New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
I. II. Ellis Has Pair
OF Fine 4-YeaY-OldS


on the halfmile track at Thomasville,
showing that TO mistake has been made
in selecting her.
Aong the scores Of horses Ellis had
owned some have been good and a
number Of them bad. He paid 5000
for five brothers and sisters of this
great mare Nettie, only 70 find that
none was worth while.
$500 for Cocker Spaniel
There is good story about Ellis
/ told by himself. One day when at
tending the Grand Circuit meeting at
Detroit the subject driftcd to dogs and
the writer showed him a photograph Of
handsome cocker spaniel he had. II
paid 81 800 for one like that" Ellis re-
marked, and this dazzled even the rich
men in the box
1t seems that in the long ago it was
( habit of Ellis TO pay annual visits
and stay indefinitely at Woodburn,
famous breeding establishment at Lex
ington. Oddly enough. he never bought
any of the things tney had TO sell, and
! when this dawned on him he went TO
the superintendent on his next trip and
I told him he wanted good colt. He
had been watching one in motion and
when asked how it suited him he said
FIRST class and wrote a check for
$500.
The colt was shipped to Philadelphia
and after its arrival Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellis drove out TO the track. They
came across cocker spaniel that
bounded around. full of life and af-
fection, and both were won over by
him. trainer stood near and Ellis
asked if there was price on the dog.
The trainer remarked that he had seen
a pretty trim three year-old led into
the Ellis section of the barn and that
he might swap even, laughing with
the statement. "It's a co." replied
Ellis, picking up the spaniel and tell
ing the man to go and get the colt.
And he says that was one trade he
never regretted.
Snow Has Big Stable.
After some years on the half-mile
man headed in at Cleveland big line
meeting in the late eighties with the
roam gelding Elmonarch. That es-
tablished him, and since then w. L.
Snow has been one of the top-notchers
of his profession, earning a place
among the big six" time ard again.
Snow now is located at Ideal Park,
Endicott, n. Y, and in addition to
managing the new track he is training
a stable of six trotters and ten PAGERS,
most of which are intended for the
Grand Circuit In his cavalcade are
Minnie Arthur 2:071A, that looms up
as one of the rood prospects of the
season; Spunk, 2:19A; Major Hayt.
2;l0h; Abby Bond, 2:1llb: Miss Cuba
Clay. 2:12is; Wilma, 2:15; wilmington.
2:22}2; Breeze Medium. 2:2d4. and
Bingara, Moko, Direct Hal ard Joe
Patchen
Snow has TO his credit afteen trot-
ters and ffty-one PAGERS in the 2:10
list. The most remarkable OF them are
Hal B., 2:04ls. now q famous sire
Of PAGERS, and Fanny billiard, 2:03%
the fastest brother and sister in their
day. Fanny billiard also was the
champion pacing mare. Snow drove
to wagon, also he made records with
Charley Hayt, 2:06A. and Gordon
Prince, 2:05h, in their days.
NO trainer IS more methodical than
Is Snow. For years he put the final
preparation on his horses at the De-
troit. oval and he would work right to
schedule, always reserving plenty Of
speed. Generally he counted that u
horse should race about four seconds
faster than he worked. and this en-
abled him to grab some of the early
money when the curtain raiser for big
line activities was staged at Windsor
Snow had habit of getting horse
down around 2:10, then starting him on
the Canadian track and winning in
2:O6, and as the Snow contingent
would bet to the limit there were sew
eral notable clean-ups before the public
was wise.
PAGER Will Survive
For a good many years Snow was
best known through his PAGERS. In
fact, he did not have many trotters and
fyxyax ho
bob up with lateral gated bird that
could fly. However, in the last decade
he has been successful with trotters.
as shown by the victories Of Robert
Milroi, Oakdale, Grand Marshal and
Lucille Spier.
There is a lot of talk now about
the passing of the PAGER Much of it
comes from the action Of the Lexington
association in cutting out the pacing
division from its futurities The rea-
son given in that the fields generally
are small and there Is litte interest
In racing pacing colts.
No matter what the hig chans do
with the humble PAGER. it is n certainty
that the half-milers will cling to him.
especially as long rs there is betting.
Given q PAGER with known speed and
gameness, and wearing three times as
much harness plus various ggiting de-
vices, the half-mle track plunger will
set in his checks in prodigal style.
: There are a good many Grand Cir
cult patrons who like the PAGER, and
always they unbuckle their money belts
when an event like the old Chamber of
} Commerce Stakes is on tap, or four or
five of the iron-rbbed steeds parade
for the free-for-all.
Lon Mcdonald comes through with
q good PAGER every year or so--he
cleaned them ell up for two seasons
with Miss Harris Ms-and late re-
; ports from indianapolis are to the
effect that he has a splendid pros
, pect in a green full sister to Oro Fino
CD, 2:06, that Murphy bought during
the winter. Mcdonald worked thia
mare around 2:l5 and the Hoosier rail
birds wrote her name down.
Dick Mcmahon likes the PAGER as
well as the trotter and he has some
pretty shifty ones with him, part at
indianapolis and the others at Mt.
, Clemens, where he starts this week.
Hal Boy and Pointer Queen have been
halves in 1:01 and Peter Look In
1:02.