New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-17
.TROTTING HORSE VALUES.
THE GARDEN SALE SHOWS AN IMPROV
ING MARKET.

FOR 5000 AND AFTERWARD SOLD FOX
s75co-oNwARD KNOCKED DOWN
FOR s5oO-COIoNEI, VESTS
500 BROOD-MARE PRO
DUCEs KING OF
THE TURF.
While there was nothing like return 10 the
"boom" prices of five years ago at the Garden SAFE
of trottng stock last week horsomen were better
pleased with the result than they have been Tor
three wears because II showed Enthusiastically turn
n, the tide IN the trotting horse market and pros
pect Of returning prosperity which are encouraging
| to everybody in the horse world Competent op-
servers estimated that prices for the better class
of horses were q per cent higher than at THIS Time
one year ago. OF course. there was some ruppish
in the sale which was well sold. If sold at ALL ana
for this class of stock the bidding was by no means
snrited but nearly all of the good horses brought
| fair prices and some Of them went for all theN
were worth. The number of foreign buyers present
was the largest ever known at trottlns safe III
New York. and the attendance Of local ana ou'-oi-
town horsemen was likewise better than at any
| time for three years. New men. including w H. ~
! Stokes were buying high-class stock with a view
TO breeding trotters. Conservative, old-tme breed
ers like the Powell Brothers of Springboro' fenn
were In market for the first time since 1893 ana
about half the road-riders in New-York and Brook
! Ign seemed to want an outclaSSed tfotl'r OF PAGER
TO drive the road
one of the gratifying features Of the sale was the
fact that nearly every consigno who had good stock
to sell secured more than he had expected ior MS
trotters. Henry c. Jewett, the millionaire Buhalo
( breeder who closed out everything he owned In tho
| way of horsefesh with the exception OF his Old
| stallion jerome Eddy 2:lGla. was very agreeably
djsappointed In the sum realized for his lgj head,
Patchen Wilkes alone fetching less than he had ex-
pected.
The John A. Goldsmith collection also realized
| more than the executors of the estate had counted
mon. Goldsmith consigned his horses to the sale
n dav or two before he entered the hospital where
he died While in the hospital he made an estimate
| of the prjces they would bring under the hammer
Venita Wilkes 2I3 who sold for 5000. was the only
animal in the lot failed TO reach the inventory
| figures and the total for nineteen head was ABOUT
80 Opo above Goldsmith's mark OF course his esti-
mate was based upon actual value. but upon inc
market in the depressed condition In which II was
three months ago He expected to see his undc-
yeoped two-year- ods fetch SO apiece. The cheap
est in the lot brought $40
NOT THE FIRST PERIOD.
The present period of low prices for troting stock
is not the first that breeders have experienced
For several years after the panic OF 1917 the Harct
| was so badly demoralzed that horses now famous
were almost given away at the public sales. At
Colonel Richard Vests sale near Georgetown KY.
In 1878 George Brasfied bought for 500 little black
colt by Director that proved to be pretty good In
vestment Two years later Brasfeld brought hin,
ont under the name of Director. and after winning
some colt races in Kentucky. sold him to Colonel
John W. Conley for round price. Con!ey ai!eT-
ward sold the horse to Monroe Salisbury ana III
1ss3 with John Goldsmith behind him. Director
made clean sweep in his class IN the Grand Cli
cult. winning the $4,000 Charter Oak Stakes at Hart.
ford a s. 900 stake at Providence ana another al
Boston, besides lot OF other substantial purses
and taking record Of 2l1 Retired to me ~ STUD
after another great campaign In 1854, he got Direc-
tum 2:O5I4: Direct, 2o51z. and other great campaign
Moore Of Philadelphia. for $1,000 IN the last hvf
years his get have won upT oa mon he FAMILY a.
second to none in point Of extreme speed ana cam
paigning capacity. -, -. ..,h,
greatest racehorse of the age was sold tor sz"
old colt that has since turned out to be very iaii
horse for the money. He was called chester, ane
bcine from the same dam-Old Dolly. by Mambrint
Chief The $500 colt is now known as onward: SIR
live Queen of the troting turf and more than on'
hundred others with records of 2:SO or better ~
Colonel r. P. Pepper. Of South Elkhorn Farm dur
the period Of fancy prices for ,nr and IN the,
have pulled down sOscco In purses and stakes since
a. Colonel Vests annual sale in 1876 the now ia
nous horse Altamont four OF whose get entered tn
o list in 1885 was knocked s9wn 10 f9r n s am
2:Ola with running mate some years ago was ,, Sc
held the worlds record for three-yearod trotter
In 1879 was sold by the side of his dam. the after
! " S. Buckner paying only $500 for both mare an'
coal Another great brood mare, Miss Coons, b,
Clark Chief with colt by her side. went for slCo
1852 1858 and 1884 will remember the colt He took
record of 2l6h nder the name Wilson, won f1iteel
or twenty races the Grand Circuit defeating sucl
CRACKS as Director, Edwin Thorne and Fanny With
. erspoon nd was one OF the pest campagners OF IN
George Wilkes family
4. ANOTHER PRIZE PACKAGE.
There was another prize package in this Lexington
Gale of ts7C-a yearling flly by George Wilkes. OIL
of BLACK Jane by Mambrino Patchcn-that wa
knock ed down for $500. Afterward known Ros
wilkes. she won twenty-three races and recor
of 2lsil beating those stout old-time campagners
Deck Wright. Driver. Forrest Patchen. Matte Ora
ham, Fanny Witherspoon, Bonesetter and Adm
ia many q hard-fought contest on Western tracks
T'he mare was sold for 900 after winning her las
race Bred. To Nutwood in 1882 she produced Blake
who trotted In 2l34 last season. defeating william
Siu1pso's great yfar-old lilly Bouncer 2l0.4
iAh interesting sale of twenty years ago was tina
en- yearl.ngs the get of Harold and Bel
mont two Of the most popular trotting sires In tn
co,fnfrs at TIN, time. brought s3ss5 AN average
/, si4f each At this sale Colonel West bought gra
? cured her fwo-year-old hlly. by Harold for $40
! The latter became noted as Noontide, 2;21s. an
after racing days were over sne We soiu TWO
a,n a brood mare William Simpson, OF this city
owns her now, and she Is the oan 9, rosy NOT
who produced the fast colt Boreal Z:los as three
year-old The next spring hiter Coroner " s, e.
iousht the gray mare at Alexander's sale for si2
I 10 hred her TO Dictator and got king OF the tnf
, in Jay-Eye-Sec the first trotter 10 gam reco'
Of 2:l0. ..,.,.. ara ms, as sensations
In another way as the sales of fifteen years Iate
| ahen the market had reached the other extreme
| and untried two-year-old trotters were seiiihs
auction solely the strength OF tner o a e,o an