"That    lengthy    chestnut    Is    Squeez'em,"    says    the

studmaster  as  he  leads  forward  the  dam  of  Day  Star,

the  Kentucky  Derby  winner.     "They  are  all  Lexington

mares  In  this  lot,  except  that  bay  with  a  star  and  such

black  legs— that  's  Sly  Boots,  the  dam  of  Sachem,"  and

we  make  out  a  lengthy  mare  of  great  sub-

e    am  of      stance  as  she  walks  off  to  join  her  half-
oachem

sister  Squeez'em  for  a  nibble  of  the  moist

grass.     "The  brown  one  Is  Nettle  HInde,"  continues

Mr.    Riley,    "and   that   good-looking  bay  with   three

white  feet  Is  Nutwood  Maid,  the  dam  of  Bedouin  and

Battledore.    The  small  bay  with  a  snip  Is  Notre  Dame

—  she  's  sister  to  Norfolk,  sir,  and  Is  In  foal  to  Mor-
temer— I  think  all  our  Lexington  mares  are  bred  to
him.  That  big  chestnut— the  one  behind  Ratan— Is
China,  dam  of  Comanche,  a  colt  Mr.  Lorlllard  sent  to
England."

Across  the  road  which  divides  the  paddocks,  far  In

one  corner,  two  chestnuts  with  white  legs

p  .  ,  r^  are  grazing  sociably  together.  Both  are
Sensation  s  Dam  ..
Lexingtons:  the  one  with  a  blaze  face  is
Glenrose,  "not  a  great  race  mare,  but  full  sister  to  Sen-

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sation's  dam,"  the  studmaster  explains— and  he  might
have  added  "to  Acrobat,"  and  that  she  was  from  the
family  tracing  to  Medoc's  dam,  so  many  great  per-
formers have  descended  from  It.  The  other  mare  Is
Evadne,  still  shapely  for  her  years.  Here  also  are  old
Alice  Ward,  Sallle  and  Letola,  daughters  of  Lexington
all,  but  age  Is  showing  Its  marks  upon  them.
