The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-05
FINE RAGING ON BIC ROUTE
 IS PREDICTED
Grand Circuit Will Remain Un- changed With Two Meetings
 Carded For New England.
By W. H. GOCHER.

cult is the same as last year. It will 1 open at Cleveland July and move from there to Kalamazoo, Toledo and Columbus, after which there
 will be another weeks racing in 1 Cleveland before the horses are ship ped East to fill their engagements at Philadelphia, Poughkeepsie, Boston, 1 Hartford and Syracuse. It is follow ed by the two weeks meetings at Columbus and Lexington and a one
 week stand at Atlanta. The dates are:
 1 Cleveland, week of July '; Kala-
 mazoo, July 14; Toledo, July 21; 1 Columbus, July 28; Cleveland, Aug
 ust 4; Philadelphia, August II; Poughkeepsie, August IS: Boston,
 August 25; Hartford, September 1; l Syracuse, September s; Columbus, 1 Septernber 15 to 27; Lexington, Sep
 tember 29 to October Il, and Atlanta, 1 October 13.
 1 The nominations to the early clos | ing events for the first six meetings
 in the Grand Circuit show that prac- tically all Of the leading horses which were out last year will be
 raced in 1919, the. only absentees in 1 the free for all trot being St F'ris- ] co, who died in December and Miss 1 Bertha Dillon, who has been bred, i while there is a chance that Mabel l Trask will not stand training. Cox however, has a stout batt1er in Lu l Princeton, who made a record of 2:02 in his last race at Atlanta while Murphy is getting Ante Guy 1 ready to meet him. The balance of ' fn1 al -i@I
 sists of the Pennsylvania winner Bin 1 land, who may not be raced in the 1 East; Esperanza. and Harvey Ern-
 ests big mare Ina Jay, that came very near defeating Lu Princeton at
 Boston last August.
 The 2:O6 will be the leading class 1 event for trotters this year, and as l there are from eighteen to twenty l horses named in each one of them
 there will be a number of spirited 1 contests before the winners are an
 nounced. At some points Pop Gears 1 the dean of American reinsmen, has 1 named four horses in this class, his representatives being Heir Reaper.
 June Red, his leading money winner 1 last year; Gentry C., and the four l year-old colt Peer June, while l Murphy is depending on his new pupil Wilkes Brewer and Royal Mac
 Busy Lassie will represent the Cox 1 stable, and Mcdonald is naming the twelve-year-o geIding Early Dreams, who on account of his let
 up last year, is entitled to one sec
 ond time allowance. The other
 formidable candidates include the
 Shaw pair Prince Loree and Mack
 Forbes, the West Virginia trotter l Blanche Carter, the four-year-oId ! gelding Echo Direct and Alma Forb-
 es. who will make her first start at Toledo.
 The s10,OO0P purses at Hartford
 and Syracuse are for PIP trotters. ! Many of the horses that will start
 in them fill also appear in the 2:11
 trots at other points Lotto Watts is
 apt to be a favorite in several, and
 asS she won the Walnut Hall cup in 2:03 1-2, her chances look fosy. Murphy is naming her with her
 stable companions Peter Vaughn , who was on the retired list in 1918, and Constantine the Great. In these | classes Cox is naming Mignola, who is charged with ., public trial of 2:03 1-4; the four-year- old colt Me Gregor the Great, and the San Fran
 cisco gelding North Spur, who was
 up to a mile in 2:04 in 1917, and
 about eight seconds shy of the figure last year.
 Harvest Tide, after a years rest is back in the Mcdonald stable and is being entered freely together with Miriam Guy, Worthy Volo, Binworth King Watts, Jess Y, and Bonnie Del. The Southern mare Miss Woodbine is being entered in the 2:11 class and
 will no doubt appear in the 2:10 classes at a few paces. She is a sis ter to The Woodman, 2:05 3-4. with 1 which Ben Whitehead trimmed so l many good horses in 1917. and as she won all her twelve races last year, if her racing manners are per feet 1t will take a high class per former to catch her in the three heat