"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



and was succeeded by Jacob PIncus. But Mr. Lorillard 

 was ever on the lookout for "recruits" and purchased 

 Wallenstein and Mistake, both colts by Waverly and 

 both had won races in the West. He also purchased 

 Sly Dance, a winner of three stakes in the West, for 

 $10,000. Wallenstein won for the stable at Jerome 

 Park some overnight events. 



The season of 1879 was memorable for the appear- 

 ance of Mr. James R. Keene as a turfman, with the 

 famous Spendthrift, a colt which had won the Belmont, 

 Lorillard and Jersey Derby in such style that he ap- 

 peared to hold all the events of the season 



c j.L n safe. When he had won the sensational 

 Spendthrift 



race for the Lorillard Stakes some of the 

 Western men said, "Falsetto will clip his wings when 

 they meet." They met for the Travers Stakes at Sara- 

 toga. Spendthrift was a great favorite, but Falsetto, 

 ridden by 



The rugged Murphy, "he whose sable arms, 

 Black as his purpose, did the night resemble 

 When he lay couched in the ominous horse," 



defeated Spendthrift by two lengths and won. The 

 excuse made for Spendthrift was sore feet, but when 

 they met for the Kenner Stakes, three weeks later. Fal- 

 setto again proved "the ominous horse" upon whose 

 back Isaac Murphy was "couched," for he again de- 

 feated Spendthrift and was acclaimed "the colt of the 



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