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have a view of that class which was in Miss 

 Woodford, the brown filly belonging to the 

 Dwyer Brothers, by Billet out of Fancy Jane. 

 She had performed already so cleverly that when 

 she started in the Mermaid Stakes at Coney 

 Island she was barred in the betting ; and ever 

 thereafter, so long as she was upon the turf, she 

 was regarded as one of its most splendid mares, 

 although she had not that class in going over a 

 distance of ground which Thora undoubtedly 

 possessed. She was never a cup mare. 



Barnum, " the iron horse," winner of a hundred 

 races, son of Bonnie Scotland, was a good horse 

 in 1883. In overnight handicaps, at any route 

 from a mile up to two miles, Barnum was a horse 

 that had to be reckoned with always; for, while 

 he was in no sense a champion, he was one of 

 those honest, hard-as-hickory horses that would 

 run you a good race every time for the asking, 

 and could always be depended upon to be there 

 or thereabouts in anything in which he started. 



In 1884 we saw the running at Sheepshead of 

 the first of that race which more than any other 

 that we have has become a national event. It 

 was the initial of the Suburban. And the winner 

 of this first Suburban was General Monroe, a 



