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BRILLIANT . RECORD - OF THE GREAT PAN C ZARETA PAN ZARETA, chestnut mare 1910, by Abe Frank Caddie Griffith. . - 1912 Date. Track. Distance. Weight. Time. Finish. Amt. January 14, Juarez............... 3 1-2 f 110 :40" i $ J550 January 31, Juarez. 3 1-2 f 112 :40t 1 225 February 11, Juarez 1-2 .117 :48" fi 137 May 14, Coeur dAlene. .". 1-2 107 :49ft l 225 June 19, Coeur dAlene 5-8 103 1:01" l 225 July 4, Salt Lake 1-2 117 :49 1 225 July 23, Salt Lake 5-8 109 1:00" 1 225 August 5, Butte 1-2 109 :47t 1 225 August 22, Butte .. 5-8 115 1:00" 1 225 September 4, Butte. ..... . 5-8 116 i:02sy 1 275 December 11, Juarez ........ 5-8 112 1:01b 1 225 December 14, Juarez..... 5 1-2f 95 .1:07" 1 300" December 16, Juarez ..... ... 5 1-2. f 112 1:07" 225 Record: Starts, 19; .wins, 13; seconds, 3; thirds, 2; unplaced, 1; won, ,512. tRan dead heat. with Stout Heart. 1913 Date. Track. . Distance. Weight. Time. Finish. Amt. January 19, Juarez:....... 3-4 102 l:14sl- l $ 865 January 25, Juarez....... 3-4 110 1:13" 1 225 February 2, Juarez 3-4 112 1:13" 1 865 February 22, Juarez...... 3-4 114 1:12" 1 225 March 2, Juarez..............; 3-4 122 1:13" 1 865 August 11, Fort Erie. ......... ; 3-4 98 l:17hy 1 500 August 19, Windsor. 3-4 100 1:12" 1 600 August 27, Connaught Park. ... . 3-4 105 : l:15hy 1 450 August 29, Connaught Park... " 3-4 110 l:14si 1 450 September 1, Connaught Park ..... 5 1-2 f .115 1:08." 1 505 September 11, Blue Bonnets .. 3-4 116 1:12" 1 425 October 21, Dallas, Texas 3-4 119 l:19si 1 150 November 27, Juarez 3-4 118 1:12" 1 1,050 December 6, Juarez 5 1-2 f 124 1:04" l 400 December 13, Juarez. ... . , 5 1-2 f 126 1:04" 1 400 Record: Starts, 33; wins, 15; seconds, 8; thirds, 3; unplaced, 7; won, ,895. . 1914 Date. Track. Distance. Weight. Time. Finish. Amt. January 27, Juarez 3-4 124 1:11" 1 $ 300 February 13, Juarez. 3-4 132 1:12" 1 300 March 17, Juarez .V. 7-8 122 1:24" 1 400 June 20, Connaught Park. 3-4 117 l:16si 1 350 June 25, Hamilton. ..... .:..."... . -.. 3-4 124 1:12" 1 490 July 8, Fort Erie .. 3-4 119 1:13" 1 500 July 21, Windsor . ., 3-4 120 1:12" 1 550 July, 29, Hamilton 34 123 1:13" 1 540 July 31, Hamilton.... ...1.. ........... 5 1-2 f 126 1:05" 1 500 August 28, Connaught Park . . 3-4 120 1:14" 1 450 October 2, Douglas Park.?. ... 3-4 116 1:11" 1 580 October 10, Churchill Downs 3-4 112 1:13m l 450 December 13, Juarez.." .. 3-4 ; 132 . 1:11" 1 400 Record: Starts,; 28; wins, 13; seconds, 9; thirds, 2; unplaced, 4; won, ,085. 1915 Date. Track. , Distance. Weight. Time. Finish. Amt. January 18, Juarez 5 142 f 136 1:06" 1 00 February 10, Juarez .5-8 120 :57" 1 300 February 21, Juarez .. . 1 108 l:41cd 1 300 March 22, Juarez..................... 5 1-2 f 140 1:05" 1 225 March 26, Juarez. , 3-4 146 1:11" 1 225 May 24, Woodbine Park. 3-4 129 1:13" 1 430 May 28, Woodbine Park 3-4 129 1:12" 1 570 June 9, Blue Bonnets 3-4 134 1:13" 1 430 June 22, Connaught Park, 3-4 129 l:14sa 1 350 June 25, Hamilton 3-4 127 1:12" 1 530 June 28, Hamilton...., 5 1-2 f 131 1:06" 1 540 July 14, Windsor . . 3.4 us "1:11" 1 550 July 20, Windsor. ..i , 3-4 136 1:12" 1 550 September 20, Woodbine Park. . 7-8 124 1:26" 1 490 October 5, Churchill Downs 3-4 110 l:14hy 1 550 Record: Starts, 26; wins, 15; seconds, 6; thirds, 4; unplaced, 1; won, ,540. New American record still stands. 1916. Date. Track. Distance. Weight. Time. Finish. Amt. January 7, Fair Grounds 3-4 124 1:12" 1 $ 300 January 29, Fair Grounds. 3-4 124 1:13" 1 450 February 5, Fair Grounds. . .- 5 1-2 f 140 1:06" 1 450 February 23, Fair Grounds .......... . 1 108 1:39" 1 500 March 11, Hot Springs. 1 us 1:39" 1 225 JMarch 17, Hot Springs... . 3-4 135 1:12" 1 225 March 30, Hot Springs 5 1-2 f 142 1:07" 1 400 Record: Starts, 11; wins, 7; seconds, 1; thirds, 3; unplaced, 0; won, ,085. 1917 ,DatC Trlck.. "" Distance. Weight. Time. Finish. Amt. March 24, n. Hot Springs . 3-4 113 1:12" 1 450 March 28, Hot Springs. 3-4- 120 1:12" 1 450 May 14, Devonshire 3-4 126 1:15" 1 750 May 21, Woodbine Park. 3-4 125 1:13" 1 640 June 19, Jamaica 5 1-2 f 128 1:05" 1 665 June 29, Aqueduct . 