The Washington herald., 1914-07-26
By l.. ID. SALE.

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The Grand Circuit has arrived. This
| week. Detroit.
To the Iight-harness horsemen, Grand
| Circuit events are annually looked for
ward to with intense interest As 1t Is
the highest ambition Of an English breed
er TO produce or own a Derby winner. so
/ does every lght-harness horse breeder
In the United States and the Canadas'
aim to breed or own q Grand Circuit
winner; for to him is given the highest
honors Of the trotting turf.
The ambition Of men leads them in
various directions. Some men dedicate
their lives to the achievement OF build
! ing up OF great industries; others to the
] requirement of q profitable law prac-
! tice; others would become great mer-
chant princes or kings Of finance; others.
| STILL would become great statesmen. But
1t cannot be said that any man, however
successful in either of these lines of
| human endeavor. derives greater per-
sonal satisfaction from his achievements
than he who breeds or owns a Uhlan, q
Dan Patch, a Baden. a Peter VoIo, a
Colorado E., or a Hamburg Belle.
At the opening of the Grand Circuit
Monday, four horses were conspicuous
Belwin. that has swept everything be-
fore him in the Michigan Short Ship Cir
cult. and who won the 2:24 trot; Grand
Marshal. who won the 2:o7 trot; Peter
Stevens, who won the 2:10 pace, and
Farmer Spears. who won two heats In
the 2:l1 trot In only one race the 2:II
trot. did Murphy drive horse to vic
tory, while Cox had to be contented
with third money in the 2.07 trot won
by Snow. Geers could get no better
than eighth position in the summary OF
the 2:lo pace, won by Peter Stevens.
Referring to Geers, Cox and Murphy In
last Sundays Herald, we took occasion
to say. that in spite of the fact that
they were supposed to have in their
stables the pick Of the horses of the
country, Il would doubtless be found
that horses would appear from other
stables quite as good as any they owned
or controlled. The result of Mondays
events proves the contention for that
one day, at least, and there will be
other days, before the circuit ends. when
the three best drivers on the Grand Cir
cult will be compelled to ride in the
rear.
The Edwards Stake. worth 5000 C2:io
pace). was the event OF Monday and
brought out fifteen horses, and Peter
Stevens, the winner. was compelled to
pace some fast miles to win. The first
heat was paced in 2:oS Il The second |
heat was paced in 2:o4 IA and the half IN |
I:O2. The third heat was paced in 2?06 Ia |
and the half In 1:o3. Peter the Great has |
sired numerous sensational trotters, and |
no real sensational PAGER. aside from |
Peter Stevens. But not all the honors |
of the event went to the son Of Peter |
the Great
Second, each trip. and the chaser-out, as /
1t were. was the black stallion Walnut /
Grove, by Constantine, 2:12 1-2. Constan-
tine was a race horse Of high merit and
is sire OF very great merit. His son.
Is the sire OF SOME high /
class PAGERS, 1t is wilkes Boy blood. and
that is the blood that can stand the pace
and 60 the route. The dam of Pen Mar /
Belle, 2:25 IA. is also by Constantine, |
2:l2 Il, and this fact should make her a
dangerous factor in a race where the
heats are split. We venture to predict
that between Cleveland and Grand Rapids
Walnut Grove will head a summary.
Snow, who teams Grand Marshal
and who won the 2:O7 trot with him
over a fast field at North Randall.
last, has evidently got a trot-
ter that will improve as the weeks go
by. His sire, Ess II. Kay, was a high
class race horse, and should have been
much better than a two-minute PAGER.
Grand Marshal beat some seasoned
.rotters on Monday, such as Geer' s
Andrews Newell, Cox's Mil
-oi. and Omar. who got second money
n the race. The time in each heat of
he race was not sensational as no
heat was trotted faster than 2:osK, the
Ilowest being in 2:0sK. The gelding
White Hat, who raced at Prospect Park
/ season or two ago and was ques-
ioned, made a good showing in the (
':11 trot. dividing second money with I
Peter Billiken as far as the race went.
The events Of Tuesday at North Ran
laIl. were even more sensational than
hose of the preceding day, and the
ime shown in some OF the heats trot-
ed will be Of a record-breaking kind
Tiewed from the standpoint Of extreme
peed. the 2:o5 pace was the star per-
ormance of the day. The three-year-l
Id champion PAGER of 1913, William. ,,
anded the race: but he had to pace /,
he first heat in 2:oz. and the second ,
n 2:02& to stall on DIR. Burns, jr. /,
'revious to Tuesday, no four-year-old
acer ever paced two consecutive heats
s fast as did William.
.
Season OF the year considered, the Z
hree-year-old 2:i2 trot was most ex-l 1
client performance. Andrews won II
nth Lee Axworthy In the time Of 2:os s.4 :
nd 2:oS. the fastest one heat and the I
astest two heats ever trotted consecu- :
Ively by three-year-oid in a similar s
vent. The winner il q son Of Guy Ak 1