The New York herald., 1922-04-16
More American Trotters
Are Shipped to Europe


Are Shipped to Europe
B. ]. Alkemade OF Holland shipped
nineteen American trotting horses to
Rotterdam on the Noordam a week ago.
Most Of them We're yearlings by General
Watts, 2:o6A; Bingen Silk. .07H and
Y. Forbes, 12H. Among the older
horses were Peppina. 2:13H, by Jack
straw; Amorist. 2:12A, by Zombro,
211; The Embodiment, 2:1S. by TIE
Exponent 2:15A Julia Peter, 2:19A,
ty Peter the Great, 2 :07A, and Della
Mckinney, 2:25A, by Mckinney, 2:11A
Entries will close tomorrow for the
five instalment purses OF the Poughkeep-
sic Grand Circuit meeting on August 21-
rs. The purse for 2:12 trotters is
$4,000. while the other purses are $4,000
each. They are for two-year-old trot-
ters. three-year-o of the 2:16 class,
2:0S trotters and 209 PAGERS. The
meeting may be the last on the old Hud-
son River Driving Park, but IL the prop
erty is not sold or developed for building
lots it Is not unlikely that it will be
available for several years to come.
George Z. Rupert. one of the owners,
is president of the Hudson River Driving
Park Association.
The veteran PAGER Single G., so. is
among those entered in the free for all
class in the Orange County Circuit.
Others include Queen Abbess, Adioo
Guy. Kokomo George, Northern Direct,
Captain Mack, Mary OConnor. Dan
Hedgewood and Peter Look. In the
races for 2 10 trotters the entries include
DIR. Nick (2:04A). Bonnie Del (2:O4H),
Wiki Mkt (2:07A), Moko Axworthy
(211A), Native Chief (2:0S%). Wor-
thy Chief (2:0SA), Mary Coburn
(2:07A). Shawnee (2:11N) and Nor
man Dillon (2:o5A).
The Bay State Circuit OF New Eng
land half mile tracks has taken a for
ward step by adopting the two-in-three
system of heat racing for all classes
faster than. 2:14. Every track in the
circuit, excepting the one at Springfield,
has abolished the freak system by which
harness horses often raced three heats
without reaching a real decision. For
the classes slower than 2 ia the three
in-five system will prevail Entries will
close on April IL for races aggregating
$62,400 at nine meetings in this circuit,
which opens In Boston on June Is.
Other meetings will follow at Woon-
socket, r. L.; Avon, Conn. Windsor,
Conn.,. Springfield, Mass. Northampton,
Mass. Greenfield. Mass, and Norwich,
Conn.
The Connecticut Fair Association has
renewed the Charter Oak Purse of
$4,000 for 2 IL trotters as a feature of
Hartford's Grand Circuit meeting on
September As, and has hung up purses
o. $4,000 each for three-ye -year-olds of the
2.20 class and two-year- -oids, while
rarses of $4,000 each will be given for
2:O5 trotters, with, Peter Manning,
1:57%, barred; 2:eS trotters, 2 :0s
PAGERS and handicap open to all trot-
tcrc at one mile and a quarter.
w. p. Ijams. who died recently at
Terre Haute, Ind, aged rs. had been
president OF the American Trotting AS
ISOLATION since 1898. Though long in
active he held on to the office with de-
termined tenacity to the day of his
death. Thirty years ago he was the
dominant figure In harness racing over
the four cornered track at Terre Haute,
where Nancy Hanks set the trotting
record at 2:04 in 1892. Mr.. Ijams was
ct that time a prominent breeder and
was one OF the syndicate which pur-
chased Axtell. 2 IL, for s105,000 when
G. w. Williams drove him to a new
record for three-year-o and for trot-
ting stations at Terre Haute in 1889.
The death OF John ID. Creighton. one
oil the old time breeders OF trottiny
horses, is reported from Omaha. He
was az years of age. He once owned
a stock farm near Lexington, Ky, where
Ashland Wilkes. 2:17la. sire OF the
champion PAGER, John r. Gentry, 2 100 n,
and Dark Night, the sire of many fast
trotters. were in the stud.
Horace r. Murphy, secretary OF the
Orange County Circuit. reports an aver
age OF more than $50 entries for the
four meetings at Endicott. Monroe.
Goshen and Middletown. He says the
returns show an increase of fully twen-
ty-five per cent. by comparison with
last year. and assure the best harness
racing OF the season on half-mile tracks.
Jane Revere, the two-year-old daugb-
ter of Guy Axworthy, 2:0SM, auj
Volga, 2 :041a, recently trotted a mile in
2 rs in her work, with Ben White
driving, according TO reports from
Orlando, Fla. This Is said to be the
fastest mile ever trotted by two-year-
old in the month OF March.
Reports from Goshen state that Sybil
Frisco. the two-year-old daughter OF
San Francisco. 2:07M, and Sybil
Worthy, 2:15. for which Brook Farm
paid $4,000 at auction in New York last
November. is ailing and may not start
this year.