The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-06
TROT TING MARKS
ARE CANCELLED
Only Few Old Records Remain
UnbrOken at End of
Season.
TIME FOR SIDEWHEELERS
NOT MATERIALLY CHANGED
Reason Advanced Is That Legi-
innate Racing Was Some.
what Neglected.

NEW YORK, Nov, 5.-Trotting rec
ords have gone by the board during the
last season and after the last day al
! Lexington only a few of the old marks
stood uncanceled. 1t has been some
what different with the PAGERS, for ex
cept in some heat and age marks by
| former holders there was not so much
doing among the sidewheelers as in
1909 One reason may have been the
| com bining of many speed masters at
pacing in tho same stable or stables,
with exhibitions on tracks of the pump
kin fair circuits as a main object In
stead of legitimate racing.
That the records of and 3-year-old
trotters are now the same, at 2:04M, is
wonderful development of the season
tie rs between a mare, Joan, and colt,
Colorado E. Yet the epoch making rec
ord was the upsetting Of the theory that
the 200 trotter without the aid Of a
wind shield was an impossibility. Uh-
Ian, the black gelding by Bingen. 2;06%
owned by c. K. G. Billings of New
York, accomplished the feat at Cleve-
land by his mile in 1:5SN. Although
crowned with laurels for his wonderful
in the progress of the year 8 racing.
Harvester Gets There.
This was the record for 5-year-old
trotters of 2:02M, made by Uhlan last
year at Columbus. The horse TO rob the
gelding of his honor was The Harvester,
perhaps the greatest to ever poke his
head through a bride and a stallion
still above his speed limit. Columb bus
was again the scene of the achievement
and The Harvester trotted in 2:01. This
is the worlds record for trotting stall
lions and lowered the seemingly im-
pregnable mark of Creccus, 2:02M
which had stood since 1903. To lower
the 5-year' old record was under the
circumstances merely an incident. At
Lexington The Harvester made another
successful raid on another record cred
tied to Cresceus.
In 1902 Cresceus trotted two miles in
4:17 aud The Harvester speeded the
same distance in 4:15A 1t was thought
along the rail that the mark might, un-
der urging, have been cut to 4:12, for
as in all his races The Harvester seemed
to be merely loating along. Beginning
the season with a record of 2:03H, the
brown son of Walnut Hall, 2:08M, has
gone faster and faster whether as asked
the question in stormy weather as at
Readville or in sunshine in Kentucky
and with no apparent effort. The Har-
vester trotted in the same nopchalant
manner in lowering the record for two
miles.
Unaccompanied by pacemaker The
Harvester went the first mile in 2:0SM
and came home in the second mile, in
which a running horse was on his heels,
in 2:05A. He was flickiug his cars at
the finish and champing on the bit as
though eager to race with any horse for
another mile or so. This was the frac-
tional time: 0:33N, 1904, i:36, 2:oS1a,
2:41M, 3;12&, 3:44 and 4:15A.
Directum. who ranked with Cresceus
as the favorite stallion with New York
ers until The Harvester appeared at the
Empire track and trotted in 2:03 last
August had held the champion record
of 2:05H for 4-ycar-oIds' since 1893.
The Lexington meeting witnessed the
eclipse of the mark by the mare Joan,
by Directum Spier, 2:11M, and hence
a granddaughter Of Monroe Salisbury's s.
black whirlwind. Joan won the Walnut
Hill stakes in straight heats from no.
table field, making record of 2;04%
and taking the other heats in 2:05Is and
2;06M.
Receives Some Hard Hits
The 3.year-oId record of 2:06% held
by General Watts had several hard hits
raking bay colt by The Bondsman, be-
gan triumphant career by beating Ma
tive Bell, the champion 2-year-oId at
2:07A at the Empire meeting in the
two fastest heats for that age of 2:07H
and 2:07M At Columbus Colorado E.
lowered the 3'year old record to 2:05A
and at Lexington he beat a field Of
five in the Kentucky stakes. toying
with them in the first heat IN 2:00H and
in the secoud establishing the great fent
of 2:04%. In a trial against time at
Lexington Native Belle made the g.
year-oId fIlly record Of 2:061h.
Native Bellies 2:07A remains the
world IS record for 2-yenr.olds, but the
bay colt Justice Brooke gains the new
colt mark of 2:091a, supplanting the
2:10% Of Aricn, which had stood since
1891. Miss Stokes, holder of the cham
pion yearliDg record of 2;19H, and Jus
tice Brooke are tho only 2-year-olds TO
enter the 2;l0 list. Miss Stokes has
the entering wedge of 2:09M. Forty
seven horses took records of 2:10 this
season, three is excess of tho previous
high water mark of 1908, Seventeen Of
them had records Of $50 or higher at
the beginning Of the season.