"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



year." Falsetto's action, when extended, was the ideal 

 of animal mechanism, as regular as the piston-rod of 

 an engine and as resistless as fate. The halo of victory 

 seemed to shine about him as he galloped low-headed 



and with frictlonless bounds that marked 



Purchase of , • ^i i ^ • ' i. c 



p. I ^ him among the 300 horses trammg at Sara- 

 toga. He won the heart of Mr. Lorlllard, 

 who secured him for $18,000, and he was shipped to 

 England with Sly Dance, Mistake and Wallensteln. In 

 a trial at Newmarket, he was said to have given Parole 

 12 lbs., but he proved one of Mr. Lorlllard's dearest 

 bargains, for he broke down before Mr. Brown could 

 bring him to the post and came home with Parole the 

 next year. 



In two-year-olds the stable was very badly off. Ethel 

 by Saxon from Second Hand by Stockwell was the best 

 and ran second to Sensation for the Juvenile. But 

 Sensation was in a class by himself. He never was 

 beaten and ranks among the greatest two-year-olds In 

 the history of American racing. To give an Idea of the 

 estimate In which Sensation was held, the following 

 allotment of weights for the Manhattan Handicap of 

 1 88 I will serve best: 



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