The New York herald., 1921-10-23
Thirty-threc Three Year, -Olds
Have Made Records of
2:10 or Better.
Z BY PETER THE GREAT
Sire Lines That Lead in Pro-
ducing Early and Extreme
Speed in Harness Racers.
by GURNEY G. CUE.

Despite the greatly reduced number Of
Young trotters in the country The three
year-olds campaigned this season were
the fastest lot ever seen IA The Grand
Circuit. About thirty-hye ven bred
ores took the word ~ the futuri-
ties and other colt races Of the cam
paign from Cleveland to Atlanta ard
the returns show that ail OF them could
beat 2:l0, while nearly score could
trot in POS or better. Even with that
degree of speed, which would have been
deemed sensational only Jew years
ago, several OF them finished behind the
money in nearly every race OF the
series.
The black filly Rose Scott, bred and
owned by Henry Oliver OF Pittsburgh,
was probably the pick of the lot though
Nelson Dillon, bred and owned by A.
n. Coke OF Philadelphia. and Guardian
Trust the property of -drs H. NJ.
Hanna OF Cleveland, fairly divided the
honors of the season, Coming out green
at the Kalamazoo meeting in July
Guardian Trust took a record OF 2:V1s4
in winning his maiden race against
field OF aged horses Two weeks later
At Toledo ne won the Matron Stakes,
the first of the seasons futurities. in
. .o6,x and the next week the badly
named Championship Stallion Stakes at
Cleveland cutting his record to 2:06.
AT Columbus, where he first met Rose
scott. he won heat In 2:o4A, but she
beat him back IN the same time and left
him IN fifth place when she repeated
again In 2:05A TO win the Horse Re-
view Futurity Though he won no part
OF the purse in the Kentucky Futurity at
Lexington he was really the colt that
Rose Scott had TO beat. and she did IL by
forcing him to trot the first half In :Ol
and go on at the killing clip until he
went TO a wild break on the upper turn
3n the second heat
Rose Scott Was Saved.
Rose Scott was saved for the late fu-
aurfties this year. just as she had been
saved as a two-year-old, and when II
came to the big purses at Columbus and
Lexington she was ready and fresh
enough 70 win them in the same brilliant
style that marked her victories there In
1920. Her FIRST start this year was late
sr. August at Poughkeepsie, where she
flnished second to Milic Irwin in 2:07
in third heat At Boston the next
week she won a heat from Favonian In
the American Horse Breeders Futurity,
trotting in ;o5s q. but the greatest CAM
paigner Of them all beat her back In the
same notch, and finally disposed or her
fn q 2:0S% in the next round, the last half
OF which was Ilpptu Oll at dhiOSt q .NH
clip. At Syracuse fortnight later
Thomas w. Murphy gave her rather
easy race against aged horses to tune
her up for the futurity at Columbus.
Her race for the Kentucky Futurity was
one of the best performances ever made
by a three-year-old trotter. She won
the frst heat easily in 2:0b%, after
some Of her fastest competitors had been
lett at the post, and In the second heat
xxrtt ID lnla
Nelson Dillon after trottlng Guardian
Trust of his legs by going to the three
quarter pole I'm 1;31N. al2 :o2N gait.
The time OF her second heat, :03E. was
never equa1led in the Futurity except
when Peter volo beat Lee Axworthy In
1914
Nelson Dillon gained two-year-old
record OF 2 :07A last season, but IN ms
early races this season he was on and
did not show anything like his true rorm
until he won the Horseman's Futurity
NJ Columbus. beating Walter Sterling,
Favonian and lot of others in 2:o6A
and 9 :O5A. He Is full brother to
Helen Dillon, winner OF the two-year-
old division of the Kentucky Futurity In
.f0N. She has since lowered her record
to 2:0Sil against time
Favonian's Great Campaigns.
Favonian. winner of the American
Horse Breeders F'uturity and OF the
historic Kentucky Purse at Lexington,
has trotted twenty-seven races OF meats
since he made his first start as Two.
year-old In 1920. He won seven out OF
fifteen last year. This season ne won
five out OF twelve.
Failure to nominate him In any or
the futurities or, other early closing
races of the Grand Circuit obscured the
prominencs OF Czar Worthy. perhaps the
fastest three-year-old of this or any
other season. He won some good races
In the Orange County Circuit before he
trotted against time In 2:03A at SYRIA
cuse, but he never took the word In
race on a mile track. That he might
have beaten Sister Bertha's champion
record OF 2:02st II Murphy had gone on
with him was the opinion of some Keen
observers who saw him finish at SYRIA
cuse.
Returns for 1921 show that thirty-three
three-year-old trotters have made new
records OF 2:fo or better this season.
The number is believed TO be unex.
anIpbsd. Certainly the showing made by
the family OF Peter the Great, 2:0TA, Is
without n parallel. This wonderful old
horse Is the sire OF Peter Pluto. 2:o7l9;
The Great volo. 2.oSh The Great Rose,
t.0si4: The Laurel Hall. 2:0Sl4; Evelyn
the Great. 2:Oe%. Marge the Great.
n:OsH, and Peter the Brewer 2:0ek--
seven In all. Then his son. Peter Volo.
n:o2. got Astyra 2:06h. and Eunice Bell.
t:0sk. Peter Scott. 2:o5. another son.
got Rose Scott, 2:03iz and Czar Peter,
b:0oA. got Czar WORTHY. 2;03A. while
daughters OF the old horse are the dams
Of Miss willoughby. 2.o5 Nelson Dillon.
b:05N; sakura. 2;O6%, and Peter Har-
sestcr 2:o7h.
Axworthy Source Of Speed.
The family OF Axworthy :15h, like
wise stands out az a fruitful source OF
early and extreme speed. David Ak
worthy. 2:06is. is one Of the few colts
got by the great son OF Axtell. 2:l2, in
1917. the year OF his death. but one OF
bis SONS, Dillon Axworthy. 2:10h, is
oho sire OF Nelson Dillon, 2:06M his
daughters are the dams OF Car Worthy,
l:O3%: Peter Pluto. 2:07n Finvarra.
t;osh, and sylvie Brooke, 2:0sh his
.gon General Watts 2:o6%. got the
Iens of Favonian, 2:05M. and The
5reat Rose. 0sh and his greatgrand-
ion. Lee Axworthy, :5SM, Is the sire
" Miss wiIloughby 2:0J: Kernel,
t:o5M, and Lee Tide, 2:O7N
Numbers considered. the little family
trotters established by w. y. Dicker-
nan Mt his Hllandaic Farm. near
NamaroneclS. is hardly outclassed by
hose Of Peter the Great and Axworthy
nr. Dickernsn's young sire. Atlantic
Express, 2:07%. bred on the farm and