The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-26
GREATSPEED ATPARK
FIVE EVENTS AND EVERY ONE A HORSE RACE.
Fifteen Thousand Peop:e Witness Fine Card at the Fasr Gfonads-
 The Entriea for Today.

| i The Entries for ToAay. Grand circuit races at a short ship,
 $500 purse, meeting was what the lo:-
 900 people saw at the Vandtver Park
 track yesterday afternoon.
 including the running races there were five events on the card and every one of them was horse race from !; the drop of Mir. Fullers flag in the ', first heat until they dashed under the wire in the decisive neat The big crowd was brought to its feet in frenzi- :, ed excitement in the last three heats l of the 2:10 trot which. for endurance, pluck and bulldog tenacity by both i horses and drivers uncovered g superb contest the equal of which has never i been seen in Ala bama possibly this i section of the South. t" ~In drawing for positions in the first | heat Pat Ford, chestnut horse be- longing to Charles w. Kenyon of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. got the pole with Gold Standard bay horse belonging to George Castle of Chicago. second Lady Margaret. bay mare belong 1 ing to E. D. Middleton of Danville. Ky, third Alton, a brown horse be- longing to c. R. Lewic o: Oswego, N. Y, fourth. Pat T. belonging to Rody Patterson of Pttsburg. Penn.. fifth. and Minnie Belle, belonging to J. H.
 Hardin of Ninevah, Ind., sixth. The first quarter was trotted in .d3 1-2, with Lady Margaret and Gold Standard closing up At the half in 1:07 1-3 Pat had gone up in the bunch and at the three quarters, in 1:42 a.
 he and Lady Margaret were fighting 1t out, the game Pittsburg horse beat ing the Kentucky mare In drive down the stretch, the mile being done in 2:16 IA
 Pat T. and Gold Standard were lighting at & half second slower than
 the first heat, .34. Arton and Lady Margaret getting in the crowd at the
 half fin 1908. Pat Ford and Gold Stan dard were drawing away at the three quarters. 1:40 1-2, nearly two seconds
 faster than the first heat. Pat Ford winning out in 2:1s 1-2. the fastest mile trotted on the new track so far. Mir. Lewis asked permission to draw Alton after this head at he had cut his legs, the judges allowing him to do so.
 The third heat was a corker. Lady Margaret and Pat T. were almost punched with the Iowa horse at the fastest quarter of that race, .33 1-4, and the pace was a no, one, half in 1908. Pat Ford had dropped back be- fore the three quarters was reached in 1:36, nearly four seconds faster than the second heat. with Pat T. and Lady Margaret fighting tooth and nail Down the stretch they flew. roars and roars Of the crowd wild with excite ment. Just before getting to the wire the Pittsburg horse went up in the air Then followed something which alone would stamp this frair success. There was not the fraction of a second to lose and seeing his opportunity Middleton drgy triied the crowd. Gamely did the Kentucky mare respond to the call or her driver and nosing out the Pitts burg horse she shot over the wire win ner by scant harsbreadth in 2:13 1-4. a quarter faster than the third heat.
 Under the rules of the National Trot- ting Association none but heat winners were eligible to start in the fourth neat the race being two in three, so Lady Margaret, Pat Ford and Pat T. | were to fight out the next heat, which | turned out to be the sensation of the | week They started out cautiously. go- | ing to the quarter in .36 and half in | l:1O 1-2 with the three quarters in | 1:43 1-2. When the swung into the | stretch 1t was like a chariot team l The crowd was yelling like mad as neck and neck the three raced down the stretch
 A"o eiVohu near the wire Is hard | as rock and Pat and Lady Margaret | got off their feet. Pat Ford also went ! in the air but Kenyon managed 10 | Keep him down long enough to win | what looked like q dead heat, so close | was it, landing the race and heat in 2:16. ": '''
 The first was duel between Mir. Geers. with Bessie Earl. and MT. Gal isoWay Iowa, with Lillie Pointer. the veteran  Curdy mare. and turning the trick in straight heats Mir. Teagues mare first heat. Bessie Earle having the the pole, pole, and the local mare getting off in half in 1.O7 and three quarters in IF Galloway had closed up now and tlie finish was a close one, the McCurdv mare winning in 2:1S flat.
 in Iae next ba1f neat 1t was vas slower quarter ters in 1:43 1-4. Bessie Earl winning this heat in 2:15 flat. the Teague mare hnishing second, pretty close up. ,o cscii1an G Maid Maid a bay mare belonging the three year old trot in straight heats in 2:26 1-4. 2:24, with Togo a bay Tennessee horse. second. and Ma }or pra ,siiiith smith Fred Fred s Wilkes mare from
 Lydia Curzon. a bay lilly beIoneinp to MT. Webb of Nashville. won the two year old pace in straight heats. 2:25 and 2:3o, with June a bay Ally belong ond, the youngsters behaving like vel erans.
 The running race concluded about as enjoyable an afternoons sport in the racing line as people of this section of the State ever saw
 The summaries were:
 First race. 2:30 pace, 2 in 8, purse