The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Orange County Circuit, Now
in Progress, Presents Trot-
ting at Its Best.
by G. CHAPLIN.

by G. CHAPLIN.
While the Grand Circuit horses were
racing for purses of $1,000 each at CO.
lumbus last week. with both pari-mutuel
and auction pools to swell the receipts of
the track managers. the Orange County
Circuit opened at the little town of Endi-
colt, N. ". with purses of a uniform
value of $4,000 each. no betting. free
gate and management which on
Wednesday voluntarily doubled the purse
for Q IA trotters and divided the large
field Of starters, thus giving to the spec
! tators two races instead of one and to
the horse owners twice as much money
as they had bargained for. The action
of the Endicott management was char
acteristic of the Orange County Circuit.
where harness racing is conducted
as a sport" 1t was also characteristic
of the 'soulless corporation"-th Endi-
cott-Johnson Company-that owns the
racetrack and conducts the races at
Endicott as a feature of its welfare SER
vice for employees. 10000 of whom were
present on the opening day.
This week the horses of the Orange
County Circuit will be at Monroe, lit
tie village fifty miles out on the Erie.
where William Crawford, Pierre Loril-
| lard, Jr., II. s. Crossman and other anna
| teur horsemen maintain one of the fast
| est half mile tracks In the country and
give three days Of harness racing every
season when the hills are full of summer
boarders from New York. Next week
the cavalcade of campaigners will move
fto Goshen for another meeting with
purses equal to those of the Grand Cir
cult, and a week later they will race at
Middletown, where the eightysecond an
nual Orange county fair is to be held.
beginning August 10.
| The meeting at Goshen this year will
be especially noteworthy for it's offering
of bonus to every driver of win
ming race. Ever since E. II. Hartman
bought the historic half-niile track and
| turned ii over to the late Rensselaer,
| Weston to manage for the benefit of
| Orange county and the trotting horse,
| it has been the fixed policy TO promote
clean racing here by offering rewards
as distin nruished from imposing penalties.
| 1t is a ltter of record that no driver
was eve lined or suspended during Mr..
| Weston's regime, and the present man
ager, Pierre Lorillard. Jr., is apparently
carrying out the policy of Goshen's old
racing secretary. To keep the boys in
I the straight and narrow path next week,
! the association, of which z. Roland Har-
riman is now president, will present $100
to the driver of every race won in
straight heats. and $40 to the rubber
Of each straight-heat winner. But that
is not ALL. Lest some of them forget.
there will be special prize OF 500
more in money or plate to reward each
righteous reinsman. In the list of
donors of these special prizes one may
read the names of some notable spon-
sors for harness racing at Goshen.
Among those who give the money prizes
are Mrs. E. H. Hartman. Richard Della
| field, Robert Goelet, w. Averill Harri-
man. Mr.. and Mrs. e. Roland Harri-
| man. George w. Johnson, Walter l..
Johnson and w. II. Cane. Benjamin A.
Bulkley and Thomas w. Murphy give
cups while Mr.. Hartman, as president,
| gives cup to the owner OF the trotter
winning the fastest heat at the meet
! ing. and the Goshen Board of Trade
gives another to the owner of the fast
est PAGER.
| Colt racing in the Orange County Cir
cult gives promise of being among the
J best features at Monroe, Goshen and
Middletown. Nowhere else in the coun-
try. except on Grand Circuit tracks.
are anything like the same class of
Juvenile trotters entered. In, the first
| bout of the three-year-olds at Endicott
on Wednesday Mr.. Delafield's Brook
Farm filly Edith Worthy. winner Of
4 A. e. IL s..
1921 repeated her victory in brilliant
STYLE trotting her winning heats in
2:10ia and 2 :13h on the half-mile track.
This race was in the nature of fam
| lily contest among members OF the AK
worthy tribe, three of the four money
winners having been direct descendants
of Axworthy 2:15h. Laura Etawah, the
filly that forced Edith Worthy out in
each heat. was the best three-year-old
OF the Bay State Circuit. One of her
owners is William III. Strang of Brook
lyn. She took a record of 2:14A in her
| winning race at Springfield a fort
night ago. trotting half-mile in / :0511a
Miss Affection, another daughter OF
Etawah, 2 :03. won the other colt race
! at Endcott after three different
| youngsters had earned records of 2 :20A
| in the hard fought contest. She is out
of Belle Guy. 2:13M. by Guy Axwor-
| thy. 2s0S%. and was bred by Leo Oct
finger of New York. At Monroe this
week she will meet Charles Weiland' 8
unbeaten two-year-old colt Trumpet.
2:19H, by Etahwah. and perhaps also
Il. Roland Harriman's fast fily Silver
| Frisco, that recently made a record of
2:10 against time at Lexington. Both
colt races at Monroe are to be trotted
on Wednesday.
Lee Worthy's winning race at Colum-
bus on Wednesday. with its first heat
lin 2o5i4. makes the son of Lee Ak
worthy, | :5sh. look more than ever
like the best three-year-old trotter OF
the season and the probable winner
OF the big futurities now close at
hand. Very few colts ever equaled his
performance In the month of July. and
none of those now in sight seems able
to take even a heat from him. 1t was
Baron Etawah that made him take his
fast record. This colt has chased him
out In all three of his winning races,
and is evidently improving at great
rate. But so Is Lee Worthy. They
should go great race for the Matron
Stakes on Wednesday. Baron E]tawah
was bred and is owned by David NJ.
Look OF New York His dam Harvest
Gale, 2 O7A, is one OF the nine two
year-old 2 10 trotters bred by Mr.. Look
She was by The Harvester. 2:01, out OF
Morning Gale. the dam OF Baron
Gigantic. 205%. by Baronmore. 2:14A.
Baron Etawah himself might have been
a Q 10 two-year-old. but he met with
some setbacks that set his record al
that age back to :13i4.