The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-22
OLD EQUINE PENSIONERS.
NOTED HORSES THAT NAVE FOUND
GOOD MASTERS ~ LAST YEARS,

Frank works Palatlal Home for III, Oid
Trotting Team. Edward and Dick swivel.
Ier-Little brown jug and Hal Pointer Res.
cucd From Drudgery- Richbali at work,
hut westmont and Jay Eye See In Clover.
There's nothing altogether new In tho plan
they are talking about over In Brooklyn TO provid.
a homs for aged and infrm horses" said old Bob
Ridley the other day. 1T would only b doing
collectively what a whole lot Of horsemen are doing
now on their own hook In the way OF psndoninr
their old fayorites. | could name fifty worn on,
trotters and PAGERS, noted In their day. that are
now living In comfort at the expense Of thoughtful
owners, and when IL comes 10 roadhorses and I'D
family mays, why the country Is full Of them"
4 suppose the old chestnut trottcr Edward
draws about the biggest pention OF any horse In
the world continued Ridley. 1t would 10
mighty interesting to know how much II ha, cos,
Frank Work TO take care Of that old horse and hs
mate, Dick Swiveller, since they we're retired.
| guess IL would amount IN rs much as they cost
him in the first place. and that was something
like $50, 900. Let me see, II Was the year Rarua
beat Goldsmith Maids record tina, Ed Pyle wen,
through tho Grand Circui, with Edward and sold
him 10 Mr. Work after driving him 10 q record %
PIC Tha, was In 1878. twsn,y. two years ago.
Ever since then he old horse has been getting
the best that was going Although they haven't
put a harness on him for years, he's got the best
box stall In the finest private stable 10 New York,
and Is better taken care Of than most rscehorses
are. A boarding place In the country isn't good
enough for that old fellow. Dick Swivsller was
treated in just the sane way as long as he lived.
When the bay horse got hurt In the exercising
room OF the bg stable up In Fifty eigh nth street.
Mi Work stayed there and stched over him until
after midnight, just as II he was worth a gold
mine instead Of being q charity horse. | suppose
| Mr. Work cared moro Tor that pair d trotters than
for any he has owned since he began 10 drive IN
the road, nearly sixty years ago. And doubt
whether anything hs aver did in Vail Street gsvs
him as much pleasure a. Edward and Svivel.r
did when they trotled tina, mile TO pole in . l6'. Up
at Fleetwood in 1882 Willism II. Vanderbilt.
William Rockefeller and all the nillionaires were
trying 10 get the fastest leans that money could
buy about that time. and II was a big victory for
Mr. Work to heat them oil. Old Edward is IS
years old this spring, but nobody would guess
II to look OF him. He's as clipper as a f,--
ycarold and ought to live 10 be 50 with al
the care he gets.
when you talk about sentiment, among horse
men, though, the people down in Maury county
Tenn, are hard 70 beat Msury county
is where Star Pointer, 1882, and Hal Pointer.
2:04i,, and all those chain-lishtnins PAGERS oi
the Ton Hal family hail from The first horse
that gave the family and the county any proml-
uence was Little Brown jug, 2ll'.. lie smashci
the worlds record, beat this Big -Four and wss
pretty much the whole thing among PAGERS twenty
years ago when k~napsack Mccarthy was driving
him. Ii. Y. Benis, Jack Hsverly, Commodore
Kittson and other high rollers owned him when
he was the king Of the turf, but he got some lard
knocks after kitt,on died guess nobody knows
Just, what did become Of him Tor a few year,, aitr
he began TO GO down hill, But somebody found
him pulling a hucksler's wagon IN Cleveland
six or eight years eye Then he fell into ne
hands Of some people that were faster han ever
lie had been, and they used him rough; nearly
drove him 10 death on the road up al Butal
The story got into the sporting papers AID iouEa
horse was raised. That was only two or three
years ago-iust about the time Star Pointer was
making Maury county famous as the birthplace
Of the frs, two minute PAGER Pointers Slre'
by the way, was a fun brother 70 brown Jug
Well, those folks down there, VIII Polk, Lucns
Brown, N. Z. Campbell, John Irotwood moore
and a lot Of others got together and made up a
purse TO get that brokendoNn. pacing gelding
back TO Tennessee They raised the money and
car and shipped from Buffalo Ia Spring Hill
lie died there only q few months ago.
