Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — A Fine Colt. [ARTICLE]

A Fine Colt.

The Rensselaer Horse Company, composed of severjai of Rensselaer’s most enterprising stock raisers, has just made a most notable addition to the fine horses of the county. They have brought from the celebrated Caton stock farm, at Joliet, 111,, the fine \ young, standard bred, Hambletonian, stallion, “Royal Cos- ! sack.” He comes of a most distinguished family, his grandsiie having been also grandsire to those two world famous trotters, “Maud S,” the “Queen of the Turf,” now the property of Robert Bonner, and 3.1. Case’s nearly equally famous “Jay Eye See.”

Mr. Caton claims that Royal Cossack is the finest colt ever raised in Illinois, and he has taken premiums at all the principal fairs in Illinois and at St. Louis. His age is two years and the price paid for him we understand to have been $2,000. His present owners do not propose to put him on the race course, but to use kim only for breeding purposes.