The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-18
IRON MASK WILL CO
/ AFTER MILE RECORD
|Livingston's Great Six-year-
old to Be Sent Against
Salvator's Mark.
FAST AT SIX FURLONGS
New Time Set at Juarez Is
Declared to Be in Every
4 Way Correct.
FAST AT SIX FURLONGS

81 Iron Mask. which ran to world
,lrecord OF 1909 3-5 for six furlongs in
c,a match race with Pan Zareta at Jua-
Irez, Mexico, on January 4, will make
ian attempt to break the worlds record
Y for one mile of 80 l-2 established by
t|the great Salvador at Monmouth park
Ion August 2s, 1890.
a iron Mask will make his effort ell.
,Bber TODAY or next Sunday, il his train
Ier, Moe Goldblatt, can keep him on
4 edge, but, in any case, ne WIN oe s'a.e
fore the Juarez meeting closes on
The one hobby of jeff Livingston,
Iovner of Iron Mask, is his race horses.
La would rather win a stake race than
win the biggest bet ever made" he
n says. "I am human in my desire 10
have my portion of the worlds goods,
Y but ! would be willing to give my snare
y of the purse to charity for the pleas
are of seeing my colors flash under
Z fhe line first in a big race before a big
}erowd, That may be vanity, but. to
= nnraphrase the immortal Patrick Hen
ry. IF this be vanity, make the most
i| Tt is needless to say, then, that. Mr..
= livingston is more than eager TO nave
I his sterling horse break the world s
[ecord which has withstood the as
, |xauIts of many famous runners, and he
Il confident in the ability of Iron Mask.
Z Nor is his confidence based upon SEN
4 7iment alone.
In Fast Time.
/. In the race with Pan Zareta, which
y ron Mask won by some four OF five
Lengths, cased up, he showed a burst
.of speed which critics declared would
have Topped full two seconds of
q 1ISAlvator' s record, He stepped the nrst
y}the half.mile mark in 45 seconds, and
c<cased up in the last hundred yards and
broke the tape in loo 3-5.
N The watches show that he ran the
second quarter in 23 20 seconds and the
x'last quarter in "a 3-5 seconds, Even
,rossed np, he had 25 $40 seconds to
slfravel that last quarter IN order to
EQUAL the record made by Salvador on
q straightaway course with only ITO
6 -ooupds up. Iron Mask picked up rs
Mounds, and friends of Mr.. Livingston
Mbo witnessed the race have written
ITO him at New York that the horse
vas full Of running.
q In talking of the possibilities of
breaking the record Mr., Livingston
lid: "Several friends of mine have
Ffitteu that bad Iron Mask been rid
1ep out by LOTUS he would have
" laced the record still lower. When
|ohupy saw that he had the race we'll
ia hand he eased the big fellow off a
liz, content to rate at Pan Zareta s
|peed and win baodily. Iron Mask.
kpwever. was lust full of running and
kept fighting for his head. Had he
keen allowed to go ahead the three
psIters might nave been run almost
full second faster.
FULL of Running.
Coming to the tbree-quarters in
09 he would have had 26 l-2 sec
/nds TO race that last quarter, and,
#ith Lotus riding him out, there is
% doubt in the world that he would
ave wiped the old mark of the
&ooks.
tIron Mask is a fighter, too, That
/orse has Il heart as big as the moon,
md does not know how to quit Why,
u race at Louisville he was cut Just
#hpve the nigh forequsrter and the ton
1ns almost severed, yet he fought his
<1y TO the wire aud finished third.
Ne fairly staggered to his stall, and
<was a long time before he was able
n put his foot down, but careful treat
Went brought him around.
lie made his first worlds record
Douglas Park, Louisville, running
bree.quarters of mile, carrying 127
D//9unds, in lilo 4.5. Shortly after es-
. Rblishing that mark he WAS cut down,
nd We sbinned him to Juarez, where
IL Will remain until the meeting
AI|oses, ~
~ Jobuny Loftus, Iron Masks jockey,
LINKS the big horse is the greatest
zee horse in the world. In letter to
A in rycfa ho yrofa
= kbels ever attack the track we have
VI cause TO worry. I'll jump on old
a ask and run away from the bullets.
by, on the level, we fire gun to
rt him. and he always catches the
liet in the first eighth
rack Full Distance.
Ar, Livingston was much put out by
uggestlon that when his horse made
record last Sunday the track was
To disprove the statement he
the. track especially surveyed, and
engineers sent him signed state
by tpat it was right TO the iuch
ne suggests that any person doubting
correctness of the track at JuaTez
zee the matter in the hands of tho
key club, which would be glad to
e tne matter up, and in letter to
sporting editor of The Now York
IL Tbune. says:
As you know, my horse. Iron Mask.
: oke the world s record for three omar,
~ OF mile Sunday, January q 1a14,
y On your sporting page, under the
l. d of Iron Mask Sets Worlds Rec.
You had the following paraeranh.
n Records have been tumbling SO
q at the Juarez track that there ars
u ny who believe that it is a Bit sbort
q officials, however, maintain that Il
- BIC standard length -
facing horses with me is sportsman
- more than financial ramuneration
fhe, latter, is pretty near impossibls'
= ErefoYe, when am fortunate enonnL
wiz world Is championship rocosd
a. can readily understand that I feel
much Villa when I have Iron
have been asked a number Of
leg and have resolved several Ietters
A two telsgrams wanting to know n
~ e was any doubt about Iron Mask =