III. ~ Ta, re.n,.ri ,n aaot on l, al 'h is k X sIoI pSee us az az
Village Farm near Buffalo, thanks 10 Harry
lIamin. This horse was by the sire Of Brown
a. good as his breeding. When he Was Hal
Pointer there vas no PAGER in the world, unless
I was little Direct, ZOO, that could beat him;
lin., who ow ned him, in his best days, sold him 10
Champ Brown, the man who brought out ltob"'t
j., 2Oli, Brown campaigncd the old fellow
on tho hali.milc tracks il Pennsylvania and eS-
hibi,ed him Al the pumpkin shows unul he was
pretty well gone UP, and then passed HIM aloi4,
They kept him Al II as long as he could earn a
dollar. Last year h.. fell into the hands Of some
body out In Detroit Harry ilamlin saw him ~
the streets there when he went out 70 the Grand
| (Irr,tt ateuarda' mating Inst February and
bought him back. SO .he old Pointer horse is sure
Of a home as long "a he lives, lie deserves
them running out on a farm near Chicago that
most horsencn no doubt supposed was dead nnl
buried long ago. Tho horse | an talking si.ut
mate in 2;0l'. back in 1884, j., NJ. hili ,le
theatrical man, paid 10000 for him night nitr
ls made the record. C.. Patton owns him nos.
He sometimes hooks up the old geldirg, and ilcv
say he can pace like the wind for alitlc vhy"',n
now, Me-tmont must be 20 years OF hge ca
i%tiehball' 2;is'. the horse thn, fra' Nes'm'n'
still living out Vest, bu, he hasn't fallen on w
soft spo, that Wcstmcnt has. The last heard VI
"Jay.E e-Sce, the frs, horse 10 trot Ia 81" i,
living out a lazy old age on jackson toscs plSco
at Racine, Hes as fat asa seal, and you w0ulGni
four years since he was harnessed the last TIM.
Mr.. Case will never sell him, for he thinks tho
world Of tho little black horse, and believes, az
many Others do, that he was the fastest Tot'cr eta
the fastest PAGER OF his day, | saw. young 40
drive him To beat the pacinr record al Independence
in 1892, lust after The bike sulky came out II
iase had waited a day he could have done Ito
Trick 10 a certainty, and thus made the liCia''r
gelding q champion at both gaits. lie started
10 heat Direct : 0d, and went in 2Ot'i, Just
missing the mark by a quarter Of p second. 10
track Was wet. and was fully a second slow That
day, 1t speaks pretty well for he men WHO vi
%trutters that every horse that has held N" Nulus
record since Flora Temple first beat 2 20 has lr'n
prnsioned in old age, and most oi those ma aIa
dead have monuments OF headstoneS uNCi ilcir
graves. Little Flora was 50 well cared fr ilht
She lived IN he 81 years old, and was buried " "a
phia. when she died. Up at the Robert b'nn'i
farm, near Tarrytown, you can sec The grave
Dexter, Rarus and Maud S. st julien was vel
cared for a. long as he lived by his old owner.
Robert Morrow, who turned him out in the alfrl'r
on his ranch in California after the old horse hed
trotied his last race. Guldsmit Maid got us
reatment Of a queen in her old age AT Henry ",
Smiths farm; lis' ms sihe oil trenton, ots
and her old rivals, Lady I horn and Lucy, vef'
all buried in a row on the inneld q the mile rack
at Fashion Stud Farm. Mr.. smith didn't 90
80 well by the great tTottirg stallion Jay Gould,
22li,. remember seeing the horse put W hI
auction when he was So old and Thcuma.i &c NAT "a
could scarcely drag himself into the sole riTc.
lie wasn't worth a dollar, but Jimmie ONeil. No
old lime BOOKSELLER, bid $50, and got lin Jus, -
keen the horse from falling into had hands. jim
fixed it up with Senator Reyes Of New Jersey 20
send old Gould down 20 his farm, nnd he hor1s
spent the rest Of his life in comfort and died tht'e,
Senator keyes has a pcnSiourr on his hrnds nov
in Harry Wilkes, 2 49, the best troiter ot his tnv
in the freefor all class and A. one time believed
10 he a record breaker. The old horsc -celshfaled
his twenty fourth birthday last month