Evening journal., 1911-08-07
R. 7. C. HAS
UNIQUE CAREER
From PIOW Horse to Grand
Circuit Winner Is TrOtter'S
Record
BRED AT MIDDLETOWN
BY DANIEL M. CORBIT

Having won several OF the Grand
Circuits trotting classics, the chest
nut trotting gelding r. T. c. today
stands as one of the turf's noted par
ticipants, and has been said to have
been a delivery wagon" horse; while
this is not correct, r. T. G. Will go
down in history as the 'plow horse,
for, from the drudgery of drawing a
plow, he has arisen to his present high
place among the turf's celebrities.
r. T. c. is a chestnut gelding, foaled
in 1902 He was bred by Daniel Nj
Cochran, a well-known farmer resld-
ing near Middletown, this state. who
gave him to his wife when r. I. G. was
three-year-old The young trotter
was known as Dick" and It was then
that Dicks troubles began for he had
to work in the plow and do all sorts of
general farm work in the daytime and
then take his young master out in the
evening.
Receives First Training.
r. T. c. received his first training
and racing in this way, for young
Cochran would race all comers he
overlook on the roads Finally Dick
got to be a champion road horse, but
never attracted much attention until
he beat BILLY" Biggs on the road one
night. II was after this performance
that Biggs and Daniel M. Cochran
took Dick to a track, and his first time
of he trotted half mile in LA, but
later on hit his knee and refused to go,
He got big knee and was a long time
getting over it, Finally after soma ex-
pertinent in shoeing, he was kept off
that knee and Biggs secured him and
started his regular training.
r. T. C.'s first race was at West
| Chester, where he won third in the
2.35 trot. Later, at Baltimore. he was
distanced in fast time, since which
race he has never been beaten. His
next start was at Allentown, where he
won in 2,23 IA. 2.19 IA, 2.19 IA. The
following week at Trenton he won two
races, the second in 218 IA, 21S Ia,
2.1S IL. Then cana Mount Holly,
where he won In 2.1S IA, 2.17 IA, 2 IL.
The following week, at Lancaster, he
won in the same time, and his eighth
and last class race for Mr.. Biggs was
at the October Baltimore meeting
where he won the fourth, fifth and
sixth heats in 2,14 IA, 2.14 IA. 217 IL
his record until this years races.
TrOts Half In 1.03 1-2.
During the Spring of 1910 R. T. G
was taken to the Middletown track
none of the best-and before leavint
there trotted a half mile In 1.03 II
at the Wilmington track, where n
could not beat 2.30 the year before, h
trotted a mile in 2.13 1-2. with the las
quarter in 80 1-2 seconds. II was thel
that DR.. ]. c. Mccoy asked Biggs L
race r. T. G. with his speedy younl
horse. Binvolo (3). 2.09 IA He ha'
one workout before the race, and II
trying to step him a mile in 215, h.
went 10 the half in 1.10 trotting thl
last half in 1.01. Biggs then knew tina
half In Loo was easy for him. anI
il was apparent that he had NOR
speed than Binvolo.
Shortly after this Raymond Snedikei
purchased him for a New York gentle
man, a patron of Tommy Murphey e
in whose stable he has been such
sensation this season. His first start a
Indianapolis on July IL was in the 21
trot, which he won in straight heats II
212 1-2, PIP IL, 212 1-2 His nex
start was in the Paper Mills $1,000
stake at Kalamazoo, which he VOL
handily in 2.0S ga, 2 0S IA, 2.0S Ia
from a field of ten high-class starters
Then came the Grand Rapids meeting
and there is the Furniture Manufac
turers' $4,000 stage r. T. c. agaii
beat a high-class field of nine starter
in 2.07 IA, POS "a, 2.07 ga He trot
ted quarters in that race in 80 seconds
l r. T. c. is sired by Prince Marcel
2.13 IA, son of Delmarch, 211 IA
Y dam Miss Nellie, by Nutwood Prince
h 2.27 IA, second dam by Bronson