The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-20
MAY REVIVE
TEN BROCK TRACK
HoRsEMEN WANT TO COME
DURING WINTER TO TAKE ADvAN-
TAGE OF CLIMATE.

Nothing Remains of Past GIOries of
the Once Famous Course Except
the Track Itself and the Judges
stand, Standing Sentinel-LiEe on
the Spot where the Elite of GeOr-
gia and south Carolina once
Gathered to Witness the Making
of Turf MISREPRESENTATION Now
Pending for Its Lease.
The Ten Brock race course near Sa-
vannah, one of the most celebrated
tracks in the South in ante-bellum
days, may be revived and again used
for racing and training purposes.
For some time negotiations have been
pending between prominent horsemen
and the owners of the property, and
| if an agreement is reached the track
may again be made the scene of daily
exercise and races of famous thor
cughbreds.
While he was here during the win
ter Mr.. Shuts, the millionaire trot-
ting horse owner of New York went
out to see the track and its location,
with view to establishing a training
stable here. At that time satisfactory
terms could not be arranged, and he
went back North without making any
agreement. He did, however, send a
stable of twenty young trotters here
to receive their preliminary training,
and they are still at the race track
of the Savannah Racing Association.
These horses have done so well in this
climate under the competent charge OF
| Trainer Cheney that not only Mr.
| Shuts, but other we'll known horse
men, are attracted here by the climate
I in which the horses do so well, and
recently negotiations have been re-
newed.
| There have been no races over the
/ famous old course in twenty years, and
the only building remaining Is the
| judges stand, which stands like
| grim sentinel over the spot which was
once the gathering place of the elite
| of Georgia and South Carolina. Here
were run the races that were to the
| South what the Brooklyn, the classic
| Metropolitan and the Suburban are to
! the East.
Despite the twenty years or more
since the track has been given any at
tention it is still in good condition with
the exception of a few hundred feet:
The Ten Brock was in its glory nifty
| y
horse of reputation made his record
there Previous to it's opening as O
public race track it was private half
mile track, owned by the late Mr..
Obediah Jencks, a wealthy planter who
lived IN the first half of the last Gen.
fury and who had more than pass
| ing fondness for horses and racing
The race course is still the property
of his heirs with the exception of a
few shares which are held by the origi-
nal stockholders, their estates or fami-
lies, who organized the old Agricultural
and. Industrial Association thirty ode
years ago and established the Ter
| brock Race Course. The cleared part
of the property, excepting the race
track proper, is used as truck farm
and the wooded part on the Augusta
road is leased to the Electric Railway
Company as a place of recreation fol
colored people and is known as Lin
coin Park.
The popularity of Savannah as q
wintering~ place for fine stock, due tC
| it's salubrious climate, will doubtless
result in both the Fair Ground and
Ten Brock tracks being used by North
ern and Western horsemen.