"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



Is an old acquaintance, and we gaze In vain to find 

 whence GIrofle derived her size and beauty. Lizzie 

 Berry, the dam of Ingomar and Inconstant, and Lady 

 Wallenstein, the dam of Wallenstein, stand with their 

 heads together, as If holding a whispered consultation 



— perhaps over Wallensteln's doings In England. 

 "That lengthy chestnut Is Squeez'em," says the 



studmaster as he leads forward the dam of Day Star, 



the Kentucky Derby winner. "They are all Lexington 



mares In this lot, except that bay with a star and such 



black legs— that 's Sly Boots, the dam of Sachem," and 



we make out a lengthy mare of great sub- 



e am of stance as she walks off to join her half- 

 oachem 



sister Squeez'em for a nibble of the moist 



grass. "The brown one Is Nettle HInde," continues 



Mr. Riley, "and that good-looking bay with three 



white feet Is Nutwood Maid, the dam of Bedouin and 



Battledore. The small bay with a snip Is Notre Dame 



— she 's sister to Norfolk, sir, and Is In foal to Mor- 

 temer— I think all our Lexington mares are bred to 

 him. That big chestnut— the one behind Ratan— Is 

 China, dam of Comanche, a colt Mr. Lorlllard sent to 

 England." 



Across the road which divides the paddocks, far In 



one corner, two chestnuts with white legs 



p . , r^ are grazing sociably together. Both are 

 Sensation s Dam . . 



Lexingtons: the one with a blaze face is 

 Glenrose, "not a great race mare, but full sister to Sen- 



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