The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-02

man but a man of wealth who finds
his greatest pleasure sitting behind
her In a race. She is the very apple
of his eye, and no offer that could be
made would tempt him to part with
her. She became his property as
weanlng and. like Goldsmith Maid,
was a handful" to break and educate.
Devereaux worked long while to es-
tablish her gait and get her properly
rugged and balanced. and finally took
her to the races when she was S years
old that being in 1895.
! She made four starts that season
and flew at high game-the green
classes on the Grand Circuit-from the
first. In two of these races she was
unplaced and in two she was third.
She did not win a heat, but showed
that she could trot right at 2:15. She
had as much or more speed than any,
thing She met. but was not yet man
ageable enough to allow full use being
made of 1t.
But by the next year she was almost
perfect racing tool, and the longer
she raced the better she got. She
| started fourteen times, beginning on
the half-mile tracks and gradually
working her way up the Grand Cir
cult. won ten times. was once third
and three times unplaced. her cam
paign taking her as far east as Maine
and as far west as Illinois. Her most
! notable performances were at the
Grand Circuit meeting in New York
| city at the famous old Fleetwood
| track--long since cut up into build
ing lots. Here, within four days, she
! won two $4,000 stake events. The first.
for the 2:30 class. she captured in
straight heats, best time 2:132i, beat
! ing ten opponents. This was on Tues
/ day.
| On Friday she came out again in
! the 300 class. There she had to meet,
! among others. the bay gelding Page,
one of the sensations of the season,
: with a record of 2:O9%. He broke in
! the first heat and she won it in 2:15A,
-. In the second he beat her in 2:13 IA.
In the third the finish was close, but
practically everybody saw Van Zandt's
nose first-time, a:14.
The judges deliberated a long time
and then decided to give the heat to
Page, which had been made a heavy
favorite by the talent" But the start
er refused to make such an announce
ment. Then the officials reconsidered
and announced dead heat. They
Kissed. yelled and hooted. but hur-
rahed soon after, for Van Zandt made
Il show of Page the next two heats in
2:12, 2:161-2.
1t was, by the by, such incidents as
that connected with this race which
assisted in killing harness racing in
New York.
Her fourth heat at Fleetwood, in
2:12, was Van Zandt's best record that
year and it remained her best for eight
years more. During this period there
was a season or so she was not seen
In public, but in all the others she was.
However, she had become regarded as
hopeless back number" until in
the fall of 1902 she showed up at Lex
ington and Memphis and demonstrated
herself better and faster than ever be-
fore by trotting close third to Fere-
no in 2:0S and close second to Chase
in 2:09 Ia.
! Much wonder was expressed by the
horsemen at her regeneration, but still
no one was inclined to take it Sc
riously. In 1903 she was back in the
Grand Circuit and raced six times.
She did not even win heat, but she
was almost always lin the money!"
and time and again she beat 2:1O, but
got no credit for it.
In 1904 she was started at Lexing-
ton and Memphis only. At the former
place she was not in good form, but
at the latter she won both her races.
The first was a mile dash, in which
her time was 2:09 1-2; the second a
two-in-three race, in which her time
was 2:101-2, 300 IA. At this time
her performance was mentioned in
this column as constituting a unique
worlds record-never before had a a.
year-old trotter entered the 2:1O list.
Her owner concluded that Van Zandt
had done enough then, so last year
he retired her-permanently, he sup
posed-and bred her, but she did not
get with foal. So this year, at 16, he
again placed her in training and she
proved better and faster than ever.
She raced all along the Grand Cir
cult. from Buffalo on, against its crack
horses-such as Orc (2:O5 LAY, Lady
Gail Hamilton (2:06 LAY, w. J. Lewis
(2:06 Ia, Golddust Maid (2:O7 1-4),
etc.-and in every race but one she
was a sharp factor and lin the money"
She was Tapped on Golddust Maid In
2:07 ga, at Readville; was separately
timed in 2:08 Ia and 2:08 in the sem
sational race won by w. J. Lewis at
Columbus, and was twice second in
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