234 RACEALONG 



WORTH WHILE WINNERS 



With the Hght harness racing season extending 

 from June to November, a matter of twenty weeks, 

 it is a busy trotter or pacer that can make more than 

 that number of starts. As a rule, horses take the 

 word in about ten races during the season. 



Few of the horses raced of late years equalled the 

 showing made by the Belwin gelding Crawford in 

 1925. That year in the Grand Circuit he started in 

 nineteen races, four of them being dashes at Aurora, 

 and won sixteen. His only defeats were at Toledo 

 where he finished second to Peter Fellows and at 

 Syracuse and Columbus where he was placed to Bob 

 Armstrong. He also had a chance to add two or three 

 more races to this score but Murphy refused to ship 

 him from Atlanta to start in some half-mile track 

 engagements in North Carolina. 



If Crawford had appeared in these events he would 

 have met Peter Buskirk. That year Peter Buskirk 

 started racing at Freehold, N. J. on Decoration Day 

 and stopped at Wilson, N. C, in October. He took 

 the word in seventeen races of which he won fifteen, 

 the most brilliant being at Avon, Conn., where he 

 defeated Ensign Tige and Great Bells. Peter Buskirk 

 won all of his engagements in the Orange County 

 and Bay State Circuits that year except at Spring- 

 field. At that point Escotillo grabbed the odd heat 

 from him. His other blank was at Trenton where he 

 was defeated by Peter Fellows. 



The returns show that in 1923 Peter Buskirk won 



