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horse of the day, was at one time or other beaten 

 by this son of Bonnie Scotland, the rival of 

 Luke Blackburn for the title of the best of the 

 Busy B's. 



One cannot forget in these years of the seven- 

 ties the son of imported Leamington out of 

 Lida by Lexington, called Enquirer. He was a 

 performer in the early seventies and was by 

 many given rank as the best son of Leamington, 

 although Longfellow was then alive. He won 

 during his career the Phoenix Hotel and Citizen 

 Stakes, at Lexington, the Continental Hotel and 

 Robins Stakes at Long Branch, and the Kenner 

 Stakes at Saratoga. And all these he captured 

 in 1870, when he was a three-year-old. He gave 

 way in his fore leg in his four-year-old form and 

 was retired when he seemed to be most promising. 

 An attempt was made to train him again at seven 

 years old, and he did start in one race, but he was 

 not himself, and he was again retired. The gran- 

 dam of Enquirer was a mare called Lize, and she 

 was a daughter of that American Eclipse who beat 

 Henry in the great North vs. South match. En- 

 quirer met Longfellow, his close relative, in the 

 Phoenix Hotel Stakes at mile heats. Enquirer won 

 in straight heats and distanced Longfellow in the 



