The New York herald., 1921-07-24
CIRCUIT TROTTERS
NOW AT COLUMBUS
Fourth Grand Circuit Meeting
Of the Season to Open There
Tomorrow.


week for the fourth Grand Circuit meet.
ing OF the season. beginning tomorrow
The track at the Ohio capital is one OF
the fastest in the country. the laws
against bookmaking and pool selling are
suspended during race week, and the
good things that are cut loose under
these favorable conditions always make
news and sometimes history. The race
for 20S trotters bids fair to be one of
the fastest and hottest of the meeting.
It will bring out The Toddler and Great
Britton., that put up such q fast race at
Toledo, with e. Colorado. Dorothy Day.
Eliza Dillon, Walnut Frisco and Dottie
Day among the other possible starters.
The 2:n race for a purse of S., 900 is an
other of the features. Jeanette Rankin
is in 1t, but her defeat by Main Lick
at Kalamazoo makes 1t look like an open
contest. Walter Cox has both Z. Colo
RADIO and Greyworthy engaged. and will
probably start the former. Thomas w.
Murphy's entries are Peter Daw. the
horse that won a heat from Main Luck,
and the fast but temperamental CALI
curci. The four-year-old colt Voltage,
that won a heat in 2:061h from Main
Luck. Is another to be reckoned with.
Periscope, as yet unbeaten, and the star
trotter of tho circuit, will be a starter
in the 2:05 race, with Ante Guy, Arion
Guy, McGregor the Great and Mile
Irwin among the other eligibles.
The Orange County Circuit, which was
opened yesterday at Endicott, N. Y, will
have two more days of racing there and
then the horses will be shipped to Mon
roe N. Y, where they are to start on
Tuesday of next week After three days
at Monroe the campaigners go to Goshen
ha A1IU OF q
10 and IL, and then to Middletown. for
the Orange County Fair. ON August
16 to 19. Horses of Grand Circuit class
have been entered at all meetings.
Main Lick, the trotter that gave
Jeanette Rankin her first beating,
opened the campaign with q record OF
:21A. made last season at Merrill, Wis.
Most of his competitors last week were
made eligible to the 2:13 class by the
time allowance rule after having earned
records from 2:04h to 2:10 In previous
campaigns. which made the victory of
the fresh horse all the more surprising.
The presence of old campaigners with
fast records in the slow classes nowa-
days Is robbing the races of much of
their interest, besides tending to dis
courage the breeding and training of
fresh horses.
The defeat Of e. Colorado at Kala-
mazoo was another big surprise in last
weeks racing He had won in straight
heats at Cleveland and Toledo. beating
2:05 in each race and convincing a good
many horsemen that he was going to
sweep the circuit in his class. The
few weeks last year and a return of
the trouble is said to be responsible for
his present lameness.
Escotillo, the trotter that lowered his
record to 2:06h in taking the first heat
from e. Colorado is a product of w.
B. Dickerman's Hillandale Farm at
Mamaroneck. He is by Atlantic Ex-
press, 2:07s4. the sire of Media. 2:03A,
and is out Of Quite Worthy, 2:1611. by
Axworthy, 2:15M; grandam Wanda.
2:17%. fast road mare that Frank
Work gave to David Bonner a good
many years ago. Mr. Bonner bred the
dam Of Escotillo. He made a record of
2:10A in a winning race last season on
the half mile track at Endicott.
Eunice Bell won the race for three
year-olds In the Grand Circuit last
week in 2:11A and 2:12%. while Mr..
Hoover, in the Bay State Circuit. had
to trot in 212A and 2:13A on the half
mile track at Northampton to beat
Charles Weilands big roam geldlng-he
was a colt when entered a few months
ago-in the race. for three-year-olds
there. The inner finished third to Hale
Garner and Sylvie Brooke in the sensa-
tional colt race at Springfield a week
ago. Neither of those fast youngsters
started at Northampton, as they had
gone to Endicott, N. Y, for the opening
of the Orange County Circuit. Mr..
Hoover was bred by c. X. G. Billings
and was got by The Harvester. POI. out
of Louise Wilson, 2:10M. by Prodigal,
2:16 He made a record of 2:14h against
time at Syracuse last season. George
A. Graves os Boston owns him and Joe
Johnson drives him.
Scamp Spratt's performance at North
ampton rivalled that OF Mr.. Hoover. al
things considered. This growthy young
ster trotted eleven hard races of heats
on the half mile tracks as a two-year-
old last year, making a campaign as
severe as that of Bogalusa and earning
record OF 2:17M. Lots of horsemen
thought he would never be heard OF
again, and Mr.. Weiland. his owner, and
1907.
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