4o6 The American Tboroughbred 



unbeatable mare of the year, that is, unbeatable 

 by anything of her own sex, was Thora. 



Eole, again starting in Mr. Gebhard's colors, 

 won the Coney Island Cup of 1883. He was 

 then a five-year-old, and, although a good horse 

 in a time when there were a number of good 

 horses running, he captured more than the ordi- 

 nary share of events. He had to beat General 

 Monroe and Monitor in the race, and he did so 

 under a bit of rousing with the whip at the end, 

 winning with half a dozen lengths between him 

 and General Monroe. He w^as far and away the 

 best horse that Mr. Gebhard owned in the num- 

 ber of years that he was racing, and came very 

 near to championship form. Still, he was not a 

 Hindoo by long odds. 



There was a Derby run at Sheepshead Bay at 

 the time, and it took a pretty fair colt to win it. 

 Grenada captured it at its first running, in 1880, 

 and then in succession Hindoo, Runnymede, and 

 Barnes picked it up in beautiful contests, Barnes 

 winning it in the season of 1833. He was a full 

 brother to Runnymede, being by Billet out of 

 Mercedes. Barnes went along to be a handy 

 winner for the Dwyers after that. 



That was also the season when we began to 



