winner OF 1896. Orc
was in the money for eleven starts,once
nrst. seven times second, once third and
I'd Gesrs won %. 257 with his PAGER ArdeIle.
representinR seven lrsts and one third In
eight starts. Rudy Kip earned tht5l, seven
times first and once unplaced. while the only
other PAGER to earn over 5000 was the Day
gelding Argot Boy, by. Argot wilkes. With
four nrsts, three seconds and one third share
OF the purse Argot Boy won 1891. The
ReldinR was the biggest winner Tor Long
shot" Cox, whose stable OF seven or eight
took part In 1872 races and won 81 900; James
Buffers b, Y. Bolivar, by -Wayland W, made
the best sho " of New YORK owned PAGERS
being In eighth place with 1920.
The. light harness hOrsemen are taxing
great interest In a movement OF the American
| Trotting Horse Breeders Association Intended
to. give greater permanency. 10 rang IN
future. seasons. IT'S constitution provides
that the. organization may hold an annual
| fair, with races for horses owned ny MEM
| hers. II IL PINNED, by placing the fees. at a
nominal sum. to bring every breeder OF the
country into m'mbcrshiD. With Slch an
entry a horse Ialr OF national prominence
VIII he inalg rated. at which the iedigrrcs
viii he guaranteed by the American Iro'tlnR
iUsgistcr Aa'Ociation and the speed contests
Governed by the r les Of the National lrOttlng
0cintion. Thus far only the brcliuIlnTs
tops have boon taken 10 organize for IN" I'M
1Ortant undertaking A meeting II tn tDc
| ield In December In this city 10 cOInplot" tn"
arrangements for a horse fair and races In
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