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 :i64. I sold
Wvreka, green, but very fast at both gaits, for i85, and
he took a record the same season, pacing, of 2:I8y4, after-
wards reduced it to 2 :13. 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 le 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