The Connecticut labor news., 1921-11-25
MURPHY IS FIRST BRUSIE SECOND IN
 BRENNAN HONORS
Veteran Driver Won 45 Races Against 40 for New England
 Driver

Thomas w. Murphy was the leading
 winner among the drivers during the 1 1921 racing season. with total of 1 forty-five victories; Harry Brusie ranks | third with thirty-nine, and Fred Edman | fourth, with thirty-hve. Others with good winning records were Joe Johnson, with thirty-one in spite of a rather l limited stable; Sop Palin, with thirty l Vic Fleming, with twenty-five, and
 Stokes, Crozier and Whitehead, with
 twenty-one each. Of the reinsrnan who
 made a good showing with one horse,
 Lon Mcdonald led with Jeanette Ran l kin, winning eleven races with her in
 the fastest company
 Roy Grattan, the Canadian-bred geld ing, was the leading winner of the Mur- phy stable. with nine victories, and | Peter DaW was second on the list, with ] seven, Peter Daw failed to show in front until the meeting at Hartford but
 i'll the closing weeks of the season he
 was particularly .busy, winning one race
 at Syracuse three at Columbus and two
 at Lexington Silladar won six races l Peter Henley and Sanardo won four
 each; Eunice Belle, three; while Rose
 Scott, Carmelita Hall, Ncva Brooks and
 Princess Nadena were other members of
 the Murphy stable which were double
 winners. Fourteen horses comprised Murphys list of winners
 Brusie, second to Murphy in the list of
 winners, with forty to his seredit, used | sixteen horses Guaveta, the three-year-
 old lilly, landed five races for Brusie ! and four apiece went to the credit of
 the New England reinsnan while driv-
 Charles Direct, Mauna Loa and Don Gill. Estabella, Miss Rico and Peter 1 Star were triple winners for Brusle
 TEN FOR GREYWORTHI. l Cox probably would have taken second
 honors from Brusie but for illness dur
 ing the week of the second meeting at Columbus. While he was in the hos
 pital McMahon pioted two of the Cox horses to victory, winning with Gray
 worthy and Jane the Great. With these
 two victories to his own credit Cox
 would have finished the season with
 forty-one successes, one more than Bru-
 sic accounted for Cox used thirteen | horses to win his thirty-nine races,
 Grayworthy leading with ten. This | horse was the best racing trotter of the
 year. McMahon drove him to his rec
 ord of ? :0214 at Columbus. and Cox won | $1O,OOO events at Hartford and Syracuse, with Jane the Great, five with E. Colo rado and three each with The Great | Miss Morris, Natalia the Great anr The Great Volo.
 Few reinsmen ever made better cam paign with a small stable than Joe | Johnson was credited with in 1921. A couple of years ago this young man,
 like Dustin and Either, moved from
 Maine, looking for a more active field l for his training operations. He located
 at Combination Park, Medford, Mass, l where he made his first starte this year
 with Colonel BidWell and Bernie Hayt l The former was an ex-member of the 1 Cox stable. where he failed on account of his owner barring happles. A change of Colors brought out the Indiana regu- lators and Johnson won fifteen races
 with she geding Colonel Bidwells only defeat was recorded at the Readvile l Grand Circuit meeting. On the trip through the Bay State Circuit and at
 the fairs Johnson also won five races | with Bernie Hayt and four with the
 three-year gelding, MT. Hoover. The 1 roam lilly Josephine Sharpe was his
 most formidable rival. If she does not
 meet with mishap this lilly will be
 seen on the mile tracks
 Joe Johnson won thirty-one races in 1 1921. This was one more than appears , after the name of the Indiana product, Sep Palin. The latter opened his cam paign at Findlay in May and kept going
 until the grooms were compelled to break the ice on the water buckets at the Cleveland overcoat meeting During the season he won with thirteen horses His leader was Walter K He won seven races. Of the others Galli-Curci won four, The Hoosier Lady, Kokomo,
 George and Wanda May three each, and Abbe Hal two.
 The ex-soldier Marin Childs staged splendid comeback with Hal Malone and kilo Watts. He won nine races with the pacer and five with the Watts mare Also when he shipped the pair to Winter quarters after the close of the Lexington meeting 1t looked as if they were in trim for formidable campaign in the
 fastest company of 1922.
 Of the reinsnen who made a good showing with one horse, Mcdonald led with Jeanette Rankin. He won eleven races with her in the fastest company. Grayworthy and Main Lick were the only