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year, provided he maintained his form. Unfortu- 

 nately he did not do so, and lameness prevented 

 his going through the season. 



In 1902 an army of good ones were doing their 

 galloping. Wyeth won a sensational American 

 Derby for John A. Drake. Gold Heels won the 

 Brighton Handicap, running the mile and a quar- 

 ter in 2.03I with 124 pounds on him, setting the 

 record for the distance. The same horse also 

 won the Brighton Cup and made himself the 

 champion of the season. Drake had another 

 peek at good fortune with his colt Savable, by 

 Salvator, who won the Futurity for him. 



Major Daingerfield came to be a magnificent 

 three-year-old, and among other things won the 

 Lawrence Realization, the Brooklyn Derby, and 

 the Tidal Stakes at Sheepshead. Advance Guard 

 had become a sort of popular idol, especially 

 when it came to going over a distance of ground, 

 and his winning of the Saratoga Cup, at a mile 

 and five furlongs, was one of the best perform- 

 ances of the year. Gold Heels, however, was 

 distinctly the horse of the season, for he not only 

 won the Brighton Handicap and the Brighton 

 Cup, but he was also that season's winner of the 

 Suburban. 



