The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-03-27

Flower Direct, is proof of
the quality and class of his produce.
She won nine races and was once
second in 1911. In 1912, she was ten
times first and once second, and end
ed the season by winning the 2:OS
pace at Lexington, KY, beating the
cracks of the Grand Circuit in
straight heats in 2:051a, 2:O5A and
2:04%. Two days later she was
started in the 2:05 pace and although
getting second money, she covered
herself with glory and was the real
heroine of the race. She won the
first and second heats and was only
beaten the sixth heat by head in
worlds record time. Her 1918 sea-
son was equally brilliant, winding up
at Lexington, where she met one of
the greatest fields ever started in a
race. In this race, she defeated such |
stars as Directum l. 2:O2A, (world's |
champion half mile track pacer,)
Braden Direct, 2:O1A champion
four-year-old pacer) Earl, Jr, POI ",
and took her record of 2:01 in the
third heat. Her showing in this race
was sensational in the extreme,
stamped her as one of the worlds
greatest PAGERS. Two days later,
she won her race in straight heats
and wound up the season as sound as
deer, and her owner and trainer
think that she will beat two minutes
this year in a race. She is a worthy
representative of the two great fami-
lies from which she sprang, the Halls
and Directs. 1t has been and is being
demonstrated that the mingling of
the blood of the Halls with that of the
one time worlds champion PAGER,
Direct 2:O51a, is the most successful
pacing cross that has ever been
known.
The following performers clearly
demonstrate this: Ess H. Kay,
2:O0%, holder of the two heat pacing
record: Flower Direct 2:O1, fastest
PAGER of 1913; Braden Direct, 2:01A
champion four-yearold PAGER; Direct
Hal, 2:04A unbeaten race horse;
Reproachless, 2:03A, winner of the
Chamber of Commerce stake; Walter
Hal, 2:04, sterling race horse, and
many others that might be mentioned.
1t is not surprising that Directs
Star is a sensational sire when his
) own speed and breeding are consider
I ed. Only one other horse in all the
: world is bred like him and that is
] the great race horse and sire, Dil ect
Hal 2:04A. Directs Star was sired
I by Direct 2:051a. His dam is Stella
D Hal, a daughter of Tom Hal, Jr the
! sire of Hal Pointer, 2:04A, the
champion PAGER, and Brown Hal
: 2:12b, a champion pacing sire. His
! sire was a champion, and his dams
sire was the sire of three worlds
champions, and he himself sired a
J champion 1t can be seen that he car
( ries in his veins the blood of champ
I ions on both sides and will continue
= to sire champions himself.
His own speed is of the dazzling
kind. No living horse can brusf
faster, and last year after making ;
J season, 76 mares, he was trained ;
\ little, and with not over six mile
x faster than 1928 in his preparation
4 he took a record at the State Fai
> in Nashville of 2:0SA, driven by tina
prince of trainers, Smith Thomas
\ Smith says that he could have gon
! the mile in 2:O6 or 2:07. After tn
= season this year he will be trane
with the view of still further redu,
q ing his record. 1t looks now like h
: can take a record Of 2:05 or better.
AS an individual he could hardl
be improved upon. He Is an exceed
Z ingly handsome horse, rich maht
: gany bay, smoothly built, powerful
muscled, with legs like steel, an
Z without a pimple upon them. He
! fifteen hands high and weighs loo
lbs.
= His colts are uniformly good indiv
4 duals, of uniform size, are all GOO
saddlers as we'll as good race horse
! Pilatus End, the other splendid sta
4 lion that Mr.. Tolley has is an g
Z ceedingly promising young trotte
and as handsome a horse as live
= After making two critical examin
4 lions Of him last fall, Mr.. Geers pr
q nounced him one of the best trottir
, horses, individually, that he had ev
= seen. He is exceedingly anxious
Z train and race him, which Mr.. Toll
q expects to have him do.
3 He trotted the Nashville track la
\ year in 2:241a, last half in ITO, Ia
2 quarter in 80 y seconds. This W