PALIN - S.
Source: Crawfordsville Review 7-29-1919 p 7
The Indiana trainer, S. Palin is proving a very clever man with pacers. He acquired the record-breaking habit over the half mile track with Possibility and gradually worked on to the larger ovals where he is now making the stop watches hum with Verlie Patchen and Eva Abbe. The former cut the half mile track record for pacing mares to 2:04 when she won at Youngstown and forced Single G out in 2:02 ¾ at Cleveland. He also won at Cleveland with Eva Abbe in 2:04 ½ and made Direct C. Burnett pace in 2:03 ¼ to keep in front of her at Kalamazoo. She is six years old by The Abbe out of Eva Hal by Direct Hal and is very apt to prove one of the high lights in the pacing world this year.
Source: Fountain-Warren Democrat, Thus April 21, 1921 p 14
Sep Palin, the well known trainer of fast horses who formerly resided at Newtown had the misfortune of running over and killing an 8-year-old boy named Willis Vawter in Indianapolis Thursday April 7. The child, a son of Wilbur W. Vawter of 1065 Pomander Place, Indianapolis according to witneses ran out from behind a milk wagon at 955 W 13th street directly in front of Palin’s big automobile. Both right wheels of the machine passed over the boy’s body causing instant death. In the car with Mr. Palin were Mrs. Palin and their 8-year-old son and Wilmer L. Harris of Crawfordsville. Notwithstanding the fact that witnesses stated the accident was unavoidable the police said Palin would be charged with manslaughter. Mr. Palin is training a stable of fast horses at the Indianapolis fair grounds.
Source: Anderson, Dick. “Sep Palin’s Son will Root for Dad at Dade Thursday.” Evansville Press Thursday Aug 8, 1946 p 23
Along about 4 o’clock today I’m expecting a visitor in the Dade Park press box. He plans to visit the track hope will pick some winners, but all the time he will be pulling for an old gentleman to come through in the Hambletonian at Goshen, NY. The visitor will be Sep Palin’s Son, CL Palin, one of the executives in the local phone office. And in case you don’t know Sep Palin, he is to harness racing what Eddie Arcaro is to jockey racing. And he is a native Hoosier, a resident of Indianapolis when he isn’t out some place on the Grand Circuit tinkering with harness horses. “My father has been fooling around with harness horses since he was a kid,” his son said yesterday. “He always loved them and eventually went into the business. It is his life and I will be pulling for him to win today. I talked with him on the phone last night and he said he thought he had a good chance in a wide open race>” The senior Palin will drive Victory Song, held at 3 to 1 odds. The son of the veteran harness driver tried his hand at the racing game, too. “It was back in 1932 and if you will remember we had a depression in those days,” Palin junior said, “I drove quite a few races and thanks to my father, I won several. But it was a tough sport in those days so I got into the phone business. But I like it, think it is a great sport.”
Mrs. Palin, wife of the “grand old man of harness racing,” is with him at the Goshen track. “Mother hasn’t been well lately,” her son said, “But she is with Dad now and she will be rooting for him to bring Victory Song home.” Sep Palin piloted the great Greyhound to his victory in the Hambletonian, the Kentucky Derby of the harness fans, back in 1935. He has been one of the leading drivers of the country for years. I guess Dad got his knack for the sport back in the old days in Indiana when they used to have horse and buggy races on the country roads,” CL Palin said, “He was pretty good then, too.” The Hambletonian was called off Wednesday because of rain. The harness horses are not bred for off tracks and in addition the bad tracks gum up the silky wheels and make it impossible to race. “ I had a phone call yesterday about Historian’s race in California last Saturday. The tough little racer equalled the record for a mile and 5/8s set in 1920 by Man O’War. The time was 2 minutes 40 and 4.5 seconds. Man O’War made it with an impost of 120# as a 3-year-old. I hope that answers the gentleman’s question.
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Source: The Noblesville Ledger Sat 2 Sep 1950 p 2
Just a few days ago the nation’s press carried a news story to the effect that Ralph Kroening, Milwaukee contractor and ardent horseman had purchased a two year old trotter named Mainliner for $25,000 from SF (Sep) Palin of Indianapolis. This sale not only marked the highest known price to....... ~~~Transcribed and Typed by kbz