"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



off shipboard, for the winner, Kermesse, was the cham- 

 pion two-year-old of the season, and 

 GeraldRuns Gerald beat such good ones as St. 



Middle Park Plate Marguerite (winner of theOneThou- 

 sand Guineas the next season), also 

 Shotover, who won the Derby the following spring. 

 October 27, Gerald walked over for the Subscription 

 Stakes, and thus closed the season of 1881. What 

 with the Derby and St. Leger of Iroquois, the Grand 

 Prix de Paris, Cesarewltch, and Cambridgeshire of 

 Foxhall, and the triumphs of the American horses gen- 

 erally, it has become known as "the American year." 



1882 



After the exploits of Iroquois and the high form of 



Gerald when hardly off his "sea legs," Mr. Lorillard 



had high hopes for the season of 1882 in England. He 



thought that with either Gerald or Sachem 



r.^^ ^ . he had an excellent chance to win the 



Expectations 



Derby again, as the best English two-year- 

 olds of the year before had been fillies— Kermesse, 

 Dutch Oven, Nellie, and Geheimniss— the colts being 

 quite moderate. 



The season, however, was one of mistakes and dis- 

 appointments. The filly Touch Me Not won the Bed- 

 ford Stakes, and Mistake won the Spring Handicap, 

 while Aranza managed to win the Great Eastern Rail- 

 way Handicap. The horses had been taken up rather 



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