SPORTING.

Waikato Argus, Volume XV, Issue 6045, 19 September 1903, Page 2

SPORTING.

A REMARKABLE RACE. Tue following is the history of a remarkable race run at Boston on August 24th. The dream of hor-emen for the past quarter of a oeotuty was realised to-day, when Lou DilloD on the track at Readvile trotted the mile in just two minutes. She took the record Cresceus Crown held for two years for tho mile in 2.2 J. The mile of to-day was in quarters, ihe first 0.30|, the Becond 0.30 J, the third 0 30£, the fourth 0 29. The sleek Utile mare flashed under the wire at the finish in a condition to go another mile at a gait fist enough to he troublesome to many rivals of fair reputation. Six thousand spectators watched the performance. Lou Dillon is a chestuut mare, by Sidney Dillon, and is five years old. Mr Billings, her owner, bought her iu Cleveland for the sum of 12,500 dollars. To-day the mare is priceless. Lou Dillon, under full headway, aporoaehed the starting line with a poetry of graceful motion, which a premier dauseuse could not excel, and which made the runners in her company look like a couple of gawks. The horses reaohed the quarter before the crowd realised that the race was on, and then all saw that the mire was travelling so evenly and with so little fuss that nobody conceived she was trotting in record-breaking time, yet she had almost ovei taken the runner. The pacemaker spurted a bit on nearing the threequarter mark, and gave the mare a better chance to show the stuff that was in her. She closed up the lap on the sweep around into the home stretch and made a daeh, for the finish of the mile was at hand. The hoofs of the mare aud runners beat dirt in one bunch, and sent; a cloud of tioe dust up into the sunlit air. Without a touch of the whip, Saunders, the driver, spoke tho words which lengthened the mare's strides, and uuder the wire she went at lost queen of the turf in both hemispheres. AVCNDALE JOCKKY GLOB'S SPRING MEEITNG. The above popular club will commence their Spiing Meeting to-day at Avondale, and a mo<t successful meeting is antici pated. Several "Waikato horses are engaged, and they are expected to play a prominent part in the settlement of the various events in which they have accepted.