104 MEMOIR. 



A few weeks after the sale Guy was started at the 

 Grand Circuit meeting to reduce his record and Mr. Gor- 

 don had the pleasure of seeing Millard Sanders drive 

 him in 2 :io^4, a mark that he was never afterwards able 

 to equal to a high-wheel sulky. In the spring of 1893 

 Guy and Clingstone again appeared in the sale ring. W. 

 J. Gordon was dead and the executors of the estate de- 

 cided to sell the pair. When Clingstone was led into the 

 ring those present were advised that "the demon trotter" 

 was to be bid off at $100 by Daisy Gordon and to remain 

 on the place for the balance of his days. The programme 

 was carried out and Clingstone remained at Gordon Glen 

 until he was chloroformed December 23, 1899. At this 

 date Guy was thirteen. When he was led out Millard 

 Sanders wanted him. He run him up to $1,400, when I 

 said $1,500, and the horse was knocked down to me for 

 D. J. Campau, of Detroit, Mich. He put him in training 

 and that summer had the pleasure of seeing him reduce 

 the world's wagon record for trotters to 2:13, and two 

 days later cut the world's record for trotting geldings to 

 2:09^4. When he trotted in 2:13 Guy was hitched to a 

 top wagon with small wheels. His mile in 2 '.09^4 was 

 to an old-style sulky with bike attachments. Eight years 

 later, when acknowledging the receipt of a picture of Guy 

 taken when he was twenty-one, W. B. Fasig, under date 

 of October 11, 1901, wrote me as follows: "I always be- 

 lieved and always shall that Guy was one of the fastest 

 trotting horses ever harnessed." Guy died in Hartford, 

 Conn., November 11, 1902. 



At the "Red Letter Sale" three hundred and ninety-six 

 horses were sold for $226,949, an average of $562.75. 

 With the sale of Guy cut out, the average for the three 

 hundred and ninetv-five head was a small fraction under 



