84 RACEALONG 



THOMASVILLE SHACK 



Since 1910 the winter quarters of the Pastime 

 Stable have been located in a shack at the upper 

 end of the half-mile track at Thomasville, Georgia. 

 On one side of it there is a forest of long leafed 

 pines and on the other the rows of box stalls in 

 which the horses are kept from November to ApriL 



The walls of the shack are decorated with photos 

 of the horses which were raced in the colors of the 

 stable and prints of a few which were driven by the 

 men who trained there. An enlarged snapshot of 

 the first heat of the match race between Hamburg 

 Belle and Uhlan occupies the space between the 

 mantle over the fireplace and the roof of the shack. 

 In it the peerless daughter of Axworthy with 

 Andrews up appears in full flight a length in front 

 of her rival. This was the heat in which Hamburg 

 Belle made a race record of 2:01 14. As she came 

 back in the second heat in 2:01% Hamburg Belle 

 trotted the two fastest contested heats placed to the 

 credit of a trotter. 



Andrews appears in two prints behind horses 

 with which he made turf history. One of them 

 Tenara won the Charter Oak Purse at Hartford in 

 1913. The other Mascot reduced the world's record 

 for pacers to -2:04 at Terre Haute, Ind., in 1892. 

 They were giants in their day. Now they are dust. 



A snapshot of John A. McKerron standing in a 

 paddock at Nutwood Farm is tacked on the wall of 

 the shack. There was a day when this son of Nut- 



