BREEDING THE TROTTER 



Chimes a quarter in thirty-five seconds at fifteen 

 months. Chimes was very successful in the stud, 

 financially and otherwise. One year he made 

 twenty-one thousand dollars for Village Farm, 

 covering forty-two outside mares at five hundred 

 dollars. 



GOLDEN GATEWAY. 



Golden Gateway, by Guy Wilkes (2.15^), was 

 purchased at auction in 1889, when he was ten 

 months old, for fifty-one hundred dollars. He 

 was believed to be the first colt with three pro- 

 ducing dams. 



REX AMERICUS. 



Rex Americus (2.1 1 J4) was purchased, as a two- 

 year-old, from J. H. Thayer, for fifteen thousand 

 dollars. He made a season as a three-year-old, 

 producing Battleton (2.09%) and American Belle 

 (2.12^) from these services. 



ATHANIO. 



In 1895 Mr. Hamlin and Mr. Geers purchased 

 Athanio (2) (2.19^), from George L. Warton, 

 Fresno, Cat, for twelve hundred dollars. After 

 taking a record of 2.10 he was sold at auction for 

 three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars 

 and went to Austria. 



DIRECT HAL. 



The last stallion Mr. Hamlin purchased, and 

 the only pacing stallion, was Direct Hal, owned 



38 



