Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-23
FABULOUS PRICES
PAID FOR HORSES
Ten Trotters Sold in This
Country Bring Owners
More Than $4,000.
ROCK SANDS HOLD RECORD
August Belmont Gets $l4l,000
for Famous English
Thoroughbred.

NE WYORK, Dec. 22.-Ten trot-
tors and about tho same number or
runners have been sold in this coun-
try for $4,000 or more, and or this
number two trotters ana two run
nors have realized 100000 or moic.
Rock Sand holds the record, August
Belmont having received Sl41 600. 900
for the famous English thoropreu
when he went to France.
For 81. Blaizc, imported by Mr.. Eel
mont's father, 100000 was paid at
auction by Charles Reed OF Gallatin,
Tenn. and this is the American rec
ord for horses under the hammer.
Meddler brought $3.50 at auction
and Watercress $1,000 when tho late
]. h. Hagyln's stud was sold at Van
Tassell & kearney's about ten ycars
ago. Hamburg was sold FOR $4,000,
Hermis for $50, 900 and Sir Martin for
s55. 900
Ario. 2:O7h. ranks as the highest
priced trotting horse ever sold. j. NAL
colin Forbes having paid Governor
Stanford of California $I25.000 for
him shortly after he set the record
for 2-ycar- olds at 2:10&, in 1891. AK
tel PIP, the colt that lowered all rec
ords for trottinC stations when years
old. was sold for Sl05. 900 by his
breeder and trainer, c. w. Williams.
In 1889, to a syndicate headed by w.
p. Ijams, president OF the American
Trottng association.
$4,000 For Director.
When A. II. Moore Of Philadelphia
purchased Director, an, from Mon,
roe Salisbury OF California, i'm 1892
It was said he paid $4,000 for the
l5-year-old stallion, then in the lime
light as the sire of Directum, 2:O5 y ,
and Direct, 2:05 Y.
The highest price ever realized for
a trotting horse at auction was paid
by II. S. Henry, a Philadelphia anna
teur, for the California stallion, En-
teco, 2:16A, sold by y A. Browne OF
Kalamazoo, Mich. in 1881, for S25,-
900. Mr. Brown had previously sold
Bell Boy, 2:19L n 4-yoar-old son of
Electioneer and Beautiful Bells, for
S51 600 at auction.
This was In 1889. Tho buyers were
G. NJ. Hooper OF Unionvillc. Ohio. and
Judson II. Clark Of Elmira. n. Y. The
horse was burned to death shortly
afterward.
Sold privately for $4,000 by l.. j.
Rose to w. II. Hobart both OF Cali
fornia, in 1889, Stamboul 2:07K,
probably would have been added to
tho list of horses that brought
$4,000 under the hammer If his rec.
ord had not been questioned on tho
eve of his sale in New York city. soon
after Mr.. Hobart's death. AS 1t was,
h. III. Hartman paid $4,000 for MIN.
Quite as notable and remarkable as
the sale of Arion for S125.000 when
coming three years old, was that of
Peter the Great, 2:07 a. for $4,000
when he was . years old, no other
horse of any breed in any country
having commanded such a sum at such
an age.
William Simpson of New York gave
$4,000 for Mckinney, 2:11L, then
the leading sire of 2:10 trotters. when
he was II years old c. X. Billings
is believed to have paid a little more
than this to the estate of the late
August Uhlin of Milwaukee for The
| Harvester, 2:O1, then the holder of
the record for trottlng stations, but
the exact price was not made public.
Highest Priced Mare.
The only trotting mare ever sold
for $50 goo was Hamburg Belle, con-
queror of Uhlan, 1853, i'm the fastest
race on record. II. NJ. Hanna of
Cleveland paid his price for her be-
tween heats to John T.. Madden of
Lexington. Ky.
II is well known that William IT,
| Vanderbilt could have sold Maud s.,
! no III NHt HtNdty VI ldIllt lOI
much more than the price paid for
Hamburg Belle, but he preferred to
let Robert Bonner have her at his
own price, which was voluntarily fixed
at $4,000.
No onther horse than trotter or "A
runner ever realized as much as
S52,00 in any part of the world. so
far as is known, tho the Clydesdale
| draught stallion, Baron of Buchlyvie.
came close to this mark when offered
under the hammer in Scotland to
close a partnership years ago.
One of the partners bid Si7,500 for
him, and made money by the seem
ingly eXtravagant investment. it has
been said. A one half interest in car
not, a French Percheron draught
horse, was sold for 100000, which Is
the record for this breed English
hackneys, Kentucky saddle horses and
French coaches have sometimes