Show ONOMA GIRLIS GIRL IS t WINNER ut amous Trotter Led All Com Corn Competitors ComI I During Past Sea Season Season I son on Track 1 1 I CLOSE SECOND THIRD LARGEST WINNING GELDING IN RECENT YEARS Sonoma Girl was nas as the largest winning otter of 1907 the tabulation of tho Innings showIng her total to be 26 16 0 earned In thirteen races of o which ie e won Ion Second to her bar tor on the thet It t la 15 I her hel great rival Highball wh MC mrs jars work tabulates as na follows Po 10 Win In i Place and date nines nin July Jul 4 i 1 J loo DO Ib July Jub 17 1 2 July Jub 25 2 2000 2 Aug 13 U 1 I Go J Aug 38 28 1 II Sept 10 1 I t 1 lumbus Sept 1718 1118 3 J 1300 1000 slum lumbus bus Sept 27 1 I Me Oct 16 1 Total rou rouThe The tabulation shows that Highball arted in nine races of ot which he ho won on x XI was second in two of the others id d third In tho the remaining one on All Allie ie to races which ho lost were won by noma moma Girl That he stood but third his first Columbus race was due to too 10 o fact that thal Margaret O 0 after afler he and norna noma Girl had raced meed themselves Into to 10 ground in the first two heats came camei i 1 and beat them both In the third It as a Tair x v that finished it As Sonoma J ad win the two first heats her ss of the third could not depose lepose her herom herom j om the top too of oC the summary but was forced Into third place The classic classie H takes stakes won by High til were w r The Massachusetts at Road Rend He lie the th Roger Williams at Provi nee nc and the McDowell at Lexington e was s second In the th Merchants and md M I and M 1 at Detroit j During the season he ho started In six heats of which he ho won seven en in fn which the time was as follows follow two consecutive In 4 08 Detroit first in Readville Ir iree C consecutive In 2074 OJ two consecutive In i 07 Syracuse s hice consecutive In m 06 2 06 i Columbus first frd and fourth In three thre consecutive in 09 0 4 21 The average time of lieso leSe Leso seventeen heats is Highball is the third largest winning hiding In regular races of recent ara ars ar Only two surpass his hiI record In 03 Billy BlUy Buch won a record im of ot its kind and in 1902 Major elmar won Billy Buch start stan l I In thirteen races and won eleven ajor Delmar started In twelve races id d won nine As is well veil known and Highball was purchased 1st st May Maj by b Frank G Jones of Mem Iem Tenn for the largest larget price lex ier paid vald for a trotting gelding that lid id never started In a public race This I rice was paid because Highball had In stakes which made madeI I Im look surf sure to w win In himself elf out with ily ly reasonable lurk luck while with good goodIck Ick ek ck he looked to have a chance to lipse ev en n Billy Buchs record It limed out that his lila luck was waif very bad jut ut despite It he did more than pay pr 1 r himself It Is an undeniable that grand otters as both Billy Bill Buch and Major pelmar were wr in the years that they theyon on so 80 heavily Highball could have hav I eaten either of them also alo tho the fields pat at they beat with decisive ease eose He HeS S j faster taster than either of them then was as game and in the sum of his of If higher lass class Despite the abilities and handicaps that beset besst him hint the entire season seaon had he nothing better than they met ho 10 would have not lost a heat I rom com spring to fall and have quit win winer winer 1 er of above But he was vas de tined to be pitted d against a Inon Sonoma Girl Girland and to have hae to also alo against n Infirmities and hard lurk luck that were lions in Us ds ath Still be he split even with So joma oma Girl winning three of the th ix x aces laces In which thy they th y met and showed even when not at his best I ble to beat everything else on th the rand Circuit |