Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-11-22
Rex Mcdonald Sold.
COUNTl'S NOTED SAU-
DIE STALLION GOES TO
KENTUCKY.
Mold for S3,5G0, the Highest Price
Ever Paid for saddle Horse
Jn0. I. Hughes Buys Him.

John I. Hughes, of Lexington,
Kentucky's noted horse man, has
bought of r. T. Freeman & Son,
proprietors of the Elm Stock Farm,
this county, the world.famous prize
winning saddle stallion, Rex Nc.
Donald S33, for So, 500, the highest
price ever paid for a saddle horse,
mare or gelding.
Rex. Mcdonald is a coal black
horse, of perfect symmetry and ac-
tion, finely gated, is 5 years old,
and was sired by T. S. Harrison s
Rex Denmark $40, dam by old
Black Squirrel, He was bred by the
late Joe Mcdonald and bought by
the Freemans when lie was colt.
That Rex is the finest show and sad
die horse living has been proven up
on several occasions when he was
awarded first honors over large fields
OF horses. the best that ever came
together and many of them invinci-
bic before they met the noted Au.
drain horse. He was the winner of
the $500. saddle stake at Mexico last
August, the largest ever offered; in
October at St. Louis he was again
winner of tue blue ribbon over as
large and as good a field as he met
at Mexico; and in minor shows he
has always been winner. At st.
Louis be defeated as good as the
world has produced-King Chester,
Betsy Diamond, Ben Halet, Ken
lucky Star, Lou Chief, Highland
Denmark, Black Squirrel. Miss Rex,
Monte Christie, Jr., Woods Black
Squirrel and Tip Top. Rex Nc
Donald was awarded first, Lou
Chief second, and Monte Christie,
Jr., third.
Messrs. Freeman & Son under no
ordinary circumstances would have
parted with Rex Mcdonald, only
they think they have nearly as good
horse in the stallion recently pur-
chased by them in Texas.
Col.Hughes is to be congratulated
upon the ownership of the best sad
die horse on earth, and now that
Rex has been sold the LEDGER is
glad to know he has fallen into the
hands of Kentucky's famous horse.
man and that in future he will nip
the blue grass from the pastures of
that great equine state. TheLEDGER
is also pleased to note thatKentucky
had to come to Audrain to geta bet.
ter horse than the celebrated Lou
Chief, her own production.
1t rather looks like Kentucky
feared losing her reputation to Mis-
souri, as ii saddle horse state, from
the fact that in the last few years
old Montrose and old Black Squirrel,
once owned respectively by the
Harrisons at Auxvasse and L. B.
Morris in Mexico, have been returned
to that state at long prices and now
Rex Mcdonald goes hlther to make
his home. 1t may be added that
both old Montrose and old Black
Squirrel are in the stud of J. M.
Garrett, of Fort Garrett, KY, the
owner of Lou Chief.
The Elton Stock Farm of 700
acres of the finest blue grass land in
Kentucky, 7 miles from Lexington
on the Maysville pike, is the new
home of Rex Mcdonald. His owner,
Col. Hughes, is q bachelor, a fine
looking gentleman and a character
istic Kentuckian. He says he may
yet come to Missouri for wife, and
probably to Audrain county. Since
Col. Hughes has been showing
horses at the st. Louis fair that as
sociation has paid him $2S,175 in
premiums. He is one of the wealth.
lest men in the Blue Grass State.
In the absence Of Col. R. I.
Freeman in Kansas City Hon. c..
| F. Clark made the sale. The horse
was shipped to Lexington Saturday