Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06
TROTTING DERBY
GRAND SUCCESS
CONDUCT OF EVENT is GIVEN
UNIVERSAL PRAISE
ATTENDANCE is ESTIMATED AT
$4,000 PERSONS
Greatest Harness Event In History OF
American Turf Held Without Usual
Observation-Disclosures Did
Their Work Well
By DAN PATCH


The $4,000 American trotting Derby
that took place last Tuesday at the
Readville track, Boston, was an un-
qualified success, whether from q rae
Ing, spectacular or box office point ei
view, and the work of the handicappers
Budd Dcble, J. C. Linneman and George
Hicks, was beyond praise, as shown by
the way the horses were punched al
the finish. Charles Jewett, the secre-
tary of the New England Breeders
association, had private Information
from every track where an entry was
working, as we'll as from persons en-
gagged 60 watch those who were racing
even up to the afternoon that the nano
cappers were at work. Even without 9
dollar being wagered on the result, or
drop of LIQUOR being sold on the grounds
1t drew an attendance conservativel,
estimated at $4,000 people, and oblit
Grated the high watermark OF croWd1'
drawn to trotting race established b!
the old Balch stallion race at Mystic
park, Boston, that Smuggler won u
1874, that has ever since been the ambt
tion of trotting associations to aps
proach.
Never before, either in this country
or Europe, was such an amount OF
money hung up for field of trotters.
The horses got off in their preliminary
heats without undue trouble or delay,
except when the horses were waiting
for the word for the first heat Wilker-
son reared, throwing Mike Bowerman
out, and ran two and one-half miles
before he was caught. This caused a
delay, but one that is liable to and
often does happen. The judges per-
mitted him to be drawn from the first
H. Il ..aAt tss i.
pnd, to give him time to blow OUT
Wilkes Heart was the only one of the
thirty-two starters to get the worst of
the send-off, and that is liable to hap
pen in any race.
Allen Winter the Winner
Never was a more enthusiastic dem
onstration accorded winner than that
awaiting Allen Winter and, more espe-
cially, his driver, Lon Mcdonald. when
the pair logged back to the stand. AL
though the race had not been won by q
New England horse, the winner had
been driven by a New England horse
man, and that was double justification
for the demonstration. Mcdonald had
hardly alighted from the sulky when he
was surrounded by a throng of friends
all eager to congratulate him, to hit
him over the back or In any other way
to secure recognition OF their presence
and an expression of their enthusiasm.
Then. while bowling to the plaudits of
the grand stand, Lon was picked bodily
off his feet and, despite his good-na-
tured protests, carried down on the
shoulders of dozen friends as far as
the long distance nag before he was
finally permitted to alight. Then he
fairly ran to his stables to escape fur
ther congratulations. Meanwhile an
other crowd had followed John Scholl,
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animal's stall to watch the cooling out
process.
1t was hard to tell whether Scholl,
who has had charge of Allen Winter
ever since he was first sent to the track,
sleeping with the animal every night,
or M. H. Reardon, the well known In
dianapolis horseman, Allen Winters
breeder and owner, was the more de-
lighted. Allen Winter himself was the
most unconcerned of the lot and from
his breathing as he was hastily being
done UP one would never imagine he
had been a hard heat.
Winner Is FIve-Year-oId
The winner is a beautiful 5-year-old
stallion by Ed Winter, from Miss Que.
a mare sired by Que Allen Reardon
bred Allen Winter, which made his win
all the more pleasing, for every horse
man likes to breed his own winners
Last year he worked a little as a 4-year-
old at Indianapolis, Reardon asserting
after the race that the fastest mile he
had shown last year was one In 2:11%.
He showed enough, however, to con-
vince as astute horseman as Rear
don that he was worth campaigning,
and early this spring he was turned
over to Lon Mcdonald. and trained by
Mcdonald with his other hourses at
Selma, Ala, being brought north at the
time OF the Indianapolis meeting. The
stable story is that his fastest mile this
sic as q "prelin" to his start at Read
vile.
Allen Winter raced from the 2:1o
mark, and his time for the $3.50 feet
that he negotiated-from a standing
start--was 2:46. In other words, Allen
Winter trotted the mile and 1928 yards
at a 2:08 clip throughout. None of the
other horses starting on the 2:10 mark
with Allen Winter or upon any of the
divisional lines behind Allen Winter
were within the money division at the
dnish. In fact, the only horses handi-
capped as faster than $40 to qualify
was Sweet Marie. the champion race
mare, but to have won the race Sweet
Marie would have been obliged to step
her full mile and a quarter at a 2:OSH
clip, speed that ne trotter has yet
been able to carry for a mile and a
quarter.
The, Race in Detail
The sympathy OF the crowd was with
the fast horses, and could one of the
horses that was giving away the ex-
treme penalty of 500 feet have come
through at the finish and nipped the
heat 1t would have been the most pop
ular victory ever seen.
Hlghball was lame and Sonoma Girl
was scratched at the last moment,
which left only Sweet Marie to start
from the 2:05 mark. The big daughter
or Mckinney had long road to go
In the first preliminary but finished
eighth, qualifying for the final. In
this. however, she found the handicap
TOO great one, and was back Of the
money.
Jay Kay. the trotter that went beg
sing at the Readville sale last spring
and was considered to be something
or Joke In the race, was very much
In evidence in the second of the pre-
limfnary heats. He got away on the
2:lb mark and held on like grim death
all the way around to the finish, with
9 big band Of fast ones at his heels
Ii was good contest IN the stretch.
with the first half dozen horses within
striking distance all the way, but Billy
Rhodes called upon the bay gelding,
Bervaldo, and he drew away from the
bunch and won comfortably
Bervaldo: though rated as a 2:1OI
ttrotter, had a record OF only 2:1SH. yet
he trotted the whole distance at the
rate of 2:0SH, which cuts 10 seconds
from his former record and viii COM
pei him to start In the 2:O9 classes
in the future. This was hard luck. as
he finished behind the money In the