New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-21
HAMLIN'S HORSES FOR SALE
THE VETERAN BREEDER TURNS OVER
VILLAGE FARM TO HIS SONS-SOME
OF HIS EXPERIENCES


Buffalo Oct. 1.-THE stock Of over five hun
dred horses of Cicero ]. Hamlin's Village Farm,
at East Aurora, Erie County is to be reduced at
once Sixty of the best horses, including The
Abbot and Lord Derby, will be sold in New
York next month The Abbot is to be sold at
auction. 1t will be the first time in the history Of
the light harness horse that a world beating
trotter has been sold in this manner.
Mr. Hamlin is now eighty-one years old. When
his retirement from the active management OF
Village Farm was announced last week 1t
generally understood that his career as a horse
raiser was ended Such is not the case. Although
his sons. William and Harry. now assume the
reins on the largest stock farm in the Blue Grass
region of the North. their fathers judgment and
experience Will be at their disposal, and, no
coubt, will be employed to attain future success
MIR. Hamlin began his career as the proprietor Of
general store in East Aurora He made his
money in horses. When seen in his Delaware
ave home the owner of The Abbot, the geldIng
that recently has made an international reputa-
ton by trotting a mile in 2:O3A to wagon, break
Ing worlds record said:
I don't know when I first had a desire to
own stock farm. I guess it was born in me-
never saw a horse running in the street and
ulsplaylng some characteristic that I did not
stop 10 look at II The first land 1 ever bought
is now part Of my stock farm. I began in a
small way in 1916 and got my start by sending
young mare to George NJ. Patchen, the first
horse ever sold for SO. 900. 1t cost me $16O, a
big price in those days but the result was Ham
Inns Patchen. sire of Belle HamIin.
"Mambrino King and Chimes have placed me
where I am. I saw Chimes move, and tele-
graphed to Senator Stanford offering him SIP
600 for the horse. He received my telegram
/ VVh lie he Of
recommendation of my friend Governor Cole
man of Missouri. who was with him. he &C
cepted the offer. 1 never figured all that Chimes
brought me, but I guess it easily amounts to
100000 Besides, he sired The Abbot.
mo, The Abbot is not the limit of what can
be produced in the trotter. 1 expect to breed
still better. But II a man doesn't think it is
task let him try it. Let him raise the mares
and produce the stations. and get a world
beaten He'll find it quite a job don't you
think so?
How would describe a perfect trotter? My
description is brief I consider the perfect trot-
ter as the horse having the greatest beauty and
the ability to get under the wire first and earn
the money. In all my breeding my aim has been
to produce beauty and speed. These are the
ends have in view when make crosses. and
my success I believe is due entirely to judcious-
ness in this respect. 1t was the grace finish
and action that commended Chimes to me- and
It was speed and beauty that recommended
Mambrino King-the handsomest horse in the
world. King my favorite. We have few
photographs taken Of our horses. We have oil
paintings made of our record breakers, and
have in the stable now of King that cost
me $500
Perhaps the most exciting race ever was in
was when 1 drove Belle Hamln and Justina
mile in 2:13 on kite shaped track in Iowa
was seventy-one years old at the time. The
day cold, and I wore my overshoes and
OvercOat About one hundred inmates of an
asylum for the insane were permitted to see
the race and, when I drove past them with
the wind at my back, the lunatics set up the
most unearthly yelling I ever heard It had its
effect the horses and I think helped them
make the record"