The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-07-25

Rex lowered his mark Of ;Oek. made
In 1918, to 2i04k, In winning the :0b
race. Royal Palm Ia another fast one
to the credit OF Peter the Great, who
now has fourteen representatives with
trotting records OF 2:0b or better. This
one was bred by John Il. Madden, and Is
In the stable OF Valentine. He is a
four-year-old bay colt from Elsie Ley
burn, 2;27%. dam Of tho great trotter
Jack Leyburn 2;04h, w. Il. Fritchie
OF olney, Ill, owns him, Royal Palm
made his first start In August. 1919,
and after winning three races against
aged horses In as many weeks took a
mark OF 2:09h at Indianapolis on Sep
tembcr g. Charley Rex Is not a new
conner In the Grand Circuit, He made
record OF 2:06h at Columbus In 1918
and edualled II last season, the third
heat OF a winning race on the half mile
track at Des MoineH His sire. Recrea-
tion, 2l5k, was a son OF Allerton
2:O9h, the champion trotting stallion
OF thirty years ago. This horse Ia now
has been entered by him In the Tran
sylvanla.
lucky Trottlng Horse Breeders AS
ISOLATION, predicts that Jim SHELLS
reJuvenated brood mare, Lucille Bin
gen, 2:0SR, will be the one Peter
Coley has to beat II he wins the
classic Transylvania at Lexington this
year. Lucille Bingen made her record
as a three-year-old In 1914, since when
she has produced four foals and had
Twenty horsemen timed her a mile In
2;0Sa In her work at Lexington the
other day, Smell letting her jog To the
half in l:07&, then step round the
upper turn in O;S2A and come home
through the stretch in 0:2S%--a :55
gait John Dickerson. who drove the
prompter, declared that she is a second
Uhlan.
Colt trotters furnished the features
of the annual meeting of the Junior
League Of Amateur Driving Clubs al
Goshen last week, as they have at SO
many other meetings this season. In
the race for two-year-olds on Tuesday
E, Roland Hartman drove his home
bred gelding Alta Quest two winning
heats in 2:21A and 2:21Ia on a muddy
half mile track, while II. S. Crossman's
Worthy Chief, a three-year-old, starting
against aged horses in the 2:25 race
trotted a dead heat in 2:12%. making
an amateur record that has seldom II
ever been beaten by thtree-year-old on
a two lap track. Alta Quest is by At
lantic Express. 2:07%, out OF Quisetta
216T. by Bingen. 2O6k. OF his
youthful driver the late Rensselaer,
Weston used TO say he was the making
OF as fine a reinsman as his father, E
II. Hartman, who could drive a trotteI
as we'll as any professional he ever
employed, and he employed w. ]. An
drews for several years.
w. H. Strang, of the Parkway Driv-
ing Club, in Brooklyn, believes that Can
ada has a Peter the Great among pac-
ing sircs In thee12-year-o stallion Grat-
tan Royal, 2 :06 Il by the trotting STALL
ion Grattan, 2:13, out of Mona, by Rob-
ert McGregor. 2:17R the sire or Cres-
ceus, 2:02A. The old time steeplechase
jockey Nat Ray paid $4,000 for this
horse a few years ago and after cam
paignng him until he went wrong gave
him back to Charles Barrett Of Park
Hill, Ont, from whom he had purchased
him. The first of his offspring came
out in 1917. when Roy Grattan gained
record of 2:16A. He reduced this
mark to 2;07A last year and this sea
son has cut It down to 2:01& in the
Grand Circuit. Louie Grattan, another
fast one by the same sire, beat him a
nose in 2:O2h in the deciding heat OF
their race at Toledo. Thus far, Mr..
Strang said yesterday, only FIVE of the
get Of Grattan Royal have started in
races. The other three are Freddie
Grattan. . :09A u, that won five races for
the Brooklyn horseman before he broke
down last season Lady Grattan, :O9 a
newcomer in the 10 list this year
and Teddy Grattan. green one that
Mr. Strang and his partners In the
Newbrook Stables brought out in the
West a few weeks ago, winning two
races and a record of 2;09l5. This one
starts tomorrow in the 2:1S race al
Endicott, y. Y. and later at Monroe
Goshen and Middletown, in the Orange
County Circuit.