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hundred and seventy-seven lots sold for $141,590. The 

 Shady Side Farm consignment from Louisville, Ky., was 

 the star feature, and as the sale, as Fasig termed it in his 

 advertising, was "imperative and absolute," the pros- 

 pective buyers bid freely. The handsome stallion 

 Greenlander, 2:15^4, was the highest-priced lot. He 

 sold for $9,500, while Earl, 2:23^4, his stable companion, 

 realized $5,100. Of the other members of the consign- 

 ment, Greenlander Boy sold for $2,800, Gypsy Earl, 

 $2,050 ; the brood mare Aurelia, $4,800, and Katie Wilkes 

 $3,000. At the sale thirty head sold for $1,000 or over, 

 this list including in addition to those already named, 

 Persica, $3,600; Fanchion, $2,700; Brilliant, $2,525, and 

 Edna, $2,025. The second sale was held May 17 to 20. 

 It failed to come up to expectations, there being but four 

 of the one hundred and eighteen head sold for four fig- 

 ures. They were Dirigo, for which $10,500 was bid; 

 Wilmarch, $2,625 ; Elda B., $1,950, and Tip Tyler, $1,000. 

 At the March sale, W. B. Fasig purchased in partnership 

 with Volney French, the black gelding Rifle, by Elyria, 

 for $520. In due time the youngster developed into a 

 trotter, and after being campaigned by Fasig, who event- 

 ually became sole owner, trained on to a record of 

 2:1124. 



Nine of the twelve class races, on the programme for 

 the Cleveland Grand Circuit meeting in 1892, were won by 

 the favorites, the three that failed to connect being Kath- 

 erine S. in the first race on the card, which was won by 

 Myrtle R., the Texas horse, H. C. T., and Kitty Bayard. 

 On the opening day Martha Wilkes and Robert J. made 

 good, the Hartford gelding reducing the race record for 

 four-year-old pacers to 2:12^, a mark that he cut to 

 2 109^4 at Buffalo the following week in his memorable 



