The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-02
Notes, News and Comment.

Notes, News and Comment.
1.-THE pneumatic sulky is success"
says Ed Geers.
Some seem to think Flying Jib 2:14
will be another Direct.
1.-THE wheat is not hurt out our
way" says Cam Mckay.
The Western Southern circuit opens
at Sturgis, Mich, this week.
McManus sent his grey PAGER a
mile in 2:27 over the Kite last week.
The Hermitage Stud stable has
been shipped to Columbus, Ind.
Their campaign begins at Cincinnati.
Col. n. NJ. Bruce, brother to s. d.
Bruce, 0f the Turf, Field and Farm,
died at Lexington, KY, Saturday.
Do not be surprised if you heat
some fine morning that Direct has
pulled up lame.-American Sports
man.
Uncle George Fuller breezed Belle
Archer 2:1514, the great daughter of
Rene and Mary Dake, and easy mile
in 2:lS last Thursday at Nashville.
1t II a rare thing to see q PAGER go
up to his speed without q check, still
Direct passed a half in I:0415, with
his head loose at Detroit.-American
Sportsman.
Hal Pointer and Direct meet next
Thursday at Buffalo, n. Y. 1t will
be 3 horse race, and as yet it is no.
body's race.
Ed OdelI, the jolly and clever
Mobile, Ala, trainer and driver, will
marry daughter of Gen. J. Z.
Turner, this fall.
Two fillies by Elector, son of EIec-
tioneer, came in from Sparta, ILL.,,
last week to be trained by Mr.. Thorn
as at the Kite track.
Mr.. J. w. Luton, of Water Valley,
Miss, has sent very handsome colt
to Trainer Thomas. 1t is by King
Rene, dam by Dictator.
Speaking of Robert Us 2:l3l%, the
crack that Geers uncovered at
Cleveland, a writer says: "Lift your
hat to the little bay gelding and his
white knee boots as you see him pass
by, as in abbreviated yet comprehen-
sive language of the Honorable Ed
Geers from Tennessee, this one is oil
in the cam"
MILFORD, Mass, July 29.-Nelson,
record 2.l0, the famous Maine STALL
ion, will make two attempts to beat
the record on the half-mile track at
the Charles River Driving Park week
after next. Nelson's owner will re-
ceive $1,000 for exhibiting the stallion
for the week and will get $1,000 ad
ditional il he breaks the worlds
record for stations on half-mile
track-2.154.
Senator Stanford has three full
brothers to Palo Alto, record 2.0SI.
Dame Winnie, dam of the dead
is a thoroughbred mare,
and at WOODBURY., where She was
bred, it WAS not dreamed that she
would ever become distinguished as
a dam Of trOtters. She was a chest
nut, by Planet (son of Revenue and
Nina, by Boston), out of Liz Mardis,
by Glencoe; second dam Fanny q.
(granddam of Alma Mater, by Mar
grave, and third dam Lancess, by
Lance, by American Eclipse. These
are strains which figure in many
prominent trotting pedigrees, and it
was largely because of being bred as
she is that she was bought for Palo
Alto Stock FRrm.-RecOrder.
We return thanks to Walter w.
Law, of Sing Sing, Y. Y, for a very
little book, containing exc
cellent illustrations of his stock and
dairy farm. called IA Souvenir of
Briar Cliff" Speaking Of his excel
lent herd of Jerseys, the book Gays:
1.-THE herd OF Jersey cattle number
about one hundred and was estab-
lished about two years ago by bring
ing other representatives of the Jer-
sey family from some OF the best
herds in the country, namely, the
Farm at Ipswich, owned
by Mr.. d. r. Appleton; Mr.. T. S.
Cooper, COopersburg, Pa. Mr.. A. B.
Darling, Ramseys, n. j., and Mr..
John Moore. Columbia, Tenn, repre-
senting the blood of Landseer's Fam
,y."