HAMLIN AND SPEED DEVELOPMENT 



won a stake in 2.30!. As a three-year-old Chimes 

 was troubled with a quarter crack, which knocked 

 the poetry out of his action, and some of the critics 

 called him the lobster of the Beautiful Bells family. 

 Although Chimes never crossed the 2.30 line, he 

 proved his quality by transmitting speed. As a sire 

 he holds higher rank than any other son of Beautiful 

 Bells. The Abbot, 2.03^, was from his loins. 



It was under date of April 29, 1891, that Mr. 

 Hamlin wrote me: 



" I have withdrawn Mambrino King from public 

 service. For the remainder of his life he will be used 

 as a private stallion." 



The blood of Chimes nicked well with that of 

 Mambrino King. The Abbot, for instance, is by 

 Chimes, out of Nettie King by Mambrino King. 



Sunol, after passing from Leland Stanford to 

 Robert Bonner, was the sensation of the hour, and 

 Mr. Hamlin was exceedingly anxious to secure her 

 for Buffalo Park, knowing that she would attract a 

 big gate. He conceived that one way to do this 

 was to circulate rumors of his eagerness to match 

 Belle Hamlin against her. As Belle Hamlin was not 

 in Sunol's class, the match-making talk was irri- 

 tating to Mr. Bonner and Senator Stanford. I knew 

 one way to silence the talk, and that was to offer to 

 trot Sunol against Belle Hamlin for a large sum of 

 money, winner to take all. It was not difficult to 

 find the money for such a proposition, and, as Sena- 



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