The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
GRAND CIRCUIT
HARNESS RACING
Seasons Campaign Reviewed
by Secretary Of National
TrOtting Association.
ny w. III. GoCHER.

Tho forty-seventh renewal OF the
Grand Circuit harness racing campaign
closed at Atlanta October 20 after a run
OF sixteen weeks. During that period It's
eleven members gave fourteen meetings.
one moro than last year. at which there
were $40 races decided. OK that number
1S1 were for trotters In which there
with TIA starters. making a grand total
of 1870 starters at both gaits Last
year there were 1890 starters in 270
races at thirteen meetings, and In 1918
there were $50 races, in which there were
1893 starters.
The purses and stakes for the races
this year passed the half million dollar
mark. the total amounting 10 s552,749. 95,
of which the trotters received $500, 916.S7
and the PAGERS $1Ss.S32.9S. Last year
the trotters We're paid S330.064.49 and
the PAGERS S156, 37S.10, making "A total
Of s4S6.442.5S. while In 1918 the pre-
miuns for both gaits amounted to S459-
1878.
The 1920 series swelled the number OF
meetings given by members OF the Grand
Circuit since II was organized in 1873 TO
416, at which the premiums amounted to
s13,35S. 053S7.
While the average rate of speed for
this year is faster than in 1919. Louie
Grattan and Prince Loree are the only
new members of the two minute list
AS in 1919, Single c. paced the only
heat below even time. Last year he won
a heat at Toledo in :59a4 This season
at Atlanta he reduced his record and in
the same race won the fastest three con-
secutive heats ever made in harness,
when he defeated Sanardo in 80. 2 100
and 2:001a. Peter Manning, the largest
money winner of the year, also reduced
the three-heat record for trotters vixen
he won the Pennsylvania at Lexington
in 1903. 2:02% and 2:021s.
Five hundred and ten heats were re-
quired to determine the winners in the
1S1 trotting races which were decided on
the trip from Cleveland to Atlanta. OF
that number 349 were below 2:10 and
33 in 2 :05 or better. This point has been
passed by but very few trotters in races.
1t was not reached at the first Cleveland
and Toledo meetings. At Kalamazoo
Charley Rex won in 2:04A and Peter
Coley and Royal Palm in 2 :043i. Others
followed, but none OF the trotters won
three consecutive heats in sos or better
until the stables arrived at Lexington.
Pennsylvania in 2:03. 2:02%, 2:02h.
and the Castleton Purse In 2:04&,
;03%. 2:04A. On the last day Of the
meeting Media also qualified for this
select circle by defeating Charley Rex
in 2 :o5, 2:o31a, 2:04%.
OF the 38S heats paced in 129 races
349 Of them were below 2 10, 142 being
below 2 :05. The PAGERS Single G.. Louie
Grattan and Prince Loree are the lead
ers this year.
Peter Manning made his first start at
the second Cleveland meeting. Murphy
intended TO hold him. over for 1921. but
changed his plans When Alta Donovan
severed n tendon ia a race at Columbus
Peter Manning won his first race in
2:03h a few minutes before his driver
was injured in a wreck. The following
week with Geers up. he won a heat at
Philadelphia and was distanced on the
next trip on account OF a break. lie was
not started at Poughkeepsie.
Murphy won with Peter Manning at
Readville. Hartford and Syracuse. After
he went to the hospital for an operation
Cox won two races with the horse at
Columbus. Harry Stokes was then put
up. He won two more az Lexington and
two at Atlanta. making Peter Manning's
score for the year ten frsts out Of
eleven starts and his winnings s26y50.
His mile in 2;O2 = in a third heat at