Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1920 — RECORD PRICE FOR AN AMERICAN BRED HORSE [ARTICLE]

RECORD PRICE FOR AN AMERICAN BRED HORSE

A record price for an American* bred race horse was paid by Gifford \A. Cochran of New . York for Major August Belmont’s stallion. Fair Play, sire of Man o’ War and Mad Hatter. The animal was sold for. >IOO,000 in cash. The" previous highestprice paid for a horse bred in America was >70,000, which William O. Whitney gave for Hamburg. The imported racer, Rock Sand, was sold by mpnt in 1912 for >150,000. i’,. r flS.'vAr’ -'-i