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fourth heat. He was beaten by Bermuda, at Lexing- 

 ton, September 1st. At Albany he walked over twice, 

 and again met Bermuda and Nutbreaker in that great 

 three-3"ear-old race, which it took six heats to decide, 

 Kutbreaker winning a heat and making two-dead heats 

 with Bermuda, who then won. Sphinx was now a little 

 stale. He was also defeated by Kutbreaker at St. 

 Louis, and again by Wild Kake in fast time — 2:241, 

 2:21:i, 2:22f. The following year, in the hands of his 

 present owners, Sutherland & Benjamin, East Saginaw, 

 Michigan, he made a four-year-old record of 2:23. 

 Sphinx was a good race-horse, and has the action, 

 blood and individual force for a successful trotting 

 sire. 



Among the best youngsters we have sold that were 

 partially developed at Palo Alto may be mentioned 

 Bell Boy, Suisun and Chimes. It is my belief that 

 each of these three horses would now have had records 

 in the 2:20 list, or very close to it, had the}^ remained 

 at Palo Alto ; whereas, as it is, only Bell Boy has done 

 nobly, while Suisun and Chimes hang on the out- 

 skirts of 2:30, though the former has repeatedly 

 beaten that figure, and the latter showed speed enough 

 to do so. 



Bell Boy, the brother of St. Bel, Hinda Eose and 

 Palo Alto Belle was broken and worked by me as a 

 yearhng, and, after trotting a quarter in 0:38, he was 

 sold to S. A. Browne, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, for 

 $5,000. In Mr. Browne's hands, trained by Sam 

 Caton, he made a two-year-old record of 2:26. Mr. 

 Browne sold him for $35,000 to Seaman & Jefferson, 

 and in the fall of 1888, Caton brought him to Call- 



