. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1889 %h& fprjejate* and SfyovtemxiL Oti. DIRECTOR, 2:17- OWNED BY PLEASANTON STOCK FAEil CO. We present to the readers of the Bbeedee and Spobtsmas this week, a picture and pen sketoh of Director, the "Black Tornado" of the Eastern Circuit of 1SS3. who this past season was nwarded the §200 Gold Medal, offered by the State Agri- cultural Society in 1896, to the sire whose get should make the best average performance in races for trotting foals, two, three and four-year-olds in 18S7, '88. '89, over snch competi- tors as Electioneer. Le Grande, Hawth
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1889 %h& fprjejate* and SfyovtemxiL Oti. DIRECTOR, 2:17- OWNED BY PLEASANTON STOCK FAEil CO. We present to the readers of the Bbeedee and Spobtsmas this week, a picture and pen sketoh of Director, the "Black Tornado" of the Eastern Circuit of 1SS3. who this past season was nwarded the §200 Gold Medal, offered by the State Agri- cultural Society in 1896, to the sire whose get should make the best average performance in races for trotting foals, two, three and four-year-olds in 18S7, '88. '89, over snch competi- tors as Electioneer. Le Grande, Hawthorne, Gay Wilkes, Sul- tan, Anteeo and Jim Mnlvenna. What makes this award more remarkable is the fact that Director had hut two performers to win him the honors, and if these failed there wai no further sifting out or picking over fifteen or tweniy trotting performers to build up his reputa- tion and secnre him the much sought for prize. Director is a bla?k stallion, twelve years old, stands 15 hands, 2 inches high, weighs 1120 Its., very long and mus- cular built, and when one looks over this great horse he can easily account for his game trotting reputation, heavy mus- cled over the loius, powerful forearm, while the muscles of his hind 'egs stand out like whip cords, very long from the point nf the hip to the point of the hock, and comparatively short from th6 hoes, to the pastern. A clear, sharp eye. large expansive forehead, (by a-tual measurement nine inches between the eyes acros3 the forehead) and small, well-shaped ears. His disposition is of the very best, a characteristic which he imparts to all his foals. His appended pedigree can I e studied by a sludent of trotting horse br-eding for moults and with every day's looking over new points can be discovered in connection with the breeding problem. Dictator, the sire of Director, was the sire of the three earn- est trotters ever produce 1 by one sire. Jay Eye See 2:10, Phallas 2:13}. and Director 2:17. Rysdyk's Hamble
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