Famed Luchsinger Stables Raced Winners At Green County Fair
The Luchsingers built a famed harness stable from early 1900s Wisconsin trots. Calumet Delco and Peter McKinney led their line, with Arlie Frost as trainer and reinsman. After years of success and deaths of key horses and partners, racing slowed after World War II.
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Luchsingers
Green County Fair
F. B. Luchsinger
Mrs. Luchsinger
Luchsinger
New Mexico
Arlie Frost
Missouri
Firemen Save Horse Barn At 1947 Monroe Fair
Monroe fire department prevented a potential disaster at the 1947 fair when a horse barn caught fire. Firemen removed 12 saddle horses without injury and controlled burning hay and the roof. Two other calls arrived during the fair for a racetrack infield blaze and a gasoline engine fire powering a Ferris wheel.
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Monroe
Calumet Delco Set Trot Records in Monroe History
Among Monroe history figures is Calumet Delco, bay trotting stallion owned by F. B. Luchsinger in the 1930s. He held three world marks for two-year-olds driven by Arlie Frost, set at half mile tracks, and won ten straight 2-year-old trots. In 1933 he dominated the Bay State circuit, set a 2.05% record at Springfield Futurity, and later 2:04 in Milwaukee stakes. Sold in 1935 to a French owner, shipped to Europe and reportedly won 24 races that season. His fame faded until a 1946 note.
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Luchsinger
Calumet Delco
Europe
Peter McKinney
Lexington
Peter
Colleen Frisco
Frisco
Colleen
Arlie Frost
Indiana
Aurora
Ill
Fairgrounds
Wisconsin
Adbella Axworthy
Quinn and Houslet
Oxford
Wis
Canada
Idle Hour Farm
Eugenia Harvester
Susie Elder
Luchsingers
Miss Cliff
Diamond McDonid
Miss
May Ludlow
Henry Ludlow
Arabat Ludlow
Green County
the Fair Society
Illinois Centre
Monticello Road
Orlando
Fla
Sonny M
George Mauerman Jr
Barbara Brookdale
Kentucky
Luch
Monroe
F. B. Luchsinger
Salumet Farms
New York State
William Quinn
Mr. Luchsinger
Quinn and Jousset
Bay State
New England
Springfield
W. J. Rosemire
Longwood
France
Baker To Miss Fair This Year Blacksmith Here For 19 Seasons
Baker from Ontario Iowa will miss the Centennial Green County Fair after a 16 week hospital stay following a serious operation at Ames Iowa. He has been a blacksmith for nearly 60 years and is known for shoeing horses at racing meets. Friends sent cards from Monroe and beyond as he recovers, with fair organizers uncertain if he can return to work.
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Baker
Green County Fair
Ontario
Ames
Louis Wolleson
Fair
Springfield
Arlie Frost
Wolleson
Monroe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dave Baker
Times
Harness horses make European history at Vienna race card
In Austria a Vienna race card showed racers sired by Calumet Delco making harness history. Calumet Delco was among the notable harness horses owned by Mr. and Mrs. Luch singer at Idle Hour Farm as they ran their stables.
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Austria
Vienna
Green County Fair 1943 Not Abandoned Century Note
At a December 1 1942 directors meeting Louis R Wolle son warned gas rationing could end the 1943 Green County Fair profitably. Arlie Frost optimistic about future. plan kept with officers and directors re elected. The fair was not abandoned and would mark the centennial observance of the Green County Fair.
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Cros W
Green County Fair
Louis R. Wolleson
Arlie Frost
Speed
Theo Bayrhoffer
Wolleson
Brooks J. Dunwiddie
Roscoe Smith
William A. Brown
Conrad Stauffacer
R. W. Prien
Claude A. Roderick
Whch
Monroe Driver Hurt In 1938 Racing Spill
During the 1938 County Fair races in the second heat of the 2 20 pace driving Braden Azoff Weeks sulky wheel tangled with Lee Morrisey on Louise Signal. Louise Signal fell and Morrisey was tossed. Weeks crashed into the sulky. Neither horse injured. In 1942 fairgoers faced wartime rationing and thirst.
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Braden Azoff
Weeks
Lee Morrisey
Louise Signal
Morrisey
Fred Blumer’s Horse Dominates County Classic at Fair
The 1904 Golden Jubilee Fair features Green County horses with Fred Blumer’s Miss Cullum sweeping the opening colt and pace heats. Taylor H, owned by John Strange of Oshkosh, wins the 2:12 pace. Weekend cards include 2:40 trot and 2:23 pace events, plus quarter and half mile runs with Taylor H again notable.
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Fred Blumer
Golden Jubilee
Green County
Thomas Cunningham
Babe Cullum
H. T. Chandler
Ban Court
Miss Cullum
Blumer
Taylor H
John Strange
Oshkosh
Shaw Horses Sweep Day's Events in 1938 Pace Meet
Shaw drove Jene Talmadge to victory in the 2:18 pace at West Allis on August 12 1938, owned by Mayor Del Miller. He then piloted Azie McElwyn owned by 5 C Woody Madison to the 3-year-old win and Clyde Scott in the 2:15 pace. The prior day Shaw set a state record with Gene Talmadge for 3-year-old pacers in the 2:28 pace.
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Ts Suan
Shaw
Jene Talmadge
del Miller
West Allis
Azie McElwyn
5. C. Woody
Madison
Clyde Scott
Woody
Gene Talmadge
Pacers
Knight of Strathmore the World Mile Record Holder
The long life story of George Bleiler's chestnut pacer Knight of Strathmore details his 1910 world mile record of 2 06 4 at Monroe and a career spanning 1910 to 1926. The stallion won 39 of 99 races earning about 20000 dollars, with notable rival Calumet Delco and trainer Standouts including Frost Hawley Anderson Chandler. Bleiler, Monroe native and stock dealer, kept close to the horse, later selling him to Chicago and finally Dora of Mattoon before the horse died of pneumonia in Ontario in 1926.
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Green County
George Bleiler
Knight
Strathmor
Monroe
Are Frost
Sam Hawley
Sac City Jn
Homer Anderson
Bert Chandler
Mr. Bleiler
Calumet Delco
F. B. Luchsinger
Mr. Luchsinger
Europe
Knight of Strathmore
Twelfth Night
Eleanor B
Strathmore
Patches Wilkes Stock Farm
Lexington
Chicago
Middlewest
Dallas
Phoenix
Ariz
Bleiler
Knight of
Robert S. Dora
Mattoon
Til
Ella B. Dora
Zurich
Ontario
Canada
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Queen Worthy
Adbella Watts
the Waffle Shop
Mr. and
Mrs. Alden Hawthorne
F. B. Luesinger
Cold Springs
First Horse Cemetery
Ralph E. Niffennegger
Grace Walker
Red Goose
John C. Roberts
Fittine Shoe Store
Dixie Shop
Monroe Township
John
Catherine Meier Bleiler
Germany
New Glarus
Barbara Babler
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