The Washington herald., 1911-03-12
By l.. ID. SALE.

Driveway, and. possibly the new speed
way, will present scenes of interest to
local light-harncss horse lovers.
! The winter. now drawing to a close
has been one of the most trying to men
who have money invested in speed. The
i horse is an animal that must have a Ger
tain amount of exercise. The Arabs
who seem possessed of an unusual
amount of knowledge concerning horses,
have among their many proverbs. tins:
THE two greatest enemies of the horse.
are idencss and old age" AS has been
heretofore observed. 1t is hard to under
stand. under present conditions, how
horses in this latitude can be got ready
for really fast work Ir.uch before the first
Of MAY. which fact wi,l delay the open
ing Of the new speedway until the middle
of that month.
While horse ownsrs nave been trottinG
around the stove during the winter
months. as usual. there has been much
talk about matching this and that horse.
Tho latest sprung on suffering public
is three cornered one between u. J.
McCarthys Blark Patchcn. 2:21l4; Mich
ael j. Inscoes Red Rock. 2:1714. and Peter
LOTUS Miss Arcola. 2:16'4. The history
Of winter matches is I" the effect that
they rarely materiaiizr. Mr.. Mccarthy.
the originator Of the match scheme. pro
poses that the primo iralS in the match
each put up $40 "A side. winner take all.
and the race to come off either May 81
or July 1.
II Mr. Mccarthy desires to show that
Black Patchcn is the superior of Red
Rock and Miss Arcola in speed ard rae
decided without either of the principal Is
to the match putting up anything al all
The moro putting up Of the money de-
| cides nothing in Il race. where horse
owners ar" willing. The match can he
made To com" off over our local speed
way without the putting up of dollar.
and can b.. made u SpeCia feature Of tho
six or seven events which IL is designed
by the Drivers and Riders Association TO
0ulI on in tie near future. This propoSl-
tion asSented to ~ tho respective owners
Of the horses. tho horse standing host a.
the end Of the series will hear off the
honOrs. and, in addition. handsom" cup.
Possibly however. Mr.. Mccarthy will
not consent to handicap his horse to the
extent proposed. IIo believes that in mile
heats three in five. Black Patchon. who
is dnquestiOnably game. can beat Miss
Arrola and Red Rork whom he believes
are not as game as is his horse. In order
to even up matters still more. Mr.. Me
Carthy will insist understand. thd {
owners are to drive. Red Rock has
demonstrated that he can 80 miles i'm a
raCo This he did in 1910. and. also. dem
onstrated that he was sure 2:I' PAGER.
and perhaps, a trifc better than that
mark II is. however. COOL betting
proposition. with an amateur behind him,
he will not be able to make any such
showing.
Miss ArcoIa has shown that in half
milo heats she is a trine the best of any
PAGER owned in the District Of Columbia.
Her race against Manuella. 20Il- late
last fall over the old speedway. dem
Onstrated that fact to every one except.
perhaps tho owner Of Manuella. The
last named. however. is like Black
PatChen--a mile horse In mile heats Miss
ArCola j. an unknown quantity in this
community. Properly conditioned and
properly driven she might prove to be in
mile heats a surprise party In the rae
ing game il is not safe TO take too much
for granted. II Miss ArCOla enters the
three-Corncred arrangement. Peter Lot
tus. her owner. must team her. Mr.. Nc
Carthy has developed into one of the
best amateur drivers in these parts. He
has owned Black Patrhen long enough
to get on to all his pCculiaritics. if he
has any. the horse knows the man and
the man his horse.
On the other hand. Mr.. Inscoe is new
to Red Rock: nc has owned him but 4
short time He will know him better.
of course. before the race is pulled off;
and. if he is as wise as VIC believe him to
be- Mr.. InSCoe will he able to get on to
all the little SOrrel PAGERS curves Red
Rock under am conditions, is not an
easy horse to rae. lie rUsheS off at the
word and takes such a firm hold of the
iron that a strong armed man is liable
to shut off his wind 1t in mile heats
he cannot be properly rated. very natur-
ally he cannot finish his miles as strong
he otherwise w3T.d.
In some respects Miss ArCoIa in getting
away is very much on the order Of Red
Rock: but in the hands of a skllful
reinsman is much easier to control and
rate II her great speed can be evenly
spread over the distance of a mile she
would be able to make the best PAGERS
owned IN the District realize that they
have been to the races. Mr.. LOTUS
makes no pretensiou to being a skilful
reinsman. He is simply a game sports
man and one who races horses for the
fun there is in il. without caring much
for the commercial end of it. Mr.. Nc
Carthy shrewdly calculated his chances
under all the circumstances named. and.
bearing in mind the old turf proverb. that
| a match we'll made is a match half won,
has issued his defy. The situation is
an interesting one.
And. while speaking of the horse game
in this vicinity, We are led to remark that
if local interest in it was one-half as
tense as is interest in the baseball game
this would be one of the best light-har-
ness horse towns on the map. Pages are
descriptions of the game and prOgnOs-
tications of the future, while, as a rule.
J measly column is grudGingly given by
managers of local papers to the light
harness horse game. In the nightly
makeup of sporting sheets, II any feature
has to give way Ior space it is that re-
lating to the light harness horse Our
local baseball club is at present doing
practicing stunts down at Atlanta, and
the interesting spectacle is presented OF
every sporting editor on the daily press
| of this city being on the job. save one,
to report the doings of the team.
Managing and sporting editors are not
to be blamed for all of these things. The
baseball game has gained such a firm
grip on the public-young and old-that
daily newspapers have nothing else to do
but to respond to it's demands. II may
| be- as some think, that much of this In