Word: fasig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small-scale. Greyhound, outstanding harness racer of the year, has earned $27,000, while Discovery has been earning $64,000. Guy McKinney, trotting's biggest money win ner for a single season, won $60,000 in 1926, compared to Gallant Fox's $308.000 in 1930. At the Fasig-Tipton Old Glory sales of yearling trotters held each autumn in New York City, prices average about one half those at the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales at Saratoga. On the other hand, until Sun Beau passed her record in 1931, the biggest money-winning horse in history was Goldsmith Maid...
Saratoga's yearling sales-nocturnal outdoor auctions conducted during the two middle weeks of the season-should therefore this year bring the highest prices since Depression. Thumbing through the catalogs of Fasig-Tipton Co., which conducts the auctions, horse buyers last week had their choice of 550 yearlings. Colonel Edward Riley Bradley with nearly 50 for sale offered, as usual, to bet even money against anyone who thought he could pick a yearling at the auctions which would win a race the following year...