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Knight Commander. A ten-year-old chestnut gelding, bred by Robert Scott in Carluke, Scotland, sold when a year ling for "one of the highest prices ever paid for a harness horse in Europe." Purchased last spring by Miss Jean Browne Scott, of Manhattan, he lately beat Charm, famed hackney, at the Olympia show in England, thus becoming the champion English hackney horse. At the recent Bryn Mawr show, he was awarded 21 blue ribbons, an un precedented performance. In the present exhibition, he won the Bal- manno Challenge Cup, defeating his ancient rival, Field Marshal, and a blue...
...they bolted, Major August Belmont's Ladkin on the rail, then Epinard, then Wise Counsellor (Epinard's conqueror at Belmont Park on Labor Day), then Zev, Little Chief, My Own. Sweeping the turn, streaking down the backstretch, Epinard's chestnut head showed the way. Inch by inch Wise Counsellor moved up-abreast, ahead. Came Ladkin farther out, little by little; then he too was ahead. On the turn Epinard was seen to slow up, veer right, flatten out again in a dash for the outside after losing four lengths. Jockey Haynes had feared a "pocketing...
Under a spreading maple tree a chestnut stallion stood. A British prince came and looked upon him. Grand moguls of horse-racing and their wives and friends came and looked upon him. Hoipoloi, riffraff, the rabble of racing looked upon him, gauged their bets. Through it all the soft-eyed chestnut stallion stood placidly, inquisitive but unmoved. He was Epinard, four-year-old French steed, brought to the U. S. by his owner Pierre Wertheimer...
Nearby, under another maple, stood another chestnut stallion, Wise Counsellor, property of John S. Ward of Louisville, Ky., and Frederick Burton of Chicago...
Scratch a Californian and you find a tennis player. Last week more tennis laurels went West. The ubiquitous, indefatigable, highly skillful brothers Kinsey-Robert and Howard -convinced all comers at the Longwood Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) that the national doubles wreath ought to hang on the Golden Gate beside Helen Wills' national singles, doubles and Olympic foliage and the numerous, though more withered, prizes of Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy, Maurice E. Mc-Laughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin...