"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



scarcely know them by sight. They know the stallions 

 and mares only as producers of colts for racing. There 

 Is no such Interest as British turfmen manifest who have 

 their stock constantly In sight. Our owners seldom 

 know much of breeding, that Is to say, of pedigrees or 

 of horses, outside their racing stables. 



Mr. Lorlllard saw the success attending Mr. Francis 

 Morris at Westchester, N. Y., whose Eclipse stock 

 swept the board, and that of Mr. Welch, near Philadel- 

 phia, whose Leamlngtons carried all before them. He 

 wanted his horses near home In order that they should 

 be frequently under his own eye, for he knew that they 

 would be properly cared for then, and that hired men 

 never take the same care of property as the owner. 

 What pleasure a man can find In his stock thousands of 

 miles away he could not comprehend. There was a 

 charm In roaming over the farm among the brood- 

 mares and watching the growth of each colt or filly 

 from the day It was foaled to the day it carried the 

 colors. When that feature shall become common 

 among the turfmen of New York, we shall have a 

 healthier racing Interest and, perhaps, better horses. 



Mr. LorlUard's first venture in thoroughbred stock 

 was In 1 87 1, when he purchased In England, of Sir 

 Joseph Hawley, the mares Asterope, by Asteroid; Blue 

 Stocking, by Thormanby; GIrasol, by Asteroid; and 

 Merry Wife, by Beadsman. Before the dispersal sale 

 of the Middle Park Stud, in July, 1872, Mr. Lorlllard 



