454 The American Tborougbbred 



at Gravesend, the Great Eclipse at Morris Park, 

 the Great Trial at Sheepshead, the Hudson 

 at Gravesend, and the Tremont at Gravesend. 

 He was a cracking good youngster and he 

 was out in a good youngster year, for that 

 was also the season in which we saw the first of 

 Ethelbert. Black Venus was a clever filly of 

 that time, beating Ethelbert, Martimas, and 

 others in the Great Eastern Handicap at Coney 

 Island and running a cracking good race to do it. 



Good colt as Jean Beraud was as a two-year- 

 old, he was again a great horse in his three-year- 

 old form, and in 1899 he opened his stake season 

 by winning the Belmont at Morris Park with a 

 good field behind him. He also put the Withers 

 to his credit at the same meeting and then passed 

 out of sight. 



It was Banistar's year in the Brooklyn and 

 Imp's time in the Suburban. The racing sen- 

 sation of the season, of 1899, however, was the 

 great chestnut colt Mesmerist by imported 

 Albert, running in the colors of A. Featherstone 

 of Chicago. Especially in the late meetings of 

 the year was Mesmerist the invincible two-year- 

 old of the season. Chacornac won the Futurity, 

 but he was no such horse as this flying fellow by 



