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APPEARANCES SOMETIMES DECEPTIVE Aeteran followers of racing will recall with con ¬ siderable relish an amusing incident in connection with the great Colin which occurred before that famous horse had raced The late Doc Strcett known to turfmen from coast to coast had an un ¬ derstanding with the late James R Keene by which he would get the horses that did not measure up to the Keene standards for his own use on the tracks Frequently Streett acquired a performer of more than ordinary merit through this channel as in the case of Big Ben But the fact remained that there was usually some physical defect at ¬ tached to the Kccne castoffs which went the doc ¬ tors way wayOne One day Doc Streett was standing in the paddock at Sheepshead Bay talking with a friend when a stable boy led Colin by on a slow walk The future champion had a blemish on his hind leg known to horsemen as a bog spavin and Strcett noticing the marks casually concluded it was a serious physical defect defectThat That there horse he told his fiend with a nod in the direction of Colin is the sort of a no account cripple Jimmie 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 invitation to do battle
