"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



rail, while Steel Eyes and Brigand finished on the inside, 

 and a majority of the people thought Steel Eyes had 



won. But ''the Ayes had it," or rather Acro- 

 , J. bat and Attila, for the judges announced it 



a dead-heat between them. Sparling was 

 blamed for Acrobat's failure to win, and Hayward was 

 called to ride Acrobat for the "run off," which Attila 

 won. It was Attila's last race, for, like Saxon, he fell 

 lame; while Acrobat, despite his unsound feet, became 

 the colt of the year. 



To have won the Belmont and Travers, the two clas- 

 sic events of the turf, was glory enough; and so it 

 proved, for the balance of the Lorillard stable per- 

 formed indifferently. Mr. Lorillard gave $3300 for 

 Vaultreas, which never won a race, and $4000 for Vas- 

 sal, a very fine colt by Vandal-Sadowa which had won 

 in the West; but Vassal was beaten by Rhadamanthus 

 in a sweepstakes of $1000 each at Saratoga. Mr. 

 Lorillard had purchased of Mr. Welch for $1000 the 

 colt James A., by Leamington-Maiden, and with this 

 colt he defeated Mr. George Lorillard's Hyder Ali and 

 the famous Aristides and others at Jerome Park. 

 Thus in his second season's racing, Mr. Lorillard was 

 seventh on the list of "Winning Owners" with $18,600, 

 Col. McDaniel leading with $43,445. 



1875 

 For the season of 1875, Mr. Lorillard had nearly forty 



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