4o8 The American Thoroughbred 



six-year-old horse by Tom Bowling. He carried 

 124 pounds and beat War Eagle, Jack of Hearts, 

 George Kinney, Heel and Toe, Kinglike, Barnes, 

 Pizaro, Dutch Roller, and a number of others, 

 running a mile and a quarter in 2.1 1 J. The race 

 was a very exciting one, and in a splendid finish 

 General Monroe won by only a neck from War 

 Eagle, and War Eagle was but a short head in 

 front of Jack of Hearts. Delilah was jumping on 

 their heels. The Suburban field that year was 

 made up of a high-class lot, although some of the 

 good ones, notably Miss Woodford, were missing. 

 Miss Woodford, on the same day, just to show 

 that she was still a factor, beat Duke of Montal- 

 ban. Chanticleer, and Pinafore, all of them clever 

 performers, in a dash of a mile and a half, with 

 1 1 3 pounds on her. She won easily at that. 



The Suburban is the one great fixed event of 

 those days which still remains to us in its original 

 form. We have the Belmont, Withers, Tidal, 

 and other stakes, for three-year-olds, but they are 

 the stakes of that day in name only, since con- 

 ditions and distances in them have been so 

 frequently changed that they have lost their 

 originality and have merely preserved the name. 



George Kinney, one of the sons of Bonnie 



