"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



Book and Racing Calendar, these "mothers of the 

 cherry jacket" bring a flood of pleasant remuiiscence. 

 Jerome Park may become a reservoir, Monmouth a 

 corn-field, and Morris Park may yield to local Im- 

 provements, while the fate of Sheepshead Bay and 

 Gravesend may be trembling In the balance; but there 

 are still some of us who look back fondly upon the 

 Lorlllard era as a glorious memory when the "cherry 

 and black" banner was a power on the race-course, and 

 upon Rancocas as a shrine of blood-horse devotion to 

 which the racing enthusiast turned his face with almost 

 the veneration with which the Mussulman turns his to 

 Mecca. 



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