The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-28
BUFORD RETURNS
TO BREEDING RANK
PURCHASES HAL BROWN FROM
EWELL FARM AND WILL Es-
TABIlsH NURSERY AT
sUFoRD STATION.
TENN.


well known to all horse faneiers il
America as having been the owner o
Tom Hal. the great progenitor Of pa
GERS, this grand old horse having die
on Mr. Buford's farm in Giles county
some fifteen years ago. where a hand
some monument now stands to mari
the grave of the famous old sire o
Hal Pointer. the king of PAGERS II
his day. Hal Pointer bore the dis
tinction of having been the only horse
that ever attended his fathers fun
eral, and a pretty story is told in
connection with it, Old Tom died al
the ripe old age of thirty years, al
which time Hal Pointer, who was
in training at Spring Hill, was in the
zenith of his glory as a turf perform
er. Ed Geers loaded the old fellow in
an express car the day of the funeral,
and with a great company of people,
he went in state to attend the cere-
monies
Mr. Buford has lived for the past
dozen years or more in West Tonnes
see where he was married, just after
representing his native county with
great honor in the State Legislature,
and now he longs for the old home
again and for a continuance of that
pleasure which his fame as a breeder
has always given him. So he has de-
cided to move back to Middle Tonnes
see and will settle again in Giles coun
ty near Buford's Station.
Mr.. Buford has formed a partner
ship with J. D. Rhea of Giles County,
and together they have selected son
Of Brown Hal to place in the stud.
This horse is Hal Brown 0796, that |
has for several years held court at |
Ewell Farm in connection with Nc
Even and John r. Gentry. Hal |
Brown is one of the very best sons |
If Brown Hal and his recent owners
will always contend that he had, more
speed and better conformation and
,ther qualities characteristic of the
Halls, than any other son of that great
,st of all pacing sires. He showed an
Eighth as a yearling in 14% seconds,
mile as a 2-year-old in 225, with an
Eighth in Is seconds, and as a Swear
Id mile in 2:1S on half mile ring.
lie did all of these trials, with the !
ewest number of boots ever seen on a {
orse, on account of his pure and
rictionless action. Unfortunately for {
i'm, he got his ankle wrenched, while
'alking on brio kpavement, by hav- {
lg a brick turn under him, throwning |
i'm down. so that he was never able t
, take a record. But his qualities as e
breeder are very convincing of his a
reat worth and value as a sire fit to t
erpetuate the grand qualities pos p
9ssed by his breed. F
His dam was the grand old brood Il
|
are, Kate Braden, the dam of four
lcers with records ranging from Il
OH to 2:13H, all of these being ~
: Brown Hol and therefore full broth N
S to Hal Brown. Kate Braden was c.
: Old Bay Tom 2:23, horse that L
as also at one time owned by Mr.. c
ford; while the dam was great pro- re
cing broodmare that will be re- tt
He'd as the dam of Joe Braden, ia til
BUS campaigner in the Olden fans,
tn a record of 2:15A, and of Lulita,
cord 2:15A. Lula Braden was by N
ownlow's Traveller, son of Nc y,
eens' Traveller, the sire of the Sec NJ
d dam of Star Pointed 1894. nc
The richest of this pedigree in the II,
,od that has made the Tennessee
Gers famous will commend itself to vi;
ents of breeding. Bay Tom was by M
ttrelrs Tom Hal and out of a mare tb
Knights Snow Heels, making him ga
very closely related horse to Hal 6c
inter and Star Pointer. II
The advent of Mr.. Buford into the off
eding ranks again will be hailed me
h especial delight all over the coun- th,
by his many friends. He is a ia
ial gentleman and well qualified
make the great success that he Ge
erves. The proprietors of Ewen mn
m were quite loath to part with co,
Brown, but believing the inter an
of Tennessee PAGERS at large will ma
greatly advanced by the return of cor
Buford to the ranks. they con mai
ted after much persuasion.-Nash- oth
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