The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-05
ARE FAST HORSES
Han1lin's Village Farm and Its
Great Racers.
All Offspring az Great Sires-Records o.
Robert j., 2:c5 SO; Fantasy. e:eS 3:4;
Nightingale and Many
Others
[coPYR1GEr. 1891

/ lCoPYRIGET. 1891
The man who owns the most remark
able collection of race horses in the
world is undoubtedly Cicero J. Ham
lin, the millionaire grape sugar manu-
faeturer, who lives in Buffalo, and is
proprietor OF the Village stock farm 1t
East Aurora. That farm is now the
home of such great trotting sires as
Chimes, Mambrino King, Alnont, Jr.,
and others OF almost equal merit Two
OF the flyers owned by Mr.. Hamlin are
confidently expected TO bring the
worlds mile record down to two min
utes. These two are Robert j.. PAGER.
2:05S<, and Fantasy, trotter. 2:0Ss4. An
other star representative of the farm
Is Nightingale. who holds the three
mile worlds record of 6:551z. Fantasy
holds the three-year-old race record of
2:0S5{, and in addition. there are two
other worlds records held by Village
farm. One rs the double team record
Of PIP, made by Belle Hamlin and
Globe: the other is the triplicate team
record of 2:14, made by Belle Hamlin.
Globe and Justina
Mr.. Hamlin established the Village
farm as long ago as 1858. and was thir-
ty-six years old then. he passed the
threescore and ten limit before he
reached the height of his ambition in
making his stables the most famous in
the country for breeding harness
racers and high class roadsters. In
1896. when he was twenty, he began
his business career by keeping q gem
eral store at East Aurora He went 10
Buffalo ten years later and made a
fortune in the dry goods business
Now he Is one of the grape sugar
kings of the country and is the en-
ployer of three thousand men. He
carries his seventy-five years as light
ly as if they were only half as many,
and he loves horsehesh more than a
miser loves gold. His beautiful home
tains what is said TO be one of the most
valuable libraries of horse literature in
the world. The Hamlin brain. howev-
er, is apparently stored with more
horse lore than all the stud books in
the Hamlin library.
He says: While my prediction of
1891, That there were then on Village
farm youngsters that would score
lower marks in contested races than
had heretofore been made by any trot-
ter, living or dead has been verified
already, believe at this time it will
bear repeating, and that its intent may
be transferred to the present period.
for | believe now, as did then, that
there are youngsters at Village farm
who viii set opposite their names the
lowest marks ever made in contested
races" The consequence of Mr.. Ham
Inns wisdom in breeding mas been that
his Village farm stock has improved
step by step from generation to gen
Grafton, and the average of improve
ment has been SO rapid as to astonish
horsemen-
The greatest sires of Village farm
are Mambrino King. Chimes and Al
mont. Jr. OF these Chimes stands pre-
eminent as the only trotting sire who,
ut the age of nine years has had nine
2:2O performers TO his credit. Mambrino
King. acknowledged to be the hand
soonest horse in the world and whose
only rival as a stallion is Chimes, has a
greater number of his offspring in the
2:3O list than the other three best sons
of Mambrino Patcnen combined. lie
added seven new members to
his family of 2:3O performers last
year. He has sired two win
ners of the Charter Oak $4,000
stakes. Almont, Jr.. likewise over
shadows all other sires of the great Al
mont family, his 2:3O list numbering
twenty-seven performers. eleven of
which have records Of 900 or better.
The most noted of them is Belle Ham
lin, 2:l2sI. The Wilkes family is also
by the most promising
member of that line. He is Americas,
who made a mile at Lexington, KY,
in 2:15& when two years old. Bis
owner recently said of him. with pious
hope: Il shall intermingle his blood with
that of Chimes. Mambrino King and
Jr., and trust TO Providence |
for the results
Fantasy, the famous Chimes FLY. is
4 years old and has achieved reputa- !
ton unequaled by any FLY of her !
years She Is probably the most ia |
vored by nature of the Village farm |
for she has a superb /
physique and an excellent constitution. |
This big daughter of Chimes won her I
record of 2-0s2. as a three-year-Old az |
Tenn. last October, break /
ing the existing records for three-year- 1
olds at either gait pacing or trotting. |
She trotted mile on the Hamilton. |
Ont, track on July Of this year in 4
!. 10 and at Saginaw, Mich. on July b, /
She trotted another exhibition mile IN |
zoo. She was laid up at Detroit and /
Cleveland and had little - do IN Buff !
talo. She is being saved for the south
ern tracks Fantasy Is worked care /
fully and her cleverness IN turn I
ing a half mile on the Buff /
,alo track the other day. II I
LO2L. indicates the form she is IL
Hal Pointer l2:O451 and Robert :.
'e:052tl are the star PAGERS Of the Ham
in stables The first named IS having 4
: rest this season. but his successor Is
loading the Village farm with horOrs-
DE Won his record as q fbres-year-old
~ Lexington. Ky. iast faIi and hss
been beating everything but rs own
record 50 far this summer. lie mode
short work Of Mascot eos IN a match
race the first week Of the Buffalo meet
ng. and there Is every probability that
Be vii lay the world pacing record a.
slr. HaGlin's feet this fall
Nightingale l. one Of the greatest
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