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

Two extra heat races featured the
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 O in the $3.50 pace. Polly
M, the powerful black mare owned
by ]. J. Wisner of Sauk Center, MIMI
won the 2:2O trot in straight meats
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
II at 1890 yesterday and Starter W. =.
Robbins sent each heat away
loss Of time, it was 6:15 before III
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, Blu after the
fifth heat and with a Commute walt
before the sixth could be run. only
the most rabid fans remained. Iney
we're amply repaid, however, Tor n
two horses, battling it out for tlrst
DlACG. SLakcO III 6lColSot
afternoon. Each had two firsts. a
~. o had two seventies and a fourth,
and Buzz Patch a seventh. a 1ourth
and a third, and both horses were tlr-
cd by the long grind, but in spite OF
II they went the mile in faster tune
than the two previous heats.
Neck and Neck Finish.
Harry O, driven by Refs, took the
80 49, Fit %,,~~ --1 hold If lnf1l
the thtee-Quarters mark. when BUZZ
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 then
horses left in them and the Minnesota
PAGER nosed out the Fargo horse by
inches and drove a beautiful race.
Harry}O 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 y won
the first heat by driving to an early
lead and being allowed to hold it to
the straightaway, when he .outspr1nted
the field. The same thing occurred in
the fourth heat, which he won.
Buzz Patch went into the race q
~fayorite by reason of her victory at
Fargo last week. and there was con-
siderable comment on her getting nc
better than seventh place the first
Harry o went into the lead again II
the second heat, but Buzz Patch pull
ed up on him earlier and nosed ou'
the field at the wire in a thrilling fin
ish. when the mile was travelled ,lr
.a2:15 IA. There vas scarce a length:
difference between the first six horses
Mrs. Ryan drove Lottie Russell a ter
rifle heat and lost out for first place
bv inches. She drove another hare
race the next heat. which was wor
by Flying Patchon in the finish a!
thrilling as the previous one. Buzz
Patch proved that she was still in tn
race when she came back and VOL
the fourth heat in slow time, but go
no better than third place in the fifth
which Harry o took.
-Four Heats.
In the 2:3e pace June Patch, owned
by Chas. Spillane of Waseca, MINI.
received second money. Fly Dillol
third and Manetta Patch fourth
June Patch took the first heat in thi
race. beating out Bell Flora Patch o.
the stretch. but h 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 were take,
by Bell Flora Patch. She won tn
second without trouble, finishing
full length ahead Of Fly Dillon. TIL
last heat was the most spectacular Q
the race. Fly Dillon raced >Bell' Flor
Patch neck and neck unde the wire
with June Patch and Manetta Pate
only inches behind. The speed c
June Patch is evident when it is see
that in the first heat, which h wor
was the fastest of the race, the tim
being 2:17 IA. The time all throug