Show HARNESS HOUSES HOSES COSTLY I Arion Arlon Brings ings Top Price for Fast Past i Steppers Other Notable Sales I The light harness horse is an ex expensive expensive pensive pens e beast to possess For lor some of ot the great performers of at the harness turf fortunes have hao been b en paid Others which have proved to be champions in their classes have not brought such large sums sums under the hammer but have yon won or cost their owners many hundreds of at thousands The top price ever paid for a har bar harness harness barness ness horse was This sum was paid by the late Malcom Forbes of at Boston to Leland Stanford of Cali CaU California California fornia for the trotting stallion Arion in 1892 The highest previous price paid was that being the price a syndicate put up for the trot trotting tr trotting t ting stallion Axtel 20 the 3 earold champion to high wheels S c Among other great stallions which changed hands at long prices are Di Dl Director DIrector rector 21 which sold for and Dan Patch which cost M 31 1 WS W Savage S vage Red Wilkes brought and Bell Dell Bo sold for the largest price ever paid at an auction Robert McGregor Stamboul 4 and Wilton each brought C The pacer Star Pointer was sold under the tile hammer at Glenn Glennville Glennville ville 0 O for Star Pointer had hada a record of at at that time and after being sold won several times his purchase price for his owner and then resold for Lou Dillon the queen of ot trotters was also sold at Glenville bringing The first trotter to sell for a price as high as was Pocahontas Girl which was sold in 1884 Sunol brought Nancy Hanks Ranks sold for and anU Goldsmith Maid went for These were all aU champions in their day 1 Major Melmar brought the highest price ever paid for a trotting gelding E B E Smathers paying for him himin himIn himIn in 1904 Other champions have hac brought from to |