The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-31
SIXTY THOUSAND
FOR A HORSE
BIG PRICE PAID FOR DAN PATCH
THE MARVELLOUS PACER-HIs
BREEDING AND RECORD.

When NJ. e. Sturgis of New York
sold Dan Patch to NJ. w. Savage of
Minneapolis, Mimi, the other day for
5000, he received the largest sum of
money ever paid for a PAGER, and Mr..
Savage received in return the finest
PAGER and most promising young
horse ever sold. incidentally Mr.. Stur-
gis made a neat sum by the sale, for
early in the year he paid $4,000 for Dan
Patch and has had the profits of a busy
exhibition season. Mr.. Savage is the
third owner Dan Patch has had, his
first being his breeder, d. A. Messner of
Oxford, Ind. Mr. Savage is well known
to horsemen, having come into pTomt-
nence about year ago, when he
bought Directum, 205A the former
champion trotting stallion, for $4,000
The sum of 100000 is a large one, but,
should Dan Patch be in the stud for II
or 10 years, not an exceptionally long
time, he ought, with his own great
speed and his speed inheritance from
old Joe Patchen, to enable his owner
to realize handsomely on it. Dan
Patch is to be trained for speed next
season, and Myron McHenry who has
driven him in all his races will have
the care of him. Technically Dan
Patch's record is 1872, a quarter of a
second slower than Star Pointers, but
actually and officially he has paced in
1874, and even a shade faster than
that. That this is not his record is due
to a popularity in the rules governing
trOtting records by which Dan Patch
having started to beat Star Pointers
record, made a losing performance
when he only tied his mark, and thus
could not be credited with the record.
Dan Patch has had the most success
full career ever credited to harness
racehorse. He has met the best the
country could produce week after week
for two successive campaigns and has
yet to meet with his first defeat. After
he had proven himself inVinciDle in
open contest he was sent to beat all
former records against time, and sue.
ceeded in equaling Star Pointers fig
ures. His campaign of 1901 made it
plain to all that he was the coming
champion. In that year he was start
ed in IL contests without losing one,
and in only one heat did he allow an
other horse to lead him at the wire.
This was at the Brighton Beach meet
ing and Martha Marshall won the first
heat on sufferance. Just to show how
much the horse outclassed every COM
petitor the trainer NJ q. McHenry,
sent him along in the next heat and
gave him a record of 2.041a, which was
MS fastest move lot lndl year.
During the campaign just closed Dan
Patch was in a class by himself. SO
he was sent to cross the two-minute
mark and put his name beside the on
ly one in the two-minute list His first
start was at Columbus on August to
beat the record of his sire, Joe Pat
chen, 20lA, and he was successful,
pacing the mile in 2.OO&. At Brighton
Beach on August IA he repeated this
performance. At Readyille on August
20 he paced the mile in 2.OOA, and the
following week at Providence he cross
ed the dividing line and lowered his
record to 1.59H2. On September 3 Dan
Patch was at Belmont park, Philadel-
phia, and paced a mile in 200. Then
at Syracuse on the 18th he covered the
distance in 20OA. The supreme effort
came at ReadVille on September 70,
when the judges hung out tor the sec
ond time in harness horse history
record of l,59l4. AS matter of TACT
the watches recorded 1853 Id, but as
only quarter seconds are recognized by
the national trotting association tie
time had to be so recorded This was
practically the close Of his campaign.