^iW^^:fS3mr\^M'-'Wi'r' -J^^^^H W» Mt w* wi 1 1 noxMwuMl jjtidlfitflliimiOm'Hfriri' 'M': IT LIBRARY LINIVERSITY'?^^ PENNSYLVANIA j^ttrnhousf 0rmy VR 798.9 F21 GIFT OF FAIRMAN ROGERS p^l University of Pennsylvania Libraries Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/famoushorsesofamOOfair FAMOUS HORSES OF AMERICA. ^^^ CONTAINING ^iftg=3l»te |}oitrmt$ of tlje Celehitie$ of tl|e ^metitan ^utf, |}a$t aittl yr^sent, WITH SHOKT BIOGRAPHIES. PHILADELPHIA : PORTER AND COATES, ' No. 822 Chestnut Street. Copyright, 1877. my Porter & Coates. ^1 Pit ESS or HENRY D. ASHMEAD, I'lllLAUKLl'IIlA. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Acrobat and Tom Ochiltree, American Eclipse. Aristides, Boston, Countess. Daniel Boone. DiAVOLO. Fiddlestick, . Harry Bassett, Idleavild, Kingfisher, Leamington, Lecompte, Lexington. Lyttleton, Nettie Norton Olitipa, . Ozark, Parole, . Planet, . Preakness. Prioress, Khadamanthus. Springbok, Starke, . Ten Broeck, Tom Ochiltree. Trouble, Vagrant. Viator, DRAWN BY Henry Stull, A. Fisher, C. Lloyd. H. De Latre. C. Lloyd, E. S. H., C. Lloyd, Henry Stull, ' From Photograph by I A. J. Russell, J. A. O , . C. Lloyd, C. Lloyd, W. Ford Atw Keller. OOD. C. Lloyd. C. Lloyd C. Lloyd, C. Lloyd, Henry Stull, E. S. H., C. Lloyd, H. De Latre, Henry Stull, C. Lloyd, Henry Hill, . Henry Stull, C. Lloyd, C. Lloyd, T. J. Scott, . Henry Stull. PACE. Frontispiece. 6 . 44 . 8 . 40 . 22 . 36 . 58 . 32 . 24 . 28 . 16 . 12 . 10 . 26 . 42 . 56 . 48 . 60 . 20 . 30 . 14 . 54 . 34 . 18 . 50 . 52 . 38 . 62 . 46 ry * ^Q w !#4 g^v \.^ en ^^' >A Ik 1^ .^sU < O l'~ ^^ 1— 1 i . '\ P^ ^^ ^ W r^ IMERICAN ECLIPSE was bred by Gen. Nathaniel Coles, of Dosoris, L. I., on May 25, 1814. His sire was Duroc, and his dam Mil- ler's Damsel, by imp. Messenger. The colt was weaned on November 10, and not broken until September, at three years old. The following March he was trained and given a trial of two miles, which afforded high satisfaction to his owner. When only a suckling of five months old. General Coles had named him " American Eclipse," on account of the high promise he gave of stride, strength and speed. While a colt he was not confined, but in the winter season he was turned out every fine day ; he was first shod in the spring, when three years old. His first race was in May, 1818, when he started for the purse for three-mile heats at Newmarket, L. I., and won it with ease, beating Black-eyed Susan and Sea Gull, then called the best three-mile horse of the day. The following spring American Eclipse was sold to Mr. Van Ranst, who, in June, 1819, started him in the four-mile heat purse at Bath, beating Little John, by Virginia Potomac ; Bond's Eclipse, by First Consul ; and James Fitz James. by Sir Archy. The following October he again ran and won the four- mile heats purse at Bath, beating Little John. Fearuaught, and Mr. Bond's colt, the two latter being with- drawn the second heat; time, 8:13 — 8:08. He then made two seasons at the stud on Long Island, in the spring of 1820 and 1821, covering, as a common stallion, at $12.50 the season. It was not contemplated to bring him on the turf again, but the Legislature of the State of New York having remodelled the law respecting racing, and a society being reorganized specially for the improvement of our breed of horses, Mr. Van Ranst was induced again to put Eclipse in training for the four-mile heat race, to be run over the New Union Course, L. I., in October of that year. For this race four horses started, viz., American Eclipse; Lady Lightfoot, by Sir Archy ; Flag of Truce, by Sir Solo- mon ; and Heart of Oak. The betting was two to one on Lady Lightfoot, but Eclipse beat her handily in two straight heats, distancing her in the second heat; Flag of Truce and Heart of Oak being drawn after the first heat ; time, 8:04 —8:02. In May, 1822, Eclipse won the purse of $700, four-mile heats, on the LTnion Course, beating Sir Walter, by Hickory ; time, 7:54 — 8:00. The following October he again won the $1000 purse over the same course, beating, a second time, Sir Walter, Duchess of Marlborough, by Sir Archy, and Slow and Easy, by Duroc ; the fii-st heat being run in 7:58, after which the mares were withdrawn, and Sir Walter being distanced in the second heat, which was not timed, A day or two previous to this race, a challenge had appeared in the New York papers from Mr. James J. Harrison, of Virginia, offering to run Sir Charles against American Eclipse over the Washington Course, four-mile heats, for $5000 or $10,000. Mr. Van Ranst promptly accepted this challenge, and chose the larger stake, so that the object of the contest might correspond with the fame of the horses. The time of running was fixed for November 20, 1822, and at the appointed hour both horses were brought out, and the riders mounted, but instead of running agreeably to the challenge, Mr. Harrison gave notice that, as his horse. Sir Charles, had met with an accident, he would pay forfeit. He at the same time proposed to run a single dash of four miles, for $1500 a side, which the owner of Eclipse at once agreed to. The horses started. Eclipse, who carried 126 lbs. against Sir Charles's 120 lbs., taking the lead. On the fourth mile Sir Charles broke down, and Eclipse won in 8:04. In the evening of the same day, William R. John- son, Esq., of Petersburgh, Va., the recognized "Napoleon of the Turf," off'ered to produce a horse, on the last Tues- day in May, 182.3, to run a race of four-mile heats against Eclipse, over the Union Course, L, I., according to the rules of that track, for $20,000 a side, $3000 forfeit. The challenge was immediately accepted by Mr. John C. Stephens, in consequence of which Colonel Johnson, on the day mentioned, brought on the course the four-year old chestnut colt Henry, by Sir Archy, dam by Diomed, bred by Mr, Lemuel Long, Halifax, N. C, who, two weeks pre- vious, had beaten Betsy Richards, in the four-mile-heats race, at Petersburgh, in 7:54—7:58, Colonel Johnson, when he made the match, intended to run the bay colt John Richards, by Sir Archy, but becoming lame, while en route for the North, Henry was substituted for him, although in a private trial John Richards had proved his superior. The race is one of the most memorable events in the annals of the American turf, and was productive of the most intense and wide excitement throughout the length and breadth of the continent. It was considered as a match between the North and South, and sectional feeling ran high respecting the issue. More than twenty thousand people'a'^sembled to witness it, and the bet- ting on the result was enormously heavy, each section back- in" its representative racing champion without stint or limit. Henry, carrying 108 lbs., was ridden by a lad; Eclipse, nine years old, 126 lbs., was mounted by William Crafts. Henry took the lead in the first heat, and was never headed, winning by half a length, apparently well in hand, in the fastest "heat ever run to that day in America in 7:37 -V. On the call for the second heat, Mr. Samuel Purdy, then regarded as the best amateur horseman in the country, mounted Eclipse. Henry, who was the fiworite at odds of three to one, again took the lead, and held it until the last quarter of the third mile, when Mr. Purdy made a push for the lead. Eclipse soon reached his rival and passed him at the commencement of the fourth mile, and beat him the heat in 7:49, by thirty feet, Henry having been pulled up after passing the distance pole, the loss of the heat being evident. Upon being summoned for the third heat, the great trainer Arthur Taylor mounted Henry, instead of the boy who rode him in the first two heats. At the signal. Eclipse took the lead, which he kept to the finish of the race beating Henry some three lengths, Henry having been reserved for the last quarter ; time, 8:24. The twelve miles were run in 23:50 J. This established Eclipse's reputation as a racehorse. On the evening of the same day the match was run, Colonel Johnson challenged J. C. Stevens and the friends of Eclipse to run Henry against Eclipse the ensuing Fall over the Washington Course, for any sum from $20,000 to $50,000 a side, $10,000 forfeit. The challenge was de- clined, and Eclipse never ran again. In his latter days he was sent to Kentucky, and made several seasons there, and died, in Shelby County, Ky., in August, 1847, in the thirty-fourth year of his age. — Spirit of the Times. OSTON, foaled 1833, was bred by Sir. John Wickhani, of Richmond, Va., and was by Timoleon out of Sister to Tuckahoe, by Ball's Florizel. He first started at Broadrock, Va., April 20, 1836, in a sweepstakes for three- year-olds, mile heats, but was beaten by his only opponent, Colonel White's colt, by Carolinian, Boston bolting when in the lead. He did not run again until the Fall, when he started for, and won, the two-mile-heat purse at Peters- burg, Va., Oct. 12, 1836, beating Nick Biddle and five others, 4:01 — 4:00, over a heavy track. The following month, he won the Jockey Club Purse, at Hanover, Va. As a four-year-old, at Washington, I). C, he won the three-mile- heat race in 6:04 — 6:10, beating Norwood and four others. At the same place, Oct. 5, 1837, he won the three-mile-heat race, in two heats, beating Prince George, Stockton and four others, in 5:55 — 5:53. A fortnight later, at Baltimore, he won the three-mile-heat purse, in 5:51 — 6:08, from three opponents, and at Camden, N. J., a week later, he won the three-mile-heat purse, in 5:51 — 6:02, beating Betsy Andrew. May 3, 1838, he walked over for the three-mile-heat purse at Tnion Course, L. I., and two weeks later beat Dcsoris for the four-uiile-heat purse of §1,000 over the Beacon Course, N. J. A week afterwards, he beat Decatur at Camden, N. J., in the four-niile-heat race, in 8:36 — 8:41, and on June 1, on the Union Course, L. I., he beat Charles Carter, who had been brought on purposely from Virginia to meet him, in the four-mile-heat race, in 7:40. Charles Carter was drawn in consequence of having injured his leg, after thefir.st heat, of which the first three miles were run in 5:362 — the best time ever made in America at that date. On June 8, over the Beacon Course, he beat Duane for the four-mile-heat purse; time, 7:52 — 7:54 — 8:30. Duane won the first heat, which was the first that Boston had ever lost ; the latter ran unkindly, sulking repeatedly in the second and third heats, in starting for which he was obliged to be whipped off. The same Fall, he beat Polly Green, at Petersburgh, in 9:25 ; Balie Peyton, at Baltimore, in 8:05 (both drawn after first heat) ; and Decatur, at the Union (!our.se, L. I., in 8:00 — 7:57i and the Beacon Course, N. J., in 8:12 — 8:26, all