The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-05
MORE HORSES COMING
MANY FINE ONES AT THE SELMA TRACK.
Tramp Fast Among the Noted Animals To Winter in the Central City, Which Is Gaining . Rep-
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Advertiser Bureau,

Selma, Jan. {.
 There will arrive at the Selma Driv- ing Park Monday three additional sta- bles of fine trotters and pacers. and kings and queens of harness racing.
 In these three new stables coming to the track there will not be less than seventy five standard bred horses and they will swell the number of Grand Circuit campaigners which will the winter at the Selma track to 140.
 Besides the three stables of trotters and pacers which are due here Monday. there will also come to Selma for the winter during the latter part of Jan uary, or during the first week of Feb ruary, three other stables Of racers from Pennsylvania and Ohio. These will make total of eleven stables which will winter at the track and as there will be more than twenty horses in each one of these stables there Will be a total of over 200 fine horses which win receive the preliminary and tin- ishing training in the spring for the Grand Circuit meetings next summer
 With the arrival of all of these sta bles at the Selma Driving Park, 1t will make Selma the second place ot inn portance in the South as winter re- sort for harness race horses. In only one other city, Memphis, will there winter more harness horses than tnere will be quartered at the Selma track
 The trainers who will bring their stables to Selma to winter here are all favorably known in the racing world. and they have all been most success" full during past seasons.
 Some of the most sensational and hest campaigners of harness racing will be among these stables. Follow CTS of trotters and pacing horses are of the opinion that the value of the pa cers and trotters that will spend tho cold period here will go beyond the million dollar mark.
 A great many of the horses Wnich will be at the track can not be pur- chased for $1O,O0O. It will be valua- ble lot of horse flesh which will be housed at the race track after the ar rival of the three stables next week. and it will mean a great deal to this city in the way of advertising selma as
 The three stables which are expect ed to arrive here Monday are those In charge of Ben Renick. Lon Mcdonald and Ew Benyon. MT: Renick will bring stock farm in Lowpdes County. and next spring he will take a number of them North and during the summer will campaign them through the Grand Cir cult.
 For the second time Trainer Lon Mo Donald, of Boston, who ranks as one of the best and most reliable drlVers of the American track, will come to Selma Mir. McDonald's success during the past summer was phenomenal and this success he attributes to the Selma track and the training which his sta ble received during the months or last winter He will bring a stable of about twenty horses to Selma with him
 During the past summer. MT. Mo Donald was one of the largest winners of the Grand Circuit meetings His Geers. Geers started the past season with a stable of about fifty horses which he drove during the season and his winning were were in the neigh EAT hA gan the campaign of the past summer with a stable of sixteen. Ills winnings during the Grand Circuit amounted to S32. .750 and in proportion to the horses which he drove he was more success full than was Ed Geers.
 Four of the Mcdonald string during the past summer made new records and proved surprises in the racing world. Of these four Codero: the champlon 4-year-old stallion of the world, low cred his record, and during the season won $5,000. The first great winner of the stable was Kruger, whose win Tn the Mcdonald stable. besides Codero and Kruger. there will be Miss Abdell. A Kentucky Futurity winner. Sadie Fogrs. Selma Todd and several other welI-known favorites of the harness
 In the stable which Trainer Ed Ben yon, of Lexington, Ky. will bring to Selma there are number of wonders of harness racing; Mr., MT; Beny0n yo1 +TdiI VII spring training and among them will be the wonder of the past summer, Tramp Fast.
 Tramp Fast proved sensation by his performance at Lexington last fall. when he won the Kentucky Futurity to which there was hung q purse of nearly $3O0OO and his great race is still well remembered by those who follow racing. MT. Benyon is counted as one of the best drivers on the track and in his stable there are a number of good ones besides Tramp Fast, whose sire and dam were products of the McCn-dy stock farm near Lowndes- boro.
 If Mir Benyon. with his stable, and the other trainers who will winter at the Selma Driving Park. are as sue cessful next summer as Lon McDonald was during the past summer, Selma s reputation as a winter resort for har- ness horses will not be excelled and the following winter will see more horses at the local track than there will he at Memphis.