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1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 29
The Horse.
First Prize Young Herd of Morgan Horses at St. Louis Exposition. Owned by the Highlands Farm, L. L. Dorsey,
Anchorage, Ky.
The Morgan horse is the oldest and most distincti ve reproducing native type in America. They are justly
famous for symmetry, docility, intelligence, steadiness and speed.
NOTES.
A fitting tribute to Virginia's largest breeder of ligbt
harness horses was the recent election of Samuel Walton,
of Falls Mills, as a member of the Board of Directors of
the American Trotting Association, at the meeting of the
latter organization held in New York City. Certainly Mr.
Walton's selection for the position mentioned meets with
general approval, as he is not only Virginia's representative
breeder of trotters, but the largest also, maintaining
at Walton Farm a stud of over one hundred head of richly
bred stallions, brood mares and young things, in addition
to a large stable of horses in training. Mr. Walton is a
man of large affairs and has amassed a competency in busi-
ness, being now the head of the big railroad contracting
firm of S. Walton Company, while he is also a close stu-
dent of blood lines, and on pedigrees there are few better
informed men to be found in this country. Walton Farm
with its broad acres and many well-bred horses, has for
nearly twenty years past sent out and campaigned a sta-
ble of trotters each season and with a goodly share of
success, too, as attested by the winning performances of
Catherine Leyburn, 2:141-4; Skinful, 2:171-4; Wilbooka,
2:19 1-4, all of former years; and Margie Z., 2:16 1-4; Mag-
gie Carrell, 2:17 1-4, and others bred at the farm during the
past decade. Mr. Walton is president of the Virginia cir-
cuit of fairs and race meetings and in that organization
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Princena, the bay mare, by Sidney Frince, 2 : 21 1-4, dam
his influence is strongly felt.
Benzeota, by Bendee, son of General Benton, made the
most successful campaign during the seaosn just closed
that has ever been credited to any Virginia bred trotter,
as she began the season perfectly green and starting sixteen
times in fifteen weeks she won eleven races, was
second four times and once third, retiring with a record
of 2:19 1-4. Her campaign being through the Southern
Circuit, she was shipped over 1,500 miles and never missed
a feed during the whole time. She was raced on nine half
mile and five mile tracks, starting in sixty-seven heats,
cf which she won fifty-two and was close up at the finish
of most of the remainder. The remarkable part of the
mare's history is that she was driven by no less than five
different drivers, all of whom won with her. Princena was.
foaled in 1902 and bred by Fioyd Brothers, Bridgetown, Va.,
who own her sire and dam. She is a rich bay in color
and of a very racy type, and is considered the making of
a 2:10 trotter. Her sire, Sidney Frince, 2:211-4, the son
of Sidney, 2:19 3-4 and Crown Point Maid, who heads the
Floyd Farm at Bridgetown, is getting a lot of speed,
having some twenty-five or more of his sons and daughters
in the list, of which nine made their record in 1907; among
them being Princine, 2:10 1-4, Zack, 2:15 1-2, a winner of
many races, and O. J. 2:27 3-4, the latter being a two-yearold
and the fastest trotter of his age yet bred in Virginia.
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The family of Bingen, 2:06 1-4, in the ripeness of its
fame, is very popular at Fredericksburg, Va,, among its
firmest advocates being Col. W. L. Laughlin, of the Exchange
Hotel; A. Randolph Howard, the banker and horse
show patron; Count Raoul d'Adhemar, the courtly Parisian,
who presides over beautiful Moss Neck Manor on the
banks of the Rappahannock; A. B. Lewis, of Wyldewood