Arizona republican., 1907-11-04
MIR. SAVAGf'S FARM RACE HORSt PARADISE
The Work Out at the Track Yesterday -More About Dan Patch, His Rela- tives and His Friends.

There was a nice workout of the fast horses at the race track yester- day. though no efforts were made at fast records. and beginning this morn- ing there will be daily workouts until fair time, one week later. There was quite an audience in the grand stand yesterday, Slough the people had been told not to come before Monday, as they couldn't see anything. Neverthe- less they seemed to be satisfied with the free show.
 Driver H. C. Hrsey, who has Dan Patch and the other Savage horses here, said he never saw more propitious conditions than obtain right now. Yes terday he said was as near a perfect day as he ever saw for record break ing. The track was good. the weather fine neither too hot nor too cold. and not the slightest wind to interfere with speed-making. He says that during the season just closing he has never had but one date for record making when the conditions were anything like perfection. and that was at Gales burg, the second mile Dan mn4e this season, and before he was fairly warm ed up. and he gave a good exhibition then. On every other scheduled date of the season there has been bad weather. bad track or something else that was unfavorable. Nevertheless most of the exhibitions have been sat isfactory. In, fact said MT. Hersey. Dan always gives q good exhibition if he has any kind of a chance. He has never yet gone a disappointing mile except when it was apparent to every body that all conditions were against him. He feels confident. therefore. that Dan may be relied upon to satis- fy the people whether he breaks a world record or not, and if this sort of weather continues there is every reason to hope for Q record mileA
 The record of Dan Patch. paced by runner in sulky, is 1:55 1-4. and un- paced his record is 1:5s. There has been considerable talk about wind shields. Dan never uses a wind shield. and only one other horse of record fame does. What many mistake for a wind shield is merely a little canvas fly that hangs below the driver of the pace-making horse to keep the dirt and pebbles from flying back and hit ting Dan on the nose. The purpose of the pacemaker is not to stop the wind. but is solely to encourage the speed maker.
 Dan is now eleven years old. and was sired by Joe Patchen, 2:Of 1-2 which in his day made all the best ones take to the tall timber. Dan is also the sire of about fifty three young horses that are now beng educated on the farm of M. w. Savage. at Savage. eighteen miles from Minneapolis. This is likely lot of children. and some of them will undoubtedly bring honor to the family name in the near future. One of Dams favorite daughters. Dana Patch. is here with him, though in her appearance she favors her ma" be- ing a bay. while Dan is a dark brown. She is not boastful of her beauty. but she has a record of 2:05 1-4, which is not bad for a four-year-old girl She will not participate in the Phoenix races here for the reason that the de- termination to come to Phoenix was made rather late. after Dana Patch had closed her season. and she was let down" from active work and is not therefore in good sprinting form. She is travelling along in the party just to see that her "pa" keeps straight and makes no bad breaks out here in the west.
 There are four horses in the string of Mir. Hersey. three or which partici- pated in the seasons races on the grand circuit. Of the thirteen starts made by the three. only once was the horse behind the money and in the | ty-alva nthar cf he toh sentative got either first or. second. In this case "13" was not apparently an unlucky number. though one of the other numbers was unlucky.
 Mir. Savage's stock farm at Savage. Arinn.. has become a famous place and it is visited annually by many nota-