"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



foot white. He rather lacked length and stood 15.2, 

 with good shoulders, although rather heavy at the 

 points. There was a lack of length from his elbows to 

 his coupling, but he had a "picture head," a fine round- 

 ness of rib in Its curve from the spine, powerful 

 quarters and gaskins, unusual depth of brisket, 

 excellent feet and legs. But he was very highly organ- 

 ized, very excitable, and would not always try. He won 

 the Kentucky Stakes at Saratoga In such brilliant fash- 

 ion that at the end of the season he was sent to England. 

 The bare expanse of Newmarket seemed to frighten 

 him. He delayed the start for the Two Thousand 

 Guineas and was brought home the next season and 

 raced with success. He took a violent dislike to Bar- 

 bee after the jockey had given him "a dose of whale- 

 bone," and at the sound of Barbee's voice would become 

 furious. It was not until they put Shauer up that he 

 would run kindly, his Grand National Handicap being 

 a fine exhibit of gameness, he beating Monitor and 

 Firenzi a nose in a desperate finish. Uncas followed in 

 the footsteps of his brother Wanderer as a winner of 

 the Westchester Cup on his return from England. But 

 while highly excitable, he was nothing to Wanderer, 

 who was a "stall walker" and could be heard tramping 

 In his box at all hours of the night. Mr. Withers never 

 lost sight of Uncas and, when he retired In 1882, pur- 

 chased him, saying, "If I could n't have him for racing, 

 I can have him for a sire." In his first season at Brook- 



