The Mankato free press., 1920-01-02
AMONG SWELL HORSES
HIGH PRICES PAID Fer
TROTTING MACS
"Old Glory" Sale tie Ye-r,y
Event For Quarter
Century
w. n. sMolLINeER.
SECRETARY OF THE AMERICt

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| TROTTING ASSOCIATION.
The topic Of the hour among tro;-
ting horsemen is the yearling boo-I,
as indicated by the prices paid for
animals OF that age at the annual
i"Old Glory" auction, held in Madison
Square Garden. New York, Thank
giving week.
The "Old Glory" has been yearly
fxNure for nearly quarter of cen
tury and during that time consign-
ments of yearlings from practically
every famous breeding farm in the
United States have passed under the
hammer there. The prices brought
by these youngsters are considered
indicative of the pulse of the mar
ket" for trotters as is nothing else;
So the results attained have set the
trotting fans agog as has nothing else
III many years.
Last yeaT a sensation was produc-
cd at the "Old Glory" when two bat
Ches OF yearlings were auctioned for
/ figures never before eQualed. The
top liner was the consignment of
colts and fillies sired by j. Malcolm
Foybes (2:0S), bred and sent to the
IliKg by James Il. Mcgowan. Of Mt.
Sterling, Ky. There were fifteen Of
them and they sold UP S5,5OO each,
the average for the, fftsen being ST.
312 per head
Twenty eight YearIings.
I Second only to them in money
bringing was the consignment of
twenty eight yeariings by Peter the
Great (2:G7A), sent on by Laurel
Halt Farm, indianapolis. Ind They
sold up 10 $4,000, and their average
price was S916.
These figures eclipsed everything
else of~the kind previously known
! the best average ever before OBJ
tanned in "the Garden" for a consign-
ment of yearlinss having been $3.50.
which Mcgowan recorded for thirteen
lead by ]. Malcolm Forbes in 1916.
II was question of great interest
with horsemen. and, especially, with
breeders, whether at this years auc-
tion these prices would be equaled or
Eeaten. or whether a falling off in
!; values would take place. The result
has been that far higher prices have
ruled than before, and new records
been set.
The auction opened on Monday, No
vember "a and that day the Laurel
Hall yearlings, by Peter the Great,
! ~ere offered There were thirt-- ore
of them, or three more than last year,
yet such was the demand for them
that they averaged S1,154 each, or
ever $500 more per head than year
ago.
The Mcgowan Lot.
The Mcgowan lot was sold on
Tuesday. 1t numbered twelve, all, as
before, by J. Malcolm Forbes, and
when the last one had ben knocked
down. the record established last year
by the Same consignment of S1.312
per head, was knocked into smitheT
Gems, for the average attained was no
less than $1,700-a gain OF inaarly
S400 per head.
The remarkable thing about these
. sales and prices is that fact that the
; two sires whose offspring have returned
their breeders such record breaking
amounts, are half brothers. Peter the
Great is son of Pilot Medium, and
T. Malcolm Forbes is q son of Bingeh,
but both are from the same dam,
namely, Santos. by Grand Sentinel.
Something like thirty years ago the
late DID. SCTeeter, Of kalamazoo,
Mich, picked up for comparatively
small sum bay filly that had been
bred by another resident of the same
! town, s. A. Browne. This was San
tos AS she did not promise brilliant
rpeed. Streeter decided to use her for
breeding purposes and she now ranks
as one of the premier speed produc-
ers in trotting history. Bred to Pilot
Medium she produced Peter the Great
lie won the Kentucky Futurity. the
most valuable trotting race in Amer
lea. with about $4,000 to the winner
and then Streeter sold hin TO the late
J. Malcolm Forbes, of Boston, for
$4,000.
Forbes Sole Owner.
! Forbes was at that time also the
owner of the famous stallion Bingen
t2:O61a) and S.reeter decided to
breed Santos to him. The produce
J was J. Malcolm. Forbes.
These two half brothers are far
and away the two most remarkable
, trotting sires that any one mare ever
lDroduced. The get of Peter the Great
LAS won over three quarters OF q
, million dollars in stakes and purses;
while the get of j. Malcolm Forhes
includes no less than forty eight that
have trotted to standard record
(2:3O or better) as yearlings, which i3
more than all other sires combined
are credited with.
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