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fornia, and in a rainstorm gave him a three-year-old 

 record of 2:19^. Later on he was sold by auction to 

 Clark & Hopper, at Lexington, for S51,000 — the 

 highest price ever paid for a horse at public sale — and 

 has since been burned to death. 



The filly Suisun was among the best of the young 

 Electioneers I had trained up to her time. She is bred 

 to trot and stay, being out of Susie, 2:26J, by George 

 M. Patchen Jr., 2:27, son of George M. Patchen, 2:23^, 

 and her grandam was by Owen Dale, son of William- 

 son s Belmont. We campaigned her in her two-year- 

 old form — 1886 — and she won each of her two races, 

 beating in the first Chastelard and Estelle, and in the 

 second Ben Hur, Victor Wilkes and Georgette, trotting 

 the third heat of her last race in 2:31|^. At Cleveland, 

 after she had gone a public trial in 2:28, we sold her to 

 W. B. Fasig for J. B. Houston, of Xew York, for $5,000. 

 Last spring Mr. Houston sold her for over §10,000, and 

 "General" Turner campaigned her in the Circuit, but 

 without getting her out of the class in which he began 

 with her. 



Chimes (brother to Bell Boy, St. Bel, Hinda Kose 

 and Palo Alto Belle) we sold to C. J. Hamlin, at the 

 beginning of our campaign of 1886 at East Saginaw, 

 for §12,000. That year he made a two-year-old record 

 of 2:33|-. I began working this colt when he was nine 

 months old, and before he was fourteen months old he 

 showed a quarter in thirty-five seconds. I regarded 

 him as one of our most promising youngsters. In his 

 two-year-old form he worked three-quarters at a 2:24 

 gait. This was at East Saginaw, after Mr. Hamlin 

 bought him. Had I kept him in my stable he would 



