"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



winning by a neck with such colts behind him as Grin- 

 stead, Aaron Penlngton, Elkhorn, Brigand, Reform, 



Steel Eyes, and Rutherford. Many said "it 

 , ^"d 7^ was the riding that won," and certainly 



George Barbee that day rode the greatest 

 finish of his career. Still, Saxon must have been a pretty 

 good colt, for he ran second to Aaron Penlngton for 

 the Jersey Derby, and defeated Rutherford and Re- 

 form; but one more effort, for the Ocean Stakes, closed 

 his career. 



George Barbee was the principal jockey and Mr. 



Pryor the trainer for the stable that year. Barbee was 



born In England in 1854, and In 1865 was apprenticed 



to Tom Jennings, Sr., trainer for Count La 



.L r \ Grange. Barbee was exercise lad of the fa- 

 the Jockey ° 



mous French horse Gladiateur when he had 

 a complaining leg, and Barbee's light weight rendered 

 him available. Barbee came to America In 1872 to 

 ride for Mr. Chamberlain, and rode Brennus for the 

 Belmont Stakes that year. He soon had a large prac- 

 tice, and in 1874 won 19 out of 58 races. In 1875 he 

 won 12 out of 38, and In 1877 he won 28 out of 70 

 races. At this time Barbee was a perfect man-model 

 of the smaller type, tremendously muscular, and his 

 whipping was very severe. Springbok, the Belmont 

 winner of 1873, was so savage that jockeys were afraid 

 to ride him; but Barbee hit him with the whip and it 

 tamed him. The whipping he gave Sachem In that 



