Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
CRESSBROOK FARM.
A NOTED MICHIGAN BREEDING ESTABLISH.
MENT
From the Western Sportsman

From the Western Sportsman.
w. G. Human, proprietor, Pontiac,
Michigan. Cressbrook is situated within
the city limits of Pontiac, on Orchard
Lake ave., and contains something over
240 acres of land. Mr.. Hinman has the
best buildings at Cressbrook that are to
be found on any stock farm in Oakland
county, and as far as the agricultural
revenues are concerned, it equals the
farms on which were bred Lady Brow
nell, 2 :254 Mollie Harris, 2 :25t Bell H.,
= :2ll John H. 20; Cozette,2 10 Prince
Arthur, , :lS4: Golden Prince, 2:lS3; Sor-
rel Dan, 2:2S4, and many that were bred
in grand old Oakland that have made rec
ords of 2 30 and better. Mr. Human,
with Martin Halfpenny, has recently pur-
chased the black pacing stallion Detrac-
tor No. 230l, foaled in 1877. by Gossip,
trotting record, 2:304; pacing record,
us, by Tattler, , :2Ga, as a four-year-old,
by Pilot. jr., by old pacing Pilot; first
dam Evening Rose, by Black Dutchman
(sire of six horses with records of 80
and better), by DObe's Bashaw, by
Young Bashaw, by imp. Grand Bashaw;
second dam Rebecca Beckett, by Ben
Patchen (sire of Frances Alexander,
2:19), by Burlington, by George NJ. Patch
en-, :234, by Cassius NJ. Clay, by Henry
Clay, by Andrew jackson, by Young
Bashaw, by imported Grand Bashaw :;
third dam y-Abdallah-Mare, by
old Abdallah, sire of Hambletonan C0) /;
fourth dam by May-Day, by Sir Henry,
by Sir Archie, by imported Diomed. De-
tractor is PAGER, but standard bred in
trotting lines. He made his first season
in the stud in 1888, the result of which
was "a colts foaled in 1884. About % of
them are yet living, and are as fine lot
as ever was sired by any horse in
this State. They were out of all kinds
of mares from the ponderous Clyde and
Percheron. down to the diminutive bron-
cho or Indian pony; nevertheless they are
all Detractors. In 1884 he was placed in
Ben Stanley's hands for the purpose of
giving him record. Early in May of that
year Mr.. Stanley drove him hooked to a
road cart that weighed 100 lbs. on Ham
rameck track at Detroit in "a, and re-
peated in 20. He was timed by VIM.
Armstrong, Fred b. Moran of Detroit :;
Aaron Strong of Wyandotte, owner of
+. A. Kirby, 80; the old and reliable
timer of Pontiac, f. X. King, and several
others. At the fall meeting at East Sag
inaw, driven by Joe Rea in his work, he
went to the half mile pole in just one
minute, and to the I pole a :03 clip.
He then struck the tendon of his off fore
leg, went lame, and has not been worked
since. He was timed in this trial by
Amos Cropsy and Samuel Kline of Flint.
The foregoing looks like an exaggera-
ton, and his owners would like Mr.. Rea's
opinion on it, if this would meet his no.
tice. We hope he will answer it through
the columns of Dunton's Spirit of the
Turf. His owners, with several other
horsemen who know him, do not doubt
his capability of performing such feat
Ben Stanley, who gave Little Mack his
record of 2 :l3a last season, which was
the fastest heat trotted or paced in 1886,
informed the writer that he rode faster
after Detractor than behind any horse in
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