Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-09-01
SWEEPSTAKES, THE DAM OF HAL
POINTER.

Lazilv cropping the blue grass in her
owners paddock last week was typical
Tennessee pacing mare whose son mas
made her immortal, and yet. as we
passed our hand oyer grhcetul neck
which from the way it took caresslhg
showed that its owner expected IT,
and glanced over the tout ensemble IN
front, we could not help but think ii her
nonn had been withheld we might
readily have believed she was but one OF
a hundred other pacing matrons we daily
see Before us was light bay mare
16b hands high. with black points ana
one white hind coronet and the falntest
susnicion of a star in the forehead;
good name and tail. foretop railing
thick and low. a bright prominent Drown
eve, a broad and bony forehead, long
neck held almost straight, with tall
and then rather sudden rise at the
Witbers, go characteristic of the best
saddlers: deep sloping shoulders, ending
abruptly in an undulating mass VI
muscle on the forearms. making strik-
ing contrast to the clean, hard hlnty
bones of the legs beneath, closely hh'ted'
vet supple, without puff or splI ana
canned with a short fiat. well-rounded
hoof: medium back, inclined little to
sink-from age, for she is twenty-one
wears old-a deep, ciosely-ribhed chest
and rounded barrel, broad TANKS, with
an immense play from hip to hook, ana
then the same muscle and the same clean,
hard legs behind. finishes the pen PIE
ture of Sweepstakes, the dam OF Hal
Pointer unquestionably the greatest
race horse that has ever appeared ON
American tracks,
Sweepstakes was dropped twenty-one
years ago this spring. the property OF
Armstrong Glenn, who lived in Will
hanson Co.. Tenn. Her dam, Kit, by
McMeens Traveller, was bred and
owned by William Blair, also of Will
hanson Co. Her sire was horse OF
scarcely local reputation, aside from the
tact that he was one of the many scions
of the Kittrell Hal hor>e-Knight'
Snow Heel by Knights Tom Hal, by
Kittrell's Hal. Her dam, Kit, by Me
Mems Traveller, may be regarded as
having greatly the advantage of the
horse to which she was mated, so far as
the fame of their two sires went, for OF
all the horses that Tennessee ever pro
II L,
wears ago, enjoyed the celebrity and dis
tincton which by concensus of opinion
was showered on Old Traveller. AS h'
was usually called. Since then he ha'
been surpassed in popular favor-as wha
horse would not have been?-DY Gibson
Tom Hal, by far the greatest son of thu
Kittrell horse. But as a sire OF dams
IN the opinion of many, even this grea
horse does not surpass McMeen's Travel
err. Uniting as he does both branches o
the Hal family, full of hot blood. oil
that of the Traveller equally as hot
blooded. it is not difficult to see wher
Hal Pointer gets his gameness.
But to continue with his dam: She feel
into the hands of Col. Sam Pointer, VIII,
long used her as model saddle mare
and in whose possession, If we mlstak
not, she lost one eye on a dark night in
fox hunt from the Jagged end of limb
At his death Capt Henry p. Pointe
bought her, and she is now owned by hi
estimable lady, Capt. Pointer having die
last spring. At present a long, rangy
quiet, up-headed colt, full of cOnsclou
pride and barely inquisitlve enough
arch up at sight of stranger to just tn