four-mile-heat races ; besides recovering forfeit twice. On April 16, 1839, he commenced his six-year-old career by being beaten by Portsmouth, in a match for $20,000, two- mile heats, in 3:50 — 3:48. At Richmond, Va., he beat J.ady Clifden and Brocklesby with ease, in one heat, in 5:46 ; and at Washington, D. C., he won the four-mile-heat race in 7:53 — 8:06, from Tom Walker, Black Knight and two others. After walking over for a $1000 purse, four- mile-heats, at Camden, N. J., he next proceeded to Tren- ton, N. J., and won the Jockey Club Purse of SIOOO, four- mile-heats, in 7:57 — 8:24, beating Decatur and Vashti with great ease. The week after, on the Union Course, L. I., he beat Decatur and Bailie Peyton, for the four-mile-heat purse, in 7:47 — 8:02. Boston won the four-mile-heat purse of $1000, at Petersburg, Va., Sept. 26, 1839, beating the Queen and Omega in 8:02 — 7:52. October 17, he beat Omega at Camden, N. J., for a purse of $1000, four-mile- heats, easily, in 7:49 ; Omega being drawn after the first heat. Six days after, Boston won the four-mile-heat purse at Trenton, N. J., boating Decatur in 7:57 — 7:58. On 3Iay 1, 1840, at Petersburg, Va., he encountered the gray mare Andrewetta for the four-mile-hcat purse. The mare won the first heat in 7:50, the best time ever made over that track, but in the second heat, the game old chestnut turned the tables on her, and won with ease in 8:04. Andrewutta was then withdrawn. Just a week afterwards, he defeated Reliance and Cippus for the four-mile-heat purse of $1000, at Washington, D. C, in 8:02 — 8:06, in a heavy rain. After walking over for a $1000 purse at Camden, N. J., he had a summer's rest until October 2, when he defeated Bandit, at Petersburg, Va , in a four-mile race, in 7:57, Bandit was drawn after the first heat. On October 8, at Broadrock, Va., he defeated Texas, Bailie Peyton, and Laneville, for the Jockey Purse of $500, three-mile-heats, in 5:56 — 5:49. He next boat Gano, four-mile-heats, winning the first heat in 7:57, when Gano was withdrawn. Ten days after, at Au- gusta, Ga., he beat Santa Anna and Omega, four-mile-heats, in 7:52—7:49. Boston then went to the stud and made the season of 1841 at Chesterfield, Va., where he covered forty-two mares, at $100 each. In the Fall he was again put into training, and made his reappearance on the turf at Petersburg, Va., for the Jockey Club Purse of $700, four-mile-heats, which he won in one heat from his only opponent, Texas ; in time, S:14J. A week after, at Alexandria, Va., he walked over for tiie Jockey Club Purse of $800, four-mile heats. Boston next appeared at Washington, D. C, October 15,1841, and there won the four-mile purse of $1000, beating Accident, Ned Hazard, and Green Hill ; time, 7:59—8:24. A week later, at Baltimore, he beat IMariner in three heats, for the Jockey Purse, four-mile-hcats. Mariner winning the first heat in 8:002, and Boston the second and third in 8:05 — 8:06. The week after, at Camden, N. J., he started, when dead amiss, against Fashion and John Blount for the four- mile-heat purse, but was distanced in the first heat, won by John Blount in 7:42. Fashion won the second heat and race in 7:48, John Blount breaking down and being with- drawn. In consequence of this unexpected defeat, he was matched against Fashion, four-mile-hcats, over the Union Course, L. I., for $20,000 a side, and on May 10, 1842, the great match came ofl'. The number of spectators was esti- mated from 50,000 to 70,01)0 ; the weather was fine, and the track in fine order. The betting was $100 to $60 on Bos- ton. In the first heat Boston on the inside took the lead and maintained it to the commencement of the fourth mile, when Fashion collared and passed him in half a dozen strokes, at a tremendous flight of speed, which she main- tained to the end, winning the heat by a length, in 7:32j, the fastest heat run in America up to that time. In the second heat Fashion came home an easy winner in 7:45. Only two days after this great match, Boston beat Mariner (Fashion's half brother) over the same course for the Jockey Club Purse, four-mile-heats, iu 8:13 — 7:46— 7:58J ; Blariuer winning the first heat. Boston was, of course, very .sore from the previous race, and would not extend himself. On May 26, at Camden, N. J., he won the Jockey Club Purse of $1000, four-mile-heats, in 8:00J— 8:05, beating Treasurer. In the Fall he again came out, and at Baltimore, won the four-mile-heat race, in 8:09 — 7:57, beating Wilton Brown, Reliance, and Spectre. This was his last race in 1842, and the year following he only started once, at Petersburgh, Va., fall meeting, when he won the Jockey Club Purse of $300, four-mile-heats, beating Black Dick over a very heavy track, in 6:10 — 6:21 ; a race which terminated a racing career un- exampled in brilliancy on the American turf Boston started in forty-five races, winning forty, of which thirty were at four-mile-heats (including five walks over); nine at three- mile-heats (one walk over), and one at two-mile-heats. iii iii "' ^ '1 |iij,W iiritlii|i((i "^lili \ If I ,;-e o H X V w 11 [RXINGTON was foaled in 1850, and bred by Dr. Warfield of Lexington, Ky. He was got by Boston, out of Alice Carneal, by iniportt'd Sarpedon. Her son Lexington, her fifth foal, was always of exceeding great promise — so much so, that Dr. Warfield named him Darley. after the renowned Darley Arabian. He was entered in the Phoenix Stake, mile heats, to be run in the spring of 1853, at Lexington, and in the Citizens' Stake, two-mile heats, for the same meeting. The race was run in rain and mud. There was a false start, in which Darley and Garrett Davis ran three miles before they could be pulled up. In five minutes they had to start again with a lot of fresh horses, among whom was Wild Irishman, by Glencoe, a fast miler, as was after- wards abundantly proved. Nevertheless, Darley won in three straight heats. Meantime, the powers of the colt had been recognized, and two parties were after him to run in the Great State Stake at New Orleans in the following spring, which stake was about to close. Mr. Louis Smith of Alabama wanted him for that State. Captain Viley and Mr. Ten Broeck wanted the colt to represent Ken- tucky in the State Stake, and they finally got him. Mr. Smith was vexed at not having got Lexington for Alabama, and matched Sallie Waters against him to run three-mile heats in the fall, staking 15,000 to Lexington's $3,500. The latter was sent for preparation to Natchez to Mr. J. B. Pryor, a man of great natural sagacity, of much skill as a trainer. After some time had passed at his new home, Lexington was brought out at early morning to run a trial. He did so, and pulled up in great distress, for which Mr. Pryor was unable to account. But upon ques- tioning his boys, one of them confessed that Lexington had broken into the feed-room, through the board partition, in the night preceding the trial, and eaten up a large part of a barrel of wheat. The result of the matter was, that the horse went all to pieces, and 31 r. Pryor is inclined to believe that the infirmity of his eyes and his early blindness re- sulted in part from that cause. They now proposed to draw the match with Sallie Waters, but Mr. Smith and his trainer (Tom Patterson) refused, although their mare was herself badly off. The race was run, Lexington won it, and the mare never recovered from its effects. She did not long survive. A four-mile trial before the Great State Stake in the following spring proved that Lexington was all himself, and a horse of ten millions. Four horses were run against him, mile about, Little Flea and Jim Barton being among them. None of them could keep anywhere near Lexington, and when Little Flea cut in to run the last mile the grand young horse ran clean over him, and knocked him into the ditch ! The Great State Stake was run in mud, and Lexington won in two straight heats, beating Lecompte, Highlander, and Arrow in 8:081 — 8:04; Arrow distanced in the first heat and Highlander in the second. After the State Stake, Captain Viley determined that Lex- ington should race no more that season. His shoes were pulled off and he was turned out. But Mr. Ten Broeck wanted to run him in the Jockey Club Purse, four-mile heats, and as Captain Viley would not con.scnt he bought his half of the horse. Lexington had but two gallops before he started, and was beaten by Lecompte, but even under those circumstances mnu)' attributed his defeat to the fact that his rider thought he had gone four miles when he had only run three, and partly pulled him up. After that Lexington and Arrow were brought to Sara- toga, and thence to the Fashion Course, Long Island. There had been some talk of sending them to England to run, but the match wa.s made for Lexington to run against Lecompte's time (7:20), and he returned to Mr. Pryor at Natchez to be trained for it. That famous match was decided on the Metairie Course, New Orleans, April 2, 1855. The horse was to beat Lecompte's time (7:20) for $20,000. Lexington won with great ease, running in 7:194- The track is commonly supposed to have been in extra good condition, but that is an error. There had been no rain for about three months, and it was very hard. The tanbark and sawdust laid near the polo did but little good. When Lex- ington reached Natchez to be trained for this race he was somewhat scarred. He had run away at Mr Lloyd's, and galloped through a cornfield, in which the stalks had bruised his legs. He was not hurt seriously, however, and Mr. Pryor got him into splendid .staying condition. Some said he was a little big when he arrived at New Orleans, but Mr. Pryor said in reply, " If he is it is my fault, for he has never missed a feed nor a gallop." In the match Joe Blackburn ran the first mile with him, Arrow the two middle miles, and Joe Blackburn the fourth. Lexington went clean away from them, and the time of his miles was 1:47 i — 1:52} — 1:51 J — 1:481. Only once did Arrow get up to him, which was when Lexington's feet had been made very hot by the hard ground, and he swerved out into the middle of the track, where it was softer. But a touch of Gilpat- rick's spur and a pull forced him to the pole, and finding Arrow near him, he shot off again. He had the advantage of an excellent rider, for Gilpatrick's .seat was beautiful, his hand light and artistic, and he was a good judge of pace. The best judges say that Lexington could have run in 7:12 on this memorable day, and that when he beat Lecompte twelve days afterwards fur the Jockey Club Purse in 7:23|, he could have run in 7:10, or better. The style and action of this king among horses were of the finest description. Ho went stealing along with a