New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
Colt Classic Listed
For North Randall
Champion Stallion Stake
Will Take Place During
Week of August 5
By Frank S. Cooke


vhof-greatest interest in the sport
now shifts to the colt classics, the first
of which is to be raced at North
Randall during the week of August &.
This event, the Championship Stall
lion stake, with an estimated value of
X,51375, brings into the contest all of
the good ones whose performances in
fsl7 as two-year-olds were brilliant,
and the three-year-olds that have
loomed up this year as 2:05 trotters.
When the last season ended with the
meeting at Atlanta. the fastest mile by
two-year-old had been done by Nella
Dillon, 2:06A. Followed in the order
Peter June, 2:o7A; Miss Dewey
Watts, 2:o7A. and Ruth Mainsheet,
2:0sA.
In view Of the form they displayed
on the race track, Nella Dillon and
Peter June stood out as the best. The
manner in which the filly trotted in
dicsted that she would train on, and
Peter June. being a growthy colt, had
the right to improve greatly with the
added year and weight to carry his
speed. Not great deal was heard
about the work done by the twain until
On Wednesday at Toledo, when "Pop"
Geers came out in the morning with
Peter June and after warming the colt
up he stepped him in 2:05A and back
IN 2:05. which came as a surprise to
the onlookers, as they did not know
Peter was so fsr advanced.
Nella DiIlon's Performance
At about the same time news drifted
from Philadelphia that Joe Serrill had
rovarad p,5io in C.noA Ill
Dillon, and it appears to be authentic.
If the FLY is that far along the first
Futurity Of the year will be a Won
der and they will beat 2:04, and per-
haps the worlds record, for there are
couple OF others that will be in the
hunt and make them 60 to their very
limit
Those who have watched the work
Of Chestnut Peter think he will be
Hollywood Bob won from him in
2:04sa at North Randall, but just sue
eeeded and Chestnut Peter went the
long mile on the outside, being sep
arately timed in 2:041s. Since then
Chestnut Peter has picked up couple
Of comparatively cheap races at Kala-
mazoo and Toledo, and the ease with
which he won in 2:08A and back in
2:o7A at the last named track is evi-
UeuCS Ol HIS Apklity " EdCS 1881.
The 2:08 trot, which is the stellar
event for aged horses, has had three
winners in as many weeks. Blanche
Carter gained the award in the Ohio
stake, Wilkes Brewer in the Paper
Mills at Kalamazoo, and Esperanza in
the Fort Miami at Toledo. Add to
them Bertha Mcclure and Mack
Forbes and there are five trotters
pretty vel! matched and capable of
IL
Bertha Mcclure won a heat in the
Toledo event and knocked the record
for four-year-old fillies down to 2:04A
in so doing. She raced hard right
through the event, but could not quite
reach. However, what she did is justi-
hcation for the opinions expressed
earlier in the season, and IT the To-
ledo race is what she needed she will
be very prominent and win some OF the
stakes before the season is over
The greatest race of the year was
the free-for-all pace at Toledo, it
being the only occasion on which three
heats have been raced faster than two
minutes. In the first heat William set
fast pace to the seven-eighths, where
Miss Harris NJ. got to him. But the race
was not over when she took the lead,
for Geers was teaming Single G. for
his life and that stallion was beaten
only neck in 1854.
After the heat Geers admitted that
he was paying most attention to Rus
sell Boy, as he feared that fleet horse,
and this is why he was four lengths
back of Miss Harris M. at the half.
Also when he pulled out in the stretch
he came through bit of soft going,
left by the rain of the day before, and
he says that when Single G. hit it che
just came back in my lap"
The manner in which Single G. won
the second and third heats in 1891
and 1:59A left no doubt as to which
OF the quartet was champion last Tues
day also it made plain the fact that
the new track at Toledo is the fastest
strip of dirt out of doors.
While Fred Jamison, when in good
health, can drive Single G. to the salts
faction of everybody, the victories
scored by the Indiana stallion at Kala-
mazoo and Toledo are conclusive that
he suits Geers and is just the sort of
horse for the grand old man, who
peat two minutes for the second time
IN his life in this race. the other fast
trip having been with Napoleon Direct.
Free-for-All Brigade
This coming week the free-for all
brigade will have it out on another
last oval, that at Columbus, and every
body looks for William to be a con-
lender either there or at North Ran
dali the week later. William showed
return to his old-time form in his
work this spring, but was sick at the
hrst meeting, did not start at the sec
ond, so he was a bit short at the third.
The speed shown by William in the
seven -eighths first of the heat was as
brilliant as when he raced in 1853 at
Columbus, and if he can carry it the
PRESENT record stands a chance of be-
Ing displaced.
Ante Guy, owned by Leo Ottinger,
OF New York, was a splendid two-year
Old, took last season off, and is back
again, justifying the opinion that has
neen held in regard to her. She beat
heir Reaper, that had won at Kalama
zoo, in 2:05&, and promises to rival
Bertha Mcclure and some others for
1our-yearold honors.
In very short time the Grand Cir
emit will be in the East. and in view
os the racing during these three weeks
very fine grade Of sport will be wit
Messed by the people who patronize
,he meetings at Philadelphia, Pough-
keepsie, Readville, Hartford and SYRIA
euse: The Philadelphia meeting opens
on August ~, and the outlook is for
even greater success than the in
sugural last year. Poughkeepsie also
Will have great week, for in addition
70 70 the horses now racing in the Mid,
ole West there will be a powerful
outpourng Of Eastern trotters and