The New York herald., 1922-07-09
7rotter From Westchester
County Well on Her Way to
Record of 2 200 or Faster.
GREAT voLo FOR .se,5Oo
Sanford Small Got a Bargain
When He Bought Peter Volo's
s. Full Brother at Auction.
BY G. CHAPLIN.


Cleveland on Thursday was the out
etanding feature of the Grand Circuit
meeting. A mile in 2.o2a.. with the last
three-quarters In 100 ola-virtually . 90
eait--is without precedent so carly in
the season. II it does not set her back IT
presages something later in the season
which should give her a faster record
than any mare in the history of harness
racing. and perhaps make Peter Man
hing himself tremble on the throne Of
trotterdom. AS told in the HERALD a
few weeks ago, the daughter OF Atlantic
Express. 07A. has the bloom OF youth
\ and vigor and energy all over her this
season. She is bigger, stronger and
Baucier than ever before. and she seems
to have started in right where she left
off last season, when she worked with
out a prompter in 2:o1 at Lexington in
October after her quick recovery from
HI almost fatal illness at Hartford in
September.
That was terrific drive to give any
trdtter in the first race Of the season
and in the first week of July. 1t is
dollars to doughnuts that Media would
have been laid up after getting off so
badly IL she had belonged to the man
who drove her. But w. B. Dickerman.
the former president of the New York
Stock Exchange. who owns her, and who
bred her and her sire. and her grand
sire, at Hillanddale Farm, near Mamar-
oneck, is a man whose horses are out
to win every time they start. and Harry
Fleming drives every race for Mr.. Dick
erman. That the mare could blow out
and come back so easily in 2:O3%
within half an hour after her long sus-
tained two minute rush is pretty good
proof that 1t did not overtax her pow
ers, unexampled though it was. II she
Snaps back in springsteel fashion and
meets anything that can make her go
ut Toledo this week. look out for new
race record for trotting horses.
The Great Volo's winning race and
cew record of 2 :05Z in the $4,000 con-
.est for 2:0s trotters at Cleveland on
Wednesday made ii look as II Sanford
small of Boston got more than his
moneys worth when he bought the colt
Tor $500 at S A. FIetcher's dispersal
sale In New York last fall Walter Cox.
who trains him, said then that he was
one OF the best trotters racing last sea-
son. Cox asserted that he had timed
him In 2:05A in race as three-year-
old and ventured the prediction that he
would trot in 2 :03 this season. Few
stallions are wanted for stock purposes
In these days, but the Great Volos
preceding should make him worth as a
kire all that he cost Mr.. Small. since he
Is full brother to Peter Volo. 2 :02 ;
Volga. 2 :041. and the great Miss Morris,
e:07N, by Peter the Great. 2:07A. out
Of the wonderful broodmare. Nervolo
Belle, that is now credited with six trot-
fers In the 2 10 list. five Of which en-
tered the charmed circle as two-year-
flds-o three-year-olds.
Peter Pluto. :07A " winner Of the race
for e:17 trotters at Cleveland. is owned
Dr. Thomas Taggart. Jr.. of French Lick.
ind. who bought him as yearlng
from s. "A. Fletcher. his breeder. In the
bands Of Lon Mcdonald he made a rec
ord of 2:07l u as three-year-old in 1920
and last year lowered II to 2:07A. Peter
Pluto is a full brother to Peter IT,,
e:O6M. by Peter the Great, :07A. out
of Nell Worthy. by Axworthy, 2:15 u
He is fine looking stallion and Mr..
Tasgart intends to breed trotters from
him after his turf career is ended.
Mr.. Taggart's Futurity- trotter of
1921. The Great Rose. lowered her rec
ord from 2 2:0sA to 2:05a, in winning
the $1,000 race for horses of the 2 IA
class on Friday This four-year- old
Oily was purchased from Mr.. Fletcher
last season. In the first race of her
5areer-the Matron Stakes. at Toledo
she won the second heat In 2:oSA. trot-
ting the last quarter in o 80. In the
Championship Stallion Stakes. at Cleve-
land. she was beaten by head by Favo-
pian, IN 2:06sl. after stepping a half in
1:o1%, and at Boston. in the American
Horse Breeders Futurity she was third.
3r 2:05E to the same crack three
fear-old, while she was separately timed
in 2 :05 in the Horse Review Futurity.
ut Columbus and In 2 :04 in the. Ken
tucly Futurity. won by Rose Scott. In
R:03A. She is a royalty bred one, be-
ing by Peter the Great out of Rose
Watts 2:10. by General Watts. 2 :06 q +;
Erandam May Stewart. 2:151s. the dam
of Mollie Knight. 2:06h: Olive -Fant
2:o6i5. and Junior Watts. 2:09st, by
San Mateo. 2:13A.
One OF the pleasing features of the
Grand Circuit opening was the winning
OF the first race OF the seasons first
meeting by Ed Geers. who drove Peter
June. 2i:04A, to victory in the :07 race
for trotters 1t will soon be forty-five
years since Geers drove his first race In
place in Hartford on September 10, 1877
and went to six heats. CARL s. Burr
winning It with Hogarth. 2;o6. after
Geors had taken the third and fifth heats
with the four-year-old Ally Alice West
2:26.
Miss Ellen TODD. the mare that finished
second to Peter June In 2 :09 and 2 :07al
st Cleveland. won a race at Canton
Ohio In June, trotting in 2:0Sh and
2 :091a on the two lap track and finish
sng her fastest heat In / :02. 1t wa:
tho fastest performance OF the season
prior TO the opening of the Grand Cir
cult. Miss Ellen Todd Is a five-year
pld daughter OF Todd Mac. :07al. ant
Ellen Tregantle. by Tregantle. 2 :0eh
She made a record of :06A on a mil,
track last season and Is counted on I,
beat 2;o5 this year.
The sickness that played such havoc
among the runners earlier in the seasoi
hit the harness camp at Cleveland Jus
before the Grand Circuit opened. Harr!
I1eming's string. from w. B. Dicker
mans Hillanddsle Farm, Mamaroneck
n Y, was almost put out of business
nearly every horse having been afflicted
IL seems 10 be form Of influenza. will
coughing and high temperature amonI
the symptoms The disease usually run
its course in about two weeks, but leave
tn norses weak and unfit for fast work
Thomas w. Murphy. who left Pough
kcepsie for Cleveland few week
x.Ith u.hat looLod fil<o tho 11oaf firm