"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



appeared after an absence of two years. Certainly no 



American race-horse was ever so popular as the brown 



gelding. Many who had cheered him eight or nine 



years before, when he defeated Ten 



y, Broeck, gathered on the lawn to greet 



Appearance . 



him. "Here he comes!" they shouted, as 

 the old hero was seen coming down the stretch, and the 

 cheers rolled from the field stand, and, taken up by the 

 lawn, amounted to an ovation. But while he ran sev- 

 eral good races, the light of other days had failed, and 

 Mr. Lorillard gave him to Dr. Green. "Last summer 

 at the farm," said Mr. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., in explana- 

 tion, "the old horse seemed unhappy. He had a large 

 paddock, plenty of range, but the flies bothered him, so 

 father concluded he would be better with the horses in 

 training. He improved at once, but he 's lost his speed. 

 Father would have given him to me, but he thought I 

 would race him, and he did n't care to see him beaten." 

 Parole's career was a noteworthy one. He raced 

 for ten seasons, starting In 137 races, of which he won 

 59, his winnings amounting to $82,909.25. On the 



Fourth of July, 1891, he made his "posi- 



Parole's Record ^- 1 1 ^ ni r ^u ui- 



tively last appearance before the public. 



It was at Morris Park, Dr. Green having asked per- 

 mission to show the old hero as an attraction to many 

 who had never seen him. Ed. Feakes, his old jockey, 

 consented to don the cherry jacket In a parade between 

 the races. Parole was eighteen years old, but showed 



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