The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-01-04
MILlARO SANDERS
HAS FEW Peers As
MAKER OF SPEED
NEW MANAGER OF SOUTHSiDE
PARK TRACK HAS REPUTATION
IN THE TURF WORLD.
Has Methods of His Own in Training
Young Horses Which Brings Out
the Best in Them-pacfic Coast
Record.

trainer without superior In Amer
lea is assured by the engagement OF
Willard Sanders, world famous colt
| developer and trainer Of Lou Dillon
Mr.. Sanders will have special control
of r. NJ Williams horses from Rose
| wood farm, but he will also conduct
a public training stable and will take
under his tutelange as many other
horses as he will have time to handle
A sketch of the life of Mr.. Sanders
as a trainer which appeared in the
December issue of the Horse Review
will be of interest to the breeders in
Maury county. The article follows:
1t is often remarked, and with
verify, that 'horsemen are born and
mot made" OF course, no one ques-
tons the fact that most any intelli-
gent ambitious man can achieve a
degree of success as trainer and
driver but only those whose ability is
4 natural endowment ever reach the
high places in the profession.
AS an example Of the natural horse
man, Willard Sanders, now in charge
OF the training department at Rose
wood Farm, Columbia, Tennis among
the foremost. His ability as a maker
Of intense speed is so marked that
to those who are familiar with his ac-
complishments and methods, it some
times seems that he has few peers
We have had trainers who could man
ufacture speed quickly, but their pu
pills developed habits which made
their speed practically useless for
racing purposes. Not so with Millard,
as has been demonstrated by the
number of horses that he brought out
and that raced for him in a truly SEN
sational manner. Close observers of
Sanders will tell you that he is not
a routine trainer, and that he has
copied no other trainers methods. His
system is all his own, and it is not
only a simple, but an effective one,
He has remarkable patience to begin
with, and he studies his pupils and
tries to find a plan of training that
will suit their individual cases. For
instance, with his headstrong, ner-
vous pupils he may for weeks work
them the wrong way of the track:
those inclined to become sour with
the game he turns out, and usually he
seems content to let them all have
their own way.
Make them think that your edu-
cational work is mere play not a
task" once wrote the trainer in an
article in the Review "a child will
run around all day if he is playing
and thoroughly enjoy it, but if you
set him a task to do he will quickly
tire and become disguised"
Despite his humane methods, and
The fact that he never had to load his
double or mixed-gaited colts with ex-
cessive weight, in order to balance
and square them away, no trainer can
make more speed or turn out better
gated ones.
About the first of Millards pupils |
was Guy PIP, whom the old-timers
al remember as the Ryland T. 2:O7A
Of his period, an erratic, headstrong |
horse, that famous trainers had given
Up in despair. Willard won his first
anne with the former failure, sur
orising everyone with the horses !
manners and winning habits. |
His first prominent success as a colt ,
rainer came when he engaged with !.
Count George Valensin, of California, :
ind gave the Sidney tribe boost !
which rivaled that OF the Electioneers !
II Frou Frou, 1. 2:25A and Fausta,
!, 2:22& he made respective trotting |
Ind pacing yearling champions, and
,thers did scarcely less creditab BILE
hings for him. Later he engaged with !.
/. S. Henry, and, in the employ of
santa Rosa Farm, returned to Cali
ornia, and then came his wonderful
uccess with the Sidney Dillon family.
The story of Millard's training of
4ou Dillon 1:5Sh has often been re
ated in the turf press, and, without !
punishment OF any Sort affords one
4 the most interesting examples of
kill and patience ever recorded in
raining history. With Sanders re-
1eved from the equation we would
ct be waiting for our 200 trotting
lare, for although her record was
lade in 1903, she still wears the title
Queen, her nearest rival being
Iamburg Belle 2:01A.
From the same family he brought
ut Ruth Dillon, 4, 2:0e1s. making her
lie four-year-old filly champion. other
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