A GREAT PACING MARE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1245, 26 February 1914, Page 14

A GREAT PACING MARE.

It is doubtful (says an American correspondent) if the turf ever ha>3 seen a greater pacing mare than Leata J. Gren and uneducated so far als racing was concerned she leflt Pleasanton on May 1 and finished the 1913 season by winning a free-for-all at Los Angeles in 2.04%.

During the year Leata J. started 1 times against stake horses and she won nine of these events, being second in four and once fourth. In her first race she met Del Rey when that horse was good and she finished back. After that she was either first or second with Frank Bogash, Jr., in the £lOOO stakes, bleating Murphy’s fast thing three times and being beaten by him in five races. She beat Del Rey three times, also she took the measure of the fast Don Pronto. In all of her races against Frank Bogash, Jr., the mare had to display extreme speed. In some part of every mile there was a quarter in about 30 seconds or maybe a little better. In the Chamber of Commerce stake the last halves of the three heats were i 1

1.00 "4 apiece. The last half of the third heat at Hartford was in 59% seconds, and last quarters at Syracuse were below 30 seconds, two of them in 29% seconds, and the fourth in 2 8 ’Seconds. This is greater speed than shown by Star Pointer, Dan Patch, The Broncho, Citation, Lady Maud C., or any of the fast pacers. Leata J. never had the best of it, her driver n c being up to the tricks of Murphy, and it frequently was remarkaed that if Murphy had the mare she would be unbeatable.