Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-08-28
ALLEN WINTER
WINS $4,000
Unique Handicap TrOtting Race
at RGadViIIe, Mass.
The PURSE WIS $4,000

Hi OIlUL UhO VJOJUOU
Horses Were Placed at Marks Behind
Usual Starting Point On a Handl-
cap Based On Their Reeords-2o, goo
People We're Present and Approved
the New system-sweet Marie, 2.o5,
Ran UnpIaced, But Gets Share of
the Money.
Readville, Mass.,Au 26.-The we'll
earned victory won by NJ r Rear
don's indianapolis stallion, Allen Win
ter, at the Readville track. thereby
capturing the largest share OF the $50
900 American trotting handicap from
the field of thirty-three starters. is be
lieved by many Of the 10000 followers
Of harness racing who saw the con
test to establish a new era in the his
tory of the sport and ensure its reju-
yenation in this country.
The race was novel in its conditions.
which placed the horses at marks
from one-quarter TO three-eights Of a
mile behind the usual starting point.
on a handicap based on their previous |
performances, and at the conclusion il |
appeared to be the general opinion Of |
all who saw the two preliminary heats |
and the grand final that this system
Of racing will be popular in the future
II was the first race in which Allen
Winter had trotted this year, and Lon
his driver, sized up the
field in the two preliminary heats. In
the first he watched sixteen horses.
placed at marks from 1920 to 1920 feet
behind the usual starting line, sweep
once and a quarter round the track
% a grand finish, with Bervalco in the
cad. In the second heat, with his
)wn horse 1870 feet from the wire.
md $3.50 feet TO travel, he pushed Al
en- Winter carefully, but surely. past
hree other horses, and kept ahead Of
he others, finishing a good third
The first heat had been run off al ,
2.OS gait for the mile, but the sec
nd was a few minutes slower.
Then came the battle for final hon :
RS and the money, with sixteen well =
nown trotters in the field, the fastest
eing Sweet Marie. 2.05.
AS they turned into the stretch ana .
aced under the wire for the first !,
me, it looked like a long procession a
nd there was very little change in
At the quarter pole Kim drew out 4
trihe, while the entire field still l.
semed well strung out At the three.
ghths the horses began to bunch up. -.
Id there seemed TO be four divisions 81
it'll Kim out ahead and Sweet Marie =,
ming up fast on the outside of the
ST bunch. The pace TO the three ~,
arter pole never slackened 81.
The slow horses up ahead were ti-- on
2 fast and the fast horses behind a.
ere coming up strong. The field
me around the turn into the stretch ~,
e a Roman chariot race, with three al
ms abreast and twelve horses lined -,
for grand dash of an eighth of a 90
lie to the wire. At that point il
smed anybOdys race, but 200 yards
m the finish Mcdonald shot Allen GO,
inter- out of the bunch, and. urging in
big stallion along at the top of his Ca
ed. drew away rapidly and won by
, lengths. The next ten horses mo
ne under the wire in bunch. and 10,
judges were nearly ten minutes in d,
wing at the conclusion. r
was found that Prince c. had cap. M,
I'd second money, San Francisco INV
d money. Geers, who drove Tea cbo
and Andrews. behind Sweet Marie. TO-
e beaten about fifty feet by the z
e winners nh,
he purse of $4,000 was split up lno
600 going to the winner. $4,000 inc
he second horse, $4,000 to the third. beP,
70 to the fourth. $500 to the fifth bis
$1,000 to the sixth.