Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1888 — SALE OF FINE HORSES. [ARTICLE]

SALE OF FINE HORSES.

William Bn a-ell Allen Pays Charles Backman $44,100 for Teii Horses. In November, 1876, Gov. Leland Stanford visited Stony Ford, N Y.,and purchased of Charles Backman thirteen head of gilt-edge trotting stock for $41,200. This purchase was the largest qy_er made by one man up to that time. ' . Friday William Russell Allen, who is founding a breeding farm at Pittsfield, Mass., visited Stony Fofdwith Hamilton Busby and beat the Stanford record. He paid Mr. Backnjan $44,100 for ten head. Ti is is the largest sale ever made to one man. Mr. Allen has secured a Bon and a daughter and two granddaughters ofthe famous Green Mountain Maid, a daughter of the sister of Guy (record, 2:12), and a ten of the sister of Dexter (2:17}), and Dictator, sire of Jay Eye See (2:10.)