Tom Flint bought Silver Jet in this ring last year for only ten thousand dollars! But you’re not going to get this heah full brother for no ten thousand dollars. No, sir! Too many folks right heah know Silver Jet won more money than any other two-year-old colt this year. Too many folks right heah know Silver Jet is the colt to beat in the Kentucky Derby next May! And you all know that this colt is his full brother. And you all want him. But in order to get him, folks, you’re going to open up your wallets. Yes, sir, this colt may be the one! And I see Tom Flint in that back row, just sittin’ on the edge of his chair and waitin’. He’s got Silver Jet and now he’s out to get this heah fine-looking full brother. All right, Jim. Heah we go! Sell him!”

The auctioneer took over the microphone and the pavilion resounded to his musical sing-song chant as he got his first bid of fifteen thousand dollars.

“I’m bid fifteen, fifteen, fifteen. Who’ll go twenty, twenty? I got twenty, twenty, twenty. Make it thirty, thirty. Yeah! I got thirty, thirty, thirty. Make it forty, forty. I got five, five, five, thirty-five. Make it forty, forty, forty. Yeah! I got forty, forty, forty. I want fifty, fifty, fifty. I got fifty, fifty. I want sixty, sixty, sixty. I got five, five, fifty-five. I want sixty, sixty, sixty. I got eight, eight, fifty-eight. Make it sixty, sixty, sixty. I got nine, nine, nine, fifty-nine. Make it sixty, sixty, sixty. I want sixty, sixty, sixty. Yeah! I got sixty, sixty. Make it five, five, sixty-five. I want five, five, sixty-five. I got two, two, sixty-two.