The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-31
SPEED ORGY At THE:
FAIR GROUNDS IS
FINISHED NOW
Annual Blue Ribbon Week Was a
Big Success Both From Financial
and Sporting Points
of View.
Detroit, as Usual, Had the First View
of the Stars of the Year and got
the Annual Thrills.
BY PAUL X. eRUsKE.


In a glory blaze and a speed orgy
the like OF which has seldom II ever
been seen on a Grand Circuit race
track, the second annual meeting OF
the new Detroit Driving club came to
an end at The state fair grounds yes
ierday and the long horse trains pull
ed M TO the gates TO be loaded last
evening with their precious freight
and to leave for Kalamazoo where the
circuit will race next week.
The world Of trotting heayes a long
sigh OF relief and settles down 10 re-
view the events OF Detroits moment
Gus meeting
AS usual the first clash OF the Grand
Circuiters was the one where the sur
prises were looked for They arrived
on schedule and every one OF the four
stake races had one.
Who would have supposed that Old
Country Jay could ..aye taken those
2:11 trotters into camp. crippled as
he had been for years and yet able To
come back and hang up the fastest
record for the stake?
What 2:1l class trotter can expect
to beat him later on unless the strain
OF racing brings back his old ailment
And There Was Margin.
But, If Country Jays performance
was a surprise, how about Margin mat
came from nowhere and won the fast
est NJ. & NJ. in history?
There, according 10 general belief.
Is the big money winner OF the year.
Staked all the way down the line, she
seemed TO be easily capable OF mile
in 2:O6 She is faster and a far more
reliable racing tool than was Sonoma
Girl that led the money-winning trot-
tiers in her year In addition, there
seems to be no Highball 10 dispute
the issue with her. as was the case
in 1907 when the Girl and the Geers
trotter were always able TO put up an
interesting duel.
AS In the case OF Country Jay and
with a possibility far less likely OF ful-
flment, the only hope of the other
trotters in Margins class will be that
she goes lame. She was perhaps not
perfectly sound at the Detroit meet
ing. She has been lame this season
once and may be lame again Sound.
she can give anything that has yet APP
peared in her class-and the NJ * NJ.
contained virtually everything IN sight
In the first flight-she looks TO be
,teu1ple OF seconds the best
The Chamber OF Commerce demon
vated that George Gano is similarly
\ fastest OF the slow-class PAGERS.
Worlds Mark for Lady Maud7
The Wolverine free-for-all develop
ed the fact that Lady Maud c. Is like
ly TO give them all a beating in her
class whenever she starts. II Is said
that her time at the fair grounds yes
terday-she paced in 2:03 "a and
1903 1-4-is the worlds record for q
two-heat race This is not yet thor
oughly authenticated, but 1t Is surely
fast enough TO win n lot OF races and
the big mare Is as likely to improve
as to go back. Last year her brother
Hedgewood Boy. was the monarch OF
the class. He Is Just getting into
form now. having worked the fair
grounds track in 2:05 ga yesterday
morning, The pair are both racing for
Dick Wilson this year and, II one isn't
quite right. he has always the other
to fall back on. Aileen Wilson didn't
seem TO take to her change or drivers
Yesterday and broke badly for Hyde in
each heat. II looks like lean year
for her as well as for Baron Grattan'
which lost his first race OF the past
four years on Detroit track. as well
as for the rest OF the freefor-all per
formers.
In the class events anything is still
likely to happen. Probably the best
PAGER shown in this department was
the blind Hal Raven. Certainly the
most remarkable performance OF the
meeting was the second and deciding
heat OF her race in which she, Rollins
and Governor Searles finished only
inches apart In 2:08 "a.
Hamburg Belle acted yesterday as
IL she was pretty sure to give Sweet
Marie's 2:02 a call before the season
was over, with an excellent chance or
similarly annlhilating Lou billions
2:O1. The former Is the recognized
trotting record. though the latter Is
the fastest bonafide performance
against time, pace-maker at the side.
Well See the Colts Again.
This year an added pleasure was
youchsafed the Detroit race-going pub
lie in getting the first line not only
on the regular racing material but
also on the probable winners Of the
big futurites. That the beautiful
uauRnleT OF JONI n. MthtlIOu anu
Nancy Hanks that won the Detroit
event will be a hot favorite the next
time she starts, goes without saying
The idea OF racing three-year-olds IN
July was revolutionary. but the time
OF the race was so sensational and the
field In general such n well-behaved
one that the experiment is regarded
as such no longer but will undoubted-
ly be regular affair from now on
The racing OF yesterday. aside from
the terrific speed OF Lady Maud c.
and Hamburg Belle. was remarkable
for the strenuous competition detel-
oped in the 2:24 pace which was the
second event OF the meeting 20 20 the
maximum number OF Ave heats. This
event also furnished the one oppor.
tunity during the meeting In which
Scott McLane, OF Coldwater. driving
one OF the string OF c. w. Moore. ~
Detroit. performed his annual feat OF