One cause for conversation was Polly's Rumor, an obscurely bred 2 - year - old
chestnut filly who, in her first start, won a maiden race by 21 lengths and smoked over the 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:03 [1/5](and in her second race, over six furlongs, won by nine lengths in 1:10).
On this early Sunday afternoon, along a narrow path of dirt over which Man o» War and Secretariat had once swept in flight to historic victories in the Preakness Stakes, a dainty
chestnut filly named So Sly stood frozen in her final autumn light, nervously balancing herself on three legs.
Ballet, in 1876, produced
a chestnut filly named Vega, by War Dance.