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twenty Allertons for $16,415, an average of $820. James 

 Butler selected the flower of the flock when he purchased 

 Gayton, with a record of 2:18^4, for $1,150. He raced 

 him for two seasons, reduced his record ten seconds, and 

 sold him under the hammer at the February sale in 1901 

 for $9,000 to a European buyer. At this sale, Mr. Butler 

 also sold Royal Victor, 2:08^4, f° r $3>6o°> an d Cephas, 

 2:1 1% , for $2,000 or $2,500 less than the gelding cost 

 him in March. The $6,200 paid for Alice Leyburn was 

 the top figure at this sale, the report of which shows that 

 Brignoli Wilkes, 2 :i4>4, was bid off for $5,000; Que Al- 

 len, 2:09^, for $4,600; Emily, 2:11, for $4,200; Intact, 

 2:19^4, for $3,500; Hornelia Wilkes, 2:16%, for $3,600; 

 Athanio, 2:10, for $2,800; Bowman, 2:17^, for $2,500, 

 and Valence, 2 :i2^, for $2,025. 



In 1898, Fasig & Co. held five sales, three of them 

 being in New York, one at Cleveland and one at Clover 

 Dell Farm, Colmar, Pa. During the year one thousand 

 eight hundred and sixty-eight horses were disposed of for 

 $543,522, an average of $289.90. At the first sale in 1898, 

 the Hermitage Farm, of Nashville, Tenn., sold thirty-one 

 head for $25,370, an average of $818, its highest priced 

 lots being Ponce De Leon, $3,500 ; Percy, $3,800 ; Admiral 

 Symmes, $1,800; Preston, the disappointment of the Ken- 

 tucky Futurity, $1,415; Tosca, $2,000; Rosy Morn, 

 $1,300, and Belle Archer, $1,025. Sphinx at $2,500 was 

 the best bargain at this sale at which Planet, 2 104^4, sold 

 for $6,000, the top figure; Chanty, $1,550; Dan O., 

 $2,000; Ansel Chief, $1,200, and Gazette, 2:07^, for 

 $2,150. In March, $59,742 was paid for two hundred and 

 seventy-one head, the yearling record breaker Adbell, 

 2 123, at $3,000 being the highest priced lot. He was pur- 

 chased by W. E. Spiers for the Suburban Farm, and when 



