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another story to the effect that a drunken attend- 

 ant heaped his bin full of oats, and he, being what 

 stablemen call a "good doer," so filled himself 

 that the trial, under the circumstances, resulted 

 so deplorably. Whatever the cause, there is no 

 authentic history to support it. At least Mr. 

 Ten Broeck knew of none, and certainly he 

 should, if there was any. 



At any rate, Lexington appeared never again 

 upon the turf after the brilliant last time with 

 Lecompte in New Orleans. And the reason 

 Lecompte went to England later, at the sugges- 

 tion of Mr. Ten Broeck, was because the hero 

 of those four-mile magnificences had gone stone 

 blind in Kentucky, and was a monarch with a 

 court whose splendor he could not see. 



The public career of Lexington in no wise 

 compares with that of his sire Boston, because 

 Lexington started in all only seven times and 

 won six races. His total winnings, however, 

 amounted to ^56,000. It was in the stud that 

 Lexington proved himself to be, in that respect 

 at least, the superior of his sire. At the time 

 of his going blind, Lexington was still the 

 property of Mr. Ten Broeck, who at that time 

 was in England. Mr. R. A. Alexander, the 



