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horse will " stop " if short of work, and if you do not 

 know that he has had sufficient work, that he is not 

 sore or sick, how are you going to know whether he 

 " stops " from physical causes, or from true quitting^ 

 which is a mental quality — cowardice, faint-hearted- 

 ness ? 



Manzanita's next race was at the St. Louis Fair of 

 1886 in the Gasconade Stake, and that race will long 

 be remembered as a battle royal between the best field 

 of three-year-olds that has perhaps ever faced a starter. 

 The field against Manzanita was composed of Patron, 

 driven by Fuller; Silverone, driven by Maxwell; Eagle 

 Bird, with Simmons in the sulky; lona, driven by 

 Bowerman, and the two Princeps stallions Granby 

 and Greenlander — all the best three-year-olds of the 

 year, in fact. There were 100,000 people on the Fair 

 Grounds that day. Eagle Bird got away in front, with 

 Manzanita second, and she disposed of Mr. Simmons' 

 roan stallion at the half. Patron made a strong fight 

 in the stretch, but my mare carried me home in front 

 with something to spare in 2:23|^. In the next heat it 

 was Silverone that challenged Manzanita in the stretch, 

 and she came so fast that the Blue Grass cheers began 

 to swell, but they died away with true Kentucky loyalty 

 when Manzanita beat the great daughter of Alcyone 

 out in the final tussle in 2:21^. When Manzanita came 

 out for this heat she was so sore that she could scarcely 

 put one foot on the ground, but she warmed out of it 

 in jogging. Mr. H. D. McKinney — better known as 

 ^'Mambrino" McKinney — the starter, was thinking so 

 much of the Mambrino blood in Patron that in start- 

 ing the third heat he forgot the very first of a starter's 



