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“CHERRY AND BLACK”

THE CAREER OF
MR. PIERRE LORILLARD
ON THE TURF

BY
Ws: VOSBURGH

PRINTED FOR PIERRE LORILLARD
1916

Copyright, 1916, by

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

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v Tue Campaicn IN ENGLAND, 1879-1882. 29

vi WINNING THE DerBY AND ST. LEGER . . 40
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x “Tur MorTHers of THE CHERRY JAcKET’. 88

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CONTENTS

xIv THE SALEs, 1886

xv Tue Return To Racine, 1889-1895 .

xvi ll HE SECOND

CAMPAIGN

1896-1901 .

xvil THe Return To America, 1899-1900

XVIIL CONCLUSION

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PREFACE

Most of the racing stories I have read had more to do
with showing how some otherwise uninteresting person,
who lived upon the precarious product of his cunning,
had performed a great coup in the betting, and often
by methods somewhat irregular, to say the least. ‘The
merits of the great race-horses seem of secondary im-
portance. The leading turfmen and legislators are
ignored to show the acuteness of some individual whose
only title to distinction is his recklessness with money he
never earned.

Whoever expects to find this a volume of that de-
scription will be disappointed. Betting will be treated
as an incident of racing—not as its object. The great
races and the great race-horses, the leading owners,
trainers, and jockeys of the past forty years afford
ample material of general interest with which to fill a
volume without going into the details of their betting,
which is a personal matter and concerns them alone.

The object of this volume is to record the career of

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PREFACE

the late Mr. Pierre Lorillard as aturfman. His career
was one of the most important in the history of Ameri-
can racing and one for which all devotees of racing
have reason to be thankful, as it was the success of
his stable in England with Parole and Iroquois that
aroused the first real interest of Americans in racing,
an interest that penetrated the country from coast to
coast. |

In dealing with Mr. Lorillard’s career, I have been
compelled to maintain a chronological order which is
unfortunate in that it prevented my having a more con-
fidential chat with my readers. I should have preferred
taking the subjects offhand in a gossipy style, as an
enumeration of races won and lost is apt to prove
tedious. The conversations recorded are from memo-
randa made at the time, of which I have more than

enough to fill many volumes.

W.S. VosBURGH.

January 20, 1915.

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CHAPTER: I

THE REVIVAL OF RACING AT
JEROME PARK

Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i’ the receiving earth.
Henry V, Prologue.

ITH the revival of racing in the East, following

the close of the Civil War, Jerome Park be-

came at once the headquarters of sport and the Mecca

of fashion. A race day furnished a brilliant spectacle

as the gay four-in-hands swung through Central Park,

thence to Jerome Avenue, and along the

lilac-bordered lane to the “‘Members’ Gate”’

in stately procession and magnificence of

equipage which, according to the newspapers of the
time, “illustrated the triumph of civilization.”

At the foot of the Club-house “Bluff” the drags were
‘parked,’ the horses unhitched, and refreshments
served on the drags from which New York’s fairest
daughters viewed the racing. There was visiting from
drag to drag, as on an evening at the opera among the
boxes. Then, before the principal race of the day, the

Wet ae

A Brilliant
Gathering

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ladies and gentlemen would descend from the club-
house, down the hill, through the fir-grove, and across
the course to the Members’ Stand. ‘The
first citizens of the metropolis and their
families, governors of states, and even ex-
President Fillmore, supported racing by their presence,
and all was gentle and eminently well-bred.

The grand stand was double-tiered and divided into
three sections, the centre one being for members and

Fashion at
the Races

their families. The great gates of the park were of
iron and a pleasant sporting feature were large medal-
lions of horses galloping, with jockeys up, in the colors
of Mr. Belmont, Mr. Jerome, Mr. Cameron, Mr.
Francis Morris, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Lewis
G. Morris and Mr. Watson.

There were few more agreeable places than the club-
house at Jerome Park. Apart from its architectural
beauty and charming surroundings, there was some-
thing baronial to its interior; and while the fir-crowned
eminence on which it stood was hardly a “heaven-kiss-
ing hill,” it was something of an Olympian abode. Its

saloons, its cheerful halls, its spacious ball-
The Club-
Tae room where melody so often echoed, and

which, as the door of the south wing opened,
burst upon the view with its great quaint old Louis XIV
fireplace and arm-chairs, casting a grey light of an-
tiquity upon the scene—all these contributed to the
senses of comfort and pleasure.

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The array of racing “cracks” that looked down from
the walls formed an artistic treat to the racing enthu-
siast and might cause him to paraphrase Mr. Pope’s

lines on Mr. Addison’s dialogue of ‘“‘The Medals” —

Or in fair series laurelled “cracks” be shown—
A Glencoe here, and there a Lexington.

For Lexington was there—from the brush of Troye;
while Kentucky, American Eclipse, Fashion, Lecompte,
and others of the corps d’élite of America found places.
From Sartorious’ representation of Eclipse to the last
decade of Derby and St. Leger winners, were grouped

the most celebrated horses that have won
a fame over an English race-course. Filho da

Puta, big and robust, seems thirsting for an-
other shy at Sir Joshua, and Emilius “‘in flesh” shows
little of the stag-like neck old Ben Marshall gives him
“in condition.” Margrave and the hollow-backed
Glencoe and the dainty Priam are there—magic names
to American horsemen—while Flying Dutchman in the
“tartan, and Voltigeur, whose distended nostrils and
outstretched ‘“‘flag’”’ tell of “pace-complaint,” are also
tere to remind us of “Phe Great Match at York.”
Newminster, dainty and deerlike; Stockwell, of the
robust model; West Australian, lengthy and elegant;
Blair Athol’s blaze face, Blink Bonny’s bobtail, and
Teddington of the calf-knees, were all there to demon-
strate the “‘character”’ Harry Hall gave to his pictures.

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But none are more attractive than the series entitled
“The British Stud,’ by Herring, which decorate the
upper hall. Pantaloon, the paragon of beauty, is woo-
ing Languish to the alliance which brought an Oaks
winner in Ghuznee; and Camel of the massive quarters
looks happy in Banter’s love, the fruit of which in
Touchstone has stamped itself upon the
brightest pages of the blood-horse peerage.
Muley Moloch whispers soft nothings to
Rebecca, which blossomed in Alice Hawthorne and
bloomed anew in Thormanby; while in a wooded ravine
through which a crystal stream is sparkling, Touch-
stone’s truant nymph, Beeswing, is meeting Sir Hercu-
les’ advances from the opposite bank, somewhat as
Helen met those of Paris in the absence of Menelaus,
according to Offenbach’s version of the “tale of Troy
divine” —

The British
Stud

Un mari sage est en voyage.

On all days of the year, a good dinner could be had
at the club-house, and members made it a frequent
lounge. Balls and suppers were given. In the winter
sleighing parties of members (of which there were
fourteen hundred) made it a rendezvous. Each of the
life members (of which there were fifty) had his pri-
vate stable inscribed with his name, where, upon his ar-
rival, his vehicle was housed and his horses cared for.
After the autumn meetings, the members held pigeon

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shooting contests in the large meadow to the south of
the course; and there it was that Mr.

ag James Gordon Bennett inaugurated polo

Shooting, and * :

Skating in America. In the winter a chalet was
built near a large pond half a mile dis-

tant, where skating parties enjoyed their sport.

Preliminary to a race-meeting, there was a “Match
Day” when the members raced their horses in match
races—in some cases for as much as $5000 a side.
Match races were also run at various times of the year.
Amateur riding among the members was a feature, not

only in match races, but in sweepstakes; the
=e Members’ Cup, “horses to be ridden by mem-

hers-of the club,’ being.a fixture tor both
spring and autumn meetings and such riders as Mr.
Wetmore, Mr. Hargous, Mr. Hecksher, Mr. Law-
rence, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. De Hauteville rode in such
races. But Mr. Carroll Livingston was the ‘‘crack”’
gentleman-rider, and it was generally considered that
he could ride with any professional jockey on even
terms.

Sleeping accommodations were plentiful at the club-
house, and it became the custom for owners of racing
stables to take a party of friends to dinner, stop over-
night, and be up with the early morning to witness the
gallops. When the dew was still on the grass, many a
promising colt has had ‘‘a leading question” asked him
before the stable’s racing jacket was intrusted to him

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for the Juvenile or the Nursery. Then a regiment of
sheeted racers appeared, walking in In-
dian file, their “‘banged”’ tails swinging
gracefully from side to side, and the
morning work was on. Indeed, the “morning gallops”’
became almost as popular as the races. There was not
the display of equipage, the crash of the band, or the
crowd, or the betting. Nor was there the glamor of
the silken jackets at the post, looking like a tulip-bed in
its blaze of color, but there was the true spirit of racing
in the people who gathered to watch the preparation of
the candidates for the Belmont and the Juvenile.

There was a “racing spirit” at Jerome Park—“a
smell of real sport.” Horses came to the post with
their tails squared (‘‘banged’’), their manes plaited and
tied with ribbons of the stables’ colors. “They looked
like race-horses, as race-horses should look—like a girl
dressed for a ball. Indeed, all our race-horses’ tails
were “banged” up to 1893. Since then, our horses have
gone to the post with long tails, looking like a
lot of coach-horses. There was no such thing
as stewards perverting their judicial functions
and playing police-detective in order to attract attention
to themselves and gain a reputation for official activity.
There was little of that constant hunting for newspaper
notoriety, and few “‘press agents.”

In short, there was an atmosphere of real sport at
these Jerome Park gatherings. They had not reached

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The Morning
Gallops

“Racing
Spirit”

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the sporting point of referring to days or weeks as
those ‘of ay ereat i race, of to syears’ as those of “a
great race-horse—there was no “Belmont Day,”
or “‘Kingfisher’s year’’—they had not got that far
yet. But they were coming to it. Between the races,
gentlemen met on the quarter stretch in earnest and
often intense discussions on the topics of the hour; and
so intense that, sometimes, each would hold the other
by the sleeve, and pound each other’s shoulder in dis-
putes over the stamina of the Eclipse colts or the rela-
tive stud merits of Lexington and Leamington.

It was the influence of such surroundings as these that
attracted, then interested Mr. Pierre Lorillard in rac-
ing, and finally brought him within the fold of Ameri-
can turfmen, among whom for the following thirty
years he was one of the most conspicuous.

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CHAPTER II
RACING, 1873-1877

The “Silks and the Satins”
Most famed on the track—
To wear them all jockeys aspire—
The jacket of Withers,
Of shimmering “Black” ;
The “Red and Blue” banner of Dwyer;
The “Maroon with Red Sash,”
The “White with Blue Spots,”
Of Belmont and Keene share in glory;
Haggin’s “Orange and Blue,”
Cassatt’s ‘“Tricolor,” too,
Are famous in deed and in story.

But whatever the hue—
Orange, green, red, or blue—
With the lads of the pigskin, so merry,
There ’s no colors named,
No jacket more famed,
Than the Lorillard jacket of “Cherry.”
Racing Song of the “Eighties.”

1873.
AXON was the colt which had the distinction of

introducing Mr. Lorillard’s colors—and the colors,
by the way, were “‘scarlet, with blue cap,”’ as the since

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famous “‘cherry and black” were not adopted until a year
later. The occasion was at Monmouth Park, N. J.,
July 10, 1873, where for the July Stakes for two-year-
olds Saxon ran unplaced to Mr. Belmont’s King Ama-
deus. For the August Stakes, July 21, Saxon was suc-
cessful, beating three others, including Vandalite, a
since famous mare. Then at Jerome Park in October
Saxon ran unplaced to Rutherford for the Nursery
Stakes, and closed the season by finishing second to
Weathercock for the Central Stakes at Baltimore. Mr.
Lorillard had only one other starter that season, a
three-year-old colt called Free Lance, by Kentucky,
which ran unplaced at Jerome Park.

1874

SAXON was a whole-colored brown colt bred in England
by Sir Joseph Hawley, whose colors, “‘cherry jacket with
black cap,’ had been carried to the front in
four Derbys—those of Teddington, Beads-
man, Musjid and Blue Gown. As Mr. Lorillard had
purchased a lot of Sir Joseph’s stock, the Lorillard
horses appeared in 1874 under the Hawley colors,
“cherry, black cap,” to which was added a “gold tas-
sel.” At Baltimore, Saxon finished unplaced for the
Preakness Stakes, but for the Belmont Stakes at Jerome
Park he fairly outran himself, running on the outside all
the way and coming with an electric rush at the finish,

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Saxon

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winning by a neck with such colts behind him as Grin-
stead, Aaron Penington, Elkhorn, Brigand, Reform,
Steel Eyes, and Rutherford. Many said “‘it

iA was the riding that won,” and certainly

the Belmont
George Barbee that day rode the greatest

finish of his career. Still, Saxon must have been a pretty
good colt, for he ran second to Aaron Penington for
the Jersey Derby, and defeated Rutherford and Re-
form; but one more effort, for the Ocean Stakes, closed
his career.

George Barbee was the principal jockey and Mr.
Pryor the trainer for the stable that year. Barbee was
born in England in 1854, and in 1865 was apprenticed

to Tom Jennings, Sr., trainer for Count La
nee Grange. Barbee was exercise lad of the fa-

mous French horse Gladiateur when he had
a complaining leg, and Barbee’s light weight rendered
him available. Barbee came to America in 1872 to
ride for Mr. Chamberlain, and rode Brennus for the
Belmont Stakes that year. He soon had a large prac-
tice, and in 1874 won 19 out of 58 races. In 1875 he
won 12 out of 38, and in 1877 he won 28 out of 70
races. At this time Barbee was a perfect man-model
of the smaller type, tremendously muscular, and his
whipping was very severe. Springbok, the Belmont
winner of 1873, was so savage that jockeys were afraid
to ride him; but Barbee hit him with the whip and it
tamed him. The whipping he gave Sachem in that

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colt’s match with Onondaga in 1881 was such that
Sachem never forgot it and turned coward. William
Pryor, the trainer, was a son of Mr. J. B. Pryor, who
trained Lexington, but had lived several years in Eu-
rope assisting his father when the latter trained for
Mr. Ten Broeck and later for Baron Shickler in
France.

To have won the Belmont Stakes in the second year
of his career on the turf was flattering, and Saxon’s
early decline did not discourage Mr. Lorillard. Like
Commodore Perry on Lake Erie, who, when
his flag-ship was disabled, hoisted his flag on an-
other ship, Mr. Lorillard was ready with a new cham-
pion of the “cherry and black” at Saratoga when the
bugle called to the post the candidates for the historic
Travers Stakes. This was Attila, a rather handsome

dark bay or brown colt by Australian
pe from Ultima by Lexington, which he
tilaand Acrobat Purchased of Mr. Charles Lloyd. Attila

had finished third for the Nursery the
year before, and had won both of his three-year-old
engagements. It was a great gathering of ‘‘cracks”’
for the Travers— Acrobat, Steel Eyes, Stampede, Re-
form, Brigand, Rutherford, Grinstead, Aaron Pening-
ton, and others, eleven in all. It resulted in a furious
finish between four—Acrobat, Attila, Brigand and Steel
Eyes. There was great confusion over the result.
Acrobat and Attila had finished together on the outside

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Attila

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rail, while Steel Eyes and Brigand finished on the inside,
and a majority of the people thought Steel Eyes had
won. But “‘the Ayes had it,” or rather Acro-
bat and Attila, for the judges announced it
a dead-heat between them. Sparling was
blamed for Acrobat’s failure to win, and Hayward was
called to ride Acrobat for the “run off,” which Attila
won. It was Attila’s last race, for, like Saxon, he fell
lame; while Acrobat, despite his unsound feet, became
the colt of the year.

To have won the Belmont and Travers, the two clas-
sic events of the turf, was glory enough; and so it
proved, for the balance of the Lorillard stable per-
formed indifferently. Mr. Lorillard gave $3300 for
Vaultreas, which never won a race, and $4000 for Vas-
sal, a very fine colt by Vandal-Sadowa which had won
in the West; but Vassal was beaten by Rhadamanthus
in a sweepstakes of $1000 each at Saratoga. Mr.
Lorillard had purchased of Mr. Welch for $1000 the
colt James A., by Leamington—Maiden, and with this
colt he defeated Mr. George Lorillard’s Hyder Ali and
the famous Aristides and ‘others at Jerome Page
Thus in his second season’s racing, Mr. Lorillard was
seventh on the list of “Winning Owners” with $18,600,
Col. McDaniel leading with $43,445.

Attila wins
the Travers

1875
For the season of 1875, Mr. Lorillard had nearly forty
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horses in training under William Brown, who had long
trained the horses of Mr. Francis Morris of West-
chester. He took over all Mr. Morris’s
two-year-olds, and in older horses he had
Stanford and Persuader. The three-year-
olds were James A., Vassal, Vernango, Lotto, Sangara,
Vivian, Springlet, Tomahawk, and Echo. ‘The two-
year-olds included Parole, Shirley, Atlas, Evasive,
Cyril, Faithless, Merciless, Tigress, Bertram, Pera,
Merlin, Barricade, Baronet, Bambino, Lord Carlisle,
Alaric, Durango, Demoiselle, and Malcolm. In the
all-aged and three-year-old classes, the season was un-
productive. Sangara started for the Belmont, but was
unequal to the task his full brother, Saxon, had accom-
plished the year before. “I cannot understand,”’ said
Mr. Lorillard, “why Sangara should be:so
poor a race-horse. You know he is a full
brother to Saxon.” “Oh, that )’s nothing,”
returned Mr. Tucker, ‘“‘even the Vanderbilts have poor
relations.” Mr. Lorillard purchased Searcher on the
strength of his brilliant form in the West. He renamed
him Leander and won several races, but they were of
minor importance.

The Lorillard two-year-olds more than avenged the
failure of their elders inthe stable. Faithless, the black
filly by Leamington, purchased of Mr. Morris, began
by winning the Juvenile, Thespian and Flash Stakes.
And now appeared upon the scene the redoubtable

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Forty Horses

in Training

“Poor
Relations”

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Parole, the future hero of two continents, the conqueror

of Ten Broeck in America, and of Isonomy in
Leroi England. Parole won the July Stakes and
August Stakes at Monmouth, and the Saratoga Stakes
and Kentucky Stakes at Saratoga. Cyril won the Cen-
tral Stakes at Baltimore. These, with the other win-
nings of the stable, placed Mr. Lorillard fourth in the
list of ‘Winning Owners” for 1875, with $18,580;
Mr. H. P. McGrath leading, with $35,030; Col. Mc-
Daniel second, with $23,565; Mr. Belmont third, with
$20,005,

1876

“THE Centennial year’ was born bright with promise
for Mr. Lorillard’s “cherry” jacket. Parole’s expeadr
tion to Louisville in quest of the Kentucky Derby was a
disastrous beginning; but the brown gelding more than
made amends, winning the Excelsior and Sequel Stakes
at Saratoga and the All-Aged Stakes at Jerome Park,
in which race he seemed to run faster
than we ever saw a horse run. His
brother, James A., won the Inaugural
Stakes at Philadelphia. Idalia won the Juvenile and
Hopeful; Zoo Zoo won the July, Thespian and Flash
Stakes; Bombast won the Champagne and Central;
Shirley won the Preakness; Merciless won the Ala-
bama; Pera won the Chesapeake, and Barricade won
the Robins Stakes at Monmouth.

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Parole Wins the
All-Aged Stakes

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Of these, Zoo Zoo was the best, bar Parole. Zoo
Zoo was a bay filly by Australian from Mazurka by
Lexington—the same cross that produced Attila, Spring-
bok, Wildidle, Rutherford, Fellowcraft and
Spendthrift. She was a filly that would have
been prominent in any year; a deep bay, with good
length below, bust short above, that is from the withers
to the coupling, and with her legs so well under her that
she was enabled to slip away from the post and set a
pace that carried her fields off their feet. The season
of 1876 found Mr. Lorillard second on the list of
“Winning Owners,” with $34,338, of which Parole
won $8103, Zoo Zoo $4650, Merciless $3500, Idalia
$3650. The leading owner was Hon. August Belmont,
with $40,800, largely won by the filly Sultana.

Zoo Zoo

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Ir was with an extensive stable that Mr. Lorillard be-
gan the season of 1877—nearly fifty horses, fifteen of
which were three-year-olds and twenty-six two-year-
olds. The stable did nothing great at Baltimore.
Oleaster, a filly which Mr. Lorillard had taken in ex-
change with his brother for Idalia, proved that he had

made a bad bargain, as she was of little
Bombast class; while Idalia was one of the best of the
Aa year. They did better at Jerome Park, where

Bombast won the Withers Stakes, and at
Monmouth he won both the Ocean and the Robins

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Stakes. Zoo Zoo had a great season winning the Mary-
land, Sequel, Monmouth Oaks, West End and Harding
Stakes.

For the Belmont Stakes, a great field came to the
post. Rifle, a colt belonging to Mr. Galway, was
made favorite purely on the strength of phenomenal
trials. Mr. William Astor started Baden Baden (the
Kentucky Derby winner), which he had just purchased.
Mr. Lorillard started Basil, who finished ‘‘nowhere,”’
but he had met so much interference that he had no
chance. ‘The winner turned up in Mr. Clabaugh’s
Cloverbrook, a big lathering chestnut with white face
and legs. He was a son of Vauxhall, and a fine natural

é racer; but had a trick of bolting, as his sire
Pisa had before him. ‘The result of the Belmont
Match was not considered a true one, and Mr.

Lorillard offered to match Basil against the
winner. It was accepted; a match of $5000 a side was
made for a race of a mile and a quarter. Cloverbrook
was favorite, and led for half the distance, then bolted,
as he had a habit of doing, and Basil won by ten lengths.

Basil was a gigantic gelding by Melbourne, Jr., from
Nellie Grey by Lexington. He had a fiddle head, a
long lean neck, a long back and stood high on the leg —
an awkward customer. But he could gallop; for, al-
though Baden Baden defeated him for the Jersey
Derby and Travers, he won the Kenner, although it
was one of the worst starts in the history of racing,

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Baden Baden being left at the post, and broke down in
his heroic efforts to reach the front. Besides the Ken-
ner, Basil won the Jerome and Annual Stakes. Barri-
cade was a useful horse, winning several races, including
the Members’ Cup, ridden by Mr. Frank Grey Gris-
wold, one of the best amateur riders of the period.
Parole was the mainstay of the stable, winning the
Woodburn Stakes, 2% miles; Maturity Stakes, 3 miles;
and the Special Stakes at Baltimore, beating Ten
Broeck and Tom Ochiltree.

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CHAPTER ith
THE RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSE EE

At Baltimore ’t was, in the autumn late.
“Parole and Ten Broeck” were on every lip,
When the East and the West their issues joined
In the final race for the championship

’T was Ten Broeck led, three lengths ahead;
With Ochiltree second, they swept past the stand;
For two miles they speed, Ten Broeck in the lead,
Parole in the rear, but running in hand.

The pace becomes fast, Tom Ochiltree ’s last;
They straighten for home at the three-quarter pole,
As the stand fairly shook with “Come on, Ten Broeck!”
Then we hear a shrill cry of “Look at Parole!”’

There rises a cheer as he steals from the rear.
Now he’s closing the gap, as the cheering proceeds,
“Now he ’s at Ten Broeck’s side’’—they race stride for stride
“Now he’s gaining’—“he ’s closing’ —“by heaven, he leads!”

From the head of the stretch, to the field, to the stand,
*Mid tossing of hats, roll the deafening cheers;
“Ten Broeck ’s beaten,” they cry, as up goes Walker’s whip—
Parole gallops home gaily pricking his ears.

Oh, was n’t he “cockey,” that Lorillard jockey,
As he rode back to scale, to the judge raised his whip.
“Weight ’s correct,” said the clerk. “All right,” from the stewards.
Parole wins the race for the championship.
Parole, Ten Broeck and Tom Ochiltree.

