Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-01
INTEREST NOW
Center IN "H0T
stove CIRCUIT"
LittIs Doing in Light Harness
Circles; Ice Racing at Mt.
Clemens Week of jan
uary 13.
By H. K. WHITFIELD.

The biggest loss to the light har-
ness horse interests for long time
came in the death of the champion
stallion of the world, Lee Axworthy
1854, who was found dead in his
stall recently. The grim reaper
took this great stallion before he
had had chance to prove his
worth as a sire but there is no
doubt but that he would have taken
his place as one of the greatest
sires of the country had he had a
chance. The son of Guy Axworthy
and Gaity Lee was about as game
piece of horsehesh as ever looked
through a bride and his loss will
mean more to the game than can
ever be measured in dollars and
cents. Arrangements have been
made to have his skeleton mounted
and placed in a museum in New
York city, but that will be poor So
lace to the men who had hoped to
have a colt sired by him ready to
start in the course of three Or four
years.
A Few Horses at Lexington.
As is usual this time of year,
most of the horse interests in the
west are conferred around the "hot
stove circuit" and very little is 60
ing on. A few horses are being car
fed through the winter at Lexing-
ton, Neb., one of them being the
pacing mare, Little Irish Rose, by
Exclusive Bells, owned by Mark
Walston. Walston raced this mare
a little the past season, winning
four frsts, three seconds and one
third out of eight starts. She should
make trouble for some of the side
wheelers in her class next season,
as she is eligible to the 2:20 class
and has the whiz to cary a stiff
pace to the end of the route.
Another handy sort of a trotter
owned in the middle west is Todd
Echo, 2:09A. by Echo Todd, owned
iii Wilson, Kan, where he is be-
ing wintered this season. In the
past three years he has never been
out of the money in a single one of
his starts, and his campaigns have
not been easy ones by any means,
as he has met some of the best half
milers in this part of the country.
Horsemen through this part Of
the country will remember the clev-
err little mare that raced so good for
Warren Dennis of Salt Lake City
for several years past, Josie Knight,
2:0S4, by Twelfth Knight. Warren
reports that she died recently of
blood poisoning contracted through
a nail prick in one of her feet. Dur
ing the past five years she has start
ed in a total of S. races, taking her
mark at Denver in 1915.
Hal Boy to Chicago Sale.
Quite a numberi of well-known
midwestern horses will 60 to the
Chicago sale in December, among
them being Dick McMahon's meal
ticket, Hal Boy, 2:0l. Hal is prob
ably one of the best-known PAGERS
in the country and has been the
leading money winning PAGER for
several years. His winnings up to
the close of last season amount to
S58,l43.5G. Others with western
regulations to go are Braden Direct,
2:0lA; Major Ong, 2:03H; the Ex-
poser, ca zoo, and the former
Omaha owned trotter, Spriggan,
2:08A.
Interest is already picking up in
the ice races to be held in Mount
Clemens, Mich, the week of Janu-
airy IS, and over 90 head of
horses are now on the ground, get
ting ready for the opening. Four
events of $1,000 each have been
added to the program and things