Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-12-16

In pacing lines IT would be thoroughly
Impossible to find. Every animal in our
skeleton tabulation is "A PAGER born and
bred in the most approved strains. The
top cross is that of the celebrated Hal
family of Tennessee, which is reckoned
in the pacing world as that of Hamble
tonian is in that of the trotters. Gibson's
Tom Hal (Tom Hal. Jr., l693I), the sire
of Hal Pointer 2:041, the greatest of
Little Brown jug 2 :lla, long the pacing ,
champion, and Brown Hal 2: l2I, once
the champion stallion of the world, is |
firmly established as the patriarch of
pacing sires, while his son, Brown Hal
:l2b, now but thirteen years of age, is
following fast in his footsteps, and his
list of performers, which, beside Storm
2.OSb, includes Hal billiard 2:l5f. Prince
Hal = :16i, Susie Brown 2:20i. Big Inun
2 :2O5. Hal Parker ~, Soda Water 2 :2l1.
Machetta, 3, 2:2l4, Hal Braden , :23i
Laurel 2:233, Hal Carter 2:24 and
Patasco 2 PA, is solid proof that he
will eventually surpass him. Geers has
always assertsd that Brown Hal was
himself faster than Hal Pointer, and it
is well known fact that he has re-
peatedly shown quarters below thirty
seconds, and had his leg not given way
there is no telling where he would have
gone. Still, he is proving such great
sire that the unfortunate termination of
his turf career is apt to be more than
counterbalanced.
On the maternal side Storm is equally
stoutly bred. His dam, Zephyr, is
by Jamison's John billiard, Jr., he by
Gibson's John billiard. Jr., sire of the
dams of Hal billiard 2:l53 and Frank
Dortch 2:l53, and son the great BROOD
mare sire John billiard. His second dam.
Tampa, a noted premium saddle mare
= and fast PAGER, was by Thompson's
Traveller, sire of Sam Jones 2 :lS3 his
: third dam by Noan's Old Copperbottom
-. fourth dam by Ridley, Medley; fifth dam
= by American Eclipse; sixth dam mare
l brought from Kentucky by William
, Witt in 1922. 1t is somewhat interesting
to note that there is triple cross to
McNIeen's Traveller, founder of the
Traveller pacing family, and sire of Hal
4 Pointers grandam. Jamison's John
: billiard, Jr.. was out of Clayton by
|. Pointers Slasher, second dam Jennie
# Miller, by McMeen's Traveller, while the
Y dam of Pointers Slasher was also by HIM
:. and was a sister of Thompson's Tray
II eler, sire of the grandam of Storm.
h The son of Brown Hal and Zephyr wa:
bred by Maj. Campbell Brown at Ewel
, Farm, Spring Hill, Tenn, and was foalec
in 1887. As twO-year-old he took
n breeders record of 2:424 at three h,
~ reduced it to 2 :22t and in his last race OF
that season got second money in fielt
- of eleven others, aged horses, in rae
paced in 2:22, 2:l9a and 2:l93 Las
=, year he made splendid campaign O
=, seven races, of which he won two, wa
second in three and third i'm the Othe
=, two. His most brilliant effort was a
- Independence, where, Oct. 80, he starte
against field of four fast aged horses
81 Wilkie Russell, Waterloo Boy, Almon
). Bashaw and Fedoro-and won, with on
Fu exception, the fastest six-heat race tina
A. had been paced to that date. His wiz
ming heats were the first, fourth and sixth
j. and the time was 2:l6, 2:154 and 2:l5;
making it, all in all, the greatest exh
It, biton of speed and stamina ever shown
~ public by four-year-old stallion.
en- After making a stud season last sprin
m Storm was started at the Saginaw Jul
r. meeting,at Detroit, and at the Clev,
d. land Grand Circuit meeting, where h
II. showed well, but had had such hurrie
o. preparation that success was lmpossib
m against such horses as Robert j. an
Dy Flying Jib. At the Independence NEE
IS ing he had begun to round to, and wo
lid fourth money in very fast race taken
straight heats by Blue Sign. This WI
upon Aug. %; he was not out aga
until the great September meeting
oE Terre Haute, where, in the 2 10 pace l
met field of wonderful quality
Winslow Wilkes, Rupee, Refecto
)m Gambrel, MikadO and two others. III
MS race was a bruser of five heats. whit
was finally won by Winslow Wilkes
rd- the second, third and fifth heats in 2 Ill
&C. 2:O9i and 2:l2, Rupee getting the four
ers in 2:ll3. Storm captured the first
Irk 2:ll, and was the contending hor
tut throughout, being second in all the othe
he but the third, while he was separate
llV tipad n thasa haatc in, D ,JD u
at and 2:l2i, which will give some idea
in the fierceness of the struggle.
LED describing the race the Review
as marked at the time:
Storms first heat in 2:ll. in the ra
won by Winslow Wilkes at Terre Haul
surpasses that of his sire, Brown III,
the once fastest of pacing stations,
ID seconds. lie finished SECOND In h