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captured the Swift Stakes at Coney Island. 

 *' Lucky" Baldwin, in whose ownership he ran, 

 had started and won with many great horses, but 

 this fellow by Norfolk was perhaps the best he 

 ever owned and possibly the best horse of his day. 



In his three-year-old year there was also com- 

 ing to us Raceland, that wire and whalebone 

 campaigner who afterward got to be known as 

 " Old Bones " Raceland. Winning in that year, 

 which was also his three-year-old year, the Em- 

 porium and the Spindrift at Coney Island, the 

 Barnegat and Raritan at Monmouth, and the 

 Grand National Handicap and the Melrose 

 Handicap at Jerome Park, Raceland gave us a 

 sign of what we might expect from him. 



The two busiest racing animals of that season 

 were mares. Los Angeles had returned from 

 California in " Lucky " Baldwin's colors. She 

 had won the Vestal and Triboulet Stakes at San 

 Francisco. Then she went to Cincinnati and 

 captured the Latonia Derby. On the way from 

 San Francisco to Cincinnati she stopped off and 

 made a winning incident of the Kansas City 

 Oaks.» Also she took the South Park Stakes at 

 Denver as a mere rest on the journey. During 

 her Eastern season she won the Foxhall and the 



