EAST VIEW AND OTHER FARMS 



2.14. Mr. Butler is choice as to brood mares, and 

 success has come and will continue to come to him 

 by adhering to this policy. The owner of East View 

 Farm usually has two campaign stables out each 

 summer, and he contributes to the general entertain- 

 ment, even when he does not win a majority of the 

 purses. 



Long before Robert Bonner had thought of own- 

 ing a champion trotter out of Miss Russell, his 

 brother David was driving Cora Belmont by Bel- 

 mont, out of Miss Russell, on the road, and pre- 

 paring her for what he hoped would be a great 

 career. But Cora Belmont was injured in being 

 frightened by a passing street car, and then an offer 

 was made for her by William Simpson, which was 

 accepted, and the sister of Nutwood earned a place 

 in the table of Great Brood Mares. Mr. Simpson 

 was a very modest buyer of trotters up to that time. 

 At Cuba, N. Y., he founded Empire City Stud, and 

 the pedigrees to which he drew public attention were 

 gilt-edged. Outside of Governor Stanford, he was 

 the only breeder who could point to a stallion by 

 Electioneer, out of a daughter of George Wilkes. 

 Hummer was bred at Palo Alto, and his sire, Elec- 

 tioneer, was the rival of George Wilkes, from whose 

 loins came Edith, dam of Hummer. The best trotter 

 sired by Hummer was Bouncer, a mare campaigned 

 by Mr. Simpson, and who trotted to a record of 2.09. 

 Edith, bred to Mendocino, son of Electioneer, pro- 

 duced Idolita, who trotted to a record of 2.12 at 



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