''CHERRY AND BLACK" 



ture! Let us to the brood-mare's paddocks, where the 



"mothers of the cherry and black" are gathered to 



await us. 



From Duke of Magenta's court to "the Lexington 



Paddock" is but a step when expectation Is on tiptoe 



and Mr. Riley, the obliging studmaster, 



n jT"A, leads the way as pilot ; and, mastering the 

 ton Paddock ■' ^ 



slight ascent, we pass through the gate to 

 the paddock, where a fine view of the surrounding 

 country is had, and where the daughters of old Lex- 

 ington, to the number of fifteen, are 



The Dams of grouped; and a dark chestnut of great 

 Hindoo, Thora . , , , • i i i • i 



and Girofle ^ize and beauty, a deep-girthed bay with 



white hind heels, and a small chestnut 



with white legs, who moves off as we approach, remind 



us that the dams of Hindoo, Thora and Girofle are all 



companions now. 



We should scarcely have recognized in the bay the 



Susan Ann of other days, for, from the gay filly of '70 



which carried the "green and orange" favors of Mc- 



Grathlana in her mane, years have transformed her into 



quite a dowager; and those white hind fet- 

 SusanAnn ^^^^ ^^^^^^ Kingfisher and Littleton saw 

 and tlorence , "^ 



to their sorrow, now touch the ground. 



Yet, as the dam of Thora, she Is more celebrated than 

 her racing exploits had made her. Florence's was a 

 new face to us; but the dam of Hindoo is a fine type 

 of the thoroughbred mare. Ratan, on the other hand, 



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