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EN BROECK had been proclaimed “‘the horse of

the century” during 1876 and 1877. As a four-
year-old in 1876, he had won all his races except the
one with Aristides, and his reputation became so great
that owners in the West refused to start horses against
him. He was thereupon given a four-mile
race against Fellowcraft’s time (7.19%)
and accomplished it in 7.1534. In 1877 he had an-
other career of triumphs in the West, winning all his

Ten Broeck

races, and races against time, in which he established a
record of 1.3934 for a mile, 3.27% for two miles, and
5.26% for three miles. All Ten Broeck’s races had
been in the West, and now efforts were made to bring
him East. His owner, Mr. Harper, was not an am-
bitious man. He was content to worship his idol for
what he had accomplished, but at last he yielded, and
agreed to send Ten Broeck to the October meeting at
Baltimore, where a valuable premium was promised.
Learning that Ten Broeck would be at Baltimore,
Mr. Lorillard offered to match Parole against ‘Ten
Broeck to run two miles or two miles and a half for
$5000 a side. There was no response;
thereupon the Club offered a sweep-
stakes, $500 each, the club to add
$1000; two miles and a half. Ten Broeck, Tom
Ochiltree and Parole were named. The race was run
Wednesday, October 24, and aroused a greater interest

oon

The Race for the
Championship

“CHERRY (ANDO BE ACK?

throughout the country than any race since the Longfel-
low—Harry Bassett races of 1872. It was a sectional
race, the East versus the West—‘‘a race for the cham-
pionship,” so people called it, and they came from the
most distant points to witness it. Ten Broeck was an
overwhelming favorite, his great record-breaking feats
having made a powerful impression.

Tom Ochiltree was the first to appear, ridden by
Barbee. Then came Barrett in the “‘cherry and black”
on Parole. They were received with applause, but
when Ten Broeck came out with Walker in the saddle,
the applause was greater. He was a magnificent speci-
men of the thoroughbred, while Parole
looked as rough as a bear and as lean as a
snake. Amid suppressed excitement the
horses started on their eventful journey, Ten Broeck
leading by three lengths, Ochiltree second, Parole trail-
ing. ‘The half mile was slow, 1.00%. Then Walker
was signalled to ‘“‘go on,’’and,as Ochiltree did the same,
the pace sharpened, and the crowd began shouting. At
the end of the mile and a half, they passed the stand
amid cheering that might have been heard in Monu-
ment Square, the Eastern men cheering, the Western
followers of Ten Broeck yelling like demons. It was
cheers answering cheers, like the noise of contending
armies. Suddenly, as they turned toward the last quar-
ter, there arose a cry of “Look at Parole!” Barrett
had loosened his hold on the brown gelding, who shot

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the Post”

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up like a rocket and closed on the leaders. Then there
was a moment of quiet as the cheering ceased. The
crowd was so deep it was difficult to see the horses, but
the next instant a roar is heard at the head of the
stretch. Nearer and nearer it comes, and is taken up
all along the line to the stand. Then we see the
“cherry” jacket leading, and amid a scene baffling de-
scription, Parole drew away and won by five lengths.
When Parole galloped past the post, the scene might
have been compared to pandemonium. During the race
there had been a fusillade of cheering. Now a spirit of
quiet amazement followed. ‘The Ken-
tuckians said Ten Broeck “could n’t have
been himself,’ and pointed to the fact
that he scoured badly at the finish. Yet he came out
three days later and won the Bowie Stakes, four mile
heats. The talent received a fearful blow, many re-
turning home “dead broke.” ‘They could not realize
how Ten Broeck could be beaten—and by Parole, who
had been twice beaten by Tom Ochiltree a fortnight
previous at Jerome Park. The fact as to Parole was
that when he was defeated at Jerome Park, Mr. Loril-
lard had Dr. Cattanach examine him and, finding he
had cracked heels, treated them, and the gelding im-
proved immediately. The track was soft and damp
and this favored Parole. But “the time was slow’ —
4.3734—and the Kentuckians claimed Ten Broeck was
“not himself.” Mr. Lorillard offered to run the race

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Ten Broeck

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over again at Jerome Park November 6, and both
horses were brought north. In his trial before the race,
however, Ten Broeck did not please Mr. Harper, who
“scratched” him, and Parole walked over. Possibly,
the four mile heats at Baltimore had dulled Ten
Broeck’s speed, otherwise he looked. and acted well
enough when he was brought out and exhibited before
the stand.
Baltimore, Oct. 24, 1877. Grand Sweepstakes for all ages.
$500 each, P.P., the club to add $1000; two miles and a half.
Pivienllard’s: bra e@2 Paroles 40 yrs, 4 ma

Maiden, 105 lbs. (Barrett) . . I
F. B. Harper’s b. h. Ten Broeck, 5 yrs., ay Phaeenue
Fanny Holton, 114 lbs. (Walker) Pe 2
G. L. Lorillard’s b. h. Tom Ochiltree, 5 yrs., by Lexing:
ton—Katona, 114 lbs. (Barbee) . 3
Time: 4.3734.

Thus ended the great meeting of Parole and Ten
Broeck for the championship. But the Western men
were not convinced. There was still talk of another
race. A note was sent to Mr. Lorillard which brought
out the following reply:

“T have not challenged Ten Broeck, but I am willing
to run Parole against him for $25,000 a side, $10,000
forfeit, at Saratoga, two and a half miles, Western

weights, dry track, and I will allow Ten

Le Lorillard's Broeck $5000 for expenses, if the race is
eft ‘

run. I will also run from my Rancocas

stable a two-year-old at 34 mile, a three-year-old at

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134 miles, a four-year-old at 2% miles, and a five-year-
old at 3 miles against Western horses of the same ages,
excepting that I will run my five-year-old against a
horse five years old or older. ‘The four races to be
run at Jerome Park or Saratoga for $2500 a side,
each race $1000 forfeit, horses to be named at the post.
This offer means that I am willing to run my stable
against the pick of the entire West.”’

George Evans and William Barrett were the stable’s
jockeys in 1877. Evans had ridden light-weights in the
stable of Mr. Merry, in England, when Dundee,

Marksman, and Belladrum were carrying
The Lorillard

Novkeys the yellow jacket; and came to America

in 1873 to ride for Mr. Belmont: He
rode with great success for many years. Barrett was
a boy whom Mr. Brown, the trainer, picked up in New
York; but he learned quickly, and rode Parole in many
races. For so youthful a jockey he had great patience,
and could ride a waiting race to perfection. This suited
Parole, and the pair made a strong combination. Bar-
rett’s attitude in the saddle was not so exaggerated an
example of the ‘monkey seat,” as the English call the
more modern American style. His “‘set-to”’ in a finish
was not especially vigorous, but his overhand whipping,
for one so apparently delicate, was very effective.

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CHAPTER: IV
RACING, 1878

Here ’s to Lexington’s latest—the last of his breed,
From forehead to fetlock, true son of his sire;

Fit to run for a crown, at a kingdom’s last need,
Compact of the whirlwind, and Heaven’s own fire.

NCAS, foaled in 1876, was one of the last of the
Lexingtons, his dam. ‘Coral by Vandaljijins
grandam the imported mare Cairngorme by Cother-
stone. He was a marked colt from the day of his
birth. Mr. Withers made a trip to Kentucky in ’77
with the express purpose of attending the
sale of the Woodburn yearlings and buy-
ing him, as he had a high opinion of his
elder brother Wanderer. But his driver took the wrong
road, and when he arrived the colt had been sold to
Mr. Lorillard for $3100; and when Mr. Brown, the

Rancocas trainer, met Barney Riley after the trial of

The Last of
the Lexingtons

the yearlings he remarked, “Barney, you ’ve seen some
pretty fast colts tried at Rancocas, but they ’ve just
tried one that beat anything ever done there.”

In color Uncas was a bay with a star and right fore-

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foot white. He rather lacked length and stood 15.2,
with good shoulders, although rather heavy at the
points. There was a lack of length from his elbows to
his coupling, but he had a “picture head,”’ a fine round-
ness of rib in its curve from the spine, powerful
quarters and gaskins, unusual depth of brisket,
excellent feet and legs. But he was very highly organ-

Uncas

ized, very excitable, and would not always try. He won
the Kentucky Stakes at Saratoga in such brilliant fash-
ion that at the end of the season he was sent to England.
The bare expanse of Newmarket seemed to frighten
him. He delayed the start for the Two Thousand
Guineas and was brought home the next season and
raced with success. He took a violent dislike to Bar-
bee after the jockey had given him “‘a dose of whale-
bone,” and at the sound of Barbee’s voice would become
furious. It was not until they put Shauer up that he
would run kindly, his Grand National Handicap being
a fine exhibit of gameness, he beating Monitor and
Firenzi a nose in a desperate finish. Uncas followed in
the footsteps of his brother Wanderer as a winner of
the Westchester Cup on his return from England. But
while highly excitable, he was nothing to Wanderer,
who was a “stall walker” and could be heard tramping
in his box at all hours of the night. Mr. Withers never
lost sight of Uncas and, when he retired in 1882, pur-
chased him, saying, “If I could n’t have him for racing,
I can have him fora sire.’’ In his first season at Brook-

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dale he sired Laggard, and nothing ever gladdened the
heart of ‘“‘the old gentleman in black”’ so much as when
Laggard won the Omnibus Stakes of ’87, defeating
Hanover and Firenzi.

Parole made a clean sweep of the Cup races of 1878,
winning the Baltimore, Monmouth and Saratoga Cups,
and in October was shipped to England with Duke of

Magenta, which Mr. Lorillard had pur-
Boe chased of his brother. Perfection won the
Doswell Stakes. Spartan won the Jersey

Derby, beating Duke of Magenta, and a match in
which he defeated Dwyer Brothers’ Bramble, $2500 a
side. Garrick won the Manhattan Handicap, Board-
man won the Central and Barnum’s Hotel Stakes, Bay-
ard won the Pimlico Stakes, Judith won the Chesapeake
Stakes. Spartan was a very highly tried colt
by Lexington from Lulu Horton by Albion,
but hit himself at work and his leg, filling, rendered him
useless soon after he had defeated Bramble. Garrick,

Spartan

by Lexington from Inverness by Macaroni, was a very
attractive colt, a neat brown, but rather on the small
side. Boardman was a bay by Bonnie Scot-
land from Woodbine by Lexington, and was
a very smoothly turned one, higher on the leg than most

Boardman

Bonnie Scotlands and rather narrow for one of that
tribe, but he lacked the toughness of the family. ‘The
stable’s winnings for 1878 amounted to $32,905.

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CHAPTER V
THE CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND, 1879-1882

I thought he was expounding the law and the prophets, but, on
drawing a little nearer, I found that he was warmly expatiating
upon the merits of a brown horse.—Bracebridge Hall.

1879

T was on the 19th of October, 1878, that the Loril-
lard horses sailed from New York for England by
the ship Exgland of the National Line. The lot con-
sisted of Parole, Uncas, Friar, Boreas, Cherokee, Pap-
poose, Nereid and Geraldine, the last six yearlings. On
November 9, Duke of Magenta, the champion three-
year-old of the year, followed them on the ship Egypt,
with William Brown, the trainer, and Hughes, Fisher
and Barrett, the jockeys. But, as in the case
ae of Falsetto later, Duke of Magenta was
destined never to carry the cherry jacket.
The colt contracted a violent influenza on the passage
and never could be trained. He was brought home the

following September in company with Uncas.
If the English judged the “American type” by Pa-
role and Duke of Magenta, they must have been sorely

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puzzled. Parole was very long and narrow; the Duke
was short and almost ‘‘cobby.’”’ Parole had a lean “‘var-
minty’? head; the Duke had a fine Roman head. Pa-
role’s neck (he was a gelding) was very light; the Duke
was bull-necked. Parole was very deep in the brisket,

but had light back ribs; the Duke was
Parole and deeply ribbed back to the coupling. Parole
ee had beautifully inclined shoulders; the Duke

had well inclined but heavy shoulders. Pa-
role had fine quarters, but those of the Duke were mas-
sive. Parole had a long, light stride, and, like long-
striding horses, he was not a quick starter, requiring
time to settle into his stride; his long stride made it
dificult for him to force the pace from the start—he
won his races by lying away and coming with a burst of
speed at the finish. The Duke was a short strider; he
raced all the way, a model of perpetual motion.

‘Why, here ’s old Leamington, only not quite so big,”
exclaimed Tom Aldcroft, the old jockey, when he saw
Parole being led into Newmarket. Aldcroft had ridden
Leamington in England in 1858, and felt a kindly inter-
est in his son. But the English critics were not at-
tracted by Parole. On April 16, 1879, Parole started
for the Newmarket Handicap, 1% miles, with 116
lbs., and won by a length from Isonomy
(124 lbs.), one of the best English horses
of modern times. When he was sent to
England, Mr. Lorillard had no great expectations of

ison

Parole De-
feats Isonomy

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Parole. The gelding was six years old, and it was
hardly expected he would retain his speed. It was
thought that he would at least be useful as a trial horse
for Duke of Magenta.

Newmarket, April 16, 1879. Newmarket Handicap. 25 sovs.
each, 10 forfeit ; 400 added ; 114 miles; 39 subs.

P. Lorillard’s br. g. Parole, 6 yrs., by es
Maiden, 116 lbs. (Morbey) eee a spd

F. Gretton’s b. c. Isonomy, 4 yrs., 124 lbs. les, ate:
Count La Grange’s ch. m. Lina, 6 yrs., 106 Ibs.(Morris) 3
Lord Hartington’s b. f. ee &. VES.,, iG. Ws Sia

frey) Aa O
Sirf. meet b. * ‘peanned 6 yrs., 100 Ibs.

(Brogden) . - O
Lord Fitzwilliam’s b. & “The eae Sy TS 8 Ibs.

(Greaves) .- 4 O

Betting: 100 to 15 nyeat ee

Of course Parole’s defeat of Isonomy created a sen-
sation in England. English critics did not fancy “‘his
light neck” or “his rough coat” —they said he was “‘a
lazy horse.” As Mr. Brown, his trainer, said, “I know
he ’s not the showy kind they like, but wait till they see
hii extended. Om April, 29 Parole: started tor the
City and Suburban—the greatest of the English spring

handicaps. Eighteen started. Parole with
Parole Wins x19 Ibs. was at 4 to I and with Fred Ar-
the City and : f
ay eee cher in the saddle. He won in a common
canter by a length from Ridotto. If the
Newmarket Handicap had created a sensation, the City

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and Suburban created a greater one. But the day fol-
lowing (April 23), the old gelding came out again, this
time for the Great Metropolitan, 214 miles. His vic-
tory the day before had frightened off all opposition
except Castlereagh. He had 110 lbs., Parole 124 lbs.,
and Parole won pulled double.

Now it was “Brother Jonathan’s wonderful race-
horse.” The Sporting Life said: “‘Light-necked, rough-
coated, leggy and curby-hocked, Parole without his

name and deeds would have been passed
“Brother Jona- by, ‘Rough and ready’ is a good motto
ee UE Fe ll as for horses, and the
ful Race-horse” Wa ie aoe : ae is

Americans seem to have applied it. Yet
there are people who say England is a great nation.
Over-education, pampering, free trade and the defeat
of Ridotto are ruining the country, and the sooner we
get back to home truths the better. Give us then the
good old rough and ready business; do not let us be-
lieve in ‘fashion’ in breeding so much as we have done,
and so learn the lesson that ‘a horse is a horse.’”’ The
Sporting Times said: ‘The three-year-old Uncas is, we
hear, within 21 lbs. of Parole, and on the Rowley Mile
is Just two seconds behind him. He was tried ‘by the
clock’ the other day, and pleased his trainer wonder-
fully. Brown has made the Newmarket trainers stare.
They see a flag dropped and look out for something
great. All they behold is ‘a solitary horseman.’ ”’

But the sensation Parole’s victories created in Eng-

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land was as nothing to the sensation they caused here.
The public and press went wild over them, and even

that element that had always dispar-
Effect of Parole’s’ aged Parole at home admitted “he was
bane i a better horse than they had thought.”

merica

The impulse Parole’s success gave to
racing was enormous. People that had never attended
races became interested, the attendance at the races in-
creased, new racing clubs were formed, among them the
Coney Island Jockey Club and Brighton Beach Asso-
ciation. Social clubs were named for Parole, there
were Parole poolrooms, Parole saloons, Parole billiard
parlors, and Parole baseball clubs. Mr. Lorillard was
given a dinner at which Mr. Jerome presided and
speeches were made by Mr. Withers, Judge Monson,
and Mr. Keene, while Mr. Belmont, confined to the
house by an accident, sent Mr. Lorillard a letter offer-
ing as a toast: “The Lorillard Stable in England: May
the younger stable companions of Parole
show as clean a pair of heels to their
competitors on the English or French
turf.’ During the evening, Mr. Lorillard offered to
bet one to four that he could name the sires of the first
three colts in the race for the Belmont Stakes soon to
be run at Jerome Park. The bet was taken around the
table and $16,000 in various sums collected. Mr.
Lorillard named two Leamingtons and one Australian.

He also stated he had bought Parole’s dam Maiden,
ey

A Dinner to
Mr. Lorillard

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with her suckling brother to Parole, called Powhatan,
for $10,000.

The entire country from Maine to California, thence
to the Gulf, rang with praises of the old gelding.
Among them the following, by ‘‘some mute inglorious
Milton,” appeared in one of the sporting newspapers:

THE CITY AND SUBURBAN

When, for the start, the flag it fell,
“They ’re off!” some fifty thousand yell;
And soon there ’ll be a tale to tell—

So went Parole.

Some eighteen started in the lot,

And, though the pace was very hot,

Straight to the front the Yankee shot—
So went Parole.

Although his company was good,
The stranger wished it understood,
To go in first he could and would—
So went Parole.

The mile was reached—no change occurred—
And all, save one, were whipped and spurred ;
But Archer’s whip it never stirred—

So went Parole.

They ’re in the straight—now comes the dash
For English prestige and her cash;
But see! they both have gone to smash—

In goes Parole.

May 7, Parole started for the Chester Cup, 134
miles, with 124 lbs., but was beaten, finishing fourth to

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Reefer, 4 years, 98 lbs.; Touchet, 5 years, 126 lbs.; and
Ridotto, 4 years, 106 lbs. Parole was favorite at 6 to 4
on; 5 to 2 against Reefer. It was said Archer made
his run with Parole too soon. However, the day. fol-
lowing, Parole, with 134 lbs., started for the Great
Cheshire Stakes, and this time, lying well
back, came with a rush at the finish and
won by three lengths, turning the tables
on Reefer, who, with 118 lbs., was second. The London
Sportsman spoke of Parole’s dash of speed as “‘some-
thing electrical.” The Sporting Life, explaining Reef-
er’s loss of the cup, said: “‘Nothing can be more con-
clusive that something was wrong, than the frightful
exhibition Parole made of his field the very next day.
With the steadier of g st. 8 Ibs. he smothered his horses
and left them almost standing still.”

May 30, Parole, with 125 lbs. up, won the Epsom
Gold Cup, 1% miles. At Ascot he was beaten for the
Ascot Stakes with 125 lbs., Ridotto, the winner, having
109 lbs. For the Goodwood Cup he was
beaten by Isonomy. He was third for
the Great Yorkshire Handicap, with 125
lbs.; the winner, Dresden China, 48 lbs. He had 118
lbs. in the Cesarewitch, which Chippendale, 103 lbs.,
won. For the Great Challenge Stakes, six furlongs,
Parole, with 126 lbs., was unplaced to Rayon d’Or.
After having been prepared for the Cesarewitch, which
is over two miles, it was asking a lot of Parole to meet

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Parole Wins
with 134 Lbs.

Parole Wins
the Gold Cup

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the younger horse at six furlongs. ‘Thus Parole won
five races and $19,403.

As to Mr. Lorillard’s other horses in 1879, Pappoose
won the Spring Stakes at Newmarket and Geraldine
won the Levant Stakes at Goodwood. Pappoose was a
full sister to Parole, and performed creditably, as she
was placed in three races out of six; while Geraldine
(by Saxon—Girl of the Period) was placed in three out
of five. Uncas started for the Two Thousand Guineas,
but he cut up so badly that he was sent back to New
York, having shown utter unwillingness to race over
the turf courses of England. The stable’s winnings in
its first season in England amounted to $26,503.

Encouraged by Parole’s success and an increased
fancy for the get of Leamington, in May, 1879, Mr.
Lorillard and his brother, Mr. ‘George LL: Lorillard,
made with Mr. Welch of Chestnut Hill, Pa., an agree-
ment to take his entire lot of Leamington yearlings. In
the division ‘Mr. George” took the Megara filly (since
known as Spinaway); the Lemonade colt, Saunterer;
the Lady Motley colt, Blazes; the Medora colt, and the

Mundane filly; Mr. Pierre Larilland
ee took the Emily Fuller filly, the Maiden

filly, the Nemesis filly, the Flash of Light-
ning colt, the’ Mary Clark filly, the Delight ‘colt, and
the Maggie B. B. colt. The colt last named was des-
tined te become famous as Iroquois. At the time,
Iroquois was not as advanced as some of the others,

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and Mr. Lorillard offered him to his brother for
$7000. Nothing came of it, however, and the yearlings
reached Rancocas May 30, and early in the autumn,
after having been broken, Iroquois was shipped to Eng-
land with the yearlings Mohawk, Santee, Dakota, Pas-
saic, Paw Paw, Seneca and Wyandotte. With them
went the three-year-old Falsetto (by Enquirer—Farfa-
letta). It was said Falsetto ran one of the greatest
trials ever run at Newmarket, but he became lame, and
finding it impossible to train him, he was sent home the
following year and entered the stud in 1881.

1880

THE victories of Parole in the spring of 1879 were not
forgotten by reason of his defeats later that season.
Neither he nor any horse in the stable ever escaped the
handicapper’s attention after that. This was quite
evident when the weights appeared for
the spring handicaps of 1880. For the
Lincolnshire, Parole had top weight,
126 lbs. For the Newmarket, Falsetto had 129 lbs.—
top weight; Parole next, with 126 lbs. For the Inter-
national, Parole had top weight, 130 lbs.; Falsetto,
126 lbs. For the Prince of Wales Handicap, Parole
had top weight, 144 lbs., being asked to concede a
three-year-old 53 lbs. For the City and Suburban,
Parole had top weight, 130 lbs.; Master Kildare, 128
Ibs.; Falsetto, 124 lbs.

Weights on the

American Horses

baz

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Parole made his appearance in the Liverpool Cup,
114 miles, March 17, and with the top weight, 131 lbs.,
won by half a length from a field of nine.
But Archer, who rode the second horse,
Advance, lodged an objection to Parole
on the ground of a “cross.” The English rule (No.
32) disqualified a horse crossing another, unless he had
two clear lengths in the lead. ‘The stew-
ards disqualified Parole and gave the race
to Advance, an aged horse with 116 lbs.
So inconsequential was the ‘‘cross’’ considered that,
while the case was pending, bookmakers laid 4 to 1 on
Parole getting the race, while the London Referee
bluntly said, ‘‘People remarked that it looked strange
for such a right-away rider as Archer entering a pro-
test when, for once, he gets done at his own game.”
Parole did not win again in England. He ran second
for the Epsom Gold Cup and late in the summer was
sent home to New York.

Boreas was Mr. Lorillard’s starter for the Derby
and ran unplaced. Dakota, Seneca, and Sly Dance
failed to win. Mistake, and Passaic, also, were not
brilliant. Paw Paw, a sister to Parole, was a fine filly.
She was second for the Stanley Stakes, and won the
Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood, but died soon after.
Wallenstein, a son of Waverly, won the Newmarket
Handicap which Parole had won the year before.

But Iroquois, the brown two-year-old by Leamington—

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The Liverpool
Cup

Parole
Disqualified

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Maggie B. B., made amends. He won the Newmarket
Two-years-old Plate, was unplaced for the Woodcote,
won the [wo-years-old Stake at Epsom, was
unplaced for the New Stakes at Ascot, second
for the July Stakes, won the Chesterfield Stakes, won
the Levant Stakes, was second for the Findon, and un-
placed for the Champagne. It was the race for the
July Stakes that first attracted attention to Iroquois, for
in that he ran second to the famous Bal Gal, beaten
only a head with Thebais and other good ones behind
him. It was then that Mr. Griswold says Matthew
Dawson remarked to Mr. Puryear, who managed the
Lorillard stable, that Bal Gal was the fleetest two-year-

old he had ever trained, and any colt good
MatthewDaw- enough to come within a head of beating
son's Opinion 6» as Iroquois had in the July Stakes, was
of Iroquois : q : y

good enough to win the Derby. In the
Chesterfield, Iroquois won by three lengths with Tris-
tan and eight others behind him, while in the Levant he
had defeated Isonomy’s younger sister Isola Madre,
and conceded weight to all the starters. ‘The stable’s
record in England for 1880 was eight races won, and
$22,500.