low, easy stride, his head levelled and generally inclined a little in towards the fence, on the other side of which the carriage horses were. His speed was so great that he could go within himself while other horses were running nearly their best rate and tiring, and for staying qualities which result from good wind, good disposition, sound legs, and easy action, he was unrivalled. His gameness was unquestionable, for when his feet were burnino- hot in the time race, and both the fore plates were badly twisted, he no sooner heard Arrow approaching than he shot away like an arrow from a Couianche bow. He was not a horse of the large bone, which some declaim about as the ifunmiiim boniini, but his joints were large and strong, and his legs clean and sinewy. He was a very bloodlike horse, much more so than his sons of some fami- lies, and his head was clean cut, as if struck out of marble- by the chisel of a great sculptor. When blind in his pad- dock his appearance was grand as that of Belisarius in his old ace. He died at Woodburn Stud Farm, in Kentucky, Julyl, 1875. Lexington hit with nearly all sorts of mares, but those who were by English horses seem to have suited him best. The cross with "the daughters of Glencoe was generally happy in its results. The same may be said of that with those of Yorkshire, and the Leviathans and Albions also suited him well. — Sportsman. H o a 13 ECOMPTE was bred by General Tbomas J. Wells, of Louisiana; foaled in 1850, by Bos- ton, out of the renowned mare, Reel, by Glen- coe. He was a chestnut horse, with white near hind leg, about 15.3 in height, and made his first appear- ance on the turf as a two-year-old (according to the then existing Southern rule of calculating ages), on the Metairie Course, New Orleans, April 5, 1853, in a sweep-stakes for that age, winning both heats, in 1:48J — 1:45 J, and beating Conrad the Corsair, Argent and Zero. The ensuing Fall, he started for and won the sweepstakes for three-year-olds, two-mile heats, Pharsalia Course, Natchez, carrying 86 lbs. ; beating his two opponents, Atala and Conrad the Corsair, in 3:45 J— 3:46 J. On Jan. G, 1854, he beat the ftimous mare Sallie Ward, by Glencoe, and another, in a race of mile heats, over the same course, in 1:47 — 1:47; and just one week afterwards beat Mary Taylor, Joe Blackburn and Medina, two-mile heats, in 3:455 — 3:52}. Seven daj-s afterwards, he won the two-mile heat purse, same course, in 3:44^ — 3:55, beating the Cora Colt, by Gallatin. On April 1, 1854, on the Metairie Course, New Orleans, ho started for the Great Post Stakes, of $5000, each, four- mile heats, against Lexington, Highlander and Arrow, over a heavy track. Highlander was the favorite, but Lexington won the first heat by three lengths in 8:08 1 ; Lecompte second and Arrow distanced. Lexington won the second heat by four lengths in 8:04 ; Lecompte again second and Highlander distanced. The friends of Lecompte attributed his defeat to the heavy state of the track, which was not adapted to his long, sweeping stride, and confidently predicted that he would retrieve his laurels the next time he encountered Lexington. That occasion .soon arrived, for a week afterwards, on the same course, Lecompte, Lexing- ton and Reube came together for the Jockey Club Purse of $2000, four mile heats. The track was in capital order for running, and the day pleasant. Lexington was the fiivorite at $100 to 880 against the field, and $100 to $60 against Le- compte. In the first heat Lecompte made the running at a terrific pace for three miles, when Lexington made a brush to take the load, and on the backstretch partially closed the gap his fleet opponent had placed between them ; but all his efforts were fruitless, for Lecompte baffled every challenge, and, shaking him off, crossed the score the winner of the heat by six lengths, in the quickest time ever made in the world up to that time — 7:26 ! The announcement of the time produced intense excitement and the most clamorous demonstrations of delight. Lexington was much distressed after the heat, but recovered well before the second heat. Lexington made the running for nearly two miles, when Lecompte overhauled and passed him as they entered the third mile, which throughout was one long-continued struggle for the lead, and was run in 1:46, the quickest of the race. On the first turn of the last mile, Lexington, who at that point was nearly up with his rival, for a moment gave back and lost his stride, owing, it was alleged, to his rider nearly pulling him up, under the impression that the race was finished ; but, quickly recovering, he continued the hot pursuit, although in vain, for Lecompte won the heat and race by four lengths, in the astonishing time of 7:38J, distancing Reube. The result astonished the party connected with Lexington, and his defeat was attributed to the mistake made by his rider in pulling up at the end of the three miles. The same Fall, at Natchez, November 17, 1850, Lecompte won the Association Purse, two-mile heats, in 3:47 — 3:46J, beating Joe Blackburn. Three days after, he walked over for the Association Purse, four-mile heats. At New Orleans, December 5, he won the Jockey Club Purse, two-mile heats, in 3:56 — 3:52}, beating Galla- tina and Joe Blackburn. In the following spring, April 2, 1855, Lexington's great match against time was run on the Metairie Course, when he made his imperishable record of 7:194. Three weeks afterwards, Lexington and Lecompte again encountered each other, over the Metairie Course, for the Club Purse, when Lexington obtained a decisive vic- tory, winning, with ease, the first heat, in 7:23 1, after which Lecompte was drawn. At Natchez, Nov. 17, 1855, Lecompte won the four-mile heat Purse, beating Arrow, in 7:55} — 7:56}; but the latter very unexpectedly turned the tables on him, at New Orleans, on Dec. 5th, the same Fall, in the three-mile heat race, Lecompte winning the first heat by three lengths, in 6:00, and Arrow the second and third easily, in 5:59 — 6:03. Three days afterwards, on the same classic course, he walked over for the four-mile heats, Jockey Club Purse. The ensuing Spring, March 15, 1856, at Natchez, Miss., he was beaten by Pryor, for the four-mile heats Purse, in two heats, run in 7:57 — 7:44i. At New Orleans, on the Metairie Course, April 18, 1856, Pryor again beat him in the three-mile heats race. Minnow also running. Lecompte won the first heat, but Pryor outlasted him, and won the second and third; time, 5:58f — 5:59} — 6:12. Mr. Ten Broeck then purchased Lecompte to take to England, in company with Prioress, Pryor and Babylon, in the Fall of 1856, in his memorable enterprise to test the speed and bottom of the American against the English thoroughbred horses on the turf of the latter country. Lecompte only started once on the English turf, in the Warwick Cup, three miles, Sept. 3. 1857, when, he ran third to the winner. Fisherman, and Oak Ball, second. The following month, he, along with his stable companion, Pryor, fell victims to disease, which had never been absent from the stable of Mr. Ten Broeck since their arrival in England. — Sj)irit of the Times. m s ^ CO o i P-l o ^ 15 RIORESS was foaled 1854, and was got by imp. Sovereign out of Reel, by Glencoe. She was a bay mare, about sixteen bauds biJ E » Ed M O H Ed O as Ph u 27 YTTLETON is a bay horse, by imported Leamington out of Fannie Holton, by liCxing- ton. He was foaled in 1867, and was bred by John Harper. He made his first appearance on'the turf at Lexington, Ky , Sept. 10, 1869, in the Sweep- stakes for two-year-olds, a dash of one mile, and was third : Lynchburg, also by Leamington, winning, with Annette by Lexington second, an Australian colt fourth, and Fireball by Lightning fifth. His second effort was still more unsuc- cessful, for at the Buckeye Course, Cincinnati, September 23, he was sixth in a field of seven. At Louisville, October 5, he was third for the Willard Hotel Stakes, a dash of one mile : Lynchburg winning, with Maggie B. B. second. As a three-year-old he was more successful. His first race in that year (1870) was the Citizens' Stake, at Lexington, Ky., May 20, two-mile heats, won by Enquirer in two straight heats. Four days afterwards he won his first victory — the Louisville Hotel Stakes, mile heats, beating Defender, and the colt by Donerail out of Anna Farris, in two straight heats, in 1:47J — 1:46}. He then lay by until September 27, when he ran in the Buckeye Stake, at Cincinnati, mile heats, for which five horses ran : Lyttleton took the first heat in 1:44}, but Regent won the second and third in 1:44} — 1:47}. At the Fall Meeting of the Nashville Blood Horse Association, October 13, Lyttleton won the Mike Burns Stake for three-year-olds, mile heats. He had for competitors. Regent by Bonnie Scot- land, who beat him at Cincinnati, Banquet by Brown Dick, and Coup de Claire by Lightning, all good horses. Lyttleton won the first heat in 1:46}, Regent the next in 1:47}, and Lyttleton the third and the race in 1:46}. At Memphis, October 26, he won the Jockey Club Purse, a dash of two miles, beating AUie Hunt, Village Black- smith, Bonita, Zuzu, and St. Leger, in 3:42}. As a four- year-old he appeared three times. At Lexington, Ky., May 23, he won the Association Purse, a two-mile dash, beating AUie Hunt in 3:34}. His next engagement was at Long Branch, July 7, in the Americus Club Purse, mile heats, best three in five, for which Chillicothe, Susan Ann, and Hamburg, all by Lexington, and Lyttleton, were entered. Lyttleton won the first heat, in 1:47}, with Ham- burg second, Susan Ann third, and Chillicothe last. The second heat reversed these positions, for Susan Ann won in 1:49, with Chillicothe second, and Hamburg last. In the third, Chillicothe was first, in 1:48}, Hamburg second, and Lyttleton last. Hamburg, not having won a heat, was sent to the stable, and the others prepared for the fourth heat, which Chillicothe won in exactly the same time as the last, and Susan Ann was second. In the last heat Chilli- cothe won in 1:50, Lyttleton was second, and Susan Ann third. At Saratoga, August 16, Lyttleton was last in the Purse for all Ages, three quarters of a mile. Ortolan winning, with Frogtown second. His opening race in 1872 was at Lexington, May 15, where he defeated Hilderic easily for the Club Purse, two-mile heats, in 3:37 — 3:49}. He next encountered the redoubtable Harry Bassett in the Westchester Cup, June 8, a dash of two miles and a quar- ter, and was roundly beaten for his audacity. Nothing daunted, three days later he encountered Tubman, Metella, and Ortolan, in the race for a Purse of $700, mile heats. The first heat Tubman won by a length, in 1:46}, with