Sport: Eton Blue and Brown

On Long Island, in Maryland, and the West. 47 sleek racehorses took their morning gallops as usual last week. On a big farm near Lexington, Ky. 100 brood mares and eight famed stallions passed days of pleasure and tranquillity. At Brookdale. N. J. 30 yearlings tried their long thin legs against the time when they would be raced as two-year-olds. All were horses belonging to the stable of Harry Payne Whitney, and the men who took care of them were wondering what their fate was to be. For their master was dead (TIME,...

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