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Correspondent, "F. J. T.," writes in to ask why none of the racing men, who recently gave their opinions upon the best of American horses, mentioned Colin. While we never rated Colin as one of the greatest among the great, we too were a bit surprised that the Keene crack was acclaimed a star by but one man. We were under the impression that many horsemen held Colin in high esteem. The close call he had from defeat by Fair Play in the Belmont Stakes, however, cost the son of Commando his stamp of greatness. Still the late Sam Darling, a leader among English trainers of all time, who trained Colin at Newmarket in his four-year-old form, regarded him as one of the greatest horses he had ever seen. This because of sensational trials he showed Darling in which ho gave more than a "stone" fourteen pounds and a decisive beating to two horses that subsequently proved among the best handicap horses in England. Colin broke down before the first race Darling had in view for him.
