WALNUT HALL AND CRUICKSTON PARK 



are the fastest trotters from his loins. The princely 

 revenues of the great brewing plant are forgotten 

 when Mr. Ruppert is at Hudson River Farm show- 

 ing Oakland Baron and his foals to appreciative 

 friends. The trotting meetings given at the Driving 

 Park by Mr. Ruppert are enjoyable affairs, and 

 every winner of a purse feels sure of his money. 



Mr. H. N. Bain, who does the major part of the 

 work at these meetings, is another successful Dutchess 

 County breeder and horse-show exhibitor. The 

 late David S. Hammond, who had made a study of 

 producing lines, was laying with excellent judgment 

 at the time of his death the foundations of a breeding 

 farm in Dutchess County near the hills, which he 

 climbed when a barefooted boy. 



Some years ago I was at the table of the leading 

 hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, when a gentleman who 

 sat opposite and who had heard me speak to my 

 daughter of a letter just received from Edwin 

 Thorne, handed me his card. I read the name, 

 James Roosevelt, Hyde Park, and then knew that 

 the breeder of Gloster, 2.17, was my neighbor. 

 Mr. Roosevelt took great interest in this phenomenal 

 son of Volunteer, and believed that, but for his un- 

 timely death, he would have obtained championship 

 honors. Love of good horses and manly sport was 

 inherited by President Theodore Roosevelt. 



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