The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-09-14
DILLON HORSES WIN
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Wilmington Races.

With but one exception the
Dillon and Marlboro horses cap
Lured all the prizes at the three
days meet of the Wilmington
Driving Association last week. The
one race lost to the home horses
was the 2.22 trot or pace which
was won by a Raleigh horse. The
Dillon horses at the meet were:
Margaret, Montague, Dillon Gen
Try and the green sorrel horse Mr..
Edwards has been training during
the summer, owned by Mr.. Cannon,
of Williamsburg. The horses won
IN the following oruer:
Free for all, Alfonso.
3 minute class, the green sorrel.
2.40 class, Dillon Gentry.
III class, Montague.
The Wilmington Star which
says OF the races:
Alfonso, the rangy looking bay
horse, owned and driven by w. R.
Drake, of Bennettsville, S. c., cap
tured the feature race of the meet,
the free-for-all, in three heats, first
place in the other two going TO
Dan p, owned and driven by Bur
ME Smith, of Marion. Dillon Gen
try, handsome little roam stallion,
owned by j. b. Gibson, of Dillon,
took first money in the other race,
a 2.4O trot or pace. Both events
were hotly contested and the spec
tators in the grand stand manifest
ed NAKED enthusiasm over some OF
the close finishes.
AS on the two proceeding days,
another accident occurred yester-
day, but by good luck that has
characterized ali previous mishaps,
neither the horse nor his driver
suffered any injury though the
'sulky was damaged considerably and
put out of commission. In the
fourth heat of the free-for-all, ON
the first lap on the turn just
beyond the quarter, Miss Jarvis,
driven by P. S. Mcclellan, of Will
mington, lost her footing in some
manner and turned almost com
plete somersault, throwing the
driver out of the cart. Mr.. McClel-
Ian arose at once but the horse was
entangled in the harness and could
not get up. She was held quietly
until the other horses had passed
on the second lap, and then was
unhitched and allowed to get up.
She did not enter the race again.
With Dan P. and Alfonso fight
ing for every inch of ground, the
free for all race was probably the
most spectacular harness event ever
witnesser in this city and the close
finishes brought the spectators to
their feet cheering in a frenzy. UP
until the last heat was finished the
race belonged to neither Dan p. or
Alfonso. Dan took the first heat
and seemed in a fair way of win
ming the second also, but Alfonso,
by a wonderful burst of speed over
took and passed him just at the
turn into the home stretch. On
! the third heat Dam p. came back
strong and finished several lengths
ahead of the Bennettsville horse,
but Aufonso captured both the
fourth and fifth, giving hi m the
money.
Dillon Gentry, who won the 2.40
event, drew the pole in the first
heat and held it throughout the
whole race, practically never be-
ing headed The little horse put
up wonderful exhibition and
under the guiding hand of Lon Ed
wards, of Dillon, seemed just as
fresh at the end of the third heat
as before starting the first. Though
he did not just walk away from
the field he was always just far
enough ahead to prove tantilizing
to the other horses. Practically a
green horse, having raced only a
limited number of times the little
roam promises to make one of the
best horses in North or So"th Car
: olina,