THE ABBOT SOLD FOR $26,500. 161 



Carlvle Carne, 2:11^, the white king of the speedway, 

 for $1,325. 



After the death of Charles F. Bates, the Fasig-Tipton 

 Company was requested to sell his stock, and on May 20 

 and 21 it disposed of sixty head selected by what Fasig 

 termed "America's Greatest Horse Exhibitor," for 

 $37,255. The report of the sale shows that Coxey and 

 Brown Donna, both of which were trotting bred, sold for 

 $3,250, Whirl of the Town and Sporting Life for $2,500, 

 the Only One and the Conqueror for $2,250, and the 

 Brown Wilkes gelding The Only Way for $2,200. At the 

 May sale in Cleveland, two hundred and twenty-four lots 

 were sold for $107,925, the pick of the bunch, according 

 to the bids, being Princess Derby at $4,100; Sally Hook, 

 $3,900; Sister Alice, $2,650, and Gusurro, a two-year-old 

 from Palo Alto, $2,000, while Tom Xolan, 2:i6 1 / 4, sold 

 for $1,500; Arch W., 2:i6j4, for $1,025; Lily Young, 

 2\\oY\, for $1,350, while Monterey, 2:0934, was run 

 through for $2,000 and shipped back to California. Dur- 

 ing the Cleveland Grand Circuit meeting, Arch W. was 

 one of the forty-two head sold for $12,570, his price on 

 this occasion being $2,050, while the big gelding Tacomis, 

 2 '.14%, sold for $1,000. After selling sixty head for E. S. 

 Wells at Glenmoore, N. J., October 17, for $8,785, the 

 Fasig-Tipton Company closed the season with an eight- 

 day sale, November 26 to December 4, at which The Ab- 

 bot, the reigning king of the turf, with a record of 2 103^4, 

 was sold for $26,500; Axtell, 2:12, for $14,700, his pur- 

 chaser being one of the members of the syndicate that paid 

 $105,000 for him the evening he cut the three-year-old 

 record of the world to 2:12. At this sale seven hundred 

 and fifteen horses were sold for $348,500, an average of 

 $487.41, the highest figures being paid for the Village 



