. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 11 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, September 13, 1913. THE LATE MONROE SALISBURY AND DIRECT. If I could be given my choice of seeing any of the notable performers of the season that thus far I have not been priviledged to see, I would without hesita- tion choose Directum I, Mr. James Butler's little chestnut pacing stallion, that last Wednesday, at Goshen, X. T., paced the third heat of a winning race over the historic Orange County half-mile track in the unprecedented time of 2:03%. As a rule, I do not become deeply interested in many pacers. Extreme paci
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 11 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, September 13, 1913. THE LATE MONROE SALISBURY AND DIRECT. If I could be given my choice of seeing any of the notable performers of the season that thus far I have not been priviledged to see, I would without hesita- tion choose Directum I, Mr. James Butler's little chestnut pacing stallion, that last Wednesday, at Goshen, X. T., paced the third heat of a winning race over the historic Orange County half-mile track in the unprecedented time of 2:03%. As a rule, I do not become deeply interested in many pacers. Extreme pacing speed has become, comparatively speaking, so common that it takes something super-sensational to make any horse stand out above the horde commandingly. What is more, there have been so many sensational pacers lacking in almost everything but the mere attribute of speed that after having taken stock of them as a whole, I can name only a few which have excited my enthusi- asm or held my interest. As it happens, however, the first famed "sidewheeler" that "set me afire" was Direct 2:05i». He was the premier speed-marvel of the turf at the time he appeared, and he still remains the only green pacer in history that has ever become the unconditional world's champion. In his first season Direct came from nothing to 2:06, to high wheels—a feat which no horse that has since appeared, with the sole exception of Minor Heir, has ever shown the ability to duplicate. That a faster horse than Direct has yet been produced, so far as pure speed is concerned, is improbable, for, on one occasion George Starr drove him a quarter—at Cam- bridge City, Ind., I think it was—in 27% seconds, to high-wheel sulky. He lacked absolutely nothing of being first class in every respect, so far as his equip- ment as a race horse went—he not only had the most phenomenal, almost unbelievable, speed, but constitution, courage, endurance, manners, gait, and all the rest of the indispe
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