page_title: Dan Patch
section_title: 1906-1909: celebrity
hierarchical_section_title: Dan Patch / Racing career / 1906-1909: celebrity
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Breeder and sportsman Identifier: breedersportsma591911sanf (find matches) Year: 1882 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Horses Publisher: San Francisco, Calif.&#160;: (s. n. ) Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Saturday, December 30, 1911.) THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 25 THIS PICTURE IN 14 COLORS, TO HANG IN YOUR HOME THIS PICTURE IN 14 COLORS, TO HANG IN YOUR OFFICE Text Appearing After Image: For Stockowners fre£ Postage Paid Beautiful Painting of Dan Patch Reproduced on Extra Heavy, Fine Enamel Stock and in 14 Perfectly Blended Colors and Shadings by the Marvelous, Newly Invented "Original Colors" Process. Size of picture J will send you is 21 x 26 inches, making a Splendid Picture to Hang in any Home or Office as it is Absolutely Free of Advertising. It will be mailed, postage paid, in an Extra Heavy Mailing Tube to insure safe delivery. This Splendid Painting of Dan's Head was made I i For over 25 years I have been Guaranteein£rthat"Internab'onal From Life and Iwant to Personally assure vou that it is Do You Expect To See The Day When These StockFood"asaTonicpurifiestheblood.aidsdijrestionandassimi- ^ w*uui&amp;wo.Uu j.&#160;»*iui. l.j 1C1^"J""J aaauicyuu Lu*iL it la f j xtr-u lationsothatevervammalobtamsmorenutritionfromallgraineaten as Natural and Litelike as It Dan Stood right before you, Wonderful Uan fatch Records Will and produces More Nerve Force. More Strength and Endurance. O- in his Present Splendid, Vigorous, Physical Condition. Be Even Equalled? ver Two Million Farmers endorse superior tonic qualities oflnter- ~... t-., . n- . . TT , t~. «-^ w^ i &lt;j ^ ^ nationalStock FoodforHorses.Cattle.Sheep.Hogs.lt Saves Grain. „ S^ Elegant Picture to Hang in the Finest Tl^M Pof/•= ««&#160;^&#160;»:.,&#160;:„ „ „- , i set lowered theirvery low records dunngtliis timewhichis additional. fnl Stained Art Glass Wmdowm my Country Home. This picture 14 Mies Averaging - - - 156.- indisputable proof that 'International Stock Food" as aTonicgives will be a pleasure for you as long as you live because it shows 30 Miles Averaging - - 1.57 -- more speed and more strength and more endurance because Dan strueexpressionofKindnessandhisLovable disposition *° m;i S A JrSiir.! "' " 1:S9«&#160;everybody thought these Five Horses had reached their speed as natural as life. Youcannot buy a picturelike this because i ^o MilSt AvSri^'inf. " " 2-02^ limits before I got them. It will also keep your Work Horses fat. I Own The Painting and have reserved it Exclusively for this „,-M.fli^n*ZSSS R.„rH. ,j nm.1 sleek and in Estra sae"Slh to do More Work. ItSave. Grain. use. Would you like the Finest UColor, Horse Picture ever Da„ i5 °'0 «rJ.™nB 2=l"&gt; sir,oftie wort? for hi. age. ASK MY DEALER IN YOUR CITY FOR MY STOCK BOOK. published in the world of the Fastest Harness Horse in all Dan Is sire of "Dazzle Patch," the Greatest Speed Marvel of International Stock Food is a high-class, medicinal, vege- HorseHistorj&#160;? People are Perfectly Delighted with this Splendid the World's History, which Paced a Hair-Mile in Fifty-nine table tonic and is equally good for All Kinds of Live Stock. I feed it Picture and are constantly writing me, from all parts of the §fiD°"tUn onf^'months ,'JI In isii&#160;?aEHoTpearT Patch every day on my "International Stock Food Form" of 700 acres to world, that it is the Finest they have ever seen and thousands 4 year old trial 2-.04. He also has 42 in Official speed List. my 200 StaUions.Champions.Brood Mares.Colts.Work.Horses, etc. of them are hung in fine Homes and Offices. A Splendid 11 Some of Dan's Colts will he Future Champion Trotters as well &gt; ou can test 1M lbs. orSWlbs. at my risk. Over 200.000 Dealers sell rn\~* Do«~„l,„-f: i M„ r&gt;,- - v" ., ,V. °r , Ur as Pacers. Why don't You Raise or Buy One? it on a Spot Cash Guarantee to refund money if it ever fails to give Color Reproduction of Above_Pa^nting_ma,led Absolutely Free,&#160;; «&#160;y .