The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-23
SPORTING NEWS.
G. X. G. Billings Buys Lucille a
TrOtting Nate.
Secures Mabel Onward, a Speedy
Road Mare. e
TO HITCH HER DOUBLE
Fastest TrOtting Sisters on the
American Turf.
TO HITCH HER DOUBLE
Owner Will Make a Trial for
Worlds Team Record.

Chicago, Nov. 23-After a long hunt,
c. K G. Billings, president of the Peo-
pies Gas Light and Coke company, is
in a fair way of adding another worlds
harness record to his already famous
stable Mr.. Billings has come into the
possession of Mabel Onward, after pay
ing the highest price that any horse
ever brought at auction in Chicago The
mare was bought for Mr.. Billings by
Murray Howe at the Chicago horse sale
at the stock yards and the price pald
was S. 800.
Mr Howe purchased the daughter of
Shadeland Onward with the express
purpose in view of getting a mate for
Mr.. Billings Lucille. When the two are
hitched together on the New York
speedway Mir. Billings Will so after the
worlds team record, now held by Mr.
Hamlins Belle Hamlin and Honest
George
Several weeks ago Mr.. Billings was
told that Mabel Onward would make an
excellent mate for his famous mare
Lucille, holder of the worlds record 10
wagon. He called on Murray Howe and
told him 70 get the mare. Price was no
object il Mr. Howe thought the mare
would suit him.
HOWE AUTHORIZED TO BUY.
Mr. Billings took Mr.. Howe around
to his financial agent with the introduc-
tom This is Mr.. Howe. He is going
10 buy o mate for Lucille. Give him
all the. money ne asks for"
Yesterday Mr.. Howe went to the stock
yards In the course of the afternoon
Mabel Onward, owned and bred by 1. e.
Doty of David City, Neb., was brought
to the block. There were dozen bid
ders from the start. When the bidding
had reached the notch OF 4,luO MI
Howe stepped In. Hundred by hundred
the price SCARED. Daniel Mahaney, rep
resenting Senator Jones of New Hamp-
shire, stopped at 81 600. It was said that
W G Brown. general manager Of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad,
was also after the mare for Malcolm
Forbes OF Boston, John G. Creighton OF
Omaha stuck the longest however, but
dropped out a $500. Howe bid another
hundred and got the mare
Mabel Onward will be shipped to New
York imme diately- Mr.. Billings at pres
ent is in the eastern metropolis. where
he has all his horses.
The new purchase is a bay mare by
Shadeland Onward, dam Sentinel Belle.
and a full sister of Phoebe Onward, who
was also sold yesterday al the sale for
1T5O. The two make the fastest trOt-
ting sisters on the American turf.
MabePs record is 2:11A. made last fall
at Dubuque, Iowa, in race where she
forced Contralto to do better than 2;1O.
Contralto, by the way, will be sold at
New York next week
GRAND NATE FOR LUCILLE.
Mabel is years old and has had one
foaI~ which died She has never been
consistently trained for the race track.
but it is confidently predicted for her
trainers she will come close to the
worlds record. She is a beautiful bay,
with black points and without a white
hair on her body. She stands fifteen
and one-half hands high, almost exactly
the same height as Lucille, who is Of a
similar color.
Lucille whose mate Mabel will be,
holds the worlds wagon trotting record
of 2:07. which was made at Lexington
last fall
Mr.. Billings now has stable second
to none in the country. It includes Free