People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — STAMBOUL AT AUCTION. [ARTICLE]

STAMBOUL AT AUCTION.

Champion Stallion Sold for 841,000Banker Harriman Boys the California Trotter Under the Hammer at * Low Price. New York, Dec. 31. Stamboul, the champion trotting stallion of the world, was sold at auction in this city for $41,000. Soon after 10 o’clock, while the noted stallion was beiu' moved about the ring, the biddn& was begun. It started off with SBO,000 offered and went up slowly with jumps of SSOO and SI,OOO until it reached $39,000. Then the bidding stopped for awhile and Stamboul was trotted around the ring several times. Then there was a bid es $40,000 and that was followed by the closing hid of $41,000. The purchaser was D. H. Harriman, a banker in New York city. Five minutes after Stamboul was sold, Mr. Corson, one of the executors of the Hobart Mtate, said he would give Mr. Harriußn $5,000 to withdraw his bid, hut Mr. Harriman bad then left the building.

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