The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-16
SETS new RECORD
Nebraska Horse PAGES Mile in
2:Os1a Getaway Day.
Final Card at Big Free Fair the
Best of All.

Columbia Fire, big. vicious bay
horse from Lincoln, Neb.. driven by
Billy Stantz, broke all speed records
on the Big Free Fair track Friday.
when he Tapped up a mile in 2:OS1 Il in
the third heat of the free-for-all pace.
the best racing card on the weeks pro-
gram The previous record was 2:091z.
made by Baron K. an Ohio horse, in
1903. Columbia Fire got away easily
with the heavy end of the $500 purse
in the free-for-all, winning three
straight heats by a wide margin. In
all except the last heat. Stantz made
no effort to distance the other three
horses until the last quarter when he
speeded up the bay and always came
under the wire first.
In each heat the Lincoln horse
broke a record. In the first heat he
spun around the mile in 2:1OK, break
ing all previous pacing records for the
week. In the second heat he tied the
| track record made by Baron K.
| His Record Is 2:O3L.
Columbia Fire has a mile track rec
! ord of 2:03A. At Lincoln last week
he went mile in o:07Ia on a track
no better than Topeka's course.
| The Lincoln horse may win honors
in this world but in the next his own
ers predict an awful punishment. He
is one of the meanest tempered horses
on the circuit. The audience saw a
| u QlSpldyS OIL temper IN FIJI
days exhibition.
May E. Pick Second.
May E. Pick, a Burlington horse,
who has been on the circuit for years,
took second money by winning three
seconds and one fourth. Miss New
sure took third money and Lottie
Russell, fourth.
Three years ago, Getaway, 10 years
old, was just a common cattle pony
mixing with a herd on the Oklahoma
plains Thursday, he took first in the
$3.50 purse of the 2:17 pace and won
his thirteenth race of the year. In
the first heat Getaway came in third.
, with Gladys G, owned by "Old Man"
Jewett, first, breaking all previous rec
ords of the 2:17 pacing events of the
week. The time was 2:14. Tiberas
came under the wire third. In the
next three heats Getaway paced under
the wire first, always by narrow
margin over Tiberas, who took four
seconds. Gladys G took third money.
Time of the four heats: first, 2:14:
second, 2:14 "; third, 2:151s; fourth,
2:16k.
General Francis Won.
In the first heat of the 2:12 trot,
purse $3.50. General Francis, a Dallas.
Texas. horse driven by Powell. won
first by a narrow margin over Mightal-
lion. Droheda was third and Miss
In the 2:12 trot, second heat, Gen
era1 Francis again won; Mightallion
second; Droheda. third; Miss Omar.
fourth. The horses all finished in the
same order in the first heat Time.
2:16A.
In the final heat General Francis
got away with the long end of
a $3.50 purse in the 2:12 trot, when
J he Won his third consecutive heat
Mightallion took second money.
, Droheda third. Miss Omar. fourth. In
the third heat, General Francis was
first; Mightallion, second; Droheda
! third; Miss Omar fourth. Time
2:16 Il. General Francis won easily
and loafed in on the last quarter.
Running Races Fast.
3 War Bride, ridden by Williams. a
,, 93-pound jockey, won easily in the
i half mile dash. Time, 50k seconds,
two seconds from the worlds record
3 Little Dan. Perry up, took second.
8 and Underbrush, Samples up, third.
Gray's Favorite, VINO won the five
+ eighths miles consolation Thursday.
Z came in first in the three-uuarters
: mile dash. Mckenzie, who rode Blue
> to victory in the Kansas Derby, came
5 in second, and Shine D, Anderson up.
/ third.
3 Practically all of the horsemen
!, here planned to go to Hutchinson and
: Abilene today Some left Friday night
1 with their stables
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