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open race, and that was Troubadour, and he beat 

 her in a match. 



It was also Troubadour's year, he being the 

 first really great horse that Captain Sam Brown 

 ever owned. He won the Suburban Handicap, 

 beating a fast field in which Lizzie Dwyer was 

 favorite at three to one. The track was very 

 heavy. Troubadour won, probably because of the 

 condition of the course, as Lizzie Dwyer was at 

 that time in splendid form, and on a fast track 

 would probably have been the victor at the 

 weights. Dry Monopole, Inspector B., and Mr. A. 

 J. Cassatt's splendid horse The Bard were among 

 the three-year-olds that were coming to the front 

 and -showing promise as handicap horses. The 

 Dwyer Brothers flashed for the first time on the 

 public that equine whirlwind Tremont. Tremont 

 was a black colt by Virgil out of Anne Fief by 

 Alarm. Such was his high rate of speed that 

 there was nothing in his two-year-old year that 

 could give him the semblance of a beating, whether 

 it was upon muddy track or dry track. Tremont 

 could flash off with an electric burst, tiptoe every- 

 thing behind him, and win in a gallop. He was 

 one of those two-year-olds that outclassed every- 

 thing of his year. Accident prevented his return- 



