The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-16
PLANT BUYS ALABAMA
MONTGOMERY FILLY SOLD TO A
 GEORGIAN.
Made Favorable Impression in Macon and Was Sold for $2,00o-Ex- cellent Record of
 the Mare.

Fred Newell yesterday was going around town with a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. It was a check for $2,oOO with the name of Plant signed to It. This Is the beginning of story that will be intensely interesting to Montgom- erv and Prattville people, and at the same time ought to make Fred Newel feel very proud. Mir Plant yesterday closed a deal by which he becomes the owner of Alabama, the mare formerly owned by Major Smith of Prattville. MT. the Macon trip last week, but he was a constant visitor to the track during that meeting. He was impressed with the mare from the moment that he saw her and in all her workouts he Watched ner like a hawk.
 The climax came when Alabama finished close second in every heat in the race that Sunshine won in straight heats. MT. | Plant had already begun to dicker for l the mare, and in that race he had it un- | derstood with MT. Newell that she was not to be marked. MT. Newell told the | judges that he was not going to drive her | out and it was understood that there was l to be no betting at all on her. When MT | Plant saw how the mare performed in | that race-her driver having to almost
 pull her head of-the matter was finally | decided for him.
 When the Montgomery horses left Ma con for Atlanta the mare remained in Ma
 con, and yesterday MT. Newell received | a letter from MT. Plant inclosing the g..
 900 check. The letter was a most compli- | mentary one. MT. Plant speaking in laud. | atory terms of the way that MT. Newell | handled the mare.
 | Alabama first came to Montgomery on August 4th 1909. Major Smith of Pratt | vile, sent the 3-year-old Ally and d Fair 1 holm colt to MT. Newell's barn at River | side She Is a beautiful animal, rather long body and not graceful except when | going at full speed. Then she Is the very poetry of motion: Two weeks after she came here l saw Charlie Detert, who was training for Newell then. speeding her in workout and she worked the last quarter in thirty seconds flat. This, with a green 3-year-old Ally. Mir. Newell is to be congratulated on the manner in which he has handled the mare since then. and | her magnificent development Is proof oi the unqualified success of his methods. Several weeks ago in workout at Riv. erside I saw the mare step mile in 2:11 | get down three or four seconds lower | than that. In her blood lines she mos,
 assuredly has everything in the world
 to make her game and speedy. She is by | Almont, Jr., out of a mare that was slrec | by the renowned stallion Axtell.
 Of course Montgomerians will regret no | seeing Alabama at the matinee races al | Riverside, but at the same time every
 body taking an interest in horses will b,
 glad that she fell into such hands as MT | Plant. He owns the track at Selma ant every winter has a buncn or me harness
 horses there, and for several years past
 Ed Geers has had some of the Hamlir | horses there
 Last summer MT. Plant had the thirt
 largest stable in the United States witl
 the magnificent trotter, Gratan Boy
 heading the list. Next season hear tha
 Mir Plant will again have large stable
 although during the past season not mucl
 has been heard of his horses
 His plan is to winter Alabama in Maco
 and next spring campaign her on tn
 Grand Circuit and at the Lexington meet
 ing Alabama can start at Lexington q
 she does not wear the hopples, hopple
 bemg barred there
 Predictions are being made that whel
 Alabama gets worked out good on tn
 Grand Circuit next summer she. will b
 able to pace a mile in 2:07 and MT. Plan certainly has the best wishes of Mont
 gomerrans for a most successful campaig
 with the mare in 1902.
 , Souire Brown