The Washington herald., 1911-07-16
TROTTER AND PACER
Brilliant Performances and Grand Circuit Meet
ing-AH the News of Interest to Horse
n1en-Bits of Gossip
By L, ID. SALE.


Doings on the Grand Circuit dwarf
those OF harness sport in other Sec
tions of the country, as might be ex'
pected.
Those who have carefully read the
journals devoted to the light harness
horse for the past six months have been
keyed up with strong and ardent antici-
patton of brilliant performances in this
year Of grace, 1911, and the three days
meeting held at Indianapolis the past
week would seem to indicate that they
are not to be disappointed. A glance
over the list Of horses that have thus
far appeared, indicates that the bulk OF
the aspirants for Grand Circuit honors
are new to 1t. A new crop has come
forward to replace those so well known
to US, and it looks now as if many ot
them were Of a higher average class
than was their predecessors.
We who are interested in the light
harness horse, have a right to expect
this thing. There has been, of recent
years, a decided increase in intelligence
on the part Of breeders. Here and there
a man may still be found who breeds
in the old haphazard fashion. Such men
never arrive anywhere, except by acci-
dent. 1t is the man who studies blood
lines, the man who peruses the Year
Book religiously, season after season
who Is on familiar terms with the
cashiers desk.
AS evidence that it is folly to venture
on the Grand Circuit without the
goods" to use a horseman's phrase
take for instance the 2:1S pace, the ini-
tial race at Indianapolis last Tuesday,
The fastest heat, the second, was in
2:10 IA. The first was in 2:11 IA, and
the third in the same notch. Fanny
Stanton won the big end Of the purse.
1t has come to this, then, that in order
to win the 2:lS class pace on the big
rings one must have a horse that can
pace three or more heats very close
to 2:10. Again, let US for a moment con-
slider the time in the 2:20 trot, which
followed, and which was won by Mr..
Geers' Anvil, in straight heats. The two
first heats were trotted each in 2:11 IA
and the third heat in 2:1O fiat. This
demonstrates that it is useless to enter
2:20 class without having a horse that
can trot three heats close to 2:1O.
Take, for example, the 2:O7 pace, on the
same day, won by the bay stallion Gin
ger. There were ten horses in this race,
whose owners felt justified in entering
them. Those better-known to the pub
lie than Ginger was Sunny Jim, the
Limit, and the phenomenal pacing three
year-old of 1910, Maggie Winder, cham
pion of her year at the pace. The first
heat was in 2:O6 IA, the second in 2:06 IA,
and the third in 2:O7 IA, a remarkable
performance, and which stamps the bay
stallion Ginger a very remarkable Grand
Circuit PAGER. This is evidence that it
would be folly TO enter a PAGER in the
2:O7 class in the Grand Circuit without
having one that could perform three
times around 2:O6 or better.
The 2:15 trot was not won in, COM
paratively, as fast time as was the 2:20
trot, and this illustrates one Of the pc
culiarities of racing horses. In the 2:l5
trot the chestnut gelding. R. T. c.. driven
by Murphy, had only to trot two heats in
purse. To those who are new to the
racing game, and VINO aspire to Grand
Circuit honors. the instances quoted are
guideposts. In the 2:1S trot on Wednes-
day, won by Beuyon's good young horse,
The Hugenot, by Chimes, the opening
heat was in 2:13 1-2, the second in PIP 1-2,
and the third in 2:13 fat The fastest
heat in the 2:2O trot the day previous
was in 2:1O fiat. Murphy's much-touted
chestnut gelding, Cascade, had to lower
his colors to the son of Chimes. Cas-
cade is a son of The Cascade, 2:15 IA,
formerly owned at this point by Stephen
Collins, and which died an untimely
death some four or FIVE years ago.
The feature event of Wednesday was
the 2:o9 pace, for a purse of $500.
Akar, the much-touted Greers entry, was
supposed to have an air-tight cinch on the
purse, by reason Of his good showing
in his workouts at Memphis. The turf
papers have been filled with his perform
ances for months past, but the best
he could get was third money to Shows
Zembrewer, which, week before last, at
Detroit, where she was In training,
BHOWeu SuO" d HTSI ullie IN ZsUl, ana
came back in 2:O7 1-2, last quarter in
29 1-2 seconds.
This new star in the pacing armament
is by far the best speed producing son
of Mckinley, PHI 1-4-Zembro, PIP. Zem-
bro was the champion colt trotter OF his
year, and It is through him, rather than
through any other son Of Mckinney, that
the family, founded by the latte, is to
be perpetuated in the mile tail line.
Akar, the Greers' entry, is a product
of Allen Farm, Pittsfeld, Mass, which
farm is now rapidly taking the place OF
historic Woodburn. In fact, 9S per cent
of the horses bred at Allen Farm are
Of Miss Russell, who has, up
to date, twenty-five descendants in the
2:10 list, a record no other brood mare,
running or trotting bred, ever has
achieved, or probably ever will achieve
This wonderful mare was bred at Wood
burn Farm, where, also, Maud s., 2:OS "a,
also first saw the light of day.
Let no man who owns 2I4 PAGER
dare to enter him In the 2:14 pace in the
Grand Circuit, unless he has shown that