BREEDING THE TROTTER 



country people called me crazy. Farm mares 

 were usually sent to five-dollar stallions. I al- 

 ways liked to breed to the best stallion I could 

 afford. There was considerable rivalry between 

 Prince of Wales and Grantham Chief, which re- 

 sulted in several match races, but the former was 

 considered the best in the country. My mare 

 foaled a black filly by Prince of Wales. She is 

 known in the books as Jane Brown. As a three- 

 year-old I sold her to James Haney of St. Johns, 

 Ontario, for three hundred and fifty dollars. I 

 had trained her to step around a 3.10 clip. The 

 second or third time Haney took her to a track 

 she trotted a mile in three minutes. Haney sold 

 her to William H. Saunders, one of the famous 

 old-time horsemen, and father of George Saun- 

 ders, a well-known driver of to-day. Saunders 

 trained Jane Brown some, but she went wrong 

 and he bred her to George Wilkes (2.22). The 

 produce was Young Wilkes (2.28%), the sire of 

 thirty-two in 2.30. 



PELHAM TARTAR JR. 



After foaling Jane Brown I bred my mare to 

 Pelham Tartar, a seal-brown stallion, by Toronto 

 Chief, owned by James Cairns and John Fralick, 

 livery stable keepers of St. Catherines. Pelham 

 Tartar's service fee was twenty dollars and when 

 I paid that the neighbors gave up all hopes for 

 my sanity. My good opinion of the horse was 

 verified when Chandler J. Wells bought him for 

 five thousand dollars. His purchase was the sen- 



