The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-26
fjl|it CIRCUIT SERIES
nlD SUCCESSFUL YEAR
Nv ". n. GOTtHER

s4 The forty sixth renewal OF 'he
Grand ,ircuit teries closed al Atlanta
October IS after a run OF ht.een
weeks. during which there were th'r-
teen meetings. AT which sTo races
vere contested or that number fee
were for trptters, in which there were
11sa starters. and l0< for PAGERS. IN
which the starters ran M 10 'z''
snak,nr n total Of 1890 for III" sea
scn
re. these events the premiums fof
frotters amounted TO s23e ,et' az ana
for PAGERS 10 sl56 37s 10. making
grand total for the year OF @@no''
xssss Rainy days Kept this amount
frrm running over half rllilon
During the frs; FIVE meetings IN"
weather was very favorable tor rae
ing. but after the horSeS arrived ~
Phila ielphia someone upset tn" ram
barrel and II never got back tnto po-
sitiop during the balance 90 the sea
con Two DAYS were checked on N"
lis; al Belmont park as wen as AZ
rouchkeepsie and Hartford. WINE
Boston lost almost thrF" aHd syria
cus~ almost two nine rar"7 e"l0g &c
rfarcd of AZ that point The Colufn
bus September meeting "aS Also
hammered by the weather. hut man
aged 70 give ali Of its program. while
q colt race was all that was skipped
nj Lexington. At Atlanta the curtain
fell on the series in the rain with
the loss Of one days program
The series Of 1919 runs the number
81 meetings given ny members of the
Grand circuit In fortv-sis years up
70 4e,. at which the premiums
y s-A
ford is now the senior member and
Toledo tho Junior. while Cleveland
alone remains Of the four which
Eart~d the organization In 1878. At
the start its meetings were held over
the golden oval at Chenille, hut were
Transferred 10 North Randall in 1909
when the present course made its
bow 70 the racing world
While the average rate NJ speed
was faster in 1919 than in 'he past
there has been very few sensational
performances except among the aged
scmA might call them old horses
Single G.'s heat in 1853 Ia AZ Toledo
WAS the only one recorded below two
minutes while Lu Princeton leads the
frotfers with time record Of Of
and a mile In 2 90 in dash race. All
turns in, 1873 when Sinrl" = and
Miss Harris NJ placed the three heat
race record for n@rers below. th" two
minute line. while both Mabel Trask
md st. Frisco won heats in 81 "a
The in fury sustained by Ante Guy In
her second race. no doubt. kept the
tre'te-s from making a neu- mark.
hut All that can be said for the pac-
ere i~ that thev could not step up
to sAs rev standard
OF 'he old frotters Het- poaner
Fa-iv Dreams Rnval Mack and Mig
nnia were the leaders The frs' nam
ed -ow twelve ve#r p id Wnn In
Sn4 IA at Kalamazoo. ROYAL Mack.
eleven wears old made hir third trim
th~oneh the circuit frd won in
e0+ "A ~ Toledo ard lexington
whore rarlv Dreams ua'e new
record for horses of that a~o when
he showed ir from uNr~nr"' @IiV in
7.hs I =. At the game time ht- lse
rcaae = Jew worlds record for geld
ines which was euuallef h,- prince
Tsorea in the Transvlvaria Ai+n ola
fe- We" re old marched like con
uuerine hero from the oneuirG meet
inp OF the Grand circuit until he
nr'isf IN lame a. Hartford where
has was defeated in the Charter Oak
ruren by Mariondalr ~" WIS started
in ten races of which he won mine
asS made s~-r~cer,t of. esot ~ M
one ever sa~ = better t~otto~ than
the ha-dsome son Of Allnrton
Mctsrcgor the Great proved the
leading money winner OF 1918 He
won twelve Of his fourteen races
Marionda,e defeated him - tho first
Cleveland meeting ard in the Massa =
chusetts purse at Bovton hut he
more than offset those Sins by his
brilliant race AT Syracuse. whore he
ven IN f.et IA and follow ed II by A
sw~sn rom that point ~ Atlanta.
Direct c. Burnett leads the nae~rs
IN the dollar column He won eleven
o. his hften races After his first start
~ f.ftvtha Hd ~ eyt. ne 'xaS drawn
he looked TO be unbeatable until
Grace Direct caught him on his SEC
ond appearance mt Lexington. This
was followed by two more losing
performances at Atlanta where
Frank Dewey after a run in it's field
FOR eleven weeks flashed out in from,
IN 2.ei Ia. while in his second race
ne lost TO Sanardo. his stable com
fanion.
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