Lyttleton second. The second heat Lyttleton beat Tubman by a head, in 1:45}. Ortolan and Metella were now ruled out, and only Tubman and Lyttleton contended for the third heat. In this, Lyttleton's jockey broke his stirrup and was unable to steady his horse, and Tubman won by a length in 1:47}. July 2, 1872, is a memorable day in the history of racing at Long Branch, and few larger crowds ever appeared on an American race-course than that which greeted Longfellow and Harry Bassett as they saddled for the Monmouth Cup. But just before that event came off, Lyttleton, Lochiel, Abd-el-Kooree, Shylock, John Merry- man, Piedmont, and Belle Aiken appeared in the Purse for all Ages, mile heats. Abd-el-Kooree and Lyttleton, stable companions of Harry Bassett and Longfellow, respectively were equal favorites in the betting, and this race was gener- ally regarded as a forecast of the great race of the day. Lochiel won the first heat by a head from Abd-el-Kooree, in 1:45, with Lyttleton a good third. Lyttleton beat Lochiel by a neck, in 1:45, for the second heat, and Abd- el-Kooree was a bad third. He also won the third and the race, in 1:49, and the Kentucky division were exultant. Three days afterwards he beat Susan Ann, in a dash of three miles, very easily, by two lengths. The track was heavy, and the time only 6:06. He then went to Saratoga, so fatal to poor old John Harper's hopes, and on July 13, was beaten easily by Harry Bassett, in a sweepstakes for all ages, one mile and a quarter, and six days afterwards Ba.s- sett beat him again, in a three-mile dash. His last race that year was at Long Branch, August 9, where Susan Ann beat him by two lengths, in a dash of four miles, in 7:40} : Milesian was third, two lengths behind Lyttleton ; King- fisher, who started first favorite, broke down in the third mile. Lyttleton was bought by Mr. A. "Welch, and is now in the stud at that famous stud farm, where his sire, Leamington, is the lord of the harem. If there is any virtue in crossing the thoroughbred sire upon the trotting dam, Lyttleton, with his well-known stoutness and gameness, ought to have many representatives on the trotting as well as the running turf. w I— I o I— I H Z o M B O & z o M &i o H W a. o M » a H 29 INGFISHER is by Lexington, out of the im- ported mare, Eltliam Lass, by Kingston. He was bred by Mr. Alexander, and purchased when a yearling by Mr. Daniel Swigert, who has selected many good horses at that stage of their develop- ment. The dam of Eltham Lass was by Pyrrhus, the First, who got the famous mare Virago ; then in the pedigree of the former are found Palmyra, by tSultan (he got Glencoe, Bay Middleton, and a host of other fast and stout race- horses) ; Hester, by Camel (son of Whalebone and sire of Touchstone); Monimia, by Muley, etc., and so on for fifteen crosses, ending in the old Montague mare, who will be for- ever famous as the grandam of Mother Western, who was the grandam of English Eclipse. Kingfisher did not figure much at two years old. He ran in a mile race at Woodlawn, but was not placed ; Lynch- burg won it. At three years old he was a splendid colt, fifteen hands three inches high, with very great power and much quality. His head, neck and throttle were superb. His shoulders were very muscular, his back was good, and his haunches and quarters very large and fine. His action was very clean and determined, but, like Vauxhall, the brother of one of his fomous opponents, he hit the ground pretty hard when he was in rapid stride. The first race he ran in 1870 was the Belmont Stakes, at Jerome Park. There were seven starters. Kingfisher had been brought on from Kentucky just before the race, and had caught such a cold that Mr. Swigert and his trainer, Raleigh, were not over-confident. When the former bought Kingfisher, he also bought the chestnut colt by Lexington, out of Verona, by Yorkshire, grandam the celebrated imported mare Britannia, who was sister to Muley Moloch. This colt had been sold while a yearling to Captain Moore, and had been named Foster. He, too, had been brought on to run in the Belmont Stakes, and after being four days in the cars, had come out with a cough and running at the nostrils. He had sufi"ered very severely from distemper in the preceding spring. The other runners were Midday. Nellie James, Stamps, the Canary Bird colt and the Emma Johnson colt. They both started, and neither of them was up to fair condition. Kingfisher darted off like his brilliant namesake of the brook, when he shoots all purple and gold between the alder bushes. He was never headed, and won by three-quarters of a length, Foster second. Kingfisher was well ridden by Black Dick, while Foster had to pull round his horses about four times in the race. Kingfisher next won the Travers Stakes, at Saratoga, a mile and three-quarters. Telegram was second and Foster third. Chillicothe, Governor Bowie, Scathelock and Sarong were not placed. Foster got oflF far behind in this race. At Long Branch, Kingfisher was second to Enquirer in the Robins Stake, two-mile heats. Kingfisher won the first heat. The track was heavy. At Jerome Park, in the Fall, Kingfisher won the Champion Stakes, mile heats, beating Haric, Midday, Chillicothe, the Canary Bird colt and Item. Time, 1:49 — 1:49. He then walked over for the Annual Stakes, two miles. At Baltimore, he won a sweepstakes for three-year-olds, two miles, beating Midday, and that finished his running in 1870. In 1871, before he was brought out in public, he ran a two-mile trial at the Nursery Training Course with Glenelg. The latter was a capital race-horse, and he was in form that spring, as his race with Preakness and Helmbold, in the Westchester Cup, showed. Never- theless, Kingfisher won the trial with ease. Nobody, how- ever, knew what the weights were but Mr. Belmont and Pincus, and they would not tell. Moreover, Mr. Belmont's faith in Glenelg could not have been much shaken by the trial, as he laid a thousand even on him against Helmbold, in the Westchester Cup, and won it. His horse would have won the race, too, in our opinion, if he had been ridden as well as Hayward rode Preakness. Concluding from this running that Kingfisher was a very great horse that year, a belief in which they were not at all mistaken, they saved him for the Saratoga Cup, in which Longfellow was entered. That famous horse had made a singular exhibition of Preak- ness, Helmbold, etc., in the Monmouth Cup, at Long Branch, by runnins; clean away from them. The only starters at Saratoga were Longfellow and Kingfisher, and it was a battle of the giants. It was said of the British forces in the Crimea that they were an army of lions led by asses. The horses in this race were like that army, for they were ridden in the most foolish manner. Longfellow cut loose at a tremendous rate, and Kingfisher kept nearly with him. The former ran the first mile in 1:39 J, and Kingfisher in 1:40. This was the timing of Captain Cottrill, who stood where they started and waited till they came back to him. The second mile was, of course, much slower, but the two miles were run in 3:33. Both were then tired, and no wonder, after the cut-throat pace of the first mile. Longfellow won by four lengths. At the same meeting Kingfisher walked over, three miles. At the second Saratoga meeting he was entered in the four-mile race with Helmbold and Long- fellow. There was very heavy betting between the latter and Kingfisher, but Kingfisher strained his leg in running a trial at night and did not start. In the following year, at Saratoga, Kingfisher beat Fadladeen and Ramadan, a mile, in 1:431. He wa.s not placed in three-quarters of a mile, run in 1:16 by Alarm ; and was beaten a mile by the same horse, in 1:42 J. Alarm was a tremendous colt. King- fisher's last race was run at Long Branch, where he broke down in a four-mile race with Susan Anne and Lyttleton. — Sportsman. P4 Jl .il Q Hi o z W is" o Eh R » Eh O |H EH 03 o Ah » H H 31 REAKNESS was bred by the late Mr. R. A. Alexander, of Woodburii Stud Farm, Ky., and was foaled in 1867, being by Lexington out of Bay Leaf, by imported Yorkshire, the dam of Bay Flower, Beacon, Bayswater, Baywood, Bayonet, Bingaman, Niagara, M. A. B., Bay Final, and othere. He was purchased when a yearling, at Mr. Alexander's annual sale, for $-1,100, by M. H. Sauford, Esq., and did not ap- pear on the turf until he was three years old ; his first race being for the memorable Dinner Party Stakes, for three- year-olds, at the inaugural meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club at Pimlico Course, Baltimore, October 25, 1870. This was the richest stake, with the exception of the Bailie Peyton Stake, ever run for in America, the entrance being $1,000, h. f, two miles, thirty subscribers, and seven starters, making its monetary value $18,500. For this event Preak- ness was trained by William Hayward, under Mr. Sanford's personal superintendence, and was also ridden to victory by that able jockey. His preparation had been interfered with by his going lame at Saratoga, and when he started at Baltimore, his astute owner did not fancy him strongly, as he thought he was not up to the mark in point of condition, owing to lack of work. He won the race very cleverly by a length in 3:47i, beating Ecliptic, Foster, Susan Ann, Finesse, Lida Grissom, and My Maryland, and since that time his turf career has been one of unexampled brilliancy. At four years old, in 1871, he won the Westchester Cup, at Jerome Park, two miles and a quarter, in 4:15 i, beating Glenelg and Helmbold in commanding style ; the Maturity Stakes, for four-year-olds, thi-ee miles, in 5:53, at the Jerome Park Fall Meeting, beating Susan Ann, Judge Durell, Haric, Chillicothe, Fireball, and Pilgrim ; and the Pimlico Stakes at Baltimore, two-mile heats; the last-named race being a walk over ; suflFering defeat from Longfellow, in the Mon- mouth Cup ; from Ecliptic, in the Mansion House Stakes, at Long Branch ; and from Harry Bassett, in the Two-niile- and-a-half Purse, at Baltimore, and from Alroy, in the Mile- and-a-half Purse, at the same meeting. At five years old, in 1872, he ran nine times, winning twice, having apparently lost his once great form ; his two victories being in a mile dash at the Monmouth Park August Meeting, in which he beat Fadladeen, Henrietta, Platina, Venetian, and Bazaine, in 1:45 ; and a purse for four-year-olds, two miles, at Balti- more Fall Meeting, where he beat Frank Hampton, John Merryman, Fanchon, Cadence, Lord Baltimore, and Grace Rogers, in 3:39J. During this season, he was defeated by Midday (to whom he ran second), in the Long Branch Stakes, two miles in 3:45J^; hj Susan Ann, at the same meeting (again running