In Hanover's Time 427 



So also in that season appeared that colt 

 which was called the "little sway-backed runt," 

 racing under the name of Tenny. He was about 

 as bad a two-year-old as was out during the year. 

 He started something like seventeen times, and 

 at the very fag end of the season managed to win 

 two poor races. One could not imagine then 

 that this despised fellow had within him capa- 

 bilities which would make him, two seasons later, 

 the only horse upon the turf which could rival 

 Salvator and race him to a head in the hardest 

 contest which Salvator ever saw. 



That, too, was the time when French Park 

 came to us, a very whirlwind of speed of the type 

 of Tremont. French Park was a busy one him- 

 self, and during the course of his running he won 

 the Dixiana Stakes at Lexington, made a dead 

 heat in the Juvenile at Jerome Park with Fides, 

 won the Sequence Stakes and the Encore at 

 Jerome, and finished first in the May and the 

 Bedford Stakes at Brooklyn. He had but one 

 year of it, but he made it a brilliant year. 



Kingston, The Bard, and Senorita were still 

 making hay. In the all-age division The Bard 

 was undoubtedly king. He did not win so many 

 races, but they were rare contests in which he 



