New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-28
PRICES Of HORSES SOAR
Big Bids for Peter the Great
Stock at Old Glory Sale.
JUNIOR STOKES A PRIZE
G. H. Shuts Pays Round Sum
for Colt-The Able Goes
at a Low Figure.

den yesterday at the continuation of the
Old Glory sale by the Fasig-Tipton Com
pany. 1t was Peter the Great stock that
! brought the big prices, although not all
| Of these youngsters were In the lot con-
signed by the Patchen Wilkes Farm, the
! home OF Peter the Great
! The top price of the afternoon was
g. COO, which sum John II. Shuts paid for
Junior Stokes, bay colt by Peter the
| Great-Tilie Thompson. Junior Stokes is
| only a year old, but he already has
record of 2:26a and a trial of 2:E3h. lie
was the best OF the lot consigned by the
| Patchen Wilkes Farm.
Miss Katharine l.. Wilks. the noted
breeder and racer of horses, paid $500 for
an unnamed chestnut FLY by Peter the
Charlottesville Bond. The baby has
never been trained, but horsemen who
know say that she looks like fast one.
G X C. Binings's choice was a Peter
| the Great mare called Icon Gao. Her
dam was the great Alberta. The mare
has made wonderful record for herself
on the track, but Mr.. Billings intends TO
keep her for breeding. She has produced
] a
foal will have for sire the great Euro
pcan trotter Willy. owned by Al Pennock.
| Icon was consigned by the Cranwood
| Farm
Another Peter the Great mare that
| brought good price was Kentucky
Belle for which John Goldheld paid Sll20.
Belle is also from the Cranwood Farm
! Her dan, is Maggie Onward
! Thomas Nolan. the we'll known trainer,
OF Poughkeepsie. paid $1,000 for Parlova'
| by Peter the Great-Orianna. Richard
| Delafeld added year-old chestnut my
| by Peter the Great Mighty Cocoon to his
string. He paid 500 for the baby.
! Uncle Sam was again among the bid
dcrs. The Department Of Agriculture
added Sigler to it's string. lie is hand
some three-year-old bay colt by Red Me-
| dIum-Maud Sigler. As two-year-old ne
won first prize at the National Horse
Show last year.
The Able was knocked down 70 }. N
Puliugsby. of Lynvlle. Tenn, for $500
! This was in the nature Of surprise 70
the horsemen present, as it was believed
that he would bring the top price OF the
| sale
There was still another surprise in store
| for them Ben White, who trained the
Able, was present when the stallion was
sold. and the auctloneer asked MIN TO 'IeI
IN into the stand. after which ne was
introduced TO the crowd az the man VINO
made The Able famous. The speaker
added further that Mr.. White had Just
| been married.
After this he was presented with a
diminutive go-Cart and rattle "hlC"
seemed not at all to his liking. MI Nhi'e
turned on the crowd and beat every one
an whom he could lay his hands untii ne
vas 0nary pacifed and led away. lie
,,sod the po-csrt and the rattle as cudseis'
- +horo was little left OF them when ne
had finished. 80. ,iobt
w + D Stokes announced last nlsh'
| t,o, no sold his chestnut stallion NJ"
| natrtck 10 the Russian government az
| rr,,ota sale on Monday. Fitzpatrick -
| s,r, brotber to Czarevna, 2:07h. lie
,ool record OF 2:l5% as two-year
old in Lexington, and has puoi'c "'a
| NJ 2.oS4. The price was FE'ooV. AleN'7
Nezaroff came to America aCtin6 Io'
tho Russian government to purchase
Drpid hut when he failed to negotiate
mis- sale he decided in favor OF MI
| Stokes's stallion.
| The stokes consignment OF I"ehE
Two horses sold yesterday, brought w.
os5 an average or $3.50 per head -
| nurtng the day 1873 horses were aoiu
| Gov tofal OF $50. 500. This was an aver
! age Of 1878 head
The more important sales follow
The Able. 2:IoI1. blk. s, pace, ana 'rG.
BilIinE pagcr Ly deal Dr. M. trotter. 49,
. by Mambrino king-EstaoehS' fa" 40,
land Farm, Lexington Ky:.... ~, The ''''
Abbe-Queen Regent Ideal D. H. 20,
Lynch. warwick, y. i....', ~. ''
queen Abbess, br Z, P ESssi. q a Ger. ere
main. East Aurora, n. Y.........'.,.. Ao'
The Cleaner, 2:2lH. blk. $; uotef'r v ~
Baron McKinney c,,iSs. No''e' D. ~ 50
Galarnes. Hull. quebec. - -, ipai,ini
| pNan Belini. br. G.. uotter' a. % bsnirl ,o
| - Expressive; John Connors' SeW io o.,
Hazel Peters. b. T., /, trotter. by Peter the
Great-Harel Nutwood; 5. - haS'nS' Nc,
pa sos' Bacon. b, c., trotter 2 by Peter the
Great Lucy Johnson w j. A '. 80.
pa BSnG Pe,E q br. G.. trotter. 2. by peter
the Great-Lady Binette; Milton On
| CLARKE New ork.......,.'...''' D"
| Peter Neptune. 2:25h. b. G., trouer' !. %
| peter the Great-Esperita' /. West al
brook. Bradford, Mass 90 - VI
Donna $ervolo. 2:2s ch. f. rotter, =
oy Peter tho Great-Nervolo Belle u.
| - - philadelphia .i......' 10
! pavlova b. g. trotter !. by Peter the
| Great-Orianna; Thomas Nolan. PohEh no
cs hs,Ps,s G,iy tro,ter /. by Peter the
| GTeat-Priscills Bond; Miss Katharine o on
| Wilkes Gait ontario. 80. ., -. 80"
| Blacp nlly. trotter I. by Peter the breat on
! -Baronette. ]. b, Hall, Lexington ~. ."
| Junior stakes, 2:26lt, b. G., tto'er' l. pS
| peter the Great-Tilie Thompson D. an
pa ~ iii t1o,ter. i. by Peter the Great -o
| Uoonrise. Daniel Buhre, Brooklyn.'''' -
| Bsy flly trotter, l, by Peter Dohnl
MADAM Thompson Ernest Platch' Ne" an
York .........''' ''''. - - . =, - -.
| Chestnut Ally. trotter. l, by PeteT ine
Great--Mishty Cocoon; Fioharo De'a 10.
! field. Tuxedo .......''..'. . 49,
Frlsky Hal. Oh. c., PAGER : by Dtec'
Hattie Lady Hal G. N. Tompkins' ,a
Ed Douglas Dougiss. sr. c.. trotter. 9, BY BOO
| Douglass--Artlc Currie; q. X Russell IN.
| Lake George ......:....' - ',,,,.,,,''
| Morning Bells; T. A. Grove. Toronto. 'V
Pretoria Nc, b. m, trotter. By NC
| Administrators; Alonzo Mcdonald On.
| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, ...........,..''.' o.
A Kentucky Belle, ch. M trotter, d; 10y
| Peter the Grest-Masgie onward Johh 90,
| r. Goldheld, Bellaire' Nd. ...-...''.,.. liz
Icon. b. m, trOtter. 10. by Peter tnr
| Great-Alberta; c. X. G. Billings, New y 81,
| York OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. '''''' - ~
Cocharina. en-. T., trotter, 2. by Cochoto-
| Miss Dolly Direct; Adam washington On,
New York .....;,..'' ~, zorohro