"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



was thought of them that the odds were 50 to i. There 

 was a story current that Passaic had 



The Race for ^^^^^^^ Iroquois In a trial, but for the race 

 '%e Guineas t^ - 



Passaic went out and made the pace. 



Peregrine won the race, Iroquois finished second, while 



Passaic was beaten off. Two days later, Iroquois won 



the Newmarket Stakes, beating Lennoxlove, and May 7 



he walked over for the Burwell Stakes at Newmarket. 



The Derby was run June i. Peregrine was the favorite 



at 6 to 5, with Iroquois at 1 1 to 2, Geologist 13 to 2, 



St. Louis 12 to I. Fifteen started. The good race 



Iroquois had run for the Guineas, and the fact that 



Archer was to ride, made him a following, the London 



Cuckoo giving him as Its "tip" In the following Hla- 



wathan verse: 



If you ask me what the chances 



For the winner and the places 



In the Derby stakes to-morrow, 



The great race of the palefaces, 



For the Riband Blue of Epsom, 



I would answer, I would tell jou: 



Go to where the red man's river, 



Peopled close with bream and beaver, 



Rushes down from pine-clad mountains, 



Haunt of grizzly and of eagle, 



Where the Iroquois, the brownskin, 



Cuts the willows by the water 



For his traps, to catch the beaver; 



Where the Iroquois, the brownskin. 



Trims his plume of cherry feathers. 



Ravished from the dead flamingo, 



Sets them in his raven tresses. 



Crying, Ho! the brown-skin warrior 



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