Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-01-31
The Good Year Jass Closed.
BY MAGNUs FLAWS.


, reckoned by the figures set in contest,
against old Father Time. Emoluments arr
measured in dollars by the earning capacity
OF the good trotter and PAGER.
With the dawn of the much-heraldeC
horseless age, it viii be interesting to note
that there were about 1,400 race meetings
held last year, averaging three and hall
days each, or a total close to 5000 days
racing, which, figured at the low estimate
of $500 in purses per day, makes grand
total of S2,500,000 distributed among
the lucky winners. Over 10000 horses
participated in these contests, to say moth
ing of the vast number that never GOT
farther than the training track or the
matinees, which gives some idea of the
sport, for, be 1t remembered, the trotter
and PAGER nowadays must be considered
first as purely racing machine and then,
when outclassed, as any other ordinary
plug, for the gas wagons have surely put
the high class carriage horse and the good
roadster practically out of commission.
That nearly half a hundred thousand are
trained annually for speed indicates the
hold this distinctly American sport has
on the men who can afford It,
AS to quality, the season disclOses an
average brilliancy in all classiications
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yearling set the world s record at 215 3-4.
this precocious youngster being Airdale
by Tregantle, 2:09 Ia, out of Fanny Sum-
mers (by Bow Bells, 2I9 1-4) herself a
colt trotter having taken a record of 2:26 Id
as two-year-old, and she also had the
distinction of producing the best two-year-
old colt of the year in Lord Allen, who
trotted to a race record of 2:1l.
Yearlings trotting to records of 2:30 have
been common enough the past two seasons
but it has usually been under the most
propitiOus conditions, over good mile tracks
1t was left for 1912 to witness the first
performance in standard time by colt OF
this age over a two-lap ring-the honor
going to Edna the Great, a granddaughter
of Peter the Great (4). 2;071-4, out of a
daughter of the PAGER Milton S., 208 IA
she having trotted the State fair half-mile
track at Columbus, Ohio. in 2:29 Ia.
Nowaday Girl, by MacDougall, 2;10 Ia,
out of Nowaday (3), 2;l4 l-2. by Looka-
way, 2;22 1-2. set worlds record for a
two-year-old over half-mile track at
216 1-2.
In fact, VIC have become so accustomed
to what we're heretofore accounted as as
tonishing feats that the lowering of the
world record for all ages and all ways of
going by Uhlan, the peerless unsexed son
of Bingen, 2;06 Ia, to 1853, was accepted
as a matter Of course. A few days later
this great gelding. hitched double with
Lewis Forest, 2:06 Id, achieved the most
thrilling performance Of the year when
they set the team record at z:U3 Ia, Just
four and half seconds better than the
previous mark for double hitch.
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S,oo ~, mas NV " lieI oIeui, llle ias.es.
seo o neas .,'e ias'es. lour.h neat, ias.es'
two-nea. rdSe anu iastest nve-heat race;
rorprd az o.nR ID. Rsodan n;rac, 10 eonr
vear,olJ mail a, 90 "A and No., pron,o
,ha rocord gnr i,,a',,aar aids a. 90 4
and as ',as nc go ,,,;,h sho ,so,,ara
nrohohl, he ,nos, br;J,,ant ~ ,ho io' NO.
he team record which wa nlaced NJ o'0S
ga, ~, H. co,,orn 81. Me- ua;s 80
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Worlds records, however, only in sense
indicate the greatest performance OF the
year. rake the case OF the trotter, Baden
2;O5 Ia. He gained no world record dis
uncu0h' YET ms achiVements outrank thenl
an ne started In seventeen races IN the
hottest company won WE'VE was once
each second tnird ana iourth ana was
Just once outside tne money earning q
total OF over @oo'ooO:
ms was also true OF the pacing brigade
asJoe patchen H. z'o3 Ia, does not9et an
honorable mention among tne best records
OF the year Dut ne nevertheless was de
feated IN lust one OF MS hiteen starts ant
placed 10 ms credit the largest amount
ever won ny PAGER IN one year-OveI
$ZTOOO' and what Is something OF an IN
spiration 10 the lesser h9hts' neither Kod'
hey' inc driVer OF baueh' nor rIemlhg, the
drlyer OF Joe, had previously essayed urand
Nncui' oo'nPnhV'
From the breeders standpoint the season
also had some notable features. In the
race for champion sire OF standard per-
formers, at the head OF the list is Walnut
Hall, zoo Ia, with ~. Last year Blngen,
2:O6 Ia, led with II. Second on the list
is Peter the Great (4(, 2:O7 IA. with 10.
Jay McGregor, ~ Ia now In Russia). Is
third. with ~. Mckinney, 2Il Ia. and
A a a IftaA In eNh
position with IS each. Bingen, 2:06 IA,
has 10 Axworthy 90, 215 1-2 The
Patchen Boy, p. (3). 210 "a, and Zom-
bro, 21l, have IL each; AllertOn. 200 Ia .
Directum Spier "a. 214 Id Joe Patchen,
p, 20l ID. and MokO, ii each, and Bingara,
The BOndsman, The Exponent. 21l Sd.
Vice Commodore, Pill. 10 each.
At the head of the list Of sires whose pre-
vious performances reduced their records
are Allerton. 200 Id, Bingen, FOG Ia,
and PrOdigal, 2:l6. all three OF whom have