second), for the Hoey Stakes, three miles, won in 5:33f ; by Fanchon, in the Manhattan Han- dicap, at Jerome Park Fall Meeting, one mile and a quarter, in 2:13, by Tubman, twice, in the mile-heat race, and in the Grand National Handicap, two miles and a quarter, at the same meeting; and by Tubman, again, in the Bowie Stakes, four-mile heats, at the Baltimore Fall Meeting. But a long rest did wonders for him, and the following season (1873) he won the Long Branch Stakes, at Monmouth Park, one mile and a quarter, in 3:15i, beating Arizona and Wheatley ; the Manhattan Handicap, one mile and a quarter, in 2:13, beating Mildew, Eolus, Joe Johnson, Harry Bassett, Stonehenge, Stockwood, Survivor, and Min- nie Mac; the Jockey Club Handicap, two miles, in 3:38 J, beating Eolus, Hubbard, Stockwood, and two others; and Grand National Handicap, at Jerome Park Fall Meeting, two miles and a quarter, beating Harry Bassett, Fellowcraft, and Galway, in 4:08i ; being beaten by Lizzie Lucas in the Handicap Stakes, at Baltimore ; by Wanderer, in the Mon- mouth Cup, running second; by his stable companion, Mate, in the Fordham Handicap, at Jerome Park, which he could have won easily if wanted ; and by True Blue in the two- and-three-quarter mile race, at the same place. In 1874, being seven years old, he ran and won four out of seven races, being credited with the Jockey Club Stakes, the Mile-and-a-q&arter Purse, and the mile-heat race at Jerome Park Spring and Fall Meetings, and the Selling Race at Baltimore. He was beaten the same season by Springbok, in the Cup and Three-mile Purse, at Saratoga; and by Fadla- deen, in a mile dash, at the Jerome Park Fall Meeting. In 1875, he came out and won the Baltimore Cup, and at Jerome Park Spring Meeting succumbed twice to Wildidle, in the Fordham and Jockey Club Handicaps, giving the winner 27 lbs. in the first race and 19 lbs. in the second race. At Saratoga he and Springbok ran their memorable dead heat for the Saratoga Cup in 3:56J, the fastest time on record for that event. In 1876, he was exported to Eng- land, and at the New Market Craven Meeting he was unplaced in a free handicap, over the Rowley mile ; at the Epsom Summer Meeting was second to Cato, a five-year-old, with 84 lbs., Preakness carrying 94 lbs., in the High Level Handicap, one mile and a half, carrying 119 lbs., Preakness was third to New Holland, 4 yrs., 122 lbs., in the Goodwood Cup, two miles and a half; and at Brighton he walked over for the Brighton Cup, two miles. He was purchased by the Duke of Hamilton and put to the stud. And at the recent Horse Show at London received the first prize, as the best thoroughbred stallion, over all comers. He is a dark bay in color, stands fully sixteen hands in height, with capital back and loins, strong, powerful quarters, clean head, well set on a thick, muscular neck, and legs like iron and clean as a foal's. Ml pq P^ P^ 47 lATOR is a chestnut colt, by Vauxhall out of Heatherbell, by imported Balmonie, of one of the best bred mares in America. He was foaled in 1873, and is owned by Mr. E. A. Clabaugh, of Baltimore. Viator commenced his career at Baltimore, May 28, 1875, by running second to the famous Tom Ochiltree for the Preakness Stakes, Bay Final, who was taken to England by Mr. Sanford, was third, and Vagabond, Risk, Ad, Consignee, Australind, and Elmwood were unplaced. In the Jersey Derby, at Long Branch, July 3, he was third ; Calvin winning, with Chesapeake second; but his conqueror in the Preak- ness Stakes, Tom Ochiltree, found himself among the up- placed in such good company as Bob Wooley, General Harney, James A., and Bayminster. At Saratoga, July 24, in the rich Travers Stakes, one mile apd three-quarters, he was unplaced; D'Artignan, to the surprise of all, wIut uing in 3:06i, the quickest time on record for that event. At the same meeting, August 4, he improved his usual position of second, scored his maiden victory by beating the favorite General Harney, Vagabond, and Paul Pry, for the Sequel Stakes for three-year-olds, two miles, in 3:43 J ; and at the same place, August 19, he defeated Warwipk and Vinaigrette, in a Sweepstake for three-year-olds, one mile and a half. Time, 2:48i At the Fall Meeting of the American Jockey Club, October 2, in the Jerome Stakes for three-year olds, two miles, he was unplaced; Mr, McGrath's horses, Aristides and Calvin, being first and second respectr ively, with Joe Cerns third. His next appearance was at Baltimore, October 19, in the Dixie Stakes, for three-year- olds, two miles, where he was second to Tom Ochiltree ; Joe Cerns being third, and Aristides, Rhadamanthus, Osjark, Bay Final, General Harney, Chesnpeake, and D'Artignan being unplaced. The Breckenridge Stakes, at the same meetipg, run three days afterwards, upset the calculations based upon the result in the Dixie Stakes, and showed that racing is '• very onsartin." Aristides this time put his nose first past the winning-post. Viator was in his old place of second, but Tom Ochiltree could only run into the third position, and Joe Cerns and Bay Final were unplaced. He commenced his four-year-old season at Baltimore, May 24, 1876, by running third to Tom Ochiltree and Stampede, in the Baltimore Cup, for which seven ran; then, two days after, he defeated Joe Cerns, The Hoaxer, Tom O'Neil, and Hart- land, for a Purse of 81000, two-mile heats, winning in two heats, in 3:41 — 3:43. He then went to Jerome Park, and defeated St. Martin, Joe Cerns, and Lelaps, for the West- chester Cup, two miles and a quarter, in 4:10J. The value of the stakes was 82300. At the game meeting, June 10, he was unplaced in the Jockey Club Handicap ; Tom Ochil- tree, who seemed invincible this year, winning. At the Centennial Meeting, at Philadelphia, June 26, he won the Philadelphia Club Cup, two and a half miles, in 4:37}; Chesapeake was second, Shirley third, and Madge nut placed. The value of the stakes was $2150. At Saratoga, August 12, though limping on the morning of the race, he won a Purse of 8700, defeating Preston and Brother to Bassett, two miles Time, 3:37. His other two efforts at the meeting were pnsuccessful. On August 19, he was beaten by St. Martin for a Purse of 81400, four miles; and two days later, wound up the season by being unplaced to Burgoo, in a Purse of 1500, one mile and a half His game leg, which had troubled more or less through the whole season, gave way, and ho was then thrown out of training. He was considered one of the pluckiest horses on the turf, and possessed great endurance, apd would doubt- less have givep a good account of himself, if he had not gone lame. 49 ZARK, a brown colt, by Pat Malloy, was bred by the popular Missouri turfman, Mr. J.J. 0. Fallon, who owns both his sire and dam. He was foaled in 1872. The breeding of Ozark is excellent. His sire was got by Lexington out of Gloriana, by American Eclipse, grandam the famous mare Trifle, by Sir Charles. His dam was the imported mare Sunny South, by Irish Birdcatcher out of Equal, by The Cure — Equation by p]milius — Maria by Whisker, &c. She was bred by Mr. John Osborne, and was brought over in 1860. As a two- year-old he ran twice. At St. Joseph, Mo., September 7, 1874, he was second to Jennie Rowett, by Uncle Abe, in a mile dash, three others being behind him. At St. Louis, October 5, half-mile heats, he was again second to Jennie Rowett, three others being again behind them. His first race as a three-year-old was the Withers Stakes, at Jerome Park, June 5, in which he was third ; Aristides winning, with Rhadamanthus second and ten others unplaced. In the Belmont Stakes, one week later, he was unplaced ; Mr. McGrath's horses, Calvin and Aristides, being respectively first and second. In these races he was quite green and raw, and was besides not ridden in the most judicious man- ner. But even under those circumstances he ran so well that he made a very favorable impression upon good judges. Still few were bold enough to predict his victory in his next engagement — the Ocean Hotel Stakes, at Long Branch, July 13, a dash of one mile and three-quarters. This he won cleverly, beating Aristides, Leader, and Tom Ochiltree, in 3:10| ; and four days later he won the Robbins Stakes, two miles, in 3:52}, defeating Chesapeake and Leader. For the rich Travers Stakes, at Saratoga, July 24, one mile and three-quarters, he was a leading favorite, and endea- vored to cut down his opponents by forcing the pace from the fall of the flag, but sufiering somewhat from a cold, he was unable to maintain the pace, was "pumped out" after going a mile and a quarter, and was unplaced ; D' Ar- tagnan winning in the fast time of 3:06i, with Milner a length behind him. On the 12th of August, he started for the Kenner Stakes, two miles. Of the fifty-sis nomi- nations only six appeared at the starting-post. These were Milner, second in the Travers Stakes, Warwick, Chesa- peake, St. Martin, Willie Burke, and Ozark. St. Martin was the favorite, Milner being second in estimation, and Ozark almost entirely ignored by the cognoscenti. St. Martin was struck into and cut down while running very strong and looking dangerous, and the issue was left to Ozark and Milner, who finished so close together that the judges were unable to separate them, and declared it a dead heat. The Stakes, amounting to $4000, were divided. Warwick was third, three lengths behind the dead-heaters. In the Jerome Stakes, at Jerome Park, October 2, he was unplaced, Aristides winning, with Calvin second ; and in the Dixie Stakes, at Baltimore, October 19, he was again unplaced, Tom Ochiltree winning, with Viator second. On October 22, 1875, he ran second to Madge for a handicap purse of $400, for all ages, at Baltimore. At Washington, on the 27th of the same month, he won a purse of 1325, for all ages, beating Nettie Norton, Galway, and Kenneth. On October 29, he won a purse of $1000, for all ages, at Washington, beating Nettie Norton, Busy Bee, Galway, Fairy Queen, Caroline, and Gayo. On January 20, of this year, he was beaten at Charleston in the Hampton Stake, for four-year-olds, by Damon. At Savannah, on February 1, he won the Savannah Cup, for all ages, two miles, beat- ing General Harney, Survivor, and Damon. The time was 3:45 J. On the following day he won the Bonaventure Stake, for four-year-olds, mile heats, beating General Har- ney, Startle, Jack Trigg, and Springlet, in l:48f — 1:48}; and on the 3d of the same month, at the same meeting, he won a purse of $300, two-mile heats, in two straights, beat- ing Prussian, Tom O'Neil, Oxmore, and Busy Bee. He has since broken down. His present owner is Ira Platner. o o CO Bi <: W & o >< E-i P$ PM O Ph H 51 I EN BROECK is a bay colt, foaled