The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-09
YEARS TURF RECORD
REMARKABLE
ONE
The Limit Has Not Been
Reached Yet, Say the Fol-
lowers of Horses.

The turf record for the Year just
closed has been in many respects Il
remarkable one. and is OF considerable
interest
When the two-minule trOtter was
produced it was theSeneral impression
among horsemen and the general
public that the limit had about been
reached with the side wheelers. but
events the past year have upset all
calculations. When Dan Patch paced
IL mile in l:55A everyone thought it
was all over and that Dan would retire
and remain king of PAGERS for ever.
but the great PAGER simply could not
be held back. and as a result he paced
Il mile in St. Paul in 1856 fiat. This
was done with the aid of pacemakers,
but it shows just what to expect of the
grand black stallion. The Broncho is
another wonderful pacing mare and es-
tablished new worlds records for sue
cesSive heats in a race. There were
twenty-seven PAGERS who got below
the 2:10 class the past season. but none
showed the wonderful speed of the
Broncho. The wonderful little PAGER
went the mile in 2.0024, and made a
record for the three fastest heats in
race. Ecstatic also showed wonderful
speed and reduced his record from
2:05 Ia to 2:01-3-4. Boliver surprised
al by going a mile in 2:OOa. Graft is
another of the speed wonders, going
a mile in 2:00A.
Sweet Marie was the greatest OF all
the trotters, as Lou Dillon was not in
racing form the past season. Sweet
Marie established new records for
heats in races, while w. J. Lewis trot-
ted three remarkable heats in race
at Columbus, O., going all three in
2:06A each. The withdrawal of De-
troit from the grand circuit was keen
disappointment to horsemen, as here
tofore the blue ribbon meet at Crosse
Point track was considered one of the
big events of the year in the horse
world. There was more interest than
usual in the western circuit, and the
races were of higher class. The
big state fairs in the west have taken
the lead in Offering big trotting and
pacing attractions. and the chances
are that they will go even higher next
year.
Despite the opposition in Chicago
and other places to running races.
there were plenty of them during 1906
in the east, but the loss of the great
American Derby at Chicago was felt.
the running records seem to be very
much like the trotting and pacing
niarks-apparently at the limit but
always being smashed. Atoka ran
three-eighths of mile in Butte. Mont.
in 1884 seconds, new mark. Pinker-
ton ran three-eighths at New York in
80 IS seconds, but it was made in the
first three-eighths of Il siX-furlong
race. Suffrage ran six furlongs at
New York in 10 fiat, and Lady Vera
smashed all marks for six and one-ha!f
furlongs at New York by going in
1:16 3-5. Mandarin, Oxford and Van
Ness had broken the record only Il
short time before by going in lis;
also VOORHEES, in straightaway run in
ILL is. The seven furlongs mark was
smashed by Roseben at New York,
who, with 1876 pounds up, ran the cir
cular track in 1922. Sir Lynewood and
Halifax had covered the same distance
in 1924 As only short time previ-
ously. Roseben's performance was
phenomenal to say the least, and he
was considered the greatest of all thor
Oughnre,ls FOR the vear 1905