Show AND hia OWNER rh ETO alion of both man aal hone lle rahl lovers of race horses will be to learn something more about axtell the trotter a record of at cleveland W wil liatas of independence iowa ilia success hag trotting horsemen everywhere its all luck say acme men others de dare williamae Willi amas methods are original and wonderfully effective am there is in teem we do not understand tue aday mornine drove arlell a lull mile in and then turned him around and 6 at him a quarter iu 33 seconds he ought to be stop ped that kind of work will ruin that colt said an observe r dm t slop him answered a well known driver am colls appear to be doing well enough belter ihan anybody else s colts ever did and we want to see what will behe alti ulti train ingS air williams is a young farmer with no inclination lor etyle in clevelend on thursday he was in a gray mixed mit and wore 1 f linw aliat liat somewhat and tipped forward over hid ayea there was nothing to indicate that he was a shrewd ho iseman or rich in horse flesh or other property he h beard less and his strength of individuality he bisot rather slight build biern in columbia county new ark in he came ast when 11 yeam old his located in iowa here he remaina rem aind devoting him self to farming and dairying until 1877 he always liked horses with the first money he ever owned he bought a pony and from that pony grew a cesire fur belter animals he did not sauly breeding theories ur pedigreed pedigrees grees but like the average farmer had a good general idea ot the choicest chi strains of trotting bloisi anil what conati a well bred animal As a driver he had ni pretensions he could n road boric and could steer ID animal drawing a dairy wagon so as to get along without and there his qualifications as a stopped AB tor conditioning a horse for speed that was something of which he profoundly ignorant in he had occasion to visit dubuque frank D stout the wealthy breeder of that city had some mares which he wished to get rid of to get some horses for general work williams concluded to look at if ferins to him ai well as to all other men raised on a farm an animal that could step some was better than one that could only go slow he picked out three mares at stouts for a span of full sisters he paid for a third cuare be paid in 1775 he moved to chicago and established the charles creamery on the north side in the spring of that jear he concluded to breed a couple of the stout ca the span of lull sisters were by boy dim by mambrino royal he by main brino pilot the other mare was by mambrino Mam hrino 13 y and her dam by george Wilk tir williams split the span and bread the mare he liked bast to william L the anre out of george hilkea mare hoherd to jay bird the bruil aws were respective lly and the product was axtell and Alle itou coaled foaled tte spring of 1886 ac a form which williams hal bought at independence in 1887 lie moved the tall of that year the colts were broken then they were turned out for the winter in march were given their first work which was jigging on the road june 1 they were put on the track in nil their cacie williams sat behind them rhay did so well that he entered them in u number arlell wan nominated for three vearold vear old events at keokuk and des monies about aug 1 when he bad been irined only two he won the three year old flake at keokuk and trotted a mile on a half mile track in 2311 his next was at washington park chicago aug 20 when he trotted a mile in at minneapolis he gained a record ot after winning a three year old stake at aca moices and doing miles over the half mile tracks ac and cedar kapiris in and respectively he waa bent to Le to go lor a record he trotted tao heats e the first willi a break in and the second in then be was turned out for the winter last spring he was placed in the stud a book ot twenty marea at each being quickly filled while doing stud duly he was jog ged regularly about jaue 1 he began to get fair work which baa since been gradually increased his first appearance app earence as a three year uld was at cedar rapids in the last week of june over one half mile track there he reduced his ecord to then he was shipped to minneapolis where he trotted july 2 and beat all three and four year old returning to cedar rapids july 4 he reduced hia record over a half mile track to 2201 if hi anea enst it will be to perform in specials his owner has colluded not tu take any with him iu big fields axtell is a bay colt with a star and stripe standing 15 hands 3 inches high aud weighing in trotting condition 1000 pounds he wears five ounce shoes forward and four ounce shoes on each hind loot and i with aa easy flexible lit an open bridle and an over shock which is never drawn tight head welt up oiling io company i firm hold going wise de not pull i pound and can be placed ani here allerton is a brown colt 16 anda high in condition he weighs pounds his record ia now he earned in the fitus this spring whan aked if he would name bricea on hia wonderful culia mr williams gaid they are not for aale if they were nothing wa than would tempt ine to part with aau 11 end biot a beul IM alian for Aller I 1 ibave not opened a book for axtell tor next beasom but people are me to do eo and offering fees of ilig fee next leaion will be the highest ever charged for aej stallion in the united states |