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of 2:07^, sold for $41,000, while H. S. Pierce paid 

 $32,450 for five mares, his selections and prices paid being 

 By-By, $10,000; Biscara, $8,250; Bon Bon, $7,500; Alma 

 Mater, at that time twenty years old, $4,100, and Xola 

 $2,600. Nancy Lee, the dam of Nancy Hanks, sold for 

 $7, 100, Astrione for S5.300, Silverone for S6,ooo, My 

 Trinket for $4,000, Dainty Bell $4,200, Almeta $4,800, 

 Alameda $5,000, and the saddest part of it is that none 

 of these high-priced ones' foals ever came up to expecta- 

 tions, although Bon Bon at a later date produced Bonnie 

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The Tattersall Companies held five sales of trotting 

 horses under William B. Fasig's management in 1893, at 

 which they sold six hundred and ninety-one head for 

 $319,729. Three of the sales were held in Xew York and 

 two in Cleveland. The year's business opened in New 

 York on February 23, with Monbars under the hammer. 

 He was bid off at $13,000 after John H. Shults intimated 

 that there was by bidding and declined to raise his offer 

 of $12,000. This was a damper on the sale, and after it 

 was over, so many other horses were returned by devious 

 ways to their original owners, the outlook for the new 

 management was not very encouraging. Of the lots put 

 up at this sale to test the market Pixley and Beuzetta were 

 destined to become the most prominent. Pixley was run 

 through the sale for $4,000. At the time she had a record of 

 2 :i6, and was considered marked for life. After the sale 

 she was placed in Budd Doble's stable, and during the sea- 

 son of 1893 proved one of the fastest but most unfortunate 

 mares that ever took the word. As the season rolled by 

 the daughter of Jay Gould became known as "Second 

 Money" Pixley, and she remained true to the record, al- 

 though many contend she was entitled to first money in the 



