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him to some person who raced horses at the winter tracks. He had 

 been in training only a few weeks when he was asked to work a half- 

 mile, and he surprised Mr. Doswell by running the half-mile in 51 

 seconds over a track that is fully three seconds slower than any of the 

 reo-ular tracks. He improved, and worked a second faster a few' weeks 

 later. At this time Frank Van Ness, a trottiiig-horse driver and 

 trainer, who raced in a small way, made his appearance, and without 

 an hour's delay secured the colt for $4,500, and $500 the first race he 

 won. It was later learned that the capitalist behind Van Ness was 

 AVilliam M. Singerly, of Philadelphia. 



For the great Futurity race Morello was so ill with distemper when 

 he went to the post that he was running at the nose. '' He's the favorite 

 down there in the ring," said Hayward, who rode him, to Garrison, who 

 w'as on Lady Violet, "and if he wins he is a wonder. If he loses, I 

 will be roasted, but I'll take no chances if I can get him in front." 

 Garrison said after the race, " After what Hayward said I made up my 

 mind if I could get up to Morello and fetch him to a drive I could 

 beat him, but sick as he was I could not get close enough to him to 

 make him stop." How Morello won the 870,000 prize has been told 

 and retold, and his later feats stamp him as the best two-year-old of 

 1892. 



The Western filly, Helen Nichols, is surely the two-year-old queen 

 of the period. She is a chestnut, Tennessee-bred filly by Iroquois, and 

 is owned by J. J. McCafierty, of Chicago, who is also her trainer and 

 jockey. She has started eleven times, and been beaten but once— a 

 phenomenal two-year-old record. Her latest and most notable victory 

 was in the White Plains handicap at Morris Park, which, with 126 

 pounds in the saddle, she won in the wonderfully fast time for the dis- 

 tance — three quarters of a mile— of 1.11. Among her other notable 

 victories were the Essex stakes and Mount Vernon stakes at Morris 

 Park; the Willow stakes at Brooklyn; the Colleen stakes at Mon- 

 mouth, and the Debutante stakes at St. Louis. Helen Nichols will 

 be one of the stars of 1893. 



Yo Tambien is another Western queen, and unquestionably the best 

 three-year old mare, if not, indeed, the best three-year old of any sex 

 of 1892. Eastern critics will dispute this, for her true form was never 

 shown in the East, she being fouled and almost thrown down in her 

 only race on a New York track. But a dispassionate analysis of 



