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$2,200. The balance of the New York sales in 1894 were 

 held in November, the Kalamazoo Farm consignment be- 

 ing- the attraction at the first one. It sold sixty-four head 

 for $44,065, the highest priced lots being Belle Vara 

 $4,100, Ambassador $3,000, Dancourt $2,100, Vassar 

 $2,200, Nell, dam of Belle Vara, Yassar, etc., $2,000, and 

 Suisun, now a brood mare, $1,800. Matthew Riley also 

 sold seven head for $6,685, John H. Shults paying the top 

 figure when he bid $3,000 for Kitty Bayard, 2 \i2 l / 2 . This 

 sab and the one that followed the Horse Show, proved 

 that the tide was beginning to turn, as $157,748 was real- 

 ized for three hundred and forty-five head, an average of 

 $454.34. At the second November sale George Ketcham 

 disposed of eight head for $10,100, while Monroe Salis- 

 bury sold thirteen from his racing stable for $14,820, and 

 the \Yedgewood mare Wistful, 2 :i 3^, brought $6,900. 

 Of the Ketcham lot Miss Lida, 2:10^4, sold for $3,200, 

 Nyanza, 2:12%, for $3,000, and Miss Rachel, 2:20, for 

 $1,100. Of the others that sold for over Si, 000 the re- 

 port of the sale shows Lena Holly $2,500, Uncle Josh 

 $2,250, Edenia, $1,750, Celaya $1,900, and Glen Mary 

 $2,100, and the colt trotter Dick Russell, that failed to 

 come up to expectations, $2,450. 



But two more sales of trotters w T ere held by the Tatter- 

 sall Companies. The first of them was cried at Buffalo, 

 January 16 to 18, 1895, when one hundred and forty head 

 were disposed of for $24,260, the highest priced lot in the 

 catalogue being the pacing filly Whirligig, 2 :io. She sold 

 for $1,115. Their last sale was in Madison Square Garden, 

 New York, February 27 to March 1, when $51,500 was 

 paid for one hundred and sixty-eight head. At this sale 

 Pixley, 2:o8}4, and Monbars, 2:11^4, again appeared. 

 Monbars was sold for $3,500, and Pixley for $3,100. 



