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BOLSHEVIKI CONFISCATE OUR HORSES Noted and Valuable Trotter Sold for a Song in the Land of Red Terror. Most of the trotting studs in Riisisa hare been confiscated by the Bolslieviki, and the many noted American stallions in them sold for prices and purposes of the common untility horses, according to the London . Live Stock . Journal. General II.. 2:044 and Willy, 2:05, two staljions that won memorable races at the Empire track on the same day during-the Grand Circuit meeting there in 1910, are reported to be among those which shared this fate. Willy, then owned by Louis W. Winans of Brighton, England, and valued at 5,000, was sold by the Bolshevists for . the English paper says, while General II., equally valuable, went for about the same price. From time to time, ever since the Bolslieviki gained control in Russia, reports and. rumors have reached horsemen here that the American trotters were being seized and sold for menial service. The land of the red terror has taken hundreds of our fast ones, including Cresceus. 2:02 , holder of the worlds record in his day; Billy Burke, 2:03, for which 0,000 was paid by the Russian ambassador to the late J. Howard Ford of New York: Bob Douglas, 2:04; Baden. 2:05m, sold by a Jersev City horseman for 35,000; Onvard Silver, 2:05; Allen Winter. 2:HS,, sold by a former Brooklyn horseman for 5,000, and Jay McGregor, 2:07, the sire of Inia Jay, 2:05.
