The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-21
HAL FAMILY OF
HORSES FAMOUS
FOR A CENTURY
ONLY THREE OR FOUR OLD Stall
LIONS or FAMILY REMAIN TO =
REPRESENT BREED.
LITTLE BROWN JUG FAMOUS
Started Breeding Fame After Geers
Carried Hal Pointer korth--Sent
Buyers scurryins to Tennessee for
More Of Them.
fBy w. H. GoCHER.l

century IN morse history. Inc tap KOOl
was Canadian PAGER that was pur
chased in Philadelphia about 1920 and
taken TO Lexington, Ky. He remained
/ in that vicinity until he died in 1912
/ This horse was known as Shropshire.
4 Tom Hal. He got Lail's Tom Hal OF
Bald Stockings, the sire OF Kittrell's
I Tom Hal, which was taken in 1850 tC
Tennessee. where he died near Pulas
XII in 1Se3, after being seized BY Fed
eral troops. This horse got GibsOn's
Tom Hal. the first sire of racing speed
in the family. his name being intro
duced to the pages Of turf history in
1881 by Little Brown Jug. when he Re
duced the worlds record for PAGERS
to- 2.11Ea at Hartford, Conn. From
that date to the present, the Halls have
been recognized as one of the leading
families OF racing PAGERS. that came
back regularly each year and won in
the fastest company. But now after
a reign OF thirty eight years, the hon
0rs are passing TO others. as only
three or four old stations remain 10
represent the breed and no young
ones are coming ON to take the place
Of those who added so many turf hon
ors to the annals OF Tennessee.
The success OF Little Brown jug
prompted Major Campbell Brown to
purchase his brother, Brown Hal He
also placed him at the head Of his
/ stock farm near Spring Hill, Tenn,
after Brown Hal acquired the record
for pacing stations. The showing oil
these two horses and thai of Hal
| Pointer. which Geers brought north
in 1889. made the Hal family famous
and sent buyers. scurrying TO Tennes-
see for racing material They were
fortunate in finding Hal Braden 2:O7A
Star Pointer 1854, Hal billiard 2.04 u
Storm 2:0S1., and Hal ChafIn 2:05A
All on them proved formidable race
horses, while Star Pointer was the
FIRST horse to beat two minutes in har.
ness. None of their careers, howev-
er, eqlalled that OF Hal Pointer, which
Geers pronounced the greatest race
horse me ever drove, He also went
still further and stated that no race
horse that ever lived POSSESSED more
racing sense, gameness and endur-
ance.
Hal Pointer reduced the worlds re-
cord for PAGERS to 2:04A. while in
five campaigns he was started in forty
one races. OF which he won thirty
three. was second in FIVE, fourth in one
and unpiaced in two Flying Jim.
Guy. Mascot, Johnson. Direct and
Chapman were the only horses that
defeated him from 1855 to 1893 inelu-
sive, while in turn he defeated each
of them in number of spirited CON
tests.
The second generation OF the Halls
was represented on the truf by Hal
Braden. Star Pointer, Hal billiard.
Storm, Hal Chafin. New Richmond
and Argot Hal They were followed
in the next remove by Sidney Pointer
2sO1A, a SON OF Star Pointer, and the
Hal billiard pair Hal B.2:04A and Fam
ny nillard 7.03l, the first high class
race mares in the Hal family. Hal B..
came from the line in 1889, when he
won nine out OF eleven races. his only
defeats being at Lexington where he
finished second to Eyelet and at Lou
isyille. where he stood third to Ar
lington.
The leading sires in the third re-
move from Gibson's Tom Hal are Sid
ney Pointer and Hal b.. both OF which
are now well along in years. while to
date neither of them has son that
HOO Octh iCPCcCuLCu un tur NulA ~
any first class racing material. Sid
ney Pointer is remembered as the sire
of Angus Pointer. horse that in
many respects is a formidable rival OF
Hal Pointer. In 1906 and 1907, he
won eighteen ont of twenty-three races
while in the other five he was second
in four and fourth in one. Ecstatic.
Bolivar and Baron Graitan are the
only horses that finished in front -of
him in these two campaigns. which
he closed with a record OF 2:014
made at Syracuse when he defeated
Argot Boy and Baron Grattan.
Wherever he was located. Hal b.
proved uniform sire OF speed His
itinerary took him from Ohio to Onta
rio, then to Oregon and back to Ohio
The returns TO the close OF 1915 also
show that he is the sire of seventy
FIVE performers with Hal Boy 2:01 at
the top Of the list.
Until the fourth generation was
reached. the Halls proved a male line
racing family. the only exceptions Of
note being Fanny billiard 2:0sz and