"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



and fine long quarters. His forearm was large, his legs 

 broad and flat, with long pasterns and feet very open at 

 the heel, as his plate in our collection shows. His 

 breeding was very fashionable, as his dam was a sister 

 to Mandragora, the dam of Apology, the St. Leger 

 winner, and to Mineral, the dam of Wenlock and KIs- 

 ber, the St. Leger and Derby winners of 1872 and 

 1876. It was through his sire, son of Newminster, he 

 by Touchstone, that he "traces to Camel and Banter," 

 and his death after only three seasons in the stud was 

 a distinct loss to the racing blood of the country. 



The meeting of Pizarro and George Kinney for the 

 Withers stakes at Jerome Park was an event to which 



the racing world looked forward for 

 r,g months. All through the winter, when 



icicles hung over the stable doors, wher- 

 ever racing men gathered, whether in the lobbies of 

 the Broadway hotels or the warm little snuggeries 

 of the road-houses, it had been one of the chief topics 

 of discussion. 



At that period the Jerome Park trainers were wont 

 to gather winter evenings at Jim Thompson's on 

 Jerome Avenue, and here we would listen with pleasure 

 as our host recounted the triumphs of his old steeple- 

 chase mare Lobelia. The snow was deep outside, but 

 what cared we for the cold blasts of wind that roared 

 and howled around the corners of the house without, as 

 we gathered round the fire, while the kettle was singing 



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