The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-04
PLOW HORSE MADE
WONDERFUL CLIMB
From Farm. to Record Hold
ing Trotter in Just One
Season

New York. Jan. 4~.--Stabled up at
Foughkcepsic and muncbins his win.
ter oats in contentcd fashion is II. T.
C.. the famous plowhorsc trottcr own
cd by Edward Thompson of BROOKLYN
and Northport. He is quietly taking
IL rest after one OF the greatest cam
paigns that IL harness horse ever went
through. for he won every big rae
un the grand circuit last season, and
his earnings totaled up in the six fig
ures. There Is no doubt hut hat the
geiding is fully entitled to all the oats
he is eating at the present, for he has
well earned them.
Tommy Murphy, who is ono of thc
best trainers and drivers of trotters
and PAGERS in this country, has the
gclding up al his farm. Tommy is
ON judge OF horse flesh. as IL EVIL
dcnccd ny his purchase of Il. Il. e. and
he is also some driver, as he has been
behind more horses making worlds
records han any other man, not en-
ccpting The famous drivers who have
been seen in the past.
When Murphy got back to his place
last fall he had won about $4,000.
nearly all of which was taken by II.
y. c. But it was the hest total that
just Il plain old pillow and farm
horse was r. r. G.. a couple of years
ago. he was owned by X. T. Coch-
ran. whose initials he carried, and the
Delaware farmer was using him OH
his farm during harvesting time and
speeding the milk wagon to the sta
ton in the mornings.
IL was while he was engaged In the
latter task that I've showed his speed
and the owner saw the possibilities
that might he centcred in him. From
the farm to the race track was Il long
step. but a. man who has an y for
horses picked inc gclding out one
morning as he was speeding the milk
wagon to the station and he offered
Cochran Il nominal sum for him.
Cochran wanted to SELF and a price
of $40 was decided upon.
Made Good on Short Tracks.
Thus did II. 7. G. graduate from tho
farm to the a q track and he was
sent with considerable success around
II half-mile tracks after he left the
plow share. In tho fall of 1910 Tom
my Murphy saw the gclding ut I3alti-
more. The horse was going good and
IL struck the Poughkeepsie man that
his action IA almost perfect. lie
communicated with MIR. Thompson
and told him that he thought he had
a winner. Ready to take a chance on
ANYTHING That looked good Thomp-
son said go ahead and Il short time
afterward II. T. G.. was eating oats
purchased by the B%rooklynitc.
Their came j II Murphy's fine work.
lie took the gelding up to Pougskecp-
him in fettle for racing. The horse,
which looks like anything but IL star,
thriVed under the treatment that was
given him. II it was decided to start
MIN around the grand circuit, but. not
with the idea that he would clean up
in tho manne he did. He was ship
ped from Poughkeepsie to Indian
apolis In July II started at the track
there. lie easily Won in the 2:14
class. his best time being 2:121.4.
Then the gelding went to kalan,a-
200 and started in 81 $4,000 event.
This was on July &c, and the trotting
world was %astoundcd when the pillow
morse came home first, making a rec
ORD OF 2:OS Ia. From that time for
ward r. L. c. Was a name to %conjure
ny IN the trottfng world. He won the
sio'ooo purse at Grand Rapids. the
purse at Columbus. the S1O,0 O
purse at Readville. and a purse Of a
Il amount at Hartford. He then
was sent to Detroit. where $4,000
more foil to him. while in Kentucky
ana OHIO he won many smaller prizes
IN the grand circuit nc started nine
t'hhes II won every one of the events
III WHICH IG contested,
Many stories are told of n. r. C..
one of them is that Mayor Gaynor
or New York once saw the horse race
n efused to believe that il was once
a. work horse.
III show you said ED Thompson
10 ms honor. as he asked for tIa
geid'ng to be brought to him. Sure
u there were the marks of the
Io!ar OF a work horse as plain as
gay on the neck of the animal, and
Mr. GaFhor had to admit that he had
seen something new.
me Gam OF Il. I. C., who is credited
win 2:06 81. was Mrs. Nally, no rec
ORD. ny Nutwood Prince (2:2S 3-4):
seonu dam Ihe Banshee, no record,
~ !104O. a son of Cuyler
LAY 2f96: third dam Maggie. no rec
oI and. fourth dam. a no
record daughter of Ely's Patchcn y
non-standard son of George M p.tl
(2:2S l-2). There is but ono
mare with a standard trottinr recorSS
among all the ancestors OF = ~ ~
(2:06 Bad "
Small breeders who have NOT s,f-
ncient means to enable them 10 nav,
hlgh prices for mares with fast rec.
ordS. for breed purposes, were pleased
10 know that some of tho most suc-
ceSsful race-winning trotters of the
season Just closed. including the larp-
est money winner of them all. wcrc
dams That were not credited win
records. The same is trna
OF several young PAGERS that have
lowered the worlds record of their
respective ages. ~