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breeding by winning a series of brilliant races at 

 distances from a mile and a furlong upward. 

 He beat pretty well everything racing that year 

 with the exception of Hanover. Hanover being 

 a three-year-old and The Bard a four-year-old 

 prevented their coming together in many of the 

 big stakes. Had they done so, The Bard had 

 friends who believed that he was the superior 

 horse to Hanover. It would be very hard, how- 

 ever, to persuade the Hanoverians that this could 

 be true. 



This was Eurus's year for the Suburban. This 

 son of Eolus, then four years old, carried the light 

 weight of one hundred pounds, and won by six 

 lengths in a gallop, with the California colt Ori- 

 flamme second. Ben Ali and Quito, two of the 

 possibilities in the race, were left at the post. 

 Hidalgo, weighted out of it, cut no figure in the 

 race. 



That was also the season of the sensational 

 winning of the American Derby by C. H. Todd, 

 another Californian, that had come East and been 

 slipped into the race and had all sorts of odds 

 offered against him. He ran a wonderfully fast 

 mile and a half on that June afternoon in Chi- 

 cago, and won by a head from Miss Ford, the 



