The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-24
WORLDS RECORD BROKEN
FOR BOSTON FUTURITY
Total Number of 243S Three
Year-0Id FiIIieS Have
Been Entered.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

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BOSTON. March pa new world S
record for entries to harness racing
stakes has been received for the $40. 600
Futurity OF the American Horse Breeders
of Boston. open 10 mares bred In 1906,
foals OF 1907 and to be raced as G-ycar-
olds in 1910. The list. which was closed
nations, exclusive of nearly scventy-five
which had to be rejected because they
were mailed after the day of closing
The largest number Of entries ever be-
fore received for Futurity was 1917, in
1900, for the Hartford Futurity. and the
record for the Kentucky Futu-ity is 1855
The Breeders Futurity. therefore, eX-
ceeds I'm number the best on record by
G2l, or an Increase OF more than 80 per
cent Other aspects OF the list are quite
as remarkable as the number OF entries.
There are 1917 nomiDatorS. and OF these
500 are nominators of only one mare.
This is moro than double the number Of
single nomindtoTs on record for any Fu
tulity and the nominations come from
every State In the country and all the
Provinces of Canada.
As naturally would be expected. Ken
tucky leads the list OF nominations with
f52. with New York good second with
i2l, Massachusetts, with 2S7 ranks third ;
Ohio comes next with151, Illinois is fifth
with li2 and Pennsylvania sixth with LIP.
The leading nominator is the Walnut
Hall farm OF Donerai Ky the famous
breeding establishment OF l.. d Har5
ness and thehome of the distinguished
Futurity sire Moko. This farm names
lo2 mares. The Empire City farm Of
iarm OF Pittshgld, Mass. a.; Hudson
River farm of Poughkeepsic. n. Y. 80,
and the Patchcn Wilkes Stock farm of
OF 10 or more mares arc King Hill Stock
farm. ST Joseph. Mo. %, Maple Lawn
farm, Delavan. H.. %; Claiborne farm of
Lexington. Ky Lomo Alto farm, Dallas.
Vile. Tex. 20 each; Riverside Park farm,
Berlin Wis. is: Herbert farm. Denver,
Colo, and STONY Ford farm. stony Ford.
n. Y. 10 each; Chiciiasia farm. Black
well. Okla; CruiCkSion Park farm. Gait.
Ont. and East View farm. East View
\. y. II each; Ewell farm. Spring Hill,
Tenn. and Naglc Adams, Hohokus,
N j., 10 each.
In the list of sires TO which mares were
bred there are no less than siNty-seven
with records of 30 or better and fifteen
stations represented arc. Dan Patch
PAGER. l:j5. Audubon Boy. paccr 50! :
Star Pointer, PAGER, l:59!: John r. Cen
Try. PAGER. 2:O0l; Joe Patchen. PAGER.
2:01i; Lucania. PAGER. 2;o2; Directly,
PAGER. 2:O8a Direct Hal PAGER, 2:oli;
John 4. Mckeron. trottcr. 20ils Ad-
miral Dewey. trotter, 2:0i2: Bingcn. lrot
ter. Rhythmic, lrotter ,2:oo63; Charley
Kerr. trotter. 2;0I, and kremlin 2:o7l
The list OF matrons made notable either
by their produce or their own perform
ances on the turf Is quite as remarkable
as any feature OF the list Among the
mares nominated are Lou Dillon. l.6St:
Nancy Hanks. 2:0i, an eX-champion and
herself a notable producer, being the dam
of Admiral Dewey. So 04f. and Lord Rob
erts. 2;O79, Lady Rivers, dam OF Sweet
Marie 2;02: Nettie King, 2 2ol. dam OF
tho one-tirne champion trott'ng gelding
The Abbot 203i, and The Abbe, 2;10l.
and Ethelwyn. dam Of Ecstatc, 2,o12