428 The American Thoroughbred 



engaged and there was much acclaim for him. 

 He won the Brooklyn Cup, which was no mean 

 accomplishment, the Brooklyn Handicap, which 

 was a better one, the Coney Island Cup, the 

 Coney Island Stakes, the Ocean Stakes at Mon- 

 mouth, and then the St. James Hotel Stakes at 

 Brooklyn. When he went into winter quarters 

 that season he was pronounced the horse of 1888. 

 The budding champion was there in Salvator. 



To follow through their careers Kingston, 

 Hanover, Los Angeles, Senorita, Longstreet, 

 Inspector B., Banquet, Firenzi, Chaos, Raceland, 

 Tournament, and all those horses who were mak- 

 ing passing fame in those seasons, would require 

 detail which might prove tiresome. It is sufficient 

 here to say that racing had grown in America to 

 be such an enormous institution, with such an 

 enormous amount of money invested in it, that 

 each year was a volume by itself, and each season 

 produced, not one, but a dozen horses, each of 

 whom had legitimate claims to be called a great 

 animal. While in the old days the horse of great 

 achievement was a rare thing and belonged to a 

 section, the production of the American horse 

 had come to that stage where almost every state 

 in the Union, bar the New England country, made 

 some sort of bid. 



