CHAPTER XXV 



DOMINANCE OF DOMINO 



It was in 1893 that we found another popular 

 champion in the colt called Domino, a son of 

 Himyar out of Mannie Gray. A big, lusty fellow, 

 capable of carrying any weight, he so impressed 

 himself upon his time that in his two-year-old 

 form there was only one colt which in the slight- 

 est way rivalled him. That was Dobbins, a chest- 

 nut colt by Mr. Pickwick out of that old mare 

 Thora of good performance in the past. This 

 Dobbins seems to have inherited some of the 

 excellence which was so marked in his dam. 



Domino was a brown colt of great size and 

 substance and with an enormous turn of speed. 

 He had gone along through an unbroken series 

 of victories and came to the Futurity. In that 

 greatest of all two-year-old races he had, on ac- 

 count of penalties accruing, to carry 130 pounds. 

 Dobbins had also been a stake winner himself, 

 and was compelled to pack the same heavy 

 weight. In one of the best races ever run for 

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