100 MEMOIR. 



What Fasig termed the "Red Letter Sale" was held at 

 Cleveland, May 13 to 19, 1889. Five hundred and sev- 

 enty-six lots were catalogued, the "boom horse" for the oc- 

 casion being the black gelding Guy, by Kentucky Prince. 

 At the time he was the only horse in sight that had a 

 chance to reduce the 2 :o8% of Maud S. which played 

 hide and seek with the sunshine in the center of the gilded 

 shoe under the arch at the entrance to the Cleveland Driv- 

 ing Park. The Gordon Glen and J. B. Houston consign- 

 ments were the star attractions for the week, Suisun in 

 the latter being written up in as glowing terms as Guy 

 and his stable companions. They were catalogued for the 

 first and second days and that every man with a horse or 

 two in the book wanted them sold on the same dates is 

 evidenced by the following characteristic petition to con- 

 signors which Fasig inserted in the catalogue: 



"It is well for Job that the system of combination 

 horse sales was inaugurated in the latter part of the nine- 

 teenth century, for had they been adopted a long time — 

 'B. C — Job might have drifted into the management of 

 one. Then Job would have lost his reputation, because, had 

 he organized a six days' sale and not been able to sell 

 all the horses the second day — which it is fair to assume 

 he could not — the consignors would have said, d — n Job. 

 Then Job would have returned the argument in kind, and 

 history would have recorded on its pages the name of 

 some other man as the hero of the patience dodge. His 

 inspiring remark, 'He saith among the trumpets, Ha ! 

 Ha!' would be lost in oblivion and the 'thunder' which 

 clothed his horse's neck would be transferred to his busi- 

 ness and have 'been to pay.' Job would have gone down 

 unwept, unhonored and unsung — a plain North American 

 combination horse sale manager and crank." 



