. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. November 30. 1901] #£h« gvee&ev anb ^ptsxizxtxcixt sells more horses at big prices than any other man in the country, and has an eye for a bargain that seldom deceives him. He purchased Adbell for $10,000 at New York sale this week and gave $5000 for a half interest in Bow Bells. Directum sold for $12,100. Adbell's price was $10,000. Ponce de Leon brought $6500. A fast pacer is for sale. See advertisement. The date set for the appearance of Cresceus at Los Angeles is December 12th. Bow Bells sold for $5100 and two days afterwards a half interest in him
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. November 30. 1901] #£h« gvee&ev anb ^ptsxizxtxcixt sells more horses at big prices than any other man in the country, and has an eye for a bargain that seldom deceives him. He purchased Adbell for $10,000 at New York sale this week and gave $5000 for a half interest in Bow Bells. Directum sold for $12,100. Adbell's price was $10,000. Ponce de Leon brought $6500. A fast pacer is for sale. See advertisement. The date set for the appearance of Cresceus at Los Angeles is December 12th. Bow Bells sold for $5100 and two days afterwards a half interest in him brought $5000. B. O. Van Bokkelen, who has been at Syracuse, New York, since the closing of the Grand Circuit, is on his way home with his string of horses and is ex- pected to arrive at San Jose any day. He has the Mc- Kinney colt, Tom Smith, the Hambletonian Wilkes trotter Vic Schellar 2:14|, a colt called Mofflt by Sable Wilkes, and one or two others. Cresceus will perform at San Jose next Thursday, December 5th, weather permitting. Ed Geers predicts that The Abbot will lower his record next season, barring accidents. Geo. Fox of Clements, owner of the Robert Mc- Gregor stallion Silver Bow 2:16, will probably send his mare Bessie Pancoast to Toledo next spring to be bred to Cresceus. Bessie Pancoast is by Pancoast out of Bessie Bowne by Dictator, second dam Lady Lightfoot by MambrinoTime, third dam by Paddy Burns, fourth dam by Moseley's Copperhead. Bow Bells 2:19}, son of Electioneer and Beautiful Bells, brought $5100 at the Marcus Daly sale. Tilly, a four year old trotter by Alcandre 2:26$, son of Alcyone 2:27, won not far from $5400 in Austria the past summer. Mr. C. K. G. Billings was the most prominent winner at the late Chicago Horse Show. His entries were awarded nineteen blue ribbons and some of other colors, twonty-six in all. It has long been the general impression among prac- tical breeders that the influence of the sire is greater than that of the dam, as a ru
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