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Bingen, 2:061/4, the sire of Uhlan, 1:58, would in 

 all probability have been added to the list of geld- 

 ing, if George W. Leavitt had not heard of him 

 trotting a quarter in thirty-five seconds as a year- 

 ling. No one in Kentucky would buy a stallion by 

 May King, 2 :20. Leavitt gave $800 for Bingen. He 

 shipped him to New England and sold him the fol- 

 lowing year for $8,000. Later he brought $30,000. 



The breeder of Pilot Medium sold him for a trifle 

 to get him out of his sight on account of an injury. 

 Walter Clark took him to Michigan, where he got 

 Peter the Great, 2:07l^. George H. Ketchem 

 ordered his foreman to kill Cresceus when he saw 

 him suffering from distemper. The foreman put the 

 colt out of sight until he recovered. In time Cresceus 

 reduced the world's record to 2:021/4, and proved to 

 be one of the best race horses that ever wore har- 

 ness. 



John H. Shults paid thousands for stallions, one 

 item being $28,000 for Pancoast. Axworthy, the 

 best sire he ever owned cost him $500. Hamburg 

 Belle, his fastest trotter, owed her existence to E. 

 T. Bedford seeing Axworthy brush on the Parkville 

 Farm track. He bred Sally Simmons to him and got 

 Sally Simmons IL She was fast but a knee knocker. 

 John E. Madden purchased her and shod her so she 

 went clear. He changed her name to Hamburg Belle, 

 won a number of races with her, and sold her for 

 $50,000 after she defeated Uhlan in 2:J01l^. 



In 1891, while at the Vina Ranch of Governor 

 Leland Stanford, in California, Orrin A. Hickok took 



