Word: fasig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth day of the annual yearling auction at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the horse-trading Fasig-Tipton Co. set a new world's record: a Keswick Stables chestnut filly sired by Swaps, 1955 Kentucky Derby winner, went to Paul Mel-Ion's Rokeby Stable for $83,000-highest price ever paid for a yearling filly at public auction...
...Horseflesh. Bringing buyer and seller together is the job of white-haired Humphrey Finney, 58. who rules Fasig-Tipton Co., an $8,500,000-a-year horse-trading enterprise that extends from Saratoga to stud farms in England. France, Australia and South America. After 24 years as an auctioneer and "pitchman." British-born Finney knows as much as any man about the cash value of good horseflesh-and about the strange habits of the bidder. Finney scornfully tolerates parvenus whose extravagantly high offers make no horse sense, pointedly admonishes bidders when he thinks the offers...