WALNUT HALL AND CRUICKSTON PARK 



his time and finally pointed to Chimes as the star 

 producer of the family. 



The training department was located at Mead- 

 ville, and the mile track was a kite and the half-mile 

 track was of the regulation pattern. Under Marvin 

 the Prospect Hill trotters went out to do battle for 

 the big prizes of the track and were moderately suc- 

 cessful. I recall a visit to Franklin with Robert 

 Bonner and W. R. Allen as the guests of Mr. Sibley, 

 and, after dinner and a game of billiards for diges- 

 tion, the convention was called to order for the dis- 

 cussion of breeding questions. The night was far 

 spent before we closed our eyes in sleep, and the next 

 morning we took the train for Meadville to hold our 

 watches on the horses in training. Mr. Sibley 

 drifted into politics, and Mr. Miller soon after fol- 

 lowed his example, and then Prospect Hill Stock 

 Farm dropped from its place of importance. The 

 catalogue of 1895 ' ls tne most expensive work of the 

 kind ever issued. There are 364 pages with 58 

 illustrations, and the information given covers the 

 whole field of trotting-horse breeding. The special 

 copy sent me is bound in morocco and embossed in 

 gold. I place high value on it. Mr. Sibley was 

 largely responsible for the transfer of the American 

 Trotting Register to the Association of which Wil- 

 liam Russell Allen is President, and he has for a 

 number of years been an influential member of 

 the Board of Appeals of the National Trotting 

 Association. 



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