New-York tribune., 1906-08-06
TIRE GRAND CIRCUIT
ReUies0 of CleUeland Meeting-A
Buffalo This Week.

The second meeting of the Grand Circuit win
begin to-day over the Kenilworth Park track
at Buffalo. under the auspices of the Buffalo
Driving Club There will be the usual five days
of racing, with Saturday left open in case rain
makes postponement necessary.
A first class programme Of events is down for
decision at Buffalo. The feature is the $4,000
Empire State Stake. for 2:1O class trotters.
which will be raced on Thursday. together with
the Iroquois Hotel Stake of $1,000 for PIG class
PAGERS. the 2:21 trot and the 2:17 pace
The programme to-day has as its feature the
Queen City Stake of $1,000 for 2:o7 class trot-
ters; the 2:13 class trot purse $500, and the
2.06 class pace, purse S15O0 Tomorrow the
2:O4 pace. purse $1,000; the PIG trot. purse ST.
600, and the three-year-old trot and pace are
carded
For Wednesday the attraction is the Dominion
OF Canada Stake of $4,000. for POS class PAGERS,
which is reinforced by the free-for-aH trot
purse S1.500; the 2:21 class pace and the 2.09
class trOt, The card for Friday. getaway day.
shows the 217 trot. the 210 pace and the 2:13
pace.
Buffalo, like Cleveland, will stick to the short
race plan, and all races will end with the third
heat unless two or more horses are tied for first
place. In such event fourth heat will be
raced by the tied horses only to decide the WIN
ner. In each race the purse will be split into
three equal parts, and each part divided among
the first three horses in each heat. From Buff
falO the Grand Circuit will move to Pough-
keepsie for the week of August 13 TO II.
Two things were proved by the Cleveland
meeting last week The first is that a light
harness meet can be run off successfully with
out bookmaking and poolselling at the track.
The second is that the short race plan pleases
both the public and the horsemen. Though
there was no betting at the Cleveland meeting,
the attendance was large, and the three heat plan
made it possible TO run Off four races a day and
still allow the spectators to get home TO dinner.
quite an innovation at Grand Circuit meeting
The features of the meeting were the victory
of Ann Direct in the Merchants and Manufact-
urers Stake of $4,000 for 224 class trotters; Ar
delle's win OF the $1,000 Chamber of Commerce
Stake for 2:24 class PAGERS, Sweet Marie's easy
defeat OF Snyder McGregor and Wentworth IN
the free-fOr-all trOt and the breaking OF three
worlds pacing records by The BrOnchO IN the
ee-fOr-an pace. c. X G. Billings also estab-
day of the meeting, when he drove the PAGER
Morning Star (2:O4&i) a half mile to wagon in
591s seconds and stepped Major Demar the
worlds champion trOtting gelding, half mile
to wagon in one minute fiat.
Ann Direct. which the Merchants and
Manufacturers Stake. is a black mare by Direct
and is owned by James Butler of this city Mr.
Butler bred the mare. Arlelle C2:05A( the win
ner Of the Chamber OF Commerce Stake is a
hVe-year-Old brown mare, by ]. H L. and is
owned by Frank G. Jones. of Memphis. The
Broncho, which won the free-for-al pace in the
worlds record times of 2:O3. 203h. and 2:O29,,
is bay mare by Stormcliffe and Is the
property of Rochon & Doble, of Winnipeg
Manitoba The Broncho in this one race set new
worlds records for three consecutive heats for
pacing mares in race and for the fastest third
heat ever paced in a race
The winners at the Cleveland meeting were as
TrOtters-Ann Direct. Mainsteet, Morone. Lake
Queen, Gay Bingen, Imperial AHerton. Brilliant
Girl Sweet Marie. Gold Dust Maid and Czarina
Dawson.
Pacers-Hal c.. Rudy Kip. Ardelle. Bolivar.
AlIatar 4.Hi9Ir Billy Cole. Kelly, The Broncho and