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a staying quality that is magnificent. Because it 

 is not demanded of them, the horses of to-day do 

 not race at the greater distances which obtained 

 in the days before the war. There is no doubt, 

 however, that, if asked to do so, any one of the 

 five champions of 1903 could so far eclipse the 

 efforts of Boston, Fashion, Henry, Eclipse, 

 Lexington, Lecompte, and all that galaxy of the 

 olden time, that they would seem poor horses 

 indeed. Improved track construction, improve- 

 ments in the methods of training, various causes, 

 may contribute to this. Yet all horsemen who 

 have studied the matter are ready to say that the 

 Waterboy, or the McChesney, or the Irish Lad, 

 or the Africander, of recent afternoons, is a better 

 horse than anything which wore racing plates in 

 those early and brilliant years of the American 

 turf. 



The companion and the faithful of the gentle- 

 man of America is himself a gentleman of high 

 degree. 



