176 RACEALONG 



SPOTLIGHT DRIVERS 



While a few clever trotters and pacers will make 

 the reputation of a driver, it requires skill and 

 patience to take a bunch of colts in the rough and 

 mould them into racing material. Walter Cox has 

 done it a number of times, two samples being Sam 

 Williams and Hazelton. His colt breaker turned Sam 

 Williams down as a dangerous youngster while the 

 owner of Hazelton rated the Lu Princeton colt as a 

 fair road horse. Patience and work changed this pair 

 into Grand Circuit material. Sam Williams in 1927 

 won in 2:021/4 while Hazelton reduced the four- 

 year-old race record for trotters to 2:01%. 



While this pair won a number of races in 1927 

 neither of them touched the spotlight like Mable 

 Trask or Lu Princeton. Lu Princeton had to be 

 drilled a year before he moved into the front rank. 

 On the other hand Mable Trask was sampled for a 

 season before being sent for the money but from 

 that time until she retired she was in the spotlight. 



Both of the above samples are however rather 

 mild when compared with his showing in 1929 when 

 Walter Dear, Volomite, Sir Guy Mac and Miss 

 Woerner all graduates of this training camp won 

 the first four monies in the Hambletonian stake 

 after landing all of the other worth while three- 

 year-old events that year. 



Almost every trainer of note has had a few spot- 

 light horses. Lon McDonald's first was the pacing 

 mare Miss McEwen. Her flash was made at Cleve- 



