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Company, to do the selling in connection with George 

 Bain. During the season this department held twenty- 

 four sales, at which it disposed of six hundred and thirty 

 thoroughbreds for $400,837, an average of $639.41. 

 This department proved much more profitable than the 

 harness racing field in which the firm of Fasig & Co. 

 made its reputation, as during the same period the com- 

 pany held six sales of trotters and pacers at which one 

 thousand five hundred and sixty-four lots were disposed 

 of for $654,495, an average of $418.47. In other words, 

 during the year 1900, the company sold two thousand 

 three hundred horses for $1,114,170, at an average of 

 $484.42. 



The first sale of harness horses in 1900 was held in 

 Madison Square Garden, New York, February 13 to 17, 

 three hundred and ninety-three head being auctioned for 

 $139,460. Praytell, 2:09^, one of the lots in the Robert 

 Bonner Farm consignment, brought the highest figure, 

 $6,100, his stable companions, Maud C, 2:io34> sold for 

 $2,900; Sunol, 2:o8j4, for $4,000; Worthier, $3,500; 

 Alary Tudor, $2,125; Elfrida, $1,600; Don L., $1,000; 

 Prince Ansel, $1,025, and Harold S., $1,150. Before this 

 consignment was offered, Maud S., 2:o8^£, then in her 

 twenty-sixth year, was led into the sale ring, and, as the 

 crowd rose to greet the ex-queen of the turf, the band 

 played "Auld Lang Syne." The peerless daughter of 

 Harold, that had never failed when called on for a cham- 

 pionship performance, showed that the hand of time had 

 touched her with the passing years. A few weeks later 

 she died at Shultshurst Farm, Portchester, N. Y. The 

 hoppled champion, Prince Alert, was disposed of at this 

 sale for $4,600; Baylight, a speedway star, for $1,500; 

 Alice Dorman for $1,150, Queen Sphinx for $1,900, and 



