The New York herald., 1921-02-20
When Thoroughbred Like May 100000 Three Year Old
MORE BROODMARES
RETURN TO RACING
Charles Weiland Has Two in
Training for Trotting Cir
cults of Next Season.

With larger purses than ever before
to be hung up this year on the half mile
tracks of New York and New England
some pretty strong stables are being as
sembled by metropolitan horsemen TO
campaign in the Bay State and Orange
County circuits. Charles Weiland is
forming one of them at Mineola. d. L.
where State S. Post now has nine trot-
ters and PAGERS belonging to him.
The fastest of the lot is the bay mare
Queen Abbess, 2:0314 and both her
owner and her trainer are busily en-
gagged in trying to figure out what class
she can start in this year under the
complicated time allowance rule. The
only thing they are sure about as yet
is that w. H. Gocher. secretary Of the
National Trotting Association, says she
is eligible to the 2 IA class on half mile
tracks, while officials OF the American
Trotting Association and the Union Trot-
ting Association assert that she must
start in the 2 :09 class.
Like Lucille Bngen, :03X, recently
sold for $4,000 or $4,000, Queen Abb
bess is one of the fast mares picked up
by C. X. G. Billings for breeding pur-
poses before they were fully developed.
She produced two foals after making
her record at Syracuse in 1915. and. like
LUCILLE blnSeT, Sne WAS put III tTdlIlulb
again after Mr.. Billings dispersed his
stud during the war. Beaten a head
in 2 :061l on the two lap track at Spring
field last season, she won her last four
races. and Mr.. Weiland thought she
could pace in 2:05 or better over the
Mineola track when she went into win
ter quarters. She won her race there in
2:0Sh.
Scamp Spratt. 2:171a, growthy roam
colt that was timed In 2 :13h In a race
ut Springfield in his two-year-old form.
is one OF the young trotters held over
from last season for three-year-old
races next season. He was as busy as
Bogalusa in 1920. trotting fourteen hard
races, but did not seem to hurt him,
despite his unusual size.
Golden Spier. 2:0SH, a trotter that
finished second to King Watts in 2:05 q +,
in the $4,000 race at Toledo last year,
will be the main reliance of the stable
IN the 215 class. She is a full sister
to Joan, :041 II. once noider or the
worlds record for four-year -olds, and
is another rejuvenated. broodmare. hav-
ing produced the Grand Circuit winner
Signal Boy. 10. in 1916.
The youngsters in the string include
John Watts, 2:23 a four-year-old trot-
ter by Allan Watts. :05, that is cred
ilSu Will lWO Illllule SIIeeU EAleTUllflHI-
or, three-year-old by U. Forbes, :12H,
that trotted a mile in 2:20A and paced
a quarter in 0;33 as a two-year-old; Todd
Maxey and Eiesia Maxey, two-year- -olds
by the Nebraska sire, Judge Maxey,
2:241a, son of Axworthy, 2 :151s Et-
tarico, a two-year-old by Manrico,
2:0712. and Trench Fire, three-year-
old by Guy Axworthy, 2:03A. Todd
Maxey is regarded as trotting freak
since he outbrushed a 2:O5 PAGER in
training there short time ago.
This last one was tried in another sta
BILE last season. but Mr.. Welland is not
afraid of that kind, for his memory goes
back to several castoffs from other
stables that were good winners for him
when he was driving impromptu races
on the Harlem River Speedway. In
those days he had the name of being
one Of the best of amateur caretakers,
but few horsemen knew he was an ex-
pert foot balancer as we'll
Mr.. Welland comes pretty close to
being the Oldest oldtimer among New
York horsemen who are now campaign
ing trotters on the half mile tracks He
learned to like them more than forty
years ago. when he and the late Fred
Gerken were boys together down
around the Grand street ferry Curl
be lifelong horsemen and to be neigh
bors in business in Chambers street,
where Mr.. Gerken built two office
buildings at the corners of West Broad
way. almost adjoining those OF Mr.. Wei
land.
The first fast horse the latter owned
was Cedar Jack, bought of Charlie
Swann's father at his old stable on
Jerome avenue more than thirty years
ago. Later he owned and drove the
good gray trotter Jesse. 2:21, that made
his record at Fleetwood Park in 1857.
Then came the Grand Circuit PAGER
Blue Sign, 2:0SA. and the trotters James
L., 2:091s, and Maud c., 2:15, in the last
days of Fleetwood and the first of the
great driveway along the Harlem River.
Pansy Blossom, 2:12; Lorna McGregor.
2:17A: Salient Russell T.. 2:1SA; Fred
W.,2:OS1A; Zarco. 2:19iA Master Chimes.
2:5k; Mosul, 2:09k Lorna Doone. 2:234;
Sir Albert s.. 2:03A Dan r., 2:07A; Doc
tor Chase. 2:l0A; Sid Axworthy, 2:l2la;
Wentworth, 2:04a4; Queen Wilkes. 2:1OA:
Inner Guard. 2:06la; Dewitt. 2:0SA, and
a score of other fast ones owned and
driven by him that figured in the
brushes from the day the Speedway
opened until the day IL was closed.