I roquois

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CHAPTER WI |
WINNING THE, DERBY AND ST. LEGER

How the Derby was founded, all full well know,
Over a hundred years ago;

But little *t was thought the event would grow
In after years so weighty,

By those who formed the company, gay,
On that original Derby Day,

When Diomed won on the fourth of May,
In seventeen hundred and eighty.

1881

ISTAKE began the season of 1881 for the Loril-
lard stable, finishing second for the Lincolnshire
Handicap, with roo lbs. to Buchanan, 4 years, 94 lbs. ;
and for the Newmarket Handicap he was also second,
but he won the International Handicap, and was third
for the Great Metropolitan. Wallenstein was second
for the Liverpool Cup and won the Great Shropshire
Handicap. Barrett was unable to win a race of any
kind, and was sent home, landing in New York late in
August and raced at Jerome Park soon after.
On the 4th of May, the stable started Iroquois and
Passaic for the Two Thousand Guineas, and so little

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was thought of them that the odds were 50 to 1. There
was a story current that Passaic had
beaten Iroquois in a trial, but for the race
Passaic went out and made the pace.
Peregrine won the race, Iroquois finished second, while
Passaic was beaten off. Two days later, Iroquois won
the Newmarket Stakes, beating Lennoxlove, and May 7
he walked over for the Burwell Stakes at Newmarket.
The Derby was run June 1. Peregrine was the favorite
at 6 to 5, with Iroquois at 11 to 2, Geologist 13 to 2,
st. Louis 12 to 1. .Fitteen started. “ihe good race
Iroquois had run for the Guineas, and the fact that
Archer was to ride, made him a following, the London
Cuckoo giving him as its “tip” in the following Hia-
wathan verse:

If you ask me what the chances

For the winner and the places

In the Derby stakes to-morrow,

The great race of the palefaces,

For the Riband Blue of Epsom,

I would answer, I would tell you:

Go to where the red man’s river,

Peopled close with bream and beaver,

Rushes down from pine-clad mountains,

Haunt of grizzly and of eagle,

Where the Iroquois, the brownskin,

Cuts the willows by the water

For his traps, to catch the beaver;

Where the Iroquois, the brownskin,

Trims his plume of cherry feathers,

Ravished from the dead flamingo,

Sets them in his raven tresses,
Crying, Ho! the brown-skin warrior

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The Race for

“the Guineas”

“CHERRY AND BEACK:

Overhead sees in the heavens,
Circling high and circling higher,
Keen of eye and swift of pinion,
Chief of birds and king of falcons,
Peregrine, by far the noblest

Of all birds that fly above us;
Russet brown his dainty plumage;
Ruddy red his beak and talons;

But the Iroquois, the brownskin,
Knows the secret how to tame him—
How to make the falcon lower
Ruddy head and russet plumage

To the black and cherry colors

That the brownskin bears so proudly;
For he trims his arrows deftly,

Does this swift and dexterous Archer,
Does this hero of the pigskin,

Hero of a thousand Derbys,

And the brownskin learned his secret
In the city by the river,

In St. Louis, where the whiteface,
Where Sir John,! the wobbler’s patron,
Mourns his dollars and his greenbacks
Piled upon the scarlet colors,

Piled upon the son of Hermit.

The race for the Derby needs little description.
Iroquois was first away, but Archer eased him, laid
away, and coming at the right moment, won easily

>) "by half a length, (“The London Sporig7
ening Life commented: “Hats off to America!
Lorillard, Jrequois,Pincus, Archer

salute ye! Pincus was said to be galloping his horses

1’The “Sir John” alluded to above was Sir John Astley, who
had backed Weston, “the wobbler,’ in his six-day pedestrian
match with O’Leary.
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to death, but Pincus in Iroquois has produced a colt
capable of winning the greatest race in the world. That
he had a sterling bit of stuff to work upon cannot be
denied; neither can it be doubted that the Americans
make up their minds to find out whether their horses
can stand real hard work or not. ‘They must either ‘go’
or ‘crack.’ Iroquois did not. crack, he ‘go’ed.’. The
two-mile gallops he was sent in training were also con-
clusive that what latent stamina he had would be devel-
oped. That Iroquois has developed into a stayer, the
Derby proves. Peregrine failed to stay and St. Louis
was beaten the moment it came to racing.”

Epsom, June 1, 1881. The Derby Stakes for three-year-olds.
50 sovs. each, h. f.; 114 miles; 243 subs.

PF, Lomnllard’s br: <: eal Ys Lee a one

Bi B.(Archer) . ~. up acetal
R. W. Grosvenor’s br. c. Peregrine bs pan Gomez

(Webb) 4 er eee 2
Lord Rosebery’s b. c. Town Pee by coe ee

ware) hs a al pai ebesen es

Scobell, Cumberland, oes Tristan, een Geol-
ogist, Fortissimo, Culloden, Don Fulano, Fortune’s Favorite,
St. Louis and Marshal Macdonald ran napleed:

When the news reached New York shortly after 11
A.M., it produced the wildest hilarity.

ee Nae At the hotels men slapped each other on
- Hees the back, and drank the health of the
“first American horse to win the Derby.”

Others flocked to familiar rendezvous to meet their

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sporting friends; the evening newspapers printed in
mammoth head-lines, ‘“Another American Victory.” It
was race day at Jerome Park, and shortly before noon
Judge Monson, assuming the role of herald, rushed
from stable to stable shouting, ‘Iroquois has won the
Derby! Iroquois has won the Derby!” The Juvenile
Stakes was run that day, and Gerald, destined to be
Iroquois’s successor as a Lorillard starter for the
Derby of the next year, finished second to
Rejoicings— = Onondaga. Dave Clark, who held the
Iroquois and ;
the Tomahawk Statter’s advance flag, had it decorated
with the name of Iroquois and a huge
tomahawk. Ihat day, and far into the evening, re:
porters besieged Mr. Lorillard’s residence for an inter-
view, but he eluded them. At the theatres, allusions
made by the actors to the brown hero of Epsom evoked
thunders of applause. At the Bijou they were singing
the ‘‘Mascotte.”’ When, in the opera, Pippo asked
Prince Lorenzo, ‘“‘Do you want the earth?” the latter
replied, “‘No; I want Iroquois,” and the house fairly
rose at him.

In England the result of the Derby was received
differently. Some declined to consider Iroquois an
American colt, as he was the son of an English sire.
Others solaced themselves by concluding that it was ‘“‘an
off year” for three-year-olds. We took occasion to
write Mr. Pincus a congratulatory letter and received
the following reply:

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The Hermitage, Newmarket,
June 30, rss.
DEAR Mr. VosBuRGH: Yours of the 11th duly re-
ceived; thanks for friendly expressions. We would
have won a ton [on Derby] if we had left Barrett in
America, he being backed several weeks before, and not
being a four-miler, could n’t think of it. Remember me
to all at home. Say they are all mistaken as to the trial
of Iroquois and Passaic, or the former making the run-
ning for the latter in the Guineas, but vice versa.
Yours very truly,
J. Pincus.

At Ascot, June 14, Iroquois, ridden by Archer, car-
ried 131 lbs. for the Prince of Wales Stakes and won,
beating Geologist and five others. Two days later he
won the St. James’s Palace Stakes, beat-
ing Leon. Then came his preparation for
the St. Leger, for which “the brownskin”’
now “trimmed his plume of cherry feathers.” The St.
Leger was fixed for September 14, and he had a nice
interval of three months. His St. Leger preparation
became a puzzle to the denizens of Newmarket. The
Sporting Life of September 10 reported Iroquois
‘lame in the near fore leg’? and named Limestone,
Geologist or Ishmael to win. Bell’s Life named Geol-
ogist; the Sporting Times named Ishmael. The impres-
sion that “something was wrong” with “‘the brownskin’”’

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had so fastened itself upon the minds of the sporting
writers that they could see nothing good
in him. The best “touts” in the kingdom
were blinded. Seven days before the race
they “saw him gallop with Mistake and felt satisfied
that the older horse could settle the young one.” The
next day he galloped 134 miles with Seneca and Passaic
and “‘the latter pulled over him all the way.” They
added, ‘‘He had to be ridden hard to keep near Passaic
and pulled up much distressed.”’ On the morning of
the 8th he had “made his appearance with cloths on his
fore legs—something was radically wrong with the
Derby winner.”

St. Leger

Anxieties

Mr. Pincus said nothing, and allowed the little panic
to proceed. However, Mr. Charles Bathgate, who was
in England at the time managing Foxhall and Mr.
Keene’s stable, wrote us under date of August 31: “Our
friends in America have not accorded Pincus the credit
that is due him, for he really took a lame horse from
the hands of his predecessor and won the principal
event of the year. The colt will win the St. Seger;
when I hope you will use the opportunity to accord him
his full meed of praise.”’

Iroquois came to the post for the St. Leger

a a favorite at 2 to 1, the public “following the
St Leger money, while 5 to I was quoted against St.
Louis and Ishmael; 11 to 1 against Limestone

and Geologist; and 20 to 1 against Bal Gal. Fifteen

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started and Archer in the “cherry and black” jacket
“won easily by a length,” three parts of a length be-
tween Geologist and Lucy Glitters. St. Louis fourth.
Time, 3.20%.

Doncaster, Sept. 14, 1881. The 106th renewal of the St. Leger

Stakes for three-year-olds, at £25 each; one mile, six furlongs
and 132 yards; 232 subs.

P). Lorillard’s, br. ¢ re ey cares tab ros

iB) B.CArcher ).<, © I
F. Gretton’s br. c. Gator " GS etae (omnes a2
Mr. Perkins’s br. f. oe mee es raven Se

den) Pare 3

St. Louis (Fordham), Eicebe steak fincncnes edna
Scobell, Falkirk, Bal Gab Josyan, Privateer, Lord Chelmsford,
and Voluptuary ran unplaced.

That Archer was enabled to ride Iroquois for the St.
Leger was due to the kindness of Lord Falmouth, who
had a starter in Bal Gal, but relinquished his claim on
Archer. The act was a gracious one, showing the spirit

of the fine old English sportsman, but

Lord Falmouth’s 4 Jess so than in a letter he wrote Mr.

Letter on the

St. Leger Lorillard in which he took occasion to

say: “Your horse looked exceedingly
fresh and well. In the preliminary canter he went
much the best of the field, moving with great freedom
and full of action. Indeed, I never saw him move bet-
ter. The race was run at a good pace and the moment
that Archer took his place, after making the turn, it
was never for an instant in doubt. Iroquois won as

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easily as he did the Prince of Wales Stakes—I should
say, with at least ro lbs. in hand.”

After the St. Leger, it is said Mr. Pincus indulged
Iroquois, and October 12 he started for the Champion
Stakes, 11%4 miles. Bend Or, winner of the Derby of

1880, was favorite at 6 to 4 on, while it was
ee 9 to 4 against Iroquois. Bend Or won by
three parts of a leneth,, Scobell second
Iroquois third, with Buchanan, Falkirk, Muriel and
Fiddler unplaced. Iroquois had always beaten Scobell
and could not have been at his best. At all events, Mr.
Griswold states in his admirable “Sports on Land and
Water,” that Mr. Puryear “‘told Mr. Pincus after the
race that the colt was short of work, and if he wanted to
win the Newmarket Derby the following day, he had
better give him a sweating gallop at once. He was
blanketed and sent for a spin behind the stand, much to
the horror of the talent.”’ It must have benefited him,
as the next day he won the Newmarket Derby, 1%
miles, with Webb in the saddle, beating Ishmael, Len-
noxlove and Lord Chelmsford. Charles Wood had
ridden him in the Champion Stakes the previous day.
Iroquois retired winner of seven of the nine races for
which he started, one second and one third, having won
$84,618.

Iroquois was a rich-colored brown with a narrow
blaze and left fore pastern white, a son of Leamington
from Maggie B. B. by Australian grandam Madeline

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by Boston; 3d dam Magnolia by Glencoe; 4th dam im-
ported Myrtle by Mameluke. He was bred by Mr.
Aristides Welch, Chestnut Hill, Pa.. March 27, 1878,
es and sold with Mr. Welch’s yearlings in
ee May, 1879, to Messrs. P. and G. L. Loril-
ard. He was not a large yearling, but grew
to good size later. He had a very high-bred appear-
ance when he matured, his head as clean-cut as a cameo,
wide between the eyes, small at the muzzle, large eyes
and broad nostrils. His ears were long and slim, and
he carried them “pricked.’’ His most conspicuous
point was his beautifully inclined shoulder. He was
rather high at the withers, and his back “dipped” a
trifle, but there was a grand spread of quarters behind
it. His legs were not heavy in bone. His pasterns
were long and oblique; his feet of fair size, wide at the
heel and the coronary band perfect. ‘There was a
great deal of finish to him and he had the look of a
‘“oentleman’”’ all over.

Gerald and Sachem, the two-year-olds which had
raced in America during the spring, landed in England
in August, with the three-year-old filly
Aranza, and September 30 Gerald started
for the Rous Memorial. He finished third
in a field of six, the two in front of him, Dutch Oven
and Nellie, being among the best of the year. On Oc-
tober 10 Gerald ran second for the Middle Park Plate.

It was a great performance for a colt only a few weeks

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off shipboard, for the winner, Kermesse, was the cham-
pion two-year-old of the season, and
Gerald Runs Gerald beat such good ones as St.
&
Second for the M : : eae Th
Middle Park Plate arguerite (winner of the One [hou-
sand Guineas the next season), also
Shotover, who won the Derby the following spring.
October 27, Gerald walked over for the Subscription
Stakes, and thus closed the season of 1881. What
with the Derby and St. Leger of Iroquois, the Grand
Prix de Paris, Cesarewitch, and Cambridgeshire of
Foxhall, and the triumphs of the American horses gen-
erally, it has become known as “the American year.”

1882

AFTER the exploits of Iroquois and the high form of
Gerald when hardly off his “‘sea legs,’ Mr. Lorillard
had high hopes for the season of 1882 in England. He
thought that with either Gerald or Sachem
he had an excellent chance to win the
Derby again, as the best English two-year-
olds of the year before had been fillies—Kermesse,
Dutch Oven, Nellie, and Geheimniss—the colts being
quite moderate.

Derby

Expectations

The season, however, was one of mistakes and dis-
appointments. The filly Touch Me Not won the Bed-
ford Stakes, and Mistake won the Spring Handicap,
while Aranza managed to win the Great Eastern Rail-
way Handicap. The horses had been taken up rather

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late in the winter, and it is possible their preparation
was hurried to make up for lost time. “Then
Iroquois broke a blood-vessel, and did not
start for a race during the entire year.
Sachem never regained his courage after the match in
America with Onondaga, while Gerald had become
very savage and difficult to handle.

Gerald was prepared for the Two Thousand Guineas,
and three days before the race was given a trial with
Mistake. In this trial there was a misunderstanding.

It was to have ended with the Rowley Mile,
BEE es ae instead af pulling up, they went on up
in the Trial :

the hill. A heavy shower came up, making
the going soft, and Gerald finished quite distressed.
The next day he broke a blood-vessel. He was
“scratched,” and Sachem was started as a forlorn hope,
and ran unplaced. As Gerald’s bleeding made him too
doubtful, Sachem was prepared for the Derby instead.
Both colts were started, however, Sachem finishing
third to Shotover. Neither Gerald nor Sachem won a
race during the year. Gerald’s bleeding rendered it
impossible to get him fit, and Sachem had become a
rogue and would not try.

Accident to
Iroquois

“Tt was n’t another ‘American year’; we had our
feathers badly plucked,” said Mr. Pincus when he re-
turned home. ‘‘Some said we lost our luck when we
changed our quarters. The Hermitage was a good
place, but Mr. Brown’s lease had expired and we had

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to find a new place. Laying aside all joking, Gerald
became so savage he was hard to handle. Sachem was
nervous. Iroquois broke a blood-vessel just as his
brother Harold did here in ’79.”

“‘Troquois is otherwise sound ?”

“Well, he did throw out a slight enlargement just
above his quarter. What it was puzzled even Barrow,
the Newmarket veterinarian, but it gave no
trouble. It was the breaking of a blood-
vessel that compelled us to stop him.”
‘What were the circumstances ?”’

Mr. Pincus
Expounds

“That ’s a mystery. When it broke he was only can-
tering. When Gerald broke his it was after very strong
galloping.”

‘How do Iroquois and Foxhall compare ?”’

‘‘Foxhall’s speed would put him at the top of the tree
in any year, but I think Iroquois a better stayer under a
strong pace. Foxhall is a great horse; his only draw-
back is his small feet.”

‘How about Sachem ?”’

“Sachem was a bad color. He had great speed, but
he had no heart for a hard finish. He is nervous and
worries. He was spoiled before he left America. As
a two-year-old he had been highly tried and turned out,
the idea) being’ to send him to England. | Then Vir:
Lorillard matched him against Onondaga for that race
at Sheepshead Bay. He was taken up in a hurry,
trained in a hurry, and not half fit on the day of the

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race. [hey tell me—you saw the race—that he gave it
up after running a splitting half mile, and Barbee pun-
ished him severely. The colt never forgot it, and has
been nervous ever since. The morning of the Cam-

bridgeshire he was less nervous than
Sachem in the

ee usual. He did not scour when he was

brought out. You know one of the worst
storms ever seen came down after the horses had gone
to the post, and they were called back and the race post-
poned. Well, that settled Sachem. He had gone
through the saddling, the canter, and been at the post
with thirty others, and was all of a tremble. The next
day the race was run, and he did well to finish sixth, as
he had fretted until he was all pumped out.”

With the close of 1882, Mr. Pincus returned to
America, and Mr. Lorillard sent the horses to be
trained by Tom Cannon at Stockbridge. The lot in-
cluded Iroquois, Aranza, Comanche, Massasoit, and
Touch Me Not, together with the following yearlings
which had sailed from New York, October 7, on the
ship Erin: Emperor, Choctaw, Pontiac, De Soto, Vic-
trix, Nirvana and Nitocris. On the same ship came the
mare Pinafore, and the filly Parthenia to fill her en-
gagement for the Epsom Oaks.

The year was not a brilliant one. Aranza won the
Johnstone Plate. Jroquois ran second to Tristan for
the Hardwick Stakes, and won the Stockbridge Cup,
and with Aranza and Parthenia was shipped home to

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New York. His breaking a blood-vessel made it im-
possible to give him the strong work he needed, as he
was a “good doer” and put on flesh. With the end of
the season, Mr. Lorillard had such horses as he wanted
brought home, sold the others, and closed his campaign
in England. |

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CHAPTER VII
THE RANCOCAS STUD

The colt that for a stallion is designed,

By sure presages shows his generous kind.

Of able body, sound in limb and wind,

Dauntless at empty noises; lofty necked,

Sharp-headed, barrel-bellied, broadly backed.
Dryden.

VT ene Mr. Lorillard was always a liberal pur-
chaser, he considered it a greater honor to win
with horses of his own breeding. Accordingly, he
founded his Rancocas stud at Jobstown, Burlington
County, N. J. In doing so, he showed the true feel-
ing of a turfman. Nearly all our Eastern men, upon
embarking in the breeding of race-horses, have been
induced to locate in Kentucky, Tennessee, California,
or some distant point where they seldom see their stock
more than once in a year, or the produce until as year-
lings they are brought East to be trained. This has
always been the drawback to racing in New
York in that the only genuine interest has
been in the produce as winners of races.
With their stock thousands of miles away, owners

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the Best

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scarcely know them by sight. ‘They know the stallions
and mares only as producers of colts for racing. ‘There
is no such interest as British turfmen manifest who have
their stock constantly in sight. Our owners seldom
know much of breeding, that is to say, of pedigrees or
of horses, outside their racing stables.

Mr. Lorillard saw the success attending Mr. Francis
Morris at Westchester, N. Y., whose Eclipse stock
swept the board, and that of Mr. Welch, near Philadel-
phia, whose Leamingtons carried all before them. He
wanted his horses near home in order that they should
be frequently under his own eye, for he knew that they
would be properly cared for then, and that hired men
never take the same care of property as the owner.
What pleasure a man can find in his stock thousands of
miles away he could not comprehend. ‘There was a
charm in roaming over the farm among the brood-
mares and watching the growth of each colt or filly
from the day it was foaled to the day it carried the
colors. When that feature shall become common
among the turfmen of New York, we shall have a
healthier racing interest and, perhaps, better horses.

Mr. Lorillard’s first venture in thoroughbred stock
was in 1871, when he purchased in England, of Sir
Joseph Hawley, the mares Asterope, by Asteroid; Blue
Stocking, by Thormanby; Girasol, by Asteroid; and
Merry Wife, by Beadsman. Before the dispersal sale
of the Middle Park Stud, in July, 1872, Mr. Lorillard

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proposed the formation of a syndicate to purchase the
stallion Blair Athol and bring him to

a a America, in which case to stand him at
Dr. Fitzmaurice’s place on Jerome Ave-

nue, near New York City, where he would be available
to all the breeders of the vicinity. But Blair Athol sold
for $67,000, which was above the price expected. Ac-
cordingly, Mr. Lorillard bought several of the brood-
mares, including Second Hand by Stockwell, with filly
foal by King John, for 370 guineas; Masterman by King
Tom, bred to Dundee, for 165 guineas; Jessie by Dun-
dee, bred to Saunterer; and Highland Lassie by Blair
Athol, bred to Gladiateur. These were brought to
America and to them was added the American-bredmare
Coquette by Lexington, purchased of General Buford.
Thus, in 1873, Mr. Lorillard had gathered quite a
select stud. That year he sent most of his mares to
Eclipse, owned by Mr. Francis Morris and standing at
Westchester, N. Y.; Eclipse, son of Orlando, being a
very popular sire through the fame of his Alarm, Nar-
ragansett, Ruthless, Remorseless, Nemesis, etc. He
also purchased the stallions Canwell by Stockwell, and
Bayonet by Lexington. When Saxon broke down,
Mr. Lorillard bred to him, and he alternated with
Bayonet until 1878, when he purchased in England
for $15,000 the bay stallion Glenlyon by Stockwell
from Glengowrie by Touchstone; grandam Glencairne,
a full sister to Glencoe, and tracing back to old Pru-

Paz

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nella, the greatest of all English brood-mares. Glen-
lyon had sired Falmouth in England, and was thus a
tried horse. The season of 1879 found Saxon and
Glenlyon the reigning monarchs at Rancocas. The
Saxons were much the type of their sire,
whole-colored browns, seldom tall, but
stocky. Hiawasse and Gerald were his best filly and
colt, and Gerald was the largest colt he ever sired, a
grand galloper and a very high-class colt all around.
Hiawasse was small, but as game a bit of horseflesh as
ever bore the cherry jacket.

Glenlyon was doomed for a short sojourn at Ran-
cocas. He served only two seasons (1879 and 1880)
and was only a partial success. The best of his get
were Battledore and Gonfalon. Moccasin
came into the stud, being unable to stand
training. He was a bay colt purchased by Mr. Loril-
lard in England as a yearling in 1875, and was a son of
Macaroni from Madame Straus by King Tom. With
limited chances, he sired a grand filly in Amazon, win-
ner of the Vestal Stakes of 1882, also Disdain, Vam-
pire, Cerise, Gossamer, etc.

The death of Glenlyon in the summer of 1880 found
Mr. Lorillard in quest of another stallion, and, hearing
that the celebrated French horse Mortemer could be
had, secured him for $25,000. Mr. Moon, represent-
ing the Queen’s stud, had also heard, and hastened
across the Channel to buy “the mighty Frenchman,”’

esl

The Saxons

The Glenlyons

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but Mr. Lorillard had anticipated him. Mortemer,
with Agenoria, and her brother, the weanling Pizarro,
reached New York November 25, 1880,
The Arrival on the steamer Italy, after a voyage of fif-
of Mortemer : ae
teen days, and began his stud life in Amer-
ica in 1881 with forty-six mares of which forty
produced foals in 1882, which for a stallion sixteen
years of age was considered a great record.

