Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-02
A CALIFORNIA HORSE.

The RECoRD-UHION has several times
expressed the belief that the advantages
of California for raising fine stock will
make the State more famous than the blue
grass region has the State of Kentucky
1t is demonstrable already that there is no
part of the United States so admirably
adapted to the cultivation of fine animals
and the development OF the spcediest.
The success that has attended the raisers
of blood horses in this State has already
given California an enviable reputation
abroad Now comes the news that one of
Governor Stanford's Palo Alto-bred horses,
BELL Boy" was sold at Maple Ridge
stock farm, near Lexington, Kentucky, on
Tuesday in very hotly-contested auction
for $4,000, TIE largest sum ever paid for
colt
This California horse Is esteemed the
greatest of all three-year-old stations. As
soon as it was announced that he was to be
sold at auction on the 3lst ult.
the prediction was made by turf
men of the East that he ~ould
bring an unprecedented large sum.
T. c. jefferson, one of the owners of
this son of EIectioneer, explains that the
colt was sold because Mr.. Jefferson could
not afford to carry III horsehesh 30 large
sum rs was being offered fer the animal.
Mr.. Seaman, his partner, opposed selling
the COLT he being a mdn ST means, was
content to lock up as much capital as the
offers for the colt represented. Jefferson
then proposed TO sell Bell Boy at auction,
and thus give Mr.. Seaman an opportunity
to buy him at such value as competition
would develop. This plan was agreed to,
and Mr.. Seaman secured the horse at
$4,000 against run OF opposing bids be-
ginning at $4,000 and ceasing at $4,000,
offered by J. s. Clark
Bell Boy was bred by Governor Stan
ford, Palo Alto stud, his sire being Elec-
tioneer and his dam the thoroughbred
mare Beautiful Bells. He was foaled
March %, 1885. He is seal brown,
stands Isl hands, and in medium flesh
weighs l,O25 pounds. So admirably is he
built and so completely the ideal morse
that it is said he is the only horse with
the conformation of which critics have
been unable to find any fault whatever.
His sire has gotten thirty-two performers
with records of 2:30 or better, and but one
has pacing record. His dam has a FIVE
year-old record of 2:293. She is the dam
of Hinda Rose, with like three-year-old
record, and also of other fast animals.
Her sire was The Moor, her dam Mime
haha, and the famous Sultan her brother.
Bell Boys winning record, says Mr.. Jeffer-
son, has no parallel in the history of the
turf, for after winning twelve consecutive
races between April and November last
year, he went TO the stable for the winter
without blemish, so hardy is his consti-
tuition. With the opening of the new
season he at once took the track, and on
the Sd Of last month speeded a quarter
mile IN the wonderful time of 49, seconds.
Last season he trotted at Mendon, Mich,
in 2;40a, at Quincy in 2:3S, at Detroit in
2:3Og. At Cleveland, Ohio, he reduced his
record to 2:27i- At Lexington, KY, he
defeated Daphne and Poem in two straight
heats, 2;273 and 2:2933, and two days later
made his celebrated -year-old record of
2:26.
One of his carly owners s. a. Browne,
OF Michigan, has declared since he sold
him, that there is no stallion in America
his equal, and that he knows whereof he
speaks, as he has seen all the best-gaited and
fastest; that, indeed, he is second in moth
ing and first in everything that is required
in great horse. He is confident that last
year the colt could have trotted mile in
2:2O, if it had been required of him. He
adds: Il believe he can go TO California
this year and trot a mile in PIG Should
he live to be twenty years old, he will earn
more and stand higher than any stallion
ever known"
In the year 1889, according to his book
now made, he will bring to his owners
$4,000 alone as stallion, and he thus
justifes in advance the claim made that
California has produced the perfect horse
and the mos. highly-priced colt ever
known to the world. Yet this animal is
but one of regiment of fine horses bred in
this State, and represents an interest that
will put California foremost among all
stock-breeding sections Of the world.