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RAN TWELVE AND A HALF MILES FOR 55 An OldTimer Shows a Youngster Something About Stamina Eleven Heats for a 100 Purse One xvas a sturdy old fclloxv who had successfully weathered the storms of at least three score ami ten winters Tbo other was a dapper sprig barely out of his teens There was that about both which at once proclaimed them men of the turf They entered the office of Daily Racing Form the older one with the air of certainty in his position the younger in doubtful anxiety anxietyGot Got n complete set of racing guides here asked the elder one oneAVe AVe have he was told toldCan Can xve have a look into Kriks books of racing in the early SOs say SO and SIV SIVYou You can 1 have just been having a horsy confab on rac ¬ ing with tliis youngster In said as the guides requested were produced You see he continued as he turned the leaves of the guide for lSSO xve got to talking about the last meeting at Ben ning and the Peter Paul incident came up This youngster said old man Bradley should have been arrested for starting his hoss in two races on the same day I told him that two such short dash races as 1eter1 Paul had run that day wouldnt hurt any boss good or bad or indifferent I told him of the days of fourmile heats of the days when stamina counted for more than speed in bosses and finally it came t my mind that up in Canada one time I saw a race of eleven halfmile heats which xxas started one day and finished the next and the winner of which ran last in a race of mile heats on the same day Then Then I called him interposed the younger one I stood for all of his talk until he got to that elevenheat race followed by another threeheat race I know there have been a lot of long drawn out trotting races but I dont believe that in any age the people of the running turf ever stood for eleven heats to get a result and cash He said it xvas in the guides 1 told him if he would show it to me Id buy him the best feed in Chicago Chicagolust lust hold your horses and Ill show you said the old man as he turned the pages of the first of the three guides guidesFinally Finally he laid aside the guide for 187 and picked up that of ISM At the end of half an hour he exclaimed exultantly exultantlyHere Here it is in black and white Right here on page IWo Iiok for yourself smarty and well go get that grub for this search has created an appetite appetiteThe The dinner is on me all right but you had to show iic said the youngster as they took their departure departureThis This is what the old man showed the young man manElmira Elmira Ontario August and J7 1S80 Purse 100 for horses oxvned in the counties of Waterloo and Wellington of whih SUO to second 15 to third 10 to fourth halfmile heats 3 in B Poxvhys Paladin ii 3 1 0 1 a 3 3 3 t 1 1J J Farrells Mischief 15 3 Ti 3 4 4 I 1 t 3 3W W Stubbs John Logan U 0 1 1 1 4 3 J JM M Ixjwcs King Harper 4 1 T 3 4 1 1 U 1 4 4L L Stoesscrs Pnscilla 3 0 0 1 o dr drJ J Nvrlhgravts Ella Walker 7 4 0 0 2 fi dr drJ J Johnstons Oscar S 0 4 4 dr 1 McQuillans Lazy Iirry 1 U 0 dr drtDcad tDcad heat Time not reported reportedSame Same course August 7 Purse 1 0 for all ages of which 30 to second 15 to third mile heats 1 Dyments Disturbance 1 1 1 Millers Queen Bess J dis disP P PowleyN Paladin dis disTime Time not rported rportedt This horse Paladin xxas by Leamington Garland by t Lnele Vic and having been foaled in 1871 he was nine years old when he ran the races sum ¬ marized above aboveIn In these days of sprints and few rmi offs after dead heats the younger man Is really to be par ¬ doned his doubts as to the veterans statements and his declaration that he would have to be shown shownA A striking feature of the summaries displayed above is the fact that Paladin earned just r ru u for running twelve and a halt miles for he was dis ¬ tanced in the second heat of the second race and got no part of that purse Another feature is the dead heat in the tenth On perusing the summary the younger inaiiniight iiaVp i kiil why they did not divide first and second money ami hot put the horses through the ordeal of another heat The older man could have answered that tho rules of racing more than a quarter of a century ago did not permit of a division of money in a race of heats The eleventh heat was therefme imperative imperativeBut But twelve and a half miles for Si Think of ttiis the next time you read Of two oxvuers dividing the pursi after a dead lieat at yay thrceiiuarters
