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APPEARANCES SOMETIMES DECEPTIVE Veteran followers of racing will recall with con ¬ siderable relish an amusing incident ill connection with the great Colin which occurred before that famous horse had raced The late Doc Streett Unukvu to turfmen from coast to coast had an un ¬ derstanding with the late James U Keeue by which he would get the horses that did not measure up to the Kcenc standards for his own use on the tracks Frequently Streett acquired a perfoimer of more than ordinary merit through this channel as in the case of Big Bon But the fact remained that there was usually some physical defect at ¬ tached to tiie Kecne castoffs which went the doc ¬ tors way wayOne One day Doc Streett was standing in the paddock at Slieepsliead Bay talking with a friend when a stable Ixiy led Colin by on a slow walk The future champion had a blemish on his hind leg known to horsemen as a bog spavin ami Streott noticing the marks casually concluded it was a serious physical defect defectThat That there horse he told his friend with a nod In the direction of Colin is the sort of a noac ctiuiit cripple Jinimie Keene used to slip me meIn In later years after the Commando offspring had won renown a reference to this incident in the hearing of Doc Streett was iuvitutiou to do battle
