The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-06
Exciting Feature Of Races at
Granite City Park
WASTHROWN
First Days Program Was Witnessed by
a Large crowd-The 2:ls, the Big
Event, Went Five Heats Amid
Much Excitement.

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Very nearly $500 people enjoyed some
good races at the Granite City trotting
park yesterday afternoon al this seasons
second meet Of the Gentlemen's Driving
club Of Barre. There were 2,lOO admis-
sion tickets sold. The crowd filed the
grand stand to its capacity and the re-
mainder were scattered about the
grounds in the most advantageous places
10 see the races
Three races were pulled off in good
time despite the stiff breeze which blew
directly in the faces Of the steeds as
they came down the home stretch and
which could not help but impede them
Chester Pike was welcomed by the crowd
in his usual position as starter, and the
judges and timers were L. c. Hammett
Of East Montpelier, G. +. Moody Of Wa
terbury, and s. D. Allen OF Barre
But one accident occurred to mar the
sport and that fortunately did not re-
suit iD any serious damage being done.
In the last heat Of the 2sls class arce,
which was the feature race Of the after
noon, II. A. Slayton, driving Ben Hur,
ran into Charles Gordon. who was driving
The Outlaw. These two horses were in
the rear and were making the first turn
on the back stretch the second time
around, when The Outlaw broke and Ben
Ilur, who was close behind next 10 the
police went onto the wheel Of Gordons
sulky, crushing it down.
Ben Hur fell 70 the ground as quickly
as II he had been shot, and Mr.. Slayton
was thrown 10 the track clear beyond
bis horses head Mr. Gordon was also
thrown from his sulky when the wheel
went down, but he managed TO keep the
reins and hold bis horse. Ben Hur lay
perfectly still until he was helped up,
and it was found that not even a strap
was broken. Air. Slayton then drove /
around 70 the wire and Mr. Gordon fol |
lowed holding up one side Of his sulky.
This race was fought out from the
start OF the first heat and went five
heats when il had to be stopped under
the rules made hy the club that no race
should no more than i've heats Ben Hur
took the first two heats BIZ close mar
gins, Oradell being a close second in the
first heat and Allinetta d close third 4
while The Outlaw owing To bad break K
at the start of was far behind.
III the second heat Allinetta was bat 4
half a neck behind Ben Hur under the 4
wire and The Outlaw was tight on. Ora
dell apparently took things easy this \
time and trailed in but little ahead Of
the flag. Possibly there was an object l
in Oradeil's lay-up in this heat, for in
the next she cleaned out the bunch on
the home stretch and scored FIRST. Ben
Hur was second on the last turn, but
broke and came in fourth This was the
fastest heat Of the race, 2;l9la
In the fourth go Sunderlin put ALI
netta under the wire first, beating out
0radell by half length. In the fifth
Ben Hur and The Outlaw showed that
they had had enough racing before the
accident happened, and Allinetta and Or
adell were leading them easily, Allinetta
taking the heat This ended the race
and tile first money was awarded TO
Allinetfa. The Outlaw and Ben Hur
were placed IN the third and fourth
places, respectively, on account Of the
accident and the second
money went to Ben Hur, third to Oradcll
and fourth to The Outlaw
First money III the other two races,
the 2i27 and 800 classes, was taken
III straight heats, Lady of Websterville
winning the 2:27 and Conway, owned
by + B. Williams OF Enfield, N. H.,
the 300 class
After the $500 race, Conway was put
UP for sale at auction and was bid on
for S305 By Charles Gordon, who was
bidding for George Straiton of this city.
Conway is a siE.year-old. stands 10 and
] hands high and weighs ,l20 lbs. He
Is big rangy bay and took the race
easily, stepping the last heat in 2s29i5.
A base ball game was played on the
diamond between the Barre Independents
and East Barre, the local team winning
BIZ score Of II to 3. The batteries
were Olsen and Fowlie for the Iudepen
dents, Roark aud Taplin for East Barre
During the waits between the heats mu-
sic was rendered BY the Barre Citizens
band
Saturdays races had to Be bet ahead
because Of the unfavorable weather, and
this afternoon because the track was not
right to-dsy's big program was put over
until tomorrow afternoon. Three good
races are on TIE card, including the free
for-all with some fast horses entered.
The summary Of yesterdays races Is as
follows;
2:1s Glass. Purse si7s.
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