The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12
ECHOES OF THE RECENT
ANNUAL SPRING AUCTION
The Smyth Brothers, as Usual, Were the Life Of tn
Affair Many High Class PAGERS and Trotters
Went Under Hammer Other Notes.

The annual spring sale Of high-class
horses at the Union Stock Yards, Nor
folk, Va, on April 3Oth, May 1st and
3D. was largely attended, while bidding
was brisk, and fair prices ruled
throughout the vendue. IT was con-.
Quoted by tho Smyth Brothers-N Nc
Cleary Mcclellan Live Stock Company
and Kline & Throop, Inc. representing
the Norfolk Special Horse Sale Com,
pany.
The first day was devoted to trot-
tiers. PAGERS, matched pairs and high
acting harness horses, that We're cata-l
loSued, while later on general pur-
pose, business and draft horses and
mules were offered. The Messrs. Smyth,
as usual, were the life of the affair,
and it is doubtful IL even the remote
approach to such pair OF hustlers as
these twin brothers has ever been seen
in a sale ring. And, apparently, they
are almost exact counterparts, too, be-
ing so much alike in every way that
oftentimes it is no easy matter to dis
tingush them apart.
james c. is usually to be seen in the
box with the auctioneer, while Thomas
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pair OF practical, all-around horsemen
they make, too, as either brother can
send a trotter or PAGER through the
ring; at a dizzy clip drive high actors
in single or double harness, tool q four
in hand and even take a hunter over
the jumps. If that part is to be played.
Really, the Union Stock Yards is one
OF Norfolll's largest enterprises. and,
under the management Of the Messrs.
Smyth, whose, holdings in the plant
represent tidy sum, the concern has
become big factor in the Southern
horse and mule trade.
Close to two hundred trotters, PAGERS,
saddlers and high acting harness horses
were sold on the first day of the Nor
folk sale, and during succeeding days
those of the general purpose and draft
sort and mules must have averaged
nearly five hundred head. a. II. Tur-
ner. whose long connection with the
trade III Richmond and Norfolk has
made him familiar figure with South
crn buyers welded the auctioncer's
gavel, as did III. b. Throop, who Is
we'll informed on pcdigrees and has
cried bids at most of the big trottlng
horse sales during many years past at
most of the big sales In the middle
West. Harvey L. Kline, who is now
associated with Throop in the sale
business, and is himself a student of
blood lines and pcdgrees. had charge
of the speed department Of the Norfolk
sale. the catalogue of which he COM
piled
The top price Of the sale was realized
when Rosotte, brown mare, by Fail
rose, dam Buttonette, by Alexander
Button, fell to bid of sl55 by the Dill
Ion Live Stock Company, of Dillon, S
| c. Minnie Clay, a large. handsome
brown mare, c, by Clay King, dam by
\ Governor Powell was secured for $45(
\ by John Willis Jr., OF Norfolk. Mis-
hap, 217 IL pacing, brown mare, Z
+by William bed, went to Charles Nc.
/ Dermott of Washington. ID. c., for $500
/ Timber Twig, ESQ, the bay gelding, By
| Portsmouth, did not seem high ut $3O5
4 and George NJ, Harden, of Raleigh, may
| race him this season.
DR.. l.. II. Whitaker. of Enfield, N. G.
4 secured the liVe-Huar- old bay stallion
Rotor by Krcmlin, 2:o7 3-4, dam Al
lenc, by Kentucky Prince, for sao0, an,
was well pleased with his bargain
Eivina Prince 2!2O Ia pacing, chcstnu
mare. A, BY Sidney Prince, dam l1dit
by salem, went to w T. Warren, Wi
4 Hanson. n. G., while Blue Sign, ZOOS "a
q brown pacing geldinE, who has see
better days, brought but $12b. gom
to T. G. Codd of Portsmouth, Va
In the fiyc-ycar- old bay stallion