Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1891 — HORSE NOTES. [ARTICLE]

HORSE NOTES.

The Rensselaer Stock Farm have sent ten head of their trotters to Delphi, Ind., under charge of A. L. Padgitt, to be worked on the gravel road there until the spring mild dries up here. These are the horses that the Farm expect to campaign this year and it is a very promising lot. To show the growth of the trotting horse interest in the United States, it may be stated that there are stakes opened by the different associations to the value of over 1200,000.00 to be competed for by foals of 1890, and a single colt may win all these stakes. It will thus be seen that the earning capacity of the trotting ;Jiorse is greater than any other animal. The Rensselaer Stock Farm stallion Pluto is entered in the florae Review $15,000 guaranteed purse, and any one of his get of 1891 is eligible to start for this rich purse without paying any entrance money. You never can tell where lightning will strike, and it might happen that this valuable stake might be won by a Rensselaer bred colt. Clothing at Leopold's sells itself, as the prices are low, quality Number One and style superb. Call and investigate.