The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-16
VALUE OF TROTTERS.
How Their Cost Has Recently
Grown.
FORTUNES PAID FOB FLYERS.
Robert Bspner Set the Pace and the
mmsIenaares 81 the East and
West FoIIowea.
nsleaa IaaspesienI


set ali interested in the breeding and Per
foFmances Of this useful class e harness
korses from the sandy plains Of san Diego,
on the b0rtleTs OF Mexico. 70 the ROCKY
fields 81 Maine. talking about the past his
tory 81 the trotseF and the possibilities of
the future And there Is material enough
for instructive and interesting hors@ talk
10 last through the coming winter and
until the trotseFs enter upon the campaign
al 1850. Think Ok the late performances Of
the young stations. Axteli's 2sl2 ard Mel
cons 2.I41<. the geldlng Guys 2:i9H and
Belle Haralin's 2:f2s1. Then ponder on
the sale during the season Of Aeosyte for
for 5000. Etambonl for 5000. Bell boy
for S., on. and the three-year-oid AxteiA
for siD5 90, grand total Of s24s.H0 for
four sires, whose quality IN the stud has
vet 10 be proved. The useful trotter al
present outranks the sieet-ioofed thorough
bred in vaille. for e il doubtful whether
Hanoyer. Hindoos greatest son, after he
had won $50 900 during his three ear-oid
career, leading oil running horses in
America. ecuid have been sold for one
third OF The money which Axteli brought
The $1,000 said 20 have been paid for Don
caster heads the list al saoroughbreds. A
sketch Of the growth Of tie yalae Of the
tFDiser from the beginning OF high prices.
$4,000 and upwards, will be timely.
I'm isst, when MsskrS. Bonner, Harper,
Commodore Vanderbilt and others we're
engaged in friendly rivalry on the road,
Ethan AIien's flve-year-oiG daughter, POI
cahontas, vas the first srotier 10 90 q quar-
Ter III race In 39s4 seconds. Mr.. Bonner
paid SIS Co cash aud q horse for which be
had refused 5000 for her. Pocahoulas
showed 2.tg al the Fashion course. and
half al Fleetwood in 0is4. She also trot-
ted In a.fTs4 on Mr. Bonner's private track.
In 1857 Mr. Bonner purchased Handle
tonlan's great son. Dexter paying 81. 90
for him. Dexter was then nine years old.
and had the best record, a.i74. He
thought that when Dexter made his per
fofmance the limit had been reached. In
$50 Mr.. Bonner bought Hambleionians
three year-old son startle. So. paving so,
Coo for him. After the purchase startle
trotted trial mile m 2sI9. Nine years
later Mr.. Bonner purchased Rarus for $50,
GO. the highest price ever psid for a geld
ing This famous trotteF then headed the
LIST with record OF 2sisa4. tFotting trial
mile after the purchase in 2:llis. In 1851
Mr. w III. Vanderbilt sold Maud S. to Mr..
Bonner for 5000. record 2;0s54 which she
las since reduced 10 2.iss4 There were
just four seconds difference in the respee-
tive records of Dexter. Karus and Masd s.
when Mr.. Bonner became their owner.
Now Mr. Bonner believes that the limit is
not reached. and thai his peerless mare can
beat Il a point Mr.. Vanderbilt bought
Maud s. from Mr. George y. Stone. ot Gin
cinnati, when the mare was four years old,
Mr.. stone afterward offered Mr. Wander
bile Sia0.0n for Maud g.. but her owner oh.
iacted 10 having her 90 on the track.
Mr.. homer also paid $4,000 for Edward
Everett. son 81 HRmbletonlan. In the az
gragate Mr.. homer has expended more
than sH1O.fs for choice roAdsters. hut those
mentioned above are all that cost $4,000 or
more each.
Another gentleman who figures In the
rather limited list Of men who have paid
50. 900 or more for trotser is Mr.. John
Fl. shni1s. BFookIyn's millionaire baker
and owner al the great breeding farm with
a private mile track alongside the Brooklyn
boulevard At the famous Veteran sale
IN Kentucky In iSs6. when the highest
average yet made on trosiing stock was
ing g. 927 per head. Mr. shuts paid the
highest price Al the sale, s2S,0H. for the
stallion Pancoast. ~ W0odsord Mamhriao
ont ol nleara pancoast's record was
2slA, made at Lexington in lSs4, The
horse was taken To Mr.. Shuts breeding
farm, where he was struck BY lightning
last spring. but is reported 10 have recoy-
cred bis signr Messrs. H. l.. aud +. D.
Stout, OF Dubuque. paid s2a.es0 on the
same day Al she sale for Nutwood, siSa4.
hy Belmont. out Of Miss Russell. dam OF
Maud =
The auction boom reached It's highest
mark last spring, when the t-year-oid
stallion He'll Boy Was sold in Kentucky for
sol .0so to Messrs. ]. II. Clark. OF Eluiira. n.
Y. and George ". Hooper. Of Unionville,
oain. Tbs famous son OF Electioneer and
beautiful Bells had made a record OF
? iaia As a g.yeAr-oia ON a track deep
with mud. aud he was famous throughout
the lard. ON the same day Mr.. l.. j. Rose,
al i.es Aueeies, sold his stallion Ssamboni.
record 9i4s., 20 ". = Hobart. Of san
Francisco, for s6otssA About the sams
time Mr.. Rose consigned his 2-year-old
colt Mascot hy SsamaoaI. out 81 Mime
hahA, 20 Peter q. kellogg & Co aaetion
sSle ia Sew Nogk. AZ which the colt was
purchased BY Marsuz Daily. ef Montana
for sas.0oo The es,lt IL farming oat a
cltnkeF. as be has already trotsed 4uartel
in ss seconds.
IL relation TO auction prices of horses
Mr. keiiaeg says that in SIS. when Charles
Bseknaa paid $50 ~ Cor kentucky Prince
IL vas the highest genuine asesion pyles
for hefSs ia this country, though SAN
Parity had heen struck down as sslg80 81
auction sgl California. hat she sale D,
spsesag agreement, NaS payable IN minins
properties The gylsilng DARBY I5's
VAS put az hy the "A Allsne estate ia Aeog
fSSs, AMI Nas STRUCK down Al Sl5sssl hat q
tsfaea oas that he was hi3 "a. and Their,
was ne evidence q 4 genuine BID near iha
marx. Years ester tie estate a0sa hisu Co.
hess than $50
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