The age-herald., 1897-09-12

by thoroughbred Woodford. Ills grandam was the trotter Fancy 2s30, by thoroughbred Winton, and back of her is the trotting blood of Frank Pierce.
 Robert j., IS by the trotting stallion Hartford, 2:2512, who was son of Harold and Judith, by MambriEo Chief. The dam of Robert J. was got by the champion trotting stallion of his day, Jay Gould, 2:21k, a son of Rysdyk's Hambletonian and Lady San ford, by Seely's American Star, and his granddam was by an obscure horse of thoroughbred ancestry.
 Joe Patchen's sire is tho fashionably bred trotting stallion Patchen Wilkc5, 2:291A, a son of George,Wilkes and tie closely inbred Mambrino Patchen mare Kitty Patchen. His dam, Josie Young, was by the stout old trotting horse Joe Young, who made record of 2:18 when nineteen years old, and Joe Young was by the trotting horse Star of the West, 2:26A out of LaCy Gregory, by Greens Bashaw.
 Star Pointer goes back on both sides to the famous pacing tribe of Tenne-. see, headed by Tom Hal. He is sired by Brown Hal, also the sire of Hal billiard, 2:04A; Hal Braden, 2:07A; Storm, 2:0Sk Laurel, 2:09A; Brown Hal, Jr., 2:10A; Maxim, 211h; Hal Parker, 2:11%; Brandon, 2:12A; Pal metto, 2:12A; Hal Pulaski, 2:14; Prince Hal. 2:14K. Hal Pointer, 2:04N, is not, as has been erroneously stated, a son of Brown Hal, Hal Point CT was sired by Gibson's Tom Hal.
 Brown Hal is also son of Gibson's lo1 ha loff fa q enough to get his name in the 230 class, and was strong, wiry, hard muscled, country bred horse of the Tennessee hills.
 Star Pointers dam Is Sweepstakes. by Knights Snow Heels. She wc5 al- so the dam of Hal Pointer, 2:04A. for many years the greatest racehorse on the harness turf.
 In Tennessee the Tom Hal stock has long been regarded as world beaters although it remained for Star Pointer to prove to the best of the contrary that the blood could actually carry the harness record % of a second inside the two minute mark, and to pace the third quarter of the mile at 1:57 gait. In this quarter he covered 45: 128 feet each second. The second quarter Is usually the fastest, but Star Pointer demonstrated his wonderful courage and endurance by going the third faster than the second, although the latter was paced in the marvellous time of 29% seconds, or A: 369 feet each second. The first quarter in 30 seconds fiat or 43 feet each second was almost equalled by the last quar- ter which was negotiated in 30A sec- onds, or 42:S09 feet each second. As a yearling Star Pointer was sold by his breeder, Ii. H. Pointer, of Spring Hill, Tenn, to J. T. Titley of Chicora, Penn., for S1,000.
 Star Pointer is bay with peculiar white markings, sixteen hands high. sure footed, intelligent and kind. strong about the foreshoulders, with finely venied, wiry legs and a heavily muscled neck. He is eight years old and if all goes well he will have oceans of speed for several years to come.
 When the horse was two years old, he had the usual working out and training which youngsters bred upon speed lines always receive, but could not get into the 2:30 list. His owner at that time is reported to have been disappointed that the horse did not show 2:30. Why such was the case Is rather difficult to understand, for he paced that season over a half mile track in 2:34N, which is not so very far from 2:30 over good mile track. The next year he was put in training again, but went wrong. It was at- tributed to wrenched ankle.
 ! Not until 1894 was he again started 1 on the track. At Chicago that year, in the 2:20 class, he won in straight heats in 2:12h, 2:11N and 2:12A. At Fort Wayne the following week he paced the first heat in 2:13%, and the second in 2:14h. An accident to his foot dis tanced him in the third heat, and he was sent home. Naturally pool buy
 CTS and bettors began to look upo
 him by that time as an uncertaal
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