The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-07-25
HORSES
UNFOLDING FAME
OF FORMER YEARS
PULsus, JR., DRIVEN BY SMITH
THOMAS, MAKES GREAT
SHOWING.
SOLD FOR SPLENDID FIGURE.
Etowah, Another Product Of the
Dimple, Also Makes Most sensa-
tionaI Showing and VIII Be Hand.
led. by Ed Geers.

L
Maury county horses and drivers
are again cleaning up on the race
tracks. Though the season has hard.
| ly begun and the drivers are not
much disposed to turn loose their
mounts to set worlds records, yet
one or two have already shown
enough to make the eastern and
northern writer's and horsemen sit
up and take notice. Those who have
been largely instrumental in bring
ing Columbia end Maury county into
prominence in the race world recent
| ly have been Smith Thomas with
Pulsus, Jr, and Ben Whitehead with
three-year-cld colt by the name OF
Etowah.
Smith gave his exhibition last
week at st. Joseph, Mo. He took
the ZIP trot in straight heats with
his horse pulled up. The best time
was In 2:12A in the second heat.
The correspondent of the Horse Re,
view. the foremost periodical OF It's
tipe in the country, says that Ills
race was the feature of the meeting,
and, furthermore, that Pulsus, Jr,
could have easily entered the 40
| lis. if he had been driven to his
lirit. This Is all the more mer.ter-
Gus in view of the fact that The
track was "Ily half mile one and
that only two horses have ever taken
lreclrds bette: than 2:10 on a half
l,rile ring. After the race, the horse
Twas sold for $500 to east srr1
| iarties. The dispatches did not
state whether or not Smith would
drive him the rest oil the season.
He was raced here last year and his
spring preparation this year wcs
leone at SoIth Side Pork. His career
Eel ceforth wi, be watched with a
gccd deal CT .nteres: by local elm1e
dmirers.
Etowah, Iri. by Ben Whitehead,
|whc was formerly a racing part.lar
d Smith rhomas's, was the oinei
sensation Z. the racing world asi
week. Tho Ugh only a three-year-o,I
AID partially blind, he went up
egainst the best of the country 1t
Cleveland ~ the opening of tire
Grand Circui. and gave the cracks
ound beating with all ease. All the
Lapers are hailing him as the hest.
|tlree-yearold of the season and one
Liable to get more than his share ot
he money in the rich trotting futuri-
tiles He, too, was sold Immediately
after the race to rank G. Jones, a
wealthy capitalist of Memphis. He
will be turned over to Ed Geers. the
famous silent man from Tennes-
see" who formerly lived in Maury
county, to be raced the rest Of the,
season.
Maury county could easily re-es-
tablish her Ole reputation as the
nursery of tie pacing horse industry
LOT the country If systematic encaur-
|agement were given it by the co,it
fairs. In no section of this country
can there be found finer blood and
more latent speed than in the horses
of this and the surrounding countoes.
With the blood of John R. Gentry,
Chimes, Mercury, and other great
sires corsSed on that of the Brown
Hal strain, an unbeatble combina-
ton Is produced in the racing line
But few are ever developed or placed
in trainers hands to show what
they can do. Most of those that
have been rdced have done so with
sreat credit and many have taken
very fast records. The great major
'ty, however, of these finely bred
animals never know what it is to
look through a racing bride or draw
ehything else than buggy or sur
rey over country roads to Columbia
or are turned into saddle horses,
than which there are none finer in
the world. More of these ought to
lie given a chance to demonstrate
their speed, If for no other than fin |
fncial reasons.