The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
TRoTTLR
and PAGER

2:17. this beating Nats Prince out Of
fourth money. Berka has been quite
lame for two weeks past from an injury
TO one of her hips. Her condition while at
Detroit we do not now know. Mccarthy
must have thought well OF her or he
would not have started her. Mccarthy
has wonderful faculty Of finishing
second in the final heat with Koroni and
Berka. especially with KoronL He al
ways keeps In the money with him with
out giving him record. Koroni is just
as eligible to a three-minuts trot today
as he was in 1872. Just how Mccarthy
evades the eyes of the judges is mys-
terry. Whether Mccarthy win be wad-
ing in water over his head with Berka
and Koroni at Columbus he Is best able
TO answer. He Is neither idiot nor knave.
RI.hor by wireless is to the effect that
Keenworthy. 2:eo1-4. slipped his halter in
Billy Rhoades' stables In GuttenBrg. n.
j., recently in Billy's absence and never
stopped until he safely reached his re-
puted owners stables In Washington.
Keenworthy has been absent from the
National Capital for over one year. In
his three-year-old form his light shone
'th unusual brilliancy. In his four
year-old form. however. his light was on
the tallow-dip order. Occasionally his
owner would issue bulletins that he was
rounding to"-whatever that meant--and
Rhoades on occasions would deliver him
self OF oracular utterances as to what
a great speed horse Keenworthy was, or
was going to be next year" But hope
deferred maketh the heart sick" and SO
do trainers bills when the golden stream
only flows in one direction-the trainers
pockets. Anyway, Keenworthy is back
mo matter by what methods he reached
here), and in due time he doubtless will
follow his stable companions Of other
days TO that bourne from which no
horse ever returns. unless IL be as a gift,
Or which Is practically the same thing,
at his former owners figures
That was not such a bad race. every
thing considered. that Hal Hardin put up
at Hanover. Pa, on Tuesday last. He
was fourth in 2:25 I-2 to Joe Promise the
first heat, and third in 2:21 "a to the same
horse in the second heat. Three three
year-olds finished behind Hal. The
three that finished ahead of him were
PAGERS. The owner OF Joe Promise
either has very fast colt that a record
OF 2:21 IA will not hurt, or he must have
needed money badly to have marked him
so low for paltry 500 purse. Mr.
Frank A. Robinson. of Brandywine.
Prince George County, owner of Hal
Hardin. is a young man Of high charac-
ter. and is respected by all who know
him. II he shipped his colt TO Hanover
for the purpose Of educating him to race.
or Tor the purpose OF finding a buyer,
that Is one thing. II. on the other hand.
he shipped him there with the full in
tention of winning the purse with him.
he blundered. Mr.. Robinson has the
best three-year-old trotter ever owned
In this immediate section. He bears all
the signs Of a future 2:lO or better trotter.
ssss
Washington horses stepped into the
strong box OF the Hanover CPaD Far
Association on Thursday last above their
fetlocks. Most of the coin found its way
into the pockets Of Norman Corbin. Harry
Corbin, and the McHenry brothers, ano
their cousins and their aunts: and what
was left fell to the lot OF W. z. Miller
and Jennie Blue. Lou Corbin drove
Pen-Mar Belle to victory in the 2:e6
trot; purse. 800. VIII McHenry got
second money in the same race with
CoEine. by winning the first
heat In rs IA. and Harry Corbin. |
also in the same race. captured third |
money with the Allerton stallion, Solo
graph. and getting a record of 2:254 in |
the third heat. Will McHenry, with Rus
sell Cozine in the 2:is pace. won by Jen- |
ME Blue. was not SO fortunate.
After the CoZine horse had won the
first heat in the slow time (for him) of
2:ls and finished sixth the second heat.
which was in 2alS1z, he either exploded
or stood on his head in the third. for he
got the rag weed Tinker in the 2:sl
trot, was not like the feline in the story
he did not corhe back. or. like Jeffries,
could not come back. He finished T-s-S
in heats around 2:Zl. Prince Alto also
failed to cash in the 2:26 trot. and that is
probably one Of the reasons why Magru-
der now wears crepe on his hat and
shuns his horse friends in Eleventh
Street.
The blaze faced sorrel gelding. Hobson |
Boy. by Hobson. dam the Vic Anderson |
Mare" by the Grant Arabian Leopard. |
lied Of heart failure in the stable OF his !
owner, L. d. Sale. on Friday noon last |
His dam was one OF the most noted road |
mares in the District for upward Of |
welve years, and. at twenty-oae years, /
ell dead of heart failure while in har-
less. Her son possessed her unconquer-
lble game and speed. and by his deter
mined way of going. and peculiar mark
ngs of the face. the color of his eyes,
me of which was sky blue, was almost
Is well known. With Hobson Boy high /
Ipirit was mingled docility. and an intel
igent affection of the highest order He |
vas the last Of the descendants of the
3rant Arabian Leopard. presented to Gen /
Grant on his tour around the world by i
he recently deposed Sultan of Turkey
Iooson Boy was a faithful friend. treat
ID as such. and, for what he was to
Is and ours we pay this tender tribute
o his memory, although only dumb
BEAST. i