Evening star., 1907-05-26
INTEREST CENTERS
ON BRIGHTWOOD RACES

| water. Mott put them on Colebra the lat
! ter part of the week, but he did not seem
| to care for them and he will be kept at
the trot Timothy Shugrue drove T. E. 9.
! a mile In 2.33 the early part of the week,
! and the handsome bay stallion acted SO
| good that Jake Hillerary snapped him UP
at at long price Thursdsy last and drove e
221. T. Z. s. is booked for a low mark.
If ever horse looked as if he was ready
| for the word, Bob 1ngerSon does. Hillerary
drove him four well-rated miles during the
| week and the bay gelding demonstrated
| that he will do when Jake points him the
right way of the track. Hillerary gave
| Howard o.. 2.271a, mile in 2.26l4 and he,
| too, looks like ready money. A quite re-
cent purchase made by Hillerary is a sor-
| rel mare by son Of Onward that looks
| good to him just at present She is trot
| ter and Is doing all he has asked of her up
| to date. A mare that attracted attention
| during the week was Louis Moran's Maid
Marion. which is being trained by Thomas
| Cannon. He Is going slow with her, but
| she has burst of speed on tap whenever
| called upon and Is going sound.
| DIR. w. T. Brown OF Burnt Mills had at
the track Wednesday bay geiding by
hinster. out Of the dam Of the good gelding
| Saxton, that once trotted quarter over
Brightwood in O331s. The Kinster gelding
is good locker. and, like most of the get
three-year-old brother to the gelding men,
| toned that he thinks highly Of. Harry
Duley has given up the idea OF training
Mabel Wilkes any more this season and Is
| driving her on the road.
Shepherd Boy by Henry Shepherd. has
| not been going we'll Of late, and his owner,
| E. F. Hall. has taken him home and will
give him long let-up. George M. Garth,
jr., who is in partnership with his father in
| breeding horses at Bonnie Doom stock farm,
mile Thursday in 2.2O and repeated him
in 21S1a. The last half Of the last mile was
paced in los and the quarter in O.16h.
Thomas drove Tosco the same day a mile in
-. and an eighth in O15. Few breeders
south of the Ohio river have owned and
sold as many high-class PAGERS and trotters
as the elder Garth. One Of the greatest
PAGERS out in 1oo6-Rudy Kip, 2o4A was
brought north and sold by Mr.. Garth
Others that he has owned or sold are
Mazette 2.O4; Hallena Duplex, 2.OSk; Paul
Revere. 2.O71a and Marion Wilkes, 2O9h
After Fred 8. had paced his miles Thursday
horse circles rendered Mr.. Garth 81, 500 In
cash for him. which was promptly refused
Mr.. Garth remarking that the stallion rep
resented twenty years of thought, much
money expended and much anxiety, and
that he never expected to breed another
like him In his lifetime. The horse is bred
in the richest pacing blood lines known to
modern breeding. Peter Taylor. jr., has en-
tered his horses literally in the Wilkes
barre. Pa. meet; Carstairs is entered in the
30 $1,000 trot, as is also Montana Guard;
is entered IN the Sl,OOD G1I pace,
and Gaiety In the 81 600 2.1O pace.
Emboy, 2.O9A. the Electioneer gelding
that raced the Maryland circuit last year
and made Nutboy go-in 2.11A at Rochester
to beat him. and won second money of the
same horse at Lexington in the Transyl-
vania, is picked by experts to be one of the
sensational trotters of 1907. Out Of sixteen
starts last season he won ten first moneys,
two seconds two fourths and was once dis
tanced. 1t is said he trot a half in one
minute. and wears only seven-ounce shoe
in front and no toe weights. At milwaukee,
he won the 5000 stake In 2.O9A, 21O and
2.1O. This year he will be raced against
,Nutboy through the big line, and he has
improved SO much over his last years per-
formances that his partisans believe that he
will make the great son of Nutpins step to
his limit, If he does not beat him as often
as he does Emboy or course. in the early
springtime even old horsemen sometimes
see visions and young ones dream dreams
If Nutboy proves to be as good in 1907 as
he was the year previous the horse that
beats him will never be eligible to the 2.OS
class again.
Thomas Cannon is having the time of his
life with the erratic Riley A.. Frank Crovos
pacing son of Onycha Wilkes. For some
bay geding with hood about his head
to prevent him from bolting through the
gate. The contrivance reminds one Of the
patched his pants so elaborately in front
and rear that the lad could not tell
whether he was going to or from school.
Riley A., SO rugged, never knew the where
aboutS of the gate, or whether he was
going the reverse right way of the track.
Then, again, the cost of the cotton used
to stuff the geldings ears so that he could
not hear horses near him was becoming
burdensome to Crovo's pocketbook. Mind
full of all these things, Cannon Thursday
afternoon decided to cast aside his con-
traptions, and gathering all the spare
swipes that linger around Brightwood pro-
ceeded TO make a new horse of Riley A.
Preliminary to the task, however, he
fastened to the underjaw of the gelding the
end of long rope and led him on the
track.
And then the fun began. Riley first pro-
ceeded to give an imitation of how far a
horse can walk his hind legs and not
fall backward. Tired of this he reversed
ends and stood for several seconds on his
forelegs. This attitude not being to his
liking, he danced the two-step all over
the track. dragging his attendants with
him. Finally, becoming disgusted with
then threw himself violently to the ground
This gave the celebrated Happy Jack the
opportunity to render first aid to the in
jured. and he quickly squatted on the head
of the now frenZied horse. He had no
sooner, however, become seated than Riley
ward movement and Jack landed in the
infeld and the gelding on his feet. By
this time scores of track visitors had
gathered to witness the tanning of Riley A.
But he would not tame to any appreciable
extent and Crovo finally decided to ac
Alabama, which was to cut off his tail
just back of his ears and turn him out to
! grass.