Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-02
BUTCHER BOY GAINS SPEED
Foreign Bred PAGER Developed by
Pulling Cart.
TO BE ENTERED AT DETROIT
English Horse Composites at Fifteenth
Renewal of Chamber of Conn
merce stake Race Winans
Proposes Purchase.

NEW YORK, April IA foreign-bred
PAGER Of unique history and distinction will
be in the field OF the fifteen renewal of
the Chamber of Commerce stake at the
Blue Ribbon meeting in Detroit next Au-
gust Unpromising a colt, at three years
his tail was locked and he was consigned
to the mental task of dragging cart 1t
was the making OF him. He is the fastest
sldewheeler In Great Britain now. Butcher
Boy is his name.
A. c. Pennock, who last year had so
much success on American tracks with the
Austro- Hungarian trotter, willy 2:071k. Is
the man who will introduce Butcher Boy.
He bought the Welsh horse recently and
now has him at the Glenville track.
Butcher Boy was foaled in Cardiff. Wales.
his sire being a thoroughbred. Limestone.
and his dam practically unknown mare,
but said to be one OF the Hal family ex-
ported from America in the early 9Os.
His owner tried to make a race horse of
him at the start. but with stubborn per-
versity Butcher Boy refused to show the
class that was in him until his cart-haul-
ing days.
He at times showed lot OF speed then,
and Adam Detz. who lives in a suburb Of
Liverpool, took a fancy to him. in spite
OF the fact that he was erratic and had
tempered, and bought him. He paid about
$50. With the best care and kind treatment
Butcher Boy changed his manners entirely
and not only because a sensible sort OF a
horse, but the fastest in Great Britain, and
a good money winner.
From the start of his racing career
Butcher Boy was rugged with a set OF hop
pies, which is the custom with all PAGERS
In England, the races being started from
stand, with a crack of a pistol as the
signal The leg harness enables the horses
to tear away on pace when they hear
the report English tracks are OF cinders.
and not fast in consequence, the fact that
the fastest work done by Gallagher. 2:O53k.
was just inside OF 2;1O, showing the diff
ference.
Butcher Boy has been raced two years,
beginning with the New Years meeting in
Scotland In 1909 In which he was a winner.
He kept It up and became unbeatable. most
Of his Victories being in handicaps. His
mile record OF 2:l6 was made in one of
these events, and he paced one and one
quarter miles. owing $50 yards in addition,
in S;1O4s. which is at the rate OF 2:1G1h.
and would bother a lot OF American PAGERS
under the conditions.
Pistol An Question.
More than ordinary interest attaches TO his
appearance on American tracks because OF
his history. PennOck is wondering about
the starting. as Butcher Boy knows moth
ing outside OF the pistol. The clever trainer
thinks II they will allow him TO have a
boy with a gun at the start and fire II,
Butcher Boy not only will go away flying.
but the American PAGERS win stampede.
Butcher Boy win be trained at the Cleve-
land track.
PennOek says he will again race Willy
down the big line, and It is thought by
many that now this stallion has learned
how to race. in this country, he will be
harder TO beat than he was last year, when
he stepped TO the three-quarter pole with
out much trouble in Lac. II Is possible that
Willy will have another companion from
the old country as his owner, Mr.. Winans,
is negotiating for the purchase OF the
French trotter. Jockey that has been beat
ing all the cracks on the ovals OF Austria,
/ Germany France and Italy for the last
/ two years, Jockey Possesses only a remote
strain OF American blood. the rest being
French and Russian, while willy Il thor
| Oughly American.