Evening journal., 1907-11-11
SPORTING.
MANY FAST ONES
ON LOCAL TRACK
Majority Of Horses Have Been
Below the 2.20 Mark
THIS Season

As a pOSt-inal TO tllt mdunee races
held during the past season at Horse
show Association Park, ana which
came to a close on November 2, free
for-all event best three heats in five,
was trotted on Saturday afternoon. A
number of local horse owners gather
ed to witness the wind up Of the
speed trials
There were but two horses entered
in the race. Wesley. Jr, and Essex
Maid. the former taking the event
in straight heats. The result was as
follows
Mr. Harimans, b. g. Wesley, Jr.
H. r. Walace's, b. M. Essex Maid,
Time, 2.3O. 2.27, 2.25 IA.
The judges and timers were Mat
thew Hayden and Charles Donovan
The last heat was well contested. Wes-
ley Jr. nosing under the wire ahead
of Essex Maid. In the first half of
the final round the bay belding stepped
the track in III 1-2. The course was
heavy owing to the recent rains and
the pole horse had to travel we'll out
TO avoid the mud.
Today the work of ploughing up the
track viii begin and over it VIII he
spread 1000 loads of manure which will
be allowed TO remain until next spring.
During the winter months extensive
repairs will be made ac the park. and
before the racing season begins next
year the track will be put IN FIRST class
shape The turns, especially the first
one after leaving the wire and which
has proved a bad footing place for
some Of the horses, will be thrown up.
Since The opening of the matinee
season there has been some Cast horses
stabbed at the track and horsemen from
other cities agree with local horsemen
that in point of speed exhibited, the
matinee races held under the auspices
of the Horse Show Association have
excelled by far any races Of th!s sort
held anywhere in the country. During
the season many fast horses have been
seen upon the tack and not a few
matinee records have been made
The following is a partial list of the
horses that have participated i'm the
races since the beginning Of the season;
Expedition. Jr, 2.21; Jim Bayard,
2.1S IA; Donnore, PA Ia; Mary Lee,
217; Lady May 2.15 IA; Elector,
I217 Ia; Dickmont. 2.21 IA; Jack
Gilman. 215 IA: Dcnra rIal. 21T 3-d.
Essex Maid, 2.13 Ia; Wasley. Jr, 2 a5;
Little Lady. PIG 10 (BelmonD; Flor
ence Stanton, 217
Several Of the horses that have
raced at tho matinets have also been
seen on other tracks in purse races
and have been paying investments to
their owners. Ten times during the sea-
son Mr.. RIcKee's Lady May has been in
the money on various tracks. A. IT.
Tvsons Elector, has started i'm thirty
three races over half mile tracks in
the past two years and has been a
money winner in thirty-one of them.
Mr. Tyson's Dickmont 2.2l I A. which
has been qualtered at the Associations
STABLES. recently has won every race
ne started in this season including three
stakes races Jack Gilman, owned by
Mr. Mckee has done work IN fourteen
I races outside of matineeing Bnd in
every race has been a money producer.
: At a matinee rorse. Mr.. Mahaf'y's
I brown mare Donna Hal which he pur-
! chased after the season was we'll under
way, has proved 10 be one of the best
on tht local track The marc entered
the matiaees and wrested from Jack
; lGillman the championship pacing emp
going the mile in 2.1S IA, and thereby
lowering the previous record held by
the black geldlng Of 2.2O II.
Donna Hal in a workout heat went
the mile in 216 without hoppes She
lstepped the last half in l.07 IA. the
last quarter in 53 seconds am the last
eighth i'm Is seconds. The mare is he
4 voungcsr horse that has -ver wan The
championship cup on the local track
! She is a four year-old and is by HAL
Brown by Brown Hal. sire Of Star
81 Pointer 1.59 10 Hal Braden, 2O7 ID
and eighty other fast ones. Mr. Ma
lhaIy will road the mare during the
winter