152 MEMOIR. 



Charles M. Reed's team Evangeline and Lunette were also 

 in this sale. They went to Cleveland on a bid of $3,600. 



A few weeks after the above sale, William B. Fasig 

 issued. an announcement for a May sale at Cleveland un- 

 der the name of William B. Fasig & Co., the other mem- 

 ber of the firm being Ed. Hedges, who had been associated 

 with him at Tattersalls. At their first sale three hundred 

 and fifty horses were sold for $92,055, thirteen of the lots 

 running over the $1,000 mark. The fast colt, Red Bud, 

 2:14^2, was the star. He brought $4,000, while $3,500 

 was paid for Token, 2 114^2, and $2,650 for the Electioneer 

 mare, Utility, 2:20^4. In November, the week following 

 the Horse Show, the new firm made its first bow in New 

 York with a three-day sale in Madison Square Garden, at 

 which $102,085 was realized for three hundred and sixty- 

 two head, an average of $282. The Canadian bred mare 

 Wanda, 2:1734, proved the highest priced lot, John C. 

 King, of Montreal, buying her for $2,700. After two sea- 

 sons he brought her back and sold her for $1,650. Fred 

 Gerken's pair of Inter City Cup winners, Little Sport and 

 Stoneridge, sold for $2,900, and the big Wilkes Boy 

 mare, Nellie A., 2:13, that was one of the fastest colt 

 trotters of her day, for $2,025. 



In 1896, the firm of Fasig & Co. sold one thousand one 

 hundred and forty-seven horses for $409,689, an average 

 of $365.90. It held six sales, four of them being in New 

 York and one each at Cleveland and South Elkhorn, Ky. 

 The season began with a sale in New York in February, 

 when the Jewett Farm disposed of ninety-four head for 

 $42,545, Patchen Wilkes, the first lot offered in the con- 

 signment, realizing $10,025, while eleven others were sold 

 at figures between $1,000 and $2,100. During this three- 

 day sale, sixteen others sold for four figures, the list in- 



