The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-03-04
TWO NOTED HORSES.
ErectOr and BalmOnt Wilkes, the &c
lambda stock Farms Premier
Stations.


In these DAYS the breeding OF fast
horses is the most profitable business
a person can engage in. To the farm
er tho inducement is much greater
than to others, aud the business offers
more advantages. The greatest
horses the world has ever seen came
from tie farms OF the country, aud
at the same expense and outlay That
is necessary TO raise Norman, plug
horse, or mule. These facts should
urge the farmers to breed their best
mares to horses of known trotting
Isneage and trOtiing action. That
like begets like, or the likeness OF
some ancestor" Is more than well
| founded theory, and when we breed
| a good buggy mare to trotting stall
hon there are but two things to eX-
pect,-eiIher a tTotting horse, or u
| high-class roadster that Will COM
mand high price more than double
| that OF the produce from the sas
mare by a uongrel horse. In Maury
county, where we have luxuriant
gras Sos and every advantage for rails
lug and developing the trotting horse
our breed 4 should turn TO this wholly
American product, The young stall
ions in Tennessee that are sure 10
make their mark As sires or speed az
the trottiug-gait. None stand better
in public estimation than do Balmon5
Wilkes ana Erector, the two stations
at the Columbia Stock Farm, w. y.
Jones. urOprietOr. BAlmont Wilkes
was purchased by his present owner
GONE me ago ia New York; the con-
sideration being very large sum.
Balmout Wilkes is a bay horse, GOOD
! conformation and general makeup
that mpTesses one OF great future as
a sire. He was sired by Wilkie Col
Inns, a son of the Immortal Geo.
Wilkes, 30; Balmonts dam IL Al
montress, u producing daughter OF
AImont, 80, who Is the sire OF the
earnest loo of race horses that ever
trod the trottiug turf. Almontresa,
Balmont Wilkes dam, Is the dam OF
AImOnt Wilkes, 2.l93, which IL a
, full brother to Baimont Wilkes, ana
is a promising young sire, ms coits
having shown lots OF speed. Bal
mont Wilkes is believed TO be tasi-
er horse than hIs full brother, and he
2 will be trained this year Tor a low
, mark, His colts now at the Column
bia Stock Farm are very last, and nos
, less than three OF them Will beat z:oI
- ti,is wear. and none of these are over
4 three wears old. BalmOnt Wilkes
! stands at very low service fee, and
breeders who have good mares shoulo
look him over and study his breed
q mo. His sire, Wilkie Collins, Is nov
+ Owned by w. J. White, ROekpors
5 Ohio, who paid $25, 600 for him, and
{ now considers him one of the cheap
4 est horses he eyer bought
% Erector, who was purchased at th'
y Woodland d Shanklin sale in Lexlng
/. ton two weeks ago, is one OF the great
eat looking trOtting animals eve
brought to Tennessee, and his breed
ing il without flaw. A son o
Z Director 2:I7, (sire of Direct, 2;Oe
9 Margaret S 2:2l1d, Guide, .l619, etc
,. dam by MambrinO Gift, the first trot
ting stallion to trot mile IN z'zO
and at that time was the hoIuer
the stallion record. Mambrino Gilt
= 2:2O, il a representative OF the grea
o Mambrino blood, which warns int
activity every dormant strain that 4
touches, aud produces trotttng rac'
horses from every blood-line witt
which il is mated. 1t was pow
e i'm the land in the beginning, az
: time rolls on il increases in
" value and i'm demand. No -
IL have too much OF il, aud with IL cal
of be laid foundations for trottlDg fami
lies. Ilrector-wa- thought 10 DC I'M
equal OF any 3-yeAr-old stallion on
Iast war "a with two months worl
ID me showed 2:l7 gait. He II goo'
Individual, and one Of the handsom
eat horses in the world. He IL en-
tered in the big stakes, and VIII d
tthere or there abouts" when the,
print the deciding heats. Direct
ia 2:i7. the sire OF Erector, stanu,
r. 5000 cash by the season, and his boo
;s Of fifty mares fills easily at this emo
g. nous price. 1t is blood that breed
a. on aud people want 1t. Read IN
b. pedigrees OF Balmont Wilkes an
Erector in the Columbia Stoc
Farms card in this issue, and call
the Columbia Stock Farm 10 %
them.