WYOKEE 



At different sales I have disposed of horses that have 

 turned out profitable investments. For instance, Marie C. 

 was sold for $70. She was highly bred and could trot 

 fast, taking a record the same season of 2:16^4. I sold 

 Wyreka, green, but very fast at both gaits, for $185, and 

 he took a record the same season, pacing, of 2 :i8^J, after- 

 wards reduced it to 2:13^4. These are only instances on 

 one side of the ledger. On the other side I've sold some 

 no account ones. For instance, Musket, that I catalogued 

 as the "unluckiest horse in America," for he'd had every 

 disease in the calendar from worms up. I told the bid- 

 ders when he was in the ring they were giving more than 

 he was worth, and he "made good" for he died soon after 

 he arrived in Boston, whether because of the location to 

 which they had taken him, or that he wanted to make my 

 word good, I do not and never shall know. 



Now, whether Wyokee is fated to go on the right side 

 of the ledger, or over there with Musket, remains to be 

 seen. I think he's a real trotter, and will be the real thing 

 as a race horse ; but as I may not be present when he's sold, 

 1 want to say here that I guarantee nothing about him, his 

 merits, soundness, or anything else, except that the high 

 bid gets him. When he's knocked down he's your horse, 

 whether he is an escape from Hagenback's trained animal 

 show or the fastest and best trotter on earth. I bred him, 

 and he's been the apple of my eye. He looks like a race 

 horse and goes like a race horse. He has never been 

 trained a minute (I thought him "too good( ?)" to work 



