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Show HUE WORtD'S iRkS BROKEN IT FORT III New Record Made for Four-year-old Fillies ; Main Event Goes Six Heats. TOLEDO, Ohio, July 24. Three world's harness records were broken on the Fort liami track this afternoon, the second day of the Grand Circuit meeting. Bertha Ber-tha McGuire, in the Fort Miami stake lor the 2:0$ trotters event, covered a. mile in 2:04, making a new world's record for 4-year-old fillies. The former record of 2:04, made at Lexington, was held jointly by Joan and Mary Putnam. The race went six heats, Esperanza and Blanche Carter lighting" it out after the rest of the horses had been sent to the barn. It was the fastest six-heat race on record. Wilkes Brewer, a heavy favorite in the Fort Miami, driven by "Pop'1 Geers, was ruled out after the third heat. Jt was the only race of the day that Driver Murphy Mur-phy was unable 10 win. Riding behind Ante Guy in the 2:11 trot he won, after losing the first heat to Heir Reaper, with Geers in the sulky. Murphy also drove The Problem, a winner win-ner in the 2:11 pace, against "a field of seven. The Poughkeepsie reinsman put in a bid for the Fort Miami $5000 stake event, but finished ninth in the second heat, after being in third place in the first, and withdrew from the field. Geers was picked to win the big event with Wilkes Brewer, but the veteran driver was unable to make the mare behave. be-have. Lucky Clover and Glen wood B. got into a bad tangle in the second heat Of the 2:11 trot. Neither was hurt, but Lucky Clover finished the mile on the trot and went ai-ound again running. 2:11 trot, purse $1000: Ante Guy (Murphy) 3 1 1 Heir Reaper (Geers) 1 4 2 Sis Bing (McMahon) 2 2 3 Lord Stout (Stout) 4 3 4 Miss Aisabelle McGregor (McDonald) (McDon-ald) ." 7 5 5 Also started : Lucky Clover, Glenwood B., Walnut Maid. Wynema and Sybil Jud. ; Time, 2:05; 2:05; 2:07. Fort Miami stake, for 2:08 trotters, purse $5000: Ksperanza (McMahon) 7 6 14 1 1 ! Blanche Carter (Stout) 1 3 2 1 2 2' Bertha McGuire (AckermanK2 1 3 3 3 ro Mack Forbes (McDevitt) 6 2 7 2 ro North Spur (Cox) 9 4 4 ro Also started: Wilkes Brewer, Allen Watts, Grand Chimes, Czar Peter, The Toddler and Gentry C. Time, 2:05; 2:041,4;. 2:04; 2:06; 2:07; 2:06. 2:11 pace, purse $1000: The Problem (Murphy) 1 1 1 Highland Lassie (Edman) 3 2 2 Mattie The Great (Reeves) 2 3 7 Dude J. (Elson) 7 4 3 Cliff Coquette (Hunel) 4 7 5 Also started: William Patch, Sunburn Pointer and Black Beautv. Time, 2:04; 2:05; 2:07. |