Sprin- 1872, bred by the late John Harper, owned by F. B. Harper, of Woodford County, Ky., by imp. Phaeton (son of King Tom and Merry Sunshine, by Storm), dam Fanny Holton, by Lexington ; 2d dam Nantura, by Counterplot (Brawuer's Eclipse); 3d dam Quiz, by Old Bertrand ; 4th dam Lady Fortune, by Brimmer or Blue Beard ; 5th dam Woodpecker's dam. by imp. Buzzard; Gth dam The Fawn, by Craig's Alfred ; 7th dam Shepherdess, by Wormsley's King Herod ; Sth dam by iMoreton's imp. Traveler; 9th dam by imp. Whittington; 10th dam by imp Chalders ; 11th dam by imp. Babraham ; 12th dam by Old Starling ; 13th dam by Bethell's Arabian ; 14th dam by Graham's Champion; 15th dam by Barley's Arabian; 16th dam by Old Merlin. Ten Broeck made his first appearance at Lexington, Ky., September 15, 1874. In the Colt Stake for two-year-olds, J of a mile, he was placed third to Bill Bruce, Bub Wool- ley being second, in 1:17. His second appearance was for the Phoenix Hotel Stakes at Lexington, Ky., May 10, 1875, for three-year-olds, §50 each, play or pay, with §200 added, 15 subscribers, one and an eighth miles; this he won in 2:11 J, beating Bill Bruce, Goldmine, Jlillionaire, Elemi and Aristides. His next was same place. May 14, Citizens' Stiike, for three-year-olds, S50 each, play or pay, $250 added, 10 subscribers, two miles; he was unplaced, Chesa- peake winning. Big Sandy second, Gyptis third, in 3:37J. His nest was at Lexington, Ky., September G. Sweepstakes for three-year-olds, $25 each, play or pay, with $400 added, $100 to the second; in this he was nut placed, Bob Wool- ley winning in 1:54, King Alfonso second, Katie Pearce third. On September 9, at the same place, Sweepstakes fur three-year-olds, $25 each, play or pay, with $500 added, $100 to the second, 9 subscribers, one mile and five fur- longs ; this he won handily in 2:49}, beating Bob Woolley, Elemi, King Alfonso and Emma C. ; this was the fastest race run at the distance to that date. His next appearance was in the Kentucky St. Leger, at Louisville. September 20 ; in this he was defeated by King Alfonso in 3:34i, Ten Broeck second, Verdigris third, with a good lot behind them. His next appearance was in the Post Stake, for All Ages, at Louisville. September 23, $150 each, pay or play, with $800 added ; §200 to the second ; 9 subscribers ; three miles. This he won handily in 5:31, beating Stampede, Vandalite, P]nlister and Arizona. His next appearance was at Nashville, October 5, in the Merchants' Post Stake, of $50 each, pay or play, with §1.000 added; $100 to the second; 7 subscribers; two-mile heats. This he won, de- feating Bob Woolley in 3:361—3:40}. He next won the Maxwell House Stakes, for three-year- olds ; $25 each, pay or play, with $500 added ; §100 to the second; 16 subscribers ; njile heats; in 1:44 — 1:45, beat- ing Damon and Bub Woolley. His first appearance as a four-yearold was at Lexington, May 10, Sweepstakes for four-year-olds ; §50 each, pay or play; §600 added ; second to save his stake; two and one-eighth miles. There were seven entries, but only these two faced the starter. The Woodford County delegation backed Ten Broeck almost to a man, and JIcGrath, in a rosy mood, recklessly accepted all bets offered. Swim, on ArLstides, was content to trail Ten Broeck until the last half mile was reached, when he braced himself in the saddle for the deadly conflict. Gra- dually the son of Leamington closed the gap, and the two horses rounded into the home-stretch side by side. In the run from that point tu the wire, Aristides developed the highest rate of speed, and he beat the .son of Phaeton thirty yards. The time was 3:45!. The last two miles were run in 3:31. It was a great race, and the victor was cheered tu the echo. Each hm-se carried 104 lbs. McGrath won thousands of dollars, and the speculative crowd from AVuodford went home " dead broke." Ten Broeck was high in flesh on the day of the contest, but as the race was the fastest on record at the distance, it is hardly proper to make excuses for Mr. Harper's horse. Ten Broeck 's second appearance was for the Club Purse ; §500 to first and §200 to second, at Louisville, May 16, two-mile heats, which he won easily, beating Brakesman and Captain Hutchison, in 3:381 — 3:38. May 18, at same place, won Louisville Cup, for All Ages, $50 each, pay or play, with $1000 added, 10 subscribers, two and one-quarter miles, beating Monmouth, in 4:03|. Same place, May 20, won the Gait House Plate, for four-year olds, $50 each, pay or play, with $1000 added by the Gait House, $200 to the second, 10 subscribers, two and one-half miles, beating Steinbok and Damon, in 4:35|. The Fall fleeting at Lexington, Ky.. September 14, Ten Broeck won a dash of one and five-eighths miles, in 2:51 f, beating Phyllis; first horse $300, second $50. Same place, September 16. won Juckey Club Purse, $600; $450 to first, $100 to second, and $50 to third, two and five-eighths miles, in 4:581, beating Redding. Louisville, Ky.," Sep- tember 23, Post Stake, for all ages, $50 each, pay or play, with $700 added, second to receive $200, and third $50, 5 subscribers, three miles; Ten Broeck won in 5:26}, the fastest time ever made at the distance, beating Add. Same place, September 27, purse §1000, Ten Broeck to beat Fel- lowcraft's time — 7:19| — Ten Broeck won in 7:15J. This achievement made Ten Broeck the lung-distance champion of America. At the Lexington Spring Meeting, May 16, Ten Broeck walked over for a purse of $350, for all ages, one mile and a half and two days afterwards defeated Katrine and Chestnut Oaks fur a purse of §600, two miles and an eighth, in 3:53}. He then went to Louisville, and on the 24th of Jlay he ran the first race against time at one mile, and, as usual, he lowered the standard, even against " catch-weights," to 1:39J, and now has the best mile in the world. On the 29th uf May, the last day of the meeting, Ten Brueck ran two miles in 3:271, thus cut- ting down all past recurds, even the unofficial but neverthe- less real one of Tom Bowling of 3:27 J. Ten Broeck's record now stands, one mile, 1:39| ; one mile and five fur- longs, 2:49}; two miles, 3:271; two miles and five fur- longs, 4:58J; three miles, 5:261; and four miles, 7:15|. After these brilliant performances he was thruwn out of training, and stands for mares at the hospitable home of his owner, near Midway, Kentucky. — Turf, Field and Fur III. H w o o o CIS c » H >-) O o o 03 PL, a a 53 OM OCHILTREE was bred at Woodburn Stud Farm, Ky. ; was foaled May 29, 1872, by Lexington, dam Katona (the dam of Metairie, Kadi, &c.), by Voucher ; 2d dam Countess, by imp. Margrave ; 3d dam by American Eclipse ; 4th dam by Thornton's Kattler; 5th dam by Thornton's Diomed ; 6th dam by Tiger ; 7th dam by imp. Shark ; Sth dam by imp. Fearnought. He was selected and purchased by S. D. Bruce, of this paper, for J. F. Chamberlain, the price paid being $500. The colt, being a large, growthy one, was not run in his two-year-old form, but came out on May 26, 1874, at Baltimore, and won the purse of $300, for maidens of all ages, three-quarters of a mile, in which he defeated a field of nine in 1:24|, the track being very heavy. Two days after he won the Preakness Stakes, for three-year-olds, one and a half miles, $50 each, pay or play, with $1000 added, of which $200 to second horse, closed with twenty- three entries, beating such horses as Viator, Bay Final, Add, &c., in 2;43J. His next appearance was in the Bel- mont Stakes at Jerome Park, in which he finished seventh, the race having been won by Calvin, Aristides finishing second, with Milner third, in 2:422. He was again beaten for the Jersey Derby, one and a half mile-:, finishing fifth, Calvin winning, with Chesapeake second and Viator third, in 2:432. He was again defeated, and was unplaced in the Ocean Hotel Stakes won by Ozark, Aristides second, Leader third, in 3:10f . Same year, at the Jerome Fall Meeting of the American Jockey Club, he ran fourth in the Jerome Stakes won by Aristides, Calvin second, Joe Corns third, two miles in 3:43. Same meeting he won the Annual Stakes, two and one-eighth miles, defeating with ease Chesa- peake and Ascension in 4:09J. He next met all his old competitors in the Dixie, at Baltimore, and defeated them with ease, two miles, in 3:42i, Viator second, Joe Cerns third. Two days after, Aristides turned the tables on him, and won the Breckenbridge Stakes, two miles, in 3:36 1, Viator second, Ochiltree third, with a penalty of 5 lbs. up. This closed his three-year-old career. He was then sold to G. L. Lorillard for $5000, and one-fourth his winnings during the year 1876. Tom's first appearance as a four-year-old was at Balti- more, in the Baltimore Cup, $50 each, half forfeit, $1000 added, of which $200 to the second horse, third to save his stake; 14 subscribers; won handily in 4:09, Stampede second. Viator third. His next appearance was in the Jockey Club Handicap, at Jerome Park, dash of two miles ; $100 each, half forfeit, with only $20 if declared out, $1000 added; 28 subscribers ; 10 declared out. Tom won easily, Milner second, Chesapeake third, Viator, Madge and others unplaced, in 3:41 J. He next won the Centennial Stakes, for all ages, at Jerome Park, $200 each, $50 forfeit, with $2000 added, second to receive $500 out of the stakes, and the third to save his stake; Acrobat second, Olitipa third; a dash of 2i miles; time, 5:09^. His next appearance was at Long Branch, for the Monmouth Cup, 2J miles, $50 each, play or pay, $1200 added, second to receive $200, and the third $100 out of the stakes; 17 subscribers. This he won easily, beating Stampede in 4:48J. He at the same meeting won the Capitol Stakes, for four-year- olds, $300 each, $100 forfeit, $1500 added, $500 to the second ; 9 subscribers ; three miles ; beating Chesapeake and Ascension in 5:35^. Tom's next appearance was at Saratoga, in the Sweepstakes for All Ages, $50 each, play or pay, $800 added, of which $200 to the second ; 21 nominations; li miles. He was beaten by Parole, Ochil- tree second, Mattie A. third, in 2:12|. Tom had his re- venge in the Saratoga Cup, for All Ages, $50 each, play or pay, with $1200 added, $200 to the second; 2^ miles. This he won, beating Parole second. Big Sandy third, in 4:06J. His next appearance was in the Maturity Stakes, at Jerome Park, for four-year-olds, $200 each, half forfeit, $1200 added, of which $300 to the second horse; 28 sub- scribers ; three miles. This he won handily, defeating Chesapeake, Mattie A. and Grey Nun, in the order named, in 5:432. His next was in the Centennial Cup Sweep- stake, for All Ages, $250 each, $100 forfeit, plate value of $2500, and $1500 added, second to receive $760 out of the