CHAPTER XVI 



THE SECOND CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND 



1 896-1901 



Say next, O muse, of all Achaia breeds 

 Who bravest fought, or reined the noblest steeds? 

 Eumelus' mares were foremost in the chase, 

 As eagles fleet and of Pheretian race, 

 Bred where Pieria's fruitful fountains flow, 

 And trained by him who bears the silver bow. 

 Fierce in the fight their nostrils breathe a flame, 

 Their height, their color, and their age the same. 



The Iliad. 



AFTER the New York Constitutional Convention 

 L of 1894 passed the act prohibiting bookmaking 

 and several of the meetings were abandoned and the 

 gates closed, Mr. Lorillard determined upon another 

 campaign in England. His determination was not due 

 to that feeling too frequent among 

 to En land Americans who attain wealth and then 



persuade themselves that they are too 

 good for their own country. He found racing In Amer- 

 ica too precarious, too greatly dependent upon the 

 whims or greed of politicians, and that a man with a 

 large stable and valuable engagements In stakes which 



