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to administer to the turf of the South such a 

 beating as they had not received since EcHpse 

 had given Henry his vanquishment when the 

 Union Course was yet young in the land. And 

 it was to be upon that same course. 



Mr. Gibbons was an outspoken enemy to two- 

 year-old racing. He had previously suffered 

 great misfortune in having Mariner, Fashion's 

 half-brother, nearly ruined in breaking. Conse- 

 quently, in spite of all arguments brought to bear 

 upon him, he did not permit Fashion to be saddled 

 until the autumn of her three-year-old year. 



Once she had been put to galloping, the sur- 

 plus flesh taken off her, and she had been re- 

 duced to that condition approaching fitness for 

 racing, she presented as handsome a picture of 

 the thoroughbred as one might see in many 

 journeyings in many a land. When she had 

 obtained her full growth she was about i^h 

 hands, rising high on the withers, with a light 

 head and neck, faultless legs, an oblique, well- 

 shaped shoulder running far back, and a roomy, 

 deep, and capacious chest. Indeed, her lung 

 space was one of the strongest features in her 

 make-up. She had good length of barrel, which 

 was well ribbed out, and her loins were gently 



