Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-29
THOUSANDS
SEE HORSES
LOWER MARK
DRIVING CLUB MATINEE is A
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
TWO COAST RECORDS TO WAGON
ARE BROKEN
Miss Georgia PAGES Mile in 2:1o, and
BeIamont Betters Performance
by Trotting in Same
Time

Taking advantage of the ideal weather,
an excellent program of light harness
events. and free gate. more than ten
thousand persons visited Agricultural
mark to witness the matinee given by
the Los Angeles Driving club yesterday
afternoon. In addition to the unusually
attractive card arranged by Secretary
Stewart a parade of turnouts previous
10 the first race proved a magnet of no
small drawing power, and both STANDS
and the infield were crowded to the
limit.
What proved to be the real features OF
the afternoon were the races run py W..
A. Clark, jrs., Miss Georgia and BEL
mont. owned and driven by Robert Smith,
both against time. Mr.. Clark drove ms
mare a mile to wagon in 2.1O, which proke
the coast record set at Ella py WeiSoe
Mac and had not the first halI oeeh
-,a@ratiated at too fast a pace, it is pos
sihie that the PAGER might nave peaten
her own by second or more.
u,be trotting part of the race against
+,,a watch also resulted in a shattered
mark for Belamont stepped the lhlle
with the wagon behind her IN z'lu' ioMel-
ing Red Lights record by An secollus sl'1
the mares performance was WonoeItu.
for her exhibition was as Iast as .li+Le side
MT up by the speedier gated siue
wheeler. zo,o,, What
was TO have been the race de luxe OF tne
dav. the free for all pace, was calleu on
and the exhibition events substitutes.
since they both turned out new coas.
records to wagon in both the trottlng anu
pacing divisions every one was pieaoeu,
narticularly the owners of the cieNer
animals and Secretary Stewart
Many in Line
rrha narade feature of the afternoon
was an event in itself, and the owners
Of fashionable rigs and natty turlou.s I''
showed more enthusiasm than is usuahy
the case in responding TO the lilVlle tioils s
cent them. Fully $50 horses some oi
+ha,,, in fours. others under saddle, stiil
othars in tandem, and teams and single
,.,s,s hv the score with a few Percheror
and Norman stations stepped arouiiu the
4rsol- and had not an unfortunate oc-
o,,rrance marred it the parade wouio
have been perfect.
The incident occurred near tne leau
of the stretch, when Kitty Wink. the vet
eran and clever polo pony owned py
George L. Waring of Santa Monica,
dropped over for her long sleep heart
disease was the attributed reason for
her sudden death, and the parade was
eliphtly broken up until the line coulu DC
reformed. ,..o
Tn addition to the display of morse
flesh and trappings, which took up the
opening hours of the sunny alteriiooii'
four races were down for discussion anu,
with the two events against time, Kept
+ha crowd at the park until the day was
1,aI1 advanced The fields in the races
were we'll matched, and stirring hnlshes
marked the day as the best ever expert
enced in the history of local driving clup
matinees.
After the parade, the first event TO De
decided was the one mile dash for mixed
e,aits in the three minute division.
Charles Chick. with his bay gelding To-
basco, took first honors from Perry b.
loves mare Maxine, with Nonnie, Is.
d. Mooreheads mare, third; time 2:3l.
The ,'money" horses were all driven by
their owners in capable fashion.
1t looked as though Bernie Wilkes,
owned and driven by Louie Denker,
might win the second number on the bill,
the 2:30 pace, for she took the first heat
from Snowdens Tom Hays and Isabel,
owned by Perry B. Lowe, in 2:23lR That
was all Bernie Wilkes drew, however,
for the next heat was captured by Harry
Messmore and his handsome black mare
ZOlatta, in 2:23. This heat was followed
with another for the black, giving her
the event, with Tom Hays second and
Irish third.
Ida Millerton took two out of three
heats in the third race, the 2:l5 trot, and
was forced to her best gait to do it.
Owner Henderson was not driving for the
day, and e. j. Delorey handled the rib
bons over the fast mare.
Easv for Ida
The first heat was all Ida Millerton's S,
and she trotted under the wire ahead of
General Doodle, owned by Godfrey Fritz
and driven by 3. r. Moorehead, and
Hazel ktnrey, belonging to j. H.
Reynolds, who handles his own horse.
The race was negotiated in 2:151a.
Hazel Kinney came TO life in the sec
ond, and reached the finish ahead of Mil
lerton, with General Doodle third, in the
fastest heat of the race. The time, 2:14,
was fast enough for any of them, and
the crowd was liberal in its applause for
the winner.
After Glory had won the first heat
of the free for all trot, George Deckers
came along with his Helen Dare and beat
Glory had bad time of it in the second
installment and Regalo was urged into
second place, but in the last heat the
Founder crack was going with Helen
Dare and making the latter step for all
she was worth. The first heat was made
in 2:151s, the second in 2:121R, and the
last in 2:13, all exceptionally fast for
matinee performers.