The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-26
GRAY GHOST
IS SPEEDY
Breeder Speaks Well
of Him.
HE HAS A GREAT RECORD
Waldo J, 2:08, Has Won Seventeen
Races out of Nineteen
Starts.

The following interesting article APP
peared in the Breeder and Sportsman of
September 10:
On the last trip made by the steamer
Australia to Honolulu she carried the
gray ghost of Santa Paula, Waldo j. 2:0S,
the best and fastest horse ever shipped
from California to the Islands. Waldo j.
was consigned to Mr.. Archie Young, who
purchased him on the advice of J. c.
Quinn and through the agency of the
Breeder and Sportsman. On the arrival
of the horse in Honolulu, Mr.. Quinn
wrote this journal the following:
THE horse arrived all right. i cannot
find words to thank you for your kind
ness and true representation of him. He
is beauty sure enough. He looks fit to
&c TO a race right now. / am going to go
slow with him for awhile, however. If
| can repay you i'll any way let me know.
should be most happy to do anything /
cen"
| 1t is pleasant 10 receive6uch expressions
OF gratitude as the above and we hope
that all who purchase horses on the adj
Ticc OF this paper or through it will al
ways be as pleased as the new owner of
Waldo j., as we shall endeavor to never
misrepresent any animal to effect sale.
| Waldo Us picture, which appears on
our front page. does not flatter him in the
least 1t really is a poor picture of the
gray PAGER and was never intended for
publication. When Waldo ]. was owned
by the late II. J. Burrell of Portland, Ore
gen, he engaged the well-known artist,
]. II. Hodson of San Francisco, to make
a painting of him. Mr.. Hodson took two
or three photographs of the horse to
work from. One a magnificent like
ness and it was reproduced canvas
and is now in Mr.. Hodson's gallery on
1Geary street in this city, Mr.. Burrell hav-
ing died before 1t was finished. 1t Is one
of the best pictures of a handsome horse
we have ever seen. The negative from
which II was copied was broken by acct
dent and the only ones left in Mr.. Hold
Iscn's possession are couple that he calls
Inferior pictures. although we hardly
think the one reproduced on our front
Ipage can be described by any such term.
| Waldo ]. was remarkable race horse.
He came out a green horse in 1894 and
started in ten races. He won nine of
them in three straight heats, getting a
lreoord of 2:13h, his only defeat that year
lbeing by Silkwood, who had to pace in
20SA to beat him, and Waldo ]. got sec
ond money in that race. in which w.
|
er competitors.
The next year Waldo ]. started eight
tines. In his first race he was distanced
lowing to being a sick horse, although he
won the first two heats and was second
lin the third. He won every race after
that however. only losing four heats al
together, and at Fresno beat Chehalis
l2:C4A, Pathmont 2:09A, Fred. Mason 2:1t
and Hanford Medium 2:11A. pacing hi:
second heat in EOS. his record.
In 1896 he started but once, beating w
Wood easily in straight heats, but there
were no classes for him in California and
ne got no more races. In 1925 he was TAX
en- East and started once being beater
by Ace 2:05A, the PAGER that was burned
to death the other day at Providence. Il
+, Heating had Waldo j. in his strfns
during the remainder of the year bu
There were no classes for him except the
very fast ones and in those Heating hat
Searchlight and Anaconda to depend on
consequently Waldo J. was not started.
Mr.. II. ]. Burrell purchased the hors
when he returned to California and own
led him until his death, when f. Hahn o
this city purchased him on the advice o
J. G. Chesley. The horse was sent t
brentwood Farm, and turned out will
the intention Of racing him .in 1901. Whel
inquiry came from Mr.. Quinn, Mr.. Hahn
Put price on the horse. little thinking
he would be sold, and Waldo ]. Is nov
owned in Honolulu.
Waldo Us pedigree Is as follows: Ora
deciding by Bob Mason (son of Echo 46l
ard Belle Mason by Willamson's Bel
n cnt. dam by A. w. Richmond 16SI
grandam by Gen. Taylor, the old twenty
milo trotter 1t is combination of grea
tiottifig, great running and great stay
ing blood
The paragraph below is also clippe
from the same issue:
= The Honolulu Driving Association
J the name of a new organization forme
by the road drivers of Honolulu, and Q
which Marion II. Diggs, formerly of Vol
> county, California, has been elected sec
rotary. The association numbers anon
its members many of the leading citizen
n Of Honolulu and they propose hol1in
matinee racing every Saturday at Kaplc
LAM Park. On September Sd, Labor Da!
several contests were pulled off and
large crowd witnessed the days spor
the old California PAGER, w. Wood 20
wen a mixed free for all race in straigf
IheatS the time heinc 2.26 and 2:o4