"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



sation's dam," the studmaster explains— and he might 

 have added "to Acrobat," and that she was from the 

 family tracing to Medoc's dam, so many great per- 

 formers have descended from It. The other mare Is 

 Evadne, still shapely for her years. Here also are old 

 Alice Ward, Sallle and Letola, daughters of Lexington 

 all, but age Is showing Its marks upon them. 



Far out across the spreading pastures which, broken 

 only by the black-painted fences, rest against the sky- 

 line, a troop of mares can be seen walking 



roop Of .^ solid column, as though going to the 

 Brood-mares ' , & t> & 



post for a race, as In other days. To reach 



them entails a roundabout journey, and climbing up 

 again beside Mr. Cool, we are off for a drive. Wind- 

 ing through the broad roads past "The Woods," oppo- 

 site which some two hundred Berkshire 

 A Drive Through . n • • ^u • 



th P dd ki pigs are wallowmg m the mire; past one 



of the farm-houses, where a flock of 

 turkeys set up a furious gobbling, we emerge upon a 

 spacious paddock dotted with well-grown saplings. A 

 winner of the Dixie stakes Is browsing beneath them, 

 for the heavy forehead of the Vandals, with star, brown 

 coat, and high withers. Is too reminiscent 

 "At H " ^^ Vandallte to be mistaken. The cham- 

 pion of 1874 has changed less than some 

 of her sister matrons, and already has HIawasse to her 

 credit. On we stroll, and are told how Gerald's dam. 

 Girl of the Period, died shortly after he was foaled, 



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