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greyhound build, Mr. Bonner was able to drive 

 her in Central Park and on the road. On Thurs- 

 day evening, December 21, 1893, a dinner was 

 given to Mr. Bonner at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, 

 New York, and a silver statuette of Sunol was 

 presented to her owner. Prominent among 

 breeders who joined in the testimonial were 

 C. J. Hamlin, J. Malcolm Forbes, General Ben- 

 jamin F. Tracy, A. B. Darling, William Russell 

 Allen, Hon. J. C. Sibley, and John H. Shults. 

 Hon. George M. Stearns of Massachusetts was 

 not present, but he wrote : " I had hoped in vain 

 that circumstances might enable me to be present 

 at the dinner and still more important event of 

 the bestowal of a testimonial to Mr. Robert Bon- 

 ner. No man more deserves the tribute than he. 

 He was one of the earliest and most consistent to 

 associate horsemanship with honesty. He has 

 demonstrated conspicuously that a man may be 

 a gentleman, a Christian, and a horseman. His 

 deeds deserve commemoration, for he was a 

 pioneer in that domain." After the death of Mr. 

 Bonner, Sunol was sold by his estate and pur- 

 chased by John H. Shults. She is, at the time I 

 write, a brood mare at Shultshurst, Westchester 

 County, New York. 



