''CHERRY AND BLACK" 



and the hope of the cherry jacket for the Epsom Derby 

 of '82 was put to "wet nurse" with another mare, yet 

 grew to be "one of the finest gallopers that ever saw 

 light at Rancocas." 



We find Sly Dance pining in solitude In one corner, 

 but looking rough and hearty. The other mares ostra- 

 cise her, as she "still smells of the train- 

 y ance an .^^ stable," SO Mr. Riley explains. It is a 

 large and aristocratic concourse that Is 

 roaming through the paddock, for here are two win- 

 ners of the Monmouth Oaks, and the delicate New- 

 minster head and speckled coronets are those of 

 Agenoria, sister to Pizarro and mother of Pontlac. In- 

 deed, it is quite a gathering of notablll- 



/ A ^lZ^ ties— "the mothers of the Gracchi." A 



the (jracchi 



commanding brown-chestnut is Ontario 

 by Bonnie Scotland and dam of McWhirter. The Eng- 

 lish mare Jessie, admired for her size and length, is a 

 daughter of Dundee, the gamest "runner up" in the 

 history of the Derby; but her lop-ears speak 



, r^'„ loudly of Melbourne. We are unable to 



bourne tar ^ 



find Zoo Zoo, but Lizzie Lucas Is here, and 

 with the march of time has become almost snow-white, 

 with scarce a trace of the iron-grey that defeated Tom 

 Bowling that long ago day at Monmouth Park. There 



Is nothing that gives so much "character" 



Lizzie Lucas ^ ^1 • ^ • r 



to the picture as a grey mare m a group or 



brood-mares, and Lizzie has already "given hostages to 



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