A GREAT YEAR 



Cherry Lass's half dozen victories yielded £13,1 19, 

 the best scorer after her being a colt called Black 

 Arrow, a son of Count Schomberg — a remarkable 

 horse, for he was good alike at practically all distances 

 on the flat, over hurdles and over fences — and Black 

 Cherry, half-brother therefore to Cherry Lass. I 

 think Colonel Hall Walker regarded him as the best 

 he had ever bred. His merit was known before he 

 first came out for the Newmarket Two-Year-Old 

 Plate at the First Spring Meeting. Odds were laid 

 on him in a field of eighteen, and jumping off he 

 was never approached, winning by half a dozen 

 lengths. It was by the same distance with odds of 

 9 to 2 on him that he won the Coventry Stakes at 

 Ascot, and having only a couple of indifferent animals 

 to beat for the Lavant Stakes at Goodwood the race 

 was naturally considered a foregone conclusion. The 

 ring began by offering to take 100 to 3, but Black 

 Arrow gave a violent exhibition of misbehaviour at 

 the post, and when the flag fell was hopelessly left, 

 taking no part in the race. He did something to 

 retrieve the mishap the following month, readily 

 winning the Champion Breeders' Foal Stakes at Derby ; 

 but that was his last success, and when he died a post- 

 mortem revealed a physical condition which seemed 

 to render it amazing he could ever have won a race 

 at all. 



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