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hundred and twenty-five head sold for $91,820, thirty-two 

 lots from Palo Alto realizing $18,145. The reports shows 

 that Advertiser sold for $2,600; Carrie Caswell, $3,000; 

 Juntoria, $2,100, and Eleata, one of the best race mares, if 

 not the best, ever bred at Menlo Park, for $900. The 

 highest price at this sale, $7,500, was paid for Askey, 

 2:o8>4; while Who Is it, 2:12, sold for $5,600; Queen 

 Alfred, 2:12^4, for $4,300; the champion gelding Azote, 

 2:04%, for $2,900; Red Seal, 2:10^, for $1,800, and 

 Flora Directum, $1,550. During the summer months the 

 Fasig-Tipton Company had a sale of thoroughbred year- 

 lings in Madison Square Garden, sold the trotters owned 

 by Charles E. Telford, of Rye, N. Y., disposed of a con- 

 signment from the Two-Minute Stock Farm at Cleveland 

 during the Grand Circuit meeting, and made another sale 

 for E. S. Wells at Glen-Moore, N. J., October 31. Six- 

 hundred and seventy-eight harness horses and forty-three 

 thoroughbreds were sold at the first fall sale of the 

 Fasig-Tipton Company in New York for $292,990. The 

 trotters averaged $432.13 and the thoroughbreds, all of 

 which came from Palo Alto, $445.90. Tommy Britton, 

 2 :o8, was the star. He went to Chicago on a bid of $20,- 

 000. The other high priced lots were Elloree, $4,750; 

 Sunland Belle, $3,025 ; Faustina, $2,500; what Thomas 

 Lawson termed the "highly polished gold brick ," Sagwa, 

 $7,100; Kentucky Union, $3,200; Kellar, $6,200; Locha, 

 $3,010; Flora McGregor, the dam of Elloree, $3,000; 

 Rubber, $3,500; Directly, $3,000; Louise Mac, $3,700; 

 Extasy, $3,500; Axtello, $3,600, and Grand Simmons, 

 $2,300 



In 1900, the Fasig-Tipton Company added a thorough- 

 bred department and made arrangements with William 

 Easton, who had been conducting sales as The Easton 



