The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-02-17
(By JAY SEE SEE in Nashville Ban.
ner Saturday, February II, 1917


This is the breeding season and
owners are devoting no little of their
time to selecting suitable mate for
their mares Those who are enamor-
ed Of the PAGER are giving much
thought to the study of the blood
lines Of the stations within easy
reach that have made regulations In
the line of string horses of that gait,
while those whose preference In the
trotter are carefully scrutinizing the
pedigrees of those stations that have
achieved notoriety in string foals en-
dowed with that characteristic. Re-
Gently the attention of owners of the
mares bred in pacing lines has been
strongly drawn to the merits of JOHN
R, Gentry 2:0012, now in the stud at
Ewell Farm, Spring Hill, Tenn. This
stallion judged to be the most per-
fectly formed horse in America, as
we'll as one of the speediest, has es-
tablished a reputation for stamping
his get with his own individual ex-
cellence as well as his qualities of
speed and purity of gait, was sent
to Tennessee for the purpose of Inn
proving the stock of this state, and
reckoned by what he has already &C
complished since he has been at
Ewell Farm, will prove of inestimi-
BILE benefit to the breeding interest
of Tennessee.
Although one of the worlds great
est PAGERS, John R Gentry is intense
| ly trotting bred, and l have 1t upon
the authority of Mr.. George Camp
bell Brown, who is familiar with the
facts, that at least thirty per cent
OF the foals of Gentry are trotters.
Strangely enough, too, the most Of
the get of Brown Hal indicated a ma
tural bent toward the trotting gait,
and the records show that many of
the worlds most brilliant PAGERS
were strongly bred in trotting lines,
John R. Gentry, Searehlight, The
Able, being notable instances. John
r. Gentry has sired quite a number
of strikingly handsome foals since
his retirement from the turf, and 1t
is to his credit that daughter of his
proved to be the champion three
year-old PAGER of 1910. Nell Gentry
l2:09A, who not only beat all the
cracks of her age and gait, but was
the largest money winner of her d.
vision on the circuit.
Apropos of this subject, l am
pleased to insert here the following
communication received this morn
ing:
Properly proud are the spirited
sportsmen of the Volunteer State of
the Tennessee PAGER. There is a
long list of those whose names are
immortal-Little Brown jug, Matte
Hunter, Brown Hal, Hal Pointer. Star
Pointer, Sky Pointer and Elastic
Pointer. OF these, Hal Pointer was
not the fastest, but he was really the
most popular The people OF Ten
nessee were ready to risk the last
dollar in their clothes, and then some
on Hal Pointer. They loved him,
even when he got trimmed-as he
did here at Nashville, and then again
at Columbia by the hackney-shaped
black horse, Direct. That Direct
could beat a popular idol like Hal
Pointer established positive ropul.
arity in Tennessee for Direct. He
was a trotting-bred PAGER, and being
bred on the pacing bred Hal Mares
established a meritorious family from
which came Hal Direct and Direct
Hal, Walter Direct, etc.
The present-day tendency is lead
ing us away from the pacing-bred
PAGERS. No champions are now ap-
pearing among them. The turf sta
tistics of 1910 demonstrate the su-
periority Of the PAGERS whose sires
are Observation-Disclosures Heir, The
Eel, Ross K, George Gano, The Able
(Geers' big winner on the Grand Cir.