"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



He is the prince of palfreys; 



His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch 



And his countenance enforces homage. 



A deep red chestnut with a narrow, divided blaze, he 

 stands 16.2^, measures 73 Inches girth; his arm at the 

 swell, 19 Inches; below the knee, 8 Inches. His shoul- 

 der-blade Is 32 Inches In length; and from hip to hock 

 he measures 42 inches. His off fore-foot has given 

 them some trouble, otherwise he carries his age well 

 and Is as gentle as a dog. In his first season here he 

 had 40 foals from the 46 mares with which he was 

 mated. 



It was some time since we had seen Saxon, whose 

 Belmont stakes of '74 was the dawning of the Lorll- 

 lardlan era, and there is little to recall the glossy brown 

 that answered the call of Barbee's whip that bright 

 June afternoon. He stands 15.3, girths 70^ 

 inches, and 20 Inches around the arm. He Is of 

 the style of the pictures of his kinsman Blue Gown; 

 not large, but bulky, plump-quartered and short-legged. 

 But Mortemer has disturbed his domestic happiness, 

 and he has had few "mothers of the cherry jacket" 

 since the Frenchman came to Rancocas. 



Falsetto came out proudly arching his neck, as 



though he remembered the day at Saratoga when he 



galloped Spendthrift to a standstill for the 



Travers. The brown son of Enquirer has not 



changed as much as some horses do when they are out 



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