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well. She had a rather "tucked up" appearance In the 

 flanks, and stood high on the leg; some would have 

 called her ungainly, but this was due to her neck "dip- 

 ping" a trifle as It came out of her shoulders— a feature 

 that never adds to beauty In a horse. Seen In action, 

 she was another being— It was smooth, wire-hung and 

 frictlonless. She seemed scarcely to touch the ground 

 — as Matt Byrnes put It, "She acts as If the ground 

 was n't good enough forher" — and her stride, very long 

 and elastic, was never known to shorten under stress of 

 pace. She was the first horse Mr. Lorlllard tried with 

 aluminum plates made by Tiffany & Co. They suited 

 her light action, but when tried on Drake Carter they 

 were an utter failure. In the stud, Wanda transmitted 

 her excellence; for, when bred to Hanover, she pro- 

 duced Urania, a fine mare which, bred to Meddler, pro- 

 duced Armenia, winner of the Matrons Stakes. Ar- 

 menia, taken to France and bred to Rabelais, produced 

 Mr. Duryea's Durbar, winner of the Epsom Derby of 

 1914. 



When Mr. Lorlllard stated that he had "another" 

 that "could give Wanda weight and a beating," we had 

 reason to suspect he referred to Katrine, a chestnut 

 daughter of Mortemer and Loulanler by Lever; and 

 so It proved. While Wanda was winning he 

 repeatedly referred to "a better one"; and 

 when Wanda won the Stallion Stakes the previous year, 

 Mr. Withers remarked to us, "How Is It he does n't 



