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MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



was born the property of D. Bennett, Lexington, Ken- 

 tucky, and was sired by May King, and out of Young 

 Miss, and born in 1893. Bingen is the sire of 133 standard 

 performers, 105 trotters and 28 pacers. In his eighteenth 

 year of age he has 10 performers in the 2.10 list. He is 

 particularly noted as a sire of extreme speed, his famous 

 son. Uhlan, out of Blonde, by Sir Walter Jr., having a 



record of 1.58, 

 the champion 

 trotter of today. 

 McKinney. — 

 This horse was 

 bred by H. H. 

 AA^ilson, Cynthi- 

 ana, Kentucky, 

 and was sired by 

 Alcyone, and out 

 of Rosa Sprague. 

 He was born in 

 1887. McKin- 

 ney is the sire of 



Fig. 75.— Standardbred Stallion "McKinney," 2.II14 165 Standard 



performers, 133 

 trotters and 32 pacers. He is famous as a sire of extreme 

 speed, and at the close of 191 1 leads the list of 2.10 per- 

 formers with a total of 23 — 13 trotters and 10 pacers. 



Famous horses and prices paid. — The highest price ever 

 paid for a Standardbred horse was $125,000, paid by J. M. 

 Forbes of Boston for Arion, 2.07 J^, by Electioneer; the 

 next highest price was paid by W. P. Ijams, president of 

 the American Trotting Association, for Axtell, 2.12, by 

 William L., and the amount was $105,000; Bradley of 

 the Ardman Farm at Raritan, New Jersey, paid $50,000 

 for Bingen, 2.o6j4 ; Simpson of the Empire City Farms, 

 Cuba, New York, paid $50,000 for McKinney, 2.iij4, by 

 Alcyone. Hanna of Cleveland, Ohio, paid $50,000 for 

 Hamburg Belle, which is the highest price ever paid for 



