The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-04

morse comes out and instead Of gOin
back to his performances he reel
on miles and half miles on good track
and bad In a manner that Is little shor
Of marvellous.
His best performance of the yea
was his remarkable mile at the Ham
line track, where he ate up the distanc,
TN 1855. While he had paced severa
record breaking miles before the Ham
line meeting, he seemd to grow better
after the setting. of this latter mark
and there were few tracks that he pac
ed on in the north chat he did no.
shatter their records. Now his efforts
are confined to the south. where. des.
pite rain and poor tracks, he continues
to startle the southern gentry in the
same reckless manner that he did In
the north. His first stunt was to pace
a mile over slow half mile track
at Fort Worth Tex. in 2:02h. This
was truly wonderful mile, and the
mark will probably stand for years
to come as the fastest ever paced in
Texas unless he breaks it himself. His
next performance Of note was at Bir-
mingham. Ala. where he paced mile
In 1884 on track which was like
a sponge from the constant rainfall.
This mile was one of the best he ever
paced when all the conditions are con-
sidered. His owner viii take the Won
derful stallion all over the south, and
many more astonishing records will
k6o {c t..
winter quarters.
Alcantra's Death Deplored.
The recent death of the great sire
Alcantra. 1928 at Loveland. Ohio, re-
moves one Of the grandest horses in
the harness horse world. Aleantra
was great race horse, great sire,
and founder of a family that is breed
Ing on and on, his daughters having
produced some Of our greatest race
horses, while his sons are string
equally as fast and game race horses.
Alcantra was foaled in the year 1876
and was at the time of his death over
thirty years old, remarkable age. He
left over eight hundred direct des-
cendants with standard records of
1854 to $3.50, another remarkable
fact. AS race horse he started but
six times. but lowered the worlds
record for a four-year-old stallion
trotter and was considered one Of the
most promising trotters that wore
harness. However, he went lame. was
sold for $4,000 and began his studd
career, which made him one of the
greatest progenitors the light harness
turf has ever known. In 1889 Alcantra
was sold for the immense sum of$75,-
900, but falling into hands which did
not advertise him, went through sew
eral sales to finally become the prop
erty of E. w. Conant six years ago, for
$500, and at Loveland he has spent his
declining years. AS a sire Alcantra
ranks sixth greatest, 1853 of his sons
and daughters having secured standard
records. His fastest was the pacing
stallion Sir Alcantra, 2:05A, undoubt-
eddy close to two minute racer with
professional training and good care.
Many New s:13 Trotters.
The list of new 2:10 trotters is a
long one, and it now stands at thirty,
and may reach beyond that figure when
the reports from the southern MEETINGS
are given out.
Six stations trotted in 2:10 or better
this year as follows: Lord Roberts,
2:07A; Guy Axworthy, a., 2:0SX;
Alton. 2:osA; solan Grattan, 2:O91k;
Coronado, 2:0sN; and Gulgalle's
Directum, az, 2:09%, and as whole
they are all fine types OF the great
American troter.
There is no doubt Of the fact, the
trotter Is going forward, and breeding
on, and increasing in numbers as the
years go by.
Remarkable as the statement may
seem, it Is a fact that the trotter is
gradually increasing in numbers. At
first glance this may seem unreason-
able. but am willing to 60 on record
with the prediction that the next year
book will SHOW that more trotters than
PAGERS took part in races during 1906.
AS straw showing this increase in
the trotters, 1t has been noted that lat
trotters took part in the races ut the
Lexington races on the program, and
fourteen pacing races, but eliminating
four of the trotting races It still shows
larger number of trotters than
PAGERS.
Injured by Bad Handling.
Good horses are sometimes per-
manently disabled by the action of the
careless or "tco wise" grooms. During
the Lexington meeting the great trottei
Ashland Dorf, 2:14A, was almost kill.
ed by the actions OF drunken "swipe g
Yves Tout, his trainer, had left the
! groom with instructions to jog him
for exercise, but the "swipe" filled up
on bad whiskey and after Jogging the
horse for while went temporarily
insane and drove the hose for miles az
hard as he could trot. Finally horse.
men stretched rope across the track
and stopped the pair, the only means
OF doing 1t. 1t was found that the
trotter was so badly abused that hi
would be unable to race again thi.
year. Ashland Dorf Is one of the bes
trotters before the public now, al
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