"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



the sporting point of referring to days or weeks as 

 those of a great race, or to years as those of a 

 great race-horse — there was no "Belmont Day," 

 or "Kingfisher's year"— they had not got that far 

 yet. But they were coming to it. Between the races, 

 gentlemen met on the quarter stretch In earnest and 

 often Intense discussions on the topics of the hour; and 

 so intense that, sometimes, each would hold the other 

 by the sleeve, and pound each other's shoulder in dis- 

 putes over the stamina of the Eclipse colts or the rela- 

 tive stud merits of Lexington and Leamington. 



It was the influence of such surroundings as these that 

 attracted, then interested Mr. Pierre Lorlllard in rac- 

 ing, and finally brought him within the fold of Ameri- 

 can turfmen, among whom for the following thirty 

 years he was one of the most conspicuous. 



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