The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-10-23
Angus Pointer Won The MOsI
Money in 1907
ISGE0. E. wHIINEY'S PAGER
lie Bought the Horse at Auction for
$1,000 and Sent Him Out Early
and often For the Coin and
Pointer Brings Il In.

year-old developed IN California, thu
has not been. with one shining exception
a very brilliant season for PAGERS. The
exception Is that prince Of campalgnrrs
tho New England owned Angus Pointer
l2,0lAi, that has had All Of the side
wheelers at his mercy from Detroit &
Lexington. In this wonderful campaign
be defeated all the best PAGERS in The
country OIL the reel. and At Syracuse low
cred his record from 2sO2h TO 2f0lA
Though the purses that are offered foI
the frce.for.all PAGERS are not as largs
as those given for some Of the slower
classes. he is the biggest winning
PAGER Of the year by good margin
While this Is the gcldings fourth cam.
paign--an they have all been Of the
most strenuous kind--he ia AZ the close
OF the season as good as ever, a. 4
shown by The race &C Lexington, where
he defeated the much touted Audubon
Boy in straight heats, and with real
driver up behind the chestnut stallion
Angus Is big bay gclding, and while
he is angular In build and has a plain
head. Of the Roman nosed onlcr, he l.
nevertheless very striking looking
horse, his build suggesting speed and
power In every line. He cannot be said
to be bred in the purple, for bis dam
has little or no claim TO breeding. He
nevertheless comes honestly by his great
speed. his sire, Sidney Pointer t2:07 ~,
being a son OF Star Pointer llib9Al,
the first two.minute PAGER.
Angus Pointer was bred up In Canada
BY man who had no idea he was going
70 get a pacing wonder. However, when
the colt was broken he showed more
than average promise. Only horse Of
iron constitution would have stood the
treatment that was given him. The inst
that was heard Of the gelding was In
the winter of 1904, when he was start
ed In the ice races at a number OF places
In Canada. In these he demonstrated
that he was a very fast horse.
The races that the gelding won on the
ice made Il certain that he was worth
paving out entrance money on and had
convinced his owner that he had real
crack. The result was that be entered
him In the 81. 600 Chamber Of Commerce
stake at the Detroit grand circuit meet
ing, and also In another race at the same
meeting. Previous 60 the Detroit meet
ing, however, he had won several races
on the half mile tracks, and his maiden
victory was won at New Hamburg, Ont,
on June Z. After this he was raced
twice at Columbus, o., winning one of
the races, in which he lowered his record
to 2;l0A. His next start was in Wind.
sor, Ont, where he won in straight
heats, cutting his record TO 2;0Sh. Then
came his initiation into the grand circnit
at Detroit. His first start was in the
@. OF G. stake. in which be made a break
in the first heat and was distanced. This
caused the wise people TO say that the
horse had been raced to death before
the season was fairly started, but it
proved otherwise, as the grandson OF
Star Pointer not only romped away
with the consolation end of the big race,
the next day. This made ii races in %
days, Of which Angus had won nine and
shown himself capable OF mile in 2:07.
Then came the only blot on the record
of the great PAGER. At Buffalo he vas
beaten in slow time; at the Empire
City track he was distanced, and then
came the races at Readville and Provi-
dence, where he, or rather his owner
and driver, Mcpherson, credited the sus-
picion that the horse was being pulled.
Next came the race at Hartford, where,
after being convinced that Angus Point
or was being pulled to allow Morning
star to win the race, the judges put
Billy Andrews up behind him, with the
result that he easily took the measure
Of the gelding that had been beating
him down the line. The driver was sts-
pended from the turf, and as q result the
horse was sold to I. G. Jones Of Mem
nhis for SIS 900, and went into Ed. aeer's
stable, and from then on he performed
brilliantly. His record for his first year
on the turf was: Twenty-Five races
against other horses and ono against
time. Of which he won II, and might
have won more with another driver.
Mr.. Billings got Angus for Q matinee
horses that fall, and the PAGER won all
sorts OF cups for him. Then he was sold
At auction and the well-known horse
man George hi Whitney, Of Enfield, N.
ri. who was on the lookout for PAGER
for the free for alis on the New England
tracks. secured him for $1,000. How
fortunate the investment was Is well
known to everyone familiar with racing
the past two years. Mr.. Whitney IS a
believer in getting after the early worm,
and his stable Is out early and stays
out as long as there II a chance to race.
Last year Angus won IL races and lost
two, incidentally reducing his record 70
2.02N This year he has been simply
unbeatable, and ut the end Of the season
looks, to be faster than ever, and with
out rival for the pacing honors.