Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-25
NOWADAY GIRL, 2.14 3-4.
Crack Trotter on the TWice-Around
 Circuit the Past Season.

There was no feature of the past racing season that was hailed with more satisfaction by the down east people than the prestige Vouchsafed to the breeding and training experiments of Chester ". Lasell of Whitinsville says the Trotter and Pacer, through the achievements of his bonnie two year old lilly Nowaday Girl. Mir. Lasell is one of that class of men whose participation in harness racing and breeding adds peculiar distinction to the sport, as he is a man of ample means and large business interests, who engages in it for the pleasure and health giving recreation that it affords him. He is a breeder of some conse- quence his Oakhurst stock farm being the home of some grandly bred stall lions and mares, and he does his own training and driving, while he pre- serves his eligibility to amateur class ification by driving his own horses only, many of which he has himself bred.
 MT. Lasell has pursued this pastime for quite a number of years with more or less of success, but it was not until the past season that he achieved anything which would properly accord him niche in the temple of fame as breeder and developer, and this dis i tinction was won by the little trotting | queen Of the tWO-lap courses above | mentioned. Nowaday Girl burst upon l the harness racing stage with melo- l dramatic intensity at the Monroe meet | ing in August, where she won a straight heat victory in the class for her age. l defeating a big field of classy colts in 2.21 1-2 and 2.16 1-2, stepping the | second quarter of the second heat in 1 s If seconds, and the third quarter | in 33. When the records were over hauled it was found that this perform ance was the fastest ever made by a | two year old trotter over half mile | track. The former record was 2.19 1-2,
 also made the past season by the bay | colt Etowah, son of A! Stanley, POS | If, in Tennessee on July 30.
 l From Monroe Nowaday Girl went to l the races at the historic track at
 Goshen the following week, where she l Was again returned a victor over a field of eight. including the fast Ken
 lucky bred colt Nathan Axworthy. She
 was not compelled to step faster than | 2.17 3-4 and 2,1S 1-4 to win at | Goshen. Prior to her appearance on
 the half mile tracks of Orange county, | Nowaday Girl had taken a little plunge | in the deep water of the grand circuit
 where she met the flower of the two year old brigade of the entire conti-
 nent and though she did not win she | gave a most distinctly creditable ac- | count of herself, dividing second and l third money with Sweet Alice in the i race won by the two year old racing
 champion of the year Lord Allen, 2.11. The daughter of MacDougaIl. 21e 1-4
 was second in the first heat in 2.13 1-2 | and fifth in the second heat in 2.15.
 She raced twice more on the grand
 circuit, at Hartford, Sept. 5, where
 fourth money was her portion, finish
 ing sixth and third in 2.14 1-3 and
 2.13 1-2, respectively, and at Read
 vile, where she won the first heat from
 Dillon Axworthy in 2.14 30. her pres
 ent record, and finished third in each
 of the other heats in 2.14 1-4 and 2.14
 1-4. Her last appearance was on the
 half mile track at the Brockton fair
 where she won easily in 2.27 S-4 and
 2.1S S-4
 Nowaday Girl has blood heritag ge
 that fully justifies the rich distinction
 which she has conferred upon herself
 and her breeder. Her sire is the fast
 trotting stallion MacDougaIl, 2.10 1-4
 and her dam is the well remembered
 game race mare Nowaday, 2.14 T. (now a noteworthy producer, beins
 also the dam of Totara, 2O9 3-4, anC IouI olHeIo), pN LoOhdWay, son O Look, he by Nutwood, 2.1S 3-4. Now aday's dam is Bonnie, by Cattaraugus Boy, a grandson of Almont, and she
 was out of Bess. by Antipas, a de- scendant of Sherman Black Hawk
 MacDougall is a son of Robert Nc Gregor, PIT 1-2, out of Miss Rachel 2.20, a producing daughter of Bour-
 bon Wilkes, she out of the great brood , mare Lark. dam of II performers
 eight of which are trotters, besides five
 sires and four dams, by Abdallaf
 Mambrino. There are no figs gathered
 from missiles in the pedigree of Now aday Girl, and 1t Is not strange that
 with a product of this kind, aided bS his own intelligent study of the prob 1, lems of colt training, MT. Lasell should have had the success which is SC gratifying to his many friends.