"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



colt's match with Onondaga In 1881 was such that 

 Sachem never forgot It and turned coward. William 

 Pryor, the trainer, was a son of Mr. J. B. Pryor, who 

 trained Lexington, but had lived several years In Eu- 

 rope assisting his father when the latter trained for 

 Mr. Ten Broeck and later for Baron Shickler In 

 France. 



To have won the Belmont Stakes In the second year 

 of his career on the turf was flattering, and Saxon's 

 early decline did not discourage Mr. Lorlllard. Like 

 Commodore Perry on Lake Erie, who, when 

 his flag-ship was disabled, hoisted his flag on an- 

 other ship, Mr. Lorlllard was ready with a new cham- 

 pion of the ^'cherry and black" at Saratoga when the 

 bugle called to the post the candidates for the historic 

 Travers Stakes. This was Attlla, a rather handsome 

 dark bay or brown colt by Australian 



fh7T!lvl^At. ^'"""^ ^^^^""^ ^^^ Lexington, which he 

 tild and Acrobat Purchased of Mr. Charles Lloyd. Attlla 

 had finished third for the Nursery the 

 year before, and had won both of his three-year-old 

 engagements. It was a great gathering of "cracks" 

 for the Travers— Acrobat, Steel Eyes, Stampede, Re- 

 form, Brigand, Rutherford, Grinstead, Aaron Penlng- 

 ton, and others, eleven In all. It resulted In a furious 

 finish between four— Acrobat, Attlla, Brigand and Steel 

 Eyes. There was great confusion over the result. 

 Acrobat and Attlla had finished together on the outside 



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