''CHERRY AND BLACK" 



beat her for the Flatbush, but Dewdrop was conceding 

 her 10 lbs. For the Great Eastern, Dew- 

 ew r^i drop galloped away and won by four 



lengths from a field of twenty, including 

 Inspector B., Elkwood and Charity. She won the 

 Nursery, beating Biggonet and Charity, and the Cham- 

 pagne, beating Inspector B. in a canter. She was clearly 

 champion of the year. 



"Do you recall what I told you some time since?" 

 asked Mr. Lorillard. 



We failed to remember. 



"Oh, you can't be so forgetful," he continued. "I 

 said I had four two-year-olds, all of them first-class, 

 that had never shown in pubHc how good they were, 

 because they had been sick, off and on, ever since 

 spring. This filly is one of them (never mind about 

 the others— you can guess) . She was one of the last to 

 take the epidemic at Coney Island in June, and was 

 out of condition all the summer, or I would have had 

 her out at Monmouth." 



"But she showed great form for the Great Eastern." 



"She was recovering. She should have won the Adieu 

 Stakes, but Rawlinson was new in America and the 

 jockeys rode all around him." 



"Then you consider her better now than in the Great 

 Eastern?" 



"Decidedly; in her trial she won pulled double from 

 horses that a month ago gave her all she could do.*' 



