Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1909 — Dan Patch', Great Race Horse, Has Finished Racing Career. [ARTICLE]

Dan Patch', Great Race Horse, Has Finished Racing Career.

Dan Patch made his last race in Los Angeles, California, last Friday, in a slow race and a drizzling rain. Elmer McConnell, one of the very first who had the care of Dan Patch, saw the king pacer go the last mile. The dear old king's legs have quit. The time was 2:15%, a record that many younger horses would like to equal. Since the day the bay beauty was foaled the people of Oxfqrd have never lost sight of him. Mr. Messner has the proud distinction of having owned and trained the greatest pacing racer that ever went around the oval. The veteran driver, H. C. Hersey, said the exhibition was the saddest of his experience. M. W. Savage, the king’s owner, refused a purse of SIO,OOO to let Dan Patch make an exhibition race in St. Louis on Sunday. In reply to the request came this answer: "Dan has become a member of the Methodist church.”—Oxford Gazette.