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S500. The report of the sale shows that twenty-six horses 

 sold at figures between Si, 000 and $2,000 and that eight 

 brought between $2,000 and $4,000. Suisun was pur- 

 chased by John Madden for $10,100, the Leland mare, 

 Clara, brought $7,500, Calhoun by Pilot Medium $4,900, 

 Mambrino Sparkle $3,950, and the Harold stallion, Hart- 

 ford, $3,750. A few minutes after Hartford was sold, the 

 ten-year-old mare Geraldine, by Jay Gould, was led in. 

 She brought $160. A yearling, by Hartford, out of Ger- 

 aldine, was not considered good enough to offer, and his 

 breeder told Champ Brown, of Williamsport, Pa., to take 

 him. Brown raised the little knee-sprung gelding, broke 

 him. and found that he had a flying pacer. He named 

 him Robert J., started him a few times, and after killing 

 Pendennis in a race at Fleetwood Park, Xew York, sold 

 him to C. J. Hamlin. The purchase was made at the sug- 

 gestion of Ed Geers, and in his hands the Hartford geld- 

 ing, after proving one of the best pieces of racing material 

 that ever wore harness, reduced the world's record to 

 2:01^, over the "four-cornered" track at Terre Haute. 



The Cleveland Driving Park added two world's rec- 

 ords to its list at the Grand Circuit meeting in 1889. One 

 of these was scored in the free-for-all, in which Roy 

 Wilkes, in the second heat, equalled the world's record for 

 pacing stallions when he won in 2:13, and which was re- 

 duced to 2 : 12^/2 in the next heat, when, after stalling Roy 

 Wilkes off at the distance, Brown Hal finished half a 

 length in front of Gossip, Jr. Axtell was the second 

 champion. He was started against the three-year-old trot- 

 ting record of 2 '.1^/2 and reduced it to 2 '.\-\Y\. Later in 

 the season he placed the figure for three-year-old trotters 

 and trotting stallions at 2:12, and was sold for $105,000. 

 While at Cleveland. C. W. \\ llliams also reduced Aller- 



