Bingham Bulletin | 1927-11-17 | Page 3 | Kinney Direct to Star on Circuit next Season

Kinney Direct to Star on Circuit Next Season The best pacer In sight for the Orand Circuit stakes next year that's what "Barney'' Barnes, veteran driver, thinks of Kinney Direct. ' Tills pneer, by Merry Direct 014 of Del Kinney, Is a six-year-old that ran his first race at Winnipeg last winter. He had been bought from a Calgary owner for $100, but when lie begun winning races so easily and in such good time he was sold to James B. Reynolds, millionaire turfman of St. Louis, for $10,000. Reynolds, told that Kinney Direct had paced tlie mile distance In less than two minutes, said he'd give $10,-000 $10,-000 for the pacer If he could do It again. So the next day Al Mcfiirr, Winnipeg Winni-peg owner, paced Kinney Direct a mile In 1:5!) 2-5, and tlie deal wns made.