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Show BILLINGS TO SELL FAMOUS TROTTERS RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 20. C. K. G. Billings announced today through his representative rep-resentative here tiia t he would sell at auction his entire trotting stud, which includes some of Uie world's most noted horses, among them The Harvester, 2:01, and Willi im, 1:5S. For "William Billings paid $30,0U0. Billings will retain only the famous gelding, Uhlan, 1:5S, which he has in California; using as a saddler, and Uou Dillon, 1 .58, world's champion trotting mare, which he retains for sentimental reasons. Billings's decision to sell his slahle follows fol-lows his recenL announcement that lie would dispose of his $1,000,000 Curies Neck estate, one of the most famous in Virginia. Two weeks ao he sold Tyron hall, near Washington Heights, New York, and announced he would go to California Cali-fornia to live. |