CHAPTER II 

 RACING, 1 873-1 877 



The "Silks and the Satins" 



Most famed on the track — 

 To wear them all jocke3's aspire — 



The jacket of Withers, 

 Of shimmering "Black"; 



The "Red and Blue" banner of Dwyer; 

 The "Maroon with Red Sash," 



The "White with Blue Spots," 

 Of Belmont and Keene share in glory; 



Haggin's "Orange and Blue," 

 Cassatt's "Tricolor," too, 



Are famous in deed and in story. 



But whatever the hue — 



Orange, green, red, or blue — 

 With the lads of the pigskin, so merry, 



There 's no colors named, 

 No jacket more famed, 



Than the Lorillard jacket of "Cherry." 



Racing Song of the "Eighties." 



1873 



SAXON was the colt which had the distinction of 

 introducing Mr. Lorillard's colors— and the colors, 

 by the way, were "scarlet, with blue cap," as the since 



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