The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-07

Last winter the owner or June heN
| peddled her all over the country and
: no one would buy her as the ma jority
| of those who were looking for speed
considered her raced out Finally he
decided to send her to Geers and IN
! der his management no one can
! catch her She is now the big ace"
as she has four victories TO show for
! four starts
| In the first heat OF the three-year-
! old race at columbus, Joe Serriel sent
! The Divorce after Chestnut Peter,
! in all robability to learn Just how
! fast the Peter the Great colt could
/ step. He responded with a mile in
. 05 Ia and came back on the next
| two trips in 2:oT "a in one of which
Selka got the place and Peter Nonia
in the other.
! The two-year- old colt Brook Worthy
by Justice Brooks won his third race
at Monroe, \. Y in 2:22 IA.
The following item shows that the
! high cost OF living is beginning TO lose
! some of its terrors for J. Hooker Will
! son, who raced a stable OF trotters
and PAGERS through Pennsylvania a
/ few years ago: Mr. and Mrs. J.
Hooker Wilson, of North Rushvile.
/ Ind, boast OF hen which. every
morning, scratches at the door for
admission. Entering, she sits in
: large chair in the living room, lays an
egg and walks majestically back to
I the chicken yard after she has been
/ fed for her courteous service"
! The Boston Fair association has
opened eight late closing events for
its grand circuit meeting the last week
/ in August All hut one of the races
are for trotters. the classes selected
being Il free for all, 2,07. 2:ll, 2;l5
and three-year pstake with
selling condition as we'll as 224 and
2:l4 classes for half track per
I formers. The els class is the only
open event for PAGERS but a 2.04 class
may he added
The Valentine remount station is
getting 10 be a regular feature at
grand circuit meetings. At Toledo
when il began to look as If Cox could
not get all the speed that Nerlie
Patchen had on tap the judges re-
quested Charley Valentine TO come to
the rescue and he responded by de-
feating Peter Look. On the second
day of the meeting at Columbus the
Judges also handed him the mout be-
hind John Spencer after that horse
had lost three heats Valentine
promptly sent him to the front and
won. making all of the twenty TO one
tickets good to the delight of the field
players. In this race as at Toledo,
Dick Mcmahon was second. has
Columbus mount being Eva Bingen
Stout Bros shipped section of
their stable from Toledo to Monroe,
n Y. where they won with the Lord
Roberts gelding Lord Stout in 2;12 ! Il
and Hank Stout by Malcolm Forbes
in AIS "a.
When Miss Harris NJ paced in
1853 ia over the new track at Toledo,
O.. the fractional time for the mile
was as follows: first quarter. thirty
seconds; second quarter. twenty nine
seconds; third quarter, thirty seconds.
and fourth quarter. twenty whine and
one fourth seconds. In this heat Wal
liam led until near the seven lights
pole.
The tabulated pedigree of the three
year-old colt Hollywood Bob, 2:o4 IA
shows that he has n thorough bred
cross through both his sire and dam
Grand Sentinel, the sire of Peter the
Great being out of Maid of Lexing-
ton, whose dam was the thorough
) bred mare Rrownlock by imported
: l.eviathan. while Mystic, his fourth
dam. is by Jonesboro, q son of Lex
ington and Alice Jones by imported
Glencoe,
The PAGER Double G.. will be held
over for a trip through the grand
circuit next year He worked a mile
in 2:o7l-4, the last half in 1:01, dur
ing the Toledo meeting.
Fred Hyde won the three-year old
trot al Monroe. n, Y. last week with
the Guy Axworthy FLY Miriam Guy
in AIS after losing a heat to Lady
\ Brook.