The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-03-10


his hands full. =
Mr.. w. J Webster has bought from II
J. G. Twymer, Of Lexington, KY, ii
half Interest in the chestnut stallion I,
Prince FOnsO by Imp Prince Charlie, h
(sire of Salvator) out of Mary Wilson il
by King AlphOnsO. This horse is n
large and stylish and has won num- +
Der of big stakes. He will prove h
valuable acquisition to the live stock q
of the county. About twenty thor
Nughhr mares have been booked to
him aud some good pacing mares.
Col. Simms, the owner of William
L., announces that be has concluded
10 withdraw the service OF the sire OF :
Axtell 2:l2 from the stud this year, 8
and If he is fast enough, he will be-
campaigued. He is reported to have
gone mile last year in 2:2O, aud
there are great many people about (
Lexington who believe that he will
take a better record before the close
OF the 1893 campaign than that OF his
brother, Guy Wilkes 2:l5A.
The Farmers Home Journal says:
mi. L. L. Dorsey, Middletown, KY,
has sold All elegant pair OF geldings,
coming three years old, to Mr.. A. G
Langham, Of this city, for $3.50. Both
OF these colts are by Mr.. Dorsey's
well-known Golddust stallion, Hen
bricks, who is proving himset
superior sire Of nigh-class harness
horses. He sires class OF horses,
such ~ are moot profitable for farm
ers to raise, and his service fee II
such that any farmer can afford to
breed to him" UnquestiOnably this
is the most profitable class Cf horses
to raise.
High Hal, the valuable pacing
stallion owned by John Wahl, OF
Monroe. Mich, died Of collie recently
Hal was u handsome horse, fifteen
and oue-quarter hands high, weighed
100 pounds, and was gentle as
child. He was half brother to HAl
Pointer, being sired by Tom Hal,
dam Jane Ratlitf, by Pointers
Slasher He was bred at Spring
Hill, Tenn, by the late Col. Pointer,
L aud Was purchased by Wahl ABOUT
: two years ago. With but few days
, training he paced a half mile
in l:l21a.
! Little Brown Jug, the once IA
] nous pacing horse, has been bought
Nv Phil GrOben ana John Kellner,
. two we'll known Buffalo horsemen.
J, Little Brown jug stood unchalleDged
d for eight years as the winner OF the
:. three fastest heats in race The
;. jug took the three heats in 2llH,
}. 2:I134, 2:l21a, at Hartford. Conn,
and aeld the crown until his half
! brother, Hal Pointer, snatched II
y away from him three years ago In
e 2:lOA, 2:l0A, 2:l04. jug is u full
:, brother to Brown Hal, the pacing
u stallion.
George Wilkes holds a combined
record If 2:22 to harness, 2:25 t.
- wagon, 2:2S to pole and was cam
Ie paigued TIL seventeen years old, wa
" retired to the stud in 1873 and died II
Is 1882, but in those nine season
l. got seventy-nine performers from
II, 2:3O to 2:l3la aud seventy-four son
80 that have sired nearly SIX hundred
le in the list, also thirty four daughter
that have produced race horses will
~ records from 2:30 to 2:094, al
~ achievement on the turf and i'll tn
90 stud which no horse has approached
Ut The class of horses that hav
III win ertd there AID those that are Ell
d gagged from the other tracts insure
''t great meeting at Cumberland Par
he this spring When the drum tap
there on April 80 there Will be 90
w horses on the grounds, aud to ga,
he that the racing material will be OF
y better c'ass than we have yet seen 4
a. IA Nashville meeting il broad assel
as ZION, but nevertheless a true one
10 Tue latest addition is eight head {
70 the Klley string. The stable arrive
nd last w, Elk from Chicago and haV
or quarter in the long stable just aero
the creek from the stand tn
HurseInaa.
ter A good many Nashville dollars a
~ gong on The R-sper for the Amel
err can Derby. II 8 price is 10 to
he the wintet books. He looks good 81
Mt strong, is II grand looking h use a
vn- has run s0me splendid races, %
So considering that he must meet II
pick OF the country in that race h
price is very snort. He will be rs
wv as a fiddle on the day OF the race, b
ing should mnety-three's Derby be IT
rch under the same conditions as Is
Wo, wears race il is sure thing that /
der big chestnut colt viii! be an absent
rlo, at the post. He can't run bit
lrst the mud, aud his trainer We
,;Zi ieopardlze his future chances by tt
neu ing to get something out of him tn
is impo ,sibIe.-The Horsemau.
{. A company has been formed
IN Madison, Ind, and plans have be
ln' submitted for what is probably
the most unique race-track in the wor
yer The idea - the conception of Grs
oou Laribpr, an electrician of some no
her The plau il TO build a straightw
un- mile track, with just az much "dl
IN as il allowed by the race association
am A grano stand capable of seat
about 5 600 people will be erect
. of This Viii be modelled ter an elecI
mr. railway ear, and will run on tn
and tracks II will be connected W
i'm tire starters stand, 50 THAI when
r to drops the flag he can press butt
orse and the no SEES and the Car will be
Al. their race simultaneously. Rae
asn- will re conducted at night as we'll
,uId during the day. A company
dam been formed, Including sOue OF