The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-25
SPEED In LIGHT HARNESS
GREAT SEASON FOR EARLY SPEED
on THE TROTTENG CIRCUITS.


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q Farm Team. N Sensational PAGERS
Records by Young TrOtters &C Lex-
ngtOn-Stakes for FOur-YsarIOlds.
Light harness horses have done with
their racing, except the few to be speeded
in sharp shoes on the ice or in Speedway
brushes, until the call resounds for the
season Of 1908. The grand circuit races
and the aftermath to close the season at
Lexington we're remarkable for the num-
Der OF speedy three n two-year-olds and
the accession Of so many green ones to the
2lO list. There were thirty-two trotters
and e~ighty-fOur PAGERS added to this list,
which is unprecedented for the side
wheelers, while the total Of square steppers
to pass the division line has only been ex-
ceeded in one year. The youngsters have
trotted nearly rs fast al the older horses.
and the breeders have renewed confidence
in the hope hat early speed may be bred
as surely in the light harness horse as in the
thoroughbred.
Fantasy's world record for three-year-
Odds Of 2OsH. made in 1893. was cut two
seconds by General Watts and equalled by
Kentucky Todd. Both are TO be in retire
ment next season. for there are no rich
purses for four-year-olds and in the class
races they would be up against older horses.
As fve-year-olds the two will again be in.
line. but as a climax to the efforts TO bring
out the speed in two and three-year-Olds
10 seems illogical hat stakes are not ar
ranged OF such value that il would pay bet
ter TO race four-year-old colts than to send
them TO the stud. To send a sound three
year-old champion into retirement would
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At Lexington Trampfast gained the two
year-OId race record Of 2:l2k and Helen
Hale the similar record for Allies Of 2:l3%.
Flyers also in the twO-year-old trotters were
Dorothy AxwOrthy, 2:15Lz. the n to force
Trampfast to his worlds record; BinvOlo.
PISA; The Leading Lady, 2:lSH; Orc Lam
bert, 2l7s., and Thistledown. Eleven two
year-olds trotted better han 2;SO at Lex
ington. The class OF the three-year-olds
was also shownby Bisa. who rushed General
Watts in HIS record race and was separately
timed in 200 and 2.O9H; Belle Bird, 2:llH;
Miss Densmore, 2:i2%: Bonnie Way, that
beat 2:I2 in her races, and Douglass. 212H.
who showed a mile in 2:OS before going lame.
rhythmic Bel. owned by NJ. W. Potter OF
Manhattan, took "A mark OF PISA in the win
ming match with The Native al Pough.
keepsie. The woods were never so full of
feet young ~trotters. TIT many rich prizes
for them will bring out another fast crop
OF two-year-olds next season and those
now Of that age are expected to keep their
speed in the ~three-year-old stakes. Ken
lucky Todd won the two-year-Old Kentucky
Futurity in 2:l4z and this season trotted
in 2:O8Z, 80 that ~Trampfast, with 2:12A for
the same race may be wen faster as a three
year-old than Kentucky Todd or even
General Watts. Such a contamination would
rivet the arguments OF the breeders on the
stability OF their systems Of early speed.
Al Thomas lowered ALainsheet's record
to 2.O5 and the horse for the second season
retires as the champion trottinR stallion
of the year. his mark last fall being 2O5I+.
The only trOtting stations that have beaten
his record were Cresceus. 2O2L. John A.
McMerron, 2.O4l3, and Admiral Dewey,
2:O4H. In the first trial to beat his record
at Lexington, a few days before the mile
in POS, Mainsheet went to the three-quarteT
pole in 1921. A rate OF thirty seconds for
the last quarter would have given 2:O2l3.
but Mainsheet on the next eighth caught
a hind foot in IN OF his quarter boots.
the accident forcing a pullup. Mainsheet
caused Thomas's disqualification in 1905
at Syracuse, but the stallion may make
amends by a worlds record next year.
Codero. 2O9Z, was the fastest four-year-
old trotter Of the season.
SOnoma Girl. 2:O5%. was the Fpeediest
of the green t~rotters, and next in merit OF
the horses that began without a mark were
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Clayty LAtus, 2OsH; Lolita. 20s1<, and
Margaret o., 2OSH. General Watts also
began the year unbracketed. W. b. Dick
erman. a former president OF the New
York Stock Exchange, has three in the 2:lO
list that were eligible to the 2:2s class at
the opening. so that they were practically
unraced. They are Carlo. 2OS9+. Toxic.
200, and Beatrice Bellini. 2:099+. The
achievement ia said to be unrivalled in the
annals. for Dickerman not only bred the
trio at his Mamaroneck farm. but also
their sire. Bellini, 2:l3H. and Merry Clay.
the dam OF Bellini.
There are now 9Is trotters in the 2:IO
list, according to Wallace's Year Book,
but since Jay-Eye-See first made the oven
mark at Providence in 1884 all but six ave
had the aid OF the pneumatic sulky. and
some of wind shields. The limited ant
sulky were Jay-Eye-See, 2:lO; SunOl, 2:OS1<;
Maud s., 2:O8H; PSlo Alto, 2OSA; ADertOn,
2OeA and Nelson, $40.
As the strong representation OF new
omers of eighty-fOurto the 2:lO list reveals,
there was greater average speed among
lowered. Angus Pointer, 1853. was the star
OF the free for alls, his best mile being
in 2:OlZ. The sensation Of the pacing
season was the advent at Columbus OF
Dick Mcmahon with a trio only known to
fame at the Western half mile tracks. He
2:O3Z. and Hollywood Boy, 2O4h, there.
and at Lexington marked Lady Maud Z.
In 2O4h. Others that are still under their
future speed limit to gain records in Greer's
hands were JOhn A, 2O3A, Ardelle, 2O4H;
William o., 2:O4h; and Dan R., 2:0515, while
Lon Mcdonald marked Kruger in 204;
Hidalgo, 2O4k. and Laura Bellini, 2O4%.
Bowerman won the pacing divisions OF
three-year-Old stakes at Readville and
Lexington with Shakespeare, 2O9A.