Last week the Pinehurst Jockey Club arranged for the Christmas races a Championship Harness race in order to match Carmelita Hall, holder of the Track Record for Trotters, and Lady Glover, Holder of the same record for Pacers. We were pretty sure that another record would be made but in this we were disappointed as the track was heavy and about three seconds slow, but what a race it was. Carmelita Hill won the first heat in 2.14, fast time for the condition of the track. Lady Glover and Earl Brooks collided in the score for the second heat and both horses went down with their drivers. Earl Brooks was drawn but Lady Glover came back and showed her gameness by winning this heat in exactly the time of the first, 2.14. They raced it off in the third and final heat and the race went to Carmelita Hall in 2.15 and concluded one of the best harness races ever seen at the Pinehurst Track.
Frank Boyd won the Distance Running Race and his third race out of three starts this season. Colando, the Randolph entry, was a strong contender and had been better ridden might have been still stronger.
Roudsman, Mrs. Hurd’s entry in the St. Nicholas, a Six Furlough event that brought out seven good horses, won his race after a hard fight all the way. Walter Mack, favorite in the Five Furlong Race, ran true to the expectations and won the final event of the day.
From page 14 of the Sandhills Citizen, Southern Pines, N.C., Friday, Jan. 4, 1924
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