Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
PACING COLT SOLD FOR $1,000

this town sold his four year old pacing
mare, Lizzie March, to Richard Law
renee, of Hoboken, N. j., for $1,000,
which is without doubt the largest price
ever paid for a green colt this side of
Kentucky, and while the price looks
large to the average laymau it looks
small to the experienced horseman,
after knowing of the wonderful per-
formance of this handsome little piece
of horsefesh.
She was taken to the Kirkwood track
to be shown to the prospective buyer,
and hooked to a cart which all expert
horsemen will allow is two seconds
slower to the mile than sulky, she
stepped half mile in the phenominal
time of 1.012. This half mile is prob
ably the fastest half that has been paced
in the United States this year, by any
horse of any age, and when it is done
by green PAGER that has never been
worked on a track it seems almost un-
believable, but the watches with which
she was timed were correct, and the
buyer jumped at the mare as the great
est bargain of his life.
The mare is a beautiful light sorrell
with faxen name and tail and was
sired by Prince March 2.l3l, and her
first dam is by Nutwood Prince, second
dam by Blackmore, and she is carrying
almost the same breeding lines as R. 7.
C.. 2.06I. She is bred and raised by
Mr.. Green on his farm adjoining this
town, and was broken on the farm by
Ed Holmes, in the spring of 1915, and
was logged by him all winter, and on
May 1st was put in the hands of Arthur
Crow, a local horse trainer to be edu-
Gated for the fall races. There never was
one known to take on speed as fast as
this mare has done. 1t is thought by
the local horsemen that Mr. Crow could
have driven her a full mile in 2.07, had
he been asked to do so. She goes clean,
wears no hopples, or rigging of any
kind with the exception of a light set
of quarter boots, and is one of the best
hammered, and best gated PAGERS in the
entire country today, and her perform
ance without any preliminary work
stamps her as almost worlds wonder
in the pacing line.
Mr.. Green still owns two full sisters
of this wonderful little mare both of
which are sorrells, and both trotters,
and both show promise of extreme
speed and should be as good in their
line as Lizzie March. They will be sent
to the stable of Mr. Crow IN few days,
and be prepared for few easy races
during the coming fall on the tracks of
the Delaware-Maryland and Virginia
circuits. MIR. Crow has also in his stable
brown filIy that promises almost as
much speed as Lizzie March, she is by
Dignus Brook, June Bug, and is owned
by Robert T. Cochran, young farmer
near this town, she may not pace half
in 1.O1I this year but will be tramping
on the heels of the one that does it next
year. Elsie R, 2.17I is another good
prospect in the same stable, she is
owned by David R. Rees and will be
sent to the races as soon as her condi-
ton warrants The latter two are
PAGERS, but the one best colt bet left in
the neighborhood, and one that will
keep the horse editors working next
season is a sorrelLcolt four years old,
and just broken by W. B. Biggs, of this
town. He has only been in harness five
weeks, and made an automobile run 25
miles per hour to pass him in a brush
on the asphalt road north of town last
week. He is by Palo, Axworthy Miss
Prince. The latter is very well-known
mare, which Mr.. Biggs raced for several
years, and later kept for his family
driver. She is now the property of
Charles Crompton. farmer near Sum-
nit Bridge Mr.. Biggs has four of her
foals, all of which are most promising.
In the hope of developing the speed
of his own colts, Mr.. Biggs has built a
half mile track on his farm near Arm
strong's, known as the Sammy Jones"
farm, and on this track with the assist
ance and guidance of Mr.. Biggs, Mr..
Crow will train and develop the colts
and horses above mentioned. Several
matinees will be given during the sum-
mer, and it behooves every fellow that
thinks he has spied to get busy and get
in the game and help promote what
every sport loving community should
have, a good mile race track. Some of
the best race horses of the country have
came from within a few miles of this
town, and there is as much good breed
ing here as in Kentucky, and more at
tention should be paid to the good bred
colts, with which the neighborhood is
filled with the hope in view of landing
another Barnett B, 2O6l, R. T. C. 2.O6l,
Bedworth, Jr., O714, Bohemia Girl,
2.14l, Rex w, 2.12, Princess March,
2.14i, Bill Williams, 211 IA, Barnetta
B, 2.14 IA, June Bug, 2.13 Ia, and
fifty more with records better than
2. 80, all of which were bred and raised
within few miles of Middletown.