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placed in charge of it. The American branch of the old 

 English sale firm absorbed the Emery & Fasig business, 

 taking the sale building at Cleveland, while it also estab- 

 lished sale marts at Chicago, where R. E. Edmonson was 

 manager, and at Lexington, Ky., where W. R. Brasfield 

 looked after its affairs. This change transferred Fasig 

 from Cleveland to New York, where he made his debut as 

 a sale manager December 20, 21 and 22. This sale was 

 held in the Cyclorama building, on the corner of Seventh 

 Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, on the evening of the days 

 selected by Peter C. Kellogg & Co., to dispose of the horses 

 owned by the Hobart estate and a few other consign- 

 ments. At this date Kellogg & Co. controlled the big rink 

 on Third Avenue, and with the exception of Madison 

 Square Garden, it was the only available building in New 

 York in which a horse could be shown at speed in harness. 

 The stock in the Tattersall sale was not of a character to 

 warrant an outlay of $1,000 a day, which was the figure 

 'asked for Madison Square Garden, when John H. Shults, 

 H. N. Smith and A. A. Bonner held the first sale in that 

 building, January 12 and 13, 1892, but by taking advan- 

 tage of so many out of town buyers being in the city, 

 Fasig sold one hundred and eight head, the majority of 

 which were youngsters on the end of a halter, for $49,830. 

 At this sale J. B. Haggin sold fifty-nine Rancho Del Paso 

 yearlings and weanlings, forty-two of which were by 

 Albert W., for $30,435, an average of $515.84, but the bal- 

 ance of the consignments did not bring what was consid- 

 ered a fair price at that period, when a man usually bought 

 a pedigree and learned later as to whether he had a horse 

 or not. At the Kellogg & Co. sale the same week the 

 Hobart estate sold sixty-eight head for $207,860, an aver- 

 age of $3,056.76. Stamboul, with a cloud on his record 



