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three year-old events shows her certainly the peer, and I think the 

 superior of either Tammany, or Lamplighter, or Yorkville Belle. Yo 

 Tajnl)ien was bred by Theodore Winters in California, and was got by 

 Joe Hooker out of Marion, daughter of Malcolm, son of Bonnie 

 Sc )tland. All of the family of Marion are renowned. Her sons, EI 

 Rio Rey, Emperor of Norfolk, and The Czar, were champions of the 

 first rank, and her daughter, Yo Tambien, is the equal of any of them. 

 She is a beautiful mare, of great intelligence and stubborn gameness, 

 as well as phenomenal speed. She has been beaten fairly but once as 

 a three-year-old, and on that occasion she was conceding 15 pounds to 

 the good horse Bashford. At Washington Park, at Chicago, she met 

 and beat not only the best of her own age, but of all ages. She won 

 the Boulevard stakes in a gallop ; repeated the victory in the Drexel 

 stakes, and won easily at 1 Jg, in 1.45t, the fastest time on record. 

 But her most notable victory was in the Great Western handicap at 

 Ik miles. Conceding lumps of weight to not only horses of her own 

 age, but of all ages, she beat them all impressively in the best race won 

 by a three-year-old in 1892, running the distance in 2.331 — certainly a 

 better performance than Lamplighter's 2.321 over the straight track at 

 Monmouth. 



Lamplighter, the three -year-old brown son of Spendthrift (the sire 

 of Kingston) and the imported mare Torchlight, was brought out by 

 S. S. Brown, the coal baron of Pittsburgh, and created something of a 

 sensation by runnino^ third in the Surburban handicap, an event 

 in which a three year-old seldom shows prominently. He has won 

 ten out of sixteen races as a three-year-old, a good showing ; but as 

 yet Lamplighter has been an uncertain horse, an in-and-outer, a good 

 horse to-day and a bad one to-morrow, and unless he improves in this 

 respect as a four-year-old he can never be classed with such honest and 

 consistent champions of the past as The Bard and Salvator. 



Lamplighter's greatest performance was at Monmouth Park on 

 August 9th, when he met such notably great performers as Banquet, 

 Raceland, Montana, Poet Scout, De Math, and Locohatchee on even 

 terms in the Champion stakes (one mile and a half) and beat them 

 easily. It was the best field of all aged horses that the season had 

 seen, and there was not one of the contestants but had a host of 

 friends. Lamplighter waited on his opponents until they were well 

 in the home-stretch and then he galloped over them one by one, 



