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Show SSL GISPMISE Grand Circuit, as Rearranged, Eliminates Long Jumps, With Consequent Saving of Railroad Mileage. By FBANK G-. MENKB. EW TORIC, Jan. 31. Tho 1311 trot- Un and . pacing, season promises to bo the best and tho moat, auc-JL auc-JL 1 ccflsful. In. tho. history of tho (harness (har-ness game. A circuit that eliminates Ions' Jumps will save thousands of dollars In railroad mlleugo, a reduction In tho entrance fees for horses, and two now rules which olv the handicap prnblom that has perplexed for so many ytars wero hroupht about thrbugh tho recent meeting, of tho Grand Circuit stewards at Grand ttnpld8,.Mloh. Another bl factor tlmt makes for a succosHful seaHon Is the reawakened 'enthusiasm 'en-thusiasm Invtho trotting fraternity, and thn certainty that boeduse of tho now rules many of the nion. prominent In trottlntr circles years ago, who had retired, re-tired, will do a real "come-back." One of tho nw rulen, received with delight de-light hy harness horse owners, provides that If a horso with a ":J0 mark falls to win In that elasH be nmy bo ontcrod. In IiIh mrxt start, In. tho ':ll class,' if ho falls to win a. ro Jn tho 2:11 ulass, ho can so back to the jjIowoi- classos until he wins a race, no matter if It carries him buck tto, the .U:20 class. - "Such a 'rule 'certainly will bo a. great j - .. . . :?. t .-.;. ''' ' ; help to tho trotting and pacing same." declared S. S. Toman, editor of the Trotter Trot-ter and Pacer magazine, and one of the best versed men on 1 rotting aJialrs In the country. "Very . oftn a hoive that cannot go better than ":15 on an average, through some phenomenal burst of speed, will travel a mile In 2; 10. Perhups. never again will ho duplicate that, mark, yet. under the old' rulos, he "wai forced to travel ever afterward In the 'i'10 class, whore he was outclassed und never had u chance for the money.' ' "Admiral Doivey. . tho sreul tnlllon, went a heat In 2:033 where his 'winning race record was 2:063. Yet ho has had I to travel In the 2:01 clasn. Peter Jack-aon Jack-aon ran a heat In the Kentucky Futurity In 2.03. but Ills winning Taco record is, liear'ly live seconds slower. Flower. Tercet went a heat. In 2;01; last year. yet. lost her raco, und may novor again tx"avel as fast as Bho did then. "The Injustice of tho old rules, and the great holp tho now. one will bo, is apparent appar-ent from a perusal of the records of not only thtiKo Ii6rse6, but also hundreds of others that havo traveled a single, mile t a rmr Hvond their natural apoed and were compelled to enter that cluss for the rest of their careers." Tho other Important new rule, Just u revolutionary and 'equally an helpful to the racing game, eliminates the penalising penalis-ing of a horso with tho best mark bo mndo In a heati provided ho does not win .. (Continued on Following Pago.) '' ' ' ,i ESS MEN WILL HAVE GREAT SHSOH (Continued from Preceding Page.) the race. Under the old rules. If a 2:15 horse won a heat In 2:10 he would thereafter there-after bo placed In the 2;10 class, whother he won the race or not. Tho new rules provide tliat only tho race winner will be penalized with- hla best heat record. However, How-ever, the mark of the horse that wins a heat, but not the race, will bo kept and recorded as a credit to hla sire. The now rules charge an entrance fee of onlv 3 per cent of the purse for each horse entered In a race, with an additional addition-al 7 per cent to bo deduoted from purso winners. TOe 1914 circuit, laid out by tho stewards, stew-ards, shows the average Jump to bo only & trifle more than 250 miles. It covor 5634 miles, which la much- less than In other years. Tho longest Jump will bo from Hartford. Conn., to Detroit, Mich., a distance of 67fi mllea, while the shortest will bo from Grand Raplda, Mich., to Kalamazoo, Mloh., a distance of forty-nine forty-nine miles. . . . Another big factor that will help tho Grand Circuit game thla season, and in other eensomj to come. Is the action of the Detroit Trotting iusocJuUon In changing the time for the $10,000 M. & M. race from 2:24 to .2:14. This In in koep-Ing koep-Ing with the argument rnudo by M. W. Savage, the veteran horse owner. In a ! recent article In tho Trotter and Pacer. Enhances Interest. "The big purses usually are raced for bv horse absolutely unknown." declared Savago In hla article. "This is a mistake. mis-take. The crowd will not bo attracted any more by unknown horses than thoy will bo attracted by unknown ball players. play-ers. Our largo purses should bo contested con-tested for by horses well known to tho public for It la only such horses tliat Btlr up pnbllo interest and create a do-olre do-olre to see the races." One of tho matters discussed by the stewards at their meeting, but on which no action was taken, was that of re-.vjving re-.vjving the old rule of limiting the annual an-nual winnings of a trotter to $20,000 and of a pacer to $10,000. However, there Is little possibility of this rule over being adopted, as only two or three horses ever exceed these amounts in single season sea-son winnings. Statistics covering the 1013 Ecoson. compiled by Gcorgo J. DIotrlch, and which appeared in the Trotter and Pacer magazine, show that Etawah and Te-nara Te-nara were Uio only trotters that wan over 120,000 last year, and Fank Bogash, Jr., the only pacer. Etawah won $24,49S, Tenara $W,104. and Fank Bogash. Jr.. $33,341. Next in line a money winners among the trotters were Judsbn Girl, S10.260; Lord Fowey. S17.5O0; Reusens, 514.200; May Mack, $13.2SK: and Tommy Thorn. $10,830. Nineteen trotters won between J5O00 and $10,000. and flfty-six, earned qmounts ranging from $2C00 to $5000. Pacing Winners. In tho ranks of pacerp. Dietrich found that Lcata was tho second largest money winner, with a total of $13,392; Del Toy won $12,608. and College Gent $10,250. Twenty trotters won amounts botween $5000 and $10,000. while an oven fifty won Bums ranging from $5000 down to $2300. Dietrich's statistics also showed that Peter the Great sired tho greatest number num-ber of winners during tho year, his forty-two offsprings garnering" a total of $63,638. This amount exceeds the topnotch winnings win-nings of last year and Is Uio greatest won by any family since 1S96, when tho Baron Wllkeses swept everything before them. Moko's family of twenty-two brought homo $43,756, while the thirty of Hal .B.'s family won $33,366, and the thirty-two belonging: to tho Blngara family fam-ily won J2S.2S7. |