Mortemer was probably the best race-horse that was
ever imported to America. For five seasons he raced
in France, Germany and England under heavy weights,
winning twenty-three races and rounding out his career
by winning the Ascot Gold Cup, which in England is
regarded as the great after-test of Derby winners. In
1871 Admiral Rous pronounced him “by 7 lbs. the
best race-horse in Europe,” and he retired to the stud
sound. Mortemer was a chestnut, foaled in 1865, by
Compiégne from Comtesse by The Baron or Nuncio;
grandam Eusebia by Emilius. His sire was by Fitz
Gladiator, son of Gladiator, he by Partisan, whose

_ male line had not been very successful in

eae ies ” recent years. But when Mortemer entered

the stud his success was immediate. He

sired Chamant, winner of the Middle Park Plate and

Two Thousand Guineas; Verneuil, winner of the Gold

Vase, Ascot Gold Cup and Alexandra Plate, 3 miles,

all in one week: also St. Christophe, Augusta and
Clementina, all famous on the course.

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Mr. John Corlett, writing in the Sporting Times re-
cently, remarks: ‘Lord Coventry believes Mortemer
was the best horse that ever was foaled, and he was
supported in that view by Admiral Rous. A big, over-
grown horse, he took a long time to ripen, but when he
won the Ascot Cup he was ‘a smasher.’ He stood 17
hands high, and was good over any course, no matter
how long or short. He had the action of a pony, and,
big as he was, loved to hear his feet rattle. It was the
rain that fell overnight that lost him the
Chester Cup. He was trying to give three
stone to the four-year-old Glenlivat, and
was second. Congratulating M. Lefevre,
his owner, on a great performance of Vulcan, he meta-
phorically waved us contemptuously aside with ‘Ah,
he is nossing—wait till you see my Mortemare.’
We waited. It was in a sweepstakes on the T. Y. C.
that we saw him and he had to meet
Normanby and Typheos, two of the
fastest horses of the time. For all
that, it was 6 to 4 on Mortemer, and he won any-
how.”

The first crop of Mortemers bred in America (in
1882) produced a sensation, for among them were
Wanda, Chimera, Cholula, Exile, Unrest, Bahama and
Adonis, winners of 21 races in 1884 and $49,500 in
stakes. Wanda was the champion two-year-old of her
year, and champion three-year-old filly. In 1885 Mor-

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M. Lefevre’s
Opinion of

Mortemer

“Wait Till You

See my Mortemare”’

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temer was third in the list of “winning sires” with 41
races and $68,680. After his second season, Mor-
temer’s foals rather fell off in quality. For this there
were several reasons, one being that they followed their
sire in being horses of great size and slow
Mortemer and : :
yee maturity ; hence, ill adapted for two-year-
old racing of which Mr. Lorillard was
fond—and indulged his fondness. It spoiled many of
them, which, had they not been rushed, would probably
have shown to greater advantage with age. The other
reason is that Mortemer was over-bred, and most of
the mares with which he was mated were Lexington
mares and very advanced in age. Mortemer was no
longer a young horse. Many of his mates were twenty
years old and over, and these had to be returned for
service very often; in fact, one of them, it is on record,
returned eighteen times in one season!

Duke of Magenta and Falsetto entered the stud in
1881, the former beginning well as the sire of Young
Duke, but, like most of Lexington’s
sons, Duke of Magenta’s fame rests
with his exploits as a race-horse rather
than as a sire. Falsetto began well as the sire of the
celebrated filly Dewdrop, the champion of 1885 and

Duke of Magenta
and Falsetto

1886; but before her merit was known
Mr. Lorillard sold Falsetto for $6000
to Woodburn. In 1884 Iroquois having
returned from England with the prestige of a Derby

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Falsetto’s Success
as a Sire

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and St. Leger winner, he entered the stud and made
three seasons at Rancocas. Pizarro, who had retired
after the Suburban of ’84, entered the stud in 1885.
Siddartha by Pero Gomez from The Pearl, and Kan-
taka by Scottish Chief from Hermit’s dam, also had a
brief sojourn at Rancocas. When Mr. Lorillard re-
sumed breeding in 1890, he imported Sailor Prince, a
son of Albert Victor from Hermita, which had a repu-
tation for speed. In 1895 he purchased of his broth-
er’s estate the peerless and unbeaten Sensation, son of
Leamington and Susan Beane by Lexington, who was a
decided success as he not only sired Democrat, winner
of the Middle Park Plate in England, in which he de-
feated Diamond Jubilee, but was second
Sensation Second in the list of ‘‘winning sires” of England
es in 1899, with a record of 20 races and
: $100,190 in stakes and other races.
Locohatchee was returned to the stud in 1895, and
sired Caiman, winner of the Middle Park Plate in
England. Pontiac also returned to Rancocas, where he
was bred, and sired several winners.

‘*The fact that a brood-mare has produced one high-
class race-horse is a poor guarantee that she will pro-
duce another,” said Mr. Lorillard when he resumed
breeding and racing in 1890; “‘some will, but the per-
centage is small. When I collected my original stud, I
purchased the dams of all the good race-horses at high
prices, but many of them had grown old, and some were

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barren year after year.” Then he proceeded to say that
in forming his new stud he retained the best young
mares from his training stable, and those he purchased
were young, untried, and obtained at reasonable prices.
Democrat and Caiman, his two winners of the Middle
Park Plate in England, were from mares of no previous
reputation.

He also had an idea that a brood-mare should be bred
while young. ‘‘I noticed,” he remarked, “that many of
the mares I purchased and which had been raced until
they were six or seven years old, were bad
milkers when they had foals. I noticed, on
the other hand, mares that were bred while
young were good milkers. I have often thought it
would be a good plan to breed mares when they were
three years old, and by that means develop the milk
veins before they had matured and lost their flexibility.
It might be better to breed them as two-year-olds for
that purpose, without regard to the first foal—you
could n’t expect much of him, but it would open up
the veins and help the milking for future foals. Of
course, there is the objection that by doing this we
would be unable to train the filly and would never know
whether she had any racing qualities. I had rather
breed from a mare that had raced, but we can’t have
everything.”

Speaking of sales of yearlings as late as 1893, after
his return to racing, Mr. Lorillard said he had often

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Observations

on Breeding

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thought it a good plan to offer all he bred for public
sale.

“Would you not risk selling your best and having the
worst left on your hands ?”’ we asked.

“Not with the large number I breed. I shall soon
have more than I can train,” he replied.

“Then you would give buyers the pick ?”

“T would; for if I picked them it would spoil the
sale of the others. I am willing to take my chance. ‘The
more I see of it, the more I believe that yearlings are a
lottery. Some men are said to be ‘good judges.’ It’s all
nonsense. If they select a good one, it is remembered.
People forget how many bad ones the same men picked.
Of course, if I tried them before sale I would put a
price on the best to protect myself. But if I offer them
before trial, buyers can have them at a stated price.”

‘You find it cheaper to breed than to buy ?”

“A great deal. Yearlings bring such prices now it
costs a small fortune to buy many. I can breed fifty
at less cost than I could buy four or five at the prices
they are bringing; and in such a number a man has a
better chance of getting a good one. Those I bred gen-
erally satisfied me better than the ones I purchased as
yearlings. Three years ago I purchased $75,000 worth
at sales and they all proved bad, while the few I bred
myself did very well. Horses bred in a private stud,
particularly when the owner is around and sees them
often, are better than those bred for sale. In England

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there is n’t one good horse in fifty bred by the sale
studs. The good ones are bred in the private studs,
some of them very small studs.”

‘When you retired from racing in 1886 you had just
begun breeding good ones.”’

“Oh, yes. I suppose I made a mistake selling the
breeding stock. Just recall how many good ones I had
bred— Dewdrop, Wanda, Exile, Flirt, Sleipner, Sirocco,
Cholula, Chimera, Quito, Savanac, Hiawasse, Pontiac,
Gerald and I don’t know how many more. Of course,
most of my mares were old, but I would have soon had
a crop of younger ones. I notice Lord Falmouth never
raced his fillies after they were three years old, but bred
them, and hereafter I shall observe that policy.”’

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CHAPTER VUE
RACING, 1879-1882

There ’s good old Parole—
How often he stole

To the front, like the flight of an arrow;
Little Saxon, the brown,

And those bays of renown—
Uncas, Basil, Attila, Pizarro.

Wanda, chestnut bright;
Pontiac, black as night;

And Iroquois, brown as a berry;
And Dewdrop, brown-bay,

Have all shown the way

With the Lorillard jacket of “Cherry.”

1879

R. LORILLARD, with the pick of his stable in
England, did not play as prominent a part in

the racing of 1879 as he had in previous years. It was
not until the middle of July that he even won a race.
Zoo Zoo, Boardman and Spartan had lost form. Paw-
nee, the three-year-old brother of Parole, had a sick-
ness and never was the same colt, and The Squaw, a
sister to Enquirer, could not be trained. Mr. Brown,
the trainer, had been sent to England with Parole, and
Mr. Charles Littlefield trained the horses for a time

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and was succeeded by Jacob Pincus. But Mr. Lorillard
was ever on the lookout for “recruits” and purchased
Wallenstein and Mistake, both colts by Waverly and
both had won races in the West. He also purchased
Sly Dance, a winner of three stakes in the West, for
$10,000. Wallenstein won for the stable at Jerome
Park some overnight events.

The season of 1879 was memorable for the appear-
ance of Mr. James R. Keene as a turfman, with the
famous Spendthrift, a colt which had won the Belmont,
Lorillard and Jersey Derby in such style that he ap-

peared to hold all the events of the season
ines fe, When he hhad won the sensational

race for the Lorillard Stakes some of the
Western men said, ‘‘Falsetto will clip his wings when
they meet.” They met for the ravers Stakes at Sara-
toga. Spendthrift was a great favorite, but Falsetto,
ridden by

The rugged Murphy, “he whose sable arms,
Black as his purpose, did the night resemble
When he lay couched in the ominous horse,”

defeated Spendthrift by two lengths and won. The
excuse made for Spendthrift was sore feet, but when
they met for the Kenner Stakes, three weeks later, Fal-
setto again proved “the ominous horse’? upon whose
back Isaac Murphy was “couched,” for he again de-
feated Spendthrift and was acclaimed “‘the colt of the

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year.” Falsetto’s action, when extended, was the ideal
of animal mechanism, as regular as the piston-rod of
an engine and as resistless as fate. The halo of victory
seemed to shine about him as he galloped low-headed
and with frictionless bounds that marked
him among the 300 horses training at Sara-
toga. He won the heart of Mr. Lorillard,
who secured him for $18,000, and he was shipped to
England with Sly Dance, Mistake and Wallenstein. In
a trial at Newmarket, he was said to have given Parole
12 lbs., but he proved one of Mr. Lorillard’s dearest
bargains, for he broke down before Mr. Brown could
bring him to the post and came home with Parole the
next year.

In two-year-olds the stable was very badly off. Ethel
by Saxon from Second Hand by Stockwell was the best
and ran second to Sensation for the Juvenile. But
Sensation was in a class by himself. He never was
beaten and ranks among the greatest two-year-olds in
the history of American racing. To give an idea of the
estimate in which Sensation was held, the following
allotment of weights for the Manhattan Handicap of
1881 will serve best:

Purchase of
Falsetto

Sensation: (4). | 122-1bs.. Victimsagedy 2 abpling:
Parole, aged OL Niie sTEDOS oi, Sly Dance (4) ).\ .. nae
FndoO tS) 5 43 2) AO 3) Ginotle (4)! 0 see
Grickmore (3)) 2) 6 (Ero Pole(3)0" on le aoa
Wineas C5). 6 a Se

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1880

THE season of 1880 proved quite an improvement over
1879 for the Lorillard stable. Uncas, despite his er-
ratic temper, ran kindly when he had the rail at his side,
which he had seemed to miss while in England. He
began with a brilliant victory for the Westchester Cup,
winning also the Grand National Handi-
cap. Duke of Montrose won at Coney
Island, while the two-year-old Barrett
won the August and Criterion, beating the renowned
filly Spinaway. Barrett was an enormous colt by
Bonnie Scotland, plain but muscular, with great depth
of heart and back ribs and quarters as massive as a
steer’s. His defeats of Spinaway gave him great pres-
tige, and Mr. Lorillard dispatched him to
England with an eye to the Derby of ’81;
but he was palpably a non-stayer. Toward
the close of the year Parole was brought home from
England, and when he appeared at Jerome Park re-
ceived an ovation, his appearance recalling Scott’s

Uncas Redeems

Himself

Parole
Comes Home

And next I saw them saddled, lead

Old Cheviot forth, the earl’s best steed;
A matchless horse, though something old,
Swift in his paces, cool and bold.

The old hero responded by winning all of the four
races for which he started. As Mr. Brown was unwill-
ing to remain in England, Mr. Lorillard sent Jacob

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Pincus to Newmarket and engaged Anthony Taylor to
train the horses racing at home.

Anthony Taylor was from the north of England, a
brother of Alexander Taylor, the well-known English
trainer. ‘Taylor had trained Parmesan and other good
horses in England, and came over to train for Mr. M.
H. Sanford'in 1867. He spoke im the
broadest Doric of the north, and was a
highly capable trainer, having trained for Mr. Littell,
Mr. O’Donnell and others; but his convivial habits pre-
vented a long tenure to his engagements. There was a
story that on one occasion he stopped at the old Re-
formed church near Jerome Park, and at two o'clock
in the morning pounded on the door, insisting it was a
tavern, and finding no response to his shouts of “‘Land-
lord!” ended by challenging the landlord “to come out-
side and have it out,” as he would teach him ‘‘how to
treat a gentleman.’ It was probably after one of these
frolics, when he was inclined to sleep late of a morning
and the head lad had partially roused him from his
slumbers, that he gruffly inquired, ‘‘What o’clock b’ it,
lad?” ‘Twenty to ecight,’’ replied the boy. “Put on
ten dollars for me,’ muttered ‘“Tony,” as he rolled
over and fell asleep.

“Tony” Taylor

1881

THE season of 1881 was one of glory for the Lorillard
stable in England, but hardly so at home. It was

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marked at the outset by the appearance of Gerald and
Sachem, two colts of great promise. Gerald won at
Jerome Park in June, then he won the Foam Stakes at
Coney Island, and was shipped to England. He had
defeated Onondaga, and as there was some
bantering after the race, Mr. Lorillard said
he “‘had a colt at home’’ he would match
against Onondaga, and the match was made for $5000
aside. Mr. Lorillard then named‘Sachem. This colt
had been highly tried, then turned out, the idea being
to send him to England for the next year’s Derby. But,
the match made, he was taken up, hastily prepared, and
was beaten by Onondaga. Showing enough speed, how-
ever, he was sent with Gerald to England soon after.

Aranza, a bay filly by Bonnie Scotland—Arizona by
Lexington, had won about all her races in the West,
and Mr. Lorillard, ever on the alert to
strengthen his stable, purchased her of Mr.
Darden for $13,000, and she made her
Eastern début at Monmouth with Spark in the Loril-
lard colors. They were favorites over the field, but with
all her tremendous prestige, Aranza was badly beaten.
It was a hard blow to her thousands of backers who
had looked upon her chance as one of the
“soft” things of the season, and one of them
found vent to his injured feelings in the
following paraphrase of Ben Barnacle’s song in the
operetta “‘Billee Taylor”:

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Gerald and
Onondaga

Purchase
of Aranza

Aranza at
Monmouth

“CHERRY. AND BEAK.

The yarn that I ’m about to spin
Is all on account of Aranza;
I ll tell you how I was taken in,
All on account of Aranza:
She came out from the West reckoned A No. 1,
It was said she could go like a shot from a gun,
So I went to Long Branch to see the fun,
All on account of Aranza.

Eleven starters were in the race,
Ten besides my Aranza,
So I backed P. Lorillard for straight and place,
All on account of Aranza.
Some said that the filly was n’t up to the mark,
If she was she would clean out all Monmouth Park,
And that Lorillard intended to win with Spark,
All on account of Aranza.

The flag went down—my eyes I strained,
All on account of Aranza,
To see if the Lorillard jacket gained,
All on account of Aranza.
There was blue and orange, and blue and red,
And Sportsman and Priam and Greenland led,
With the others a dozen lengths ahead,
Nearly last of all came Aranza.

I ’ve almost sworn I ’Il never bet,
All on account of Aranza;
I ’m almost up to my ears in debt,
All on account of Aranza.
He who follows the “public form” is wise,
A “line” from the West is all a surmise,
I ll only believe what I see with my eyes,
All on account of Aranza.

Aranza followed Gerald and Sachem to England
soon after her race at Monmouth. Parole started 24
times during the season of 1881, winning 12 races and

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was placed in eight others, among his winnings being
the Westchester Cup and Manhattan Handicap; and he
was cheered whenever he made an appearance. Bar-
rett, who had failed so utterly in England, came home
in August, and in October won the Jerome Stakes and
several other races. Hiawasse, the little brown daugh-
ter of Saxon and Vandalite, defeated Mr. George
Lorillard’s Memento in a match race which grew out
of Mr. Lorillard’s fondness for Saxon, the horse which
had first carried his colors in 1873. He had stood a lot
of chafing from his brother George, who often de-
clared Saxon “‘was n’t worth his oats,” until he offered
to match the get of Saxon against anything in ‘‘Mr.
George’s’’ stable.

During the season Anthony Taylor resigned as the
stable’s trainer. Matt Byrnes had been head lad with
Pincus and later with Taylor. Byrnes was offered the
post by Mr. Lorillard on no less than three occasions—
something like Cesar being offered the
crown—but he had declined, being appalled
at the responsibility involved. Finally, Mr. Lorillard
said, ‘‘You must take it,’’ and Byrnes began at Jerome
Park in October, winning four races in one day, and he
remained until Mr. Lorillard retired in 1885.

Matt Byrnes

1882

IN 1882 the principal races won by Mr. Lorillard’s
horses were the Ladies, Mermaid and Monmouth Oaks

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by Hiawasse; the Foam and Seabright by Parthenia;
the Champagne by Breeze; the Selling and Ocean
Stakes by Barrett; the Atlantic, Red Bank and August
by Pizarro; the Vestal by Amazon; the Optional by
Disdain; the Newark by Wyoming; and the Breeders

by Battledore. Parole, as usual, won his
spec a: share, eight races, although he was nine years
old. Hiawasse, a beautiful brown filly, one of the first
good ones Mr. Lorillard had bred, won all the races for
which she started. She lacked size as a two-year-old
and Anthony Taylor, who trained her, advised Mr.
Lorillard to sell her, but Matt Byrnes begged so hard
that he refrained, and felt gratified when she swept all
the filly stakes.

But Pizarro was the hope, the golden apple, of the
stable. A slashing whole-colored bay, by Adventurer
from Milliner by Rataplan, he was purchased in Eng-
land at the Rev. Mr. King’s sale in 1880 as a weanling
and came over with his sister Agenoria and
Mortemer. Mr. Lorillard gave 420 guin-
eas for him, and he more than won it out
in his first season and retired early, being saved for his
three-year-old engagements. Parthenia, a bay daugh-
ter of Alarm and Maiden (Parole’s dam), was another
of the stable’s gems. Like most of Maiden’s foals, she
was angular, yet full of that high quality which is the
heritage of Orlando’s descendants. Breeze was an-
other daughter of Alarm, from Blairgowrie by Bread-

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Parthenia

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albane, a filly of great speed, but jady after six
furlongs. Battledore was one of the best of the Glen-
lyons and came near being sold after winning a selling
stakes, but Mr. Lorillard’s uncle happened to be among
the bidders, and through a mistake in identity re-
marked, “That ’s one of the mares Pierre wants to
sell,” which the bidder overhearing, he stopped bid-
ding, saying, “If Lorillard don’t want her, I don’t,
either.”

Barrett, after his return from England, wintered
well and the stable had great hopes, after he had won
the Jerome Stakes, that he would stay with age better
on our prepared tracks than he had on the turf
courses in England. But Charlie Shauer, his
jockey, chuckled when, during the winter, he read in the
newspapers how he had “easily disposed of Spend-
thrift’? at Jerome Park, and told his friends he was
“lucky to beat a wind-broken horse at a mile.’’ It was
even so— Barrett was a non-stayer.

There was heavy betting at this time. A ‘‘tout” was
discovered at Rancocas in the person of a household
servant. Mr. Lorillard had frequently found himself
forestalled in the betting, and was puzzled to know the
source. Whenever he had a “good thing,” he was
amazed to find the “‘secret’’ the property of
professional betting men; and what added
to the irritation was the feeling that it came
from some person in his employment. The matter was

ice

Barrett

A “Tout” in
the House

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kept quiet until the frequent visits of one of the ser-
vants to Philadelphia aroused suspicion. “The man was
discharged, and after that the stable secrets ceased to
find their way to New York and Philadelphia. ‘The
man’s position in the house had given him opportunities
to see and hear a great deal, and it was thought he was
there for no other purpose.

The same season at Monmouth an attempt was made
to “nobble’”’ Pizarro. Byrnes was awakened from his
slumbers by a noise in Pizarro’s box. Seizing a pistol,
he dashed out and at the same moment
the figure of a man was seen coming

rom the door of the box and making

off at full speed. Byrnes fired over his head, but the
fellow escaped in the darkness. Upon examination it
was found the lock had been picked. It was evidently
an attempt to ‘“‘nobble”’ Pizarro, as the colt was a
starter for the Red Bank stakes the next day.

Edward Feakes, who rode for Mr. Lorillard in 1881
and for several years following, was born at Cam-
bridge, England, in 1856. He was apprenticed to
Matthew Dawson, and was with Fred Archer, riding
light-weights in the Dawson stable. He came
to America in 1871 for Mr. M. H. Sanford,
and later rode for Mr. Belmont. He rode Parole in
most of his races after the gelding returned from Eng-
land. A waiting race was his forte, and as it was also

Attempt to
“Nobble” Pizarro

Ed. Feakes

Parole’s, the pair were a great success. Feakes was a

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man above the average. In later years he became a
trainer, and finally settled in New Jersey, where he de-
veloped a taste for public affairs and was elected
Mayor of the town.

ETI

CHAPTER TX
A VISIT TO" RANCOCAS

He kept a stud of racers;
*T was his joy to see them run,
And his sideboard was all covered
With the prizes they had won.

ce

UR foals this year are the finest lot ever seen at
Rancocas, and you should come down, if it were

only to see the little Mortemers,” said Mr. Lorillard
one day during the autumn meeting at Jerome Park. A
visit to Rancocas had always been a source of delight,
and it was not long after that with a light heart we were
whirling through New Jersey en route to Jobstown,
where, after two changes of cars, we landed. The sun
had set ere we reached Trenton and the moon
had risen before the train had reached our
destination. The four-in-hand drag was awaiting us,
but the journey was short, for in five minutes we had
rolled up the broad drive to the house. Mr. Griswold
was on the veranda to meet us, and Mr. N. G. Lorillard
and Mr. Cutting were also ‘down from the city.”
Pausing for a moment in the hall to inspect a portrait of

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Rancocas

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Highland Lassie with a foal at her foot, we pass into
the cosy library where a wood-fire burns and crackles
cheerfully. Horse portraits are plenty. Mortemer,
from the easel of Harry Stull, and Iroquois, the work
of Harry Hall, look down from either side; Mortemer
with head aloft and flag outstretched, as though answer-
ing the call of one of the Belgravian dames of Ran-
cocas. Uncas finds a place on the side panel, and
Parole, in his three-year-old form, looks
ne back from the other side. From the library
to the dining-room, and here Uncas again
finds a place over the sideboard. Near the fireplace
Zoo Zoo catches the eye, and Parole’s portrait, painted
in England and nearly five feet in length, occupies the
middle panel; and on its broad frame are inscribed the
triumphs of the famous gelding here and in England;
while immediately below, Attila’s silver bowl forms a
pleasant memento of the “run-off” of the dead-heat for
the Travers of 1874.
In the rear hall hangs a clock, which, at intervals of
a half hour, sends forth a cavatina from the bugler
within, and our host succeeded in palming the serenade
off upon us as that of “‘an old one-legged soldier,” until
our credulity proved too amusing. The hall is gar-
nished with paintings of Glenlyon by Mr.
et Scott, also of Moccasin, and Saxon finds a
place near the hat-stand to remind Mr.
Lorillard of his first winner; while Duke of Magenta

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and Spartan continue the line of heroes of the “cherry
and black” jacket. Dinner over, an adjournment to
the library is the signal for a “horse talk’’—as might
be expected. Saxon’s Belmont down to Amazon’s Ves-
tal are recounted now with the doings of Zoo Zoo,
Basil and Pizarro. Parole’s campaigns
are fought over as earnestly as if they had
been those of Cesar or Napoleon. ‘The Colonel’ was
gravely eloquent in behalf of Ten Broeck, and ‘Pri-
vateer” did not let an opportunity slip to get in a good
word for Waxy, Whalebone, and Whisker. Mr. Gris-
wold Lorillard expatiated on cross-country riding. Mr.
Cool dwelt upon some of the early events of the stable’s
career, and ‘the Doctor,” im his:measured and 1eily
regular way, explained Parole’s ill-starred venture for
the Kentucky Derby.

