. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, January 14, 1911. MRS. F. H. BURKE'S BUYS TOM SMITH 2:1314. Before the late Frank H. Burke passed away, and while he was on his sick bed. he was negotiating for the purchase from Prof. E. P. Heald of the stallion Tom Smith 2:13*4, that splendid son in both indi- viduality and breeding of the great McKinney 2:11%. It was Mr. Burke's plan to continue breeding a few colts each year, enter them in the stakes and race them, and as every Pacific Coast horsemen knows, no man took a greater pleas- ure in that branch of the sport tha
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, January 14, 1911. MRS. F. H. BURKE'S BUYS TOM SMITH 2:1314. Before the late Frank H. Burke passed away, and while he was on his sick bed. he was negotiating for the purchase from Prof. E. P. Heald of the stallion Tom Smith 2:13*4, that splendid son in both indi- viduality and breeding of the great McKinney 2:11%. It was Mr. Burke's plan to continue breeding a few colts each year, enter them in the stakes and race them, and as every Pacific Coast horsemen knows, no man took a greater pleas- ure in that branch of the sport than Mr. Burke. In his will he left his entire estate to his widow, who takes the same interest in the horses that he did, and she has now carried out his wishes by completing the deal for Tom Smith and the stallion is now located at La Siesta Farm, near San Jose. It is Mrs. Burke's intention to breed all the farm maies to him this year with the exception of Vallejo Girl 2:10%, of course, who is his full sister. Patsey Davey. the superintendent of La Siesta Farm, went to Fresno last Saturday, looked the horse over and shipped him immediately to San Jose. Tom Smith is well known to the readers of the Breeder and Sportsman both as a race horse and a sire. He took his record in a race and should have had a mark be- low 2:10 as he had all the qualifications necessary to accomplish that feat, includ- 2:13*4- Prof. Heald 2:24*4 (beaten a head in 2:10 last summer), Litle Mac 2:27%, Gen. Vallejo 2:20%, and Sweet Rose 2:2S%. Everyone of these five Is twenty-three 2:10 performers and the dams of four. Daisy S., the dam of Tom Smith, is doubtless one of the greatest brood mares ever on the Pacific Coast. She has now to her credit six standard trot- ters as follows: Vallejo Girl 2:10%, Tom Smith ing speed and staying qualities of the highest kind. As has been stated he is- a son of the great JIc- Kinney, the greatest 2:10 sire that ever lived, sire of a splendid individual, with size, good bo
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