CHAPTER XI 

 THE RACING SEASON OF 1883 



The blood in his veins is the best on both sides ; 



He traces to Camel and Banter. 

 He '11 gallop them blind, and whatever betides, 



He '11 settle the lot in a canter. 



PIZARRO was again the hope of the Lorillard 

 stable In 1883, and a more perfect type of the 

 thoroughbred race-horse has never appeared under 

 "silk." In color a rich bay with black points, the 

 only marks about him were a sprinkling of grey hair 

 around his flanks and loins. His head was not on the 

 Roman model of his grandsire Rataplan, for It had all 

 the exquisite beauty of Newmlnster's without Its deli- 

 cacy: a small but square muzzle, large nostrils 

 which after a gallop flared like the mouth of a 

 trumpet, broad forehead, large eyes, high cheeks, wide 

 and deep In the jowl; the whole set upon a long but 

 muscular neck, clean In the throttle, the gullet clearly 

 defined. The neck sank Imperceptibly Into long shoul- 

 ders, with deep brisket and great length of bridle. He 

 had good round ribs, back and loins as strong as a bull's, 



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