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...Greyhound got away fast at the rail. Suddenly the field, which had passed the starter well bunched and trotting smoothly, scattered in complete confusion. Pedro Tipton and Tilly Tonka broke first, and then, on the first turn, Lawrence Hanover. As the horses trotted into the first leg of the V-shaped backstretch, the crowd groaned because Warwell Worthy had opened up a gap of 15 lengths. Although Greyhound was almost the same distance ahead of the rest, it looked as if the shortest priced Hambletonian favorite in years was now doomed to lose the heat...
Then followed a performance which, for sophisticated spectators in the crowd of 40,000 that jammed the wooden grandstand and bleachers of Good Time Park at Goshen, N. Y., stamped Greyhound as the greatest trotter seen on a U. S. track since Peter Manning, more than a decade ago. Stride by stride through the backstretch he cut down Warwell Worthy's lead. On the turn into the homestretch he passed her, swinging out, and the two came into the straightaway neck & neck. A faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew...
That, last week, was the second heat of the world's richest race for harness horses. In the first heat, Greyhound, already a 1-to-2 favorite, had come up from last in the backstretch to win by a neck over Pedro Tipton, in 2 min. 2 1/4 sec., the best winner's time ever clocked in the trot. In the interval between heats, bookmakers had cut down the odds and finally, when this failed to discourage Greyhound's backers, scratched him off their boards. By winning the second heat in 1934 Greyhound became the first trotter...
...circuits in the U. S., thousands of trotting races on half-mile courses at county fairs. There are about 700 owners and breeders of trotters and four times as many trainers, second trainers, grooms and stable boys. Compared to thoroughbred racing, the economics of harness racing are small-scale. Greyhound, outstanding harness racer of the year, has earned $27,000, while Discovery has been earning $64,000. Guy McKinney, trotting's biggest money win ner for a single season, won $60,000 in 1926, compared to Gallant Fox's $308.000 in 1930. At the Fasig-Tipton Old Glory...
...read your account of Pacific Greyhound's opening their "Nitecoach" service between this city and Kansas City with great interest because I have just completed a round trip on these buses (TIME, May 6). However, you are not entirely correct in every detail...