"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



cago for the Columbus Handicap, but fretted to noth- 

 ing and finished ^'nowhere." Returning East he won 

 the Fall Stakes, Labor Day Stakes, Standard Stakes, 

 Maturity Stakes, and other events. Then Mr. Loril- 

 lard sold him to Mr. Walbaum and he was defeated in 

 the special race with Tammany. 



At his best, Lamplighter was a fine race-horse, but 

 unfortunate and eccentric. No son could have been more 

 unlike his sire than he; for, while Spendthrift had the 

 composure of Vere de Vere, Lamplighter was nervous 

 and irritable to such a degree that often his naturally 

 fine turn of speed was quite neutralized. He was not 

 cowardly, but over-anxious, and he had queer notions 



about being placed on the inside or out- 

 mp ig ers ^j^^ position at the post; while if a horse 



"bumped" him during a race, or shut him 

 off, he seemed to lose all sense of the situation. He 

 certainly should have won the Brooklyn Handicap, but 

 every horse in the race seemed to cross or foul him. 

 Mr. Gebhard begged Mr. Lorillard to lodge a claim, 

 but the latter refused. 



1894-95 



It was with a moderate stable that Mr. Lorillard took 

 the field in 1894, Liza, Anisette, April Fool, Dolabra, 

 De Courcey, Redowoc, and Flush being the most prom- 

 inent. Anisette, a good filly by Topgallant-Wau- 

 culla, won the Salvator and Briar Root Stakes at Sara- 



