The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-26
HOW AXTELL WAS BOUGHT.
The Great Horse Sold az an EnIiu-
siastic Wine supper.
From the Kansas City Star.l

NV hi~ S'1
j. II. Oglebay, Captain Tough, Mil
ton WEIGH and several other Kansa
Cltyans who have been attending tn
Indiana and Kentucky races returned
home Yesterday.
Mr.. Oglebay was looking after tn,
performances of his recently purchased
phenomenon, Sedalia Boy. This horse
which last fall vas being driven 10
pillow, had to be eased up in scvrra
heats at Lexington to prevent il getting
under the 2:20 mark.
Speaking of the record and sale o
Axtell at Terre Haute. Mr.. Ogleba,
tells an interesting story.
"The horse," said be, ''has a perfcc
motion. II went round the tracI
without, as they say, a break or a bob
bic, and when il went under the wire
everyone on the grounds knew that il
had broken the record. Williams
turned and raised his cap, and Presi.
dent liames in the box raised his aud
called for three cheers for AXtrll.
Then they gave three cheers for Will
linms and three for the Terre HauIe
track. | was standing with 'Knap-
sack Mccarthy, and when Axtell went
under the wire he snapl ed his watch
and said, ia Almost all the watches
outside of the stand made 1t that.
j. Ii. Steiner, the official timer, had
borrowed my watch before the trial
and held it on the race. Afterward he
returned il to me just as il stood as he
snapped in on AXtell's official time and
it marked ZIP flat. That evening the
association gave a supper to Williams.
at which a number of prominent horse
men in attendance Oh the meeting were
present. OF course the great perform
ance furnished the principal topic of
the evening.
After the supper was disr osed of and
the wine, nuts, cigars and Axtell were
being discussed A. E. Bush. of Detroit.
said to Colonel Conley, of Chicago:
Say, Conley, let's buy the horse
Conley at C turned and offered
Williams $780, 600 for the horse. Viii
lians hesitated a moment-and by the
bye Williams did not drink any wine
that evening = and then said he would
have TO consider it. 'Give you $780,
OOO,' said Conley. Without h~esitating
this time Williams spoke up quietly
and said, 'The horse IS vonrs.
The papers were made up as soon
as The gentlemen lett the table,
and Y illiams received 81 900 on the
contra t. Colonel Conley, of Chicago,
took oie quarter interest, Mr. ljames,
of Terre Haute, and Mr.. A. E. Bush
and Fred Moran, OF Detroit, each one
fourth interest. The next morning
Williams led the horse out of the stable
himself and turned him over to his new
owners. Last Friday, at I~axington,
Colonel Conley came mp to me and
said that he had paid him in full at IL
O'Clock that morning.
When they first purchased Axtell il
was the intention of Conley and his
partners to send him TO California this
winter, but when they talked it over
and considered it they concluded that
The risk would be too great and that
they could not afford to take env such
chances on S105 900. Axtell will be
taken TO MIR. Ijame's farm near Terre
Haute, where he will winter.
Williams is wearing the same suit of
clothes be wore when he was at Kansas
City, and did not go and purchase SO,
900 worth of diamonds the first thing.
(. is wife, a nice looking lady, old
fashioned like her husband, is with
at Lexington, and | think she took
OF the 100000. Williams is
buying up a few fine young
.looded mares which he will breed TO
AllcrtOn."