The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-08
DAYS OF JOGGING
/ FOR HARNESS FLYERS
Getting Down to Business on the
4 Track at the Fair
Grounds.

The training season at the race course
on the Minnesota state fair grounds is
now at it's height. A large number Of
horses are stabbed at the track and are
being worked daily. Altho the track
mer has seen rather more than usual
in training. About one hundred and
twenty-five have been at the grounds
during the earlier weeks of the sum-
smer,. and tho some have left to engage
northwest, there are still over one hun
dred horses in the stables.
The track is favorite with trainers
for many reasons. In the first place,
the weather conditions are usually all
that could be desired. There is good
Air,. good water, good stable accommo-
men, frst-class track, good outside
roads for exercise when the track is
heavy after heavy rains, and excellent
management.
There is a great deal of dispute among:
horsemen regarding the merits of va
but it is very generally agreed that
the minnesota state fair track is now
one of the fastest in the country: ].
II. Peepcr. ono of the veteran trainers
now at the fair grounds. makes this ar
gument: Thu Tho tack is conspicuous
for the records which have been made
by Individual horses which have not
been lowered elsewhere. For instance.
two --e:~e ago T"=t"ti" naccd 2:O5h in
e. the $4,000 race ct the state fair and has
never since coualed that mark. Last
fall The Rroncho paced three heats in
E. better than 2:O5, practically equaling
her previous record, and has not, since
come up to the same figure: Again, last
year Dan Patch, making his first start
Of the season on the Minnesota track,
Zoe ho ha6
before made on any other track on his
first start Certain it is that the track
Is wonderfully fast. When Dan made
the mile in 'l:57h last year, Driver
Hersev pronounced it the fastest in the
country.
One of the great horses at the track
in training this summer is Axtella
Wilkes, the 2:1O mare owned by W. II.
Fagley ofESt, Paul. She is in splendid
form and is expected to do as we'll as
2:06 this season. -
Another prominent horse is Presi-
dent, 2:0916, who is being trained in
Georg e Loomis' stable and who is en-
tered in the 2:10 trot at the state fair.
president made his record last season
IN q high-class race which he won at
S silvser, 2: @Gi owned by W. H: Nc.
Lean of Minneapolis. is one Of the
horses of which much is expected. Sill
ver is entered in some of the large
stakes in the grand circuit and in the
$4,000 2:2l trot Of Minneapolis day al
record of 2:l2 last fall and 2:15 al
ready this season, is looked upon as
likely to make a fine showing.
William Zimmerman g mare, Blacl
Lady, is a conspicuous St. Paul horse
in George R. Kibbe,s stable and train
a record of 2:l411a, made, three year.
r ago in the $4,000 race at the state fair
and has worked this year at 2:133
j. H. pepper has in training Bird L
the property of DR.. A. l.. Lindsay, O.
Minneapolis. Bird L was not raced las
be entered in the 2:l9 trot this yea1
She is a good horse and may max
some of the eastern trotters hustle.
Of course Adrian Haha:, 2:llh, owne
hand. He has been in the stud, an
will make his first start of the seaso
in the 400 pace on Monday, Sept. ::
the opening day of the state fair. H
is well -known horse in the nortl
west, and will give good M account at
has Patchenwood, 2:177h, in trainin
for the 2:15 trot at the state fair, {
well as other races during the seaso
Patchenwood is Choking fne' tn
summer. = +.
Another Minneapolis horse which hi
been at the grounds until recently
Peter McCoy's Billy Boggs, 2:l27
who is now in Dakota, and has alreae
won three races. He will come hon
in time for the $4,000 pace, and he h;
already gone mile in 2:17 on hal
mile track this season. He will be
formidable contestant in the big purs
Last year he went mile in 200 in II
great race, but as he was not a vim
did not get the record.
Sheriff Meason of st. Paul has ne
horse at the race course. This is Bal
in Iowa, where she won five races o
of six in which she started last yes
Baby will be entered in the q:
pace at the. fair. Another st. Pa
horse which will go after state ft
money is Fred .Schroeder's Harry '
lier in the season. but who is now wi
ming races in, North Dakota. Har
VS. record is 2;1415, and he will sta
in the 2:13 pace at the fair.
From far-away Denver has Just
s rived Frank Loomis * Nordica, a fl
& trotting mare, who was here two yes
ago and has a record of 2:23A. She
on Minneapolis day, and as she /
worked a mile in ZIP this season,
likely to be among the leaders, as +
race was won last year in heats av
aging about that time
track il Dr. B. a. Pomeroy's Char
Il Cotton, who. is being driven by Char
Ruley. Cotton was started in seve
a:is .ass Another 10th s Young horse Of e
promise Is Mr.. Kibbe s bay stalli
bir Boreal, who has already worl
miles under 2:26. and will be star