El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24
By Bert
E. CoHyer,
Turf Editor
Chicago American

incorporated monopoly, badly manag-
ed, with fraud frequently winked at
Cor not known when SEEM by the in
competents in the seats of the mighty.
After being raced for three seasons
! in the select society of the grand cir
cult, the bay mare Bisa finally won
a race on the Big Ring, taking the
2:14 trot at Charter Oak park, re-
ducing her record from 2:13 IA to
2:10 IA, and beating the bay gelding
Beveraldo, who was supposed to have
a first mortgage on first money in the
event. BiSa was first raced three years
ago, when a threeyearold by John
Young who trains the horses of Allen
farm, where she was bred. At that
time she was up against the sensa-
tiOnal General Watts in both the Ken
lucky stake and the Kentucky Futur-
ity at Lexington but she of all the
high class threeyearolds out that year
gave the General a race and was sec
ond to him when he set the worlds
record for age at 2:O6 3-4, wnere it
remained until Colorado E. trOtteJ in
2:06 1-2 at Readville.
Bisa was not raced as a fouryearoId
and that astute Yankee reinsman, Wal
ter Cox, purchased her for one of his
patrons the following winter ST., 1000
in cold cash for the mare who at that
time looked to be the best thing III
sight for the NJ. & NJ. and other big
stakes of the Grand Circuit She won
a cheap race at Windsor, Ont, but the
following week in the NJ. & NJ was up
against Margin and Merle n and only
won third money to that good pair.
She was lame at the time and was not
raced much last season She looked
good this season, but in her few starts
was pitted against cracks who had
just little too much speed for her.
In the class races she looks mighty
hard to beat, for her mile in 2:10 IA
is easily equal to 2:0S over a fast
course, and she can trot even faster
than that when strung out
Bisa is a highly bred mare. being
a daughter of Bingara, son of Bengen,
2:o6 IA sire Of Uhlan, 1853 "a, while
her dam is the great brood mare Ko-
mura by Kremlin, 2:O7 ga, the for
mer stallion champion.
There were a great many horsemen
that thought Dick McMahan had first
class gold brick in the bay horse Col
onel Forest, by General Forest. dam
Emma T, by Reality, and it did not
look so in the early season. But Nc
Mahan is patient worker and evil
denly had the rich $4,000 2:13 pace to be
decided at the Minnesota state fair in
his mind, and he landed the plum in
good order. There was a big field OF
Is and he was beaten out in the first
heat in 2:0S IA, by the bay gelding,
Sam, but he copied the next three
heats in the impressive time of
2:O7 ga, 2:OS IA and 2:O9 Ia. and
stamped himself as one of the best
campaigners in the west. McMahan
made also a good record with Captain
Hunt in the FPS trot, while he won the
2:17 pace with Beckey and did not
have to go faster than PA 1-2, which
he can easily beat.
In the east at Hartford western
horses and drivers were decidedly
prominent. The Iowa trainer, G. Haag,
won the $4,000 Charter Oak stakes
and did it in straight heats in the ex-
cellent time of 2:OS "a, 2:0S and 2:O9
while the Indiana owned stallion Ga
mar, driven by Harrison, was second.
Trainer Gaghen of Michigan won the
2:11 trot with the gelding Startle by
William Wilkes best time 2:10 1-2
Charles Dean of Palatine has begun
to pick the plums and captured the
PIP trot at Hamline with Henry H, by
Gregory the Great, and did it in the
fast time Of 2:10 IL, 2:O9 1-2 and 2:IO.
The clever western PAGER Eland s.
won the Twin City stake in straight
heats, defeating such good ones as
Major Mallow, the king of the half
mile tracks, Adama G, and others. In
a word, western men are more than
holding their own.