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to be sold at auction on October 24, 1882, by Peter C. 

 Kellogg & Co. While the sale was in progress L. D. 

 Packer directed the attention of J. B. Perkins, of Cleve- 

 land, to the black colt by Kentucky Prince, out of Flora 

 Gardiner, by Seely's American Star, and backed his re- 

 marks with the assurance of John Hogan that he was the 

 best prospect for a trotter ever foaled on the farm. When 

 the black colt was led out Jacob B. Perkins bought him 

 for $460. He shipped him to Cleveland with a three- 

 year-old filly by Messenger Duroc, purchased at the same 

 sale, and wintered him at the Twin Elm Farm on Lake 

 Avenue. When the spring came the colt was, on account 

 of his size, gelded and broken to harness. As the sum- 

 mer days were being marked off the calendar, stories of 

 the fast three-year-old at the farm on Lake Avenue found 

 their way across the Cuyahoga River and finally reached 

 Glenville. James McKeever was training him on the 

 farm track, and it did not take him long to find that the 

 Kentucky Prince gelding was a star in embryo. In due 

 time the youngster was named Guy, after one of Mr. Per- 

 kins' boys, and taken to the Cleveland Driving Park. W. 

 J. Gordon saw him step, and asked for a price. It was 

 $10,000. After a little sparring, he bought him for 

 $6,000 with the understanding that he would pay an ad- 

 ditional $4,000 if Guy should beat 2 :20 as a four-year- 

 old. From that time there was a standing order that Guy 

 was not to trot better than 2 :20, while it was understood 

 about the track that the first man who caught Guy a mile 

 below 2 :20 would get a new suit of clothes. Few watches 

 were idle when Guy was being worked and finally one 

 morning "Tom" McCabe timed him in 2:19. When 

 speaking of it he said that Guy was jogged to the half in 

 1 113 with the intention of letting him finish at speed, and 



