Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-01

office and his Briefs spends it with the
colts and the brood mares in Orange
county. f. H. Hartman, absorbed in
great railroad corporations and the
| multitudinous manipulations of Wall
! Street, finds time to enjoy his Arden
Farms and look at the youngsters by
his champion stations STEAMBOAT, 207k,
and John r. Gentry, 2.00h. F. p. AL
cot, l.. V. Hardness, and score of
other Wall Street magnates have large
stock farms that are at once their
recreation and pride.
In New England belongs the honor
of having the highest priced trotter in
the world, and J. Malcolm Forbes is
the owner, he having paid $125,O0O for
Arion when he was two-year-old,
which is also the highest price paid for
a two-year- old of any breed. Mr.
Forbes breeds for recreation, and has
many notable horses besides his peer
less Arion. These are only few not
able names in the hundreds of prOmi-
nent men of affairs with national repu-
tations in their respective professions
who, are known for their love of the
American trOtter, and who have not
hesitated to spend their millions in his
development and perfection.
/ The breeding and racing of the
thorough bred horse have always been
looked upon as important items in all
countries of the world. In America.
England, and France. especially, they
have poured forth money like water to
advance and improve the breed, for it
has always been, the one industry in
which the wealthy man was prepared
to, and certainly did, invest his money.
with no hope or expectation of a profit.
The breeding farms of England are
household words in the circles domi-
mated by the horse, and here in
America much, very much, has been
done in this respect and along these
lines.
It is such mighty subject that only q
bare reference is possible to each indi.
yidual. Dating from the Revolution, 1t
was Henry Astor Of New York who i'm
ported the famous Messenger. the faith
er of the American trotter, and when he
died, near Oyster Bay, l.. l., it was the
funeral of deceased statesman rather
than a horse, for people came for miles
around to pay honor to him, military
organization firing volleys over his grave.
The pioneers after that date were the
families of MOultrie, Pinckney, Aston,
Wigfall. Sumter. Rutledge, Hampton,
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these gentlemen imported famous horses.
Vanity, Lottery, daughters of TimOleOn,
Reel: the stations Phoenix. Bussorah,
Roman. Barefoot, Autocrat Trustee
William IV). and scores of others. The
great Commoner Henry Clay, was d
prominent breeder at his famous Ken
lucky home. Ashlands, importing the his
tOric mare Yorkshire. Boston, the sire
of Lexington. is buried on the farm where
Senator Blackburn was born, and the
great Eclipse also lies there; the Sena-
tors father being a prominent horseman
was a BREEDER; his principal horse was
! the noted Truxton. by Diomed. who WOO:
| everything from quarter to four-miie
| heats. Another horse enthusiast was
Gen. Lucius J. Polk, whose family later
gave a President to the United States.
| Then followed Col. John Holmes, who has
| been termed The Father of the Ameri-
can Turf" and who, with Col. John Tay-
lOr imported Diomed George Washing
ton himself acted as judge in 1879 at a
track near Alexandria. and his own
| horse, Magnolia, was beaten, while
Thomas Jefferson entered and ran a
| ''roan COLT which proved the winner to
! beat Washingtons entry. FROM then 10
the present day, presidents, governors.
| soldiers, even clergymen witness the
Rev. Hardy M. Cryder of Tennessee).
have stood in the front ranks of those
| who loved and labored for the thorough
| bred horse. A good story is told of Mr..
Cryder, who owned a half interest in
| colt by Leviathan. and. being brought
to book by his parishioners for owning a
half interest in a racer, left II 70 them
| to define way by which Col. Elliott
| half could run on the track and his nan
stay in the stable, which humorous re-
| ply touched his hearers. VINO und0uDteu-
| Iy loved a horse themselves, and moth
| ing more was heard of the matter.
| In the South, Gen. w. s. Hancock
| founded the famous Belle Meade stud
| Charles Reed of Fairview PAID $lOo,UC,
/ for st. Blaise, which speaks volumes for
the type of the establishment, while IN
the North, at a later date, d. u. Withers
| came broadly into prominence with MS
| wonderful Monmouth Park race track
and by the horses which carried the all
black with black cap to victory.
The late Pierre Lorillard, at Rancocas.
poured money by the armful into us
financial Golfers with never a return
financially but good horses by the barn
full What need to speak OF his Irouqois
winning the great English Derby? Ev-
cry boy knows Of it, and in the early
: eighties there were eighty-seven high
-, class brood-mares there with ten famous
Stations. the most celebrated animals IL
, this country since the war, Parole, AZ
tilla, Duke of Magenta, Pizzarro, Morte-
) mer Simon Magnus, sire OF the unoeieat.
l | ed Wheel OF Fortune (barring her ma
breakdown), Sailor Prince, etc, wnii'
Pierre Lorillard. Jr.. had notable Dreed
ling farm in Westminster at the old hun
+ ter homestead, itself nursery OF .hor
oughbreds for generations. The STUD
the late William L. Scott at Erie earned
Through Rayon dor stock. $4O6. 793 In fou
years. and in 1899 won $174.GaD- This wa
v the stallion which, ten years AFTER Nj