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was only in 1872 that he joined the stud of the 

 Belle Meade Farm in Tennessee. He lived only a 

 few years later, but in 1882 the winnings of his 

 get led the list. It was during this period that Mr. 

 Keene sent Foxall to Europe, where he won the 

 Grand Prix de Paris, was second to Bend Or for 

 the City and Suburban, won the Ces are witch 

 and other great stakes. Then there were Falsetto, 

 Duke of Magenta, Duke of Montrose, Aristides, 

 Eolus, Grenada, Grinstead, Himyar, King- 

 fisher, Monarchist, Sensation, Springbok, Tom 

 Ochiltree, Uncas, Virgil, and Spendthrift, the 

 latter seeming to me to best represent the vir- 

 tues of the old and the new-fashioned horse than 

 any other of this middle period. But Bramble 

 was the most useful of them all, being up to any 

 weight and ready to start every day in the week. 

 The present period may be said to have begun 

 at Coney Island in 1880. There have been so 

 many wonderfully fast horses developed in this 

 twenty-five years that even to enumerate them 

 and their breeding would take a book by itself. 

 The chief characteristics of the breeding, how- 

 ever, may be said to be in the larger infusions of 



