. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. The Blue Ribbon Sale. Cleveland, Ohio, May IS, 1898. Editor Breeder and Sportsman :—The first day of the Blue Ribbon sale at Cleveland is over. The prospects for a grand sale never looked brighter up to the evening; before the day when exhibitions of speed were to be made under the watch over the greatly improved track at Gienville, where Maud 8. trotted to the world's record of 2:08|. Dark black clouds rolled over the city of Cleveland on Saturday evening and towards morning, and during the early part of the day a heavy rainfall made the track unfit for use, a
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. The Blue Ribbon Sale. Cleveland, Ohio, May IS, 1898. Editor Breeder and Sportsman :—The first day of the Blue Ribbon sale at Cleveland is over. The prospects for a grand sale never looked brighter up to the evening; before the day when exhibitions of speed were to be made under the watch over the greatly improved track at Gienville, where Maud 8. trotted to the world's record of 2:08|. Dark black clouds rolled over the city of Cleveland on Saturday evening and towards morning, and during the early part of the day a heavy rainfall made the track unfit for use, and on Tuesday the sale commenced in Fasig's Exchange, but few of the great prospects having been seen on the track, those being the arrivals during the early part of the week, and had been worked on the track when the weather was pleasant. On Monday night there was an exhibition of horses consigned to the sale in Fasig/e Horse Exchange. The commodious structure was brilliantly illuminated with electric lights, the immense crowd in attendance composed of horsemen from all parts of America, and ladies and gentlemen of Cleveland and vicinity who are great admirers of the light harness horse. The members of the Cleveland Driving Club were present in large nnmbers with their families and guests, and tended to the great matinee mare Incense,when she was driven into the ring, Buch a hearty greeting that all lovers of the borse felt tbat the high-class horse had found a warm spot in the hearts of the people of Cleveland. Mr. Fasig in a few well chosen remarks introduced In- cense to visiting strangers, (she needed no introduction to the people of Cleveland,) and said, that either in the Bible or Shakespeare, there was a saying that man was the noblest work of God. (I hardly believe the ladies of Cleveland ad- mitted this, for there were many exclamations of Oh !) but when he added that he believed the noblest work of God was the horse, and that Incense was a worthy representative, th
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