Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-14
CURRENT HARNESS
HORSE GOSSIP
CumberIand's Meeting Was a
Failure on Account of Bad
Weather.
By L. D. Sale.


what horsemen would call a bad actor
Bad actors are usually left at the post.
but the weather is above all ordinances and
Is law unto itself For upward of six
days OF the week it either rained. showed.
hailed or bowed great guns, while on
other days the temperature was altogether
too low to admit in come cases of fast
time Slow as the time was, however, in
some of the events. 1t was much too fast
for Washington horses engaged In winning
their winter oats. AS a matter OF TACT, the
only locally owned horse to win a race
for the past two weeks was Belle Hazel
at Cumberland. Saturday week, the event
being a fve-heat one and Big Four WIN
ming the first heat in 2.22, and the daughter
of Mouocacy winning the remaining three
in 22ll2 224 and 22219 j. j. O,keefes
Finch, IN the free-for-all pace or trot at
the same track and same day. was COM
PEELED to play second fiddle to the Boston
owned horse. Rey del Diabolo.
The Cumberland meeting was a failure
financially, on account of the bad weather
b. f. McCaully's work in the starters box
was feature of the meeting, and hlghiy
commended by press, horsemen and spec
taturs Mr.. McCaully now has the unique
distinction of holding commissions from
both the National and the American trot-
ting associations. He has had wide expert
ence with all kinds of horses and all kinds
of bitches and in addition possesses all
the necessary requisites for good starter
a quick eye honesty, fairness and mature
Judgment born of long experience.
*
The Hagerstown fair, which is annually
looked forward to as a week of sport and
relaxation by thousands Of people, and by
horsemen as about their last chance TO
get a crack at fairly large purses, brought
mighty small solace to horses owned in
this neck of the woods. The best that Dr.
Bell could do Tuesday, in the us pace
was . while Kushan in the 2.17 trot on
Wednesday stands in the summaries 3
3 8. the Wheeling. w. Va, stallion, Black
Patchin, being the candy. The time made
in the four heats-2.19A 220A, 2.1sA and
o 1714-WaS well within the compass or
Kushans power were 1t not for the fact
that he has been training off and growing
stale ever since his race at Greensburg, Pa.
At that his owner. r. F. Hall, has very
little to complain of, as the stallion has won
eight races out of ten starts, has more
than paid for himself, and deposited be-
sides quite a handsome account to his
owners credit in the bank. All in all,
he is the best all around race horse. trotter
or PAGER the District of Columbia has ever
sent down the haIf-mile track line. and
ought be even better next season than he
was this as he is bred right, gated right,
has the speed and the necessary endur-
ance and gameness to go his miles.
AS if Kushan's failure in the us trot
to cash first money was not enough to
give his owner the high strikes, Frank B.
Crovo's Riley A. in the DO pace. must
need resort TO his old tricks by not trying
and was shut out. Mr.. Grove is a young
business man. who deserves better luck
than he has thus Tar received from his new
purchase. Mr.. Grove is Italian, and the
only one of his race, slve one. who dab bibles
in race horse blood in the District
**
At the Virginia state fair at Richmond,
Va, Wednesday, Washington Majors
Reed Rock went down to defeat again in
the go pace after winning the first heat
in 2.21A. while Henry Copperthte's Ada D.,
in the 90 pace the day previous, Tuesday,
could do no better than second. Thursday
at Richmond Javin Brothers Bedworth, jr.,
won one heat in the free-for-all in 2.1s first
heaU, and then finished third, fourth,
fourth. Washington horse owners got it
again Thursday where Mary wore the
beads, as Javin Brothers Bedford Boy in
the 2.l2 pace at Hagerstown finished out
side the money; also their latest purchase,
Bell Hazel, in the 2.20 pace. Charles C.
Waters of Germantown started his young
stallion Kinslee in the 2.20 trot on the
same day, same track, and got third money.
The time in all the heats trotted and
pace dat Hagerstown on Thursday was
fast, and the horses engaged in many of
the several events were in the main half
mile track topnotchers. AS the same horses
that performed at Hagerstown will doubt
less appear at Frederick next week, and at
the Gentlemen's Driving Park. Baltimore
later on, owners of Washington horses In
the several events at those towns now
know what they have a right to expect
Finch won the 2.15 pace at Hagerstown
Thursday in straight heats.
*
There is promise of good sport at Leonard
town, October II and IS, the several events
being well filled. The entries are: In the
colt race Stanislaus Mattingly enters Happy
Jack and ]. T. Mattingly Happy May.
Three-minute class, ]. T Mattingly names
Russell c.: Spencer Knott Clyde, and
Charles T. POsey. Frank. In the $50 class
w V. Waters names Louise Hal; r. E.
Beale. jr Billy D., or Belle F.; l.. T. Brown
of Washington, Genevieve; Charles Chick
of Washington, Nan Patterson. and G. b.
Greenwich of ST. Mary's, Lady Russell The
free-for-an trot or pace comprises Lewis
Valandinghams Friday. ]. W. Byrne's Ju-
rash. ]. T. Mattingly's Callos and ]. V. Nc
kay's Garrison NJ. On the second day, Oc-