The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-11-27
NAPOLEON DIRECT
WON GRAND TOTAL
S13,950 THIS YEAR
CLARIFIED FOURTEEN TIMES AND
AND WAS FIRST TEN OF
THESE.
WAS OUT OF MONEi BUT Once
Was the Largest Money Winner of
All the Green PAGERS on Grand Cir.
cut the Past Year-Probably Cam.
pa sned Next Year.

Napoleon Direct, the son of Walter
Direct who is owned by Hint Frier.
son and Clark Jones, of Cross Bridg.
es. won the grand total of $13,95O
during the months of July, August,
September and October. He started
fourteen times, was ten times first,
twice second, once fourth, and but
one time outside of the money.
After being taken from here in the
fall OF 1913 to Memphis, logged dur
ing the winter, and trained during the
spring, Napoleon made his first start
OF the season on July 20 at North
Randall, Ohio. 1t was the PIP class
pace for a purse of $1,000 Napoleon
won in five heats in time a little bit
slower than 2:10. The following
week at Detroit he won another ST.
OOO purse, while on August at
Grand Rapids he won $4,000 stake.
On August IL, he won the 2;15 pac.
ing stake at Kalamazoo, the value Of
which was also $4,000. However, at
Pittsburg the following week, he suf-
fered his first defeat of the season,
only getting second money. The 60
ing was loose and soft, and he was
unable to step as he had on the hard
er and tirmer tracks. Just one week
later, August 26, he was outside of
the money for the first and last time
during the whole season. This race
was at Fort Erie, and the footing was
again the cause of his defeat.
Turning into September he again
started into a winning streak, for
On the second day of the month he
captured a $4,000 stake at Syracuse,
\. Y, defeating some of the best
PAGERS on the whole grand circuit. 1t
was not until this race that his real
worth was realized and his real class
as a PAGER was revealed. In addition
to taking all of the good ones into
camp easily, he pulled down $4,000
for his owners as their share Of the
money. He repeated at Detroit on
September II, getting the long end OF
a $4,000 stake Five days later, how
ever, he was out Of shape and was
only fourth, but got $500 as his share
of the money. Starting at Columbus
on September 81, he annexed the $5,-
900 pacing stake and again gave a
licking to the cracks of the circuit,
lowering his record to 2:O21a
Jumping to Lexington on October
y, he lost the $4,000 stake to r. H.
Breat, finishing in second position.
Napoleon was then shipped from Lex
ington to Dallas, Texas, where he
started three times in ten days and
won each of them. He headed the
summary in the $4,000, $4,000 and ST.
600 pacing stakes, never being forced
to extend himself to win He had a
picnic at Dallas, winning $4,000 for
his owners between October 20 and
q.
NAPOLEON Direct closed the season
as the largest money winner among
the green PAGERS. He proved a YER
table gold mine for his owners, as
after all his bills have been footed,
il is etimated that he cleared for
them around $4,000.
He is now in retirement at Mem
phs While it is not known definite
". vet it is understood that he will
be campaigned on the Grand Circuit
again next year in the free-for-aIls'
1t is predicted that he will pace in two
minutes or better before the season
is over if he has no bad luck There
is no doubt that he is horse of ex-
IRENE speed, the fastest that has
gone forth from Maury county to the
races since his sire, Walter Direct,
was campaigned