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Show HAMBURG BELLE IS 1HE HORSE Holds Five World's Records and Is Sold for Fifty Thousand Thou-sand Dollars. Hamburg Bello was bred in New York, .foaled at. Hamburg place in Kan-tuckj', Kan-tuckj', and first, educated for the track in. tho state of Connecticut. She was fonlcd iho property of E. T. Bedford, who gave her to his daughter. Miss Emily Before!, who in turn sold her when a o-yoar-old to Edward and Joseph Madden, who last week parted wh ' hr lo 11. M. Hatina for .r50.000 TlOOOl) more than .1. Malcolm Eorbes paid lor Nancy Hanks, 2:01, when she ?'ASJ'.,,J reigning trottintr nucen. and IU.UU J more also than Robert Bonner laid down for Maud S., 2:0S :i-t, in tnnos much f lusher than thov arc today. Hi fact, $.10,000 paid for Hamburg Belle by the Cleveland turfman is a record price for a trotting mare, and yery Jew harness horses of any s'x have ever sold for a higher figure Anon. $127,000: Axtell, .SIOH.OOO, and Dan Patch. $00,000, being the only ones that ever sold for more than $00.(500. Hamburg Belle is now 7 years old, having been foaled in 1002. 'Miss Bedford Bed-ford broke her as a 2-year-old and a year later handled her for show pur-poses, pur-poses, but as a -1-vear-old she sent hor 10 the track. As a 4 and J-var-old she raced as Sally Simmons II, 'Edward and Joseph Madden ehanging her name to Hamburg Belle when they purchased hor in the fall of 1007. As a 4-voar-old she won all her slarts and took 'a mark of 2:10 1-1 on a half-mile track, while ns a i)-year-old she reduced her rcconl to 2-12 3-1, a mark also made on a half-mile half-mile track, and a world's record over such a course for a 5-ycar-old trotting mare. Last year in 1 DOS she was unbeaten, and in five most remarkable races she never lost, but one- heat. She was the fastest of the newcomers in the 2:10 list, and she went the fourth fastest milo trotting in 100S, and that, too, in a third heat in which sho took her mark of 2:01 3 - l, which was her record when she retired for the winter last season. Hamburg Belle now holds five most remarkable world's records, namcty: Fastest heat ever trotted in a race, 2:01 14. . Fastest two heats ever trotted in a race, 2:01 1-1. 2:01 3-1. Fastest three heats ever trotled in a race, 2:0j, 2:00, 2:01 3-1. Fastest third heat ever trotted in a race (tic with Jack Leyburn), 2:04 3-4. Fastest heat ou a half-milo track in a race by a o-ycar-old mare, 2:12 3-4. |