Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-04
RACING RECORDS DUE TO GO
Directum l and William, PAGERS,
and Etawah and Peter volo,
Trotters, Should Do 1t.
SPORT COMING BACK ONCE MORE

Squirt CUNNING BACk ONCE MORE
NEW YORK. April s.--For several
years all worlds harness records have
been so low that II takes mighty horse
to win championship honors at either the
trot or paee. yet IN 1914 more than a
dozen new records of importance were
established, the turf having enjoyed such
particular stars as the PAGERS. Directum
1, William, r. II. Brett and Anna Brad
ford. and the trotters. Etawah. Peter
Volo and Henry Todd.
1t is hardly possible that so many new
records will be established this year as
in 1914. but it should be far more mo-
mentous year of record breaking for the
reason that the turf was never before so
well off in extremely fast trotters and
PAGERS that are just about due to reach
the flush of capacity. There will be as
spirited contest for the trotting stall
lion crown between Etawah and Peter
Yolo as occurred between Kremlln and
Stamboul in 1892, but their fights should
not compare with the battles that Direc-
tum 1 and William will wage for the
pacing crown that has for so long been
worn by Dan Patch,
While great things are expected from
both Etawah and Peter volo this year
and trotting horsemen will wager even
money that these young horses will re-
duce the Harvesters' stallion record of
2:01, not any horseman would place so
much as one dollar against the Standard
OIL company that either will set aside
the trotting record of 1:5S. made in the
open by uhlan three years ago. As the
years pass by turfmen realize more and
more what a matchless trotter the son
OF Bingen was before Mr.. Billings re-
tired him, and as a gelding's record his
-is, apt to stand for a. long, long time.
Nowadays. horses of superlative blood
and natural speed are kept entire, and
IL IA notable that the best unsexed trot-
tiers now In training are only four: Star
Winter 2:O5; Tommy Horn. 2:OFks Omar,
2:06h, and Brighton B, 2:O51k.
Twelve years have elapsed since Lou
Dillon placed the record for mares at
1:5sis. and since then only Hamburg Belle
has shown Championship possibilities.
Hamburg Belle died soon after winning
race record of 2:11k in 1900. The best
mafes in training this year are Juan,
2:o4k; Rythmell, 2:041, and Margaret
Druien. 2:O51k. The most likely trottins
mare that the turf has had since Ham
burg was destroyed in a fire last De-
cember This was Lady Wanetla, 2:1o.
that after a poor start last summer i'm
proved SO much in October that she was
separately timed in 2;041l at three years.
Lady Wanetka's flight of speed In the
Kentucky Futurity was so dazzling that
on all sides she was picked for a cham
pion at maturity.
Peter Yolo should beat the l-year-old
colt record of 2:03h, but with Lady Wa
netka out of the way the filly record
of 2:O4% seems fairly safe. There are in
training some fast 4-year-olds. such as
Lucille Spier. 2;O7%; Esperanza, zoe; Miss
Perfection. 2;o9h, and Josephine Watts,
2: O9st. and In California there is In train
ing a real trotting freak, the bay filly
Virginia Barnette. daughter of Moko and
the noted race mare Zephyr 2:O7k in
her only start Virginia Barnette at three
years raced against Star Winter, 2:O5;
Bertha Cary. 2:OsH, and other aged trot-
ters at Phoenix last November She won
the first heat in 2:OSk and was second to
star Winter in the next two, each under
2il0. Virginia Barnette is a willful filIy,
but In California It is claimed she pos
sesses as much speed as any trotter in
The 2-year-old colts and fiilies OF 1914
were considered common, but they were
in comparison with such phenomenal
as Peter Volo. 2:O45s. and
Lady Wanetka. General French 2:10A.
the fastest 2-year-old colt OF last year,
and Tommy Murphys fair, U. Forbes.
2i2h, and Silver Axworthy. do not meas
ure UP TO championship form, but II Is
possible for last years good 2-year-old
filiies to come dangerously close to the
record, which is 2;o61k. made by Native
Belle In 1910
asst year Native Spirit won a 2-year-
old record of 2:G9% and trotted a quarter
in % seconds. She is persistent trotter,
large for her age and Is in every way
the horseman's first choice among all
this years 3-year-olds. Bondella, 2:10,
was fast. but unsteady last year, so most
horsemen pronounce the Geers' filly,
Sparkle Watts, 21Olk. the next best
nlly. II was Gee-s that first beat 2:10
WITH 3-year-old. Fantasy 20S%. i'm 1893,
and he may have a word to say before
next October with the beautiful Sparkle
Watts. the first Juvenile he has consented
70 race in many years. The record for a
S-year-old gelding is Peter Thompson's
207s in 1911, and this is likely to be
beaten by the Boston trotter Henry Todd
With little racing experience Henry
Todd cut the race record for 2-year-old
geldings from 2;14t TO 2ll%, and he was
quite equal to a mile In 2;10 Henry
Todd is a race horse. II Is quite likely.
TOO, that a new mark Will be set for
geldings In the 4-year-class., Two years
ago the gelding Judge. Jones, by Prod
igal. placed the 2-year-old geldlng record
against time at 2:l2&. He was trained
only a little last summer. but is known TO
be fast young horse. and as Geers
has him in the training stable at Mem
phis again Judge Jones will be seen at
the races next July. II is likely that he
will reduce the record, as il is only 2:O7Ik.