Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-08
WINTER INTEREST
IN HARNESS HORSE
RACING IS GREAT
There Are Probably More Horses
in Training Stables
Than Ever.
BY WALTER E. ERLER.

nearly dSSlIIleS pIOHOIl NOASs LIZ NA-S
enthusiasm that Is indeed gratifying.
The friction on the grand circuit thai
has arisen lends in a measure a feeling
of uncertainty, but there is every rea-
son to believe that the affairs on the
big line will be amicably settled be-
fore the various stake races are an
nounced. During the past, with tile
possible exception of the breeding in
dustry, there has been at this season OF
the year a state of lethargy that Gov
cred everything that %pertained to the
light harness horse, yet right o every
one seems on the jump.
This augurs we'll for the prospects of
q brilliant season, more especially in the
metropolitan districts, than ever before.
Never before has there been at this
season OF the year such a universal IN
terest taken in the coming campaign,
and never was there a greater demand
for strictly 1rst-class racing material
1t is probably true that there are to-
| day a greater number of horses in the
training stables throughout this coun-
try than at any previous time in the
history of the light harness horse
sport, and it is absolutely certain nat
there are more horses with some pre-
| tensions of CLASS than ever before,
At the various training camps the
stables are full of what would appear
to be worthy material, and reports
show that the country is alive with
colts and FLIES and aged performers of
greater or less capacity, all headed for
the coming campaigns.
Colt Racing Popular.
Colt racing, more especially for
three-year-olds. is at this time one of
the most popular features of the sport,
and, while a few of the talent may
take a sporting interest in a classic
event for matured performers of known
merit, the real enthusiast, the breeder,
the trainer, in fact the world at large,
is keen on the subject of early maturity
speed. and the races in which the
young class are the contestants.
The breeding world is interested be-
cause c~olt-ra.sing has a more direct
bearing on the production and develop
of the horse than any other
form, and the lay public because of the
consistency with which the BABY trot-
tiers race and because of their very
precocity. The outlook is inded most
and If the cloud which is
lowering about the grand circuit will
blow away the season should furnish a
degree of prosperity never before
eaualed in the history of the light har-
ness horse.
There is no gainsaying the fact that
the American public is today more en-
thusiastic on the subject of the trotter
and his racing abilities thar ever be-
fore, and in spite of the fact mat all
of those who are in charge of the rae
ing who conduct meetings and outline
the policy thereof, are prone to make
errors, the sport itself goes merrily
on, growing each year in popularity,
and the ~trotter, the type of which has
so materially during the past
score Of years, is now the idol and most
justly so of every admirer of the equine
race.
He has go far eclipsed the thorough
bred horse that the latter has been all
but forgotten in the affections of man
kind, AMI while his downfall is in part
due to adverse legislation the same at
tack that has been made by reformers
has been directed toward the harness
horse, yet the trotter has suffered COM
paratively little from this cause.
1ItIS art ia Lhio SOhiANAJ oNo ~
ward of half a dozen trotters that could
readily be sold for prices ranging from
$50, 900 to $100, 900, and the market has
never been stronger. Stallion fees re-
tain their relative position with other
values. AS the breeding industry has
at no time been more enthusiastically
followed these prices are likely to grow
stronger rather than decline.
Few Horses Here from Sale.
While there were very few horses
that came to this city from last week
midwinter sale at the Garden, Jacob
Goldstein and Louis Barber. OF East
Newark, each purchased a mare for
matinee purposes, and both would ap-
pear to be really worthy material.
Louis Marder purchased the bay trot-
ting mare Charter Oak Maid. She is
a good individual, with the right way
Of going, and is reported to have
worked O. half in Lies and a quarte- IN
81 seconds. She was bred by James
Roberts, oxford, Mass, foaled in 1905.
and sired by Kirkstall. 2563s, a son Of
Wilkes Boy, 2:24ha, dam Grace Hark-
away, by Harkaway. 2:2SA. The mare
win be bred to Jersey Todd in the
spring and used for matinee purposes
during the summer
MIR. Goldstein bought the brown mare
Lizzie S., and, while her breeding could
hardly be called fashionable, she Is a
superb individual, and has been a mile
in her work In 1927 over a half mile
track. It is her owners purpose to
race her in the matinee events this
season, but she will be bred to Todda
McGregor before that horse is sent to
Tommy Murphy.
B~aIIantine Gets Danish Girl.
Last week at the Gar1en Fred Bal
Iantine purchased at private sale thn
bay pacing mare Danish Girl. 2:l3A,
from Dolph Asmus, the Union Hill
horseman. The price was not made
public. This mare is well known to
local horsemen. She received her carly
education in the stable of clyde Mac
Bride, and was used some in the local
matinee events before she started for
the legal tender.
Sage Admires Colt.
Ralph Sage believes that in the bay
3-year-old trotter he has a really gooc
colt, and one that has the best nance
in the world to become a trotter. HI
has advised his owner to name him II
the 3-year-cold colt race, in whicf
nominations must be made on March 1
widIar Goes TO Grand Circuit.
The bay trotting gelding, Widlar
2:l5k, that has beer in the stable O
Billy Coville for the past two years