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ONE SKATE THAT WAS A BARGAIN. There have been times when a horse, sold at t public auction for a mere song, has proved to be l a real bargain. Algernon Daingerfield, assistant secretary of the Jockey Club, tells how a good 1 bargain was picked up at the Lexington sales many y years ago: "It was twenty years ago," said Mr. Daingerfield, nephew of the late James R. Keene, -when I sent an imported horse named Skate, a gelded son of Minting out of imported Glide, to 0 the Lexington sale. Perhaps his name was against him, but considering tltat Glide was his "mother, " it was well taken that at that, and not given him, because when lie was named he was considered a I skate in the sense the term is applied to poor ones. "Skate netted the Castieton Stud just nine dollars. He ivas knocked down for 0. The lowest lee to the auctioneer at that time was 0. Then n there was a fee of one dollar for bringing a horse e into the sales ring. The colt was bought by George e limes, then a blacksmith in Kentucky, and the ie next year he won nearly a dozen good races for r his owner, and a number of them were handicaps." " Skate was one of the bargains of the turf, as he ie certainly provei a. ."consistent winner through the seasons of 1S97 and 1898, and on one occasion defeated the great blaek mare Imp.
