CHAPTER XVII 



THE RETURN TO AMERICA 



1899-1900 



The colors that Barbae, 



Feakes, Hayward and Shauer 

 Have worn in success and disaster; 



The colors Fred Archer 

 To victory bore 



At Epsom, Ascot and Doncaster. 

 Then fill up your glass 



And let the toast pass 

 In champagne or claret or sherry, 



And drink to the toast: 

 "Be it first past the post" — 



The Lorillard jacket of "Cherry." 



MR. LORILLARD spent the season of 1899 in 

 America, but while his best horses had been 

 sent to England, he was not long in collecting some 

 horses to carry the "cherry" jacket at home. He pur- 

 chased of Mr. Madden for $25,000 the bay colt David 

 Garrick, 2 years, by Hanover, from 



urc aseof p Woffington, also the two-year-old 



David Garrick ^ & ' -^ 



Maribert from Mr. Fleischman, and 



these, with Albula, Petrea, Prima, Salamis, and 



