Evening star., 1937-07-16
PETER MANN|NG'S
MARK HIS TARGET
"Greatest of EN- All" May
Achieve Goal in Race
With MusCIetone.

sss&ss sV~S~lSA ASIsSs
BY GRANTLAND RICE.
n 1EW YORK, July 1e.-1t's long
N line from Goldsmith Maid to
" Greyhound, but it runs
4 \straight through the historic
track at Goshen, where Greyhound
Is stabbed today in quest of new mile
record made on half-nile track. For,
in the long ago, Goldsmith Maid
kicked of many a mile and won many
purse on the historic track
1t was on this track, away back in
1865, that Goldsmith Maid won her
first race. She was years old then
and the purse for the race was only
500. but, by way of showing what a
remarkable mare she was, the maid
kept going for years. never won
purse of more than S5,OG0-and yet
won, all told, s264,537 This is an
amazing figure. considering the era in
which she performed For instance,
1t tops by approximately $4,000 the
total amount won by Man o War
(s249,465) in the lush and sport-mad
l92Os.
Goldsmith Maid was foaled at Deck
ertoWn, N j., in 1857 and was sold
by John Decker, who bred her, for
$3.50. She was last sold to Henry N.
Smith for $4,000 and died at Tren-
ton in 1885 at the age of %. Bud
Doble, famous reinsman of the time
drove her in most of her engagements
and followed her to her grave.
A Sensation in 1889.
TWELVE years before Goldsmith
Maid hung up record for the
mile. Flora Temple, pulling high
wheeled sulky-just before that, trot-
ters had ben raced under saddle-went
the distance in 2:l934. That was in
1859 and it created a great stir. In
deed, horsemen of the day freely pre-
dicted the mark never would be bet
tered. But. in 1867, Dexter got it
down to 2:l9 and then to 2:174 Then,
In 1871, Goldsmith Maid was clocked
in PIT. and two years later, in 2:l634
This record was tied in California later
that year by Occident. but, in 1874
Goldsmith Maid launched an assault
on Occident's record and lowered it,
her new mark being 2:l4
This record stood for five years and
then was cracked by Rarus which did
the mile in 2:l3l4. Now came the
great Maude S. and her rival. St.
Julien. Between them-each smash
ing the record in turn and sometimes
only few days apart-they got 1t
down to 2:10l4. This was the time
made by Maude S. on August IL, 1881.
Jay Eye See put the mark at 2:l0 in
1884 and was hailed as a wonder
horse. But not for long, because
Maude S. came laundering back to
beat the record down to 2:09a4, 2:o9L,
and finally, in 1889. to 2o8a4. That
mark stood until 1891, when it was
beaten by Sunol
The introduction Of the bicycle sulky
eent the records tumbling in the next
few years. Down the years the great
trotters came pounding-Nancy Hanks,
Dillon set the record at 1882 at
Memphis in 1903 and there it stood
for nine years, or until Uhlan reduced
It to 1853 at Lexington. For 10 years
Uhlan was the undisputed king of the
trotting horse world, but in 1922 Peter
Manning whirled over mile track in
the dazzling time of 1864.
The Greatest of ALP
THIS is the record at which Grey
hound, now warming up at Goshen
will shoot later in the year, probably
after his match race with Muscletone,
the American bred trotter now owned,
or so it is believed. by Mussolini, |
which is coming back here about the
first of August to tie up with Grey
hound.
That Greyhound will set a new
mark is pretty certain. At least, that's
what veteran trotting horsemen. who
60 away back to the days of Lou Dillon
and beyond, believe. Almost without
exception. they hold that this is the
greatest trotter that ever lived. One
OF the exceptions is Walter Cox, who
has driven and trained trotters all
over the country for the last fifty years
or 20 and came to Goshen fifteen or
twenty years ago and settled down
and has seen Greyhound in many of
his races
Hes great one" Cox said.
"Greater, maybe, than Peter Manning,
and I know something about Peter
Manning. I ought to. I drove him
often enough. But I'll 90 to my grave
believing that Fire Glow was the
greatest trotter I ever saw. 1 can't
prove it-but there it is. I had Fire
Glow, trained him and drove him my
self. He was beaten only twice, once
clearly and once when we got all
jammed up and couldn't get head
room out there. His record as 2-year-
old was 2:04, which he made in 1927
and which only two 2-year -olds have
lowered since then-Hanover Bertha
in 1929 and Lawrence Hanover in 1894.
But, one night after a race. Fire
Glow fell i'll. worked over him all
night-did everything I could for him.
But he died"
Maybe Walter is right. Maybe Fire
Glow was the greatest of all. But the
majority vote is swinging toward Grey
hound, now years old and keeping
pace, year for year. with Peter Man.
ming, which was when he set the
record.
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