"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



tall" — are there; but there Is little else to recall the 

 heroine of the Travers Stakes of 1868. 



But the autumn sun has long since set, the "light 

 thickens," and the belated "crow makes wing to the 

 rooky wood," as Macbeth says, and we end our inspec- 

 tion with three of Lexington's oldest daughters— Carrie 

 Atherton, Nellie Grey and Minnie Minor, the dams of 

 Janet Norton, Basil and Wanda. The Lexingtons are 



a long-lived race, but there is a prejudice 

 d N IV C against aged mares. When Pretender 



was favorite for the English Derby, the 

 learned Dr. Shorthouse declared that no colt from 

 a mare over twenty years old could win a Derby. But 

 Pretender did; and Minnie Minor was twenty-one when 

 she foaled Wanda. Minnie Minor scarce looked her 

 age as she stood with Nellie Grey close by the stables 

 for shelter, with their backs to the raw northeast wind, 

 which had sprung up and came in gusts around the cor- 

 ner; but time had laid its hand heavily on Nellie Grey, 

 gaunt and shrunken, her withers sharper than ever, and 

 her days evidently numbered. 



We fain would linger in the paddocks, for It was 

 something to have seen gathered together the dams of 

 Hindoo, Thora, Wanda, Girofle, Basil, Pontiac, Dew- 

 drop, Chimera, Hiawasse, Wallenstein and Day Star, 

 reminding us of the remark of the mother of Themls- 

 tocles the Athenian— her sons enrolled her in the lists 

 of fame. To one whose favorite studies are the Stud 



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