Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-24
Burns Worked PAGER in 2:z5
Yesterday-0ther Harness
Horse News of Interest.
BY I T B. |

I'm all probability the most-talked-of
and one of the best-thought-of
horses in this city today Is the
handsome o a pacing stallion Mcneil.
by Mckinney, 2:11A. owned by James
Burns. In the face Of the most adverse
and unjust criticism to which he was
subjected early in the season the son
of Mckinney. who is being tutored by
his owner, continues to make speed.
In the las sixty days he has done
more good work III any horse In the
outfit of the near-trainer who wished
him the good fortune of dropping dead
on the speedway early In the year has
done the entire season. Sixty days ago
I made the prediction that the roam
horse would step a mile right at 2:20
this season. 1, for one, want to go on
record now with the prediction that he
will beat 2:2o away Off before the snow
flies and pull his owner, who weighs
something W. two hundred pounds,
that fast, and that to a cart.
Mr.. Burns worked Mcneil yesterday,
when he threw his latest surprise into
the anvil chorus by stepping two miles
in 1926 nj 2:25. In both of these miles
he defeated the bay stallion The
Farmer, 2:2A, and made him like 1t.
1t will be recalled that early in the
season Irving q. Stelie, the local
trainer, worked this horse on the trot.
To this way of going, the son Of Nc
Kinney did not take kindly. SO his
owner had him sent home, intending to
let up on him for the season and have
him trained on the pace next spring.
Late in July, however, Mr.. Burns tired
of the Simple life and started TO
work the horse himself. He made
speed rapidly from the start under the
Burns system of training, and his
owner alone deserves ell the credit foI
what the horse Ia able to show today.
Mcneil Is one Of the best gated
PAGERS that I have ever looked upon:
does not need the hopples, and can
brush an eighth any time in seventeen
seconds. He is one of the most valu-
able horses In this community today.
AS a matter of fact. he Is, with the
possible exception of ophelia Direct,
the very best green horse In this city.
n his owner thought enough Of him
to refuse $3.50 for him last night. The
gentleman who made the offer did so
in my presence, and he doesn't buy
IN hOt liiOCh OidliBSb.
Mcneil will be wintered by his owner
and not by any hoppled PAGER driver.
Next season, should no misfortune be-
fall him, he will be trained by F. G..
STEELE or Jack Phillips. Mr.. Burns has
not fully made up his mind In this
direction, but it's one best bet that q
near trainer will never handle the
oar horse.
In shape Mcneil Is an equine model
of the show horse type, with a chance
to win on the tan bark, and a moro
beautifully bred stallion does not live.
He vas bred by W. F. Redmond, Madi-
son, foaled in 1905 and sired by the
great Mckinney, 2:1tA. sire of Sweet
Marie 1902, Cooney 2:o2, O'clock 2:o5A,
China Maid 2:05A and 2s others in
2:10; by Alcyone 1927, dam Amnell.
own sister to Susie T. 2:09N, Ambi-
dexter 2:11A, etc; half sister to Tom
Axworthy 2:07, vassar 2:07 and Belle
Vara 2:O8A. by Ambassador 2:2oN. a
producing son of George Wilkes. Nc
Nelrs second dam was that great
brood mare Nell, the dam of eleven
standard performers, by Estill Erie.
This breeding Is az stout and as
fashionable as any in the stud book.
and this foundation added to by what
he can show today and the past per-
formances of his royal lineage leave no
doubt as to his ultimate success as a
race horse with an abundance of ex-
IRENE speed. To doubt Of his ultimate
success is absolutely unreasonable; II
one will stop to think the very idea is
absurd. false to every fact and theory,
opposed alike to reason. logic and
precedent. Look at the horse himself;
a superb type upon whom power and
greatness are so legibly stamped as to
be at once impressively apparent. and
ask yourself the question, not will he
be a success, but how on earth can he
be anything else.
Since the chestnut pacing mare. Lii
Ian W., 2:16A, owned by Chief Gre
CORY. arrived in this city, John Gregg
ry has been working her owe the
Weequahic Park track. Early in the