Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-14
A RECORD BREAKER
Champion Three Year : Old
TrOtterS Are to Meet
AT THE EMPIRE TRACK
Native Belle and Colorado E. to Con-
test for Matron Futurity
Stake.
THE EMPIRE TRACK

NEW YORK, August 13.-What prom
Uses TO be a record race for
three-year-old trotters is in sight for the
New York grand circuit meeting, to De
held at the Empire track, August 20 10
q. When Native Belle trotted in 2.ot%4
last season. cutting down the record for
tWo-year-olds three seconds, IL was
thought she would surely win all the
big futurity stakes in sight this year. n
colt that is apparently greater than any
three-year-oId yet seen has come to the
front to dispute the supremacy with
Native Belle.
At Kalamazoo. Mich, a few days ago
Ramey Macy, a young reinsman not yet
of age, drove the three year-old colt Colo
RADIO E. a mile in his work in 20624 with
the last half in 1.01H. I'd Geers,- }. b.
Chandler Mike Bowerman and l.. G.
Webb, who held their watches on the
wonderful young trotter, at first thought
that something was wrong with their
timing. The worlds record for three-year-
olds is ..062., and it vas made late in
? October instead of July General Watts.
the present record holder. has not beaten
= 10 at this stage of the season
Colorado +, and Native Belle will come
together for the first time this year in
the $1,000 Matron Futurity stake race
on the opening day of the New York
meeting. Native Belle will carry the col
ors of Edward Thompson of Northport,
l.. L.. and will be driven by Thomas W.
Murphy of Glen Cove, who broke her TO
harness in February and drove her to
her record of 2.0IS4 in October of last
year. Colorado E. is owned by George
IL. Estabrook of Denver, Col. who also
owns the veteran free-for-all trotter
Country Jay. 2.0JA.
The great three-year-old trots without
and Wit hna wiz an
those OF a thoroughbred runner He was
bred by w. l.. Spears of Lexington. Ky,
and is by The Bondsman. son of Baron
Wilkes, us In his two-year-old form
: he divided second money with Eva Bel
z lini the junior division of the Kentucky
Futurity, when Native Belle set the rec
ord of 2.01s4.
1t was Eva BelIini that finished second
10 Native Belle in her record breakinS
heat at Lexington. She will start in the
Matron Futurity at the Empire track, and
there are not few horsemen who expect
10 see her hold her own even in the COM
s pany of Colorado L. and Native Belle.
Z This fily was bred and is owned by w.
95R. Dickerman of Mamaroneck. She is
: Essentially "A Westminster country prod
csuct. her sire, Bellini. 2.13A, having been
bred by Mr.. Dickerman. and got by the
old-time trotting stallion Artillery, 2.2lk,
owned, twenty-five years ago, by Hugh
Downey of Dobbs Ferry and sold by him
at twenty years for something like
$4,000
Among other local entries in the race is
the black filly Emily Ellen, bred and
owned by David NJ. Look of Greenwich,
Conn. Starting for the first time in pub
lie at Detroit last week, she won the fif-
teen-thousand- dollar Horseman Futurity
stake in the fastest race ever trotted by
three-year-old so early in the season.
She is a daughter of Todd, 2.1444. the stall
lion for which William Bradley paid
So COO at auction in Madison Square Gar
den about three years ago. Bergen, a
bay colt, owned by w. C. Brown, presi-
dent OF the New YORK central railroad.
was one Of the money winners in this
race, and he is among the entries in the
Matron Futurity Another notable entry
is the chestnut filly Lou Billings, by
John A McKerron, 205A: dam Lon Dill
lon. All told about thirty Of the fastest
three-year-olds in training are eligible to
etart.