"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



The Hermitage, Newmarket, 



June 30, 1 88 1. 

 Dear Mr. Vosburgh: Yours of the nth duly re- 

 ceived; thanks for friendly expressions. We would 

 have won a ton [on Derby] If we had left Barrett In 

 America, he being backed several weeks before, and not 

 being a four-miler, could n't think of It. Remember me 

 to all at home. Say they are all mistaken as to the trial 

 of Iroquois and Passaic, or the former making the run- 

 ning for the latter In the Guineas, but vice versa. 

 Yours very truly, 



J. PiNCUS. 



At Ascot, June 14, Iroquois, ridden by Archer, car- 

 ried 131 lbs. for the Prince of Wales Stakes and won, 

 beating Geologist and five others. Two days later he 



won the St. James's Palace Stakes, beat- 



Iroquois Wins • y t^i 1 • j.- r 



r. mg Leon. 1 hen came his preparation tor 



the St. Leger, for which "the brownskin" 

 now "trimmed his plume of cherry feathers." The St. 

 Leger was fixed for September 14, and he had a nice 

 Interval of three months. His St. Leger preparation 

 became a puzzle to the denizens of Newmarket. The 

 Sporting Life of September 10 reported Iroquois 

 "lame In the near fore leg" and named Limestone, 

 Geologist or Ishmael to win. Bell's Life named Geol- 

 ogist; the Sporting Times named Ishmael. The Impres- 

 sion that "something was wrong" with "the brownskin" 



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