The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
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of Americas leading stock farm enter
prises.
The Jewett stock firm is by no means
the only extensive ranch IL Sedgwick
county devoted to horse breeding.
There are several other establishments
that are meeting with success in that
locality; and only few days ago we
saw III one of the leading journals de-
voted 10 horse breeding interests state
nent that one of the great horse breeders
| in Kentucky. had recently bought an
S00acre farm eight miles south Of
Wichita, and was going to move his'e en-
tire herd of horses to the new farm the
coming spring.
| The success On the race track of the
get of Ashland Wilkes. the premier
stallion CT the T3ler stock farm. shows
| that this farm is TO become one of the
very best in the country. He is making
a record that Indicates that he will
equal the most successful horse
III the Uuited Statesas sire Of
trotting horses. Without the best
of opportunities, he has placed seven in
the 2:30 list at 10 years OF age, record
which has only been equalled by four or
five stations in the United States.
at the Alton stock farm, at Goddard,
haze recently been foaled two young
iiilies, the first of the get of Allakan, a
son of Sultan. sthat is hard TO beat On any
stock farm in the United States.
Alakan, as you know, was sired by
Sultan, the sire of Stamboul, who is the
king of trotting stations, and his dam
was by Victor Won Bismarck, brother
in blood TO Electioneer. He is bred in
precisely the same line with Sable
Wilkes, who is the sire of the largest
number of 2:30 trotterS OF his age, of any
stallion in the world, and OF Chimes,
who is looming up as sire of fast trot.
tiers.
The proprietor of the Alton stock farm
las recently purchased one daughter and
two grand daughters of the great Elec-
tioneer, which. after the training season is
over, will be shipped to this stock farm
as brood mares: which will make valu-
able addition TO the trotting stock Of
Sedgwick county.
The sire of one of these grand daugh-
ters of ElectiCneer was also the sire of
Navidad, who won seven-heat race in
Chicago, in 1890, in which the great
kremlin was second; and her dam is a
standard producer.
Mr.. Leslie r. Martin, the manager OF
the Alton Stock Farm, has also recently
purchased a black 3year-old Percheron
stallion which weighs about 1, 700 pounds
and is considered almost faultless in his
makeup, and gated about as well as the
best of trotters This colt is believed to
be the finest Percheron stallion that ever
was seen in the state
Sedgwicll county is destined to have
some of the very best bred stations and
brood mares of all the different breeds,
as it now has of the trotters. As soon as
the horse industry is thoroughly cstab-
lished in that county Wichita VIII be-
come a great center for the sale OF the
horses raised there. Buyers will go in
there from all parts of the country, not
only to secure breeding stock, but also
for race horses, for carriage horses and
heavy draft horses; and the sooner the
farmers of Sedgwick county go into
breeding these fine class of horses, the
more money they will be likely to make
out of the business, and the better it will
be for all concerned.
The green wheat fields for winter
pasture for colts and brood mares adds
greatly TO the value Of southern Kansas
as locality for breeding horses.
A FRIEND OF THE TROTTERS