CHAPTER XXVI 



HORSES OF TO-DAY 



For some years the Washington Park Jockey 

 Club had not given any racing on account of diffi- 

 culties in Chicago, and it was not until 1898 that 

 so splendid an event as the American Derby 

 was run again. Pink Coat, a handsome speci- 

 men of the American thoroughbred, was the 

 winner on the resumption of racing. Bowling 

 Brook, Previous, and Hamburg were all three- 

 year-olds in 1898, and they furnished us some 

 smashing good races. 



That was Ornament's year in the Brooklyn 

 Handicap, when he beat Ben Holladay in a 

 gruelling race. The Huguenot was running 

 some in those days, and Filigraine was a two- 

 year-old that was galloping himself into promi- 

 nence. Plaudit, Bangle, John Cooper, Martimas 

 were galloping along, and Jean Beraud was a 

 two-year-old to show himself to be almost a 

 second Hamburg. He won the great American 

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