The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-28
STAR POINTER WILL RACE.
npCLEARY, HIs OLD DRIVER, WILL M
AT TIE HELM AGAIN.

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The Ex-Ovner OF the Champion Harness
Horse Says Pointer Can Beat His Record
and Tells How He Should he Rated
John n. Shuts and Ed Upton Have n Talk
Former Congressman W. J. White OF Ohio.
who paid $4,000 for Star Pointer at the Gar
den sale last week. has engaged Dave McCleary
TO train the champion PAGER next year. In
deed. the whole Star Pointer family. including
Jimmy the groom, Burns the dog. and the
sulky, wagon and harness. all go with the horse
to his new home. the Two-Mlnute Stock Farm.
near Cleveland,
Yes. Mr.. White has taken all my troubles of
my hands," said James A. Murphy to the re-
porter OF THE Sun yesterday. land I don't
suppose / shall ever campaign another harness
horse. Nobody likes the ~trotters and PAGERS
better than II do. but l find that 1 can't own a
horse like Pointer without Worrying at times.
and 80 1 let him 20. 1 don't have to worry.
and I'm not going to II l can help 1t. You see
l had about the worst luck this year that ever a
man experienced. Guinette. a horse that I
believed could beat any PAGER in the world. bar
Star Pointer. died before the campaign opened.
Then Emily. a marc that cost me close to
$1,000 last winter. went wrong in her first race.
Two others not so good did the Same thing.
and to cap the climax. Star Pointer went
through the whole season without getting one
good fair chance to peat bis record"
d you expect to sec him beat his record
next year ?" inquired the reporter.
To 4 certainty. barring accidents and bad
luck. 1 am glad that Mr.. White made . deal
with McCleary, because Dave knows all about
the horse. and he has handled him with won
derfu' success for mo-. Just think Of ii. Pointer
never missed a feed or mad so much az a cough
trouble him except once while l owned him.
He travelled II, 100 miles, and was ready to
fill every engagement for two years. He Is
better to-day than he was a year ago. and 1
shall be more disappointed than his new owner
will be II he doesn't beat / 1904 in 1890"
How fast do you think he can Go2"
As fast as 1853 and maybe faster. I had
made IN my mind before he paced that half at
Belmont o., IN o:57a that he eGald 60 W halves
an ose sort Of staggered me, and Idon't know
the best mile that is in him?"
That reminds me Of something that hap
record, and Mc6Ieary asked ask; me S' how IT / thought
% me- 1Hsat W at F Sonroe ! s saiissbd Rsy sad d. to go %n Ff5
against INST the RECORD Of Nancy Hanks right here
bury said to him, Andy. you get her down to
home as fast as the Lord viii, let her comae.S
s soiTt that's q about the yay should rate Star
The student Of horse values found much to
Prices ranged from $4,000 to SIS; and the
long time. The Comparatively few fresh, sound,
also OF Eood-looEing. weII-man8ered: natural
the outclassed- and unsound campaigners that
we're not road horses went begging, for. bid:
One consignor sent four. horses Of ft6is;
class into the ring WITHOUT getting a
bred young sire that held the worlds record Tor
mare that cost her owner ii. 5 less than SSs q ten
xentie, as and, T aItId ally w Ynde s9pns; clean sSs S and
trotted a quarter in 0:47 the first time she was
on a track. The man who sent her to the sale
COST is 9 P Ri% s5sg, trainer and he said the hily had
Ed Upton. who managed the sale Of Marcus
with the remarkable average of nearly 81, 400
per head WHICH was realized for the twenty
after the sale was over: Some Of those horses rses
would have brought more than double the
T mere i. n not M @neh a. WHARF y %5sk ehe for ea 5asf b t5o@;
out there. but the miners and merchants are
'n dUI willing Hin to pay $1,000 for a pair q good
3:OO. Down here everybody wants something
a good deal faster, now that the Speedway Is
shortly after. the DAILY horses had been sold,
and said. with a twinkle in his eye: "Tipton. 1
want 70 have atwo hours''taiE with you private
how you Kentuckians work it to get such
thpnderinG big prices for the, horses you sell.
Why. II those twenty colts had been mine they
wouldn't have brought $500 apiece. That's
so: 10 Joking, Now how do you fellows do IT."
Oh 1T won't TAKE two hours to tell you that, Mr.,
Hike this: We pick out a greer four-year-oid
circuit and win the Charter Oak and the Tran
sylvania stakes; that can win more money than
any other trottcr Of the year, and win the fast
three51yesr-old like C9gPrum. that, can trot a
tR8sen nf@5 in race s;l2 y 9 tbs y win the t hest
All bV the same, sire. like Improvidence,
33::11SSss; w RFi spsll%2a nss: 2I;ll SsilokI L%39 !1Sk
PAGER az Dan SnafMif n, 2E:0ie NV Ne n take 70 ali m fhese eo 5hs
out and race EN-; let people see that they, are
here TO New York and they sell themselves.
It's easy. Just try it next time you are going
to ?, have yea a sale" And Tipton added; When I
$25.O00 up or down on the Prodigal colts some |
OF my friends thought it was all a bluff. The
Both the experts 4 and the amateurs 1rs guessed
wide. OF the mark us to the price that Star
Fainter Fen Or would SRdn, s sFin Goo The former placed the
earn There, is no free-for-all race of any ac-
count ia which, he would not be barred. and the
eXhibiti9n business is played out. except at the |
he had been sold for $4,000 When his record >
2;O2H. figured that he ought to fetch a
great deal more now that he has beaten, 2 800, |
S2o.OOO for the horse.