The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-07
GOSSIP OF
HARNESS HORSES
REMARKABLE BAND OF Stall
LIONS TO BE SOLD
SIXTEEN OF THE VERY BEST
Horse Sale in New York the Latter
Part Of This Month.

A remarkable collection Of trot-
ting stations is to be offered at auc-
ton in New York the last week of
the present month. Nothing like
such band of entire horses of any
sort ever before was put on the
market during any one year, and the
fact that sixteen Of the best horses
of their kind in the land have been
sent to one vendue by as many diff
ferent owners will give the man I'M
acquainted with the vagaries and
| aphemeral nature of the breeding
business as applied to light harness
horses some new ideas on the sub
ject.
The sixteen stations to be sold to
the highest bidder are headed by
Sidney Dillon, sire Of Lou Dillon,
:5Sb; Dolly Dillon, 2:0634; and
Stanley Dillon, 2:07M. Not many
sallions have sired that sort of trot-
ting speed, and the trio is all still IN
the game, Stanley and Lou having
performed here this year, while Dol
ly is in Europe, and won good race
or two there. Why is Sidney Dillon
sold? Because his owner, Ira Pierce
of California, died two years ago,
and it is necessary to settle the es-
tate.
The death of another rich man.
J. Malcolm Forbes sends Arion to
the block He is a champion In his
own right, his wo-year-old mark of
2:10A never having been equaled
by a trotter Of that age, and when
it is considered that Arion's per-
Torrance was to high wheeled sui
ky, some idea Of his suprelative mer-,
it as a colt trotter will be had. His
record of 2:0734, made later in life
to pneumatic tired sulky, does not
compare with his two-year-old mark,
and it is as the greatest colt trotter
of his day that Arion will always
be remembered.
At that age he brought the high
est price ever paid for a trotting
bred horse-$125,0 00-and for a
year or so it cost So 800 to breed a
mare to him. Now it costs one
twenty-ffth part of that amount.
Arion is only fifteen years old, and
is one of the most gentlemanly look
ING horses ever seen. He has done
fairly we'll as a sire Of speed, and
ought to sell well.
Another stallion which was a
champion when two years old will
change owners at the coming auction
is Jupe. He was foaled in 1894,
and two years later made a record
of 2:13A, which stands to this day
as the best performance by a two
year-old trotter in race. People
who were cheering themselves hoarse
few weeks ago because they saw
Bon Voyage and Jack Axworthy
trot in 2:15 were justified in their
applause, but it should not be for
gotten that the horses of other days
were giants, and in support of this
statement here are two stations
whose work at two years of age has
never been equaled. Jupe. by the
way. is about the best thing ever
sired by Allie Wilkes. a horse which
looked like a great sire at one time
in his career.
Belsirc. in addition to his pedi-
Gree, which is ultra fashionable.
claims the distinction of being the
Youngest and fastest member Of the
| famous Electioneer-Beautiful Bells
| family. He is only thirteen years
old. and there was a time when. on
account of his blood lines there
would have been rush of rich men
TO buy him had he been put up at
auction. but those days are gone.
The Beautiful Bells family is not
rated as highly as It was by most
people who observe horses as we'll as
their pedigrees. The beautiful
| Bells blood. valuable as it is in some
respects. is generally regarded as
ga leetle too gineerv." as the Mis-
souri, man mt it. for ordinary use
beautiful Bells herself was mare
of so much nerve force that she was
of little account as race trotter
and good many members of the