CHAPTER V 

 THE CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND, 1 879-1 882 



I thought he was expounding the law and the prophets, but, on 

 drawing a little nearer, I found that he was warmly expatiating 

 upon the merits of a brown horse. — Bracebridge Hall. 



1879 



IT was on the 19th of October, 1878, that the Lorll- 

 lard horses sailed from New York for England by 

 the ship England of the National Line. The lot con- 

 sisted of Parole, Uncas, Friar, Boreas, Cherokee, Pap- 

 poose, Nereid and Geraldlne, the last six yearlings. On 

 November 9, Duke of Magenta, the champion three- 

 year-old of the year, followed them on the ship Egypt, 

 with William Brown, the trainer, and Hughes, Fisher 



and Barrett, the jockeys. But, as In the case 

 Eld ^^ Falsetto later, Duke of Magenta was 



destined never to carry the cherry jacket. 

 The colt contracted a violent Influenza on the passage 

 and never could be trained. He was brought home the 

 following September In company with Uncas. 



If the English judged the "American type" by Pa- 

 role and Duke of Magenta, they must have been sorely 



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