Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-15
ABOUT AKRON.

Sold at the Highest Price Ever Paid
for a Horse-Something About HIS
Races-His Fashionable Breeding.
The announcement of the sale of the
young trotting stallion Arion (2:10D,
made yesterday, has created considerable
comment and will occasion very much
more. The price which Senator Stanford
received for his prize is not yet definitely
announced but is high enough to break
the record for high prices, and it viii not
be surprising if the price, which is sd
mitted to be bout $3.50, 900, will hold the
record for a long time. The purchaser is
j. NJ alcomb Forbes of Boston, who re-
Gently paid about $40, 000' for the FIVE
year-old trotter, Nancy Hanks C2:09).
Arion was bred at Senator Leland STAN
ford's world renowned Pslo Alto stock
farm in California and was foaled March
IS, 1885,. Arion is a bay colt with both
hind feet white, and is compactly built
and remarkably we'll developed for one of
his age. He is now about fifteen hands
high with symmetrical form. His con-
formation is about as near perfection as
it is possible to reach. His shoulders and
back are models of power while his legs
are stout and of a quality that will stand
campaigning.
On one leg is slight blemish, caused by
an accident from which he has entirely re-
covered. Just before the accident north
ern horaeman got the refusal of the colt
at 81, 500, according to report. Owing to
the accident the gentleman declined to take
the colt.
The gait of Arion is pronounced by the
best judges to be fully equal to his con-
formation, and he is conceded by expert
trainers to be one of the most level headed
trotters that ever wore harness.
The season just closed has been unusual
ly remarkable for record breaking, and
during the entire season there was no event
on the trotting turf that created more ad-
miration than Arion's 2:10f, which is q
highly creditable performance for any
horse, but still more so for a two-year-old.
Arion was developed by Charles Marvin,
an expert trainer of colts. After sufficient
training Arion was started last August at
San Jose, Cal, in a race which he won In
| 2:31 and 2:25i. His next race was in Sep
| TENDER, at Sacramento, where he won in
| 1927 and 2:21. He was then taken to the
| kite-shaped track at Stockton, Cal, where
he was started to beat 2:1S, which was
Sunors two-year-old record. Arion trot
2:144. Both of these performances wers
heralded far and wide as record breaking
performances.
His grandest effort was made on the 10th
of last November, when he astonished the
| world by trotting q mile without Q skip In
S:10f, which proved him the most wonder
full youngster that ever wore harness. d,
finished strong and did not appear dis
tressed after the performance. Soon afte
this feat G. w. Williams of Independence
Iowa, breeder of Axtell C2:12 at three year
old) and Allerton (2:08t at five years old
offered to breed ten fllies to Arion at $2,
500 each.
Arion's breeding is the height of fashion
He was sired by the renowned Electioneer
| a son of Hamiltonian 10 and Green Noun
tain Maid. Arion's dam was Aanette, b
Nutwood G:1sD. The dam of Manett
was Addie, by Hamiltonian Chisf, he b
! Hsmiltopisn 10.