The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-05
PAGERS As road HORSES.

PA As road HORSES.
Fashion Does Not Favor the LatcrnI-Eaited
Eauine.-some Exceptions 20 the Rule
Tne Views OF Lewis q. Tewksbury and
Other Veteran Horscmen on the Subject.
An incident of the month has brought the
pacers into prominence as roadsters. 1t seems
that Walter S. Hobart, the young Californian,
who has recently been buying everything
in the way OF running, trotting. and high
| stepping horses that strikes his fancy. while
driving Hazel Wilkes, 2:11A, through Golden
Gate Park in San Francisco. was beaten in a
prush by a fellow townsman with the PAGER
Oar Dick, 2:1OA. Mr.. Hobart, It is said. prompt
ly bought the PAGER, harness, and wagon, and
now owns the fastest roadster on the coast,
except Capt. Millen Grifith's PAGER Flying
Jib. 2:O4.
The fastest road horse now owned in New
York is lie wis G. Tcwksbury's PAGER Mascot.
o:o4. so that for the first time the fleetest mays
for pleasure driving on each side Of the conti-
nent have the lateral gait. The coincidence
has set the critics of the Suburban Club and
the New York Driving Club canvassing the
merits of the PAGER as a road horse. There is
certainly a prejudice against tho
ers for pleasure driving, bnt 1t is not so strong
now as In bvGone years.
zone prejudice against the PAGER" said
| Capt. w. II. Van Colt. 'is caused by the
trouble to keep their feet in order. The gait
is more Earring on the legs and hoofs than
%trotting. and on that account few of the great
PAGERS are ever n success on the ROAD alter
leaving the tracks"
T. I. Stillings, who remembers the road"
since 1850, said: II cannot recall any driver
who made 1t a speciality to have PAGERS in his
stable. In fact. they have always been dis
eliminated against" .
said Gabe Case. who Is another well posted
veteran. but they have never divided the
donors evenly with the trotters on the i ROAD a.
New York. for 1 understand that In the pneu.
matte sulky they do not Jar their legs and feet
the way they used to. and are consequently In
good condition for the road after their circuit
Campaigns are ended. When ! vas 4 hoy |
races race over the Rel Horse track. witch used to
begin at East 106th street. When Isaac Wood.
r r@" As Se rode 5@s 1 Village Roy .'yIii IN a n match against
roanoke. ridden by j. Rodgers, If | remember
F Hs was h e roa %eF Fsrs HinGsFSs; By @ ia F FH%R0 And T hsd
q mark OF 2.e6; The race was decided on the
Red Horse track.
her them. was tho gray, Gelding Hero, by Har..
ris's Hambletonian who gained a record OF
George sp'cr drove Hero in a ten,miie match
against Flora Temple. driven by Hiram Wood,
Wns often Ge the seen nn d% ,S SSG rosd IN %na the les day. y, before ao Q
the war. About 1Sd5 Sheridan shook drove
9 bay pacing team of the ,pIony stamp reg eho
National Trotting Horse Association meetings
hereaboutts' 9 .fdn a fast M Rafi nIse team me aO SII: thas
sporting writer, had a noted pacing mare, Cay,
Mga Maid. record EOS. Aside from old
n pSGah9 anT Other | 40 r mSs ter'' on the p psoi Tn'I ra n',
The Pocahontas mentioned had a record OF
2:17lf and was often seen on the P PGad s,o Inc
speare. and was able to hold her own With the
%trottcrs; This mare is best known as the dam
Allen, driven for many years by Robert Bon
ner. He made the purchase n 1864 Sad , giving
SsS2e was Il the " first horse to Irot to the half:
mile pile at Fleetwood IN. 1:o4l4, the track
tSo, hc for ney q lo Knew tome ono of M the p nS@nSr tod old:
bilt; Col. John Harper, or William Turnbul'
About a decade ago John II. Shuts drove
q $4,000 team OF PAGERS FOR q season So .n IN Eeta
pair of the lateral stepping animals ever seen
on the road. Campaigning had let It's traces
Ss h0sh a anG t tss@tb sam aS WAS s soon U retired If "1N
All OF the adverse on ne Re merits
OF PAGERS on the road are contradltted 0y LEWIS M
latter is n bay gelding, fOaled 1855, by, De-
celye-MIss Deimore, and was on the turf un,
5000 match a. nTtTSlo' iakty IGd f%S i 6nta nGa.
t eiS7 f fr a pu4 psceaM In a;TS race with pireetum
at Fleetwood In 1898 brought the handsome
bay nrst to tho notice of I lew n naFE mase am an
"TRSGre j. oRly one horse in my. :! stable able n Oyrt,
ed vita the fast team. Aubine, gals, and Fem
bia, ?;l5ts, the first going, TO q breeding farm
and now Mascot is my only bit of horsetlesh.
ne is being logged regularly, and from
and Il evening. before and after business hours,
Mascot will whirl me over the roads lhis
season. hoSeysT,, may Let shell II NJ D dTiHs
him to a light road cart. with the usual hSr'
ness. except that | add a geld R : nsr9act pT rons,
hackney when logged. but stepping, OIL into a
is SS re t aSon Th s e aTBe Clip along II s T@tsi sH + beyond T'%S
S S;Sss;s u IN Sa! ss% ! f fSTs no e hs. ii HaSi ia rs SC a.
mending them AS roadsters."
Next to Mascot the fastest pncer owned In
town Is Charles III. Kerner's black mare AL
legrn, 2:l414, who Is entered in the Gals class
at the Fleetwood Grand Circuit meeting; p.
Kentucky Star, a:iU]S, and in John Alexan'
ders stable is the black mare Lady Lee, geo,
Hurd. the trainer, has a fast side. Wheel IN
the chestnut gelding Charlie b., 2:lSI. Addle
s., a bay mare. by Kentucky Wilkes, Il very
promising, and 10 owned and driven by Fred L.
The bay geIdIns Esteem, s's4E%S;; HEy AztSIl,
asus, and Mrs, Jo, by Lord Eldon, owned by
Butler has the chestnut colt PGnlet, by Pam
leo. but no is at Last View Farm, with Direct,
Charles Weiland OF the New York Driving
Club bought the PAGER Blue sign from Ed Do
Cernea. lie Is n bay gelding with a mark Of
2:OsA, and IN Philadelphia, where the horse
has been driven by De Cernea's SON, the PAGER
PAGERS on the road, II must be admitted, as
Gabe Case SAYS, that they, do not equal TIE
trotter in favor, The rapidity with which tho
Increased from 1881 at the close OF 1890, 10
above 1900 In 1895, may indicate that ths In
horses on the track will have an appreciabls