The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-07
CRESCEUS, GREAT STALLION,
REACHES HERE TOMORROW
He Will Be Stabbed at Riverside Track Week.
Great Care and PrecautiOn Taken with
Speedy Animal.

When the Western Railroad train from
Atlanta due here at II o'clock arrives
tomorrow morning palatfal morse
Pullman" car in the train will contain
one of the equine wonders of the world
the great Cresceus.
He is the fastest stallion and the fastest
trotting horse in the world. two minutes,
two seconds and a quarter for full mile
being his record.
Although the expense is about doubled
Mr.. Ketchum ships the great horse by
express instead of by freight, so that
every precaution of safety and speed are
thrown around him. The treatment and
care accorded the famous stallion, is
In keeping with the blue blood that
courses through the veins of this king
of the trotting track, Cresceus Is a
veritable aristocrat. None who wears
the purple is more carfully guarded nor
more tenderly cared for. His living apart
ments are models of comfort. his retinue
Of servants are well trained, and his every
within is studiously gratified. His food
is of the best and his bath and 'rub-out
after exercise are as carefully admlnis-
tered by his expert attendants AS though
he were a king of the realm instead of
the king of the turf. When he travels.
1t Is in state and the best is not too good
for his royal highness. He Is ever UNI
der the watchful eyes of his grooms. and
his travelling equipment represents the
expenditure of a small fortune.
While Cresceus will not start on his
public exhibition against time until
November Is. Mr.. ketchum has brought
him here this early in order to get the
benefits derived from the fastest track
in the South-outside of Memphis-and for
the next week thousands of people Will
journey to Riverside Park to take a peep
at the champion and the famous running
horse-Mlke The Tramp-who PAGES him.
This latter horse, 1t will be remembered
by horsemen, did all the pace work for
the only harness horse that ever nego-
tiated a mile under two minutes-the
| 80 Ia of the pacing king, Star Pointer.
Cresceus is a half brother of the stall
lion, George McGregor, that Mr.. Hartley
lost at Riverside. both of them being
sons of Robert McGregor. Robert Nc
by Abdallah Is. by Hambletonian 10.
George McGregor Mr.. Hartley's stallion.
was dam by Lassie, she by Aladdin, he
by Hambletonian 10. he by the renowned
Abdallah LIST. The dam of Cresceus was
Mabel, a Mambrino Howard mare, so IT
can readily be seen how the speed, cour-
age and bull dog tenacity of Cresceus has
come to him through long years of blue
blooded. fighting stock.
1t was in 1900 that Cresceus really be-
gan to show his wonderful powers. Two
ten was about an average at the begin
ming of that year and that marx began
shrinking with marvellous rapidly until
on August 2 1901 at Columbus, Ohio, he
trotted a full mile against the watch In
200 Ia At the end of the 1900 season
he had trotted a mile in 2:03 IL. half a
second slower than the record then held
by The Abbott Since then he has lower
ed the trotting record full second.
Briefly reviewed. the 1900 campaign of
Cresceus brings out wildly the wonder
full powers of the horse. He started
on .JuIv at Pittsburg and beat Tommy
Britton in 2:1O. At Cleveland he went
a heat in a race in 2:06 "a. At Columbus
he went two heats in 2:O6, 2:O6 ana then
to Chicago, where he went in 2:0o LIZ.
2:o7 10. ali his performances to that time
having been against other horses Al
Syracuse he trotted in 2:06 IL against the
watch. at Hartford in 2:4 3-4 lowering
after aft winning the $4,000 stallion race at
Boston, the fastest five heat analT on
record. he was taken West and az Gieve-
tou,r ToIedo where he lowered the
world worlds trotting record over half-m all
track to 200 "a, the best previous ng-