The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-09
HORSES AND
HORSEMEN
Programme OF Greensboro
Fair a..d Race Meeting.
AT WOODLEY STOCK FARM
North Carolina Circuit Dates-Clarion
ZIG I-@-Mr. Clay Buys Conqueror'
Or. Block Obtains Lord Cham
cellor-Hardy II. Son of Salem


Tho speed programme OF tho Central
Carolina Fair Association. OF greensboro.
N. c.. has been issued and purses ag-
gregating close to $1,000 are offered ior
trotcrs, PAGERS and runners. The halt n'ie
track at Greensboro Is one OF tho safest
and fastest In the State, and Is kept IN me
condition. The officers OF the association
are Caesar Cone. president w. H. os-
born, vice-president; Nell Ellington, treas
urer, and John L. King, secretary.
Greensboro Is centrally located, ana Is
easy OF access by rail and otherwise
hence the gathering there during fa'r
week Is always large, and this fall With
extra attractions provided, tho attendance
promises to rcacl, II record breaking
point. Secretary King is Il well known
and popular official. and to his EFFORTS
much OF the success of this fair is due.
The programme of races follows:
First day. Tuesday, October 1sth--s:4o
class. trot and pace. $500; 2;l7 class trot
and pace. $3.50; running race, nve-elghtns
of n mile, two in three, slco-
Second day, Wednesday. October 18th
2:27 class, trot and pace, $3.50; 2:22 class,
trot and pace, $3.50; running race, three
fourths OF q mile. two in three. si25.
Third day, Thursday, October 15th-2:A
class, trot and pace. $500; free for all,
trot and pace. $500; running race five
eighths of a mile, two in three, sl25.
Fourth day. Friday, October 16th--2:2o
class, trot, $500; running race. hve-eighths
Of mile. two in three 500. Tho associa-
ton will pay $50 to the owner Of any
horse lowering the. track record of 2;l5.
President w. w. Sanford, OF the Orange
Horse Show Association. Orange, Va.
well known as owner and breeder OF
hunters, jumpers and high stepping har-
ness horses, has in Woodley Farm one
of the cleverest country homes in all that
section. Woodley Is right near town, and
Is a fine old estate of over 800 acres. The
place is part of the original grant OF
10000 acres, and although the farm man
sion has been added TO during recent
years, a portion Of 1t must be close to
couple OF centuries old. Horses bred
and owned at Woodley, or otherwise iden-
titled with the farm. have found favor In
prominent Northern cities. and Of recent
years the problem has been to supply the
demand for those Of real high class. One
OF the best of tho dock tailed division
at the farm is Norvell, finely formed,
handsome bay mare. five. ty Norwood.
thoroughbred son Of Iongfellow. dam a
trotting mare. She is fine type Of the
heavyweight hunter. being 16.1 In height
and weighing over 200 pounds. During
horse show week Mr.. Sanford rugged UP
four-in-hand. and his son. Wallace San,
ford, fooled the team. A pair of bay geld
ings. bred in the Valley Of Virginia. were
used as wheelers, and n couple of tho
roushbreds, both four-year-olds, one by
Dangerous and the other by Castaway H.,
served as leaders The team made a good
showing and took first prize at the Or
ange show.
Frelininaries regarding the North Car
DINA circuit of fairs and race meetings
have been arranged, and all of them are
scheduled to come off In October. The
dates Of Winston-Saem and Burlington
conflict. as do those of Charlotte and
Fayetteville. but it is probable that 10
serious results will follow,as each place
is likely to receive Its usual patronage.
The meetings at the two first named
places are fixed for October 9Th. 18th. 18th
and 9th, with Greensboro to follow on
the 18th. Nth, 18th and 18th. Then the
cohorts move to Raleigh. where the State
Fair comes off on the Goth, 21st, 22d and
ed, After Raleigh come Charlotte and
Fayetteville, both of whose dates fall
on the 9th, 2Sth 18th and Both. This
North Carolina circuit has done much to
stimulate the horse interests Of the State,
and as rule has been generously patron-
lied since its Inception.
.ss
In the 2:17 trot at Glens Falls. N. T..
on July cath, the bay gelding Clarion,
by Russell Rex, dam Helice, by Norval.
was first under the wire in the first heat
and reduced his record from 2:22h to
2;l5A. This horse is Six years old and
was bred by cx-Postmaster A. II. Lind
both sire and dam. Clarion is In the
stable of NJ, r. Hanson, of this city, who
looks upon him as being able to trot
right around 2;lO. Russell Rex, the sire
Of this golding will be remembered as
n blue ribbon winner in the roadster
class at the Richmond Horse Show, both
in 1901 and 1902 Iielicc, the dam, Is
now the property of Robert TAFT, of Nor
folk. who mated her this season with
his speedy trotter and well-known horse
show winner, the brown stallion Bur-
llngame. a;1sA, son Of Guy Wilkes
Sidney p. Clay, of this city, has pur-
chased OF H. y. Kline. OF PhoenlXNille
Pa, through smyth Brothers. OF Nor
folk Va, the brown pacing gelding Con-
uleror, 2.1SL by Norvardine, dam Daisy
pedigree untraced This horse was cam
paigned by Kline in 1909 and started In
eight races In SIX Of which no WAS
placed either second, third or fourth
Conaueror has joined the stable OF G.
A, Pussy, and along Will the bay trot.
ling gelding Louis Purcell, 2:Eo'], VIII
be taken down tho line OF the Maryland
Virginia Circuit Fusey will have In
addition to these two promising green
trotter In the chestnut mare by Wofnl,
owned by Peter Paul,
Hardy H., 2l7H the hay !geldinE by
Salem, dam by Walker morrill,, nred on
the Eastern Shore Of Virginia, has
proven one of the best race horses OF
the season, Commencing at the Bal
timore spring meetings he has been
winning right along most OF MS con-
tests being long -drawn-out affairs At
Rochester, n, y, the son OF Salem CAP
tnred conn!o Of five-heat races curing
the same week, hui on TUESDAY last at
| Ts sleS Va, his coors were lowered pH
| the Baltimore mare llvadne, nol pelore'
however, the bay geldlng had forced her
TO trot third heat In 2:15 to VIII