The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01
TRIBUTE TO
 LOCAL TRACK Is Record of Horses
 Trained Here. CREIGHTON GIRL TOOK PALM Complete Record of Tennessee and
 Southern Circuits. creishton Girl I. chief Bread Winner But other yaluabIes of white-
 head'. Stables Are Ma
 rica and Al Stanley
 

Through the courtesy of L. W. White head The Advertiser is enabled to pub lish this morning a complete list of the records of the horses and drivers on the Tennessee and Southern Fair circuits. The record is. very exhaus- tive and accurate in -detaIl.an no greater endorsement of the superb ad- vantages Of the track and grounds at Vandiver Park could be had than a study of the horses on these Dixie cir cults for the past few months. ~
 From every viewpoint the queen of them all In the standard bred-horse world of the South is that honest brown mare of Ben Whiteheads Creighton Girl. For several years she has been the chief bread winner of the White- head bunch. and during those years never for one moment has she been known to shirk or quit. Her first ap- pearance in Montgomery was during the fair at Vandtyer Park in October 1906 when she was consistently trotting miles around 2I6 and keeping Inside of the money. every time. Whitehead kept her at her work steadily and at Vandiver Park in October 1907 she trotted close second in. the 2:10 trot to the Clansman In 2:l4 3-4.
 During the present season she has started on the Tennessee and Southern circuit seven times, winning five. trot- ting second one time and. third one time. her winnings on these two cir cults being $l,52S. In Louisville, Ky. she started twice, winning both in straight heats: the amount of the two first monies being $2.o25. Louisville of course is not in the Dixie circuits but it makes the mares record for this season on nine starts. seven firsts, one second and one third--never having been out of the money.
 In Birmingham she reduced her rec ord from 2:i6 i-2 to 2:I2 l-4 and last of V1ndfunr PaFk aho Un ha 2:16 trot $500 stakel in straight heats In 2:l5. 2:13 1-4.. 2:13 3-4, beating Egotist Bell. Pulsus and Ward. She comes honestly by her good points. be- Jessie Woodson who was a daughter of Bayard. Some months ago she was bred to that grand two-year-old, Al stanley and If the colt lives and does Todd. Jay Hawker. Ashland Wilkes and Bayard. and if there is any virtue at all in breeding that youngster should be even greater horse than - Siariea Is Next Best.
 Next to Creighton Girl is Marcia. the bay mare by SAdbine, dam Nathalie by simmons. In January and February head stables at yandiver Park but la- ter her owner had her shipped back to Tennessee and during the past sea- son R. R. Thomas has campaigned her. Sne hau not nad much speed but 1t Is her consisteney. winning three and finishing second seven times out of ten starts. She was improving right along at VandiYer Park and if she had been allowed to stay In Montgomery during March, April and May there is no telling what she woul5 have done this season. for every horse sent out by Whitehead and m onaasefron Mont Komery has either lowered his record or proved an unqualified success in every way.
 Next in the list of money winners fs the McCurdy mare. Sarah Smith. This daughter of Sellers has started seven times. won four finished second one time. third one time and the only time that she has been out of money was last week at Vandiver Park when she went lame. Pulsus is next with four wins, fourth twice and unplaced once out of seven starts. Whitehead had made a great record with this ERotist stallion. He has kept him steady de- veloped great speed in him and re- duced his record nearly six seconds trotting a mile with him in 2:09 i a In Birmingham. the record for the
 Next is Al Stanley, one of the most wonderful two-year- in the world. On the Southern and Tennessee circuits he has started four times. winning them all in straight heats. his win nings on these two circuits amountInR q to $947. In the Kentucky FuturIty his share of the purse was $500. making