"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



Stakes. Zoo Zoo had a great season winning the Mary- 

 land, Sequel, Monmouth Oaks, West End and Harding 

 Stakes. 



For the Belmont Stakes, a great field came to the 

 post. Rifle, a colt belonging to Mr. Galway, was 

 made favorite purely on the strength of phenomenal 

 trials. Mr. William Astor started Baden Baden (the 

 Kentucky Derby winner) , which he had just purchased. 

 Mr. Lorlllard started Basil, who finished "nowhere," 

 but he had met so much Interference that he had no 

 chance. The winner turned up in Mr. Clabaugh's 

 Cloverbrook, a big lathering chestnut with white face 

 and legs. He was a son of Vauxhall, and a fine natural 

 racer; but had a trick of bolting, as his sire 



The Basil- ^^^ \^^iovt him. The result of the Belmont 



Cloverbrook • i i 



Match w^s ^^^ considered a true one, and Mr. 



Lorlllard offered to match Basil against the 

 winner. It was accepted; a match of $5000 a side was 

 made for a race of a mile and a quarter. Cloverbrook 

 was favorite, and led for half the distance, then bolted, 

 as he had a habit of doing, and Basil won by ten lengths. 

 Basil was a gigantic gelding by Melbourne, Jr., from 

 Nellie Grey by Lexington. He had a fiddle head, a 

 long lean neck, a long back and stood high on the leg— 

 an awkward customer. But he could gallop; for, al- 

 though Baden Baden defeated him for the Jersey 

 Derby and Travers, he won the Kenner, although it 

 was one of the worst starts in the history of racing, 



