The Washington herald., 1911-08-20
TROTTER AND PAGER
drawalo of Columbus Calamity Other News
and Gossip by The Herald Expert

Stokes, $500: Argot Hal, $3.50: Belvasia,
$50; Justice Brooke, s3,100; Douglas Nc
Gregor, $3.50; Chatty Direct. S2,10o; Gold
Dollar, 2,0c0: Peter Thompson, 81 900; Ma
hotnet Watts. 5000; Hannah Louise,
H.500; Lady Willow, 81. go; Ario Leyburn,
a.2So; Johnny G.. $3.50; Soprano. 1850,
and Al Stanley. 5000. The biggest money
winning PAGERS are: Vernon Mckinney.
NS,5oo; Branham Baughman. sI750; Zonl-
brewer. $3.50; Sir R., alss: Earl fr..
N,So; Independence Boy, $3.50; The
Limit, a.4C0: Sunny Jim. 1.4o0: Walter
Direct, 1900. and Kirby Star. 5000. ...
That Independence Boy is some PAGER
Is illustrated by his remarkable perform
ance at Columbus Thursday last, when
ne paced three straight heats In a race,
which he won. in 2:osx. 2.o1x. and 37o2
nat,~ worlds record for three heats. II
Is now up TO Vernon Mckinney to get on
MS good behavior and set a new worlds
record, which many think him capable OF
doing. As showing how fast a PAGER
Earl, 1r, Is, 1t was he that forced Inde-
pendence Boy. to break all worlds rec
ords In his race at Columbus The old
veteran Major Mallow must also have
hot contender in all Of the three heats
and got third money.
Independence Boy belongs to a record
breaking fcmily-the same from which
Lou Dillon, 1:5s1t. descends-and other
champions. He is q sixteen-hand chest
nut gelding. foaIed In 1906, and bred by
Murray Cobb. Winthrop Ind His sire is
Thistle, 2:13k. pacing, by Sidney, 2:lsZ,
pacing, and his dam by Alcymone I'd, he
by Alcymone. 1858, the last named being
the sire of the dams Of George Goodacre's
Miss Nina and of Frank Tippett's Won
March. His record at the beginning Of
the season was 2:o31s. His introduction
to the big rings was made at the Colun1-
bus meeting Of 1910 In the 2:11 pace,
which he won In three straight heats, the
fastest being in 2:o7k. He paced two
other races in fast time the same week,
also winning in straight heats each time
he started. and ended the strenuous week
with a mark of 2:O4k. The following
week he was started twice and won in
straight heats, making four Grand Cir
cult races won by him In two weeks in
time SO fast as to make the most blase
racegoers gasp with astonishment. Inde-
pendence Boy a hobbled PAGER. He has
been disappointing to his owners and ad-
mirers this year. previous to his feat at
Columbis, but he now seems to have
rounded into something Hike his form Of
1910. =
Murphy's chestnut farmhouse gelding,
r. T. c., rushed into the limelight again
Thursday at Columbus In the rich Hos
Brewery $4,000 stake, win
ming the same In straight heats This
horse, which Trainer Biggs, Of Delaware
purchased Of his brother-ln<iaw, Cochran,
Tor S51o one year ago, and subsequently sold
to Murphy for 8, $40, has. up to date, won
three 10000 stakes in three starts. which
pushes the New York driver SO far to the
front of the biggest winning drivers that
1t is not probable that he can be over
taken. The erratic Huguenot, that drove
the gelding to his limit In the first heat,
got bees in his bonnet and was distanced
In the second heat, but Lewis Forrest
took his place In all the others and was
the chaser-out. The Huguenot took a
record of 2:o5& in the heat which he won.
which shows he has enough speed to
smother r. T. C. II he was not speed
crazy Murphy scored another big win
Thursday with Delvasia, Cox being up, at
the Buffalo meet. she getting the largest
slice Of the King George v stake Of
5000 This good race mare is a sister in
blood to John Morris Berka, that Is now
in the hands of Alonzo Corbin, and from
whom good accounts are being received.
Thomas Cannon moved his stable of
trotters and PAGERS. which he has been
working for some days past over the new
Speedway, to Rockville yesterday In
the lot were Mellow. 2:1sA; Miss Linda,
B. F. Nc, Mestona, and Miss Mary.
When he arrives at the Maryland track
five other horses will be added to his
string from parts thereabouts. Mellow,
Miss Linda, and perhaps Mestona will
start at the Montgomery County fair. and
will then join the great Southwestern vir-
ginia circuit. which ends late in the sea-
son In South Carolina Mr.. Cannon sold
to DR.. Hefiin the handsome
mare by Kinster which he brought north
early in the spring.
Owing to the exodus Of horsemen and
horses to the Leonardtown meet yester-
lay afternoon, there win be nothing do
ng on the Speedway next Tuesday after
noon.
L. ID. Sale has been selected as starter
'or the Leonardtown meet.
1t Is reported that Slim Sallee has fall
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