STOUT WILLIAMS CATON 



a time favors were showered on him. After selling 

 Axtell he spent money lavishly at Independence, la., 

 seeking to rival Lexington as a breeding and training 

 center, but the world would not go to what some of 

 the wits called a tank station on a railroad, and he 

 was forced to abandon the scheme. His breeding 

 and training farm is now at Galesburg, 111., and to 

 all appearances fickle fortune is again on his side. 

 The career of C. W. Williams illustrates the roman- 

 tic side of the breeding and development industry. 

 If I were writing a sensational novel, I should make 

 Williams my leading character. 



Axtell, until his death in 1906, was located at 

 Warren Park, the breeding farm of W. P. Ijams, 

 President of the American Trotting Association. His 

 star steadily grows in luster, and his line thrills with 

 life. Terre Haute was, a few years ago, quite a 

 breeding center, but Warren Park is its chief attrac- 

 tion now. Mr. Ijams has made a careful study of 

 the principles of breeding, and he is reaping in this 

 special field the benefits of knowledge. 



Arthur J. Caton was a young man highly charged 

 with enthusiasm when he started to found Caton 

 Stock Farm at Joliet, 111. His first stallion was Don 

 Cossack, purchased at Glenview, and by August 

 Belmont, out of Laytham Lass by Alexander's Ab- 

 dallah, she out of a daughter of Mambrino Chief. 

 Don Cossack was a large horse, and not smoothly 

 gaited, but Mr. Caton always praised him to the 

 skies, especially when he was having him put in 



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