The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-11-27
Give Us q Fast Track.

The records made at the recent
meeting at the Columbia Driving
Park, have been the talk of the turf
world. Breeders everywhere are
talking about it, stock papers are
teeming with it, and track builders
everywhere are writing letters of in
quiry concerning its wonderfully
clever construction and "all- the-Way-
down. grade stretches" AS sample
of the advertising it Is giving the
town and county, and its protector,
w. G. Jones, we give the following
clipping from the Kentucky Stock
Farm:
"Since we called the attention of
the trotting-horse public to the ne
cessity of a very fast track for X u
lucky, the views we then expressed
have received the Endorsement of
ma of our contemporaries. If any
district of country in the world should
have the best facilities for fast trOtt-
ing most assuTedly that district is the
"Blue Grass" region of Kentucky"
noted far and wide for the supreme
excellence of it's trotting breeding.
"With our stock farms overlooking
with the richest bred youngsters that
the world has ever seen; with our
great sires producing trOtters by the
hundreds every year; with our
queenly dams, very many of which
are annually entering the great brood
mare list, and our unsurpassed IA
cilities in every other respect for
rearing and educating the trotting
horse, it is indeed anomalous that we
have to send our fast youngsters away
from this State in order to make the
records that they are capable of TAX
ing. Monbars is now sOjourning in
California with view to reducing
the very fast record that he made in
the East, and Ralph Wilkes has just
returned from Independence, where
he reduced his time several seconds.
"By a combined effort our breeders
could, at a very slight expense to each
individual, have track upon which
as fast time could be made as upon
any in the world. Certainly, If one
man in Iowa, and he by no means a
millionaire, can build a track upon
which the worlds records can be
beaten, the breeders of Kentucky can
do the same. This track has already
proved financial success. Its pro-
iector is a man of enterprise and
brains. More than this, he is man
of nerve. Mr.. Jones at Columbia,
Tenn, has done the same thing, and
at his own expense. Mr.. Jones 10
man of means, but not more so than
very many Kentucky breeders. In
fact, we suppose he is not nearly &c
rich a man as several gentlemen we
could name who are very largely in
terested in breeding trotters in Ken
lucky, and yet Kentucky suffers her
self to be left in the rear of the pro-
gressive action of these two gentle
men. Is it true that Kentucky breed
ers are lacking in the enterprise dis
played by gentlemen residing IL
States North, South and West of us
that certainly have no greater inter
ests at stake than we? We trust thai
this will not prove to be the case.
SIN the way of putting the matte
in tangible shape, we suggest that
ioint-stOck company be formed by thu
Kentucky breeders, that the best sit
in the State for the construction OF
track that will answer to the growing
demands of the times be constructed
with all the appurtenances necessary
and that the work of building the
track proceed with sufficient expe
dition to have it ready for use as earl!
in the spring as may be necessary
Let it not be said another year tina
Kentucky has to send her best colt
a way from home to be trained"