"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



marked at the outset by the appearance of Gerald and 

 Sachem, two colts of great promise. Gerald won at 

 Jerome Park in June, then he won the Foam Stakes at 

 Coney Island, and was shipped to England. He had 



defeated Onondaga, and as there was some 

 ^ , bantering after the race, Mr. Lorillard said 



he "had a colt at home" he would match 

 against Onondaga, and the match was made for $5000 

 a side. Mr. Lorillard then named Sachem. This colt 

 had been highly tried, then turned out, the idea being 

 to send him to England for the next year's Derby. But, 

 the match made, he was taken up, hastily prepared, and 

 was beaten by Onondaga. Showing enough speed, how- 

 ever, he was sent with Gerald to England soon after. 

 Aranza, a bay filly by Bonnie Scotland-Arizona by 

 Lexington, had won about all her races in the West, 



and Mr. Lorillard, ever on the alert to 

 r A strengthen his stable, purchased her of Mr. 



Darden for $13,000, and she made her 

 Eastern debut at Monmouth with Spark in the Loril- 

 lard colors. They were favorites over the field, but with 

 all her tremendous prestige, Aranza was badly beaten. 

 It was a hard blow to her thousands of backers who 



had looked upon her chance as one of the 

 j^ , "soft" things of the season, and one of them 



found vent to his injured feelings in the 

 following paraphrase of Ben Barnacle's song in the 

 operetta "Billee Taylor" : 



