The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-25

Since the Pastime Stable Of Ceve-
land. owner of the star colt Lee Az
worthy. 2:0s, issued a challenge for
a three corn.red rare for stakes OF
$1,000 each, play or pay and the winner
to take all. against those marvellous
trottlng machines. Peter Nolo, ;o3 "a
and Etawah. 2oS[. tho matter has
assumed tho shape where It is now
probable that Peter Volo will race
against tho challenger AT the North
Randall Grand Circuit meeting next
July.
The Challenge was one OF thu boldest
ever issued, since Peter Nolo defeated
Lee Axworthy every time they met last
year, and as Etawah corclusively proved
in six starts last year that he Is the
best trottlng stallion the turf ever
knew. not barring Cresceus or The Har-
vester. The supreme confidence which
relgns In the winter training camp At
Townsville. Ga, where Lee Axworthy
Is taking his work and which has been
visited this winter by many notable
Oliver II. Payne OF New York. is due
to the manner In which the four-year-
old is working and 10 the wonderful
proportions ne has grown into as
type of an ideal racehorse. II is main
tained that II Lee Axworthy last year
could be transformed from a discarded
trotter into a . :05 racehoTse within tho
course OF six months his improve
ment will be even more marked this
year. Indeed fully six weeks ago Billy
Andrews. who has had such giants OF
tho turf as Hamburg Belle, Sweet Ma
RE, Tonara and John r. Gentry, pro-
claimed this colt a candidate for tho
stallion crown. which rests at 2;01.
Lee Axworthy is not large. but he
has a rapid trip hammer like stroke and
can carry his speed from wire 10 wire.
That he will have to improve materially
to beat Peter Nolo the FASTENERS con
cede. yet they point to the fact that
he is the only trotter that so far has
been able 70 straighten Peter Volos
neck in brush through the stretch.
and in the Futurity AT Lexington last
October he all but nipped the big son
OF Peter the Great AT the wire.
The Pastirne Stable is owned by II,
X, DevereuX, president Of the Grand
Circuit: =. W. Harvey and Coburn
Haskell, also OF Cleveland. and by Frank
II Ellis, the wealthy Philadelphia turf
man who owned and raced Rysdyk
Hambletonian's fastest daughter, Nettie.
. rs, more than forty years ago. Ever
since Peter Volo trotted In :04h at
two years he has been pronounced the
greatest trotter OF all time. and all
through last summers Grand Circuit
many astute followers OF tina turf would
have wagered that he was the peer OF
Etawah. Whenever called upon TO race
from the start and beat ::o5 ne was
never In difficulty and nobody yet knows
his true capacity,
has started Notwithstanding his roc
ognized greatness there has al
ways been a good price about him
In the auctions. Those who believe
that Lee Axworthy has o chance to
beat the Peter the Great four-year-old
figure that the little son of Axworthy
has most of his turf career in the future
| whereas Peter Volo has had so much
done to him that he may not come on
Peter Nolo was trained into n yearling
worlds champion, ? :l9, and no trained
on to worlds records OF ;0tla at two
and ;03 II at three years OF age 1t Is
true though that Peter Nolo was sounder
at Lexington last October than the year
previously. yet II was quite generally re-
marked THAT he was not In the form that
made him the outstanding horse OF the
, midsummer racing season. Tommy
! Murphy has absolute control OF the rae
ing qualities OF the colt. and AZ he
will not sidestep the challenge the colts
will come together perhaps on July 81.
and when they do the contest will ma r X
| the first great stallion race that has
taken place in many years
! 1t 10 quite certain for two reasons