The Washington herald., 1907-10-06


present trotting-horse season to local
turfmen, although each week on various
tracks there have occurred many unusual
performances, has been the large number
OF horses that have been familiar figures
On half-mile tracks IN this section of
country that have been taken TO the
Grand Circuit this year and have been
making good among the best horses in
the world
There are at least a dozen Of these
horses, several Of them Maryland or
Virginia bred, and al of them were ed
ucated. and took their first records on
the half-miIe- rings Of those two States.
and nearly all of them have been raced
III Washington Among this lot is the now
famous black M re, LoJta. known on the
Maryland and Virginia circuit as Lady
Thistle This mare was owned, trained.
and raced in Virginia for three years
previous to her purchase at Baltimore
last spring by Lotta Crabtree after she
had taken a record of 2:15 Ii at the
Gentlemen's Driving Park
The mares name was then changed to
Lotta. which was Miss Crabtree's stage
name and sent 20 the Grand Circuit. She
Won the first race she started in at
Detroit, beating six very high-class trot-
tiers. ana reducing her record 10 2:I Il
She went down the big ring line. wind
ing up at Columbus with but two de-
feats and a mark of 2.0S II, she. with
Sonoma GIL, being the oats winners for
the Crabtree string. Princine. by Sidney
Prince. IS another Virginia product. She
was bought by AIiss Crabtree about the
middle of last year at meeting at BaItl-
more after she had taken mark OF
2:l5 II PTincine has not done on the
Grand Circuit this year what she was eX-
pected 10 do. but she has not been right
since She was seen at BrightwoOd last
May. She has, however. reduced her rec
ord 20 2-l0 Ia, and is regarded as a prom
ising prospect for high honoTs next
season
But the horse that got all Of his early
racing lessons on the two-lap rings in the
vicinity. and that has gained honors and
fame never before won by a horse taken
out OF this section of country is the now
celebrated stallion. Wilkes Heart. by
Great Heart Wilkes Heart did his last
racing in these parts last fail He was
then eligible to classes slower than 2.20.
On the Grand Circuit he has been one
ct the fastest. gamest, and most con-
sistent rTotterS seen this year He stands
third as "a money winner for the year
with IZgs0, and record of 2:07 IA to his
credit S0noma Girl, with 800 S25, and
HlghbaI, Sl9o5J earnings; are the only
horses that lead Wilkes Heart.
There are many other horses that have
made fast records on the Grand Circuit
this year and earned a lot Of money
lowers. Among these are Emboy. who
has taken q trottinE mark Of 2.0H.
BcricO. trotter. 2.c9A, Geutecl H., trot-
ter. and q dozen or more PAGERS Among
the latter is Citation, that barely slipped
away from being bought by a Washing
ton man last spring, that went TO Co
lumbus with a mark OF 2.06 and came
away with one Of 2;c3l.; Angus Pointer
who reduced his mark at the same place
from 2.o2a4 90 20Il4; Jennie W. who
took q record Of 2.0rz I'm the Columbus
Board of Trade Stake for 2.O7 PAGERS
Eph Cinders, that averaged 2.07I for
three heats In the oil pace at Columbus:
Flying Jim. a horse that lost a busheI
OF money for his hackers when FIynch, /
then owned by J. J. O'Kccfe. of this /
city, beat him at Baltimore last fall, took
record of 2.0S4 I'm a fve-heat race he |
won ct Columbus: Judex, who has an
nexed mark of 2:o6la Gentrys Star. /
Rey Del Diablo. Miss Peeler. Black Dart. |
Red Bow, kingmaTe, Electric Storm. and /
Billy Cole
The showing the horses have made /
among the most select equine society OF /
the world is more than gratifying to /
home race-goers. for il pretty clearly 4
demonstrates that there is not only much /
OF the very best racing blood of the /
country concentrated in this section but /
that we also have the training and driv- /
ing talent 20 develop its product and 4
get valuable results from it.
The harness horse racingt season now /
about 70 close has been the most remark
able and interesting one IN the history Of /
this OF ans other country. On the larger 4
rings enthusiasm was started when High
ball. al LibertyviIle, H., last July. de-
feated Sonoma Girl The mare and
gelding were both without records Tt
was, however, known that both were
very fast. But no one expected the phe-
nomenal performance that resulted I'm
their meeting, HishbalI taking a trotting
mark Of 2.06h. The gelding was then re-
garded as almost invinclble but this i'm
preston, so well founded, did not last
long, for the following week. at the same
place Sonoma Girl defeated HighbaI and
eQualed his record Of 2:O6lz. and since that
has reduced her mark 20 2:05l4
There are a number Of trOtters that
have gone faster miles than either High 4
bail or SOnOma Girl But the world has
never before produced two trotters that
started green and wound Up their first
racing season with such records as this
wonderful mare and gelding now carry.
And many good judges OF speed EXPRESS
the opinion that Sonoma Girl and High
bail are both capable Of lowering their
present records. and that when the pair
meet in the race for the TransyIvanla /
Stake at Lexington. next Thursday. the
horse that wins viii have 70 step along
IN 2.05 or better.
E. F. Hall. the weIl-known East Wash
ington merchant Is 70 the front again
this year with a trio Of very promising
mares-Gallant Maid and Caricita, trot-
ters and Manola, PAGER. L0nnle Corbin
now has the bunch down in Virginia. AT
Timonicum, recently, he came second
with Gallant Maid in one race, and then
won another one, reducing the Maids rec
ord from 2:27i4 to 2:214 At the same I
place he won pace for green ones with
Manola, giving her "a record of 2:23 and
at Lynchburg, last week, he won again
with the same mare, giving her a mark Of
2I9H. He finished third with Carlcita in ;
the 2;I trot. Manola is a bay mare not ;
yet four years old, and had been trained ,
less than sixty days when taken to the :
races. She is handsome. Eood-mannered =
miss, her only paTaphernalia other than :
harness being light quarter boots. She :