Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-08
SPEEDWAY'S SESSION SATURDAY WILL
BRING HARNESS RACING TO A CLOSE

series of brushes over the speedway at
this time looks as If it were coming to
Master McKerron too easy. This week,
however, there will be a newcomer IN
the free-for-all pace ana ne may ma the
chestnut gelding Ben Bow, owned by
Henry Jaeger. Last Saturday this agent
paced a half in 1903, and as he has at al
times acted like a thoroughly game morse,
1t is hard to say just how fast ne can
step a half s~traightaway with another
fast horse right after him. The Mont
clair horse is perhaps his master. yet on
paper 1t looks like lie would have to pace
faster than he has yet to defeat the son
of Conrad.
OrmonhaII Looks Like Fast Horse.
1t begins to look as il Cliff Woodrrfrs
3-year-old pacing stallion Ormonhall was
the making OF a fast horse ana a race
horse. He won the 1:10 pace over the
speedway Saturday, stepping two nalVes
each In Iii, a most creditabie perform
ance for a baby PAGER. Gilt bought tnls
colt for a t%rotter, but he showed a as
position to pace soon after his purchase;
and while the gait appeared to be natural
to him, his owner has that way OF going
Maxfeld Patchen to "Old Glory Sale
The bay gelding Maxield Patchen. 2:l4A,
to whom Bud Murray gave his record az
the Hohokus meeting on July 4 has peen
This fellow is well known to local horse
men, and received his early training over
the local tracks in the hands OF Theo-
dore Maxfield, the Bloomfield trainer.
Early In the last season he looked hign-
class. but later failed TO fulfil his early
promise, and it was reported thai he was
handicapped with a suspicious leg
Bush TO Be Bred.
The old black mare Bush. ?:0s14, owned
by George stengei will be bred to the
spring. This horse Is a haif-brother 70
Peter the Great. 2:O714, by Bingen, 2:O6A;
and while during the last season ne dlo
not act like a high-class race-horse, he
did trot a half in So seconds and also
trotted an eighth in 13a4 seconds. This
is, of course, a wonderful flight of eX,
like a pig in at least one of his races
would stop many breeders from breeding
to him..
Professor sphinx a Ringer.
1t is rumored that the fast chestnut
trotting gelding Professor Sphinx, for
whom Tommy Murphy so recently gave a
long price, Is a ringer 1t Is, of course.
possible that this is SO, yet 1t is hardly
probable; The horse has a blaze IN ms rs
the hook behind. 1T is most unlikely, that
a horse with such pronounced markings
would be paraded around the country
under any name other than his own. He Deal
every good horse racing over the metro.
politan tracks this season and collected
the legal tender, and il does seem that a
horse raced so extensively and over SO
wide a range of territory would have
been recognized had he been a ringer.
Biackwateh In FoaL.
The mare Blackwatch, dam of the sen,
sational Todd's McGregor, is surely III
foal to Cochato, and win in the spring
produce an own brother or sister to Todd
McGregor. She will then be bred to Jer-
sey Todd. owned by Louis Marder. Mr..
Marder will breed the bay mare Charter
Oak Maid to Todd's MeGregor, and the
following year they have agreed TO trade
foals as weanlings. This will give each
n foal by his own stallion and will save
Mr.. Goldstein the expense of buying an
other brood mare to mate with his horse
Prince Edward Under Strain.
The little bay gelding Prince Edward
was working under a severe handicap in
the free-for-all trot Saturday. He had a
very sore mouth, and while at times he
struggled gamely. pain caused him to
drop the bit and jump. That he is a fast
horse and a game one there IS no doubt
and in another season he should improve
materially. He is the second of Bush
foals by King Edward, 2:l5h, one of the
very best t~rotters that appeared over the
half-mile tracks this year.