St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-28
AMONG The HORSES,
August Belmont's Big String
Of Flyers Sold Under the
Hammer.
The Dryers Buy Several Of
the Best at Rather Fancy
Figures.
Potomac Leads the Lot, Being
Knocked Off at q Cool
$4,000.
La Tosea Goes at a Good Fig
ure--Fair Prices All
Around.

of the crack racers and the pick of the
yearlings at the Nursery stables OF the
late August Belmont brought hosts OF
the most prominent turfmen in the
country out to Babylon to-day. The even
was generally regarded as the most i'm
portant sale of racing horses that has oc
cured since the selling of the Rancocas
stable in 1856, and the interest was cor
respondingly great. With such flyers as
Potomac, champion two-year-old, the
great Raceland, Prince Royal and La
Tosca to be disposed of. II was antici-
pated that the bidding would be exceed
ingly lively and the prices paid away up.
For Potomac $4,000 was talked of as
about the right figure, while the other
cracks were put down at $4,000 to
$4,000, and expectations were aroused
to high pitch. A special tain on the
Long Island railroad left Hunters Point
at 9 O'clock this morning, carrying
about $50 sporting men, prOprietorS of
racing stables. or their representatives
and half hundred men went out to
Babylon on The early trains to get look
at the horses before the sale and make
up their minds as to which they wanted.
In the crowd were d. ID. WitherS, Dave
Gideon, Michael Dwyer, Phil Dwyer'
John Sheehan, Wyndham Walden,
j. E. Mcdonald, Ford Schenck,
of the Keystone stables; W.P. Jennings,
John Morris Jr., Alex McKeeyer, Matt
Byrnes. representing Mr.. Haggin; John
DAILY, Mr.. Leybold. the Burrldge Bros. a;
+. Berry Wall. w. O. Scully. W. G..
Abbey, representing Fred Gebhard ;
George f. Smith, Capt. William Conner,
the Goodwin Bros. Alder Cooper, rep
resenting Senator Hearst: Judge New
ton, of Gravesend; Charles Littlefeld,
Howell Clark, j. II. Mccormick, g. ID.
Mcintyre, Frank Clark, NJ. j. DAILY, w.
c. DAILY. Senator Gilbert Deane. the
Hough Bros, William Lakeland. Hardy
Durham; Jack Jayner, Richard b.
Hyde: al Power. Lucien Appleby, Da-
vid Johnson, James McCabe; J.Walden,
Mr.. Warnke, 4. Thompson and p. Weber
Arriving at the Babylon depot at 1890
a score or more of stages were in readi-
ness to take the crowds out to the Bel
mont farm, which is nearly three miles
distant from the village. There was a
drive of half an hour in the crisp. nip
ping air over the snowy roads and then
Nursery lOOmed in sight. Lunch was
provided for the visitors at the lodge,
consisting of cold ham and beef sand
witches and ice water, and then the
crowd wandered through the stables
and inspected the stock which was to be
offered for sale. Fully 800 people
were present. Col. S. D. Bruce,
the auctioneer, and Mr.. Peltz. who
was Mr.. Belmont'S private secretary,
represented the estate The sale began
promptly at ~ o'clock. Col. Bruce an
nounced the conditions of the sale, and
made little speech to stir up enthusi-
assn as the crowd gathered around tine
tanbark Enclosure in the big, glass
rooted building adjoining the stables,
where the selling ring was located.
Raceland, the famous bay gelding and
winner of the $50 Suburban, was the
first offered. The price was started at
S., 600 by Fred Eschner, and from that
$1,000. The horse was on the point of
being knocked down to Father
Bill DAILY, when Michael F.
Dryer bid the figure up to $1,000. at
which price he became the owner.
Then Eschner started the bidding on
Prince Royal at $500, and after toll
some struggle with the buyers, Col.
Bruck finally knocked him down at
s., 600 to Phil Dwyer. La ToSca proved
a great fayorite. The bidding started
with an offer of $1,000, and was run up
until the filly was knocked off to Hough
Bros. at $4,000. Flavia, chestnut FLY.
was started at 1000, and knocked off at
1880 to T. McCabe. The chestnut filly
Beauty was the last one of the race
horses in training which was sold. The
starting bid was 81 900 by Fred Eschner,
and the final was $500 by James Nc
Cormick, who is now the lucky owner.
The details of the sale are:
Raceland, b g, 5, by Billet-Calomel; NJ.
Dwyer. $1,000.
Prince Royal, CHI b, 5, by Kingfisher-Prin-
cess; Phil Dwyer, $500.
st. Carlo, CHI 8, by ST. Blaise- Carina; W.
Il. Jennings, $1,000.
Magnate. b C, 3. by The Ill-Used- Magnet.
ism; Keystone stables, $500.
hanna; NJ. F. Dwyer. SIS. 600.
st. Charles. CHI C, imp The Ill-Used- Carita; ;
". NJ. Harry.
Washer. imp The 1ll-U sed-MagnetiSm Fred
Eschner, $4,000.
La Tosca. Oh f. imp St. Blaise-Toucques,
Eough Bros. $4,000.
Flavia CHI (, imp St. Blaise- Flavina. F. Nc
Cabe, 81, 500.
Beauty, Oh (, imp st. Blaise-Bella, James
Mccormick, So, 800.
The yearlings brought the following prices
Alliance, oh C, imp The III Used, dam At
Rnity, 81. 200.
Bellssima, f,imp The Ill Used, dam Bella,
81. 500.
Captive, b C. The III Used, dam sister O
Rampage. 81, 100.
Fldelio, c, by imp The III Used, dam Fill
!, Ingot, b e; By imp The Ill Used, dam Sim
Magnolia f. BY imp The Ill Used. dam
Magnetism, $500.
HIS Highness, b c, by imp The Ill Used,
lam imp Princess, 50, 400.
st. Felix C, by imp st. Blaise, dam Felicia
1,90U.
St. Florian, ch C, by imp St. Blaise, dam
Ecu Toilette, $4,000.
st. Mark, br C, by Incas, dam Belladonna,
$500.
Regina, Oh (, by imported The III Used.
grsnddam Lady Moleswarth, Sl,450.
Taranlella, b f. by imported The Ill Used,
lam Tarbouche, SO, 800.
Caliph, D c. by imported st. Blaise, dam
spltana, $1,000.
St. Carolus. ch c, by imported ST. Blalse,
lam Carina, 50. 100.
Kind Cadmus, C, by Kingfsher, dam
Earita, $4,000.
Victory, C, by Brag, dam Viola, 81, 500.
lam Susquehanna, $500.
When the struggle came for Potomac,
she three-year-old son of st. Blaise, and
the grandeSt card in the lot, there was a
deal of excitement. AS he was brought
Into the ring, the sports began to show
more interest, and there was a cheer
when Eschner started the bidding at
15,000. The bidding was slow, at
$500 a jump, till $4,000 was
cached. Billy Lakeland. w. G.
1aly, Dave Gideon, Eschner, Jen-
nings and Jimmy Rowe were
Emong the bidders. Then Mike Dwyer
llmped it with a $1,000 raise and was
been $1,000 better by Rowe. Two more
lids brought the price to $4,000. At
his price the bidding ceased, and al
though Col. Bruce begged hard for an
bther bid he could not get it. Potomac,
Inc of the grandest horses ever led into
{, sale ring, was knocked down to NJ. T.
nwyer for $4,000. The comparatively
mall price realized for him was great
disappointment, and was due, in all
probability, to the fact that he was not
eligible to some of the richest three
bear-old stakes to be decided next year.
IN THE 2:2O CLASS.