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PLAUDIT IS A GOOD COLT An excellent picture of John E Maddens good brown colt Plaudit by Himyar Shimmy Cinder ¬ ella is presented by DAILY RACING FORM this morning The colt was not any too reliable in 1897 though beautifully bred His power was shown at the end of the season A good fall twoyearold toehold is a good spring threeyearold is almost an adage among horsemen The colt ran twelve races in 1897 won four was second once and unplaced seven times His second was in the Dash Stakes and his firsts in the 1500 Em ¬ erald Gerald Stakes at Oakley Ankle a 1000 handicap at Brooklyn 1 116 miles inl in 47J before Bon Brush the 5000 Nursery Handicap at Morris Park Eclipse Course in 1 18 and the 3000 Cham Chan ¬ pagne pane Stakes at Morris Park 78 mile in 1 31t 31tPlaudit Plaudit comes from an illustrious line Him ¬ yar yard his sire is one of the group of American turf nobles Cinderella produced Ferrier Fierier Handsome and Hastings before Plaudit Mad ¬ den is a shrewd horseman He bought and kept Plaudit and sold Hamburg It would be odd if in the racing action of 1898 Plaudit should meet and defeat Hamburg
