The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-27
TT WAS SENSATIONAL.
Allen Winters Victory In tho Big Trot.
ting Handicap.


Allen winters Victory in the Big Trot-
ting Handicap.
Readville. Mass, Aug 27.-The well
earned victory of M. H. Reardon's In
dianapolis stallion. Allen Winter, at
the Readville track Wednesday.
thereby capturing the largest share
of the $4,000 American Trotting
handicap from the field of thirty-three
starters, is believed by many of the
20. 900 followers of harness racing who
saw the contest, to establish a new era
in the history Of the sport and insure
its regeneration in this country
The race was novel in it's conditions,
which placed the horses at marks
from one-quarter to three-eighths of a
mile behind the usual starting point,
on a handicap based on their previous
performances, and at the conclusion
it appeared to be the general opinion
of all who saw the two preliminary
heats and the grand finale. that this
system of racing would be popular in
the future.
1t was the first race in which Allen
Winter had trotted this year, and Lon
Mcdonald, his driver, sized UP the
field in the two preliminary heats. In
the first he watched sixteen horses,
placed at marks from 1920 to 1,72O
feet behind the usual starting line,
sweep once and a quarter round the
rack to a grand finish with Bervaldo
in the lead In the second heat, with
his own horse 1870 feet from the
wire and $50 feet to travel, he push
ed Allen Winter carefully but surely
past three other horses and kept
ahead of the others, finished a good
third.
The first heat had been run off at
2:0S gait for the mile, but the second
was a few seconds slower.
Then came the battle for final hon
ors and the money, with sixteen well
known trotter in the field, the fastest
being Sweet Marie, 2:05.
Through a system of electric but
tons which ran from each starting
Judge to a big bell it was possible for
each Judge to signal when his own
horses were on the marks and facing
the right direction. When all the
Judges were unanimous, the bell rang
automatically and the field was away.
AS they turned into the stretch and
raced under the wire for the first time,
it looked like a long procession and
there was very little change in posi-
ton.
At the quarter pole Kim drew out
trifle, while the entire field still
seemed well strung out. At the three
eighths the horses began to bunch UP.
and there seemed to be four divisions
with Kim out ahead and Sweet Ma
rie coming up fast on the outside of
the last bunch. The pace to the three
quarters pole never slackened.
The slow horses up ahead were tir-
ing fast, and the fast horses behind
were coming up strong. The field came
around the turn into the stretch like
Roman chariot race, with three
teams abreast and twelve horses lined
up for a grand dash of an eighth of a
mile 70 the wire At that point 1t
seemed anybody's race, but 200 yards
from the finish Mcdonald shot Allen
Winter out of the bunch. and urging
the big stallion along at the top or his
speed, drew away rapidly and won by
five lengths. The next ten horses
came under the wire in bunch and
the judges were nearly ten minutes ar
irving at the conclusion.
1t was found that Prince e. had
captured second money, San Francis
co, third money. Geers, who drove
Teasel, and Andrews, behind Sweet
Marie, were beaten about fifty feet by
the place winner. Results:
Allen Winter won $4,000; Prince e. Sl9
$500; The Huntsman. $500; Peter Delta,
$1,000.
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