Horses of To-day 455 



Albert. He won the Great Eastern at Coney 

 Island, and was second to David Garrick in the 

 Great Trial at the same place. He retired as 

 acknowledged two-year-old champion, and the 

 most splendid things were predicted for him in 

 his three-year-old form. A sickness during the 

 winter seems to have taken it all out of him, and 

 when he came back to the races he was a parody 

 upon the Mesmerist which we had known the 

 year before. He was possessed of an enormous 

 flight of speed, but in his three-year-old year he 

 was utterly unable to carry it the distances a 

 three-year-old is expected to run. 



Bangle was a good horse in 1899. He was a 

 son of Iroquois, and his best accomplishment was 

 the winning of the Brighton Cup, in which he 

 beat Don de Oro and Latson. David Garrick 

 was another two-year-old to come along in 1899 

 and show stake form. High Order was a 

 youngster who had distinct class to him. Fili- 

 graine, Ethelbert, and others gave us a smashing 

 race in the Metropolitan Handicap that year, 

 Filigraine winning in i.39f, but it took his life to 

 beat Ethelbert. Ethelbert went on and captured 

 the Realization, with a field of seven three-year- 

 olds behind him. Kinley Mack had begun to 



