The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-05
From Trotting World

Like all new tracks the one at To-
ledo was very fast. This can be at
tributed to the vegetable fibre which
is still In the soil, making the footing
firm and at the same time elastic.
1t soon disappears from a course
after 1t has been spr;nkled, narrowed
and pushed and nothing grown on It
for a year or two. In the spring OF
1908 Charter Oak park, which was
built in 1874. was cut up and sowed
to rye This grew until the middle
of August, when 1t was turned under
with a disk harrow and the surface
worked back into racing condition.
The first meeting over 1t started on
Labor Day, when Hamburg Belle
won the Charter Oak purse, trotting
the three fastest heats on record up
to that date. For harness racing the
smooth, hard surface makes the
fastest track. While a. top cushion
may take the jar off the stroke of the
horses racing over 1t, the loose soil
makes considerable resistance to the
wheels of the sulky. II is on that
account that a clay track Is the fast
est With favorable conditions it Is
possible to prepare a strip of footing
as smooth and as hard on the surface
as a belt. This is the kind of foot
ing that Directum l. had when he re-
duced the Hartford track record to
1853 la. On that day Murphy start
ed him to beat two minutes and did
not chase him away at top speed, the
fractional time for the first half be-
ing 1900 Ia, and the first quarter
80 IA seconds. The following week
at Syracuse he was fortunate in get
ting exactly the same kind of a track
and paced in 1855 "a. II is possible
to get almost the same kind of a
surface on the loan track after a
hard rain before the moisture has
had an opportunity to evaporste, as
was shown at Poughkeepsie last year.
when St. Frisco trotted in 2:0l ga
Frank Bogash Passes-
The. death of Frank Bogash at Fort
Wayne. Ind. last month recalls the
trips which he made through the big
circuit with Centlivre Bros. horses in
the nineties. He swung on to the
mile rings with the handsome black
stallion. Atlantic King. which he
drove to a record of 2.oe IA ar
Nashville, Tenn. in 1892, in one of
the few races that Major Dubois ~
Denver. Colo. won with w. W. P.
the brown gelding Barney by Barney
Wilkes being between him and the
winner In that event. The same
year Bogash also raced little bay
mare called Mary Centlivre and gave
her a mark of 2:l2 in nine heal
race which Alvin Smith won at the
Pittsburgh grand circuit meeting. The
pacing stallion Frank Bogash. how
ever, -as his best pupil. He was by
Atlantic King out of Nellie Gray by
Almont Pilot and made a record OF
2;03 "a in the race In which he de-
feated Anaconda, Searchlight and
Chehans at Providence. r. l.. in 1900
After Centlivre Bros. stopped racing
this horse drifted from one owner &c
another until he landed on farm
near Sherbrooke. Quebec, where he
sired Frank Bogash, Jr., so IA. Be
fore that clever PAGER appeared. how
ever, his sire was gelded and sold, IL
being reported that he passed the last
of his days like the sire of Ross B..
2:o4 Ia, pulling hack.
Baubee Winners.
SO long as fast horse enjoys good
health and is usefully sound, he al
ways has a chance to make trip &c
the races This was we'll illustrated q
few weeks ago by the performance d
Prince Loree, who is in a measure sc
far as his career Is concerned, al
most a second edition OF Bronson
Myrtle r., the dam of Bronson. was
bred by a small farmer named Con
key near North Randall, Ohio She
was by Monaco. brother OF Wedge
wood. and was prepared for her
races over the Forest City farm
track. Myrtle r. had shown so wei
for green one that wires were al
laid for killing AT the Cleveland fall
meeting in 1891 when she was to be
turned loose for the benefit of those
who had put in many a busy hour
getting her into racing form. Every
thing looked very favorable unit
Colonel Edwards gave the word
When he did a Buffalo trotter named
Mabel A. swished out In front and
won off the reel No one ever sus
pected there was anything wrons
with the race until the people whe
controlled Mabel A. showed an un-
due haste in collecting the winnings
while in the interval DR.. Day hap
pened to meet her driver and recog
nized him as the outlaw, Bill Wright
The black geiding Billy Landi:
worked a mile in EOS over Charter
Oak park a few days ago. He is s
free-legged PAGER by Nelson Margravt
out OF a mare by Spanish Cavalier
that was started by Frank Wicker
sham in a few races last year. wher
he picked up a heat in 2;l5 Ia u
Windsor. Conn, in a race that wal
won by Silver King.
Stacking the Great American Thirst
When the wiser ones among tho
brewers first began warning theil