"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



fortune" as the dam of Chimera and Cerise, the latter 

 destined to foal the "crack" Morello. 



Matchless Is here, too, one of the few surviving 

 Stockwell mares, and Gondola, the dam of Gonfalon, 



carries her Falsetto burden heavily. "For 



Matchless and r .. u u r i j • t 



P ,, five years past she has toaled m Janu- 



ary," whispers the Doctor. Mr. Riley 

 "presents" (as the theatrical managers say of their 

 stars) Highland Lassie, a lovely seal-brown mare by 

 Blair Athol, as "one of those Mr. Lorlllard bought 

 at the Middle Park sale in England." The large bay, 

 whose legs show marks of firing, is Virginia by Not- 

 tingham, and "the mare with a wart 

 -T/»e Mare with ^^^^^ ^^^ -^^ l^ Genista by King Tom," 

 a Wart Under tv/t -r.-i • 4i-ni 



Her law" ^^ ^^^' -^^^^Y contmues. 1 he mare 



with the roan fetlock (all her foals have 



it) is Refreshment by Caterer." The dapple-coated 



Fannie Ludlow, which we had not seen for many years. 



Is now Introduced as "the grandam of Foxhall." Lou- 



lanier no longer shows the beautiful network of veins 



she did when In training, especially after 

 The Grandam , , n i • i • 



fFhll ^ race, when her unusually thm skm 



caused them to stand out so prominently; 



while the mark of the iron is the most marked feature 



of Aspasia by Beadsman, "one of Sir Joseph Hawley's 



breeding." 



Dear old acquaintances of the days of silk and 



satin! Explosion and Pera, the one famous as the 



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