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Kennar at Saratoga, the Jersey Handicap, the 

 Pocahontas, and the Monmouth Oaks at Mon- 

 mouth, and a sweepstakes at Brooklyn. 



Firenzi, her distinguished rival and a far better 

 mare, was given a heavy season of it herself ; and 

 no mare since the time of Thora had performed 

 so creditably, in that she was sent to the post a 

 great number of times and was almost always 

 returned either a winner or a place horse. It was 

 Firenzi's fate to meet the very best in training, 

 and one is pleased to say of her that the game 

 little daughter of Glenelg beat everything that 

 faced her. If she did not do it the first time, she 

 did it the second ; and the one race in which The 

 Bard, then in the height of his glory, found his 

 striking defeat, was that in which he fronted 

 the bay mare and had his heart broken by 

 this game little thing bred in Kentucky and 

 owned in California. In that year Firenzi won 

 the Monmouth Cup and the Monmouth Handi- 

 cap, the Champion Stakes, the Freehold, and the 

 Harvest Handicap, all at Monmouth ; the Man- 

 hattan Handicap and the Firenze Handicap as 

 well as the Battle Stakes at Jerome Park; and 

 the Average Stakes and the Great Long Island 

 Stakes at Coney Island. 



