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to their more ambitious rivals before they get down the 

 home stretch. This filly, if judiciously driven, will never 

 know anything about breaking, and time must be taken 

 with her as well as the headstrong Delle, so that she will 

 not roll and hitch behind, a gait easier acquired than for- 

 gotten. As to the christening, it is easier to find fault 

 with a thing than to mend it. I suppose, as you say, the 

 white and black coat gave you the idea of Oriole, as well 

 as keeping up the ornithological names in the family. 

 Not being familiar with a science that delighted Wilson 

 and Audubon, I cannot say how appropriate it is. She is 

 marked more like a bobolink than any other bird with 

 which I am acquainted, but that name would not sound as 

 smoothly as the one she wears. The nest colt is rather 

 a different looking customer from the rest ; he has not 

 shed his coat yet, and is very thin. Quite a difference 

 from the others, who are so plump and well fed. You 

 must have picked him up where feed was scarce. 



PUPIL. This rough-coated, starved looking three-year- 

 old is, after the Falcon, my chief favorite, and in place of 

 picking him up at some cross road, I watched for his ap- 

 pearance into this world with as much anxiety as the lover 

 does for the approach of his mistress. When his mother 

 was bred to the Falcon, I made up my mind that the pro- 

 duct would not only be A No. 1, but would be a practical 

 exemplification of the theory I have advanced for many- a 

 year. She is a bay mare, of rather more than the average 

 size, say 15| hands, and is very high form. Her sire was 

 Alex. Churchill, a horse that had 'a high reputation in 

 Kentucky, and well he might, having run a four-mile heat 

 in 7:41 with one exception, the best time ever made 

 there up to this day. He was by imported Zinganee, 

 dam by Bertrand. The mare's dam was by Cherokee ; 

 her grand-dam a mare that always threw a winner. This 

 pedigree shows her to have several crosses of Sir Archy ; 



