New-York tribune., 1906-10-15
TROTTlNG AND PACING.
Lexington Meeting Big Success in
Spite of Bad Weather.

In spite of the worst weather experienced In
years the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the
Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association,
which came to end at Lexington last week.
was conducted without loss TO the management.
The original programme provided for ten
days of racing. beginning October and ending
October IL. RAIN however. postponed the OPEN
ing of the meeting to October 8. and allowed Of
only three days of racing in the first week This
piled up tremendous programme for the Sec
ond week, but by racing every day the entire
card was run off with the exception of the 2:20
class trot. which declared off on account of
scratches.
In all. thirty-two races were decided in nine
days OF racing AS many of the events were on
the antiquated three in five heat plan. 11s heats
were trotted and paced this year at Lexington.
There were eighteen races for trotters and four
teen for PAGERS
The feature of the meeting, the classic Tran
sylvania, for 2:12 class trotters. purse, $4,000.
was won by Nut Boy, the of Nut Pine in
three straight heats. The race WAS trotted i'm
the mud and rain. and was too one-sided to be
interesting. Emboy was second and Mack Mack
thlrd. McHenry drove the winner Finishing
Dehlnd Nut Boy such good horses as FL
-n'asFo Allie Jay, The Phantom. Monrone and
Brilliant Girl
ions hst OF Grand Circuit victories which in
cluded the $4,000 Lafayette Hotel Pursa for o.1s
ri@SS trotters at Buffalo. the 2:15 class trot at
Foughkeepsie. the $4,000 Massachusetts p,,rsa
tor z'44 class trotters at ReadviIle the s1o OOo
rter oak Stake. for 2:O9 class trotters a+
la C1oru' the 2;OS class trot at Syracuse and
$OOoV ONO purse, for PIP class trotters ar
thn cred c1i rut Boy 1t will be remembered led
S Hldhu circuit money winners this wear
Nut Boy is the fourth horse that has ever vor
poon peon IIe Charter Oak and the Transylvania In
Nolan ~ eo'd won both races, in 1898 John
IIoldh was a double winner and in 1900 0rd
vincent captured both prizes ~ A"
vania ,nto 70 Nut Boys victory in the TransyI-
SshIa, interest was aroused by the eventfu1 wiz
OF OF John E. Madden's fleet three-vearoId cnIt "iI,
F,it;;t uy Moko dam Silicon, in the Kentucky
ssIu'udity Tor three-year-od trotters mrs
of the meeting 0ii 'iIe HrsC uay
beata sllkG, o. with Mccarthy up. won the first two
ttTdt winner. In the third heat however The
ADpe. driven by White, crashed into SiIito;s
tbroyis ns me, ti1e neld was rounding the first turn
I35IioWlhg both horses and drivers to the ground
by miracle neither Siliko nor The Abba was
hurI I put Mccarthy was badly cut up. The Iat
t6 tGf 'Guged % claim of foul against The Able and
ti ti!e Juuges disqualified the son of Chimes-Net-
le King which had finished second to SiIito in
eacn OF the hrst two heats McHenry was pur
race handily. 80 meat o'iu
In the course of the long meeting Nut Boy,
Lacey Iau Raro1 napa; OF the trotters, and Ruby
the side wheelers. won two races each
kentucky Todd, a black colt by Todd dam
Paronella, won the two-year-old division Of the
kentucky Futurity, trotting. purse $1,000
The full list of winners at the Lexington neet
ing is as follows: ~
Trotters-Sili&o. Kentucky Todd, Norman B..
Belle Isle. Nut Boy, 2; Budd. 2; Lillian R., DR.
Frasse, w j. Lewis. Talpa. 2: Turley Lucille
MARROW Exton. Van Zandt and The Able
Pacers-Ecstatic Lady May, Captain Derby.
Brenda Yorke. Ruby Lacey 2: Baron Grattan,
= Vesta Boy 2; Eloise. Phalla. 2 and By
stander.