Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-23
TUNING UP FOR
NEXT SATURDAY
Interest in Speed Events in Aft
ernoon at Exposition Park
Is Growing.
ADOPT THREE HEAT PLAN
Intention Is to Give This Thorough
Trial During the Early Part
of the Season.
BY RAIL BIRD.

Although the Miller Carnival com.
pany, showing at Exposition park this
week, has seriously interfered with
the preparation of the horses. never
theless some of them have succeeded
in working several good miles early in
, the morning bfore many people were
on the grounds to hinder their pro-
gress. This work early in the morning
| is not nearly so valuable for extreme
| speed as in the afternoon when the sun
! is bright and hot, but the trainers had
to make the best of it
Each workout day has seen the track
lined with railbirds who are anxious
to get line on the good ones for this
seasons races, each one of them with
a stop watch getting the time on the
quarters halves and full miles. Of
the trotters Tonic B. seems to have
taken their eyes. Although he has not
had as much training as Honor's Prin-
cess and has never acquired as fast a
mark most people who know the game
are picking him for a winner at the
Decoration day meeting. Some of
them refuse to make a choice between
the two horses and are of the opinion
it will be hard fought race between
the two. They are both level headed
and are always trotting when in a
race. II is a settled fact that each of
these horses will have to be racing all
the time to be in the money because
the other trotters entered in this race
are not to be thought lightly of. They
have trained hard and consistently
and are right now ready for a hard
race and this free-for-all trot is going
to be hard fought because there is a
lot of rivalry as to the respective mer-
it's of the trotting horses.
Herman Banker came near losing
his trotter Brown B. this week. After
very nice workout mile it was no
ticed that he was not acting right and
it was soon plain to be seen that he
was very sick horse. A veterinar-
ian was called who ordered him taken
to the hospital The latest reports are
that he is getting along nicely.
Harry RedIac Good Colt.
Harry Redlac, sired by Redlac, is
the best colt trotter that has been on
this track for some time. His owner,
Robert Waite of Reynolds, sent him
to Chief Miers last year to be broken ,
but had no intention of having him
trained for speed. After he had taken
the colt back to Reynolds and had seen
what a whirlwind trotter it was on
the road, he was sent back TO the |
track with orders to make a race
horse out of him. If the colt has no
bad luck this will not be hard to do. |
lie is well built, a good feeder and |
cannot be given too much work to suit !
him. He has a good chance to equal |
or reduce his sire's record when he
reaches maturity.
Miers had a good colt PAGER in
Fritz NJ, sired by Major Dahnus, until
he was taken sick with what seems to
be a disease prevalent among horses
this year They have bad cough and
a very high fever that takes the pep"
all out of them. Fritz NJ. has been
driven since he was a yearling. and
until he was taken sick was working
very fine He could pace through the
stretch like an old free-for-all PAGER.
He will be a good horse next year.
Trampof Conner.
Andy Brady's roam filly, Trampoff
by Trampfast, is gradually rounding
into form and gives promise of some
day being a right good trotter. She is
lne of those horses that develop slow
" and il is not their intention to race
her this year, except this fall if she is
right she may be started a couple of
times for education and next year
will be sent for the real money. They
are expecting The Striver to be a
good horse in the slow trots through
he Cedar Valley circuit. She is enter
I'd at WaVerly, Iowa.
Several out of town horse men have
;ignified their intention of comingf
lere to race Decoration day. The
prizes that are being offered are at
ractive enough that they can afford to
hip here if they are located within 80
,r IS miles of Rock Island. AS yet
nothing definite has been done by
hem. but as the entries do not close
Until the 29th they have plenty OF
ime. The classes are very liberal and /
hey will have no trouble in meeting |
he requirements to race here. Every |
nducement viii be offered by the
TO bring new horses into
he game.
Bobby Peterson's Ellingsworth [
Gems TO have the stuff of fast and {
anne PAGER in him. With little over
weeks training ne COulu step u nan
nile in I:l0. He is a long. strong a
aited fellow that can make the hob I
les snap with every stride. Buck f
'ifer is training like whirlwind. He S
Ikes TO work and each workout sees
i'm do a little better and develop just
little more speed. 1t is hardly ex- T
ected that he viii be able to beat the I
lder PAGERS when they meet, but he
vim give them a real good race and
as a good chance of winning at least S
nc heat Z
Three Heat Plan. q
Because the horses will race miles
nd it is early in the season for hard