6 1-2 f 123 l:22sy 1 520 July 20, Empire City.... ...ab.3-4 135 1:10" X 510 July 26, Empire City ab.3-4- 137 1:09" 1 1045 July 31, Empire City.... ab.3-4 140 1:08" 1 450 September 15, Lexington 3-4 125 1:12" 1 550 September 20, Lexington ...... V.. 3-4 115 1:12" 1 500 September 26, Douglas Park 3-4 123 1:12" 1 775 October 26, Latonia. - . .............. 3-4 122 1:12" 1 775 Record: Starts,. 34; wins, 13; seconds, 4; thirds, 7; -unplaced, 10; won, ,965. RECAPITULATION Tear- " Starts 1st. 2nd.: 3rd. Unp. Amt. Won 1912 19 13 3 2 1 ,512 .......... 33 15 8 3 1 8,895 I 28- . 13 9 " 2- . "4 7,085 1915 .. 26 15 6 4 1 7,540 1916 11 7 1 3 0 3,085 1917.-.. 34 13 - 4 - -7 10 8,965 Totals 6 151 76 31. 21 23 9,082 MARE LIVED TOO SOON Started in One Hundred and Fifty" One Races, Unplaced Only Twenty-Three Times Earned Only 9,082 in Six Years of Racing. One of the greatest of racing mares ran 151 races, won seventy-six and returned to her owners, only 9,082. A modern winner who did as much would have realized many; thousands more. Pan Zareta, in her 151 starts, was unplaced only twenty-three times. In percentages this mare had one of the greatest records of any horse racing in her time. In her career covering the years from 1912 to 1917, inclusive, she won more than half her races in the seasons of 1912, 1915 and 1916. Yet she never won quite ,000 in any one season. Her highest money record was in 1917, her last season, when she amassed what would now be looked upon as an insignificant total, ,965. As is true qf a great many racers. Pan Zaretas biggest year so far as percentage goes, was her first, in which she won thirteen out of nineteen starts. For winning thirteen races she received only ,512. The next year she won fifteen races in thirty-three starts, was second eight times and third three times, which netted her only ,895. In 1914 the winning record of the great mare didnt quite reach fifty per cent. She won thirteen out of twenty-eight ahd was unplaced only four times. Her greatest mark was achieved in 1915 when, in twenty-six starts, she won fifteen, was second six times, third four and unplaced only once. But for all this great racing her owners realized only ,540. As a matter of fact there were only two races which paid her more than a thousand dollars. The first of. these was at Juarez in 1913, and the other in 1917 at Empire City. A study of the mares winning record, which accompanies this article, will make clear the reason of Pan Zaretas popularity with racing fans everywhere and explain why, when she died, she was given burial with ceremony in the infield at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, where her bones rest alongside those of another and later racing animal of respected memory, Black, Gold. These statistics show that she won over three times as many races as the number in which she was unplaced seventy-six to twenty-three. There was one season, 1916, in which she was not out of the money in a single race, and the year before that, when she started in twenty-six races, she was out of the money only once. Her ability to carry high weight and win races made her one of the marvels of her time. Once at Juarez, Mexico, she carried 146 pounds and ran three-quarters of a mile in .1:11 for a winners share of 25.. On this same track she set a new American record of :57 for five-eighths of a mile and had 120 pounds up. She won six races when carrying 130 pounds or more. In 1917 she won thirteen races, and in eleven of them carried 120 or more; in three of them 135 or more. , Notwithstanding, these feats and the fact that she was duly appreciated by the race going public and hailed nearly everywhere as one of the turfs greatest, she had to run for money which even in these times of depression is not offered a field of the cheapest platers. She won one race at Dallas, Texas, which was worth only 50, and she won twenty-five races that were worth a maximum of 00, most of them paying less than that amount.
