Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17
LIGHT HARNESS HORSE YEAR
Outlook Bright for New Records
When Circuits Open.
MINOR HEIR FAST AS THE WIND
speed by Green Horses, with BiE
Prices for TrOtters and PAGERS
Features of the Last
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Features of the Last
season.
NEW YORK. Jan. 1s.-A cluster Of high
prices for low speed records. as welcome
10 the breeders as the bloom Of grapes
in the vineyard; fast speed by green horses
and a generally lower speed average than
in other seasons we're the outstanding fes-
lures Of light harness horse racing last
season. For the coming year these fertile
seeds would seem to promise a most fertile
harvest. Besides. while light harness
horse racing is under hampers in some
quarters in other sections II is unmolested.
and the harassing OF thoroughbred racing
in New York and elsewhere would seem a
further cause to help up the trotting and
pacing sport. At all events never in the
history Of the United States has there been
at one time so many time conquering trot-
ters and PAGERS. This is not alone true OF
the great meetings. but also OF the minor
circuits, as we'll as at the fairs. To win
the money took a better horse than ever
before.
In the zt1O List.
Since the starting bell last season forty
-FOUR trOtterS gained duGllsslOH W Nv -'V
list and eight previously on the list re-
duced their records before the snoWfalls
closed the tracks. There were ninety
eight PAGERS 10 enter the list and thirty
five previously marked gained a lower rec
ord in the same grand index of speed. In
1907 thirty-two ~trotters were added to the
210 list and eighty-four PAGERS, while in
1906 thirty-one ~trotters and seventy-four
parer made THAR va into the charmed
circle. The previous high water mark OF
~trotters to get in before 1908 was ten less,
while PAGERS new to the honor were five
more than the record. Eight t%rotters alb
solutely in their green and salad days took
records better than 2tO-Allen Winter.
2:O6h; San Francisco, 2:07k; Alceste, 2:0T4,
since dead; Fleming Boy. 2:OiiR; Zomaeta,
2:0s1A; The Harvester, 2:os&; Brace Girdle,
2:O9L. and Loyal, 2:09A. AS it stands now
an unofficial count OF the 2:10 list for trot-
tiers reveals a total of $40, as against Ss
at the close Of 1908. Those of the number
to gain their records before the introduce
ton of the pneumatic tire sulky in 1884
number but six. They are ~Jay-Eye-See, the
first to ever trot in 2:1O; Sunol, 2:Osk; Maud
s., 2:osA; Palo Alto, 2:Gk; Allerton, 2:09Li,
and Nelson. 2:lO.
Big Money Of the Tear.
Money does not always follow the fast
est time marks, for unless done in a stake
race the greatest of such feats may remain
! comparatively unrewarded, from the finsn-
cisl end. The greatest money winning
trotter OF 1905 to follow the races was
the 5-year-old mare, Spanish Queen, 2:o7i4,
by Onward Silver, 2:o5A. dam Elfin Dance,
2:g7. by Wilkes Boy, 2:24I4. Beginning with
a mark of 2:26A, which means practically
green, Spanish Queen picked up through
the western and grand circuits and at
Lexington winnings of $30,60. George , H.
Bstabrook of Denver bought the mare last
April in kentucky for $4,000. but he knew
a trial in 2:Osl4 had been corralled. The
fastest heat in a race was by Highball.
2:03a4, the gelding having taken a mark
of 2:06L in 1907. Last seasons low mark
was at Peoria in the gelding's first race,
IN which he beat Margaret o, 2:O5A, and
orc, 2:15l4, going amiss thereafter and
being out of racing. Highball therefore
was not among the big winners.
Another trotting gelding to gain a lower
mark was Jack ~Ieyburn. 2:O4i4, as against
a record of 2:0s1a in 1907. This is a finely
bred yet rugged 6-year-old that is believed
to have still more marvellous speed in re-
serve. Jack Leyburn won $3.50. Quite
lilC ANFElSC III lbDho " Nillo ais uAal btlulliS
~ Lillian r., 2;O4h, the fastest %trotting
mare of last season. She began late at
Columbus and Lexington and In two sue
cesses won 1880. 1t was the fourth
season of Lillian r on the track and in
her career Of twenty-siX races she has
won eighteen, been second in one, third
in four and fourth in three, gaining in all
about $4,000, Hamburg Belle, 2:O4%, was
the fourth Ease est trotter Of last season
and won So, 30. With three heats to her
credit in a race to average 2:O5A, the mare
gave proof of sustained as well as sprint
ing ability. and If brought out with
sound underpinnlngs this year is regarded
as a worlds record proposition.
Four to Beat 80
Here are four horses to beat 2:6 in race,
and to, reveal the quality of last season,
~trotters. The fastest mile in a race of 100
was 2;O5A and beside the four to surpas.
it two equalled the mark in 1903. They
were Margaret o., who began the season
with a record of 2:0Sk, and, as with Span
ish Queen, went through the meeting!
from Peoria to Lexington. Always a con
tender, Margaret o. was second to High
ball in his 2:0S&, in the same place L
Jack Leyburn's heats in 2;O4% at TER,
Haute and 2:O44 at Detroit. Her win
nings were s3.s15. The other to tie tn
2;64 record Of 1907 was also a mare, Am!
Brooks. Beginning with a bar of 222z
this clipper twice led Spanish Queen to tn
wire at Peoria, gaining a record of 200
At Terre Haute Amy Brooks took he
present mark and then retired, having woi
5000 in her short career of two meetings
AS with Highbail, this mare was bred 4
Madison county, Kentucky, and was foale
: in 1900. Lon Mcdonald took a chance O.
Amy Brooks in preference to SPANS
Queen a year ago and he expects a 81
mile this year,
New style at ReadvIIIe.
An introduction OF handicap racing o
the continental style at Resdville was
feature Of 1908 that for a crude beginnin
made a favorable impression. Allen wiz
ter, a green 5-year-old, owned by NJ. I
Reardon OF indianapolis and driven by 10
Mcdonald, won the big end of the 500
purse. He trotted a 2.OS clip and late