| Color: b Height: 2:02¼
ATR 65671
bred by P. W. Harvey, Cleveland, Ohio. The fasted sire/trotter to came over the ocean; came in the beginning of November 1924 to Austria, transported by train by Harry Godderidge (trainer; for W. Schlesinger & Co., Wien) from England via Holland, Germany/Passau/Bavaria to Wien/Vienna. In Linz/Austria had to shunt the wagon and Godderidge had to leafe the wagon. But he didn't want to leafe this valuable horse; At station Aggsbach (between Linz and Amsdetten) he was found seriously injured in the head, unconsciously, in the railway carriage and was taken to the Amsdetten hospital. He came to consciousness for a short time and kept saying: it wasn't the horse - the iron box, the iron box...! Died November 11, 1924 in this hospital by brain bleeding; Service in Austria 1925, station Wien-Kagran; This sire had service 1926-1929 in Hungary/Ungarn, and 1931-1932 again; was sold to Germany in 1932, owned by Arnold von Schlüter, Landstallmeister ausser Dienst, stud/Gestüt Schweinert an der Warthe (now Poland, Świniary, powiat międzyrzecki, gminie Skwierzyna);
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