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Po POWELL FEATURED IN SKETCHES A group of pencil sketches done by MacArthur for the Chicago Daily News and featuring scenes from the opening of the harness racing season in Chicago appeared in a late issue of that paper. Among the pencil sketches was a picture of O. M. Powell, grand old man of the trotting track who lives near Macy, Ind. Powell is the owner of Ima Patch, a horse which will race in Chicago soon. In the Friday issue of The News-Sentinel there appeared a story concerning Mr. Powell and written by Ted Damata of the Daily News Sports staff. Harness racing is staging a comeback, according to Damata, and it will soon be one of the popular sports again. An entire season of such racing recently opened in Chicago. O. M. Powell is a well known horse breeder all over the mid-west. He has been in the business for years, and his filly, Ima Patch, entered in the Chicago races, is a direct descendant of Dan Patch, famous racing horse. [The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, June 8, 1934] OLIVER POWELL’S COLTS PRAISED BY TURFMAN Oliver M. Powell, veteran race horseman, and breeder of record-breaking trotters and pacers, who resides on a farm east of Green Oak, Ind., again receives most favorable comment in the sports columns of the Indianapolis Star. In Wednesday’s edition of the Star in the column of “Hoofbeats” edited by Geroge M. Gahagan, was a story concerning the annual auction sale of young racing stock. In commenting on Mr. Powell’s offering at the sale Mr. Gahagan stated: “Another group of youngsters which are here, and headed for the auction, is that owned by O. M. Powell, the Rochester, Ind., horseman, who probably has produced more extreme speed from the juveniles he has bred than any other horseman of the state with as limited a number of mares. The great production that came from the fountain head of Maude, the Powell background of speed, is astonishing and it seems to prove that the maternal contribution is great in this case, at least, because when he changes sires, the speed production keeps up. “This time his offerings for the auction are all by the young trotting sire Preakness, 2:07, and horsemen say that the Powell youngsters by him can step just as fast as any of those he has brought through before, by other sires. One thing is assured, when the Rochester man brings any youngster into a sale ring these days there will be plenty of attention directed that way, because buyers have learned that there is such a small percentage of blanks from his breeding that whatever is offered is nearly assured speed.” [The News-Sentinel, Thursday, October 16, 1941] reads: POWELL TRAINING PACER ON GOSHEN, N.Y. TRACK An item on the sports page of The Independent Republican, Goshen, N.Y., of June 9th “Two Year Old Pacer Arrives From Indiana “Oliver M. Powell, veteran horseman, of Rochester, Indiana, has arrived in Goshen with his two-year-old pacer, Miss Almeda by Preakness-Guyetta, and the youngster is now quartered at the mile track.” The veteran local horseman has trained a number of record-breaking pacers and trotters on a small half-mile track built on his farm in the Green Oak neighborhood. Mr. Powell, who is widely known throughout the big harness race track circuits of the U. S., has been engaged in this business for well over two score years. [The News-Sentinel, Friday, June 12, 1942] O. M. POWELL’S RACING CAREER FEATURED IN RACING MAGAZINE Oliver Powell, veteran race horse breeder and trainer, furnished the “copy” for an interesting article which appeared in the October issue of “The Harness Horseman,” official journal for the harness horse racing association.
Po The story deals with the entire racing career of the Green Oak farmer and will give the reader a clear conception of the high esteem which the horse-racing world holds for the <strong>Fulton</strong> county harness horse breeder. __________ THE PACING FARMER “Almost every two or three years for the past thirty seasons, there has been a farmer trainer ship in from his sandy farm near Rochester, Ind., with a pacer that as Bob Brawley remarked one time, ‘Could buhn up the tracks.’ The farmer’s name was O. M. Powell, and his home village was Rochesetr, Ind., his outfit was generally pretty plain, of the home-made type. But when he shipped to a Grand Circuit meeting at Cleveland, Toledo, or any other first meeting of the year, he always had something that could step about, practically always a pacer that emanated from some mare of obscure breeding. “About a quarter century ago Mr. Powell entered and shipped up to the early Michigan short ship circuit. His principal campaigner was a roan mare named Dora D by RainDrop 9546, he by General Wilkes dam Daisy W by Young Jim, breeding of an earlier day. A frugal man by instinct, he camped out with his horses, carried a skillet and may have brought along from is Indiana farm a side of bacon and some eggs, more than one early day campaigner, carried a portable hotel and the writer thinks instinctively of some leaders in the sport today, who give orders to their butler, his chauffeur and a few other servants, that then rode the rods in their early days, often shipped by hand - or over the road from town to town, also lived confortably out of a portable, fair grounds frying pan. Boots Dora To Victory “On one occasion Mr. Powell was having a tight fit race at Jackson, Mich., and in the heat of finish battle lost his whip. So to encourage Dora D he proceeded to kick Dora D vigorously on the rump thereby winning a race. As has been his custom for I presume forty years, Mr. Powell is now 78 years of age, but a frugal farm life has kept him healthy and young looking, still able to farm, and train a colt or two on the side. Dora D was retired to the farm and to the brood mare ranks, and it seemed only overnight until he appeared at the North Randall track with a roan pacer appropriately named The Farmer. Mr. Powell was not forgotten when men were endowed with native keenness, as one day about noon when the talent was crossing the track, Mr. Powell aird The Farmer a glib mile. “Farmer” Sells High “It happened at a time when a soon mile would sell a horse quickly and if the owners outfit seemed a little passe, and the trainer was not recognized as one of the leaders of the profesh, then scouts began scouting the horse immediately, often there was a regular foot race to buy the demon pacer. That was especially true on the case of The Farmer. In other hands The Farmer took a record of 2:05 1/4 and Mr. Powell carried home a bundle of money. “A little later the Indiana farmer came on the stage with a brown pacer, named Colonel Strong, whose dam was Maud, a daughter of Dora D 2:12 1/4 by Rain Drop. Old fashioned blood of course, but somehow some of that old blood when crossed with something near-up to the elite blood of that day and age, there came forth a pacer that could mizzle. Colonel Strong was just that sort exactly as when Maud was crossed with Colonel Armstrong 2:05 1/4, a good horse for Mr. Powell and a better one for Charley Valentine, when the Ohio man was one of the best trainers in the harness horse pastime. Maud was not so plebian bred as she was by Indiana Dan Patch 39605, son of the champion Dan Patch 1:55 1/4, also an Indiana bred freak pacer. Maud went back along the old beaten breeding path to Deck Wright 2:09 3/4, a pacing hero in Indiana many years ago. Bred to Hal Dale 2:02 3/4, and let it be known that farmer Powell, when he liked a stallion, he layed down his corn money to patronize him. When Maud was mated with Hal Dale 2:02 1/4 sire of Adios II 2:02, leading money winning pacer of 1942, and the $9,000 Good Buy she produced Lady Hal. When Lady Hal was bred to Walter Cochato 2:02 1/4, the northern Indiana farmer came out two years later with a filly named Lady Hal, which set a new world’s record for yearling pacers of 2:14 3/4, going farther along the road to fame by taking a record of 2:06 1/2 at two years,
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