BREEDING THE TROTTER 



would not sell for less than ten thousand dollars 

 we returned without the horse. 



ESTABELLA. 



In the fall of 1884 Mr. Hamlin went to Stony 

 Ford Farm, Charles Backman, proprietor, and 

 purchased Feroline, by Kentucky Prince, for five 

 thousand dollars; Barbara, by Kentucky Prince, 

 for two thousand dollars ; and Marjorie, by Ken- 

 tucky Prince, for twenty-five hundred dollars. 

 Estabella, by Alcantara, owned by David Bonner, 

 was on the same farm. She was then a little, 

 low-down, squatty three-year-old filly, but we 

 purchased her for one thousand dollars. Fero- 

 line produced the dam of Lord March (2.nJ^). 

 Estabella produced Heir-at-Law (2.05%); Prince 

 Regent (2.16^), for whom Charles Marvin once 

 offered fifty thousand dollars ; Princess Royal (2) 

 (2.20), dam of The Earl (3) (2.17), and Princess 

 Chimes, the dam of Lady of the Manor (2.04^), 

 etc. A prominent breeder once offered twenty- 

 five thousand dollars for either of two fillies 

 by Chimes, from Estabella. Barbara produced 

 Emily (2.11). 



Mr. Hamlin was a good judge of a horse and an 

 excellent buyer. On the other hand he was a 

 poor seller. Often after he had refused a good 

 offer for a colt I have induced the would-be pur- 

 chaser to return to the farm in Mr. Hamlin's 

 absence and would effect a sale. I remember one 

 occasion in particular when he refused an offer of 

 twenty-five thousand dollars for four fillies and a 



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