Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-14
JOAN MARVEL Of
TR0TTING WORLD
FiIIy's Victory in Pennsylvania
Proves CIass-The Harvester
in a Division by Himself

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-With the
close of the Lexington meeting the
trotting season of 1910 came to an end.
While not a great many new worlds
records were made, the close of the
performers at the grand circuit meet
ings and at Lexington was unusually
high and in the way of phenomenal
horses some notable examples are Uh-
Ian, which reduced the trotting record
without wind shield or front pace to
1881; The Harvester, which put the
stallion record at 2:01 and the record
for two miles to AIS is; Colorado E.,
which set a new mark for 3-year-olds
when he trotted in 2:05%, the perform
ance being in a race and not a trial
against the watch, on day when
the weather was perfect and the track
fast, and Joan, whose third heat IN
the Walnut farm cup at Lexington,
2:04%, broke the 4-year-old mark for
colt or filly.
There is no question that the result
of the two most important races at
Lexington, the 3-year-old trottlng fu-
turity and the Pennsylvania, was a ire
mendous surprise to horsemen, the de-
feat of Colorado 2. in the colt stakes
being even more of a facer tnan tne
big event for aged horses and later
in the Walnut cup.
As to Colorado E., all the reasons
for his defeat have been given pub
licity, and while there are those who
smile at Guss Macey's explanation that
the poor showing of the colt was due
to cracked heels, there are others who
maintain that the condition of the heels
was indicative of a general loss or
FORM
Then the other fellows-those who
believe the half mile in 1:01 in the
second heat took the run out of the
son of The Bondsman-call attention
to the fact that the average of the fiVe
heats trotted III the race was 2:0S
95-1OO; that Colorado r. was first or
second in every one of those miles
and that he was beaten a nose only
in a third heat in 2:0S, the fastest
third heat by 3-year-old trotter. Tne
plain truth is that filly able to trot
a third heat in 2:0S, a fourth one in
2:10 and then come back in the fifth
in 2:O6%, is going to beat any Swear
old trotter yet discovered.
JOAN A WONDER
AS for Joan, she is trotting won
der, and the Pennsylvania proved it
/ beyond question Three miles in 2:05A,
| 2:071a, 2:06A, will win the big race
| nine times in ten, but Joan was even
! better than the summary of the race
| shows, as in none of the miles was she
| all out at the finish. 1t is true that
McDevitt gave her a mild drive in the
! last few strides of the second heat,
but she came back the third mile in
2:06& and won from behind. Further
more, the filly had no horse with her
when she went under the wire in each
heat.
And then to make it certain that no
trotter of her age ever approached the
Pittsburg mare in speed and class, she
came out three days later, in the race
for the Walnut Hill cup, and stepped
three heats in 2o5h, 2:05%, 2:04%,
beating the best previous records by
4-year-old trotter, 205A, made by her
paternal grandsire, Direction, in 1892,
by a half second.
The average of the three miles made
in a winning race is a shade under
2.O51b, or less than a quarter of o Sec
ond faster than the best previous rec
ord for a single mile dash. 1t was the
4-year-o1d Billy Burke driven for the
first time by Geers, that made Joan
go those great miles, and the perform
ance makes the son of Silent Brook
look better than ever before and able
to beat his mark of 2:06& If asked TO.
The experts never made worse
guesses than regarding the Transyl-
vania. The best of them could see
nothing but Hailworthy. They had
watched him trot at Columbus two
weeks before the day Of the Kentucky
race and noted that he was easy at the
end of a 2:05A mile that was done
we'll to the middle of the track. They
rated him close to 2:04 trotter, and
it was their money going into the pool
box that made Hailworthy big ia
vorite. That he never really showed
in any of the three heats necessary
to decide the contest was what shocked
them. ~
THE HARVESTER GREAT
The Harvester, champion trotting
stallion, with a mark of 2:01, made q
brilliant closing Of his campaign by
trotting at Lexington against the two
mile record of AIT, which Cresceus
placed to his credit at Memphis in the
fall of 1902. He did the distance in
4:15h, which probably was not as fast
by a couple of seconds as he could
have gone had he ever been tried at
the distance.
Should The Harvester never make
another start which is possible, as he
clearly outclasses all the horses on the
professional turf and has not much to
gain by endeavoring to lower his mile
record of 2:01, he will stand out as the
one great stallion of his day.
His story is an interesting one. AS
a vearling he was booked with half a
hundred other colts to be sent to the
New York fall auctions. the farm
where he was bred disposing of its
foals in that manner, but an attack
Of distemper caused the colt to be left
at home. 1t was not thought at the
time he would be anything out of the
common, as his sire, Walnut Hill.
2:O8A. although a fast horse and a
game performer, had not been suf-
ficiently tried in the breeding ranks for
il to be known whether or not he would
get speed.
But from his yearling to his 2-year-
old form the colt improved nightly
in looks and also showed he could trot
fast when let alongside a pony, al
though he was so riotous in harness
that the attempt to drive him was
abandoned after a few trials.