‘Breakfast will be served at nine o'clock,” were Mr.
Griswold’s last words. We had kept late hours, and
the sun was shining when we awoke. All was astir as
we peeped from our window and viewed the spreading
acres of the estate, which sank with the horizon, in the
golden mist of the October morning. Men were com-
ing and going and the roll of wagons told that the day’s
work had begun. Presently we see a string of eight
horses trotting on the training track. They
are yearlings. ‘he sight is too much for
a racing enthusiast; we dress hastily and
are soon down to where Matt Byrnes stands smiling

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“Horse Talk”

Daybreak at

Rancocas

“CHERRY *AND: BLACK”

and Feakes salutes us with a cheery ‘Good morning.”
Charlie Shauer, too, joins in greeting. ‘The track cov-
ers three quarters of a mile, with easy turns, and here
it was that Saxon and Attila learned their
The Yearlings tessons, and Parole and Iroquois were
at “School” , q
first put through their paces. A big brown
two-year-old is leading as “‘schoolmaster” to a lot of
yearlings, and Endymion brings up the rear. But the
gentlemen are on the veranda, and we are reminded
that breakfast is served.
One can form little idea of the magnitude of Ran-
cocas by a casual glance. The farm covers 1500 acres,
mostly meadow land. It is slightly un-
pe Magunige dulating, on a somewhat sandy stratum
of the Farm ; 8) ; y ee
which insures good drainage. Of its
stock operations it need only be stated that it consumes
20,000 bushels of oats per annum, and 7000 bushels of
carrots. The stud consists of eighty brood-
mares, eight stallions, forty-eight horses in
training, including yearlings, and forty-four weanlings,
not to speak of a large number of half-breds and horses
for general use. The cattle are exceptionally fine, and
the sheep and Berkshire pigs are strong in numbers.
But it is not in live stock alone that Rancocas can
boast its productions. ‘The nurseries are among the
finest in the land. Strawberries, cucum-
bers, tomatoes, and melons are to be had
ripe and juicy in and out of season; while the cellar,

Csr]

Supplies

The Nurseries

‘CHERRY! AN DUBUACK

constructed for the production of mushrooms, is quite a
model of its kind. The floral productions comprise
roses of varied shade and perfume, and water-lilies of
delicate hue peep out from their hiding-places, while
rare exotics from distant points of the Orient and the
Occident grow side by side in profusion.

The training stable is circular in shape, and within is
a walking ring for winter work on the straw-bed, and
well sheltered by the boxes surrounding it.
The horses are out, and old Parole leads,
looking rough and ready as he rolls his
eye at us. Herbert follows, ‘‘a plain horse but a good
doer’’; Barrett lays back his ears in sullen disdain, as
though he overheard some remarks from
the company of his being ‘‘a Derby disap-
pointment.”’ Pizarro, “the Lincolnshire
beauty,” dances gaily in the sunlight as he passes, look-
ing more robust than when he last bore the “cherry”
jacket. Gonfalon, a burly brown, and little Nimrod
jog along demurely. Spartacus we hardly fancy, but
Amazon, a lovely filly, prances and dances with excess
of spirits. Venetia follows, and then Dis-
dain, Inconstant, Breeze and Battledore come
along in Indian file, quite a corps d’élite,
comprising winners of the Atlantic, August, Red Bank,
Optional, Breeders, and Champagne Stakes. Hiawasse
is enjoying the “‘rest cure” in her box, round as a ball,
and few would recognize the winner of the Monmouth

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The Training
Stable

Parole Leads
the Pack

The Corps
d’Elite

“CHERRY, AND BLACK”

Oaks, Ladies, and Mermaid Stakes but for her familiar
Vandal head and long ears.

Now we have the yearlings. Leo leads the “rising
generation” of Rancocas, “a blaze-faced young rip,”
with four white feet, and covered with grey hairs that
proclaim his Duke of Magenta paternity.
His dam, The Squaw, was a full sister to
Enquirer and Mr. Lorillard gave Mrs. Brown $1000
for him. A bay colt by Glenlyon—Minnie Minor is
rather coarse, while Manitoba, by Glenlyon, lacks stifle

ERS, power. Young Duke, by Duke of Ma-
ane MARES genta, has the grey hairs and tail which

seem to be the Duke’s escutcheon. En-
dymion, purchased of Mrs. Hart for $5000, is a Ten
Broeck and a grand individual except that he cuts in
below the knee, and we turn to Tornado, a big colt by
Glenlyon, with bad shoulders. Huron, a whole-col-
ored dark bay, by Saxon from Vandalite, and a brother
of Hiawasse, is small, but very neat and level. Then
follow Gipsy, Smilax, Brilliant, Blossom, Zamora,
Radha and Kaskaskia.

On a slight elevation facing the south stands a huge
glass house, a crystal palace which but for its height
might be mistaken for a greenhouse. It is the ‘‘Play-
house’ in Rancocasan vernacular—a
sort of kindergarten, where the wean-
lings are turned out during the winter. It is not used
until the frost sets in, but the weanlings had been kept

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The Yearlings

The “Playhouse”

“CHERRY AND BAC:

in this morning to afford us an opportunity for close
inspection before they were turned loose in the pad-
dock. This mammoth glass building is 350 feet in
length by 250 in width. The floor is covered with sand
which never freezes and allows the youngsters full
scope to play and romp during the coldest days in win-
ter. As the door is opened the sight is bewildering.
Thirty-three colts and fillies are at play, mostly Mor-
temers and mostly chestnuts. They were but recently
weaned, and the brown mare Hildegarde was still with
her foal, a brown filly foaled late in June.
It is difficult to form an opinion in such a
constantly moving throng, but a chestnut colt from
Highland Lassie was among the most forward—‘“‘an
early foal—Feb. 18,” we are told. A chestnut filly with
a blaze is Loulanier’s—

The Weanlings

The pick of the basket,
The belle of the ball;

she has beautifully laid shoulders, deep flanks, and a
straight back, tremendous hips and propelling power.
Vandalite’s colt is small and Hindoo’s dam has a chest-
nut filly of great quality. Lizzie Lucas’ filly rubs her
nose against us, a whole-colored chestnut, and Ontario’s
colt is a rousing big chestnut with fine length. Fannie
Ludlow’s colt is not large, but neat; and one of the few
bays in the lot is Carrie Atherton’s filly; but if she has
not Mortemer’s color, she has his marks. A great

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scamper ensues as they are turned into their paddock.
Lizzie Berry’s filly is a nice mover and Minnie Minor’s
filly with a crooked blaze gallops so lightly that she
‘would n’t break an egg.’’ We-cross the fence to where
some young Falsetto and Duke of Magenta weanlings
are huddled together under the wing of a mare by
Bayonet. A chestnut roan by the Duke from the grey
mare Felicity is promising, and Judith, the old steeple-
chaser, has thrown a chestnut by Falsetto, who “shows
his sire’s action” as he gallops away when they rattle a
hat at him.

Uncas was standing up to his knees in straw, and “‘the
last of his race” lacks the length of his famous brother
Wanderer. Some have called him ‘“‘cobby,”
but he has great depth of brisket, and girths
69 inches; his arm at the swell is 18%
inches. Never a tall horse, he supplies that in bulk.
Powhatan, ‘‘the brother to Parole,” is taller than his

brother and a heavier horse. Moccasin,

“The Stud
Fathers”

Uncas and

ee the bay son of Macaroni, is a strapping big

one; he has bad legs, but has done well in
the stud as the sire of Amazon, Disdain, and Vampire.
Mortemer was standing like a statue in his yard.
There is something impressive in the personnel of ‘“‘the
mighty Frenchman.” Massive, stately and
imperious, he looks a king among horses, re-
calling the words Shakespeare puts into the mouth of
the Dauphin:

Mortemer

Fes J

“CHERRY ‘AND BLACK,

He is the prince of palfreys;
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch
And his countenance enforces homage.

A deep red chestnut with a narrow, divided blaze, he
stands 16.214, measures 73 inches girth; his arm at the
swell, 19 inches; below the knee, 8 inches. His shoul-
der-blade is 32 inches in length; and from hip to hock
he measures 42 inches. His off fore-foot has given
them some trouble, otherwise he carries his age well
and is as gentle as a dog. In his first season here he
had 40 foals from the 46 mares with which he was
mated.

It was some time since we had seen Saxon, whose
Belmont stakes of ’74 was the dawning of the Loril-
lardian era, and there is little to recall the glossy brown
that answered the call of Barbee’s whip that bright
June afternoon. He stands 15.3, girths 70%
inches, and 20 inches around the arm. He is of
the style of the pictures of his kinsman Blue Gown;
not large, but bulky, plump-quartered and short-legged.
But Mortemer has disturbed his domestic happiness,
and he has had few ‘“‘mothers of the cherry jacket”’
since the Frenchman came to Rancocas.

Falsetto came out proudly arching his neck, as
though he remembered the day at Saratoga when he
galloped Spendthrift to a standstill for the
Travers. The brown son of Enquirer has not
changed as much as some horses do when they are out

[seg

Saxon

Falsetto

“CHERRY ‘AND BLACK”

of training. He is 16.034, and as graceful as an ante-
lope. He is of a highly nervous organization, and we
have heard that with much stud service he refuses his
feed. ‘Four white legs deny him,” runs the old adage.
‘But he has also a white face—that makes it a ‘flush,’ ”’
answered one of our party.

Duke of Magenta came out like a war horse and
then began throwing up his heels as he did in training.
Bramble saw those heels all too often in ’78. A light
bay, 16.0%, he girths 72 inches; his limbs are very
large, the arm 21 inches, the: gaskin 241%
inches, which gives some idea of the enormous
driving power he possessed. ‘“‘No one ever
knew how good he was,’ was a common remark, as
none could live with him; and when he went to England
what a great race-horse Bramble became in ’79, win-
ning all the cups! He marks his children, for if you go
through the paddock and see a bay plentifully sprinkled
with gray hairs you are safe if you conclude it is “‘one
of the Duke’s own.”

Duke of
Magenta

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CHAPTER X

THE MOTHERS, OF THE
Clb hin a iN iek iG

In a paddock, through which it is treason to pass,
Well sheltered around from the breeze;
Enriched with a pasture of succulent grass,
Engirt with a cordon of trees,
A four-footed matron, not many years old,
Is strolling, her symmetry rare
Attracting attention from all who behold
This bonnie brown thoroughbred mare.

T is among the traditions of the Rancocas mares
that Susan Ann made eighteen visits to Mortemer
during one season, without result; that Girasol, the dam
of Saxon, was barren twelve years (from 1872 to
1884) when she produced a foal by Bulwark;
that Minnie Minor carried Wanda twelve
months, almost to a day; and that Highland
Lassie produced eight foals, all of which were bays or
browns by different sires, but never a
chestnut until mated with Mortemer, to
whom she produced nothing but chestnut
foals. But enough of tradition, and the freaks of na-

pee

Rancocas
Traditions

The Effect of
Paternity

(Oat RRA AND BLACK”

ture! Let us to the brood-mare’s paddocks, where the
‘mothers of the cherry and black” are gathered to
await us.

From Duke of Magenta’s court to “the Lexington
Paddock”’ is but a step when expectation is on tiptoe
and Mr. Riley, the obliging studmaster,
leads the way as pilot; and, mastering the
slight ascent, we pass through the gate to
the paddock, where a fine view of the surrounding
country is had, and where the daughters of old Lex-

ington, to the number of fifteen, are
peel grouped; and a dark chestnut of great
BES Girofle size and beauty, a deep-girthed bay with

white hind heels, and a small chestnut
with white legs, who moves off as we approach, remind
us that the dams of Hindoo, Thora and Girofle are all
companions now.

We should scarcely have recognized in the bay the
Susan Ann of other days, for, from the gay filly of ’70
which carried the “green and orange” favors of Mc-
Grathiana in her mane, years have transformed her into
quite a dowager; and those white hind fet-
locks, which Kingfisher and Littleton saw
to their sorrow, now touch the ground.
Yet, as the dam of Thora, she is more celebrated than
her racing exploits had made her. Florence’s was a
new face to us; but the dam of Hindoo 1s a fine type
of the thoroughbred mare. Ratan, on the other hand,

Lees

“The Lexing-
ton Paddock”

Susan Ann
and Florence

“CHERRY AND BEACK:

is an old acquaintance, and we gaze in vain to find
whence Girofle derived her size and beauty. Lizzie
Berry, the dam of Ingomar and Inconstant, and Lady
Wallenstein, the dam of Wallenstein, stand with their
heads together, as if holding a whispered consultation
—perhaps over Wallenstein’s doings in England.

“That lengthy chestnut is Squeez’em, says the
studmaster as he leads forward the dam of Day Star,
the Kentucky Derby winner. ‘They are all Lexington
mares in this lot, except that bay with a star and such
black legs—that ’s Sly Boots, the dam of Sachem,” and
we make out a lengthy mare of great sub-
stance as she walks off to join her half-
sister Squeez’em for a nibble of the moist
grass. ‘‘The brown one is Nettie Hinde,” continues
Mr. Riley, ‘‘and that good-looking bay with three
white feet is Nutwood Maid, the dam of Bedouin and
Battledore. The small bay with a snip is Notre Dame
—she ’s sister to Norfolk, sir, and is in foal to Mor-
temer—I think all our Lexington mares are bred to
him. ‘That big chestnut—the one behind Ratan—is
China, dam of Comanche, a colt Mr. Lorillard sent to
England.”

Across the road which divides the paddocks, far in
one corner, two chestnuts with white legs
are grazing sociably together. Both are
Lexingtons: the one with a blaze face is
Glenrose, ‘‘not a great race mare, but full sister to Sen-

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The Dam of
Sachem

A Sister to
Sensation’s Dam

“CHERRY AND BLACK”

sation’s dam,”’ the studmaster explains—and he might
have added “‘to Acrobat,” and that she was from the
family tracing to Medoc’s dam, so many great per-
formers have descended from it. The other mare is
Evadne, still shapely for her years. Here also are old
Alice Ward, Sallie and Letola, daughters of Lexington
all, but age is showing its marks upon them.

Far out across the spreading pastures which, broken
only by the black-painted fences, rest against the sky-
line, a troop of mares can be seen walking
in solid column, as though going to the
post for a race, as in other days. To reach
them entails a roundabout journey, and climbing up
again beside Mr. Cool, we are off for a drive. Wind-
ing through the broad roads past ‘“The Woods,” oppo-

site which some two hundred Berkshire
A Drive Through _. Ae ;
ee pigs are wallowing in the mire; past one

of the farm-houses, where a flock of
turkeys set up a furious gobbling, we emerge upon a
spacious paddock dotted with well-grown saplings. A
winner of the Dixie stakes is browsing beneath them,
for the heavy forehead of the Vandals, with star, brown
coat, and high withers, is too reminiscent
of Vandalite to be mistaken. The cham-
pion of 1874 has changed less than some
of her sister matrons, and already has Hiawasse to her
credit. On we stroll, and are told how Gerald’s dam,
Girl of the Period, died shortly after he was foaled,

[or]

A Troop of

Brood-mares

Vandalite
“At Home”

“CHERRY AND BLAGK”

and the hope of the cherry jacket for the Epsom Derby
of ’82 was put to ‘wet nurse” with another mare, yet
grew to be ‘‘one of the finest gallopers that ever saw
light at Rancocas.”’

We find Sly Dance pining in solitude in one corner,
but looking rough and hearty. ‘The other mares ostra-
cise her, as she ‘‘still smells of the train-
ing stable,” so Mr. Riley explains. It is a
large and aristocratic concourse that is
roaming through the paddock, for here are two win-
ners of the Monmouth Oaks, and the delicate New-
minster head and speckled coronets are those of
Agenoria, sister to Pizarro and mother of Pontiac. In-

Sly Dance and

A igenoria

. deed, it is quite a gathering of notabill-
ues of ties—‘‘the mothers of the Gracchi.” A
commanding brown-chestnut is Ontario

by Bonnie Scotland and dam of McWhirter. The Eng-
lish mare Jessie, admired for her size and length, is a
daughter of Dundee, the gamest “runner up”’ in the
history of the Derby; but her lop-ears speak

» loudly of Melbourne: -We are unablette
find Zoo Zoo, but Lizzie Lucas is here, and
with the march of time has become almost snow-white,
with scarce a trace of the iron-grey that defeated Tom
Bowling that long ago day at Monmouth Park. There
is nothing that gives so much “character”
to the picture as a grey mare in a group of
brood-mares, and Lizzie has already “‘given hostages to

[oe

“The Mel-

bourne Ear

Lizzie Lucas

“CHERRY -AND BLACK”

fortune’’ as the dam of Chimera and Cerise, the latter

destined to foal the ‘“‘crack’”’ Morello.
Matchless is here, too, one of the few surviving
Stockwell mares, and Gondola, the dam of Gonfalon,
carries her Falsetto burden heavily. ‘For

a es five years past she has foaled in Janu-

ary,’ whispers the Doctor. Mr. Riley
“resents” (as the theatrical managers say of their
stars) Highland Lassie, a lovely seal-brown mare by
Blair Athol, as ‘‘one of those Mr. Lorillard bought
at the Middle Park sale in England.” ‘The large bay,
whose legs show marks of firing, is Virginia by Not-

tingham, and “the mare with a wart
“The Mare with

Wart Und :
Her Jaw” as Mr. Riley continues. ‘“The mare

with the roan fetlock (all her foals have
it) is Refreshment by Caterer.” The dapple-coated
Fannie Ludlow, which we had not seen for many years,
is now introduced as “‘the grandam of Foxhall.”’ Lou-
lanier no longer shows the beautiful network of veins

under her jaw is Genista by King Tom,”

she did when in training, especially after
The Grandam :
a race, when her unusually thin skin
of Foxhall
caused them to stand out so prominently ;
while the mark of the iron is the most marked feature
of Aspasia by Beadsman, “‘one of Sir Joseph Hawley’s
breeding.”
Dear old acquaintances of the days of silk and

satin! Explosion and Pera, the one famous as the

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“CHERRY AND. BLACK’

dam of the $29,000 Dewdrop, the other as “‘a full sis-
ter to Iroquois,’ are renewing old friendships and races
in which they competed together in training
days. Explosion’s condition is “interesting,”
but Pera looks as if the cheque would be re-
turned “‘no funds.” The white face of Blue Stocking,
daughter of the renowned Thormanby and half sister
to Blue Gown—‘Derby winners on both sides the
house,” some one says—comes forward to be noticed,
and Perfection also loiters about to be patted, looking
little like ‘‘the maid lithe-limbed”’ who in the Juvenile
Stakes a few years before lowered the colors of Duke
of Magenta, whose shrill neigh from his paddock be-
yond, answered by Second Hand, implies her feelings
as honored by attentions she cannot fail to understand.

Unable to recognize several of the others, we turn
away, and, taking the wagon, speed over the hill to
where The Banshee and Coquette hold forth. Each
has an ample paddock by herself, as both are blind;
and, as we approach, the roll of the wagon causes The
Banshee to raise her sightless eyes and turn
her head in a listening attitude, as does the
rich-coated Coquette. We had not seen
The Banshee since, as a small boy on a day memorable
for a hailstorm of unusual violence, we saw her win the
Westchester Cup at Jerome Park over a “‘crack”’ field;
and it was pathetic to watch her now, so changed and
blind. The familiar white face—aye, and the “rat-

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Pera and
Explosion

The Banshee
and Coquette

hCHERRY, AND BLACK”

tail’’—are there; but there is little else to recall the
heroine of the Travers Stakes of 1868.

But the autumn sun has long since set, the “‘light
thickens,’ and the belated “crow makes wing to the
rooky wood,” as Macbeth says, and we end our inspec-
tion with three of Lexington’s oldest daughters—Carrie
Atherton, Nellie Grey and Minnie Minor, the dams of
Janet Norton, Basil and Wanda. The Lexingtons are
a long-lived race, but there is a prejudice
against aged mares. When Pretender
was favorite for the English Derby, the
learned Dr. Shorthouse declared that no colt from
a mare over twenty years old could win a Derby. But
Pretender did; and Minnie Minor was twenty-one when
she foaled Wanda. Minnie Minor scarce looked her
age as she stood with Nellie Grey close by the stables
for shelter, with their backs to the raw northeast wind, .
which had sprung up and came in gusts around the cor-
ner; but time had laid its hand heavily on Nellie Grey,
gaunt and shrunken, her withers sharper than ever, and
her days evidently numbered.

, We fain would linger in the paddocks, for it was
something to have seen gathered together the dams of
Hindoo, Thora, Wanda, Girofle, Basil, Pontiac, Dew-
drop, Chimera, Hiawasse, Wallenstein and Day Star,
reminding us of the remark of the mother of Themis-
tocles the Athenian—her sons enrolled her in the lists
of fame. To one whose favorite studies are the Stud

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Minnie Minor
and Nellie Grey

"CHERRY AND BEACK:

Book and Racing Calendar, these ‘mothers of the
cherry jacket” bring a flood of pleasant reminiscence.
Jerome Park may become a reservoir, Monmouth a
corn-field, and Morris Park may yield to local im-
provements, while the fate of Sheepshead Bay and
Gravesend may be trembling in the balance; but there
are still some of us who look back fondly upon the
Lorillard era as a glorious memory when the “‘cherry
and black”? banner was a power on the race-course, and
upon Rancocas as a shrine of blood-horse devotion to
which the racing enthusiast turned his face with almost
the veneration with which the Mussulman turns his to

Mecca.

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CHAP TERK 21
THE RACING SEASON OF 1883

The blood in his veins is the best on both sides;
He traces to Camel and Banter.

He ll gallop them blind, and whatever betides,
He ’ll settle the lot in a canter.

IZARRO was again the hope of the Lorillard

stable in 1883, and a more perfect type of the
thoroughbred race-horse has never appeared under
“silk.” In color a rich bay with black points, the
only marks about him were a sprinkling of grey hair
around his flanks and loins. His head was not on the
Roman model of his grandsire Rataplan, for it had all
the exquisite beauty of Newminster’s without its deli-
cacy: a small but square muzzle, large nostrils
which after a gallop flared like the mouth of a
trumpet, broad forehead, large eyes, high cheeks, wide
and deep in the jowl; the whole set upon a long but
muscular neck, clean in the throttle, the gullet clearly
defined. The neck sank imperceptibly into long shoul-
ders, with deep brisket and great length of bridle. He
had good round ribs, back and loins as strong asa bull’s,

cord

Pizarro

"CHERRY AND BLACK”

and fine long quarters. His forearm was large, his legs
broad and flat, with long pasterns and feet very open at
the heel, as his plate in our collection shows. His
breeding was very fashionable, as his dam was a sister
to Mandragora, the dam of Apology, the St. Leger
winner, and to Mineral, the dam of Wenlock and Kis-
ber, the St. Leger and Derby winners of 1872 and
1876. It was through his sire, son of Newminster, he
by Touchstone, that he “traces to Camel and Banter,”
and his death after only three seasons in the stud was
a distinct loss to the racing blood of the country.

The meeting of Pizarro and George Kinney for the
Withers stakes at Jerome Park was an event to which
the racing world looked forward for
months. All through the winter, when
icicles hung over the stable doors, wher-
ever racing men gathered, whether in the lobbies of
the Broadway hotels or the warm little snuggeries
of the road-houses, it had been one of the chief topics
of discussion.

