The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28
HAMLIN,s HORSES FOR SALE.
Breeder Turns Over Village Farm
to His Sons.

Breeder Turns Over Village Farm
to His Sons.
BUFFALO, Oct 27.-The stock of over
500 horses of Cicero J. Hamlins 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 at auction. 1t will
be the first time in the history of the
light harness horse that 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 an
nounced last week it was generally I'M
derstood that his career as a horse rails
er was ended. Such is not the case. AL
though 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 ex-
perience will be at their disposal, and, no
doubt, will be employed to attain future
success. Mr.. Hamlin began. his career
as the proprietor of a general store in
East Aurora. He made his money in
horses. When seen in his Delaware ave-
nue. homo the owner OF The Abbot the
gelding that recently has made an in
ternatfonl reputation by trotting a mile
in 2:03A to wagon, breaking a world S
record, said:
81 don't know when I first had a desire
to own a stock farm. 1 guess it was
born in me. 1 never saw horse running
i'll the street and displaying some char
acteristic that I did not stop to look Ut
it. The first land 1 ever bought is now
part of my stock farm. Z began in a
small way in 1876, and got my start by
sending young mare to George M. Pat
chen, the first horse ever sold for SIS, COO.
1t cost me $160, a big price in those days,
but the result was Hamin's Patchen, sire
of Belle Hamlin.
'Mambrino King and Chimes have plac-
ed me where [ am. I saw Chimes move,
and telegrapned to Senator Stanford off
ering him $4,000 for the horse. He re-
ceived my telegram while on the floor Of
the senate, and, on the recommendation
of my friend Gov. Coleman of Missouri,
who was with him, he accepted, the Offer.
1 never figured all that Chimes brought
me, but l guess it easily amounts to $780,
600. Besides, he sired The Abbot.
mo, The Abbot is not the limit of what
can be produced in the trottery I expect
to breed still better. But if a man does
MT think it is a task let him try it. Let
him raise the mares and produce the stall
lions, and get a world beaten. He'll find
It quite a job. don't you think go?
How would I describe a perfect trot-
ter? My description is brief I consider
the perfect trotter 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 III view when / make
crosses, and my success, I believe, is due
entirely to righteousness in this respect.
II was the grace, finish and action that
recommended Mambrino King-the hand
soonest horse in the world. King was my
favorite. We have few photographs la
ken of our horses. We have oil paintings
made OF. our record. breakers. and 1 have
one in the stable now of King that cost
me $500.
p. perhaps the most exciting race I ever
was in was when I drove Belle Hamlfn
and Justina mile in 2:13 on a kite shap-
ed track in Iowa. was seVenty-one
years old at the time. The day was cold,
and I wore my overshoes and Cvercoat.
About 100 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 / ever heard.
1t had its effect on eSe horses and,
think, helped them make the record