The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-26

ter 2:I715, next with the famous
Goldsmith Maid 2:14, and now he
knocks it sky high with Nancy
Hanks 2:0714, the peerless daughter
of Happy Medium.
Frank Smith, the phenomenal
PAGER, has rounded to" all right. He
McVey will drive hiil.-Stock Farm.
Sidney will be at Highland Farm,
near Lexington, KY, the next three
years. Mr.. w. e. France is reported
as having leased him for the sum Of
100000.
Geo. H. Morgan, the noted turf
writer, is dangerously i'll at Roches-
te, N. v. Mr.. Morgan was the editor
Of the Horse Review for several
years.
Chas McCully gives G. w. Will
liams rap over the knuckles for the
manner in which he has handled
Allerton. McCuly is very near
right.
Parkville, the son of ElectiOneer
and Aurora by John Nelson, which
made the present season ut AshweOd,
Tenn, will be shipped to Kentucky
in a few days.
Monroe Salisbury has pacing
mare named Kelloney Maid, that
Kelly, his stable foreman, says can
out pace Direct or the Flying Jib.
Can she beat locomotive?
Mai. Will Polk got in two mares
from Kentucky yesterday. One, by
Tennessee Wilkes, had been bred to
NOrval; the other, by King Wilkes,
was bred TO Egbert.
Perfect happiness Is not vOuchsafed
to any mortal in this life; but the
nearest to 1t is good progressive
occupation, a clear conscience, good
digestion and a good horse. All else
is syllabub.
\ veterinary surgeon gives the fol-
lowing good recipe for severe collie i'll
horses: 'Tincture of opium, OF. !;
Spirits of turpentine, 3 o.; Sweet
spirits of nitre, l oz.; Linseed oil, /
pint.
Old Tom Hal now has three sons,
Brown Hal, Brown jug and Hal
2:O93I. No other horse in the world,
living or dead, can equal it.
Some people don't like Edward
Geers and his great horse, because
they are 10th too honest for the aV.
erage pool-boX stufter and race course
D.rf nIT 1tap an1
stand it.
John Splan will pilot Hal Pointer
bus, Ohio, this week. Ed Geers has
several valuable engagements at
Hartford with "Pa." Hamlin's string
While all the talk about "shoes
hanging over gates" for the fastest
records is going ON, what's the mat
ter with the "three shoes" that hang
over the Columbia Driving Park
gate?
When Glendenris, Hamlin's good
horse, dropped dead on the track
recently, why ought the Othtr horses
in the race to have divided the money
with Pa" Hamlin ?-Because it was
dead heat.
1t looks as il about one cOrking
heat Just took the kinks out Of Roy
Wilkes. Vet his owner, the red
headed Davies, has the presumption
to say that he can give the iuCOm-
parable Hal Pointer race.
Ialene by Tennessee Wilkes, dam
by Brown Hal, won at Columbus,
Ind, in straight heats, taking a mark
of . :2114, and had to be pulled up ito
keep from distancing her tield.-EX-
change.
Some of the boys think the reason
Pointer got no cheers at Chicago la t
week was that he broke the crowd in
the pool-box. 1t was 80 to 80 that
Pointer would not go In 2;0G. Im-
agine how they felt.
ST don't know how it is with Direct
but it always made me tired when
re aud Pointer met. t."-COl. Salisbury,
1891.
II second that motion, Colonel !;
am getting to be somewhat tired
myself. f."-Direct, 1892.
Since the early history of the horse
says the Rider and Driver, there has
been very little general improvement
towards making bits easy and COM
Portable, and to-day probably ninety
uer cent of the horses are used with
bits that hurt or annoy them unnec-
essarily.
Little Miss Mary Dale Figuers
aged six, and who is an angel on
earth, sings the following lines
To-day:
"YOu can't beat Pointer,
No use of trying,
He's done quit pacing,
Now gone to flying"
Jno. Morrow, the popular horse
man of Nashville, who Officlated AZ
starting Judge at the July meeting
in that city, will do the starting at
Franklin, KY, Bowling Green, Ky,
Knoxville, Columbia etc. Mr.. Nor
row is regarded by the critics as the
equal of any starter that ever rang
the bell.