New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

/ the two-in-three Will permit q horse
to start twice week without doing him
as much hurt as fighting out one five or
six heat affair
Very few of the half-milers have
! been won over to the modern style, but
! they will come in time when the buy
ers of betting concessions find that
there is no use kidding the track man
ayers any longer There viii be better
racing under this rule than the way
they have been going.
7. Willard Ready. of Niles. Mich,
who makes money. out of a capsule
factory and spends quite lot OF it on
the horses. has not had the generous
owners and breeders, but it looks as
though he has couple CT raro pros
poets right now.
Two five -year-old mares. each of
which took breeders record of 2:O9 y
last season, appear to have chance
to train on to greatness. Mr.. Ready
sent them to Hunter Moody, at Licking
ton, last year with instructions to
bring them along easily and give them
tin cup marks, all Of which was such a
simple proposition that each of them
should ramble off mile in 2:O5 or
2:O6 this year.
Betty Thornton, one of them. is by
The Northern Man, 2:O61a, very sue
cessful son of Todd, and is out of a
young mare by Jay McGregor, thence on
to Sorrento, one of the greatest of all
broodmares. Betty was kept in half
shape after her record fight of August
and during the Lexington trots she
stepped mile in 2:0715
Eloise Worthy, the other Of The pair,
is by Morgan Axworthy and her dam
is sister of the dam of Oscar Watts.
2:os&, both being by Virgins.
Kansas Feels Proud
Out in Kansas they are rather cocky
over the fact that three trotters with
marks of 2:05A were bred there, show
ing that Kentucky, New York and Ohio
Snyder McGregor, Orc and Heir Reap
er form the trio. The last named is
the veteran trotter that had been per-
forming in the bushes for half dozen
years then was sent to Geers for a
crack at the big liners.
Early in the season he beat some of
the best, winning himself out very
quickly and being one of the genuine
surprises of the season. Heir Reaper
has the honoE of trotting the fastest
of any eleven-year- stallion, none of
ten or more years ever equalllng his
mark, which fact the Kansans also can
paste in their scrap books.
All sorts of tables come out in the
winter, when the statistical friends
have nothing else to do. One of these
groups the champions in lots of ten.
and it is interesting through the alter
ations which 1918 made in the lists.
For instance, ten trottcrs have stepped
in 2:02 or better, and the additions
last season are Mabel Trask, 2:O1&.
and Lu Princeton, 2:02, both of them
driven by Cox.
Lu Princeton also gets into the list
of the ten fastest stations, while Mabel
Trask is joined by Miss Bertha Dillon
and Esperanza in swelling the total of
fastest trotting mares.
No gclding broke into the charmed
circle. Binland and Sweet Aubrey be-
came among the ten fastest trotters on
half mile tracks, Norman Dillon Joined
the best two car-old trotters, Holly
rood Bob Chestnut Peter and Nelia
Dillon, the feet three ar-olds, which
was a great gain, but the greatest was
in the instance of the ar-olds,
that list being recruited by Miss
Bertha Dillon, Ante Guy, Bertha Nc
Guirc, Kelly De Forest and Tacita.