New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

boys. After beating Ina Jay in a race
with Straight Sail, he came back and
trimmed Busy's Lassie, Bacclli and
others in the Chamber of Commerce
Stakes at Columbus with that mare,
| which has mark of 2:04A. and since
then has joined the ranks of brood
| mares.
He won eight out of nine with Little
Frank D., marking him in 2:02A, and
such is his opinion of this gelding that
Valentine has named him in the free
for-al1 events that are early closers.
Another good sidewheeler for him last
year was Baxter Lou, 2:03A. that won
nine events on his trip.
Strong This Season
AS usual, Valentine is training at
Columbus, and his stable is numerous.
In addition to Little Frank D. and
classes the black mare Mary Rosaline
Parr, 2:05A, that arrived late last
year. but made it plain that she only
has started coming along. In
fact, Valentine thinks she is about tho
best thing in sight for the 206 classes.
! A new PAGER in the stable is I'm. 2:O9A
that won raft of races last year
and brought long figure in the auc-
tion ring.
The trotter Prince Vincent, 2:15h,
is coming along nicely, working a mile
trainer. There is three-year- pac-
ing colt, Cochato Banks, that is in all
of the stakes and looks to be ripe and
ready. He is out of Hazel Banks,
2:10A, dam of Judge Ormonde, 2:O11s,
! and Wydrad, 2:041a. and as Valentine
marked all three Of them, he is pretty
well up on the family traits.
Valentines chief rival for fame in
the Columbus colony is "Speck" Ers-
kline, better known on the small tracks.
Erskine has the best stable Of his
OF the big ring fray.
While Valentine has nothing for the
2:oo trots, which are the headliners of
most OF the meetings, there is plenty
OF Ohio talent in this class.
Cleveland a Bidder
Cleveland is sending forth num-
Der. and it is possible that Valentine
| may tlgure in connection with one of
them. The Toddler, owned by Harry C.
Stlnson. Stinson himself figured as the
! had the peerless Sadie Mac Chat
dropped dead at Hartford) in the
stakes, winning some of the big things
that year. Also, he won Doth Two and
three year old futurities with Ken
| tucky Todd when he was training for
Miss Katherine Wilks, of New York;
won the Champion Stallion Stake with
Don Chenault and the Matron Stake
with Mary Celeste. Stinson is son
OF X. c. Scope" Stinson, rated by many
as the best driver that ever came from
| Canada.
The Toddler is by Kentucky Todd.
and has had comparatively easy work
Tor three years, fitting him for the
STAKES. He won some races in 1916
and last year Stinson turned him over
70 valentine to drive at Columbus and
North Randall, where he won his
starts. Later he made three trims
around 2:O5 at Lexington, and Stinson
says ne is the fastest trotter he ever
nad, which must be taken for some
Ihlng. Stlnson trains at the Left Over
farm: RAJ near North Randall. sticking to
the, farm track until he is ready tn
tackle the oval where they do business
\, Among the horses now being fitted AT
North Randall one that is the subject
OF much concern is the black ~eld;no
Mack Forbes, 2:06A, being drilled inte
shape by Mike McDevitt. Mack Forhes
IS SIX years old, and in his four-vear.
ola form ne won half a dozen races
on the half-mile tracks and record
OF 2;lSA. Last year he started where
ne left Off, and could handle the best
o,1eteis o,1o1s on inc ONO circuit, racing in
S:i2A when he beat Martinos at To.
lcdo. He won all of his seven s+orte
on the small tracks. N''- ''
Proves Ability Early
Just how Mack Forbes would limo y,
IN mlle track was q. question. but
IL was answered quickly enough at the
hrst North Randall meeting when hs
won in 2:0SA. He went back to the
small ovals and again nit the Grand
Circuit at Syracuse, where he won a
neat, and later at Columbus he tool;
his record of 2:O6A in race wh;ch
went to the veteran trotter Ross ~ p
This preparation is thought to havo
htted Mack Forbes for the biz doinr,
CT 1918, for which he is being shancd
by the man who has the UNIQUE dis
tinctlon of having driven four +rot
ting mares in better than o.os y,
races-Joan, Lillian R., Grace and M;ss 90,
Directed. Joan, 2:O4A, is safeiu VIII, ,iHs
foal by Peter Nc, 2:031s, the Son 'e'l of
Lillian X: Not long ago Dude Avon.
GAZE 2;o3A, had foal by Etawah
sS:o3, winch recalls the desperate fiph}
~ nee"een r en- Joan an and Dude Archdale down
'"I r;ua Ha"itu y; olrcuit few years ago.
Joan was the victor, although in everv
one of these affairs Dudie Archdo1oo y
was favorite. The climax was in ,e the
pennsylvania at Lexington. Dnd;o
Archdale was in front when theu ,,
reached the threc-quarter pole. any
coming around the others Joan stennad
up to and past the other mare, When
Geers dismounted he said to the writa.
that he had never Witnessed such n
burst OF trottng speed as that shown
by Joan, when she overhauled his
'pinky doodle" trotte-. That was
what Frank G. Jones alwavs calisS
Dudo. '"neo
Charley Dean, one Of the most NON
ular and able of the Western trainerrs rHr
Is doing an odd job at his track ;n a.
Pa!atinc, Ill. In the long ago Dean
had whirlwind PAGER in The Bronchn
2:ooA, and when it looked az thourh'
her racing days wero over she went
into the harem. Now the old mare sis ;s
so clever that Dean is training her
IN anticipation of setting new mark
ior twenty-year-olds with her, and il
Is confidently expected that She will
pace around 2:07 this summer. "'
AT the. same time the primary
class at the Dean school includes The
broncho's three-year-old colt and two
year-old filly, both Of which ara
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