The New York herald., 1922-07-30
$4,000 TO REWARD
FASTEST OF COLTS
Series Beginning at Toledo
VIII Be the Classics Of
Harness Racing.
FLEET THREE-YEAR-OLDS
Dozen Prospective Starters
That Have Shown Speed in
Races OF Work.
FLEET THREE-YEAR-OLDS
by GURNEY c. CUE.


The first futurity of the season fol
trotters will .be decided this week a
Toledo's second Grand Circuit meeting
The thirteenth renewal of the Matror
Stakes. promoted by the Association o.
Trotting Horse Breeders and wortf
about $500, is on the card for Wed
nesday, and it viii bring together near
ly a dozen of the fastest three-year-olds
in training. 1t was expected that th'
number of elgibles would be mucf
larger, but the epidemic of influenza
that swept over the trotting tracks o
the middle West in June and early July
caused many promising young colts t'
be thrown out of training or set bacf
so far that they cannot be tuned ul
until later in the season.
Among several hundred that were
entered before they were born the foi
lowing looked good enough few weeks
ago to warrant their owners In making
a final payment for them:
PETER EARL, b. c., by Peter the Great
Anne Axworthy. by Axworthy; J. ]. Arch'
bold. New York
BARON ETAwAH. b. c.. by Etawah-Prin-
cess Helen. by The Beau Ideal; David M
sAIJViTY. b. T., by Etawah-Guava. b,
Bingen: Mrs, W II. Cane. New York;
III t.
Emma Smith, by Morgan Axworthy; Frank
H. Ellis, Philadelphia.
HELEN DILLON. b. T.. by Dillon Axworths
Miss Peirette. by Peter the Great; A.
GUY HALL, b. g., by Guy Axworthy-B
sio Hall. by Walnut HALL Walter L. John
son, Endicott, N. Y.
ENSIGN TIGE, b. C.. by Lee Axworthy-
Hillbrooke Queen. by wilask: II. l.. Srny'
zer Louisville.
ELEANOR WORTHY. b. T., by Guy Ak
worthy-Eleanor c., by Silent Brook; X. d
Whiteside. Duluth.
ALL WORTHY. bic. by Lee Axworthy-
Emma Worthy. by Axworthy; A. T, Cole
Chicago.
lata by Axworthy; L. L. Randall. Chicago
THE GREAT LULLWATER, ch. c.. by Peter
the Great--Walnut Leaf. by Walnut Han
Walter r.. Gambler. Atlanta.
SARAH THOMAS, br. r., by Lord Dewey
Lerma Loo. by Expedition; X. w. Kull
Detroit.
Three Futurity Families.
The list of eligibles is another straw
showing which way the wind is blowing
in the breeding of fast colt trotters.
Every one of the dozen traces back In
the direct male line to Axworthy, 2 :15 "
Peter the Great. 2:07A. or Bingen,
/, ,:O6A. Three are by Guy Axworthy
2 :oS n, and three others by his son. Lee
Axworthy. 1:5sA, while another is by
Dillon Axworthy, 2:10M, son OF AK
worthy, and two are closely inbred tc
Axworthy. Peter the Great is the sire
of two and of the dam of another.
while fourth is by his son. Peter
volo. 3 02. Bngen's descendants include
two by his great-grandson, Etawah,
2 :o3 and another by his grandson.
Lord Dewey. 2:03A, while Suavity. by
Etawah. is out of mare by Bingen.
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It is remembered that the colts are the
pick of the country and all of them
probably equal to trotting in 40 or
better. At least six of them have done
so in public. and two or three have
shown sensational speed Most Of them
will go from Toledo to Cleveland. where
the $1,000 Championship Stallion Stake
another futurity promoted by the
A. A. T. H. b., is to be trotted for on
August and later to Boston for the
American Horse Breeders Futurity on
or about Sept. Z. At Syracuse Sept
11-15 the Western Horseman's Futurity
will again bring the crack three-year-
olds together, and week or ten days
later at Columbus they will race for the
Horse Review Futurity, while at Lex
ington on or about october they will
compete for the last and largest prize
OF the season in the th.ftieth renewal
OF the Kentucky Futurity. All told
these races viii approximate $4,000 ir
value.
Influence OF EARLY Speed.
These six futurities for three-year-old
have come to be the most important and
interesting events of the Grand Circuit
-and of the harness racing campaign
They are the real classics of the trotting
turf holding relatively much the same
place as the Two Thousand Guineas
One Thousand Guineas. Derby, Oaks and
st. Leger of the running turf in England
Their influence on the breed of trotters
is Indicated by the fact that such sires
ms Peter the Great. General Watts. The
Harvester Etawah and Peter Volo all
won the Kentucky Futurity. while Lee
Axworthy forced the last named horse
to set the worlds record for three-year.
olds at 03ia to win it in 1914. The
average rate of speed required in these
days is terrific, FIVE OF the seven winners
since Peter volo's, year having beaten
2 :05. In the Matron Stakes of 1917
Miss Bertha Dillon lowered the RECORD
for three-year-olds to 2:03i4.
The ambition to breed or own a fu
turity winner has brought many amateur
horsemen OF the better class into harness
racing and horse breeding. and the an.
nual colt races for big prizes have beer
an important factor In developing early
speed in the trotting horse. When the
first race for three-year-olds was trottec
at Lexington in 1875 for purse of $500
Girl y. Queen won II in :33 u. and al
late as 1887 Chimes won the hIstori,
Kentucky Purse there I'm 2:30N. Blu
with the institution of the Kentucky
Futurity In 1893 the speed rate rapid,
improved. Seven years after ORC wilkes
won the inaugural In 2:iih, Ferenc
had TO trot in 2:10& to win. The first
time the baby trotters beat 2 10 was II
1904 Ten years later II took mile In
2:031a 10 to capture the prize. Optims-
tic horsemen are now looking forward e
the time when $500 will be made OF
beaten by a three-year-od futurlty trot-
ter. and some OF them do not expect L
walt very long for his appearance.
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