. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. Bonner for $21,000when four years old, with a record of , andthe title Queen of the Turf. Smuggler soldfor $40,000, Pocahontas for $45,000, GoldsmithMaid for $36,000, Dexter for $36,000, and so on,until we come to Axtell, who sold for $100,000after he had eclipsed the time of all stallions, andretired to the stud, where his service fee was$1,000. The stallion, Rysdycks Hambletonian,was purchased with his dam for $125, and earnedin the
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. Bonner for $21,000when four years old, with a record of , andthe title Queen of the Turf. Smuggler soldfor $40,000, Pocahontas for $45,000, GoldsmithMaid for $36,000, Dexter for $36,000, and so on,until we come to Axtell, who sold for $100,000after he had eclipsed the time of all stallions, andretired to the stud, where his service fee was$1,000. The stallion, Rysdycks Hambletonian,was purchased with his dam for $125, and earnedin the stud $205,750. Thirty-six of his get trottedin or better, and the prices for which theycould have been sold in their best days amountedto $325,000. Among them were Sentinel, GeorgeWilkes, Jay Gould, and Administrator, all notedsires. Their united progeny was worth manythousands for stud and track uses. Some of hissons, without a record, became successful inthe stud. Alexanders Abdallah was sold . forabout $3,500, but he got Goldsmith Maid, whomade a record of , and won on the turf closeto $250,000; Almont sired 22 trotters; Bel-. 1. English Running Worst-. 2. English i oach I lorse. 3. Morgan Ironing Percheron. 5. Percheron. 6. Wilkes-llambletonian Trotting Horse 7. American Ilelgian Stallion. HORSES mont got nine with records better than Sothe descendants of Alexanders Abdallah liavebeen worth to their owners hundreds of thou-sands of dollars. Volunteer was another whoranked among the most successful of the notedEiambletonian sires, having to his credit 23 Electioneer, bought by , proved a noted sire, getting the fastestyearling, (>j; the fastest two-year-old, ;the fastest three-year-old, ;^; and the fastestfour-year-old, 2. The bracing climate ofPalo Alto, and the methods of handling peculiarto Gov. Stanfords breeding farm, aided inthese accomplishments. These are but a few ofth
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