The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-02
HORSE BREEDERS CLUB.
what is Being Done for the Trotting
Horses for Pure Sport.

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A grand circuit meeting will be held
at Empire City Park on August %, "a,
25, 26, q, 1910, under the auspices OF
the Trotting- Horse Breeders club.
This organization was formed few
weeks ago by wealthy breeders and
others to support harness racing in
New York without the revenue for
merly derived from public betting.
The whole enterprise is purely for
sport, the bylaws of the club express
ly providing that the income of the
club, from whatever source derived,
shall be applied solely to the promo
tion of trotting, and that no dividends
can ever be paid.
The patrons have subscribed to re-
serve fund of $4,000 to finance the
meeting and Mr.. Butler has donated
the use of the track.
The patrons are. w. G. Brown, Will
liam Bradley, A. H. Cosden, A. B.
Coke, J. L. Dodge, j. Howard Ford,
Robert Goelet, De Witt G. Flanagan,
Bfayton Ives, James A. Murphy, W..
F. Redmond, Jacob Rupert, John H.
Shuts, William Simpson, w. Smith,
W. e. d. Stokes, John r. Townsend,
A. J..Welch, J. o. Winston.
The programme -
Tuesday. August 23-2.12 pacing,
ES2, 500; Three-year olds, trotting
(Matron Futurity Stake, $4,000; PIG
trotting list division), $500.
Wednesday, August "a q 6 trotting
(2nd division), So, 500: Three-year-olds,
pacing (Matron Futurity Stake, $4,000;
Free-for-all trotting, $1,000.
Thursday, August 25-2.05 pacing,
81, 500 /; zoo trotting, $500; 2.16 trotv
ting (3rd division), $780,
Friday, August 26-2.25 Trotting,
So, 500 !; 2.13 trotting, $1,000; 2.2o pac-
ing, $500
Saturday, August 27-2.16 trotting
(finaD, $500. Overnight-races and
specials.
One of the surprises of the season in
the early trotting meetings whichlead
up to the grand circuit has been the
manner in which the amateur drivers,
most of whom are wealthy business
men, have taken the laurels in closely
contested races from the professional
reinsmen. One of the most notable
examples of this occurred at the Grand
Rapids meeting when Frank g. Jones,
of Memphis, Tenn, close business
associate Of @. K. G.. Billings, climbed
into the sulkey, after the veteran pro-
fessional Ed. Geers had been injured,
and piloted Dude Archdale to victory
in the $4,000 Furniture Manufact-
urers Stake in 2.094.
Mr.. Jones is millionaire street
railway man. He Is well-kn0wn
among horsemen on the Harlem
Speedway, 1t is expected that he
will drive in the $500 Speedway
Stake at the grand circuit meeting to
be held in New York, August 23-27.
Another notable victory for ANA
teurs at the Grand Rapids meeting
was when John L. Dodge, at one time
president of the Road Drivers asso-
citation of New York, drove King Cole
to victory in the 200 pacing race gain
ing record of 2.07f. Fanny Stanton,
a full sister to King Cole is among Mr..
Dodge's entries in the Matron Futur
ity Stake which is scheduled for the
first day of the New York meeting.
Horsemen who follow the grand cir
cult are telling a story which illus
trates the lottery of horse breeding
and incidentally exemplifies the ill
luck which has sometimes attended
the breeding Operations OF John H.
Shuts. Mr.. Shuts, as every horse
man knows, has expended more than
million dollars in buying and breeding
trotters at Parkville Farm, on Long
Island and at ShulthurSt, in West
chester county.
For twenty-five years he has made
it rule to buy and sell only at auc-
tion. At one of the big sales held in
Madison Square Garden, about seven
years ago, he disposed Of number of
discarded broodmares, some of which
had been bred to, the then almost I'M
known Urotting sire, Axworthy, 2.15a.
Among them was the four-year-old
mare Anselma, by Antivo, 2.18t, son
of Electioneer. She was struck off for
$3.50 tosFloyd Brothers, of Bridgeton,
Va. The colt that she foaled the next
spring developed into the sensational
trotter Hailworthy, better horse
than Mr.. Shuts ever had in his sta
BILE. Starting for the first time on a
mile track at Grand Rapids, on July
22d, Hailworthy won one of the fastest
five heat races on record, beating the
great Austrian stallion Willy and
trotting the fourth heat in 2.07a., The
man who bred him will have chance
to see him trot at the grand circuit
meetiI & in New York. He is entered
in the 2.13 race to be trOtted at the
Empire on August 20.
AT the same sale and on the same
day, Mr.. Shuts sold for about the
same price the four-year-old filly Car
pet, by Prodigal, 2.16. She too had
been bred to Axworthy and the colt