Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-12
FAST HORSES
IN TRO7TERS
MANY GOOD THREE-YEAR-oLDs
ARE DEVELOPED
Leading Lady Disappointing In First
Season, but May Come Back
and Justify Big Price
Given

CLEVELAND, Jan 11.--Now that an
other year has rolled around the pros
poets for the light harness horse are
very bright and horsemen are looking
for a greater season for the trotters
and PAGERS than they have had In either
OF the last two years.
The foreign horsemen have taken a
lot of good horses from the American
tracks, but in their places viii be
found fresh lot of classy campaign
ers that win make the racing in 1903
Of a very spirited nature. In fact the
crop of grand circuit flyers that will be
trained this year win make nearly
every class we'll filled, while the can
didates for the two and three-year-
stakes look to nave some exceedingly
clever steppers among them.
In the three-year- futurities this
year will be such fast trotters as
Trampfast, 2:12L, worlds champion
trotter at two years: Thistle Doune,
Dorothy Axworthy and host of 9TH
ers. Trampfast has a chance. 1t is be-
Iieved, to lower the mark set by Gen.
Watts, 2:064, last year. 1t seems as
ii this was improbable because 1t is 50
awfully low, but 1t is the opinion of
some expert trainers who have seen
Trampfas at LeSing gton recently that
the great son % The Tramp really
looks like a trotter that will come very
near breaking this record the coming
season.
Trampfast is a big. rugged looking
colt that does not show the least sign
Of his strenuous training last season.
He is now turned out in meadow knee
deep in grass in Lexington. but will be
taken up and started jogging by Ed
Benyon before long.
Dorothy Axworthy is looked upon rs
being almost as fast az Trampfast. In
ths first heat of the Kentucky futurity
last fall the daughter of Axworthy was
close at the heels of Trampfast and
forced that colt to do his record break
ing feat SO naturally much credit must
be given Dorothy Axworthy for her
great burst of speed. This year 1t is
thought that she will be a hard trotter
to beat and the one who does defeat her
will probably be the one to win.
Thistle Doune Good
In Thistle Doune another sturdy lit
tie trotter is found and one that showed
ND in magnificent manner in the fu-
turity in Lexington last fall. While
Dorothy Axworthy forced Trampfast out
in the first heat Il was Thistle Doune
that came back and chased the champion
out in the second round and should have
been eiven cred. for the heat according
TO many horsemel who saw the race from
a vantage point. Thistle Doune Is owned
by Gen. W. b. Chisholm and is claimed to
have as bright a future as any colt in
training.
The Leading Lady the daughter Of
Ringen. for whom $4,000 was paid last
season, was somewhat Of a disappoint-
ment in the Lexington races, but be-
fore that time she showed she was con-
siderable o. race trotter Helen Hale,
the leading trotting tilly of 1907. must not
he overlooked for a minute when II comes
to rounding them up for the 1908 cam
paign. as she is hard trotter to beat.
Besides these Harry Stinson has little
gray trotter that is well liked by many
horsemeu. who predict great things for
the bitter ball." as he has been dubbed.
Orc Lambert is a high class colt and will
show up few of the much touted 3-year-
olds in 1908 or the dope will be given
bad shaking up.
The Laird and Binvola are also to be
considered. as they showed as 2-year-olds
that they had good stuff in them and 1t
Just required little time to bring it out.
1t Is possible that some of the colts that
showed such great form as 2-year-olds
will not come back so strong in 1908, but
horsem~ believe that most every case
the 2-year-olds out last season that
showed good form will come out stronger
than ever this year.