The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-05
CELEBRATED PAGER SOLD
King OF Diamond, Who Raced Here
Goes 10 Chicago,


The celebrated PAGER King of Diamonds,
who as 2-year-old made such re-
markabie record on the Wichita track,
was sold on Thursday to Chicago parties.
The st. Joe Gazette gives the following
interesting history of the horse. He now
holds the state record.
king of Diamonds, Will Spratt's great
PAGER. has been sold to Chicago gen.
tleman and last night was shipped TO
the Lake City, where he will enter the
private stable of Mr.. VIM. Bolhatche,
one of Chicago's millionaire horsemen,
who will keep him for the purpose Of
showing that he cannot be passed. He
will be kept as roadster, and it is safe
to say that no one viii pass him on the
Chicago boulevards. The horse, which
is a great favorite in the west, was sold
for 81, 200, and left for his new home last
night. The lovers of horsefiesh of this
section will be sorry to lose the great
animal.
liking of Diamonds was born June %,
1893, and is a bright bay about Is hands
high and weighing about 1000 pounds.
AS a yearling he was broken and showed
so much speed that though dwarfed from
inattention and poor in flesh, he sold for
$3.50. AS a 2-year-old he won his first race,
for purse of s. coo, 50 to ! shot at St.
Joseph, in July, 1885, over such renowned
colts as Sulphide, Thorndike, Mazanilla,
Midnight L. and Happy Union, going the
first heat in PIT and second in 2:17 IA,
thereby establishing the Missouri state
record for 2-year-olds.
s'IIis next race was at Holton, Kansas,
in July of the same year. which he won
away off, over field of eight colts, in
Guiding the above. going in 2:17 IA and
2:17 "a. In reporting this race The Horse
Review styled him an easy winner, could
have paced in 2:13.' AS a three-year-old
he started three times, won his first race
in ST. Joseph in the 2:15 class at the Sep
TENDER meeting over a field OF aged
morses in the mud after a postponed race
on account of rain, when he paced three
times in 2:16 IA At Wichita, Kan, the
same summer he started for purse of
$500, and won in three straight heats, re-
ducing his mark to PA 1-2.
Next he started in Lexington, KY, in
October, 1897, for a purse of 500 for three
year-old PAGERS, defeating easily Sui
phide, Hayden, Seven Points, DR.. Archi-
bald and Stella, going in 2:10 1-2, 2:09 IA,
2:11 ga, equaling the worlds race record
for 3-year-olds and establishing world S
race record for the fastest three heats for
a 3-year-old, averaging 2:10 IL. Those
who witnessed this race will testify that
he could have paced two or three seconds
faster. for he finished pulling up, and
was turned about thirty feet beyond the
wire AS a 4-year-old he reduced his
mark to 2:07 IA. He has a race record of
a half mile in a minute, at Holton. Kan,
as early as June, 1897, going the full mile
in 2:O7 - the last half against a Kansas
''blzzard" defeating such horses as Agi-
tato. Badge and Kansas.
''His mark of 2:07 IA was made in a
losing race in st. Joseph in special over
TuIsie and Kentucky Union. At Trenton,
Mo-, a city of about 1900 people, on Sep
TENDER Is. 1897, the fair association offered
$50 for an exhibition of the horse. with
$50 added if he beat their track record of
2:15 held by Sandy Boy, and $50 additional
If he reduced the Missouri state record,
of 2:19 IA on a half mile track. both of
which he did. going the mile over an ex-
ceedingly poor track from point of con-
struction and condition, in 2:10. His
mark of 2:07 IA is the Missouri state rec
ord. as it was for some time the worlds
record for a 4-year-old. Furthermore, his
mile of 2:O7 IA is the Kansas state record.
He has paced halves in less than a min
ute. and quarters in 2S seconds"