MARCH 21. 1953
THE GUARDIAN.
CI-IARLCYITETOWN
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VICTORIA. (OP)-Arthur Rel- inald-whitlemore of I 1:0. VI. guitar of Canadian Nature mesa- line and national secretary of the Audubon Society of Canada. died we Thursday night from a heart riiack- . '
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Mk. Gray. He was at that time. I think. a four-year-old and had worked around 2.08 and the price was I believe in the neighborhood of 88,000.00. Nat brought him out the following winter on -the ice and I believe he won every race he started in,- and the lollowing spring raced him on the Grand Circuit where he,took a record of 2.0054 and showed sensational speed but met with an accident and had to be retired. some are later I noticed where he was rac- ing - .. ..rter mile straight- awaya on the ice in Minneapolis :1; at. Paul or somewhere up in ere.
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Sarrett had bred a few
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and I am assuming that these started to show because everything he sired could pace and when the Christmas Review Name out one winter the writer noted an item 'would like to know the address of the owner of Grattarl Royal 2.065? and it wasn't long following that we were informed through the turf press that Mr. Barrett had repur- chased Grattan Royal and every- one knows what happened after that. However, after returning
. from the funeral I just looked up
the results in the two-minute list of that horse's get.
"I-le sired: Louie Grattan. that got a mark of 2.00 in 1920; Grat- tan Bars. 1.5955 in 1028; widow Grattan. 2.00 in loco. By the way. Vic Fleming drove the first two. His sons sired: Dominion Gratlan,
tan Moklyo. 1.5056 in 1050, by silent Grattan 2.0096: Joaedale Alate. 1.50 in NM. by Grattan Ile- Kinney 2.01.; Daule Direct, 1.5056 by Grattsn Direct 20156. His daughter produced: The widower, 1.5054 in 19”. his dam. Widow Grattan 2.00. His sons' daughters produced: Jimmy Creed 1.69 H5 in 1047. from Virginia Ohttan by Silent Grattan limit: White Mountain Boy 1.58 No in 1050. from Merry Bars 2.0456 by Grat- tan Bars 1.5956. Son of daughte sired: widower Cyrus 1.50 ill! in 1951. by The widower 1.5056: Meadow'R.ice 1.50 ms, in 1962. by The widower 1.5056.
"There was one son that went to Australia. Grattar. Loyal. that sired Gold Bars 1.59 3.15 and Gold Bar: in turn might v well be the sire of a 2.00 perfo or before the records are complete. The reason I stuck Gold Bars down be- low was it is not in the records that we get from the U.S.'I'.A. At all events you will note that that horse standing up here in Canada and not having as good mares sup- posediy as are obtainable from our friends to the south of the border, to have twelve in the ultra select society is a record that Canada and especially Charles Barrett, if he were alive to see it, should be very proud."...Than-ks very much. President Hatch.
Nat Ray's father, Charles Ray. came over from the Old Country where he was a trainer of runners and his two boys were riding the runners Nat was then of the pro- per weight and in his first season on United States running tracks he competed mostly in Kentucky.
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, lung or success in 1902-34. ' won the American National Steep-
In 19171 he came east to ride on the New York tracks and repre- sented some of the most promin- ent steeplechase owners. with the jumpers he was on the topmost Nat
lechase for the fourth time in 1906 at Belmont Park. When running races were barred in New York Nat's family returned to Canada and Nat rode the runners for a couple more years. then switched over to- the trotting and pacing game, and had a remarkable sea- son's success with the pacer Little Alfred 2.0553.
It was-in the winter of 1014 that Ernie McTague. Johnny Conroy and the writer. who were at Duf- ierln' Park, Toronto. became ac- quainted with Nat and his father. Nat was very popular with every- one. was full of jokes and stories
'4' and his stable was the headquart- . era for meetings when the work
was done. He was a. real success as a driver and it was not very long before he had a good stable. His most widely known success
three-year-old form without aloss in ms. winning the then record sum for a single season of 368,742.
In 1925 he persuaded Walter Candler of Soca-Cola fame to buy Tarzan Grattan .from George Walsh. Tarzan was entered in the 525,000 Kalamaaoo Derby and Nat won with him. It was then one of the richest pacing stakes ever offered. Nat also trained and de- veloped Peter the Brewer and gave him his record as a four-year-old of 2.0256. The; was the year that Peter the Brewer was racing against the maritime trotting star Bill sharen 2.0456 and they were the two best trotters on the Grand Circuit. Peter the Brewer is the sire ofcalumetarudlong zmaz and many others. A real good Canad- ing pacing gelding that Nat de- veloped and raced was Jimmie Mc- Kerron, that won almost ei5.000 on the Grand Circuit and took a record of 2.01M. Among other stars were Juno 2.0254, the trotter Chil- coot 2.0454, Edward P. 2.0454 and Knight onwardo 2.0454. For sev- eral years Nat has been racing a horse or two at Roosevelt or Yon- kens and was training in Florida when he passed away.
The cape Breton Turf Club, Ltd.. proprietors of the sports Centre Race Track, Sydney, N. S., have issued their 1953 race pro- gram. They will hold six daylight events and 34 nights under the lights with 290 dashes with pos- sible extras. and estimated purses of 805,000 or over. It will mark the fourth season of racing under the lights in Sydney and the Turf Club is confident that with the experience they have had they are equipped to go forward with the promotion of programs that will attract public favor and greater interest of horse owners in the future. As an evidence of this fact their patrons have imported into Cape Breton for the '52 season approximately 23 new horses at a cost of 329,000.
