The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18
The First Races of the Big
Fair.
Continued from Page One.)

the week, and Lady Hartford. entered
in the 2.27 and 2.35 trots. These
horses are in charge of their driver, ~
Smith, who is known to every South
ern racing man. Mr.. White is always
ready to back his horses, and has an
idea that in his bay stallion, Conray,
he has the best horse at this week $
races, and he believes that his horse
will break the track record of PIG,
made last year by the chestnut mare,
Mary Del, owned by G. Fluntham, o.
Middletown, Del, and driven by Will
liam Nicholson, of Baltimore, who
drove her to her record last year.
Conroy and Mary Del will compete in
the 2,13 pace tomorrow and they will
have as their opponents such fast ones
as Minnie Thompson (2.17A), and
Sadie Temple (2.1SA. Other horses
that will probably be started in the
same race are: Stone Walker and
Jack of Diamonds.
T. Fleming Jamison, of Roar
Va. one of uhe owners of Minnie
Thompson, Fleety j., and Conductor
Corbitt, all entered in harness races,
the whole shipment requiring nine box
stalls on the fair grounds, arrived yes
terday morning. The horses of Jami-
son & Co.. have been on the go since
the middle of last June Gour months),
and will soon go into winter QUARTERS.
The runners may continue through the
Southern circuit until snow flies"
| winding up at Tampa, Fla, in the last
week in November The Jamison
horses have been very successful, win
ming large sums of money for their
owners. At Lynchburg, Va, in the
first week in October, the winnings of
Jamison & Co. amounted to over
| $1,000.
Joseph H. Hanna, the owner of the
beautiful bay mare sadie Temple"
| record 2.1SA is in the city, and was
an interested spectator of the races
yesterday afternoon. His horse will
| make a couple of starts this week. Mr.
| Hanna is a native of Pennsylvania
having been born near Philadelphia,
| but he has been a resident of the
growing and prosperous city of Roam
| oke. Va. where he is the owner of the
J"Raleigh'' saloon and cafe on Valen
| avenue. II is needless to say that his
| place is q favorite resort of horsemen,
and especially by reason of its name,
| is visited by ali North Carolinians
| when in Roanoke.
horses here-Maud Adams, Pharos.
| md Nut Eler, is one of the best
! known horSemen in the South. He
| has been racing for many years, and
| is engaged in no other business. He
has charge of the Roanoke (Va.) track
and training stables. but for about half
| the year is ION the road participant
| ing in races i'm Virginia Maryland, and
| North Carolina, principally, but occa-
| 5ionally going as far moth as Peensyl-
| Vania. He comes of q racing family.
| His younger brother, w. Coleman
| Dyer, also of Roanoke, is a successful
| trainer and driver, and is here with
| the bay mare, Maize G. Another
brother, Hugh n. Dyer has been chief
| of police of Roanoke ever since it
| sprang from the unknown hamlet OF
| Big Lick of less than 300 inhabi-
| that's into the prosperous city of Roam
I oke, now boasting q nopulation. with
suburbs, of $4,000. Chief Dyer is one
| of the best informed authorities Oh,
i racing matters in the country, and can
instantly name the record of every
| prominent race-horse. In this respect
| he is remarka BILE. He sets Preat store
| by his complete set of wallace
| ear Book some of the volumes OF
| which are rare and very hard to get.
| The uncle of these brotherS-Colonel
| William Dyer, who died last year III
| Danville, Va.
| Col. G.. w. Haight, of White Plains.
N. Y. is the hoseman 'farthest from
| home" now at this meeting. He
shipped his horses last Thursday
| Molly Woodruff, Quick and Jack of
| Diamonds, in an express car, at great
| expense, and they arrived on tinon.
| Colonel Haight is in the raising BUSH
| ness for the pleasure that there S IN
| it, and he is his own driver. He is
| the owner of large stock farm, and
| wears a huge Sparkler on his shirt
front His smiling face has been seen
on many race tracks.
| William Nicholson, of Baltimore.
has followed the races SO long that he
| is getting to be an old man, and is
known as "Old Bill Nicholson" He
is as alert and spry however, as many
men who are years his junior and as
/ for knowledge of the racing rules
| there is no one who is his superior.
| He has participated in races on the
| Raleigh track for number of years,
and has many friends here. He is
| the owner of General Kuser. a green
| trotter and has with him the horses
| Jim Bayard and Mary Del, owned in
Maryland and Delaware. The last
mentioned is the property of c. Flunt-
ham, of Middletown, Del, and has
been campaigned by Mr. Nicholson for
several years. She lowered the record
of the Raleigh track last year to ZIG,
when the track was as loose and sandy
as it is this week, which was equal to
a PIP performance. Mary Del has
| won a large amout of money for her
owner.
| p. j. Bane, the owner of the swift
| runner Calvin Boy, is a breeder of
saddle horses at White Gate, Va, IN
the blue grass section of South
western Virginia, where everybody
rides. Mr.. Bane loves saddle horse
and has raised beauties which have
brought high prices in sales at Mad
ison Square Garden, New York. No
one would suspect in the plain, unas-
Stunning man, Pierce j. Bane, the pros
| porous horse owner and breeder. He
has the respect of every person in he
North Congressional District of Vlr-
ginia.
Matt Jordan, the little pockey, who
| rides the horse Runafter, is a West
ern man. The owner of the horse is
| b. M. Morrison. of Buchanan, w. Va,
a prosperous business man of that
| thriving coal town among the noun
tains of West Virginia. Jordan is
sufficiently light in weight to be seen
at Brighton Beach and other famous
tracks. but he prefers to follow the
/ fairs.
SLUG FOUR
Personal sketches of Homer J.
| JamiSon, driver of Minnie Thompson
and other horses; of Fred Spoerhase,