312 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



and during the season of 1903 had the advantage 

 of a wind-shield. At Empire City Park, New- 

 York, September 23, he paced in 1.57; at Lex- 

 ington, October 10, in 1.59^; and at Philadelphia, 

 October 15, in 1.59!^. The wind-shield, with 

 which his best performance was made, is of far 

 more assistance to the performer than a dirt- 

 shield, which is a narrow strip of canvas fastened 

 to the axle of the sulky which goes in front, 

 drawn by a runner. The 1.57 performance has 

 been rejected. 



Previous to 1903 the pacing champion was 

 Star Pointer, who in 1897 acquired a record of 

 1.59J. He is a big bay horse, foaled in 1889, 

 and a typical pacer, descended from a family of 

 pacers. When Campbell Brown, a courtly gen- 

 tleman from Spring Hill, Tennessee, was in the 

 flesh, I followed Brown Hal down the Grand 

 Circuit line and grew enthusiastic over some of 

 the races in which he was engaged. Brown Hal 

 was a handsome horse, finely coupled by Tom 

 Hal Jr. (Gibson's), dam Lizzie (dam of Little 

 Brown Jug, 2.1 1|) by Netherland by Henry Hal; 

 and when he left the turf it was with a record of 

 2.12^. Gibson's Tom Hal was by Kittrell's Tom 

 Hal, out of Julia Johnson by Adam's Stump-the- 



