The Washington herald., 1912-06-02

TROTTER And PAGER
Grand Circuit Race VIII Be Ran in Six Weeks
Time Other News and Gossip of In
terest to HorSemen.

wlthstanding the fact that some Of cur
best and fastest horses are n Baltimore
and Haserstown IN training for the
summer and fall events. the racing was
full Of interest and the half mile record
Of the track lowered by Black Patehin-
only a few weeks since considered a
hopeless cripple. All OF the heats, save
one. were hotly contested. Even In the
slow classes. the time In each heat was
excellent
washington and her enyirons are Pc
culiar. In that they can summon from
the high grasses and the tall timber
more horses-good, bad, and indifferent
than almost any other section OF the
South. Horses need not be so very, very
fast to make interesting sport IN any
community What the public enjoys
most, what it demands, and. what Il
should have at all hazards Is clean
racing with jobbery eliminated, and
where every man behind a horse tries
his level best 70 win. The time made in
each heat Is Of q secondary considerations
to these important factors Of a success
ful race meeting.
DR.. ]. E. Sansbury has demonstrated
that he can give a successful race meet
ing. But his track can never reach to
the full height OF usefulness, until he
makes It q member Of one OF the two
trotting associations. We have urged II
in the past. and We now take occasion
to insist that he do so. Judges and
starters must be armed with authority
to enforce discipline. II cannot be prop
erly enforced otherwise. The strong arm
OF turf law cannot efficiently reach
idrivers and owners who persist in turf
law violations on tracks outside OF the
parent associations. It might be done,
II tracks outside OF the parent associa-
tons would stand together; but this they
do not do.
Some day, in the near future, and on
some track very near to Washington,
some driver who persistently persists IN
coming down 10 the score ahead OF the
pole horse. or does not try to come down
at all, viii get his, and then some more.
II Is this class OF offenders who kick
hardest and shout loudest when they get
the worst of the start. Instead OF blam-
ing themselves for their misfortunes,
and, worst OF all. think II a smart thing
to do. It's a mater OF fact, IL is a
very cheap way OF getting revenge. No
particular person in this community is
alluded to.
Some day, in the near future, and on
some track not a hundred miles from
the Washington Monument, some shoe
string gambler who bets nifty cents on
a heat or a race, and who tries to brfbe
some driver with q chew OF tobacco 10
throw heat or a race, will get his
where Mary Jane wore her beads and
the pullet got the hatchet. Shoestring
gamblers infest ali race tracks, and when
they lose twenty-five or fifty cents they
usually rally in front Of the judges
stand and shout loud enough TO frighten
drove Of elephants They disgust de-
cent people with their antics and keep
a large number Of people from the race
track.
Charles c. Waters, OF Pleasant Fields
Farm. Germantown. Nd. writes that he
VIII be out with Kinslee, 2:19 IL and Al \
lie K, 2:2 IA. again in 1912, and that
Kinslee is now going sound. Allie K
threw a curb late in the season Of 1911. |
but II has disappeared. Patchin Bell,
2:l7 IA, is also going well. Miles around
2:4o, and last eights around OILS seconds
is as fast as Mr.. Waters has Permitted
his charges to go, up to date. Mr.. Wat
ers has bred the good broodmare Brad
ford Girl, dam Of Kinstress, 200 "a, and
kinslee, 2:19 II, to the four-yeRr-old Dr. |
Patch, by Joe Patchin, 2:01 IA. A three
year-old full sister Of Dr.. Patch, Mr. |
Waters thinks will sustain the reputation !
Of the family for extreme speed Sew
eral in hand by Kinster are showing
well especially a two-year-old out Of /
Bradford Girl. A hlly by CecIIlian also |
looks promising. Mr.. Waters further |
says he has a lot of other good, young |
prospects that he has been compelled TO |
turn out, on account of a lack Of keep. |
Mr.. Waters closes his letter by saying |
that the hay crop in Montgomery prom |
ises TO be the largest gathered in many |
years