At that period the Jerome Park trainers were wont
to gather winter evenings at Jim Thompson’s on
Jerome Avenue, and here we would listen with pleasure
as our host recounted the triumphs of his old steeple-
chase mare Lobelia. The snow was deep outside, but
what cared we for the cold blasts of wind that roared
and howled around the corners of the house without, as
we gathered round the fire, while the kettle was singing

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The Withers
of ’83

"CHERRY AND BEACK?

a cheerful winter tune, and Mr. Bathgate told of Fox-
hall’s Cambridgeshire! The house-dog lay dreaming
on the rug, but opened his eyes as John Hyland gave

an exciting recital of Bonnie Lizzie’s Con-
ae gress Hall Stakes. Sutcliffe’s talk was of boy-

hood days in England, of Rosicrucian,
Marksman, and Hermit’s Derby; and Walter Rollins
had a good word for Gen. Monroe. But soon the
great case of George Kinney vs. Pizarro was called
and ‘‘submitted to the jury’; and once started, it be-
came the only topic. The merits of the rivals for the
Withers Stakes were discussed as if the fate of the na-
tion was involved; but in the end ‘‘the jury” always
“disagreed.”

Fordham became quite a little Newmarket during
the Jerome Park era. Many owners, trainers, and
jockeys lived there; and as they mixed freely with the
townspeople, the latter became saturated with the spirit
of racing. It was about this time that a stranger, an
old gentleman, inquired of Mr. Redding, the station
agent, if a town election was pending. Upon being
told ‘‘not this time of the year,” he replied that during

the few hours he had been in Fordham

ae aie all he had heard spoken of was some
for an Election sort of contest “between a man named
George Kinney and another man by the

name of Pizarrio, probably an Italian”; and men were
‘talking and betting over it on every corner.’”’ When

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the station-agent explained that the Withers Stakes was
the source of all the contention, the old gentleman rolled
his eyes at the idea of a “‘horse race,” and turned away,
declaring men might put their time and money to better
purpose. |

The spring had come, and with it came the bold
George Kinney to Jerome Park, while from Rancocas
each day brought tidings of the great work of Pizarro.

ae Jerome Park, always picturesque, was
(s 1LNers

of 1883 never more so than now; dandelions span-

gled the long meadow where the bobolinks
were warbling; the Club-house “Bluff was a picture
of rock and dell, the tall grass waving in the breeze
that swept from the south, and the blossoms of the
cherry and the peach, the apple and the violet, filled
the morning air with delicious perfume.

No race for the Withers had attracted so much at-
tention since 1879, when Spendthrift met Harold. It
was one of those fashionable assemblages such as
marked the early history of Jerome Park when

Fifth Avenue sends out, in satins arrayed,
Its Junos and Venuses, matron and maid;

And from all Murray Hill (and the other hills, too)

Come eyes that are hazel, brown, black, grey, and blue.

All sorts of rumors were current, one that Matt
Byrnes had stolen out at 2 o’clock in the morning and
given Pizarro his trial by moonlight, under the im-
pression that Jerome Park slept; but there were several

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pairs of eyes inthe stand. George Kinney was the first

to appear, heavily blanketed. He did
A Teal 9 two miles at: a fair pace, and tiem re-
the Moonlight ;

turned to the ring near the stables. He
broke out into a clear and profuse perspiration as Rowe
anxiously superintended his rubbing. McLaughlin, in
a new red jacket, seemed impressed with
the importance of the occasion, as when
Fred Carter made some jocular remark
he only made a sickly effort at smiling, and moved
away. Then Pizarro was seen on the far side. He,
too, was heavily clothed, and galloped a mile. Then
Feakes dismounted and walked to the stand. Up went
Feakes again, cantered to the head of the stretch and
‘‘breezed”’ to the stand.

The action of the two colts was quite a contrast.
Pizarro moved, as he always did, freely with a long
stride and close to the ground. George Kinney’s action
was about as bad as could be imagined. It seemed la-
bored, full of enormous effort, but luckily he had a
great physique to sustain it. He galloped with a bent
knee and lifted high from the ground. Such action is
a great expenditure of force. The less a horse “lifts”
the better. But with all his defects of galloping, we
always thought George Kinney one of the best horses
we ever saw. Nature had given him a grand constitu-
tion, great muscular power, joined to force of pro-
pulsion, and it sustained him in an action that a more

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Pizarro and
George Kinney

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delicate horse could not have sustained. His kinsman,
Luke Blackburn, had similar defective action, but he
also had the same enormous power to counteract it.

And now, after months of discussion as to their
merits, the rivals were at the post. Pizarro lashed out
with his heels, and at the second attempt they were oft.
McLaughlin rose in his stirrups and gave Kinney a
terrific cut with the whip, and was three lengths to the
good in an instant. At the “Bluff” Feakes had brought
Pizarro within a length of Kinney, and
as they turned for home the pair were on
even terms. Amid great cheering, both
jockeys began whipping. Head and head they came.
Then Kinney swerved a trifle and there was a shout
‘‘He’s beaten,” but he drew away again as Feakes eased
Pizarro when he found he was beaten, and Kinney was
adjudged eleventh winner of the Withers.

‘They ’Il have to bring a better colt than that from
England to beat Kinney,” said Mr. Phil Dwyer.

‘He was pretty close at times.”’

“Yes,” replied Mr. Dwyer, “at the club-house and
on the lower turn. There’s a hill at both places. Rowe
told Jimmy to ease our colt there, and each time
Pizarro closed our colt always left him again.”

“My colt did not run to his trial form,” said Mr.
Lorillard. ‘He ran a faster trial and was n't 25 tired
as he was to-day. He could have made a closer finish,
but Feakes eased him when he saw he could not win.”

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George Kinney
Wins

“CHERRY AND BLACK”

“T beat him, and I did n’t train mine in the moon-
light, either,” yelled Jimmy Rowe, referring, of course,
to Pizarro’s trial in the moonlight. Thus ended the
great race for the eleventh Withers, the Dwyer stable
boys escorting their colt to his stable in triumphal pro-
cession, tossing up hats, pails, rubbing-cloths, and shout-
ing like madmen.

When the bell rang for the Belmont Stakes, Pizarro
did not respond, and thus George Kinney won the
‘“‘double event.” Pizarro had his revenge in the Ocean
Stakes at Monmouth when he defeated George Kinney
by a length amid a scene of wild excitement, the Loril-
lard stable boys throwing up their hats,
cheering and screaming, while Pizarro’s
negro rubber grabbed hold of the colt’s
tail and whooped like a Sioux Indian. Charlie Shauer,
Pizarro’s jockey, smiled when asked if he had any
trouble winning.

“Trouble? How?” he returned with true German
stolidity.

“In running Kinney down.”

“No; my colt had the most speed, but he could n’t
have stood another quarter.”

Victory could not stir the stolidity of the jockey.
The Hibernian fluid of the trainer, however, responded
more readily to the stimulus. Byrnes was a very
happy man. “You want his plate? Well, sir, you shall
have it. I knew he could beat Kinney at a mile. The

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Kinney

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race at Fordham did n’t discourage me. They had the
laugh then. It’s our turn to-day.”

Three days later, for the Lorillard Stakes, a mile and
a half, Pizarro was third to George Kinney; but he
won the Eatontown Stakes, the Trenton Stakes, and ten
races that season. He was better at a mile than beyond
it. Drake Carter beat him for the Om-
nibus Stakes, but Carter had the mark of
the whip on his flank. Yet Spellman,
who rode him, said with a smile, ‘‘He had as good as a
walk-over.”’

‘But you had to shake him up when Pizarro joined
you on the turn.”

“Yes; they had told me such great stories of Pi-
zarro’s speed, I was afraid of him.”

The Omnibus
Stakes

‘He clung to you.”’

‘T allowed him to do that—glad to have company.
Drake Carter is a lazy horse, and runs best when
there ’s a horse by his side. When I saw Shauer come
up with Gonfalon, I called out, “Can’t you do any bet-
ter? ‘Oh, yes,’ “said he: “Go on; then, said) 1, “ing
horse is n't galloping,’ but he could n’t do a bit more.”

It was ever Mr. Lorillard’s policy, if somebody had
a better horse than his, to buy it, and im-
mediately after the race he was seen in
consultation with Green Morris. Then
they adjourned to the secretary’s office. “I ’ve sold
him,” said Mr. Morris when he came out; ‘$17,500.

Beer ol

Purchase of
Drake Carter

GHERER YY ANDUBEACK’

He ’s worth $20,000, but Mr. Lorillard wanted him
so badly I would n’t stand on a few thousands.”

Charles Shauer, who rode many races for the stable
at this time, was a German, born in 1856. He came to
America with his parents at the age of ten,
settling in Cincinnati. Unlike Hayward,
Feakes or Barbee, he had not learned his art in a
skilled school, but was self-taught. Indeed, it was
known that Shauer began with racing as a stable cook,
but learning to ride horses, he forsook

Shauer

The sooty yoke of kitchen vassalage,

and rode with success the horse Jack Harkaway for
Mr. Beachy at the Ohio meetings. He became famous
by winning the Kentucky Derby on Lord Murphy, and,
coming East, his splendid handling of Uncas for the
Grand National caused Mr. Lorillard to engage him.
An event of importance was the return of Iroquois
from England. On June 21 he had won the Stock-
bridge Cup. On June 27, with Aranza and Parthenia,
he sailed on the ship Erin for New York, reaching here
July 11, and at once joined the stable at Monmouth
Park, where Iroquois was exhibited on a

ara race day to the public, “‘to let them see what
Anieniea a Derby winner looked like.” There was a

general desire to see Iroquois measure
strides with the ‘‘cracks” of his native land. Accord-
ingly, a special, called the Monmouth Stakes, 1%

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miles, brought Iroquois, Monitor, Eole, Miss Wood-
ford and George Kinney to the post. The prestige of
the Derby winner made him favorite even against a
field of such amazing quality. It was whispered that
he had broken blood-vessels in England, and in conse-
quence Tom Cannon had been unable to give him
enough work to enable him to stay a distance. But
his prestige prevailed.

The race resulted in George Kinney winning, with
Eole second, Iroquois third. Many blamed Feakes for
making two attempts to come through instead of one,
but Feakes explained: “I was cut off by the horses
swinging wide after passing the half-mile post, and
again turning for home, when I had to pull out to the
middle of the track. I called to Hughes and to Hay-
ward to let me through, but when they did it was too
lates)

Three days later the race was renewed. Drake
Carter accompanied Iroquois this time, and again Iro-
quois was favorite. Drake Carter made pace, Iroquois
lying back, but he ran a worse race than before, as

i , Hole won, with George Kinney second,
aie Monitor third; the Lorillard pair unplaced.

Iroquois ran only once afterward—third to
Miss Woodford for the Pimlico Stakes at Baltimore.
It was found impossible to get him in proper condition
for a distance race, owing to breaking blood-vessels,
and he retired with the season.

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The principal events won by the stable in 1883 were
the Ocean, Eatontown, and Trenton Stakes by Pizarro;
the Palisade by Gonfalon; the Optional by Blossom;
the Passaic by Breeze; the Homebred by Huron; the
Champagne and Arlington by Leo; the Washington by
Parole, and the Potomac by Drake Carter. Parole,
ten years, won seven races. Aranza won ten races. She
was not a success in England. Like many horses which
had begun life on the prepared dirt tracks in America,
she was never at home on the turf, but returned to
America she regained her form. It is true Parole
and Iroquois raced well on turf abroad, but they were
Leamingtons and horses of light, high action; while
Aranza, like most Bonnie Scotlands, ran with more

muscular effort. The Bonnie Scotlands
Bonnie Scotlands ; :
for the Mud were not a success in England; while

in America, especially in heavy ground,
they were celebrated, and ‘‘a Bonnie Scotland in the
mud” became a proverb.

It was in 1883 that Mr. Lorillard conceived the idea
of the Champion Stallion Stakes for three-year-olds.
It was thrown open to the race-course making the high-
est bid. The Coney Island Club bid $6000, but the
Louisville Club bid $10,575. It was won by Miss
Woodford. Mr. Lorillard then opened the Champion
Stallion Stakes for 1884 to be run at Monmouth for
two-year-olds.

During the season, Mr. Lorillard offered Dwyer

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“CHERRY AND BACK’

Brothers $4000 for Miss Woodford for breeding pur-
poses when she was retired; but it was refused. How-
ever, he purchased of his brother the famous Spin-
away, in foal to Glenmore. Nimrod and Inconstant
he gave to his son, Mr. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., who was
forming a stable. Barrett was sold to Mr. Sands.
The stable during 1883 won 60 races and $60,082.

Breeze was a filly of great speed and won eight
races, among them the Passaic Stakes at Monmouth,
for which the famous “‘Father Bill” Daly brought from
Brighton Beach the filly Swift, which had beaten every-
thing at Brighton. An immense following of Brighton-
ites came with him, and they backed Swift “off the
boards,” believing it the “good thing” of the season.
Breeze won by six lengths. It was the introduction to
Monmouth of the since famous “‘Snapper’’ Garrison
—“the Archer of Brighton Beach,” as his friends called
him. Garrison rode Swift, and had announced that as
he ‘‘did n’t expect to ride at Monmouth, he would beat
the start, even if they ruled him off for doing it.” But
when the flag fell, Garrison and Swift
were nearly left and badly beaten. The
meeting between “Father Bill’ and the
jockey after the race was a study of “‘the human face
divine.’ Mr. Daly was revolving something in his
mind as he stood at the head of his devoted band of
Brightonites. Finally the storm burst.

“It ’s a swhate plum ye are.”

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“Father Bill”

and Garrison

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“T could n’t help it,” pleaded the jockey.

“Cud n’t help it? Shure, an’ ye ’re not well enough
eddicated t’ be ridin’ wud t’ loikes o’ t’ aristocrats down
here. Yez be well enough fur t’ Beach. An’ ye think ye
know ’t all. Was n’t Oi after givin’ ye instructchuns ?
Did n’t Oi tell ye t’ git off wud Lorylard’s jock an’ do
‘im up t’ th’ Quane’s taste? An’ insthead o’ that ye sit
sthill wud yer oyes as big as me chew fists, an’ let ’em
bate ye t’ th’ devil an’ gone, bad scran to you!”

“What ’s the trouble, Bill; left again?” chimed in
Sam Bryant.

“Kitt, is it? An’ it ’s not th’ furst tome. “Was n t
Pink Cuss [Pincus] afther lavin’ Red Fox a Chuse-
day? Shure, a poor man has no show. ‘There’s alter-
gither tew much Fifth Avenoo an’ Murray’s Hill here,
an’ it’s got fur t’ be reggerlated.”’

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CHAPTER XII
THE RACING SEASON OF 1884

What is this
That rises like the issue of a king,
And wears upon her baby-brow the round
And top of sovereignty ? Macbeth, Act iv.

UBURBAN DAY, 1884, marked the first appear-
ance of the get of the imported horse Mortemer.
This was none other than the since renowned Wanda,
daughter of old Minnie Minor by Lexington. Wanda
finished second to Florio, but a few days
later Wanda won the Surf Stakes, beating
thirteen, including Florio. Mr. Lorillard
was immensely pleased.

“Minnie Minor is an old mare, but I find she con-
tinues to foal fast ones. She has a yearling colt, a full
brother to Wanda, and I consider him the finest colt at
Rancocas,” he observed.

‘Wanda is not quick at the start.”

‘Perhaps not, but she has the speed. She did the
last furlong of her trial in eleven seconds. She and
Bahama were the most forward in condition. The
others of my lot are rather large.”

[:rrog

First of the

Mortemers

“CHERRY AND BEACK®?

‘That was said to be the chief fault of the Morte-
mers in France.”

“So: 1 have heard,” replied Mr. Lorillard. “I have
several very large ones, Loulanier’s filly especially.
You can’t do much with such large two-year-olds.”

Wanda was unplaced for the Hopeful and July
Stakes, but she won the Tyro, with her mate Cholula
second, and it was the same in the race for the Sea-
bright stakes, when McLaughlin rode her. But the
Champion Stallion Stakes was Wanda’s
crowning achievement. It brought the
pick of the.country to the post. Mr.
Lorillard started Wanda and Chimera, but Mr. Bald-
win came from Saratoga with the California-bred trio,
Mission Belle, Volante and Verano, which had swept
all before them in the West. The Western men came
on from Saratoga in hundreds to back them. When
the horses emerged from the maple grove, they were
certainly impressive, led by grooms, followed by Isaac
Murphy, Blaylock and Holloway in the ‘black and
red”’ of Santa Anita, and after them a great crowd.

‘What do you think of them?” asked Mr. Lorillard,
eyeing them closely.

‘Wonderfully well-grown lot.”

‘Do you think they ‘ll beat me? You have seen them
at Saratoga.”

No; we had not seen them race.

‘They are splendidly grown and developed,” con-

moom

Wanda Wins
the Champion

“CHERRY AND BEACK’

tinued Mr. L., “‘but while they are highly furnished,
they are not highly finished. You understand—they
lack quality.”

There were loud cheers when the three Californians
took the lead, but on the turn Wanda’s white face was
seen coming through, and a cheer rose as she shot to
the front, and coming away, won by three lengths.
Wanda’s return to scales was the scene of an uproar
that caused the filly to rear, and the judge had to ask
the people to suppress their cheering. ‘The defeat of
Mission Belle was a surprise. Holloway, who rode
her, said she was nervous. Mr. Baldwin was not satis-
fied, and there was talk of a match. Mr. Lorillard
when approached said, ‘‘No proposition for a match
has been made to me, and as my filly won, I could
hardly make one to Mr. Baldwin.”

“Tt is complained that the Californians were badly
ridden.”

“They certainly were raced hard from the start.”

“So Mr. Baldwin thinks, and says they can
do better,”

‘Tf he wants another race I shall not de-
cline,” responded Mr. Lorillard. “I am willing to
make a match for from $5000 to $25,000 a side, here
or at Sheepshead Bay.”

Nothing came of the talk, and a week later Goano,
who had run second to Wanda, beat her for the Select
Stakes. But Wanda won all her races after that, the

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Talk of
a Match

“CHERRY AND BLACK”
Homebred, the Flatbush, the Central, and the Electric,

and retired champion two-year-old of the year.

In the Flatbush the card had Wanda carrying 5 lbs.
penalty for “having won $2000 since Aug. 15.’ Wanda
had won the Homebred Produce. Mr. Lorillard
claimed she did not incur a penalty as the forfeits due
by barren mares could not be calculated,
the entry of a barren mare being void.
There had been 20 barren mares, and
their forfeits, if counted, would make the race worth
$500 more than it actually was. Hence Wanda was
allowed to start without the penalty.

Wanda was not alone in spreading the fame of Mor-
temer. Chimera, a magnificent filly, a dappled chest-
nut with a star and snip, won the Red Bank Stakes. She
stood 16.1%, and it was feared “‘she was too big,” and
after winning the Moet & Chandon was retired.
Chimera was from the grey mare Lizzie Lucas by

Australian. « Cholula, a. chestnut colt’ by
Mortemer’s ‘ d
Children Mortemer from Fannie Ludlow by Eclipse,

was another, but of rather a different type
from the other Mortemers. He was not so large, but
more compact, with rather straight pasterns. He won
the Atlantic Stakes and was a thoroughly good one, but
was used as pacemaker for Wanda and Chimera much
too often, and “trained off.”” Exile, by Mortemer from
Second Hand by Stockwell, was one of the few bays
Mortemer sired, but was marked like him—a star and

Bore

A Point of
Racing Law

“CHERRY |AND: BLACK’

stripe with near hind pastern white. He was strongly
made, with great power in his quarters and an exuber-
ance of animal spirits that often made him clear the
paddock with his heels. He won several races, and
trained on for many seasons, winning the Brooklyn
Handicap of 1889 for Wm. Lakeland.

Unrest, a chestnut by Mortemer from Letola
by Lexington, was a fine filly. Mr. Lorillard, how-
ever, insisted that Dione was a better one.

“T believe Unrest can give Dione weight and beat
her,’”’ said Matt Byrnes.

“You are prejudiced,” replied Mr.
Lorillard. ‘‘I ‘ll bet a hundred dollars
—no, I ‘ll bet you a hat (I don’t want
to take your money) that Unrest can’t give Dione a
pound.”

“All right, sir,” said Byrnes, “I 7ll take Unrest te
give Dione 12 lbs., and Olney to ride Dione.”

‘Very well,” answered Mr. Lorillard, “there ’s a
party of friends coming here next week, and we will
show them a race.”

The friends came. Olney was given the inside posi-
tion with Dione. The stable lad on Unrest was told to
wait. Dione led until a furlong from home, and Mr.
Lorillard was having a great laugh at Byrnes, when
Unrest passed and beat Dione with ease. Mr. Loril-
lard paid his bet, said he “‘was mistaken,” lit his cigar
and dismissed the matter.

leas

The Case of

Unrest vs. Dione

"GHERRY?*AND! BEACK"

The since famous Suburban was inaugurated this
season, and Pizarro with 124 lbs. was the candidate of
the ‘‘cherry and black.” In the preliminary canter he
cut up badly, lashing out with his heels, and in the race
he fell out of it after going a mile. His temper had
become bad, and a few days after the race he pulled
up lame. He had developed a peculiar lame-
ness in the shoulder, and the “‘vets”’ said it
was rheumatism. But before his lameness
developed his spirits were so high that he rebelled at
being ridden, and his Suburban preparation was a
world of trouble. Finding that light jockeys could not
control him, they engaged Charlie Sait, the steeple-
chase jockey, to ride him at exercise. Sait, who weighed
about 160 lbs., mastered him, but it is a question if it
did not cause his lameness. As a sire, Pizarro served
two or three seasons; he got Pessara, the Metropolitan
winner, and Reckon, one of the best mares of her day.

Aranza won nine races that season. Long after she
returned from England she would not try, except when
she could lead. ‘‘We could n’t win a waiting race with
her,”’ explained Mr. Lorillard. ‘We tried it on sev-
eral occasions, and she ’d always quit.”

‘Was it the English campaign that
Aranza Recovers i
Hy Foe soured her?

‘That I have. no means of know-
ing,” he answered, “‘but I believe she ’s returning to
her form as a three-year-old.”

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Pizarro’s
Lameness

“CHERRY AND’ BEAGK

“George Rice, who saw her in the West, said she
was the best three-year-old filly he ever saw.”

“So she was represented to me,” said Mr. Lorillard.
“When I bought her she could beat all my horses. ‘They
say mares which have lost their form seldom recover it,
but since we learned how to place this mare, she ’s like
her old self.”

Drake Carter proved a much better four than a
three-year-old to the Lorillard stable. His victory for
the Autumn Cup, three miles in 5.24, was so good that
his match with Miss Woodford was the result, the
newspapers having clamored for such a race.

“To you want to run your mare against Drake Car-
ter? asked Mr. Lorillard.

“Tf the conditions suited,’ replied Mr. Dwyer.

“Well, now I ’ll tell you, Dwyer,”
resumed Mr. Lorillard, “suppose we
make a match to be run next week—

Drake Carter and
Miss Woodford

your mare is in condition, is n't she?”

“T think we can get her ready,” replied Mr. Dwyer,
smiling at the idea.

“Very well. Let it be $5000 a side, $1500 forfeit,
three miles or two and a half.”

“Make it two and a half.”

“Allright. Mr. Lawrence will draw up the conditions.”

Thus the match was made; but despite the fact that
Drake Carter did the best trial, the mare won easily
and repeated it in two mile heats a few days later.

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“CHERRY «AND BLACK”

The Lorillard yearlings usually had as thorough
‘competitive examinations” for racing as the civil ser-
vice is supposed to require. ‘Their trials this season
occurred during the Coney Island autumn meeting, and
caused a regular hegira of jockeys to the New Jersey
farm. In fact, several owners during the
meeting were compelled to “scratch” their
horses for want of light-weight jockeys,
most of whom, it was reported on inquiry, had “‘gone to
Rancocas to ride in Lorillard’s trials.’ Mr. Lorillard
was so well pleased with the trials of his Mortemer
yearlings that he said he would be willing to make
another campaign in England if he could obtain com-
petent jockeys. He offered Rowe and McLaughlin
$15,000 each per annum, with the option of sending
them to England; but the trainer and jockey, after
consulting with the Dwyers, declined to secede from
their allegiance to the “red and blue,” and Mr. Loril-
lard remarked afterward, “I ’d have saved money if
I °d given them $50,000.”

Harris Olney, who rode so many races for the Loril-
lard stable, was born at Manchester, Iowa, in 1865,
and learned riding under Jacob Pincus. He
rode his first race for Hon. Perry Belmont on
Ada, 82 lbs., in 1880, and came to Mr. Lorillard in
1881. In 1882 he won 6 out of 35 races; and in 1883
he won 17 out of 68. His light weight gave him plenty
to do in the stable riding exercise, trials and races.