Their ambition is to give the racing public pro rams that will attract the best arses racing in the Marltimes and they realize that this can only be done by progressively better purses as time goes on and revenue becomes av- ailable. A new car will be given away to some lucky person at- tending Coronation Day races with a chance for each dollar admis- sion tlcket. Coronation Day. June 2nd. will have six dashes, the Queen's stake Free For All Pace with two dashes. the Coronation Stake Free For All Trot with two dashes. and other dashes. The big race week will be August 3rd to 8th with larger purses including a 33,000 Free For All Pace and a alsoo Free For All Trot. A racing grand finale of the season will be
was with the ti-otter Guy McKin- ney, that he raced through his
on Thanksgiving Day with a Free For All Page and a Free For All
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2. Frank Acorn. Race secretary of the Charlottetown DrivingPark and Provincial Exhibition Associ- ation, has been working on'the 1053 race program for some time and it should be released shortly. Judging from last' year's program we can expect an even better one with plenty of opportunitix for all classes of trotters and pacers to perform.
our good friend W. G."'Bill" Gillespie. secretary of the P.E.l. Harness Racing Club. very kindly brought usiin a copy of the Or- lando Sunday sentinel star, which had a great deal about the United states Trotting Association meet- ing held there and a special race which was gotten up for members. five of whom took part and which was won by Sanders Russell of Stevenson. Alabama. who is one of the top drivers of America. There was also a lot of other racing news in the paper. Bill doesn't know Just who thought of him but guessed it was Willard MacDonald or Willard Kelly, who were visit- ing there about that time.
The Harness Horse, Harrisburg. Pa., has a column headed "What horse is This?" with a picture 01 is prominent trotter or pacer and driver of the years also. .ReIdH5 are invited to write in their guess- es and among those who guessed the correct horse in the F'9bN31'Y 25th number--and there were not too many of them-we notice George R. MacDonald. Boston. Mass., formerly of this province. and s. Thane Belyes. Fredericton. N. B. The horse was Peter Maltby by Peter volo and he was a sen- sation for just one year,' winning the big futuritles and sending the nook of Peter volo 2.02 very high. E. Roland Harrlman, who owned Peter Maltby. writing in Thevl-lab ness Horse, says: "I was down to the Lexington Trots with Billy Dickerson and went to, look at a con, at Han-y ,p.,.,V.,,..e5 farm. He was an awkward looking thlng.buI. could trot a lick in the field, which was almost knee deep in grass; so I bought him for what I thought was a ridiculously low price. but soon found the reason when he was delivered for he had almost a deformed forefoot. How- ever, Billy did not even give me 3 dirty look but went to work on him and as you know made him the champion two-year-old trotter the following year. As a three- year-old he developed some sort or brain ailment and went com- pletely nuts and we had to Put him away."
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killed and a. few odds and ends left behind. In my mind! eye I pictured the old ring-neck crash- ing through branches and dodging tree trunks, in the night with old "yellow eyes" right on his tail. It was a lost cause. When he broke out into the open he'd had it. The farmer told me just recently that there have been no pheasants around this grove since. C O J
Notwithstanding old "hoetis's" bad standing on my books 1 agree that it is a wise move to protect this particular pair of. owls al- though I wouldn't want to see Amherst turned inside out to do it. It would be interesting to learn what they are feeding on and whe- ther or not they'll continue to nest in the town ll they are not molest- ed.
My guess is it was good hunting that brought them to Amherst in the first instance and that their food will consist of starlings. pi- geons, English sparrows. rats, if there is a dump handy, and what- ever else they can pick up. I wouldn't bet too much on an old tomcat if he happened to be spot- ted. This would be good riddance especially if he happened to be screnading his love from atop a board fence at time of his demise.
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I have been in contact with the Great Horned Owl all my life and feel that I am fairly well versed in his habits. It dates back to the
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teens I surprised them in the grey- ing dawn rowing my traps of mink or muakrst and later catch- ing them at the site.
The last 24 years as active game officer has afforded many op- portunitles to watch his depreds- tions. I have learned that, while he is equipped by Nature to hunt at night. he also hunts a lot by day. I once saw one strike down a black duck nes.r noon on a sunny day and have seen them swoop down and pick swimming muskrats off the surface of a beaver dam on cloudless evenings an hour or more before sunset. I have known them to kill anything in fur from a mouse to a skunk and in feathers form a tom-tit to agoose. Ionceaaw a horned owl in a cage that had had its wing broken in a scuffle with s. skunk. Before the skunk died he had gotten hold of a wing and snapped the large bone off short. -
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Yes, I know old "hootie". dislike him and admire him at the same time. He's strong. handsome and tough, tougher than even Joe Sta- lin, and his hunting call. when the Hunter's Moon rides the spruce ridges. awakens a responsive chord in my breast. He's a hunter and killer deluxe and yet the woods wouldn't be the same without him. Knowing him as I do I can see no point in anyone dolling him out in a little Lord Fauntelroy suit.... it's not becoming to the owl nor does it go over with the outdoors- men who know him as he A5.
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