Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-05
BIG PRICES FOR RIOTERS.
C. P. 6ardo Given the Position, Com Louis Winans Paid S5o,ooo for Allen Winter-Foreieners Like Our Stock.

American horse breeders have col
 lected god sized fortune the past ten | years by selling horses to foreign buy
 CTS. During this time the trotting sport has dourished in Europe and
 horsemen, especially those of Russia and Austria, have paid Yankee owners nearly $1,000, ,000 for horsef1esh. says 1 Guy T. Rockwell. Of recent years the
 demand for American trotters has ma
 teIi2lly grown. and such great inroads i have been made in the ranks of the
 American trotters that horsemen are 1 loudly beWalLIns the fact that so many | of our equine stars are being exported. l Not included in the hundreds of trot- l ters that have been sold for prices 1 rangin from $1,500 to $5,000, there have | been sold 10 Europeans within the last ] decade 16 trotters that have brought l $331, 900. None of these has brought
 less than S7.500, while the top price was $50,000. All of the trotters sold for export for upward of $7,500 are not in c1uded in this list, but most of them are. So many American horses are now in Europe that when an American visits race tracks Of Itussta, Austria
 and Italy he feels very much at home. Louis Wfnans of Hovey, Eng, paid
 the highest price ever offered by a
 foreign horseman for an American
 trotter turning over S50.o00 to MI E.
 Reardon of Indianapolis for Allen Win
 ter. WiTrans also paid $35, 900 for Si1-
 icoh. He later sold Allen Winter to
 Russian, while Silico was bought by
 John F. Madden and now Is iIi Lexing-
 ton. Ky. The Russians paid the larg-
 est price of the last year or two when
 they gave $3o, 600 for the big stake win
 ner- Baden, 2.05 1-4. A few days ago
 an Austrian bought Baldy McGregor
 at auction for $t6.o0o. This by the
 way, is the highest price ever paid by
 a foreinger for an American trotter at auction. All of the big prices they have
 paid have ben at private sales.
 Among the other high prices paid by foreigners are $25.o00 for Onward Sil- yer, S21.000 for Cresceus, s2o, 900 for H. and Jay McGregor. Had c. K. G. Billings desired, he might haV sold The Harvester, 2.o1. worlds champion trot- ting stallion, to European horsenen for 5000, ,000, The offer was made, but Mir. Billings. who also owns Uhlan. 1.sS and Lou Dillon, 1.5s Ia, cared more for the distinction af owning the champion tretting mare, geiding and stallion than for the money offered fer the horse
 The annual midwinter auction con ducted by the F'asig-T -Tipton company in New York was the shortest in the history of that firm It lasted only three days. This was caused by the scarcity of horses to be sold. Despite this fact, the sale showed the light l harness sport to be in q dourfshtng condition. Most of the horses offered for sale were youngsters or mares to 1 be used for breeding purposes. Horse men bid in a spirited manner on any animal that appeared to be in good 1 condition and seemed to have 8 future | either as a race horse or for breeding l purposes. It is not to be wondered | that the number of horses to be sold l at auction are becoming fewer. When one stops to think of such, stars as ] Baden, Jay McGregor, Soprano, Bob 1 Douglas. Billy Burke. Allen Winter, l siHco, Gen. H, Adion and many oth- CTS being sold privately, the number of horses for the sale ring Is bound to be decreased Horsemen who have a trotter that looks good will try to sell l him themselves in order to save the bother of shipping to a sale. running the risk of his being injured or taken sick. They also save the commission.