The New York herald., 1922-09-24
'BRANDYWINE UpSETS
O-YEAR-OLD FORM.
$4,000 May Day Sweepstakes
at Lexington Begins to Look
Like Open Race.

-year-old form among the trot-
ters sustained a startling upset last
week when the previously unbeaten
Jane Revere. 2:osA, and Thompson Dill
Ton, 2:091a, nesther of which had lost
even heat, went down before Brandy
wine 2:10h in the Horse Review Fu-
turity at Columbus. The winners time
was not fast enough to warrant the be-
lief that she outclasses the other two.
but the fact that she beat them indicates
that the $4,000 May Day Sweepstakes
at Lexington on October will be not
only the largest prize on record for
two-year-old trotters but a very open
race. It was Brandywine that forced
Jane Revere out when she made her
fast record at Toledo few weeks ago.
Two other crack trotters have recent
~ come to the front on Western tracks.
Mary Rose, bay filly by Hollywood
Bob, 2:o4a4 trotted in 2:12I on the half
mile ring at Aurora, ILL.,. while at In
dianapolis on September Lord Ellers-
lie. by Lord Dewey, 2:03si, won a race
in impressive style in 2:124, going the
first three-quarters In each heat faster
that 2:10 clip. Mary Rose was among
those beaten. The winner is not in the
May Day Sweepstakes. but he will prob
ably meet the filly and also Jane Re-
we're. Thompson Dillon and other good
ones in the Futurity for two-year-olds
on the opening day at Lexington. Judge
Frisco, by San Francisco, 207%, out of
Judson Girl, 207M. by Peter the Great
:07A, is another two-year-old that will
hear watching in both the Futurity and
the May Day Sweepstakes. Henry
Horine drove him a mile In 2:10la at
Lexington few days ago. The last
half was trotted in 1:0i1a.
Caribou's community owned PAGER Roy
Grattan is now cock of the walk in
Aroostook county Maine After beating
John r. Braden, the pride of Presque
Isle. in the free-for-all race at Caribou.
the Grattan PAGER met defeat the next
week at Houlton. where Braden scored a
decisive victory. The race at Presque
Isle, one week later. was consequently
the rubber Thirty-five thousand people
from all over northern Maine suspended
business and trekked to the fair grounds,
where tented city sprung up as IL by
magic on the eve Of the contest Jack
son Grattan. the horse for which Houl-
ton syndicate had paid $12,50O to
Thomas w. Murphy a few weeks ago.
and Calgary Earl. also from Houlton,
were starters The Caribou contingent
went wild when Roy Grattan drew the
pole and led all the way in all three
heats. the time of which was 2:0S,
2:o6A and 2:0SK.
1.Ea
up since the Grand Circuit meeting at
Cleveland during the first week in July,
came back" at Rutland, VT, on Sep
tenber s. pacing the fastest race of the
season on a half mile tracls-2:04 q
2:O4A. 2:07A. At Springfield. Mass,
last Monday he won the $1,000 free-for-
all In still faster time from Mary O'Con-
nor, Jimmy McKerron and Northern
Direct pacing the second heat In 2:02I.
More than thirty trotters have beaten
2 10 In races or exhibitions on half mile
tracks this season. The number is alto
gether unexampled, only nine having
performed this feat in any previous
year. The fastest performance thus far
reported Is mile in 2 :06h over the two
lap ring at Elkhorn, Wis. Only four
trotters have beaten this time on a half
mile track. Fayette National the horse
that made it. is five-year-old bay geld
Ing by San francisco. 2:07% out of
Wigman Belle. by Wigman. 2 29A, son
of Virgins. 2:1sh granddam March
mont Belle. 2:22M, full sister to Oak
land Baron. 2:09A. At Milwaukee a
few weeks ago he was timed half a mile
in :01 Il and a mile in 2 :05 y in a race
He was bred by w. r. Hukill, Paris.
Ky; Is owned by Benjamin Gutenstein
Of Milwaukee and was driven by Thomas
Mckay.
Eleanor Worthy, another three-year-
old trotter, by Guy Axworthy, 2:OS&.
entered the 10 list at Milwaukee's re-
cent meeting by winning heat In
2:09M in the race for horses of the
2:17 class. She Is a bay Ally out of
Eleanor G.. 10, by Silent Brook.
2:16a; granddam Lady Brussels. the
dam OF Zarrine, :07ll. and Lord Brus-
sells. 2:09la. by Wilton, 2:19A. r. b.
Whiteside Of Duluth bred her and still
owns her. She is the eleventh 2:10 trot-
ter descended from Axworthy, 2:15h. in
the direct male line. George c. Loomis,
an old time trainer from Minneapolis,
drove her to her fast record
The PAGER Iskander. 2:08k, sold for
5000 by Walter Cox couple of years
ago, has this season won twelve races
In thirty-seven heats. w. H. Gochcr,
secretary OF the National Trotting Asgo-
citation. says he looks like the best PROS
pect In sight for the Grand Circuit Of
1898.
Though Cox still leads all other
drivers In the number of races won this
season. Thomas w. Murphy tops the list
In the amount of money won. His total
was s46.459 and twenty-five races when
the Grand Circuit horses left Syracuse
week ago. Cox had won thirty races
and S43.519. Neither of them was sue
cessful at Columbus last week, Nat Ray
having won the two big purses with
Peter Earl, :04h, and Peter the
Brewer. 2:03fi.
Ray now expects to win the Kentucky
F'uturity for three-year-old trotters at
Lexington next week with the great colt
Peter Earl, owned by John ]. Archbold
of Brooklyn. With the unbeaten Lee
Worthy. 205, among his competitors the
race on October 3 may be the fastest
on record for three-year-o Rose
Scott won the $4,000 purse at Lexing-
ton last season In 2.05M and 2 :031b,
and In 1917 Miss Bertha Dillon set the
race record at 2:03i4.
Peter Earl's early defeats at Toledo
and Cleveland are explained by his
trainer as being due to lack of speed In
scoring. BY brushing him with the fast
,,o core ha 10 training Paw nour hos tha