The Indianapolis journal., 1904-03-13
COLLEGE TO THE TRACK
SCOTT HUDSON'S JUMP
Most Successful Driver Is Also the
Best Educated Man in Big
Circuit.
HIS STRING THIS YEAR

LEXINGTON, KY, March ia classic
course at an educational institution like
Center College is hardly the training sup
posed to be necessary to produce the most
successful trotting horse driver of modern
6nes. In fact, ii has never occurred to
the minds of horsemen that master reins-
man could come from any source but that
of the paddock or the stable. Scott Hudson
has set aside all traditions, as, equipped
with an education to fit him for any pro-
fession which requires learning, he has In
stead gone on the track and made record
as a skillful trainer and successful driver
unexcelled in the history of light harness
horse racing. His career goes to show that
a finished college training can be utilized
in connection with the turf and that book
learning is no drawback to a career of sue
cess with horses. He is probably the best
educated, from classic standpoint, Of any
prominent trotting horse driver on the turf
to-day, and the last three seasons he has
proved the most successful.
The deeds of the brilliant stars Hudson
has carried year after year through the
grand circuit have been chronicled in coll
umn after column of the daily and weekly
papers, but little has ever been written of
the man whose marvellous skill and inde-
fatigable industry has made possible the
achievements to the credit of the great
horses he has had i'm charge. Among his
fellow-drivers his ability is classed in the A
No. notch, and il is common to hear the
expression when one of his great horses
goes into other hands, that man has the
horse, but Scott Hudson has the recipe. =
Hudson was born in Washington county,
Kentucky in 1870, and is now, therefore
only thirty-four years old. He went from
college right 10 the track and began his
first training operations in $780, when twenty
years old. In 1890 he was sick the entire
season, and that is the only year ne has
been out OF the harness. In 1901. 1902 and
1906 he was the largest winner on the turf
each season, and during that period he has
driven no less than five horses that each
have won over $1,000 in single year. TC
those familiar with the earning capacity of
trotter or PAGER, il is useless to note
what successful career has been the lot
so far of this blond driver of light-harness
horses. TO date Hudson has given records
to ten horses better than 2O8 and twenty
four cracks have been marked by him in
2:10 or better. The list includes such stars
as Audubon Boy, 2:0S; Nervolo, 2:O4h
Twinkle, 20524; Hawthorne, 2:O6A; Ryth-
mic. 2:O6A; Don Riley. 2:07: Chase, 2:07A;
Annie Lee. 2:olA; Merry Master, 2:O7l4
Belle Kuser. 2:OS Jay McGregor, 2:OS
Crescent Route. 2:OSA; Baron Bell. 2:09
Capt. Jack, 2:O9A; Dillon Boy. 2O9A; King
Egbert. 2:09&i; Lena Mack, 2:09$i: Mary
| Gordon, 2:09&; Blanche Turner. 2:10: Blase
Boy 2:10; Elmer s., 2:10, and The Graizer
| 2:1O
Horses driven by Hudson in the last few
years have won two $4,000 prizes, an $1S.-
| 600 stake and three $4,000 purses a record
| In the same period OF time never eclipse6
! by any driver.
The noted reinsman has this season adopt
ed new rule with his string, and instead
of training thirty or thirty-fve horses. as
| heretofore. he has limited his stable to fif.
| teen head, all of which are either stars OF
! green prospects which have shown their
| ability to go a mile IN 210 or better.