Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-27
AIix, Once Queen of Turf.

AIix, Once Queen of Turf.
! In the fail Of 1854 a Mr.. AIdrich
/ bought an unknown Ohio mare to Iowa,
and less than a year later sold her
/ TO Benjamin Hershey of Muscatine.
/ This mares name was Dolly Aldrich,
and in the first volume of the Trotting
| Register compiled by John H. Wallace,
who dates its preface at Muscatine,
November, 1870, she was spoken of
as "Hershey's famous old trotting
mare" Mr.. Hershey was a pioneer
| breeder of Muscatine, and Dolly AL
drich is first on his list of brood mares
! By 1864 Mr.. Hershey had such a
flock of young mares and FLIES, by
various local horses, but nearly all 60
ing back to old Dolly Aldrich, that he
felt the necessity of a radical out-cross,
and so he visited Kentucky and return
ed bringing with him a big horse, Gen.
eral Hatch. General Hatch was 16
hands high, a strong and blood-like
horse, and to his owners partial eye
, possessed grandeur of style and car
riage that is unsurpassed by any
horse in the world" He lived to the
age of % years, but only had three
2:3O performances; two of these, in
Envoy 2:2S, and Fleta 2:2S, were out
of Dolly. the daughter of Iowa, Dolly
Aldrich.
DAM OF MANY GOOD ONES.
Dolly Aldrich was also the dam OF
Attorney, Jr., PIP, pacing. (foaled
when dam was 25), Colonel Hare, Anna
Dickinson. grand dam of Delbert 2:21;
Gaetama 2:14%, Game Cock 2:17A,
Flirt, the dam of Patroness 2:26,
Notary (sire of Seal 2:OS&, pacing)
and Atlanta, the dam of Alix 2:03A.
Flirt was foaled in 1873 and was
by General Hatch. She was kicked on
the knee. which retired her to the
stud while sill young. She passed
early in life to Frank Warfield of Mus
catine Warfield bred her to his big
chestnut bay horse, Attorney, getting
Notary in 1888 and Atlanta in 1893.
In 1885 Daniel Hayes purchased both
Atlanta and Flirt from MIR. Warf1eld
to use as brood mares on his farm in
. Rock Island county across the river
from Mu1catine. At this time Daniel
Hayes owned more horses eligible 10
registra ion than any other man in the
United States.
Soon after Mr. Hayes became the
, owner Of Atlanta he attempted to break
, her to he harness, but, like Green
, Mountain Maid, and others of the
. greatest trotting matrons, she declined
, TO submit TO the ignominy of the har-
! ness. She was strapped few times,
, and once or twice hitched to a cart
: but every time her rebellion became
. more in earnest. In 1887 she was mat
.. cd by Mr.. Hayes with Patronage, and
. in June, 1888, she foaled a bay FLY
Alix. the greatest of all trotting race
: mares.
Z 1t was Mr.. Hayes practice to break
=. his horses to halter only. Rarely one
o was broken in the harness and none
, ever trained. His custom was to sell
n them at auction as yearlings. In 1881
fortune dealt him heavy blow and in
1888 he saved but six of his foals, one
being Alix. In 1889 il was the same
thing over again and Mr. Hayes
. thought the only remedy was to gel
/, out. In his own words: ut was a SAD
:. and Unscientific end to my years de
", voted TO breeding" In November
= 1889, Mr.. Hayes consigned his entire
: stud, including AIix, to a combination
sale of trotters in Chicago, and 1t wa:
here tina. Alix went into the hands o.
Morris j. Jones. AS has been previ
ously stated, Mr.. Jones had bough
Pactolus of Mr.. Hayes one year previ
GUS and at this sale came TO Mr.. Haye:
and asked his opinion as to which
would be the best colt to buy to devel
op into a world heater Mr. Hayes
advised him to buy Alix and as he
4 breeding seemed TO suit Mr.. Jones
: although, as an individual, sh
$ looked very bad at this sale, he de
8 cided to buy her. getting her for $3.50
ALIX As TWo-YEAR-OLD.
Alix was shipped to Beatrice, Neb
and that winter during the day tint
q ran out with several other colts in
8 big lot She always trotted, she wa
y the smallest one of the bunch, ant
4 when the troop scampered across tn,
s field she was generally at it's head
q trotting while the others ran. During
q the winter Mr.. Jones watched her anC
B predicted great things.
81 During the early spring the troubL
Of breaking her fell TO ]. F. Chandler
who has since broke Online, Bell,