Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-29
OMAHA'S BIG LINE
RACE HORSES SOLD
Peterson Disposes of Hal Boy for
Second Highest Price for PAGER
of Present Year.
LoE BLOSSOMS PATHETIC TALE
ny G. X. MURRAY.


Ed Petersons sale Of Hal Boy. S:OtN.
ono of the star Grand Circuit stake PAGERS
OF the year. for Sil,5OO last week, was an
event second only In Importance to the
transfer of the champion. william, for
sS5 600. No other PAGER save William has
been sold at a higher price this year.
! Tho salo temporarily displaces Mr. Pet
erson from his position OF premier
Omaha patron Of the harness turf. He
recently sold the trotting marc. Loe
Blossom, and just now has not a single
nag which Is racing.
Hal Boy was sold 10 s. p. Fletcher OF
Indianapolis. Dick McMahan drove him
in his race last week. but Il IL understood
here that tho question az to which team
stor II 60 have him permanently Is still
undecided lie may go into the stable
OF Tommy Murphy.
Hal Boy won sixteen races out of sew
ontcen starts most Of which were IN the
Canadian northwest. last year. His cam
pnigu included s40oo event at Winnipeg,
which he won. and series Of 1900
stakes. IIc first appeared at the races
In 1919, when he got a mark of 2:2iA.
| Hal Roy Is an S-year-old bay Felding,
/ bred In Oregon and sired by Hal h,
2:olis, dam Altalena (also dam of Sunny
Jim p. 21lh etc, by Altamont 2:9sN,
son OF Almost 49,
Factor I'm Years Classics.
The horse has been n factor In the
most important pacing stakes OF the year,
but In spite of the fact that he has the
best OF racing manners, has been little
/ BIT unluoky In that he has fallen just
short OF the highest honors. For in
! nj b.
five heats In tho $4,000 race at San Fran
cisco, he had to take second place. and
| In the classic Chamber of Commerce at
/ Detroit, although he was second In the
first and third heats. he was eleventh in
the second. and under the point system
lost second money.
Ten Thousand Minus n Thousand.
Along with the sale OF Loe Blossom
goes story, q tale OF gloom, of pathos
and of sadness, Briefly It ia this: Ed
Peterson refused to take $4,000 for her in
June and sold her in August for 81 600.
Loo Blossom was entered In the $4,000
trottlng race at San Francisco. She had
shown great speed and had several fast
trials to her credit. No suspicion that she
WAS y false alarm was In existence.
"1ll give you $4,000 for that mare"
snid Lon Mcdonald Of Indianapolis to
| MIR. Peterson.
why | couldn't think OF taking $40 600
for hor" was the reply.
Time went one. Loe Blossom started
In the big race and in other events and
tramplod on her owners perfectly good
entrance money, She made breaks Just
when she ought to have remembered that
she was n $4,000 mare and that she was
supposed to come TO the wire pulling on
the bit and carrying large loads OF
purse money.
Sell that mare for 81 co.," Mr.. Peterson
recently told Trainer Childs. and II was
done.
The Douglas County FnIr association
Is advertising It's meeting to be held at
Benson, September 81 to "a, in the turf
papers, and Is already receiving entries
OF horses. Entries will close September
/. Records after August is are not a bar.
Following is the program Of the four
days meeting: