New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-11-23
HARDNESS BUYS
FAMOUS RACER
Millionaire Pays $4,000 for Guy
AxWorthy at Auction Sale

New York, Nov. 23-The feature of
the Old Glory horse sale in Madison
Square Garden yesterday was the dis
persal Of the late Jacob Rupperts
Hudson River stock farm at Pough-
keepsie. This was a combination OF
stock farm and racing stable, Guy
Axworthy, sire of the worlds fastest
trotter, Lee Axworthy, G:5S la be-
ing at the head Of the breeding estab-
lishment. This grandson of Axtell out
of a at-granddaughter of George
Wilkes Is now in his fourteenth year,
the sire of fifty-three in the 2:30 list,
seventeen of which have trotted In
2:20 or better and six in 2:1O or bet
ter. Being sound and in his prime
there was naturally lively competition
for this noted sire when he was offered
at the afternoon session. William
Hodson, acting for Louis Titus cssthe
Stony Ford Farm, started the biGding
with an offer of $4,000, which was.at
once lost sight of in the rapidly fol-
lowing bids of $500, $4,000, and
SO, 900, with w. r. Dickerson, repre-
senting a syndicate of Orange county
owners; Leo Oettinger, who owned an
interest in the horse with Mr.. Rupert,
and Walter r. Cox, the latter acting
for Harry S. Hardness, the bidders.
Hodson bid s12,50o and then retired.
Oettinger went to 1900, and then
Dickerson and Cox had the bidding
| between them, Dickerson quitting at
| $4,000 and Cox getting the prize
| with his bid of $4,000, which offer
was greeted with a thunderous round
| of applause. Guy Axworthy will be
taken to Walnut Hall breeding farm.
! one of the largest in Kentucky, the
| property of the estate of the late L. V.
| Hardness. =.
High as was the price paid for this
famous sire, the real sensation was the
sale of Volo Worthy, a seven month";
old son of the worlds champion trot-
ting stallion at 2, 8, and 4 years old
Peter Volo, (2:02)-out of the Ak
worthy mare, Sapphire Worthy. He
was finally knocked down to w. r..
Cox for $3,025, the highest price ever
paid for a weanling at an auction
sale, and very likely the highest ever
paid for weanling. It is probable
! that Volo Worthy is also destined to,
| become a member of the horse colony,
| at Walnut Hall.
| Eleven weanlings from the Hudson
| River Stock Farm lot, including Volo
| Worthy, sold for a total of $6,015, an
average of $547; five yearlings for
! $4,000, an average of S416, and
| twenty two-year-olds, nearly all
the get Of Guy Axworthy sold for
$10,585, an average of S504 The
entire lot of sixty-two head fetched a
total of s49,905, an average of $685.
| Of the o-year-olds Alley Guy, with
a record of 2:18 ga, sold to Lee Oct
finger for $1,000; Pearl Guy, a fllly
! with record of 2:23 Ia, was bought
| by H. Grunzfelder of this city for
| $1,000, the same price being paid for
| Coast Guy, a colt with record of
1928 IA, by Jacob G. Lang of Buffalo
while Easter Guy, fly with a record
of 1872, fetched $1,000, the purchaser
being J. Fl. Kernochian of New Jersey
Eva Guy, a closely inbred weanling,
81 900, this being the highest price Cor
any of the baby trotters except that
paid for Volo Worthy.
The only other noteworthy sale of
the day was the disposal of Extend. a
two-year- bay filly by J. Malcolm
Forbes out Of Extasy, by Baron
Wilkes, which made winning record
of pig IL over half mile track
this summer, and did a trial Fin
Pip IL two days later. She was pur-
chased by the Fatherland Farm of
Ipswich. Mass, for $4,000. after spirit
ed bidding, which started at $500.