The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-20
HORsES. MULES AND CATTLE.
Live Stock Notes. Transfers and
ShI1mentS.

I've SJOck Notes. 1EdIlSIcIS anu
Shipments. 7
MULE IlUorATIoNs.-The quota
ions are corrected weekly by }: W. {
Toward q Co. Must be choice and fat, i
rom to years old, in good flesh. - Z
4 to l4M hands high ~ TO S1Oo
Az to is hands high 1O5 to 130
5 to 1914 hands high 10 10 lou
So to 10 hands high loo TO IfO
Miss Russell the dam of Maud :.
ETC., has been booked TO
Axtell.
There are thirty odd horses with
,rottlng records better than 2:l5.
-Almont Boy is the sire of three
performers whose average record Is
Ed Geers will probably carry the
great colt Complex by Duplex 2;l1A
through the Grand Circuit this year.
1t is said that John p. McGaw,
the expert and "Apollo-like" horse
man, of Columbia, Tenn, expects
Red Pilot to pace low down this
Tennessee Farmer.
old stake to be trotted at lndepend-
ence, Iowa, this season are Allerton
2:I315, Margaret s., 2:1213, Nancy |
Hanks, 2:I415, and AIabaster, 2:l5
Susie S, a mare that as a three
year-oId took a record Of 2:2O and as a
five-year-old trotted in 2:l519, is now |
in Ed Geersi stable and is expected
O considerably lower her record DUR
ing the coming season.
The SAUNDERS OF her majesty
Maud s, were rudely awakened Mon
dav night. the End inst, at midnight,
by fire which broke out in the resi-
dence of Mr.. Bonner. The fire was
fortunately extinguished before it had
made any great progress. Loss,
$1,000. -
THE first of the year at PalO Alto
was a chestnut filly, 6y Flood, out oil
Amelia, the dam of Rinfax,
-Axtell's yearling sister, Cant
Tell, is being logged each day by Z.
w. Williams, her owner. 1t Is
thought she will show spt ed.
breeding will be allowed to go TO NC
Ewens This season, and his next
years crop SHOULD. be great.
"A limited number or ch0lcely
bred mares have been booked to Ponce
de Leon, 2:251z, this season. The
dam of Dallas, the sensational q 'er,
is afeIy in foal to Ponce de Leon, and
will be bred back to him.
Several of Tennessee's shrewdest
bree ders have booked some OF their
best maHes to Ben Franklin, 2:29, the
greatest living representative OF the
Morgan family.
Sam Keyes, who used to drive the
old pacing mare Lucy, recently pur,
chased in Kentucky a two-yeAr-old
colt by Red Wilkes, paying a long
price for the young one.
The pacing mare Emma, tina
made q record of 2:1614 last year, viii
be in Spain's string this season.
in q recent interview OrrlI
Hickok is reported to have said tina
3. B., the bronco pacer that beaI
Adonis at Terre Haute last fall, II
not such a great horse after all.
-Coastman 2:251s is q slde-Wheelel
that will do to watch. 1t is said tina
he made this record with less t ma
! seventy days training. A horse tina
] can do this in his twO-year-old form
will be tough one to follow later on
l-CLarES Horse F6pt6lgr
. Harry Hamlin, son of the veteran
J. c., is now driving to pole the pac
ers Johnston 2:0814 and Hal Pointer
l 2:O9II. This great pair OF sidt wheel
: ers, hooked together, ought to bea
D the wind.
w. J. Williams, of Oltumwa, Ia.
owns a yearling tilly PAGER that Il
= said to have recently Wiggled a quar-
Y ter In 36 seconds--hret halt i'll ~. M
! dies are to be found on that young
-ter-in January.-CtdrE'S HOrS'
= ReUieaU.
Jordan 2:1734 is now owned by c
| A. Hodges, Battle Creek, Mich.
In the forthcoming volume OF thu
Year Book, Mr., Wallace adopts tn
plan of separate tables for pagers uD
der their sires. 1t will embrace
fuller and more careful elaboration
the pedigrees of performers that ap
| ly,h nhnfinol LIST of 2.R
performers,
-rhe PAGER Patchsn Boy IL going
great clip to cutter at Hartford, Conn.
where the sleighing is superb.
i, The death of the stallion Certain
10 tv, owned by w. Simpson, of. tn
, Empire Stud, Cuba, n. Y, is grea
; = loss to the breeding world. He wa
worth $4,000.
"A novel feature in winter racing
is the trotting meeting Oh the ice
Burlington Bay, at Hamilton, Ont
Secretary Tracy is reported +
have said that he would sooner be tn
n breeder of a horse able TO lower tn
record of Maud s. than be Secretar.
e of the Navy.
= Duchess Russell 2:2815, by Nam
brine Russell dam Duchess May, b,
Hambletonian, died recently q
= Springhurst Farm, KY, of pneumo
MIA. She was in foal to Abandon
and was considered worth $1,000.
One of the best stock papers tina
comes to us is "OLGrk's Horse Re
+ vieaV." 1t comes every week and nON
Is is full of good reading for all class G
: horsemen. Send to Chicago for thi
great paper.
Brown Hal, 2:12h, is in the PIN
of condition, and will this season
make an effort to wipe out the re
5; cords of Johnston, 2!0614, and Ro
a Wilkes, 2:083.
Hal Pointer was given his frs
l, spin of the season at Ewell Farm las
week and in Ed Geers' hand vii
4 make them all pace this season.
The Belmont heirs declined tn
proposition of the Nashville syndi
Nursery stud. They would not eve
d fix a price on the stud, and the horse
will doubtless go under the auction
n eer's hammer.
! AT present Ed Geers has in hi
" stable at EwelI Farm about twent.
. horses, and the great knight OF tn
n sulky has refused over 100 horses thI
n season. Since there has been so M
4 controversy as to whether or no
i Geers would drive for G. j. Hamlii
IS this season, it can be said that sucl
!. is the case in one particular. Ham
! lin has second call on Geer5, as
were. When Geers will have moth
3 ing of his own to start in races on thu
r grand circuit, and Hamlin has, h
will drive for the master OF the Vii
lage Farm.
Ed Geers' string next season viii
consist of the PAGERS Brown Ha
2:1215; Hal Pointer, 2:O9M; Franz
Dortch, 2:2515 (trial 2:l7;) Boy Tay
Ior (trial 2:I6;) Complex, years, b!
Duplex, 2:l714; Ialene, 8 years, by
Tennessee Wilkes; Storm, 2:2219, anC
the trOtters Jeffie Lee, 2:3l; Fred 5
2:26, and LightwoOd, 2:24. Hi
string will be the most formidable
that ever left the State, especially il
the pacing division.
1t is announced that the Cumber
land Park people have definitely de
cided to abandon the idea of a kite
shaped track, and will build the regu
lation oval course.
Prominent among the 2-year-olC
candidates for turf hOnors in Tennes
zee next season, according to Judge
Babcock, will be Mr.. +. A. Collins
great FLY by Red Wilkes, dam by
George Wilkes, with pacing trial a
yearling of 2:3S12; the tilly by Tel
uessee Wilkes dam by Tom Hal, now