Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-15


tiser. out of the famous brood mare
Beautiful Bells. AS showing the va
garies of the market, the two
year-old filly Miss Previous, by
Ponce de Leon, considered the
best two-year- of the collec-
ton, went for $10.3O0, while her
sire, Ponce de Leon, 2.13, only brought
$500. Oakland Baron. sire of the
great Dreamer, brought $15,700. Lord
Derby, who came to the sale-ring with
all the glory of his recent victories over
the mighty Boralma, brought $10,5OO.
but far higher figure would probably
have been obtained had not Nathan
Straus arrived on the scene just after
the auctioneer had dropped his ham
mer Now Bells, prolific sire brought
$4,000, and the champion three-year-
old of the year, Peter Sterling. $1,000.
and the buyer was ready to go to $l5.-
0O0.
After a glance at the reports of the
great auction sales of trotting stock
two deductions stand out in marked
prominence. New York is the best
market in the world for choice high
class stock fit for the race track, the
road, and the stud. The bidders are
petinG buyers full values are the rule.
AS for old brood mares and defective
stock of any class it should be sold
disposed of at home. Twenty-Five
years ago the majority of our grca:
trotters and PAGERS were bought at pri-
vate sale; now the reverse is the case.
Both seller and buyer realize that the
market value can be better struck in
4 hn ri Of ha
change than at private sale. Under
this system there will be dull moments
when bargains are picked up but in
any good consignment a fair average
will be secured. The auction sales of
New York will always be attractive
because that large section of the public
who do not own horses yet like to look
at them, can see in the sale ring many
of the celebrities of the track, and very
often the champions of the national
breed.
Among the thoroughbreds, when the
late Hon. w. l.. Scott paid 100000 for
the stallion Rayon d'Or winner Of the
st. Leger, at the breaking up of the
Dangu Stud in France, it was a record
price for the breed. 1t was Mr.. Scott's
first venture i'm the breeding line and
years by the fact that this horse, at it's
owners death in 1892, brought $1,000
more than Mr.. Scott paid for him. The
banner price ever realized in this
country by thoroughbred was for st.
Blaise, at the dispersal of the Nursery
Stud of the late August Belmont Oater
happily renewed). This horse was
most royalty bred, by Hermit, the
English Derby winner. dam Fusee, by
Marsyas, and the thoroughbred world
may be said to have attended the sale.
Public palate was whetted by twenty
seven weanlings bringing $72,425;
mares went for $4,000 and upwards,
until the peerless Viola 6, by Kisber,
dam Parma, by Parmesan. was wanted
by S. Sanford, who gave $20,500 and a
| chestnut weanling by Imp. ST. Blaise,
| dam Lady Primrose. went to ]. Rup-
pert. for 100000. Then came St Blaise.
The audience had tasted blood as it
| We're. and was in the mood for bidding,
so $4,000 opened the ball, but the
words had scarcely reached the ear of
the auctiOneer, when $4,000 followed,
and quicker still, Charles Reed, the
| master of Fairview, bid 100000! 1t
was scene never to be forgotten by
| those present. The millionaires, Loril-
| lard, Haggin, John A. Morris, etc, were
simply "earthquaked,' and amid a
storm of cheers the famous horse was
| sold, October Il, 1891 This marks a
record.
May 4, that year, Tournament, the
Sir Modred-Plaything horse, was sold
for $4,000, after a most instructive
and amusing battle between Fred Geb-
hard and Foxhall P. Keene, the bids
coming at $500 a clip. until the maxi
mum was reached. and he went to the
keene stable, then returning to the
American turf after retiring, it was
feared, for good. May 25 he was en-
tered in a thousand dollar sweepstakes
at Gravesend, and Kingston was with
drawn as compliment, the desire be-
ing to have the first temperance of
the white, blue spots victory.
; Tolrnamen was an overwhelming IA.
vorite, but finished fourth to Fronte-
nae, rank outsider. Another high
priced morse that year was Canvas a
two-yearo by Forester. dam Alice
Bruce, bought by Mr.. Gebhard for $21,-
, 900. but an utter disappointment The
year previous, April "a, 1890, Luxe
/ Blackburn. then thirteen years old,
/ sold for $4,000, to w. H. Jackson, who
at the same sale, bought the famous
Iroquois. then twelve years old by
bennington, for $4,000. Four years
earlier, in 1888, the good looking King
Thomas, as a yearling, sold for the
then enormous price Of $3S, 900, bought
by the late Senator Hearst, and an ut
ter disappointment in every respect.
November IL. 1892. marked the dispersal
of the Ehret stable, which had achieved
quite success with several good animals
One of these was the wonderfully good
two-year-old. Don Alonzo. by Long Taw.
dam Round Dance by War Dance, who
/ afterwards proved an extremely good
horse; he sold for $4,000, a large sum for
tWo-year-old in those days, being
bought by NJ. +. Dwyer, then at the ze-
NTH Of his remarkable career. The price
was driven to this notch by the deter
mined bidding of Higgins. who repre-
Sented the late Pierre LOrillard and of
DR.. Hall. representing the late Marcus
DAILY, both of whom badly wanted the
phenomenaliy speedy colt, who came from
behind, at the turn to the homestretch
like an arrow from a bow. 1t was at this
sale that the late Pierre Lorillard said
The time is not far distant when we will
see 100000 paid for a good two-year-old
in this country The famous mare York