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a whole season. Memory serves up a few old-time pro- 

 vincials that would be quite worthy company for the 

 best of those raised at the present time. 



Princess by Princeton — Roxaline, was an extra good 

 mare as a three-year-old. She campaigned all through 

 the States and won some splendid races. She scored at 

 Saratoga, Louisville, Memphis, Dallas, Tex., Gainsville, 

 Tex., and New Orleans, La. She kept on winning at four, 

 five and six years of age, and five-eighths in 1.02 and 

 miles in 1.44 with weight up over the tracks of those 

 days was quite up to the best efforts of present-day pro- 

 vincials. Brait, a full brother of hers, was another good 

 horse. As a three-year-old he won at two miles, and the 

 next year he beat big fields of good horses, both at Sara- 

 toga and Brooklyn, N.Y. I saw him race at the Springs 

 where he defeated an even dozen, carrying the top 

 weight, 112 pounds, and he won in a canter by six lengths, 

 three-quarters in 1.16 over a slow track. The Brooklyn 

 race was seven-eighths, and here again he beat a strong 

 field in a gallop by three lengths in 1.291/2. The follow- 

 ing year, as a five-year-old, with 120 i30unds up, he ran 

 three-quarters in 1.16, defeating such good ones as Bar- 

 num, 117 pounds; Castilian, 115; Leonora, 113, and sev- 

 eral others. 



At Jerome Park he won at a mile in 1.45, beating a 

 strong field in a gallop. As a six-year-old he won nine 

 races. His first victory was at Jerome Park, where he 

 defeated a good field of high-class horses in such com- 

 manding style that Billy Lakeland ran him up from his 

 entered price of $1,200 to $2,800, and secured him. He 

 next won a high weight handicap at Coney Island, carry- 

 ing 135 pounds, and running the mile on turf in 1.45. 

 How many Canadian-bred horses to-day could repeat the 

 trick on a similar course? This is one more nut for the 

 modern critics to crack. At Monmouth Park he ran 

 seven-eighths in 1.28, beating such flyers as Swift, Flageo- 

 lette, Benedictine, etc. A little later, at Brooklyn, he 

 carried 124 pounds, the top weight, and beat a field of 

 nine, including such stars as Tea Tray, Long Dance, Ban 