&#160;; paylngresults. ITS FeedingCost is only "3 FEEDS forONECENT." ANSWER 2 QUESTIONS FOR THIS SPLENDID PICTURE. I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU WOULD TAKE $10.00 forthePicturel willsend you Free if you could To Farmers or StockraisersOVER21 YEARS OF AGE.If You Own Stock and Answer Two questions. Write Me Today, a Postal Card or Letter and Answer These Two Questions: 1st. How Many Head of Each Kind of Live Stock and Poultry do you own? 2nd. In What Paper did you see my offer? Picture will&#160;».t.e™em*ooJp,Wn;(™»t.»I«^ANSWERQUCTTO^^^ be mailed free but You MUST B= A Stockowner And MUST Answer The Two Question,. *° "jj ^ ^Zj" S$"""AFFS)"£"A. E? Mi"«M^lla Ml^ni««Ta DAX PATCH IS THE GREAT WORLD CBAHPI0S OF ALL CIlAJIPIOXS THAT HAVE EVER LIVED. J\a&lt;lTe$S) JV1* W. &amp;J\. V ^\\^tl.9 IVllnnedpOlIis, IViinilCSUld He has paced more Extreme!j Fast Hlles than all the Combined Miles of ail Pacers and Trotlers In the world's history. OR, INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD CO., Minneapolis. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Dan Patch was a noted American Standardbred pacer. At a time when harness racing was one of the largest sports in the nation, Dan Patch was a major celebrity. He was undefeated in open competition and was so dominant on the racetrack that other owners eventually refused to enter their horses against him. Instead, he ended his racing career performing time trials and traveled extensively on exhibition, earning millions of dollars in purses, attendance gate receipts and product endorsements. Dan Patch broke world speed records at least 14 times in the early 1900s. In 1905, he set a world's record for the fastest mile by a harness horse that stood unmatched for over 30 years. Unofficially, Dan Patch broke this record in 1906 with a clocking of 1:55. He died on July 11, 1916. His owner Marion Willis Savage died just one day later.
  Dan Patch was inducted into the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame in 1953 and the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2019.
context_section_description: In 1906, the National Trotting Association banned the use of wind shields, although they did allow Dan Patch's 1905 records to stand. Thus, his official best mile is 1:55​¹⁄₄. Unofficially, his best time was 1:55, paced in September 1906 at the Minnesota State Fair. Savage was so indignant about the 1:55 mark not being recognized that he renamed his International Stock Food Farm to the International 1:55 Stock Food Farm. Savage later used Dan Patch and his offspring in ads for the farm, with the 1:55 time clearly included. The 1:55 mark was equaled in following years but was not broken until 1960, 54 years after Dan Patch's run, when Adios Butler paced the first sub-1:55 mile in 1:54:3.
  Although Dan Patch continued to make public appearances and posted some excellent times, he was never able to achieve that level again. The closest he came was on October 11, 1908 at Lexington, when he paced the first three-quarters of a mile in an exceptional 1:25​¹⁄₂ before his prompter started bleeding and slowed down. Dan Patch was forced to check but still finished the mile in 1:56​¹⁄₄. Savage advertised that Dan Patch would otherwise have finished in 1:54, which "the Horse Papers and all Horsemen admit was the Fastest and Greatest Performance in the life of the World Famous Harness Horse King."
  Dan Patch's achievements made him a sports celebrity, possibly the most famous athlete in America until Babe Ruth. His name and likeness were used to sell a vast array of merchandise including whiskey bottles, shot glasses, cigars, coffee, billiard cues and sheet music. At the height of his fame, he earned more than $1 million a year for his owner and was billed as "kindhearted, generous, and a staunch Methodist who never performed on a Sunday."
  Among the hundreds of thousands of people who turned out for a glimpse of the horse over his career was Dwight Eisenhower, who lined up with his parents at the 1904 Kansas State Fair. Harry Truman recalled that as a boy he had written a fan letter to the horse.
caption: Dan Patch 1:55, an advertisement from Breeder and Sportsman (1911)
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