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Show C1LII 1ETI1ES AFTEI - Mil FAMES In Twelve Races Won, the I Purses Total $131,000 for Keene. Tribune Special Snorting Service. NEW YORK. Oct. 26. The peerless Colin goes into retirement unbeaten, the winner of twelve straight races and $131,-000 $131,-000 in round,, figures. lie wound up his brilliant career as a two-year-Old by winning the forty-first running of the Champagne stakes at Belmont Park, beating Harry Payne Whitney's Stamina, his only opponent. In a common gallop, In the fast time of 123 for seven furlongs. Stamina, which Is generally ranked the best two-year-old filly of the season, raced stride for stride with Colin for hnlf a mile, but then capitulated, and tho great son of Comnndo-Pastorella drew away that easy, frlctlonless stride for which he Is famous, and did not appear to be fully extended through the last furlong fur-long to win by a full six lengths. It was no disgrace for Stamina to be beaten by Colin, which stands out today as the greatest horse ever bred and developed In this country, If not In the world. Colin hardly drew a long breath In going back to the scales, and was as playful as a kit-, ten while getting his bath and rub down. Colin has been In training since early In the season, and In spite of a long campaign cam-paign looks far better today than when he won his first race, on May 20. The swelling on his hock, which was so disfiguring dis-figuring at that time, has almost entirely disappeared, and in looks he Is the perfect per-fect picture of a race horse. Tf no 111 befalls him during the winter, he should come back to the races next year an even "better horse than ho is today. If such a thing Is possible, and with all tho great stakes exclusively for three-year-olds at his mercy. |