''CHERRY AND BLACK" 



He 's worth $20,000, but Mr. Lorillard wanted him 

 so badly I would n't stand on a few thousands." 



Charles Shauer, who rode many races for the stable 

 at this time, was a German, born in 1856. He came to 

 America with his parents at the age of ten, 

 settling in Cincinnati. Unlike Hayward, 

 Feakes or Barbee, he had not learned his art in a 

 skilled school, but was self-taught. Indeed, it was 

 known that Shauer began with racing as a stable cook, 

 but learning to ride horses, he forsook 



The sootj' yoke of kitchen vassalage, 



and rode with success the horse Jack Harkaway for 

 Mr. Beachy at the Ohio meetings. He became famous 

 by winning the Kentucky Derby on Lord Murphy, and, 

 coming East, his splendid handling of Uncas for the 

 Grand National caused Mr. Lorillard to engage him. 

 An event of importance was the return of Iroquois 

 from England. On June 21 he had won the Stock- 

 bridge Cup. On June 27, with Aranza and Parthenia, 

 he sailed on the ship Erin for New York, reaching here 

 July II, and at once joined the stable at Monmouth 

 Park, where Iroquois was exhibited on a 

 e urn 0; ^^^^ ^ ^^ ^^^ public, "to let them see what 

 Iroquois to . . 



America ^ Derby winner looked like." There was a 



general desire to see Iroquois measure 

 strides with the "cracks" of his native land. Accord- 

 ingly, a special, called the Monmouth Stakes, i^ 