stakes, and the third to save his stake ; four miles. This he won in the very fast time of 7:36, with 118 lbs. up. Acrobat second. Big Sandy third. — Tm-f^ Field and Farm. After this performance it was a pity to wind up the Cen- tennial season with a defeat, but at Baltimore, October 25, in a purse for all ages, two-mile heats, for which Add, Part- nership, Paladin, and Athlene also started, he was distanced in the second heat, after winning the first heat in 3:474- His first race this year (1877) was at Baltimore, May 23, for the Baltimore Cup, two miles and a quarter, in which he defeated Preston, Burgoo, and Bertram, in 4:14. It was a mere exercise gallop for him, and two days afterwards, at the same meeting, he distanced Jenifer, Shylock, and Little- fellow, for a purse of $1000. At Jerome Park, June 5, he carried off the Westchester Cup, two miles and a quarter, easily, from Athlene and Fellowcraft — time, 4:09 J; and at the same meeting, two weeks later, he beat Athlene again for the Keene Purse, two miles and a half, in 4:36i. For the Saratoga Cup, July 26, he started first favorite, but Parole unexpectedly won by a length, Athlene third, and Vera Cruz unplaced. Five days afterwards Tom Ochiltree defeated Athlene and Aunt Betsy easily, for a purse of $600, two miles, in 3:39*. On the 4th of August, he was unexpectedly beaten by outsider Whisper, in a dash of two miles and a quarter, Athlene being third, and Viceroy and Lenifer unplaced. Three days later he redeemed his repu- tation by beating Cloverbrook, Oriole, Galway, and D'Ar- tignan,two miles, in the easiest manner. The time was 3:42i. ■>«=s-^, '"<**-„ II ( f i; E-i o 1^ u o B3 a Vv^!.«: -' < ■ va OS O 55 HADAMANTHUS is a coal-black horse with no white, standing close to 1(5 hands high. He was foaled in 1872, and is by imported Leam- ington out of Nemesis. He wa.s brought out by Hon. August Belmont, and ran in that gentle- man's colors, the popular " maroon and rod," for his first race, the Kentucky Stakes, one mile, at Saratoga, August 8, 1S74. He was unplaced, Chesapeake winning, with James A. second, and Willie Burke third. For the two-year- old Sweepstakes, three-quarters of a mile, August 13, he was second to King Bolt, three others being behind him. The following day he scored his maiden victory, defeating Vassal and Chesapeake for the Grand Stakes, valued at $4000, one mile. The time was 1:46}. In the Nursery Stakes, at Jerome Park, October 3, he was third : the flying CMitipa winning, with Chesapeake second, and others unplaced. He then went to Baltimore, and on October 21, ran in the Central Stakes, one mile: l<'inework won, with Amelia second, and James A. third, and Rhadamanthus was among the unplaced. As a three-year-old, he started four- teen times. In the Withers Stakes he was second to Aris- tides, Ozark and ten others being behind him, and in the Belmont Stakes he was unplaced. On 15th of June, he was second to Grinstead, in a Purse for all Ages, heats of a mile and an eighth, Fadladeen being third. He now lay by until the Saratoga Meeting, where, on the 10th of August, he was second to Madge, in a Sweepstakes for all Ages, three- quarters of a mile, the shifty Leander being third, and three others unplaced. Four days later he won a purse of $500, one mile and an eighth, beating Australind, Golden Gate, and Paper Maker, in 2:04J. On the 17th, for a purse of $500 for all ages, one mile and an eighth, he was in his accustomed place of second : Brigand winning, with Fadladeen third, and five others unplaced. Mr. Belmont was now dissatisfied with his running ability, and sold him to Mr. George Longstaff, who persevered with him, and finally brought him out in fine fix, winning several closely- contested races with him, especially several mile-heat races, where the " black colt" showed both his ability to run fast and to stay. This colt's sale is not the fir.st instance in which his former owner, Mr. Belmont, has " cut the stick to break his own back with," as witness the victories of Scratch and Freebooter, both of whom he sold as worthless, and both of whom subsequently proved victorious over his entries in the races they ran for their new owners. His first performance in his new colors was by no means encour- aging, for at Jerome Park, October 2, in the $400 Purse, three-quarters of a mile, he was third to Mattie A. and Springlet, five others being unplaced. The tide of ill luck which had so persistently followed him now turned, and October 8, he beat Mattie A. for a purse of $700, mile heats, in 1:48 — 1:481. On the 14th of October, he de- feated Egypt, Mattie A., Leander, and Rambler, one mile and an eighth, in 2:01. In the Dixie Stakes, at Baltimore, October 19, won by Tom Ochiltree, he was unplaced, but he made some amends for it by beating, on the following day, Arcturus, Jack Twigg, Grey Lag, and Charley Chea- tham, mile heats, in 1:471 — 1:471; and ten days after, he beat Arcturus, Big Sandy, and General Harney, mile heats. in l:46i — 1:44}. On the 1st of November, at Jerome Park, he defeated Arcturus and six others, one mile, in 1:49} ; and five days afterwards, ran second to Madge for a Handicap Sweepstakes, one mile and three-quarters, Lelaps and three others finishing behind him. As a four-year-old he was kept very busy. He commenced at Baltimore, May 23. in a Handicap Sweepstakes, mile heats, six starters, and was placed fourth. Ore Knob winning. Two days later he was placed second to Willie Burke, in a purse for all ages, mile heats, after winning the first heat in 1:47} ; Wateree and Probability were also in the race. He then went to Jerome Park, and on June 10, was beaten by Old Spindrift, in a purse for all ages, one mile and an eighth. In the Free Handicap, won by Sunburst, June 15, he was unplaced. He won the opening race at the Saratoga Meeting, a purse of $400, five furlongs, in 1:03-] , beating Inspiration and Madge. On July 27, he was third to Mattie A. and Yorkshire Lass, in a purse of $400, three-quarters of a mile. Inspiration and Orion being unplaced. Rhadamanthus again changed hands, being purchased by the Dwyer Brothers, of Brook- lyn, in whose colors he has won many races, and he bids fair to win many more before the racing season closes. On August 15, he beat May D., JIadge, and Mettle, for a purse of $500, one mile and an eighth, in 1 :59} ; and two days after- wards, beat Vigil and four others, for a piurse of $500, one mile and a quarter, in 2:11, Four days later he was un- placed, in a purse of $500, one mile and a half, won by Burgoo, As at Saratoga, so on the opening day of the Fall Jleeting at Jerome Park, he won the first race on the card, a purse" of $400, three-quarters of a mile, in 1:20}, beating Freebooter and five others. On October 5, he won a purse of $700. mile heats, defeating Preston, Freebooter, Fiddle- stick, and Gray Friar. Time, 1:471—1:47—2:18, Preston taking the second heat. In the All-aged Stakes, October 14, won by Parole, he was unplaced; and November 4, in a purse of $400, mile heats, won by JIadge, he was fifth and last. He now went into winter quarters. This year (1877) he has been busy. On the opening day at Jerome Park, he was unplaced, in the Purse of $400 for All Ages, won by Janet Norton ; and three days later, in a purse of $500 for all ages, won by Fugitive, he was unplaced again. On June 14, he was second to Explosion, in the Free Handicap, one mile, Bertram was third, and six others not placed. Four days later, in the Consolation Purse, he was again second, and this time Mary won, with Madge third, and four others unplaced. Following in the wake of ftishion, he went to Saratoga, and won the very first race, a dash of five furlongs, June 21, by a neck, from Chiquita, the favorite, and five'otbers. The time was 1:041, On July 2tith he beat Diamond and seven others easily, three-quar- ters of a mile, in 1:10 ; but two days later, for a purse of $300, for all ages, one mile, he was second, C)riole winning by half a length, with Fugitive, Virginius, and Explosion behind the leading pair, and on August 4th his ill luck still continued, for although starting first favorite, he was third to Virginius and Bomba.st, in a purse of $400, one mile, Mary being unplaced. August 9, the gray colt. Bill Bass, beat him by a neck for a pur.se of $300, three-quarters of a mile, Madse and three others being behind him. Ph O o z o >< H pj w o 05 Ph 1^ K El 57 LITIPA, is by liCamington out of Oliata. She was bred at Chestnut Hill by Mr. A. Welch, aud was sold to Messrs. Hunter & Travers wheu a yearling. Her first appearance was at Sara- toga, in 1874, when she won the Flash Stakes, for two-year- olds, half a mile, in 47|s , beating Willie Burke, Australind, Calvin, Victorious, Bajminster, Ravenna, and Caroline, thus early stamping herself as a flyer of no common ability. She did not again run till fall meeting at Jerome Park, when she won the Nursery Stakes, one mile, in l:4t), defeat- ing Mr. M'Grath's Chesapeake, Rhadamanthus, Bayminster, James A., Leader, Athlete, and Australind. These were her only performances that year. During the winter of 1874 her owners, Messrs. Hunter & Travers, sold her to Mr. August Belmont, and iu 1875 she made her first ap- pearance under his colors at the Jerome Park Spring Meeting, in the Maryland Stakes, for three-year-old fillies, a mile, which she won in 1:49, beating Ascension, Springlet, Finework, Vinaigrette, and Mattie A. At the same meet- ing, in the Ladies' Stakes, for three-year-old fillies, one mile and a half, .she justified her backers' confidence by running away from all her competitors in 2:42i. Mattie A., Invoice, Misdeal, Lizzie R., and Scramble were the beaten ones. At Saratoga, in the famous "sweepstakes for all ages," she was unable to get better than the third to (irinstead, who, however, made the distance, one and a quarter miles, in the fastest time on record, 2:084, which was only eclipsed at Lexington the other day by Chas. Gorham, he beating Grinstead's time by a quarter of a second. Three days after Grinstead's victory, Olitipa won in a canter the Alabama Stakes, for three-year-old fillies, a mile and an eighth, in 2:002, and Invoice, a filly by a Asteroid out of a planet mare, and Australind were the three beaten ones. Two days after this she started against Springbok, Preakness, Grinstead, Aaron Pennington, Ruth- erfurd, and Wildiddle la strong field) for the Saratoga Cup, which resulted in the famous dead heat between the two first-named. The distance was two ujilcs and a (juarter. and the time 3:561. The owners of the dead-heaters divided the stakes. Olitipa's last appearance in 1875 was at the Jerome Park Fall Meeting, in the Hunter Stakes, for three-year-old