Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-06-22

tan, for $500. This mare was after
ward sold to j. w. DAILY of Mt. Kisco
for $1,000 at Shuts sale at Parkville,
aud afterward repurchased by Mr.
Shuts at Daly's sale at the institute in
1894 for SG75. w. II. Crawford, Lex
ington, Ky, paid $4,000 for two-year-
old filly by Stamboul, out of Lady
Graves, and the black stallion Del Sur,
by The Moor, went to Frank Stevens,
Swansea, Mass, for S4,050. At this
sale thirteen of the get of Guy Wilkes
2l54. nine of them being yearlings and
four two-year-olds, averaged $l,5l4.
In 1889 the Marshland Stud. the proper
~ of b. F. Tracy q Son, Apalachin, n.
y, was closed out the most important
item of which was the purchase by
Geo. Scattergood, acting for A. II.
Moore. Philadelphia, of Mambrino Dud-
lev 2:l03, for $4,000. This same year
the second sale of PalO Alto stock was
held, at which seventy-siX head aver
aged Sl045.99, among them being the
o-year-old gray colt Conductor, by
Electioneer, dam Sontag Mohawk, for
which +. Frank Coe paid Slips. On
March and 6, 1890, the most remark
able sale ever held took place, when
elghty-seven head, consigned by i. j.
Rose. Los Angeles, CAL, were sold for
total of 1926, 945, an average of S27l2.-
Oh. The first day forty-three head
averaged S32G0 93, and the second day
forty-four head averaged S2,l75.57.
-Four animals sold for a total of S73. 600.
The highest figure was S25. 500, paid
by Fred Pabst and Uihlein Bros. of
Milwaukee, Wis, for Alcazar , :20t. II.
G.. Stoner and James f. Clay, Paris. Ky.
paid Sl3,100 for /oraya. black mare,
foaled lSSG, by Guy Wilkes 2:l5f, dam
Neluska. by Sultan 2:24, that being the
highest figure ever paid, up to that time,
for a trotting brood mare at auction. F.
G.. Babcock paid S24, 100 for the two
year-old bay colt Voodoo by Stamboul,
out of Eva, by Sultan, second dam Min
nehaha. and Robert Bonner paid Sl0.-
900 for Revere, , :3G as a yearling, by
Alcazar , :205, dam by ArthurtOn. Thor,
by Alcazar and out of the dam of Lucy
r., 80, cost G.. NJ. Fogg, Nashville,
Tenn, $4,000 and j. Malcolm Forbes
paid $500 for Nellie May, by Election
Ger, dam Lady Ellen 2:2S. by Cars
Mambrino. Immt diately following the
Rose sale, twenty head consigned by G.
Nalensin ana Monroe Salisbury were
sold and realized an average of 1915, the
principal sales being those of Gold Leaf
2:ll4 pacing, for $1,000, and Thistle,
by Sidney 2;l9i, for $1,000, both being
purchased by John II. Shuts. Thistle
at that time had no record. II. Kurken-
dali, Helena, Mont, paid $1,000 for
Erect, brother to Direct, at the same
sale
The year 1890 was remarkable for big
prices. At the Palo Alto sale in that
year l0l head averaged 81 1903 0S, twenty
seven Electloneers averaging 81, 1922. At
this sale Jacob Rupert, New York.
paid 50, $50 for a two-year-old colt by
Electioneer, dam Cecil, by Gen. Ben
ton. Again in 1891 the Palo Alto con-
signment brought good prices, l35 head
averaging SOB, and at this sale VIM.
Simpson paid 81 POO for the unnamed
two-year-old filly by Electioneer, out of
MEGA, by AlmOnt; second dam Dolly,
dam of Director 2:l7, etc. and Sam1
Mcmillan paid $1,000 for the brown colt
Clytus, afterward registered as Baron
Sontag 1920. At the California com
binatiOn sale of 1891, J. Malcolm Forbes
paid 81 900 for the unnamed brother to
Mascot and Baron Rose, brown colt
then two years old, and A. B. Darling
bought linda Wilkes, by Guy Wilkes
2;15i, for $1,000.
On January 26 and ~. 1892, l07 head
from Palo Alto averaged Sl,l44, and it
was at this sale that F. p. OlcOtt paid
S25,00 for the brother to Arion, ,,
2l0i, then called Baby Mckee and
afterwards known as Athel, and \. II.
Moore secured Worth, brother TO Sunol
2OSi, for Sl4,500. Immediately toll
lowing this sale Cat a combination sale)
the great Jack 2:12i, that George Mid
dleton was reported to have sold for
$4,000 at private sale year before, was
bought back by him for $4,000.
On December 20, 1892, there was led
into the ring the highest priced horse
ever sold at the American Institute
building, and but for the unfortunate
controversy regarding his record he
would probably have been the highest
priced trotting horse ever sold at auction.
| refer of course, to Stamboul ,; 074, for
which q. IL. Hartman of New York
paid $1,000, At the same sale, the
closing out of the Hobart Farm, Henry
Pierce of San Francisco, CAL, paid
$4,000 for By-By, sister to Lockheart
2;l3, and S1l00 for the great mare Alma
Mater; he also bought Biscara, by Di-
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