Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-18
new members
May Be ADDED
GRAND CIRCUIT
Stewards Planning to Extend
Big Ring in South; Move
ment for New AssoCia-
ton Started.
BY H. K. WHITFIELD.

Several times in the past endeav-
ors have been made to extend the
Grand Circuit in the south, and now
that the season has closed, this mat
ter is again being talked of. Sew
eral towns have been mentioned,
either to follow Lexington or At
lanta, among them being Memphis,
Nashville, Jacksonville, Birming-
ham, Macon, Shreveport, New Or
leans, etc. All of these cities seem
to offer excellent opportunities for
the extension Of the big ring in their
part of the country, and it is not at
all unlikely that some arrangements
will be made at the annual meeting
this winter, which will add one or
more members to the circuit, thus
carrying the racing up to November
| or larer.
Nella Dillon Leading Winner.
Figures on the money winners in
the Grand Circuit the past season
furnish some interesting study. A
total of 1876 trotters entered the
money winning list with amounts
from SIS up to their credit. Nella
Dillon heads the list with total
of $l5,9l425, which she won in three
races, while Ante Guy is not far be-
hind with $l3,7l5 and Princess
Loree is a close third, having won
$i3,595.
The season just closed was lack
ing in anything bordering on the
sensational, especially among the
PAGERS, and had it not been for the
performances of Miss Harris NJ,
and Single G., there would have been
practically nothing for the Stats
ticians of the turf to change in the
tables of 1917.
Among the trotters, it was the
aged performers who made the SEN
sations, neither the two or three
year-olds doing anything out of the
ordinary. But two youngsters beat
the 2::l0 mark in 1918, they being
Brusiloff, 2:0S4 and Princess Eta
wah, 2:0oA, but when their per-
formances are compared with some
in the past, they look rather tame.
The real star among the aged per-
formers was Lu Princeton, who, a
couple of years ago, was considered
by many as sort of lemon. Un-
der the handling of Walter Cox in
1917, the white faced stallion took a
record of 2:04H, and the past sea-
son he came to the front as the real
star of the Grand Circuit, winning
eight races out of II starts, and beat
ing that wonderful trotter, St. FRS
co, five times.
New Parent Association.
/ The next event of importance in
the light harness world of the mid
die west, is the Chicago sale, the
week of December 10. The sale
this year is of more than usual in
terest inasmuch as meeting OF
horsemen has been called to take
up the matter of forming a new par
ent association. Space will not per-
NIT the publishing of all the de-
mands incorporated in the first
draft of the rules, but it is suffi-
cient to say that they take in a
large range of territory. The idea
seems to be to form an association
to buck the American and National,
and while a number of their de-
mands are good, others are rather
laughable. For instance, one of the
things they pay particular atten-
ton to is mo more drunken
grooms."
Death of Al Sweet.
Horse interests of Iowa and the
middle west lost a real supporter
Of the sport when CAP Sweet Of
Sioux Rapids, Ia, died on October
%. For nearly a quarter of CEN
fury he had been a familiar figure
on western tracks and had estab-
lished a reputation as a trainer and