"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



dam of the $29,000 Dewdrop, the other as "a full sis- 

 ter to Iroquois," are renewing old friendships and races 



In which they competed together In training 

 P , . days. Explosion's condition is "Interesting," 



but Pera looks as If the cheque would be re- 

 turned "no funds." The white face of Blue Stocking, 

 daughter of the renowned Thormanby and half sister 

 to Blue Gown — "Derby winners on both sides the 

 house," some one says— comes forward to be noticed, 

 and Perfection also loiters about to be patted, looking 

 little like "the maid lithe-limbed" who In the Juvenile 

 Stakes a few years before lowered the colors of Duke 

 of Magenta, whose shrill neigh from his paddock be- 

 yond, answered by Second Hand, Implies her feelings 

 as honored by attentions she cannot fail to understand. 

 Unable to recognize several of the others, we turn 

 away, and, taking the wagon, speed over the hill to 

 where The Banshee and Coquette hold forth. Each 

 has an ample paddock by herself, as both are blind; 

 and, as we approach, the roll of the wagon causes The 

 Banshee to raise her sightless eyes and turn 



J ^ ,, her head in a listening attitude, as does the 

 and Coquette ^ ° ' 



rich-coated Coquette. We had not seen 

 The Banshee since, as a small boy on a day memorable 

 for a hailstorm of unusual violence, we saw her win the 

 Westchester Cup at Jerome Park over a "crack" field; 

 and It was pathetic to watch her now, so changed and 

 blind. The familiar white face— aye, and the "rat- 



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