Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29
Bell Flora Patch Wins ESQ
Pace After Event Goes
Four Heats; Polly N
Walked Away With 2:20
Trot, While Walter Ina
Spirited In Ahead OF
Field In ThreeEights Rum
ming Race.

Two extra neat races 1edIuieo liz
race program at the Grand Forks
County Fair Friday afternoon. 1t took
Buzz Patch, S. Simpsons black mare
from Minneapolis. six heats to win
first money in the 2:1S pace, while it
was not until the fourth heat that
Bell Flora Patch, owned by A: r.
Sievert of Great Bend, N. D., took
first money in the 2:30 pace. Polly
NJ. the powerful black mare owned
by ]. j. Wisner of Sank Center. Mimi,
won the 2:2O trot in straight heats,
and Walter Ina, the Iowa horse own
ed and ridden by ]. Fouts, rompeo
away with the five-eighths mile run
ming event.
Although the races started prompt
IL at 1880 yesterday and Starter W. y.
Robbins sent each heat away without
Patch and Harry o raced under the
wire in the final heat of the eighteen
pace. The big crowd was held through
the entire afternoon. but after the
fifth heat and with a Commute wait
before the sixth could be run, only
the most rabid fans remained. They
were amply repaid, however, for the
two horses. battling it out for 1lrst
place. staged the greatest race or the
afternoon. Each had two firsts,
nv o had two seventies and a fourth,
and Buzz Patch a seventh, a fourth
and a third, and both horses were tlr-
cd by the long grind, but in spite of
It they went the mile in faster time
than the W previous heats.
, Neck and Neck Finish.
Harry o, driven by Refs, took the
lead on the first tur and held it until
A. =, ri whom R1lZZ
Patch crept up and they came down
the stretch neck and neck. Both Ma
honey, who was driving Buzz Patch,
and Refs, got everything out of their
horses left in them and the Minnesota
PAGER nosed out the Fargo horse by
inches and drove a beautiful race.
HarrySO, owned by Geo. Zuelsd orff,
won second money Flying Patcheon
took third and Lottie Russell. owned
and driven by Mrs. H. M. Ryan of
Bismarck, won fourth. Harry . won
the first heat by driving to an early
lead and being allowed to hold it to
the straightaway, when he outsprlnted
the field. The same thing occurred in
the fourth heat, which he won.
Buzz Patch went into the race a
favorite by reason of her victory at
Fargo last week. and there was con-
siderable comment on her getting no
better than seventh place the first.
Harry o went into the lead again in
the second heat, but Buzz Patch pull
ed up on him earlier and 8 out
the field at the wire in a thrilling fin
ish, when the mile was travelled in
:. 2:15 H. There was scarce a lengths
difference between the first six horses.
Mrs. Ryan drove Lottie Russell a ter
rifle heat and lost out for first place
by inches. Sine drove another hard
race the next heat, which was Won
by Flying Patchon in the finish as
thrilling as the previous one. Buzz
Patch proved that she was still in the
race when she came back and wor
the fourth heat in slow time. but go1
no better than third place in the fifth
which Harry o took.
-Four Heats.
In the 2:38 pace June Patch, owned
/. by Chas. Spillane of Waseca, MINI.
received second money. Fly DilloI
June Patch took the first heat in THU
race, beating out Bell Flora Patch OF
the stretch. but she did not seem t.
have the stamina to last out the rae
and got no better than fourth plac
in the next two heats. The second
third and fourth heats we're takel
by Bell Flora Patch. She won tn
second without trouble, finishing
full length ahead of Fly Dillon. TIL
last heat was the most spectacular o
the race. Fly Dillon raced Bell' Flor
Patch neck and neck under the wire
with June Patch and Manetta Pate
only inches behind. The speed q
June Patch is evident when it is see
that in the first heat, which she wor
was the fastest of the race, the tim
being 2:17 IA. The time all throug