The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-26
REAL PACING RACES
EXPECTED THIS YEAR
Good Old Fashioned Battles Like
Those Of Decade Ago
In View.
TEN CANDIDATES TO VIE
Uncertainty as to Which Are
Best. but Some Should
Beat 2 Minutes.
TEN CANDIDATES TO VIE

Some real old fashioned free for all
pacing races like those that thrilled race
goers years ago should be features OF
this years mile track racing. The sport
will begin early In June when rejuvenated
Overland Park at Denver will offer $500
for a race between the horses OF this first
flight Of wigglers. At one time las,
summer IL looked as II there would be
some sport such as Star Pointer, Robert
j.. John X. Gentry and Joe Patchen fur
nished a decade ago. but the epidemic
! of catarrhal fever put on the shelf all the
prominent fast horses.
There are ten free for all PAGERS tina,
are being entered In the Grand Circuit
and II nve Of them stand the training
ordeal there should be some racing heats
this year around two minutes for the
first time in several years. The entered
horses are Evelyn W. 2 :00I. Flower
Direct. 201: Braden Direct. . :01ih,
FRANC Bogash. Jr.. 2:o1H. Earl Jr..
2;01 a.. Hal b.. Jr.. 2:o2h Directum l.,
2:02L Joe Patchen H.. 1904 Del Rey,
:0+i.. and Walter Cochato. 2 :O<. with
the exception Of Evelyn W. and Earl Jr..
the field does not contain an old horse
all the others being young and fresh and
apparently not yet at the zenith OF their
racing careers.
1t Is singular in view OF the fact that
every one of these horses has raced for
WV ytuih at itdSE tHdt There IL no muCn
uncertainty as to where the real racing
class lies among them. no one ever having
shown where he had particular edge on
any other performer. The big stallion
Joe Patchen ii. IL as much OF an enigma
as he was two years ago. when he swept
the turf with fifteen victories and one
second money out OF sixteen starts for
earnings Of $4,000. The only line the
public has as to the full measure of his
speed was in a trial In the fall OF 1912
OF . :o0a4. but horsemen doubt II he can
equal that in race.
Beyond bubble John Buffers young
chestnut stallion Directum l. Is better than
a two minute PAGER and with IL Is a race
horse. In twenty starts he has won
eighteen victories. and when twice beaten
was not actually defeated. having been
drawn both times on account OF sickness
He has won in 2.02s on half mile
track. and in e.0oi. on a mile track under
wraps The son Of Drectum Kelly is
receiving his early spring preparation
Benson. who was brought up in the
school OF Budd Dobie and who also
trained the Butler thorouEhbreds. The
free for all this year will decide the much
mooted question AZ to the superiority Of
the Western stations Joe Patchen II. and
Braden Direct. The public has awaited
the meeting OF the pair for two years
now and in all probability they will clash
at North Randall when the Grand Cir
cult opens on July 20.
Although Braden Direct was the lead
ing free for aller last summer and re-
duced the worlds record for a hve-year-
old 10 9.oli II. stone bruise In the June
training season was setback from which
he did not recover entirely all year. Frank
Bogash. Jr.. will have to he reckoned with
not so much because he won ten races
and six second moneys. all his starts, last
year with winnings OF $4,000, but more
because he paced a fifth heat in :O1x In
race and because he was fresher and
faster in his sixteenth race than in his
initial start. Evelyn w and Flower hi
rect are the only two mares that will BE-
raced In the free for alls as IL finally
has been decided not to bring the Cali
'fornis mare Leata j., o:o3. across the
mountains this year. but both mares
utes in contest II is hardly probable
that Walter Cochato. Del Rey and Hal
r.. Jr.. have the class to win IN this fast
company. but Earl, Jr.. lis one that Is apt
to take the measure of Dirrctum l.. Bra
den Direct or Joe Patchen II. at any
time. He is "the Kingston Of the trot-
ting turf, having been raced for six con-
secutive years, during which time ne won
thirty-seven brackets. was placed twenty
SIX times and unplaced only twice. This
gray stallion has learned the racing game.
and il the hardest horse in the free for
all division to defeat.