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netting in this one race $14,590, and making a total amount thus far 

 won for his owner of $28,530, said to the largest winnings credited to 

 any living horse. There is a little "cold" blood in the remote pedigree 

 of the Emperor, coming through the Potomac mare dam of Betsy Ma- 

 lone but it is so far back that it affects neither his speed nor his breed- 

 ing value. His abridged pedigree may be given as follows : 



The Chicago Horseman, in a notice of the Emperor, says : 



' ' He is a grandly proportioned horse, and is so constructed that he can carry all the 

 penalties that are piled upon him without materially interfering with his speed. He has 

 defeated all the best three-year-olds of the year so easily that it is impossible to accurately 

 gauge his powers. Should he meet The Bard at weight for age, we shall expect to see a 

 grand struggle, and one which will be fully described in the annals of the turf. Both in his 

 two and three-year-old career, he has proved himself to be a race-horse of the very highest 

 quality, and one of those exceptionally great horses which only appear once in a decade. 



' ' The Emperor of Norfolk was bred by Theodore Winters. He was foaled on Jan- 

 uary 12, 1885, and was purchased at the Winters sale on December 20, 1886, by E. J. 

 Baldwin for $2,550. He is by that mighty son of Lexington, Norfolk, out of Marian by 

 Malcolm. In the veins of the Emperor flows the rich red tide which came from those 

 grand fountains of speed Lexington, Glencoe, Bonnie Scotland and Yorkshire. When 

 as a racing star of the first magnitude the Emperor has run his allotted course, his splen- 

 did individuality, grand speed powers and patrician lineage will combine to enthrone him 

 as the first lord of the harem." 



