"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



pairs of eyes in the stand. George Kinney was the first 



to appear, heavily blanketed. He did 

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, A/f /• Uf. ^wo miles at a rair pace, and then re- 

 turned to the ring near the stables. He 

 broke out into a clear and profuse perspiration as Rowe 

 anxiously superintended his rubbing. McLaughlin, in 



a new red jacket, seemed impressed with 



Pizarro and ^.u • ^ r ^u • l 



^ J.. the importance or the occasion, as when 



(jieorge Kinney ^ _ ' 



Fred Carter made some jocular remark 

 he only made a sickly effort at smiling, and moved 

 away. Then Pizarro was seen on the far side. He, 

 too, was heavily clothed, and galloped a mile. Then 

 Feakes dismounted and walked to the stand. Up went 

 Feakes again, cantered to the head of the stretch and 

 "breezed" to the stand. 



The action of the two colts was quite a contrast. 

 Pizarro moved, as he always did, freely with a long 

 stride and close to the ground. George Kinney's action 

 was about as bad as could be imagined. It seemed la- 

 bored, full of enormous effort, but luckily he had a 

 great physique to sustain it. He galloped with a bent 

 knee and lifted high from the ground. Such action is 

 a great expenditure of force. The less a horse "lifts" 

 the better. But with all his defects of galloping, we 

 always thought George Kinney one of the best horses 

 we ever saw. Nature had given him a grand constitu- 

 tion, great muscular power, joined to force of pro- 

 pulsion, and it sustained him in an action that a more 



