The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-22

How about the dam OF Allerton
2:O91I? DIR. Talbot gave an old barn
worth about $500 for Alma Mater.
Yet AxtelI, Ralph Wilkes, AllertOn
and Alcaniara, are worth to-day
about 5000, 600. Three of the four
were bred by poOf men and two Of
the four were bred by doctors.
Arrangements have been completed
for a match race for $4,000 between
the two great IrOtting stations, Aller-
lertOn, 2:09l4; and Delmarch, 2:ll1a,
the race to lake place at Davenport,
Ia, during the progress of the meet
ing there the first week in August.
Delmarch is in the hands OF M. T..
McHeDry, at Freepurt, ILL.,, this season
and Is said to be in fine form. Aller-
ton IS coming into fine racing form
rapidly and has already stepped
quarters at a 2:O8 gait.
The following, from an exchange,
is the way to make Il certain class If
drivers little stronger in the arms
when necessary:
~
starter fined the driver of Walter
Wilton twice at SO each time; also
the driver of OXman once, when they
became stronger in their arms and
got q good send-Off. 1t was apparent
from the frs. that OXman was not in
il, and at the finish he was last in,
and in the next heat he got the flag
and went to the stable"
Everything considered, it is un-
que -tionably true that MOnbars was
in 1891 the best twO-year old cam
paigner that had ever been produced,
says the Breeders Gazette, and al
though his record is not nearly so fast
as that OF AriOn, it is nevertheless
true that for practical purposes Mon
bars showed himself to be the peer of
any two year old trotter in the world,
as in these days OF the rich stakes
for youngsters it Is the blood that
gets the money which is popular with
breeders and owners, alike.
'Tis now said that "ParsOn" Arney
who abandoned the Methodist pulpit
to train horse is going back to
This is good news. We
hardly know how it is, but there in u
certain kind of strAnined relationship
existing between the pulpit and the
training horse business which cannot
easily be straddIed by an ordinary
man with short legs and a shorter
intellect. No doubt when brother
Arney comes back for the first Sun
days exercises his congregation will
hear a sermon On-tAnd BalAam
rode an ass"
Referring again to the mare BlOn-
tonian 2:22, whose record was made
on the track at South Side Park, we
heard Il gentleman say yesterday that
the former owner of the mare, who
drove her to her record OH this track,
has since expressed wish that he
had let her go as fast as she was able.
1t is well known that she could have
gone in 2:l7 or 2:lS that day. She
went to the half in l:O7. We call
Wireligh:'s attention to the fact that
the South Side Park track holds the
states record for half mile track,
that of ROckbOttOm 2:20. Bay Pilot
paced over 1t in 2:2lA. 1t is un-
dOubtcdly fast.
One of our exchanges is out in an
editorial headed "McCurdy's HANDLE
tOnian il Dead" This would be
news to George Washington, Daniel
Webster and the man that struck
Billy Patterson. Yes, he is dead and
has been since the spring of 1889. He
died at MurfreesborO Tennessee of
lung fever. lie was the best sire of
trOtters now dead, that ever stood in
Tennessee. He was little appreciated,
wasting most of his life on cotton
plantation mares down in Alabama;
but got speed out of even the cold
bIooded ones. Yes, he is dead but
IIis soul goes marching on.
A fellow under the name of Prof.
Joel McKenney writing from Boston
to The Breeder and Turfman under
the caption of "TrOtting Horse
Knowledge? spends a quarter of a
column telling his readers exactly
how n horse, to go fast, ought to look.
He says: "Slim neck, small jaws,
large nOstrils, long ears, wide be-
tween the eyes" and SO on for quar-
ter of II column. Thanks, many
thanks PrOfcssor(?) We have the
Very horse you SO beautifully de-
scribe. Come soon and see us drive
tnat you get to your proper dOmicile
the Tennessee insane asylum.
Allen Lowe says that the new BIZ
cycle wheel is success. Charles +.
Clark, who used the first one made,
says it beats anything he ever saw.
1t goes round the turns far better than
any sulky ever invented, and in
scoring is the handiest thing ever
known. They are going to build a
thirty-fOur pound vehicle that will
stand all the wear and tear of the
strongest mNde sulky, and it is q
surety that the pneumatic wheel is
the wheel of the future. Inside of
five years they will be used exclusive
ly. Jedd Woodbury. has driven two
races and worked Albert D., in the
machine all the time. He says it will
do, and he knows. Some of the fast
ones will go in the rubber-tired sulS-
les before the season is over.
William SkelIey,