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hung up Stamboul's number and asked for bids. 



The sale started with a bid of $30,000. It was made 

 by Andrew J. Welch. Peter Duryea, who afterwards 

 purchased Peter the Great and took him to Kentucky, 

 raised the figure to $35,000. A member of the firm 

 of Forbes & Wallace of Springfield, Mass., was the 

 next bidder. He said $36,000. Andy Welch after 

 conferring with his partner Orlando Jones raised 

 the figure to $38,000. It looked for a few minutes 

 as if he would get him. When Kellogg was on the 

 point of knocking him down, John A. Goldsmith, who 

 had driven Stamboul, said $40,000. 



At this point another bidder appeared. He was a 

 slim built man with a black mustache and dark 

 eyes. He nodded his head for another thousand. 

 Stamboul was his for $41,000. The buyer was Edward 

 H. Harriman. Mr. Harriman drove Stamboul on the 

 speedway. He finally sent him to Goshen where he 

 died. 



Peter Manning had a different career. W. M. 

 Wright owned the Gratten mare Glenora. She had 

 speed but was unsound. At that time Mr. Wright 

 lived near Libertyville, Illinois. Further up the road 

 John R. Thompson had a farm on which he kept 

 his show horses and the trotting stallion Azoff. 



Dick McMahon trained Azoff as a two-year-old. 

 After one start an accident cancelled his turf career. 

 McMahon's home was opposite the Thompson farm. 

 He had charge of Azoff. 



One day in the spring of 1915 Mr. Wright was 

 at the Libertyville track with Glenora. She had 



