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his record to 2:023/2. In March, 1897, Star Pointer was 

 again led into the sale ring, this time at Madison Square 

 Garden, New York, where a band again greeted a con- 

 quering hero. James A. Murphy, of Chicago, bought 

 him for $15,600 and had the pleasure of seeing Star Point- 

 er reduce the world's harness record to 1 :59/4> at Read- 

 ville, Mass., August 28, 1897. McClary drove him and 

 went with the champion when, after another trip to the 

 auctions amid the inspiring notes of "Hail to the Chief," 

 W. J. White, of Cleveland, O., paid $15,000 for the only 

 two-minute horse, to place at the head of the Two-Minute 

 Stock Farm. In September, 1896, the firm of Fasig & Co. 

 made its first and only trip to Kentucky. It disposed of 

 the South Elkhorn Farm stock. According to the incom- 

 plete published report, but thirty-six head were sold. Of 

 that number, Onward, then twenty-one years old, sold for 

 $7,250, Acolyte for $5,100 and Norval for $1,200. No- 

 vember 12, Fasig & Co. sold in Durland's Riding Acad- 

 emy, New York, twelve head of record horses owned by 

 the estate of Major Dickinson for $8,870, and on the fol- 

 lowing week opened its regular fall sale in Madison 

 Square Garden, at which three hundred head realize'! 

 $107,800, an average of $359.33. It was at this sale that 

 John R. Gentry touched the top figure, while during the 

 week George Starr paid $4,500 for the colt by Director 

 out of Winifred by William L., which has as yet failed 

 to come up to expectations, and Trevillian, 2:08^4, went 

 to Europe on a bid of $3,050. 



In 1897, Fasig & Co. held four sales in New York and 

 two in Cleveland, at which one thousand six hundred and 

 sixteen horses were sold for $439,897, an average of 

 $272.21. The season opened in January with a four-day 

 sale in Madison Square Garden and was followed by sales 



