The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05
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very remarkable. An Of his races
were over haf-mile tracks DE started
In Rockport IN june a meeting which
marked the opening Of the racing
season in Ohio and he did not wind u
until last week a. Baltimore.
throughout the entire season there
was but one week in which he did not
, have an enlargement md several times
he started al a meeting In all The
Contractor won thirteen races, three
second moneys and two third moneys
and his earnings for the year were
S4e5Oo
After the race al ROckport The
Contractor went TO Canton and won
twice. he also connected with first
money twice al MeadviIe the follow
ing week. but did not win again until
three weeks later, when he finished
4 three times in front al Canal Dover
! The next week he was defeated al
4 Erie Pa and then came back 10 Rock
port for the summer meeting. II was
then that he paced TO a record of
I2:09A and from that time on no horse
showed him the way to the wire. In
the following seven weeks he had
stake engagement Of $1,000 each time
and never failed to go to the barn
without first money. He won at Can
ton, Wheeling, Fairmont, Bowling
Green, Lima Hagerstown, Md and
Baltimore. And he did not by any
means have easy fields to beat, as
against him in the stake races were
Charleston Boy, Green Pilot and 9th
ers of good caliber.
1T has always been considered
splendid campaign whenever a horse
wins so per cent of his engagements,
but when one comes along like The
Contractor and wins thirteen out Of
eighteen and is never once as bad as
fourth, he stands out as a champion. |
The Contractor returned TO Cleve- /
land for the winter last week and it !
was generally remarked around the T
Cleveland track that he was in higher
flesh and in better order than when {
he started out last June. The Con-
tractor is a roam gelding. eight years
old and lis by Fred S. Wilkes 2:114
out OF Merry Warby Mambrinc King
1T is from the last named that he got
the clean, smooth legs so character
istic of him His second dam. Molly
o.. BY Hamiin Patchen. was a famous
producer Of Village Farm, and his
third dam was Mermaid, the daughter
Of Dictator, which produced Lucrecia
. 20, mare that was well known on
the Grand Circuit during the days of
The Grand Circuit
The campaign which The Contrac-
Tor made was most pleasing to David ,
Shaw, since 1t was the first his stables
las made since the establishment of
he Beau Ideal Stock Farm. j
In addition to the splendid cam :
lct4Gu VI Ut 1OIAI dCiOI MI goudW eli
Dyed more honors through the brief,
,ut brilliant, campaign Of the trotting
mare Lillian R., that was raced by :
4 McDeyitt. At Columbus she de- 8
Gated the best trotters Of her class, s
DING one heat in 2:04A, which was 4
he fastest mile trotted this year by a
ny mare in a race, and the turf was q
raced by such great ones as Ham 2
urg Belle, Sonoma Girl and Sweet r
Iarie. W
Beauseant with a record of 2:O515, f,
also Tennessee product He b
lowed an exhibition mile of 2:O7% a,
5 three-year-old over the Nashville O,
'ack and was sold by the Hermitage G
tud of Nashville, for $1,000, said to
? the highest price ever paid for an r
ltried race horse. He was turned =
yer to Mr. K. F. Geers and raced
rough the grand circuit, getting
cord of 2:0612 He is not so well
nown as Fred s. Wilkes, but for
reeding individuality and speed he D
as few equals. He has won blue
bbons over the handsomest stations
the country from New York TO Ala
anna. He is a young horse, his old
It colts coming five years old, but :,
Notwithstanding this he is the sire of =,
ur trotters and one PAGER with a b,
cord Of 2:11A). :,
Little Buddie, the other stallion Mr..
mes offers to the breeders is too
ell known and well though of for 90
e need of any more newspaper no =
riety than he already has, but he is a.
e of the earnest little trotters in
e South
INsEPARABLE. BIZ