The New York herald., 1922-07-30
FIRST FUTURITES TROTTERS DECIDED THIS WE
Where Harness Racing
Is Conducted as a Sport

Ethelinda. the filly that forced Jane
Revere out In 2:104 in the race for two
year-olds at Columbus, Is another of
the good things picked up by New York
| horsemen at the Fletcher dispersal
sale. Walter Cox bought her for $500
for w. II. Cane of the Good Times
Stable, who put her in the $4,000 sweep
stakes at Lexington for tho chance to
| win her out in one race. She is in all
the futurites also. and though the un-
beaten Guy Axworthy filly seems to
hold her safe as yet. 1t will be sur
prising il Ethelinda does not turn the
tables on her before the campaign
ends. Ethelinda is by Peter the Great.
2:TA. out of the colt trotter Ethel Volo.
2:29%. by Binvolo. 2:07s4. and her
grandam was the futurity trotter Ex-
tasy. 2:l11a. that produced Lord Dewey.
2:0SA; Petrex. 205% and the sife OF
Prince Loree. 2:03A, as well as the dam
of Media, 2:03A. Extasy was the last
broodmare purchased by Ed A. Tipton
for Marcus Daly's Bitter Root Stud
| before the Montana horseman died. She
was afterward owned by Gen. Brayton
Ives of New York
The Shepherd and Swisher Purse of
$1,000 for 2:11 trotters at Columbus
should have been called the purse for
Peter the Great. 2:07A. Under the freak
system of racing there the money was
split up into twelve parts. and eleven of
the twelve parts fell to representatives
of this wonderful sire. Car Worthy,
the four-year-old colt that won all three
beats. Is by Czar Peter, 2:0SA, son of
the old horse. The Laurel Hail, another
four-year-old that forced him out in
2:o4la and 2:0iA in the first two heats,
is son of Peter the Great. and when
the colt was drawn for lameness before
the third heat Peter the Brewer, 2 :09h +,
another four-year-olo by the great
Peter. came on and finished second in
3:o6 Peter Pluto. stir another four
year-old by the same sire, finished
3 "A 3 in the race and Walter Sterling.
| 2:O5, a four-year-old, by Peter Volo,
2.02. son Of Peter the Great. finished
A: :5:7. The only money that got away
from the family went to Eleanor Guy.
likewise four-year- but a daugh-
ter OF Axworthy. 2:151a. When she came
in fourth in the final heat a lot OF
aged horses were unplaced. And yet the
wiseacres used to say four-year-olds
were not fit to race on account Of their
changing teeth.
The sorry spectacle OF Princess Eta
wah. :03A. finishing IS. In 2:07 "a
2:06A and 2:10 at Columbus last week
was in the nature Of sermon for as
tute horsemen who hold fast trotters
over without giving them winning race
records in order to take advantage or
the time allowance rule. Unless some
very competent turfmen are much mis-
ltaken-they sometimes are-this mare
has been up to winning some races that
she has lost in the last few years. 1t
was commonly believed that she could
trot IN 200 at the close OF last season,
and she was sold on this basis. $1,000
having been paid for her. Predictions
were even made that she would go IN
90 this year. But there Is a tide in
the affairs OF horses as well as Of men.
She is now lame and her performances
thus far in 1922 Indicate that in her at
| fairs the tide was not taken at the flood
which leads on to fortune.
Although Lee Tide. 2':07i,, has not yet
| lowered the fast record he made as a
three-year-old last season, he has
eouaIed it, and is winning all his races
| in the Grand Circuit. At his first start
| in Toledo he trotted in 2.0Sh in the
2.eO class. At Kalamazoo a week later
he forced Frederick X. out in 2:OIla and
then won the next two heats in 2:OSk
and 2:O7a At Columbus. last week. he
eaualed his record. ripping off three
winning heats in 2:c7l4. 2:09h and 2:oS.
The son OF Lee Axworthy. 1854. anil
| Emily Ellen. 2:09h. has been slightly
lame forward from the effects of what
seems to be blind splint. yet he fights
out his finishes like a racehorse. and
in way that greatly pleases his breeder
and owner, David M. Look.
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The victory Of Great Britton and his
| amateur owner-driver. John l.. Dodge.
over Prince Loree. Peter Coley and other
cracks of the 2:05 class must have been
one of the biggest upsets of the week at
| Columbus The winner had not started
since the opening meeting at Cleveland,
| four weeks ago. and though he trotted
| in 2:04N there I'm the race won by
Media few thought he could beat either
| Prince Loree or Peter Coley on their
later FORM Mr.. Dodge's winner Is the
| one he was driving at Toledo last year
when the judges fined him $500 for not
trying to win one OF the heats. The
amateur horseman Indignantly refused
to pay 1t, asserting that the judges were
wholly mistaken in penalizing him. He
has not yet paid it, according to report,
| and though he did not drive at Toledo
this year he is driving on the other
| Grand Circuit tracks. Great Britton's
second heat In 2 :03H is a new record
| for the stallion. He trotted In .07h
as three-y -old in 1920, and last year
lowered his record to 2:03h in the race
| at Toledo. His sire. Peter Chcnault.
2:04M, is one of the fastest OF the sons
Of Peter the Great. 2:07A. His dam,
Fanfaron, 2:11 r.. was a daughter OF
Tommy Britton, 2.061a.
Sir Roch. the PAGER that entered the
2 100 list by winning in :59M in the
free-for-all race at Columbus. Is five-
year-old developed by the late Charles
Dean and driven by Charles Dean, Jr.
/ He was bred by w. III. Smollinger. sec
retary OF the American Trotting Asso-
citation, and by Inheritance on both sides
| OF the house should have been fast
trotter instead OF PAGER. His sire. st.
Roch. IL son OF Bingen. :06A, and
the noted trotting mare Angola, 2:06,
that won the $4,000 Charter Oak Purse
at Hartford more than decade ago.
His dam. Anmus. byNh trotting stallion
Echo Bell. 2:21M. made a trotting rec
ord OF 2:21a, as a three-year-old. Sir
Roch earned a record of 2:021a at CO.
lumbus last September.
Wilbur Lou, o:10h. "I,udd Doble's last
trotter," is the sire of a sensational
four-year- black geldng called
Woodrow l.. that was sold few days
ago for $4,000 to Edward Baker oi
St Charles. Ill. The sale followed o
mile in 2:0Sh over the new half mile
track at Aurora. ILL.,. shortly after