The New York herald., 1921-09-04
GALAXY TROYTERS'
IN HARTFORD RACE
Media, Grayworthy, Arion Guy
and Periscope to Meet in His
toric Charter Oak Purse.

The three eastern meetings thus far
held In tho Grand Circuit this season
have surpassed those or recent years
and ranked with the best of the west
ern series. which is rather surprising TO
followers OF the trotters In view or the
fact that betting is free and open on
the other side of the Alleghanies, while
on this side It is barred SO far as the
Grand Circuit trottlng tracks are con-
cerned. Usually there has been
scarcity OF fresh horses and q repetition
Of one-sided races after the horses came
east. but this year the fields are larger
and the foregone conclusions are COM
paratively few in number. while the
winners are going faster than they did
at Cleveland. Toledo and Columbus,
making the meetings both interesting
and important. Boston horsemen have
hardly seen more brilliant racing since
the Readville track was built. and this
weeks meeting at Hartford bids fair
to be fully up to the standard Of last
weeks sport.
The meeting at Charter Oak Park will
open tomorrow with races for three
year-old trotters. free-for-all PAGERS and
one OF the three divisions into which
the historic Charter Oak Purse has
been split utt this year for It's thirty
sixth renew The real Charter Oak
race will bc seen on Thursday, and 1t
promises to be as interesting as any of
past years. with Media. 2:03A Gray
worthy, :03H Arion Guy, 2:03A. and
Periscope, 2:03A. among the prospec-
tive starters. Four such trotters have
seldom IL ever come together. The
record for the race is 2:04%. made in
l1IIA a.n1
conqueror OF Uhlan, / :58. If the track
is good and the horses are good, and
both Media and Arion Guy start, the
mark should fall below 1903. and pos
sibly below 2:02. The Acorn Purse for
three-year-olds, In which Arion Guy
made his first start in public just one
year ago. is also on Thursdays card
with e. I. Bedford's unbeaten Silladar,
2:07A, David M. Looks Lee Tide.
2:07A. and The Great Rose. :0sA,
all of them Kentucky Futurity eligibles.
among the probable starters
The spectacular event Of the meeting.
and Of the season, perhaps. will come on
Tuesday when Peter Manning, 2 :00
and Single G., :59, measure strides in
an exhibition race OF two heats for a
special purse of $1,000. The trotter's
Performance at Boston shows that
Murphy has him right on edge, yet there
are few who believe he will be able
to brush with the PAGER and beat him.
Single G. should like the hard track at
Hartford better than the rather loose
footing on which he has been pacing
In the last three weeks, and the great
majority of horscnen seem to think
he will be able to play with Peter Man
ming. The horses are the leaders at
their respective gaits. and 1t will not
be surprising to see the two-minute
mark beaten in one or both heats. The
race record for trotters now stands at
winning race with Uhlan at Cleveland
in 1909. That for PAGERS is :5S. made
by Directum /. In 1914.
Favonians fast winning race In the
American Horse Breeders Futurity at
Boston, where he defeated Rose Scott
when she was good enough to lower her
record to 2:05% makes the son of j.
Malcolm Forbes, :0S. look like a match
for Guardian Trust, 2 :06. and possible
winner Of the $4,000 Kentucky Futu-
rity at Lexington next month. Although
Favonian trotted fifteen races last sea-
son between the middle of July and the
middle of October. he was fresh enough
at the finish of this heroic campaign to
win the historic Lexington Purse at the
Kentucky breeders meeting, taking his
two-year-old record OF 2.09h in the
race. Comparatively few horsemen ex-
pected to see him train on after this
gruelling treatment. but he has stood up
like veritable three-year-old Bogaiusa,
beating aged horses in :06 n at Toledo
a month ago, taking heat from Guar
dian Trust in :06A in the $4,000
Championship Stallion Stakes at Cleve-
land the next week, forcing Jane the
Great out In 2 :06 u, 2 :06A and 2.0S&
over the slow track at Philadelphia the
following week, and then after a weeks
rest taking the measure of Rose Scott
and the rest in :05E and .osA In the
Futurity at Boston. He Is billed to meet
Sakura, 2:07%; Sylvia Brooks and
other good ones in the race for three
year-ods at Hartford tomorrow.
State S. Post is back at Mineola with
Charles Weiland's trotters and PAGERS
after a successful summer campaign on
New England half mile tracks. Queen
Abbess, :08M, the mother OF two foals.
won seven pacing races, while Eta Rico.
the crack two-year-old trotter of the
stable. accounted for three more, taking
a record Of 2:1sM in one of the three
races In which sha defeated Chop Suey,
the faSt nlly that nnisned second TO
Helen Dillon In 2 :09& In the American
Horse Breeders Futurity at Boston.
Elesia Maxey, another two-year-old in
the string, has worked In 2 30 for Post.
She is a daughter of Judge Maxey,
Pan, son of Axworthy, 2 :15 "a, and is
out of Elcsia. 2:27h. by Bingen. 2:o6A
srandam Eleata, 2:0sh.
Proud Peter. the hvc.year.old black
trotter that lowered his record from
2:10h to 2 :06h at Boston's Grand Cir
cult meeting, was sold for $500 at auc-
tion in Madison Square Garden last WIN
ter. John ii. Dillon of New Haven, who
let him go. told plain. unvarnished
tale about the fast young horse having
gone wrong forward after winning eight
races as a four-year-oid. Proud Peter
was bred by w. B. Miller OF New York.
and was got by J. Malcolm Forbes. :os.
out OF Lisbeth L.. 2:1s1s. by Elyria.
:25H.
Ben White, the man who drove Lee
Axworthy. :5sh. to his record. worked
Princess Etawah, :05h. a mile in 2 :03.
with the last half In 1 oi, over the Read
willie track, last week. This mare has
been a consistent winner or second money
since the Grand Circuit opened. but she