The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-17
HAMBLETONIAN'S OLD SONS.
YOUNGEST OFFSPRING or GREAT
rR0rTfNG SIRE MUST SOON DIE.

Leland. Marlborough and Sir waikiki Now
TWENTY-FIVE Years of Age-Only Six Other
Sons Believed 20 lie Ilving where They
Are and what They Have Done Petev q.
Kellogg Talks About Ills Favorit~. Alert.
The recent death of tho Indiana trotting
sire. WAIKIKI Prince. is 4 reminder to horse
men TINT the last of the sons Of Rysdyk's Ham
bletonian must soon pass away. The great
%trot,inR progenitor that sleeps beneath the
granite shaft in the outskirts of the little wills
laye of Chester in Orange county. died in 1915,
and the youngest of his offspring has reached
the uunrter-ccutlry mark. which finds most
horses either in the grave or past the age Of
usefulness. II is estimated that Hamble-
tonian'l immediate progeny numbered more
than 1900, nearly all OF which we're used for
breeding uirpo,es. 1t has been said that
no other horse of any blood at any time any
where ever added so much to the vnhle of
the horse stock as Hamblotonian added 10
that Of the United States and Canada through
his descendants. Ninety per cent Of all the
fast trotters and PAGERS now on the turf. to-
geth~r with n large proportion Of the general
horse stock. carrv the blood OF the Hero of
Chester" whose descendant are numbered
by hundreds Of thousands. or oil the sons
OF the old horse scattered through the
breeding districts frcm Maine 10 California
a few years ago only ten are believed 20 he
alive az this time
The oldest of the family are Chester Chief.
Polonius and Redwood They were ioaled IN
1872, and therefore are Is years OF age. Chester
Chief is owned near waukegan, Ill. by Wetze
Bros, and is running out in pasture at their
farm. He was ~ spry rs a four-year-old until
,u,, ay. Sinna thau be has aged per-
ceptibly and is now merely a pensioner. His
present owners bought the stallion aboutwelye
years ago from Joseph Gavin. the old-time
Orange county horsemen. who used TO shoe
Hambletonian for william NJ. Rysdyk. Mr..
Gavin owned Chester Chief many years, and
while kept in Orange county the horse got
James Butler well-known trotting mare
Clochette, 2l7k: Rachel n, 24sh., and the
Jams Of Michael Reeds crack Speedway trottor
William L. 222>s. and the PAGERS Onllne. 20i.
and un,oi,iol., roy. The fastest Of the ten
~trotters credited to him in the $50 list is the
lathy bay gelding willis p. 2l6'., recently
presented 10y Fred Gerken to ". y Hiscox
for Speedway driving. Many Of his get are
capital road horses.
Polonius was bred by David X. Feagles. a
brothcr-in-law of the man who owned HANDLE
"n"I a,ai.aardd and ownod hin until n
u Ios, VIM poInnIus ac-
ursd a. the cspital prize in a rafae nj Goshen
:. 60. ond Lie nrosan, ovvnershin j. M,
known. He is the sire Of fourteen trottrrs in
the 23o llst. the fastest one Of which is Page.
2Oo,.. formerly owned BY Charles Tillord and
now the property Of Barney Goodwin. 1t Is
said that Poionius, Ike Hambletonian and
yal.,s,aR nAta not "a NhnSfnnf n0lf. ne1rlk
Noiuh'eer, never s'' ~
all OF his offspring being DAYS or pfo"'H'
Redwood was secured nj last accounts by
~. prarsol. =, :, Iouia and was in the stud Of
d. E'erSoe"i ~ Jus t,,,. 80
Centrevllle, Mo. he IA q naidsolhe NIUE ho'So
with a breezy head and neck, high. thin withers.
straight hind legs and bears n,,ie n n an, y, r Stemy
Ford br Charlie. Bachmsn and was out OF the
hish-brod Hoe mare r BY M''T ms,n Sf ,r m, ,
Hen b, 2lS1.' and the model road horse John
Nelson. 224,,, driven by ex-Nlasor Thomas 7.
Gilroy. Redwood was owned succeSsIvey
NV IN. Hon. j. "A. Walker of Worcester. Mass.
and j, Il. Curtis 81 Indianapolis. Jenny. 2lsli.
The fastest of nine trotters credited 10 him IN the
Walker owned the stallion.
OF the ioals Of 1873 bean Sage is the only son
Of Hambletonian now living, Like RichwOod
he is a product Of STONY Ford. Mr.. Backmsn
named him in honor Of the well-known Albany,
horse fsIlcier. Dean sage. and he was owned
several years by j. ". Gray 81, Brookl> n: tho
longtime Treasurer II III" National AsSo-
citation OF Trottins Horse Breeders After the
death OF Mr.. Gray Dean sage, passed through
several hands in tho Me"t. John Lackey OF
Cambridge City, Ind, having owned him TOT
a time. Thu old horse is now the pr0perty Of
Peter L@nz. Jr, a farmer hVlng near Eiis"orth
MINI. His owner writes to VI SIS, that
the stallion Is hale aud hearty ana ~ sun abe
road 10 town. Dean sage is on, of the hand