New-York tribune., 1922-01-29
Handicap Trot
Will Feature
Harness Meet
Peter Manning Is TO Start
From Scratch in S., 900
Race at North Randall
By Frank S. Cooke

What may mark new fashion in
harness racing will be inaucurated at
tho North Randall opening of the
Grand Circuit in July, when u $4,000
handicap FOR fast trotters Is raced.
Plana for this event arc In form atve
stage, and Win Kinnan, secretary both
OF that association and Of the big line
tracks organization. talked with many
horscmcn at the Mount Clements ice
meeting to get their views.
Kjnnan favors handicapping by dis
tance, which IL the style on the Euro
pcan tricks, where it has been success
fully used in important stake events
for some years. fis idea was to place
! the limit horse at the thrce-quartcr
/ pole and othors as much nearer the
wire as their records allowed on the
accepted basis Of forty-four feet sec
ond. which Ia the speed OF "A horse that
trots IN 300.
Attention Of the promoter was called
by the writer to the effect that this viii
rtart tho horscs too far from the
stand, also that nobody knows whether
the high-class trottcrs can go mile
and quarter at speed. Placing he
scratch horse nj the eights post
all Of them will atari in the home
stretch within easy view and they can
go that distance at top speed for they
cover more than that in their scoring
under old rulen.
Peter Manning on Scratch
The North Randall Handicap will be
confined TO trotters with records faster
than 2:05. Peter Manning, 1:57M, is
expected to be the scratch horse, and
with him al the scven-cights post, call
ing upon this champion for a mile and
an eighth dash, allowance to others ex-
pected to start win be as follows:
GrayWorthy, 2:021+, 1913 feet; Media,
2:03l4, and Mile Irwin, 2:03A, ZAP
feet; jeanette Rankin, 2:03 ia, and
pcriscopc, 2:03 y, 253 feet; Jane the
Great, 2:0a u KiIo Watts. 2:04A, and
Il. Colorado, 2:034, 2S6 feet.
If even greater speed is desired the
scratch horse can be placed at the SIX
tccnth pole. which is $50 feet from the
finish, and this viii make room for all
Of them. Whether it ia just to penal
izc Peter Manning for his worlds
record Is q dcbatab.e question. Others
in the field have made their records in
races where the track was not clear
for them, while Peter had all the help
him the benefit and assuming that he
could race a mile in two minutes, that
could rase Il mile in two minutes, that
would be q more equitable spot 70.
this greatest trotter Of all times.
The experiment viii be watched with
keen interest by all patrons Of the
sport for anything that will do away
with tedioue scoring and the existing
classification scheme Will be welcome.
To Renew Classic Races
Classics which make the Cleveland
meetings notable will be renewed for
the same divisions as obtained last
year. The Ohio stake Of $4,000 again
will be for 2:08 trotters and the Tavern
Stake for 2:14 trotters will be worth
$4,000, while the Edwards for 2:O8
GERS Will divide $4,000 among the
winners.
Racing in these events will be on
the Two and three neat plan, thereby
doing away with the unpopular third
and frequently meaningless heat under
the three-heat plan, which has pre-
vailed at most of the big tracks in
recent years. Announcement of colt
events is not yet ready. The fact that
only three Of the two -year-ol1s beat
2:10 last year docs not promise as
we'll as usual for the -year-olds
Of 1922, but some new and good one
is apt to trot into the limol ght.
Ice racing dc luxe prevailed at the
annual Mount Clemens meeting last
week, which was the best in many
> Il
fashioned winter, with the thermometer
around zero, the track was covered
with seven inches Of solid ice. The
mile in 2:121l by Lord Kitchener, q
Canadian PAGER, stands out as splen-
did performance, far better than 2:1O
on good track. In this particular
heat Lord Kitchener finished we'll with
III himself and could have improved on
this, the seasons record TO January %.
Kate Hal Looks Good
Kate Hal that paced the fastest mile
st the Toronto meeting, forced Lord
Kitchener Go drive in the second heat
and beat him in the third in 2:I3M
NAY Ray appears to have picked up
couple Of good prospects for mex year
in Tony the Hero and Peter VIII Tell,
both of them winning FOR him at this
meeting. Tony the Hero paced In
2:15A, but is faster thar that How
ever, the free for-all PAGERS did not
step any liveler than this gray geld
ing, D. W. Ma oney only having to do
2:15A to beat Senator Wilkes. Rays
young PAGER Robert Direct that won at
ronto, did rot show up we'll at Mount
Clemens in his first sta t, bnt he is
known to be very fast.
Writ Mallow came up from Ohio with
a rather timber PAGER in f,l Verso. that
won on the first day. The trotter
Lolita likes the ice and is one of the
best of the winter herd Trotters sell
dom beat 22o at these ice meetings,
for they cannot skim over the frozen
surface like the oily PAGERS, but they
work lot harder.