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of Hindoo. It was brilliant racing in that year of 

 1887, and it was full of brilliant horses. 



In 1888 we had come among us a bay horse 

 from out of the very distant West which was 

 very near being the ideal of the American thor- 

 oughbred. He was called Emperor of Norfolk. 

 He was by that Norfolk, son of Lexington, who 

 was taken to California to beat Lodi, and did it. 

 He was out of Marian by Malcolm, son of Bonnie 

 Scotland, and the Emperor was the first one to 

 show in this part of the world of that magnificent 

 family of race-horses which Marian gave to the 

 turf world. The Emperor was a good two-year- 

 old, but not a horse of commanding presence. 

 When he returned to us, however, as a three-year- 

 old he brought might with him, and at the end 

 of that year Isaac Murphy, then the premier 

 jockey, said of him that he was the best horse 

 over which he had ever thrown a leg. 



Emperor of Norfolk started off by winning the 

 Lawyers' Stakes at Nashville. Then he went up 

 to the Washington Park meeting at Chicago, won 

 the American Derby, took the Sheridan after- 

 ward, with a penalty on him, and won the Drexel. 

 Coming across to Eastern trials, he won the 

 Bronx and Spuyten Tuyvel at Jerome Park, and 



