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owner of the horse some money and the other three colts 

 for his interest in the pair. The two selected were the 

 only trotters in the bunch. The filly was named Keokee, 

 and raced successfully, taking a record of 2:20*^, but in 

 the last heat in which she ever started she was timed sep- 

 arately in 2:1334, while Fasig also drove her a mile in 

 2 .22 to a road wagon over the Cleveland track. Wyan- 

 dot was the name selected for the colt. He was a nervy 

 little chap but unfortunate, and he finally died on Septem- 

 ber 11, 1 89 1, the day after he trotted to a record of 2 119^. 

 The following year William B. Fasig selected a picture of 

 Wyandot's head as a trade mark for his sale business. 

 The first block was made from an instantaneous photo- 

 graph, but at a later date he had Frank Whitney, at the 

 suggestion of the writer, make the drawing from which 

 the trade-mark used at a later date by William B. Fasig 

 & Co., and at the present time by the Fasig-Tipton Com- 

 pany, was reproduced. 



In the fall of 1882, William B. Fasig made his first 

 trip to Kentucky as a horse buyer. After swinging 

 around the circle, he returned to Cleveland with a four- 

 year-old black gelding which he purchased from a school- 

 teacher back in the country between Winchester and 

 Mount Sterling. When the sale of this gelding had been 

 completed and the money paid, the blue-grass pedagogue 

 took Fasig to one side and said : "Now, I'll tell you why 

 I sold this horse. I want a better one, and am going to 

 have as good a one as any of my friends in the neighbor- 

 hood." This was not very encouraging for a beginner, 

 but according to report the Buckeye buyer was equal to 

 the occasion, as he replied : "Horses are like the darkey's 

 opinion of white men, 'onsartin'. You may get a better 

 one, my friend, and then again you may only think he 