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Trial of the
Yearlings

Olney

“CHERRY AND BLACK”

In the course of the season of 1884, Mr. Lorillard
took his son Mr. N. G. Lorillard as a partner in order
to protect his stake engagements from being void in the
event of his death, as under racing rules “rights and
liabilities attach to the survivor.’ During the season
the stable started in 181 races and won 39, with 38
seconds, was 25 times third, and the winnings amounted
to $84,202. The progeny of Mortemer won 21 races,
and $49,500 in stakes and purses.

William Hayward, while never under contract to
Mr. Lorillard, frequently rode for him, and was prob-
ably the most artistic jockey that has ever appeared in
this country. He was born at Northampton, England,
in 1844, and first attracted attention as a jockey in Mr.
Merry’s stable by winning the Stand Plate at Ascot on
Buckstone in 1861, when he rode at 89 lbs. He came
to America for the late Mr. M. H. Sanford in 1867,
and his superb finish when he won the Westchester Cup
of that year on Loadstone, beating Charles
Littlefield on Onward by a neck, created a
sensation. It was the first time the art of
“niggling” was shown in America, where it became
known as the ‘‘Newmarket roll.’’ His finish winning the
Saratoga Cup of 1868 on Lancaster was another con-
spicuous demonstration of his ability, as was his West-
chester Cup of 1871, when he won with Preakness,
beating Glenelg and Helmbold. He acquired a name
for a “‘waiting race” and bringing a horse home by a

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William
Hayward

“CHERRY AND BLACK”

rush in the stretch, but in 1872 he showed he could “‘ride
in front” when in the desperate race for the Maturity
Stakes he won with Monarchist over Harry Bassett.
His last great victory was in 1892, when he won the
Futurity on Morello. While a most brilliant man in
the saddle, he was the most careless on the ground. He
had no ambition to push his claims. He had no valet,
but appeared at the scale with his saddle on his arm.
Few ever heard him use a rough expression. He was
always modest, respectful and cautious in his comments.
During the thirty years he rode races he won more of
the principal events than any man of his generation,
and retained the respect and confidence of his employ-
ers no less than their admiration for his ability as a
jockey. His “‘set to” was very wide, with more move-
ment of the body than is usual with jockeys, and in
bringing a tired horse home he had no superior, as he
showed in the dead heat between Springbok and Preak-
ness for the Saratoga Cup of 1875, when, as he said, “‘I
eased my horse a quarter of a mile from home to let
him get his wind, and it was all that saved him.”

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CHAPTER XIII
THE RACING SEASON OF 1885

And ’mid the flash of silks we scan
A “cherry” jacket in the van—
Hurrah! for the bold brown mare!
Sir Francis Doyle.

EWDROP was a star of the first magnitude in

the constellation of two-year-olds carrying the
“cherry and black” jacket during the season of 1885.
A brown filly by Falsetto from Explosion by Hampton
Court, marked with a blaze and near fore
and both hind legs white nearly to her hocks,
Falsetto could not have denied her. Nor, for that
matter, could Explosion. She was marked like both
parents. But Dewdrop had the Falsetto action, long
and low, with her head down—quite in contrast with
her companion Wanda, who galloped high, flitting over
the ground like a sylph. Wanda was the hardier filly,
Dewdrop rather delicate. Wanda had the greater
burst of speed; Dewdrop’s action indicated greater ca-
pacity for a distance. Dewdrop’s nervousness cost her
a race at the outset, she being left at the post. Charity

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beat her for the Flatbush, but Dewdrop was conceding
her 10 lbs. For the Great Eastern, Dew-
drop galloped away and won by four
lengths from a field of twenty, including
Inspector B., Elkwood and Charity. She won the
Nursery, beating Biggonet and Charity, and the Cham-
pagne, beating Inspector B. in a canter. She was clearly
champion of the year.

Dewdrop’s
Great Eastern

“Tyo you recall what I told you some time since?”
asked Mr. Lorillard.

We failed to remember.

“Oh, you can't be so forgetful,” he continued, <1
said I had four two-year-olds, all of them first-class,
that had never shown in public how good they were,
because they had been sick, off and on, ever since
spring. This filly is one of them (never mind about
the others—you can guess). She was one of the last to
take the epidemic at Coney Island in June, and was
out of condition all the summer, or I would have had
her out at Monmouth.”

“But she showed great form for the Great Eastern.”

‘She was recovering. She should have won the Adieu
Stakes, but Rawlinson was new in America and the
jockeys rode all around him.”

‘“Then you consider her better now than in the Great
Eastern ?”

‘Decidedly; in her trial she won pulled double from
horses that a month ago gave her all she could do.”

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‘Many of the horsemen consider her better than
any of the Mortemers.”’

“Ves,” returned Mr. Lorillard, “] know theresa
prejudice against the Mortemers. Somebody will have

to pay for that yet. There was just such
ee a prejudice against the Leamingtons

years ago. But I am glad they like Dew-
drop, for it will help the sale of Mr. Alexander’s Fal-
setto colts. You know I sold Falsetto to him before
Dewdrop was foaled.”

“Tyewdrop’s markings are almost an exact reproduc-
tion of Falsetto’s.”

“T think they are; but her dam Explosion has this
season foaled a brown filly marked the same as Dew-
drop, and it is by Mortemer. Explosion was a speedy
mare, but had small ‘cuppy’ feet. I purchased her at
Mr. Bernard’s sale for only $250, and everything she
has foaled has won races. But about the Mortemers:
I have a lot of them, and if any one thinks he can beat
them, I will match my stable against any for two-year-
olds next season, to name at the post, $5000 a side.
Or, I will name a yearling now against any in the
country.’

Wanda was Mr. Lorillard’s principal winner in
1885—four races and $29,640 being her share. She
began badly, unplaced for the Swift Stakes, and was
second to Miss Woodford for the Coney Island Stakes.
She had an easy victory for the Mermaid, but her suc-

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cess for the Lorillard Stakes, value $18,530, was when
she was at her best, beating Pardee, Tyrant, Bersan,
Ten Stone, Brookwood and others. The

Wanda Wins ; :
race was run in a thick fog, and was one

the Lorillard ; ;
of the heaviest betting races of the year.

The Philadelphia contingent backed Brookwood. Ber-
san, fresh from his Kentucky triumphs, had a large
Western following. Mr. Lorillard had a good bet on
Wanda. The Californians were on Mr. Haggin’s
Tyrant. Mr. Bernard must have thought highly of
Goano, as he offered McLaughlin $1000 if he could
win with him.

In the race, Tyrant ran with the same easy lope he
had when he won the Withers and Belmont, but col-
lapsed when it came to a finish. Bersan had done too
much in the West, and looked light and over-marked.
Wanda laid away, and coming at the finish, won. Par-
coe _ dee ran a great race, finishing second
ae Champion and limping badly, having twisted his

plate. Mr. Lorillard was radiant. To
win the stakes named in his honor had been his ambi-
tion for several years, during which he had contributed
$20,000 to them.

“T felt all along,” said he, “that Wanda at her best
would be champion of the year. Seeing so many horses
at exercise at Sheepshead Bay made her nervous and
upset her.”

“You had confidence in her to-day?”

panes

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“T backed her at 5 to 2. Her trial was better than

any but Pardee’s.”

‘“Then you class her best of the year?”

“Yes, but I have another that I believe can give her
weight and beat her.”’

“Tt ’s Wanda’s reserve of speed that wins her races,”
remarked Mr. John F. Purdy.

“Well,” returned Mr. Lorillard, “I have always
thought Wanda could outrun any horse living for a
quarter of a mile.. She *s like Parole in that {ohe
can’t gallop in heavy ground—she strides too long.
Cholula can race in mud, but not Wanda.”

Wanda had no trouble winning the Monmouth Oaks,
but before the West End, fearing she had been in-
dulged, Byrnes gave her a hard gallop in 2.40. After
that she scoured. Olney, her jockey, having been sus-
pended, Feakes was given the mount, and laid back so
far that he could not overtake East Lynne, and a dead
heat was the result. Mr. Lorillard wished to divide,
as he expected to start Wanda for the Omnibus Stakes,
but Mr. Bernard declined and in the “run off”? Wanda
only beat East Lynne by a head.

Wanda never won again. A ringbone had begun to
develop; it was noticeable the day of the race with

dt East Lynne, and it drove her out of train-
ce ing. Wanda was a bright chestnut with a
crooked blaze in her face and near hind leg

white to the hock. She was a tall mare, and lengthy as

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well. She had a rather “tucked up” appearance in the
flanks, and stood high on the leg; some would have
called her ungainly, but this was due to her neck “dip-
ping’ a trifle as it came out of her shoulders—a feature
that never adds to beauty in a horse. Seen in action,
she was another being—it was smooth, wire-hung and
frictionless. She seemed scarcely to touch the ground
—as Matt Byrnes put it, “She acts as if the ground
was n’t good enough for her” —and her stride, very long
and elastic, was never known to shorten under stress of
pace. She was the first horse Mr. Lorillard tried with
aluminum plates made by Tiffany & Co. They suited
her light action, but when tried on Drake Carter they
were an utter failure. In the stud, Wanda transmitted
her excellence; for, when bred to Hanover, she pro-
duced Urania, a fine mare which, bred to Meddler, pro-
duced Armenia, winner of the Matrons Stakes. Ar-
menia, taken to France and bred to Rabelais, produced
Mr. Duryea’s Durbar, winner of the Epsom Derby of
1914.

When Mr. Lorillard stated that he had ‘“‘another”’
that “‘could give Wanda weight and a beating,” we had
reason to suspect he referred to Katrine, a chestnut
daughter of Mortemer and Loulanier by Lever; and
so it proved. While Wanda was winning he
repeatedly referred to ‘“‘a better one’’; and
when Wanda won the Stallion Stakes the previous year,
Mr. Withers remarked to us, ‘‘How is it he does n't

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Katrine

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start the ‘better one’ he’s always talking about?’ But
Katrine did not see the post until three years old, when
she started for the Emporium, 2 to 1 favorite over a
large field. She ran unplaced, and it was claimed she
had been shut in on the rail. She was again beaten
for the Stockton Stakes, which Tyrant won, and there
were claims of foul riding. Mr. Cassatt claimed
Brookwood had been fouled and made Feakes lodge a
complaint: but it was too late; the judges had left the
stand.

‘Some action should have been taken; my colt was
fouled,” said Mr. Cassatt.

“Tf Brookwood had won there would have been a
complaint,” replied Mr. Galway.

‘How so?” queried Mr. Cassatt.

‘He and Goano fouled Katrine.”’

“Yes, they squeezed my filly on to the rails,” ex-
claimed Mr. Lorillard. ‘My trainer says she was not
as good by 10 lbs. as she was at Coney Island. But
that is n’t the point. She showed enough speed if the
other jockeys had n’t interfered with her.”

For the Barnegat Stakes Katrine was again a favor-
ite. “T)am going to try a dierent ‘plan, said @yig
Lorillard. ‘I have told Olney to go to the front when
the flag falls, and stay there—if he can.”’

“That is a severe task.”

“lt is,” he answered, “but*in’her’ last vacevther,
crowded her. By keeping in front they cannot do that.”

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Olney rode to orders, but Katrine only finished third.
For the Stevens Stakes she was still at 2 to 1, but fin-
ished third. For the Raritan Stakes she was favorite,
but was beaten by Exile. Finally, in the Newark Stakes
she ‘‘broke the ice”? and won, but her hard races in hot
weather had caused her to lose flesh. She recovered
with a short rest, but in the race for the September
Stakes she was cut down on her off hind leg. Olney
lodged a complaint against McLaughlin, who rode
Richmond, but it was not allowed. Katrine must have
been born under an unlucky star, for cer-
tainly Mr. Lorillard would not have
backed her as he did unless she had shown him
enough to justify it. He maintained to the last that
she had beaten Wanda. Byrnes, who trained both
fillies, confirmed it. Said he: “To give you an idea
how good she was, before Pontiac won the Suburban
we tried her with him at 5 lbs. for the year, and she
beat him. We thought there was a mistake, and tried
them again, this time at even weights, and she beat him
again.”

It is a curious fact that no less than five first foals
of their dams have won the Suburban—Gen. Monroe,
Ben Brush, Africander, Hermis and Pontiac. Indeed,
Pontiac’s dam was only five years old at the time of
foaling. Pontiac was a black colt imported in utero,
but bred by Mr. Lorillard at Rancocas in 1881, a son
of Pero Gomez and Agenoria, a sister to Pizarro, by

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Adventurer. As a yearling, his trial of 3g mile in 36
was so good that he was shipped to Eng-
land, but performed so indifferently that,
as a three-year-old in 1884, he was
brought home with several others. Byrnes was ordered
to “‘sell the lot,” but keep one of them “if he thought
him worth it.’ It narrowed down to Choctaw and
Pontiac which should be retained, and Byrnes’ fondness
for Pizarro decided him in favor of Pontiac as “‘the
nephew of his uncle.”’

Pontiac managed to get into the Suburban of 1885
with 102 lbs. and defeated a field of fifteen in a romp,
Byrnes having to shout to Olney to “take it easy.” It
happened that it was one of those days when the au-
thorities stopped the betting, or Mr. Lorillard would
have won a fortune, as Emperor and Heva both won
races and Pontiac had been kept so dark” that‘
would have been good odds. Emperor, too, had failed
in England. He had contracted feet, but Byrnes had
fitted him with Dan Mace’s foot-expander and brought
him to a race.

Winning the Suburban, Pontiac was ‘‘an exposed
horse,”

Pontiac’s

Yearling Trial

and could not get into another race with any
Pa advantage in weight. Yet he won seven races
trac’ ;

mes that season, among them the Passaic, Eaton-
Suburban d

town and the Manhattan Handicap, and at
a mile he defeated even the celebrated Miss Wood-
ford. While he won the Suburban and other races

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over a longer distance, a mile was Pontiac’s limit when
racing with horses of the best class. He was a beauti-
ful horse, a fast horse and a sound one, a trifle ‘“‘cow-
hocked,” but otherwise perfect in conformation. ‘The
Dwyers showed their estimate of him by paying $17,-
500 when he was sold in February of ’86, and he won
many races. The late Mr. J. O. Donner purchased
him, and he raced until nine years old, but in sprint
races. He formed a part of the beautiful picture Mr.
Donner had made in which the Ramapo paddock is
shown with Pontiac wooing the famous Girofle over a
rustic fence. As a sire, Pontiac’s opportunities were
limited, as the Ramapo stud contained but few mares;
yet while there he sired Ramapo, who followed in his
sire’s footsteps and won the Suburban as well as the
Metropolitan, and was a horse of high class.

Cyclops and Savanac were two crack colts in the
Lorillard stable of 1885. Both were sons of Mor-
temer—Cyclops from Lizzie Lucas, and therefore
brother to Chimera; while Savanac was from Sly Boots
by Rivoli. Savanac won the Sapling Stakes after a
dead heat with Quito. He was sluggish,
and Olney had to “bring influence to bear”
in the shape of his whip. He was much of
the Mortemer type, but rather short in the neck and
had a heavy forehand. He was good in heavy ground,
and it is usually the heavy-muscled ones that are. Cy-
clops was very highly tried. Before the stable left

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home he beat Wanda at half a mile; but at Coney
Island he took catarrhal fever, and was taken with
Heimdal to Byrnes’ farm at Eatontown and lost at least
100 lbs. They quite despaired of starting him, but
with his fine constitution he rallied, and started for
the Champion Stallion Stakes. He won the August,
however. Cyclops was a grand colt in appearance;
but, like the Mortemers, he had great size, and was
hardly one of the kind that make the best two-year-olds.

Walter H. was a two-year-old Mr. Lorillard pur-
chased for $10,000 after he had beaten Dewdrop for
the Adieu Stakes, “if only to get him out of
the way,” as he expressed it. He was a bay
by Voltigeur from a Billet mare with a plain Vandal
head, lean neck and good shoulders. Docile as a dog,
he would follow his trainer to the paddock without
bridle or head-stall. He began life in a humble way
at Brighton, where he beat all comers; but he had no
engagements and did nothing for the stable after his
purchase.

Late in the season Mr. Lorillard, disappointed with
his riding talent, advertised in the English Calendar
for a Jockey, and Rawlinson, a jockey of some repute,
came over. He donned the “cherry” jacket at Coney

Island; but he was found too slow at the
peal post. Asked how he regarded American
jockeys, he replied that he thought he could

give the best of them 10 lbs. ‘And how much could

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Fred) Archer’ givevyour” the was) asked.’)Aboutiro
lbs.,” replied Rawlinson. This would make Archer 20
Ibs. better than Hayward or McLaughlin. It was
what Henry Arthur Jones would call ‘‘an obvious error
of classification,’ and Rawlinson was soon after al-
lowed to return home.

It was about this time, probably, that Mr. Lorillard,
speaking out of the bitterness of his disappointment,
said: “It is easier to secure a good horse than it is to
secure a good jockey. You tell them to wait, and they
make the pace; you tell them to make the pace, and
they are last to get away.” ‘‘What can you expect?”
answered Mr. Ward, who generally had a ready reply.
“Many of them are no better than beggars to begin
with, and if you put a beggar on horseback, you know
he is likely to ride according to the old proverb.”

A curious effect of the Rules of Racing disqualified
all Mr. Lorillard’s two-year-olds for the Homebred
Produce Stakes at Monmouth. The conditions of the
race required that the produce of the mares nominated
should remain wholly the property of the subscriber
until after the race or pay forfeit. The
race had closed in 1882, Mr. Loril-
lard having nominated 23 mares. But
in 1884 he had made his son partner in his racing
stable, which act disqualified the produce of all the
mares named.

At the Coney Island autumn meeting old Parole re-

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Another Point in
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appeared after an absence of two years. Certainly no
American race-horse was ever so popular as the brown
gelding. Many who had cheered him eight or nine
years before, when he defeated Ten
Broeck, gathered on the lawn to greet
him. ‘Here he comes!” they shouted, as
the old hero was seen coming down the stretch, and the
cheers rolled from the field stand, and, taken up by the
lawn, amounted to an ovation. But while he ran sev-
eral good races, the light of other days had failed, and
Mr. Lorillard gave him to Dr. Green. ‘Last summer
at the farm,” said Mr. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., in explana-
tion, “‘the old horse seemed unhappy. He had a large
paddock, plenty of range, but the flies bothered him, so
father concluded he would be better with the horses in
training. He improved at once, but he’s lost his speed.
Father would have given him to me, but he thought I
would race him, and he did n’t care to see him beaten.”’

Parole’s career was a noteworthy one. He raced
for ten seasons, starting in 137 races, of which he won
59, his winnings amounting to $82,909.25. On the
Fourth of July, 1891, he made his “‘posi-
tively last appearance” before the public.
It was at Morris Park, Dr. Green having asked per-
mission to show the old hero as an attraction to many
who had never seen him. Ed. Feakes, his old jockey,
consented to don the cherry jacket in a parade between
the races. Parole was eighteen years old, but showed

Eteeal

Parole’s Last
Appearance

Parole’s Record

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no appreciable signs of age as he galloped a quarter
of a mile past the stand amid the cheers of his admirers
and then passed forever into merited retirement. For
years he was used as a hack at Rancocas, but he had
become so fond of the companionship of people that
he would come to the door of any of the houses on the
farm and whinny until some one came out and noticed
him. He had been granted “the freedom of the city,”
like the conquerors of olden times, and had free range
to go where he pleased, but would follow people like
a dog.

During 1885 the Lorillard stable won 43 races and
$98,490 in stakes, of which Wanda won $29,640; Dew-
drop $17,037; Pontiac $14,955; and Unrest $10,408.

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CHAPTER XIV
THE SALES

I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four
pasterns. When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. ‘The earth
rings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musi-
cal than the pipe of Hermes. Henry V.

T was on the 30th of January, 1886, that the racing
world was startled by the announcement that Mr.
Lorillard’s entire stable of horses in training would be
sold by auction at the Rancocas farm, Saturday, Febru-
ary 27. The month had been mild enough until the
day prior to the sale, when a ‘“‘cold wave”’
descended, followed by a gale of wind
reaching a velocity of sixty miles an hour, and thus
rendered the expedition unpleasant. But the atten-
dance was very large—owners, trainers, Jockeys, book-
makers, officials, race-goers, and journalists appeared
—and it quite reminded one of a great race-day.

The sale was held in the mammoth glass-covered
building used as a playhouse for the weanlings in cold
weather, and a better place could not have been se-
lected, as the sunlight through the glass tempered the

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cold atmosphere and rendered it quite comfortable. At
two o'clock, Col. Bruce, the auctioneer, mounted the
rostrum and after a few remarks Drake Carter was

led in, and, starting at $1500, was sold
ce COTS i Cis Boyle. Emperor followed, a

grandly topped horse, but the marks of
the irons made bidders cautious, and Mr. Fearing se-
cured him for $700. ‘There was a ripple when Pontiac
was led in, his black coat gleaming like satin. Mr.
Rothschild bid $5000, Mr. Reed $6000, Mr. Dwyer
$7000, and the crowd began cheering as he reached
$15,000. “Give me $17,000?” asked the
auctioneer, Mr: Reed modded. “It %
against you,’ said the Colonel. ‘$17,-
500,” said Mr. Dwyer, and the Suburban winner went
to the Brooklyn stable. Heimdal went cheap at $300;
Unrest, after some competition, for $4500, and Green-
field for $3650.

There was a crush to reach the front as Dewdrop’s
farm came. | “Piere she comes, ‘the pick of the land!”
somebody called out, as the white face of the Cham-
pagne winner was seen coming through the crowd, and
there was a round of applause as the brown filly
marched into the ring and gazed around upon her ad-
mirers. ‘“This, gentlemen, is the best filly
of the year—perhaps of any year. I can-
not say too much of her,” began Col.
Bruce. ‘‘How much am I offered?” ‘“Ten thousand,”’

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Pontiac Sells
for $17,500

Dewdrop Sells
for $29,000

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said Mr: Reed... “Il won't take it,” answered Bruce:
“make it fifteen.” ‘‘Well, fifteen, then,” replied Reed.
Then Mr. Dwyer bid a thousand. ‘We will give them
a race for it,’ said Mr. Walcott, for whom Mr. Reed
was bidding. Nineteen, twenty, twenty-two, and then
twenty-four thousand was reached, and the crowd be-
gan to cheer. Mr. Reed stopped. Then Mr. Scott
began bidding against Mr. Dwyer. ‘The noise was so
great that the filly became alarmed, and Col. Bruce
begged the crowd to keep quiet. Dewdrop reached
$27,000. Mr. Scott bid $500, Mr. Dwyer raised it
$500. ‘Twenty-eight thousand I am offered,” said ~
Bruce, looking at Mr. Scott. ‘Are you done?” ‘‘Five,”’
responded Scott, but again Dwyer raised it. Bruce
turned to Scott, but the latter shook his head, and Dew-
drop followed Pontiac into the Dwyer stable for $29,-
000, Mr. Phil Dwyer standing on the top of a pail in
order to see over the heads of the crowd while he made
his bids, while Mr. Scott stood on a chair.

The giant Cyclops went to Mr. Walcott for $10,500,
and Savanac to Mr. McCoy for $3750. Winfred, the
brother to Wanda, went to the Dwyers for $13,000,
and they also secured Pontico for $8000. Walter H.
sold for $10,000, and ‘“‘well sold’’ was the general ver-
dict. Cambyses, a stalwart grey and the supposed pick
of the two-year-olds, brought $4000, Mr.
Fearing buying him for Mr. Pierre Loril-
lard, Jr. “I was never so surprised,” said young Mr.

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Cambyses

=O TARRY SAND DUACK”’

Lorillard, after the sale. “‘He was my pick, and I
wanted to buy him, but father would n’t hear of it.
Mr. Fearing came to me after the sale and said father
had told him to buy the colt for me. They tell me a
grey horse has never won the English Derby, but we ’Il
try him anyhow.” Shawnee, a most racing-like colt,
went to Mr. Walcott for $4200; Kismet, half-brother
to Katrine, to Mr. Ryan; while the Dwyers, to show
their faith in Dewdrop, bought her half-sister Daruna,
and Chas. Hill took Esquimau. Puzzle, with the repu-
tation of having done three furlongs in 37 seconds with
110 lbs., was snapped up by Mr. Walcott, who also
took Hypasia and Catiline.

