Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-23
THE DODGE TROTTERS,


 The amateur driver. John L. Dodge who has been in the money in each of the sixteen races in which he started his three trotters this year and won nine of them with Hollywood Kate and Periscope, is a native of Groton, Conn He drifted from there to New York where after acquiring sufficient wealth to satisfy an ordinary mortal, horses at Hollyrood Farm. Middle town, N. Y. and afterwards spread his ventures to a farm in Kentucky and another in Georgia.
 In the interval he also appeared on the New York speedway behind a number of horses. his most successful wagon performer being the pacer Re dinda which George West drove to a record of POT 1-4 over the kite track at Independence, Iowa, in 1897. This mare is also the tap root of the Holly rood Farm racing stable. her daugh- ter, Fanny Stanton, 2.10 IA. being the dam of Hollywood Bob, 2.o4 3-4. the fastest three-year- old trotter out in 1918, Joe Dodge, the sire of that splen- did race mare Hollyrood Kate. 2.05 IA which has won six out of seven races this year. and Hollyrood Eebe the Hollywood Naomi. 2.06 1-2. whose con- tests with Mignola and McGregor the Great are rated among the leading features of this seasons campaign.
 After enjoying a good dinner at Tommy Murphy's cottage on the day prior to the opening of the 1918 Poughkeepsie meeting. MT. Dodge said: T began breeding trotters with the Bingen family and got plenty of speed in King Cole and Fanny Stan ton, but like nearly all of the first Bin- gems, they would jump when pinched. In addition to that every wise body said that I was a very poor driver so decided to switch to a breed that did not make mistakes selected Peter the Great. In the first crop of foals I got Hollywood Bob and Holly rood Naomi and I liked them so well that I purchased Lady Wanetka out of Walter Cox's stable. She was de- stroyed by fire after I refused twice what she cost me, while Hollyrood Bob won in 2.O4 3-4 and Naomi is al fashioned eight day clock. Now ev- erybody says that I am very fair teamster.'
 The conversation was taken up again on the first day of the Boston meeting this year. The water was dripping off the roofs of the stables and while waiting for the rain to stop, MT. Dodge said: "Hollyrood Kate keepsie. She won in 205 14 eased up all the way through the stretch. Il never saw 8 trotter step a mile as fast with as much ease as she did that there was not something in the field to force her out. Hollywood Naomi has, however. plenty of company. At Cleveland the judges called me into the stand and asked why I did not make a better showing against Mig nola after he had trotted a last qur- ter in thirty seconds. I had to come from behind and trotted the quarter in twenty nine and half seconds to catch him while he was going com fortable even at that clip. After that race Naomi hooked up with McGregor the Great at Kalamazoo and Toledo. fraction as well as at the Cleveland August meeting, Philadelphia and Poughkeepsie With Cox's four-year old out of the way she would look oven better than Hoilyrood Kate.'
 Periscope. the third trotter in the Dodge outfit. is a product of Ham burg Place, She was bred by John E. Madden, who put her in the show window for sale after she won two- year-old event at the inaugural meet ing of the Grand Circuit in 1918 in z.10 3-4 from First National. Brusiloff and Brother Peter. All of the scouts kept looking her over as the stables