The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-21
NUT BOY ONCE
SOLO FOR S172
Champion Trotting Winner of
the Year Has Had Many
Owners.
H0RSEMEN KNEW HIM
AS DESPISED OUTLAW
For a Time He Was Used as a
Carriage Horse Upon
the Road.

ness racing circles recently. The season
is about at a close. but the interest in
the racing is no less than it was when
the weather man ordered suuny skies
and balmy breezes. The second week
Of the Lexington (Ky.) meeting marked
the close Of the season for the majority
Of the stars OF the trotting and pacing
world. Some few will De taken down
through the Southern circuit, but very
few, and it will be winter quarters
for the many.
The meeting at Lexington scored its
usual big success and in no way did
the great horse center diminish as the
gathering point for the racing clans
Of the East, West and North. They
we're I'll ct the blue grass city and
the racing was OF the usual high order.
Judges demanded strict observance of
the rules, strong srr,' and crooked
work was q premium and the attend
years. From the racing standpoint, the
time was scarcely as fast, the bad
weather having It's effect, but taken
as whole the time made was most
rreritorious. Outside the Keptuck fU.
turitv, the classic for three-year-old
trotters. the feature was the great
Trsnsylvspis and the Walnut Hall
farm cup race, the latter raced off
on Wednesday, between furries of snow
Nut Boz, the once despised ''outlaw,p
rs hoTsener call 81 unmanageable
horse Nut Bov Won this grest race
with perfect ease, and at no time was
he fully extended. True, the time made
was not sensational. 2:11A being the
!ss-es, Of the three beats. bat II must
L: remembered the weather condi.ions
were ve:v dls1dvantageous.
wins Big Sum.
Nut Boy also non the rich Iransyl-
venia stake. and the ending OF the
season fnr this geldng saw two rich
trophies added 70 the string Of vic.
tories won by the gelding this year,
slo,l62 for Mrs. Lotta crabtree, the
former great actress, who 'is his
owner Ard it is only short time
sicce Nut Boy was willingly sold by
z former owner for the nun acent
sum of siT2. Nut Boy was foaled 10
1895, and hss had about IS checkered
a career as q race horse could. He
has been IN q dozen or raoFe hands,
kes been sold and resold because of
his 7icious habits, and now ends the
season as tee greatest money winning
trotter, and sad to be as gentle as the
pIoveTbial dove.
As four.year.old DR.. Spaulding of
Decatur, Ill, owned him, and had to
frequently run the gelding into build.
ing TO stop him when he was used
op the road. In 1908 ne turned up at
the Fasig- Upton sale in New York,
after he had in the interim been sold
several times, ard was purchased bv
the great breeder, John H. Shuts, who
in some way had the belief that he was
purchasing a mare. He was resold and
went 10 Philadelphia, where he ran
away q number of times and came near
killing several people. Several times
more he changed hands, and finally
was bought by Henry Croasdale. lunlr
her merchant, who lived at Avon, Pa,
and the new owner used him in the
country. where he became quieted
down somewhat He showed SO much
speed on the road that George Hinder
mver of Philadelphia bought him,
end Nut Boy went back 10 the
Quaker City He was taken TO Bel,
mont park track. right off the road and
stepped a quarter in 32M SECONDS, q
2:l0' clip. The trainer dismounted and
told Hindermyer that the geldl4g knew
track better than he himself knew II,
aud that if he was not a ringer, he
would pay a big price for him. HIS
speed at this time was marvellous.
Ran Away Three Times.
Nut Boy was then taken TO a trainer
St Breeze Point, where he ran away
three times. with disastrous results
each time. The trainer never lost
courage with him, however, and that
fall won number of races over halt
mile tracks, and late IN the year
stranger walked up to HindeImyer and
offered him $4,000 for the gelding, va:
accepted and paid over the cash. he
would net give his name, and 1t va:
next year as a ringer, but the geldlne
turned up this year as the property o1
the actress. and it was discovered that
the mysterious stranger was her nus
band. Jack Crahtree, known now u
every grand circuit follower, The hls
tory of the gelling this year IS too wei
known to be worth describing here. III
the hand Of that master reinsman, Ny
ron McHenTy, who has proved practl
cslly iuvincihle, winning stake attel
stake, and passing from the once de
spised "outlawn TO the greatest ract
trotter of 1906.
The hold that light harness racing hat
upon the people OF the country dlstrlct'
was fully emphasized recently, when th'
writer spent day at race meeting
given at Wilmington, O. The day wa.
about as disagreeable as could bs found
cold. wintry winds blowing across to-
track, and the occupants Of the granss
stand as we'll as the quarter, stretcl
having to keep constantly on the NOV!
70 warm themselves Yet an inlmens
crowd for so small city was preseu
and stayed until the last heat had beel
rotted. Cold and discomfort were for
gotten when the races were on. and III
hearty cheers would have done credl
70 any meeting. Owned in Wilmingto!
an old pacing stallion they call Mix
STady which has, I think, a record O
2;l5A: He has long since been out
0assed, but his owner and trainer keel
Al On racing him, and no grand circuit per
II FORMER ever received the hearty. gpon
.aneons and right from-the-he .ap
pause that greeted the old horse whel
as made the winner step fast to bea
II nun III one heat of the 2:13 pace. Eve,