The twenty-seven head brought $149,050, an aver-
age of $5520. All hands declared it ‘‘a splendid sale”’ ;
but there was a tinge of sadness when they
spoke, for they realized that the “cherry
and black” jacket had been folded and put away, for
how long only Mr. Lorillard, who was awaiting the
news in Florida, could say.

The sale of the Rancocas Stud, which followed on
October 15, 1886, brought an enormous attendance of
horsemen and breeders from all parts of the country
as well as from abroad, among them Vicomte de la
Motte Rouge and Henri le Contenis Caumont, In-
spectors of the Government Studs of France. The
sale included the five stallions, Mortemer, Iroquois,
Duke of Magenta, Pizarro and Moccasin, as well as

eco

A Good Sale

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seventy-eight brood-mares. Of course Iroquois was
expected to bring the top price, which he did. It was
known that the English were after him and that Mr.
Withers had the commission from England to buy him.
bias Gelb ae However, Gen. W. H. Jackson of
Bic ie bad the Belle Meade Stud in Tennessee

wanted him too, and ‘‘drew”’ bidders
by creating an impression that Mortemer was the ob-
ject of his visit. When it came to bidding he outlasted
them all and secured Iroquois for $20,000. Mr.
Withers bought Mortemer for his own Brookdale
Stud and Duke of Magenta went to Mr. Forbes of
Boston. Milton Young really secured the bargain of
the sale in Pizarro. Mr. Haggin purchased the pick
of the brood-mares. The five stallions brought $31,-
950, an average of $6390; the seventy-eight brood-
mares $110,945, an average of $1422.37; the erand
total being $142,895, an average of $1721.62.

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CHAPTER XV

THE RETURN TO RACING
1889-1895

They all finish gamely; as whipping and spurring,
The jockeys ride home at a desperate pace;
The crowd with the wildest excitement is stirring,
So keen is the struggle, so close is the race.
And opinions divided how ’t will be decided ;
Till Lamplighter, bringing his speed into play,
The maxim endorses of “horses for courses,”
And bears off the honors and spoils of the day.

1889

soe E will not keep out of racing long—he ’s too fond
of it,’ many said when Mr. Lorillard withdrew

in 1886. But two seasons passed, and he was still de-
voting his time to the building of Tuxedo, the charming
resort that has since become so popular with New York
people. It was no easy task to take a large tract of
land and render it as attractive as he did. It was not
until 1889 that he began to manifest a
renewed interest in racing by purchasing
several yearlings at the sales, and took
over several horses bred by his friend Mr. Fearing.

ase.

Mr. Lorillard

Resumes Racing

“CHERRY AND BEACK?
He also had the three-year-old filly Rizpah, by Mor-

temer—Parthenia, and she it was that announced the
return of the ‘‘cherry jacket” to racing in 1889, win-
ning two races at Monmouth Park.

1890
In 1890 Mr. Lorillard took the field with a stable
composed of the four-year-old Pagan and the two-
year-olds Kildeer, Catlan, Chartreuse, Lima, Uncer-
tainty and Variety. Nearly all these won races of
minor importance. Kildeer, a filly by
Darebin from Loulanier, won the Camden
Stakes, and was a filly of some class. Lima was a cap-
ital filly, a daughter of Pizarro and Gladiola. She beat
a large field at Morris Park, but at Monmouth was so
badly kicked at the post for the Independence Stakes
that she was turned out for the remainder of the

Kildeer Wins

season.
I8gI

IN 1891 the stable began to assume greater propor-
tions, with John Huggins as trainer and George Taylor
as jockey. It contained Kildeer, Lima, and Sirocco,
three-year-olds, and the two-year-olds Lorimer, Crys-
i , tal, Ginka, Kilkenny, Kirsch, Stalac-
Wie 2s tite, Vestibule, Yemen, and Delusion.

Later the colt Johnnie Hecksher was
added. Vestibule won the Galliard Stakes at Mor-

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ris Park; Kildeer won the Elizabeth and Hunter

Stakes; and the stable captured quite a number of minor
races. During the season Curt Gunn, a two-year-old
owned by Mr. Laudeman, had played a conspicuous
part in the West, and later in the East, winning
seven races. He was a light chestnut by Onondaga
from Sophronia, rather light in bone below the
knee, and rather pigeon-toed, but his form
was very high, and Mr. Lorillard pur-
chased him for $15,000 and changed his name to Loco-
hatchee. The same autumn he purchased of Hough
Brothers the celebrated filly La Tosca, three years old,
one of the best fillies of the day. Certainly she was
the best filly St. Blaise ever sired, and her dam
Toucques was a daughter of La Toucques, which ran
second for the original Grand Prix de Paris
in 1863. La Tosca had, as a two-year-old,
won many stakes for Mr. Belmont, and was sold after
his death for $13,000 to Hough Brothers, in whose col-
ors she had a brilliant season as a three-year-old. She
won for Mr. Lorillard, but did not appear at four, and
although Huggins brought her out at five and won
races, she started favorite for the Metropolitan and
pulled up lame. A more beautiful bloodlike filly never
bore a silken jacket. There was a refinement to her
that made other horses look common, and she went
into the stud of the Sanfords of Amsterdam, N. Y., and
became the dam of Chuctanunda.

Goes

Locohatchee

La Tosca

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1892
IN 1892 the stable employed the colored jockey Ham-
ilton. Kildeer was still in training, the others being
Locohatchee, Julien, Kilkenny, Joy, Vestibule, Yemen,
Derfargilla, Johnnie Hecksher, and Lorimer, and the
filly Addie by Iroquois was purchased on her Western
reputation, but never won a race for the stable. Loco-
hatchee ran a tremendous second to Pessara for the
Metropolitan, and second to St. Florian for the Bowl-
ingbrook. He was unplaced for the Suburban, but won

Roe the Hackensack, Raritan, Palisade, and
Weoning Stats hecehold Stakes. le was not aueen
bust horse, and “trained off.” Kildeer won the Rah-
way Hlandicap, beating a’ ‘crack’ field m’ Pessara,
Raceland, Russell, and Pickpocket, a mile in 1.37%.
Julien won several races, Vestibule won the Swift
Stakes, and Yemen, a younger brother of Himyar, also
won races, as did Derfargilla, among them the Eliza-
beth Stakes, beating Yorkville Belle.

By this time Mr. Lorillard had begun to feel an
awakening of the old fire that had slumbered during
the seasons since his return to racing. “I am tired of
selling-platers,’ he said, “I ’d like to have a ‘top-
sawyer once more—if I can find one.” He had his

eye on Lamplighter, the brown son of
iis sis Spendthrift and ‘Torchlight, in Captain
Brown’s stable, and on August 9 Lamplighter won the
Champion Stakes at Monmouth, beating Banquet,

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Locohatchee, Poet Scout, Raceland, and Montana, 1%
miles in 2.3234, and immediately Mr. Lorillard pur-
chased him. It brought quick results, as Lamplighter
won the Choice Stakes, Twin City Handicap, Bridge
Handicap, First Special, Second Special, and other
events. He retired to winter quarters quite the ‘“‘crack’”’
of the year. Mr. Lorillard had tried to buy the Eng-

lish Derby winner Common, but without effect.

1893

LAMPLIGHTER was allotted 127 lbs. for the Suburban of
1893, and 125 lbs. for the Brooklyn Handicap, and in-
deed he was “‘top-weight”’ throughout the season. The
winter favorite for both the great spring handicaps, he
went to the post for the Brooklyn carrying the public
money, but was “pocketed” throughout the
race and could never get through until too
late. He finished a good second to Diabolo.
Mr. Lorillard’s friendsurged himtolodgeaclaim against
some of the jockeys for interfering with his horse, but he
refused, saying, “I cannot prove anything, although it
looked as if my horse was cut off every time he tried
to come through. ‘The stewards say they saw nothing
sufficient to disturb the placing. I do not suppose they
can see everything and I often think the only solution
of the matter would be to have an electric car for the
stewards to follow the horses—to have it just inside
the rails and keep as close to the horses as possible.”

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For the Suburban Lamplighter had incurred a pen-
alty of 2 lbs. for having won a stake, making his weight
129 lbs. But he went to the post an even-money favor-
ite. Lowlander, a five-year-old with only 105 lbs.,
starting at 12 to 1, took the lead and made a strong
pace throughout, winning by a short length from Ter-
rifier, 5 years with 95 lbs., who beat Lamplighter four
lengths for the place. The stable and
the public fell heavily over the defeat
of Lamplighter. And yet the stable
had a “line” that should have made it respect the
chances of Lowlander. In the Brooklyn Handicap
Diabolo had beaten Lamplighter with a concession of
13 lbs. A week later Lowlander had beaten Diabolo
with a concession of 5 lbs. Again, only three days be-
fore the Suburban, Mr. Lorillard’s four-year-old Kil-
kenny had beaten Lowlander, the latter conceding Kil-
kenny 11 lbs., and Kilkenny had given him
about a 5 lbs. beating. As Lamplighter had
129 lbs. in the Suburban, and Lowlander
105 lbs., this would mean putting in Kilkenny at
99 lbs., and the stable knew Lamplighter could not
concede Kilkenny 30 lbs. Indeed, John Huggins said,
‘Rogers has set people crazy about Lamplighter. He
thinks him a great deal better horse than I do.” ‘Thus
if Lamplighter could not concede 30 lbs. to his stable
companion Kilkenny, he could hardly concede 24 lbs. to
Lowlander. However, Lamplighter was sent to Chi-

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Lamplighter’s Race
for the Suburban

“A Line”

on Form

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cago for the Columbus Handicap, but fretted to noth-
ing and finished ‘‘nowhere.” Returning East he won
the Fall Stakes, Labor Day Stakes, Standard Stakes,
Maturity Stakes, and other events. Then Mr. Loril-
lard sold him to Mr. Walbaum and he was defeated in
the special race with Tammany.

At his best, Lamplighter was a fine race-horse, but
unfortunate and eccentric. No son could have been more
unlike his sire than he; for, while Spendthrift had the
composure of Vere de Vere, Lamplighter was nervous
and irritable to such a degree that often his naturally
fine turn of speed was quite neutralized. He was not
cowardly, but over-anxious, and he had queer notions

Lome about being placed on the inside or out-
eee side position at the post; while if a horse
“bumped” him during a race, or shut him
off, he seemed to lose all sense of the situation. He
certainly should have won the Brooklyn Handicap, but
every horse in the race seemed to cross or foul him.
Mr. Gebhard begged Mr. Lorillard to lodge a claim,
but the latter refused.

1894-95
IT was with a moderate stable that Mr. Lorillard took
the field in 1894, Liza, Anisette, April Fool, Dolabra,
De Courcey, Redowoc, and Flush being the most prom-
-inent. Anisette, a good filly by Topgallant-Wau-
culla, won the Salvator and Briar Root Stakes at Sara-

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toga. Dolabra, by Emperor—Dolinka, won the Sap-
phire Stakes and Holly Handicap. Liza, a filly by
Rayon d’Or, won the Flash Stakes, beating Cesarion.
The season of 1895 again saw a small but select sta-
ble represent the “cherry and: black.” ) 7m
was very successful. Anisette, April Fool,
Ardath, Liza, Diakka, Dolabra, Heresy,
Bloomer, and King of Bohemia were all winners, Liza
winning the Swift Stakes, and the historical Travers at
Saratoga; Anisette won the Albany, Diakka the Mc-
Grathiana, and Heresy the Neptune.

Anisette
and Liza

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CHAPTER. XVI

THE SECOND CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND
1896-1901

Say next, O muse, of all Achaia breeds
Who bravest fought, or reined the noblest steeds?
Eumelus’ mares were foremost in the chase,
As eagles fleet and of Pheretian race,
Bred where Pieria’s fruitful fountains flow,
And trained by him who bears the silver bow,
Fierce in the fight their nostrils breathe a flame,
Their height, their color, and their age the same.
The Iliad.

FTER the New York Constitutional Convention

of 1894 passed the act prohibiting bookmaking

and several of the meetings were abandoned and the
gates closed, Mr. Lorillard determined upon another
campaign in England. His determination was not due
to that feeling too frequent among
Americans who attain wealth and then
persuade themselves that they are too
good for their own country. He found racing in Amer-
ica too precarious, too greatly dependent upon the
whims or greed of politicians, and that a man with a
large stable and valuable engagements in stakes which

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to England

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were declared void because of sudden legislation, was
in a bad plight, as it rendered his stock almost value-
less. He wanted greater security, and that English
racing assured. Accordingly, at the end of the season
of 1895, he shipped to England his entire stable, con-
sisting of Anisette, Dolabra, Diakka, King of Bo-
hemia, and the two-year-olds Berzak, Astolphe, Quib-
ble, Laverock, Equinox, Glaring, Sandia and Dorado.

1896

DuRING the season of 1896 in England, Berzak was
the most successful, as he won the Newmarket [Iwo-
Years-Old Stakes, the Rutland Stakes, and the Clear-
well Stakes, in the latter defeating so good a one as
Goletta. He was also second for the Dewhurst Plate.
Diakka won three races, including Peveril of the Peak
Handicap, beating seventeen, including
Marco and Prince Barcaldine. Dolabra
won the Ruttord Abbey Plate and Mile Plate at Leices-
ter, Glaring won a maiden plate at Birmingham, and
Sandia won four races of less importance.

Diakka Wins

1897
IN 1897 Mr. Lorillard started over twenty horses in
England. Dolabra won the Stanley Plate and the
Stand Plate, also the Seaforth Handicap. Diakka won
four races, among them the Subscription Stakes and
the Duke of York Stakes, beating a ‘‘crack’’ field com-

aed

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posed of Marco, Laveno, Amphora, and Shaddock.

Sandia, by Sailor Prince—Saluda, won five races, among
them the Fernhill Stakes, and the Biennial at Ascot,
Lingfield Handicap, the Scarborough
Stakes and the old Cambridgeshire
Handicap. Belisama, 2 years, by Sensation, won two
Bentinck Plates at Nottingham. Elfin, 2 years, by
Sensation—E.quality, won the Fortieth Biennial at As-
cot. Beryl, by Sensation, won the Worcester Plate.
Meta, 2 years, by Sensation, won the Maiden Plate at
Newmarket, the Warren Nursery, and a free handicap
at Worcester.

A Good Season

1898

THE stable started a large number of horses in Eng-
land in 1898. ‘They were raced in conjunction with
Lord William Beresford and won forty races, the prin-
cipal winner being Caiman, a chestnut colt, 2 years, by
Locohatchee-Happy Day, who won three events,
among them the Clearwell Stakes and
oe cee. the great Middle Park Plate—the
chief event in England for two-year-

olds. He won by a length and a half, beating the
famous Flying Fox, who won the Derby the following
year. Caiman then ran second for the Dewhurst Plate
to Frontier, to whom, with 131 lbs., he conceded 10 lbs.
and was only beaten a head. This made Caiman one
of the best of the year. Myakka, by Sensation, run-

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ning for Mr. Lorillard, won four races, including the
Prendergast Stakes. Dominie, by Sensation, won four
races, including the Chevely Stakes, Granby Plate, and
Exeter Stakes. Elfin won four races. Diakka won the |
Esher Stakes, and Berzak, Belisma, Chinook, and San-
dia all won races. In short, Mr. Lorillard won eleven
races and $40,164; Lord William Beresford won nine-
teen and $33,896.

1899

IN 1899 the stable had assumed greater proportions.
Business having called Mr. Lorillard to America be-
fore the end of the year, Lord William Beresford
managed the stable, which won fifty-five races. Caiman
won six out of eight starts. He was second to Flying
Fox for the Two Thousand Guineas, beating Desmond
and others. He won the Burwell, the Payne, Lingfield
Imperial, Ascot Biennial, Zetland, and Sussex Stakes,
and was second to Flying Fox for the St. Leger. The
two-year-old Democrat, by Sensation from Equality,
won seven out of eleven races, viz., the Coventry
Stakes, Hurst Park, Foal Plate, Na-

A CAE tional Breeders, Produce Stakes,
Champagne Stakes, and Rous Me-

morial. Then he won the Middle Park Plate, beating
Diamond Jubilee, the winner of the Derby the follow-
ing year. ‘The three-year-old filly Sibola won five out
of eight races, including the classic One Thousand

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Guineas, the Wood Ditton, Champion Breeders, and
Scarborough Stakes. She also ran second for the Oaks.
Dominie won the Newmarket and Midsummer Stakes,
Berzak, Chinook, Doric, Jiffy, Meta, Tarolinta, Jou-
vence, Pedometer, Lutetia, Etoile, Perdicus, Pomfret,
and Solano all won. It was a great year for American
horses—the best the stable had in England. Demo-
crat became the property of General Lord Kitchener,
who rode him at the Durbar at Delhi; and when the
equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener was cast in bronze
at Calcutta, Democrat was the model chosen at Lord
Kitchener’s request.

1900
DuRING 1900 Mr. Lorillard remained in America, but
he maintained a small stable in England, the horses
being trained by the English trainer Blackwell. They
included Hamilcar, b. c., 2 years, by Sensation, from
Hope IV; Exedo, ch. c., 2 years, by Sensation, from
Equality; Laus, b. c., 2 years, by Sensation, from Liza;
Scythia, ch. f., 2 years, by Sailor Prince, from Saluda,
and Tantalus, ch. c., 2 years, by Sailor Prince-Tar-
bouche. Of these Exedo won the Prendergast Stakes
and Clearwell Stakes and $7536; Tantalus won one
race, and the total was three races and $8300.

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CHAPTER XVII

THE RETURN TO AMERICA
1899-1900

The colors that Barbee,
Feakes, Hayward and Shauer
Have worn in success and disaster;
The colors Fred Archer
To victory bore
At Epsom, Ascot and Doncaster.
Then fill up your glass
And let the toast pass
In champagne or claret or sherry,
And drink to the toast:
“Be it first past the post” —
The Lorillard jacket of “Cherry.”

R. LORILLARD spent the season of 1899 in
America, but while his best horses had been

sent to England, he was not long in collecting some
horses to carry the “cherry” jacket at home. He pur-
chased of Mr. Madden for $25,000 the bay colt David
Garrick, 2 years, by Hanover, from

es _, Peg Wofhngton, also the two-year-old
Maribert from Mr. Fleischman, and

these, with Albula, Petrea, Prima, Salamis, and

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Ganymede of his own breeding, took the field, adding
a colt called The Chamberlain. They won several races,
but the only conspicuous ones were with David Gar-

. rick, who won the Reapers, and finally
ee the Annual Champion Stakes of 1900,
Champion Stakes beating Ethelbert and others at 2/4

miles. The race was worth $19,650,
and the stable’s winnings at the Coney Island autumn
meeting amounted to $24,480.

David Garrick was intended for a high-class horse,
but he had a temper of his own, and was an almost
impossible horse at the post. However, he had shown
enough form to make Mr. Lorillard think seriously
of his chance for the Ascot Gold Cup. He had won
the Derby, the St. Leger, the Middle Park Plate, and
now he yearned for a conquest of this great after-test

of Derby and St. Leger winners, which

Garrick and only Isinglass and Persimmon had ac-

Danny Maher ' eee f
Sail for England complished within twenty years previ-

ous. He had tried David Garrick and
proved him a stayer, and that was the needed quality.
Accordingly, David Garrick was shipped to Blackwell
in England, and Danny Maher, his jockey, accom-
panied him, arriving at Newmarket in October, 1900.
David Garrick wintered well, and with the top-
weight, 122 lbs., started for the City and Suburban at
Epsom April 27, 1901, with 10 to 1 against him in the
betting. Maher rode him, but he was unplaced, the

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winner, Australian Star, a five-year-old, carrying 108
lbs. On May 8 David Garrick appeared for the Ches-
ter Cup, 2% miles. He was within a
Bs uss pound of being top-weight, he having 122
Wins the
Chester Cup Ibs. to Mazagan’s 123 lbs. But David
Garrick was not to be denied this time.
Staying was his forte, and the distance favored him, he
winning easily by two lengths, conceding 13 lbs. to the
second horse. He started for the Epsom Gold Cup,
1%4 miles, an odds-on favorite, and ran second to
Merry Gal; and thus the career of the “cherry and
black,” which had begun at Long Branch in 1873, ended
at Epsom in June, 1got.

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CHAPTER XVItl
CONCLUSION

HUS we have traced the story of the “cherry and

black”? jacket from Saxon to David Garrick,
from 1873 to 1901, through twenty-nine years of rac-
ing and its vicissitudes; beginning with the days when
the “‘blue with red sash” of the McDaniel Confederacy
rode triumphant with its Harry Bassett and Spring-
bok; succeeded by the period when the “maroon and
red” of the Nursery rose again to power with Sultana,
Olitipa and Fiddlestick; only to be followed by the
“white with red star’ of Mr. Astor, with Vagrant and
Baden Baden. Then comes the “blue and orange” of
“Prince George,” with Harold, Spinaway, and Sensa-
tion. Anon, we have “the Dwyer dynasty” with
Bramble, Blackburn, Hindoo, Miss Woodford, Tre-
mont, and Hanover, interrupted by the triumphs of the
“tricolor” of Cassatt and the ‘‘orange and blue” of
Haggin, the “all scarlet’ of Morris, and the “all
black” of Withers. Now we have the era of Keene
and the ‘‘white with blue spots,” and its Domino, Com-
mando, Sysonby and Colin. But through all these

poss

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years, with their ebb and flow of fortune, the ‘cherry
and black”’ of Lorillard retained its prestige and main-
tained the “balance of power’’ on the turf to a degree
that in the field of world politics statesmen have strug-
gled to preserve; and whatever the asperities of the
time may have produced, it cannot be said in relation
to his career as a turfman that Pierre Lorillard lived
in vain.

It was Mr. Lorillard who invaded the turf of Eng-
land with greater success than has fallen to any foreign
turfman. It was the success of Iroquois and Parole
that gave the great impulse to racing in America, in
that it attracted the attention and aroused the pride
and the interest of the people in the sport, and led to
its wonderful growth and popularity throughout the
country.

It was Mr. Lorillard who introduced into our stakes
the minor forfeit clause, whereby, after a horse had
been tried, it could be “declared out”’ on the payment
of anominal sum. Previous to this all stakes had been
either “half forfeit’ or "play oF pay.

It was he who proposed an amendment to the Rules
of Racing (and it was adopted) by which horses
starting for a race must be notified to the Clerk of the
Scales, and their numbers posted, fifteen minutes before
a race. Previous to this there was no rule as to time,
except in races for stakes.

The colts he raced in England were given names sug-

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gestive of his native country. Thus he had Iroquois,
Comanche, Santee, Seneca, Pontiac, Choctaw, Mo-
hawk, Sachem, Massasoit, etc.—an instance of the ex-
quisite taste and selection he used in the nomenclature
of his horses, and which elevated the tone of racing.
Could anything have been more appropriate than Iro-
quois for the name of an American-bred winner of the
Derby?

He was one of the leading spirits of the Coney
Island Jockey Club, and was Mr. Lawrence’s adviser
in the conception and construction of such great events
as the Suburban, the Futurity, and the Realization.

He was always ready to contribute a purse or endow
a race for stakes. To the Lorillard Stakes, which he
founded and endowed, in consideration of which it was
given his name, he added, during seven seasons (1879-
1885), the sum of $20,000.

He expended more money in race-horses, yearlings,
stallions, and brood-mares than any man of his genera-
tion, and thus greatly benefited breeders and owners
throughout the country.

He formulated the first general plan of racing gov-
ernment in the United States at a dinner he offered to
turfmen for that purpose in October, 1890, out of
which was created the Board of Control, which later
was merged in the Jockey Club.

He founded the first of the great Stallion Stakes in
the East, by which the entry of a stallion secured its

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owner a share of the stakes and qualified the entry of
its progeny.

He conceived and executed the plan of building
Tuxedo, which has become one of the fashionable cen-
tres of the country.

It was he who introduced aluminum plates, made at
his order by Tiffany & Co., which were much lighter
than any ever used on the foot of a race-horse.

It is difficult to imagine what a man possessing such
energy of character and powers of construction would
not have accomplished had he devoted himself to any
of those greater fields of human endeavor which open
to men of genius. Had Mr. Lorillard elected to take
part in the affairs of state, it is probable that today his
name would be mentioned with those of our eminent
publicists; had he devoted himself to the profession of
arms, it would not now be said that the Spanish-Ameri-
can war produced no great general.

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