fillies. Her only competitors were Mattie A. and Gillyflower, and these she had no difliculty in beating in 3:14 (one and three-quarter miles). Her total winnings in 1875, then, amounted to the round sum of §10,600, which was a fine showing for so few races. In 1870, at Jerome Park Spring Meeting, her first race was for a purse for all ages, which she won in 3:12i (one mile and three- quarters), beating easily Kildare and Stampede. She next came out for the Centennial Stakes, for all ages, two miles and three-quarters, in which Tom (Jchiltree and Acrobat both beat her. Time. 5:09 J. In our account of that race we threw out the impression that neither of the horees was up to the mark. This was afterwards more than verified in her case by the fact that she never again ran. though speculation was rife at one time with regard to the appear- ances of the same trio in the Monmouth Cup. These expectations were not justified, as Olitipa did not run again, and now is broken down from the same complaint which last year caused trouble. This mare's performances liave all been first-class, and we shall watch with interest her debut as a matron at the stud C)litipa will be bred to The Ill-Used. She is a mare of great size and high quality. Her frame is truly grand in its racing-like proportions. The long angles behind from hip to whirlbone, and thence to the stifle, and thence to the point of the hock, are fully dis- played. Her fine bloodlike head and neck and superb gamecock throttle are followed by a splendid shoulder. Olitipa is a great strider, and with all her exceedingly fine qualities she has an even temper. She never made the slightest trouble at the starting-post, and, commonly lying behind for about seven-eighths of her races, found no trouble whatever in winning when her jockey intimated his opinion that it was time she should say good-bye to her companions and lead the van. — Sports- mait. 59 |IDDLESTICK is a dark bay or brown colt, foaled 1873, by Lexington, dam Filagree, by Stnckwell ; 2d dam, P]estasy, by Touchstone ; 3d dam, Miss Wilfred, by Lottery; 4th dam by Smolenski; 5th dam, Lady Mary, by Benningbrough; Gth dam by Highflyer; thus combining in his veins the best and choicest blood of the American and English stud-books. Filagree was imported when a yearling, in 1860, by Messrs. Dudley & Bruce, agents of the Kentucky Importing Company, and became the property of John R. Viley, Esq., Fayette County, Ky., who, after breeding from her Alta Vela, Finesse and three others, sold her, in 1872, to A. Belmont, Esq., Nureery Stud Farm, Babylon, L. I., and the ensuing year she produced Fiddlestick, by that emperor of American stallions, the immortal Lexington. Ho is a very symmetrically-formed colt, fully 15 hands 2 J inches in height, with star in forehead, and two white feet, that on the near hind foot extending half way to the hock, while the near fore foot is white to the ankle. He has a fine, clean cut, expressive head, capital neck and shoulders, good middle piece, well ribbed up, and unusually muscular hips and quarters. He has good legs, rather light in the bone below the knee, and well-shaped feet. As a two-year-old, he was trained, but never started, as he exhibited symptoms of lameness when about ready to run, at Saratoga, and was, in consequence, turned out of train- ing ; his fore-legs laboring under some suspicion of his standing a strong preparation. During the early spring he was twice blistered, and, thanks to the skill and con.stant attention of his capable trainer, Mr. Jacob Fincus, he was able to undergo a steady preparation. Mr. Belmont was averse to running him in his early engagements at Jerome Park, preferring to preserve him for Saratoga; Bertram and Clematis being regarded as the hopes of the Babylon stable in the Withers and Belmont Stakes. Fiddlestick, however, was kept at work, and daily made marked improve- ment. Having, one morning, tried Bertram and Clematis together, it occurred to their trainer to put Bertram and Fiddlestick together at a mile, and the latter won with such consummate ease, that he immediately tried him with Cle- matis, and he beat his second trial horse in exactly the same style he had done the first. The stable was now convinced that, in the son of Lexington and Filagree, they possessed an extraordinary race-horse, and the programme was changed. Fiddlestick being sent to Jerome Park to represent the maroon and crimson belt in the Withers and Belmont Stakes. His opponents in the former race, which was a dash of a mile, were Merciless, Algerine, Brother to Harry Bassett, Freebooter, Waco, Sister to Milner, Dail- gaisian. Viceroy, and his stable companion, Bertram. The Belmont pair were the favorites, with Merciless second choice, and the others selling at equal rates with each other. Fiddlestick, ridden by Feakes, took up the running, after going half a mile, where he had all his opponents settled, and, galloping on, won the race with the most con- summate ease, by four lengths, in 1:402, Brother to Bassett and Merciless finishing respectively second and third. The following week he started for the Belmont Stakes, a mile and a half, in which his opponents were Brother to Bassett, Barricade, Algerine and Red Coat. In this race he was ridden by Hayward, and the betting was two to one on his winning. IJayward made the running from the fall of the flag, closely pressed by Brother to Bassett throughout the first mile, which was run in 1 :45 ; and on the retirement of the latter, Algerine went up and challenged with such resolution, that Hayward was unable to get a relieving pull on his horse, and although he struggled to the finish with the most indomitable gameness, he was finally beaten by Algerine, in 2:402. His next appearance was in the Jersey Derby, at Monmouth Park, where he ran second to his stable companion, Bertram, the latter only winning on suflFer- ance, for Fiddlestick was pulling over him in every part of the race. Rappahannock and Fugitive also started. He next came out for the Ocean Hotel Stakes, at the same meeting, and won in the commonest of canters, from his only opponent, Rappahannock. At the recent Saratoga meetings he did not start, Sultana representing the interests of the Babylon stable in both the Travers and Kenner Stakes. In the former she was successful, beating Barri- cade, Ambush and Fredericktown with great ease, but in the second she had to succumb to Brother to Bassett, in the fastest run race at the weights on record. The tide of fortune which had generally set in his favor now turned, and since this time he has not scored a single victory, although often well up at the close. In the Jerome Stakes, Oct. 2d, he was unplaced. Brother to Bassett winning, with Sunburst second, and Red Coat third ; and three days after- wards, he was beaten by Rhadamanthus, Preston and Free- booter, in the $700 Purse for all ages, mile heats. October 10th, he was third in the two-mile Purse, Vigil winning, with Athlene second. This year Fiddlestick has been still more unfortunate. At Jerome Park, June 2, 1877, he was unplaced in the Fordham Handicap, won by Chiquita, and ten days later he was third to Parole and Ambush in the Woodburn Stakes, for four-year-olds. June 18th, he was second to Chiquita, in the Free Handicap, with eight others behind them. — Spirit of the Tinier. 1-3 O w O >^ 12; < H CS Cd O Bj PL| a H 61 A ROLE is a brown geldina' by imported Leam- ington out of Maiden. She was by imported Glencoo out of Kitty Clark. He was foaled in 1873, and was bred by Mr. A. Welch, at Chestnut Hill, near Philadelphia, and was sold by him to Mr. Pierre Lorillard, of New York, who now owns him. His first appearance was at Lonj; Branch, July 8, 1875, in the July Stakes for two-year-olds, three- (|uarters of a mile, which he won in 1:171, defeating Freebooter, Bryen, and Knapsack. At the same meet- ing, July 17th, he won the August Stakes, one mile, in 1:54, beating Shirley and Lady Clipper. His next essay was the Flash Stakes, at Saratoga, July 29th, for which ten youngsters mustered at the starting-post, but he was unplaced; his stable companion, Faithless, coming in first, with Sister of Mercy second, and Pastor third. On the 4th of August he won the Saratoga Stakes, tliree-quarters of a mile, beating Adelaide, Sultana, Brother to Bassett, Athlene, and four others; time, 1:183. Six days later he was saddled for the Kentucky Stakes, and Adelaide, Sul- tana, Brother to Bassett, and three others, were all compelled to acknowledge the supremacy of Maiden's flying son, who won the race in the good time of 1:44], For the Central Stakes at Baltimore, October 10th, he ran second to Cyril, two others being behind them. This was his last race that year. He had started for six events and won four of them, the combined value of which was $8500 ; and he went into winter quarters with a repuiatinn second to none of his years. As a three-year-old his first start was at Louisville, May 15, for the Kentucky Derby, one mile and a lialf, but after going nearly a mile, when running second to Vagrant, the winner, he was cut down, and was, of course, unplaced. He did not appear until July 25th, at the Saratoga Meet- ing, when he defeated Tom Ochiltree and Mattie A, in a sweepstakes, one mile and a quarter, run in 2:12:]. Four days afterwards he was second to Tom Ochiltree in the Saratoga Cup; Big Sandy being third, and Madge not placed. On the 3d of August he won the Sequel Stakes, one mile and three-quarters; time, 3:10'. Freebooter was second, War- lock third, and Odd Socks not placed. At Jerome Park, October 14th, he carried away the All-aged Stakes, one mile and a half, from St. Martin, Warlock, Virginius, and Rhadamanthus ; time, 2:38 ; value of the stakes won, 83650. In the rich Dixie Stakes, at Baltimore, October 25th, he was second to Vigil ; Here- tog was third, and Algerine, Sultana and Shirley were un- placed. Three days later, in the Breckinridge Stakes, he again succumbed to the same horse, ^^irginius being third. As a four-year-old he ran second to Janet Norton in the $400 Purse for All Ages, on the opening day of the Jerome Park Meeting, June 2d, 1877, for which seven started. Ten days later, the Woodburn Stakes for four-year-olds, two and a half miles, brought Parole, Ambush, Fiddlestick, and Virginius to the post. All of these had supporters. Parole having slightly the call in the betting. Ambush forced the pace from the start, with the intention oi' finding, if possible, a weak spot in Parole. Virginius was second, with the other two alternating as third and fourth until within a quarter of a mile of home. Here Parole was sent along, and quickly passing the others, won easily by a length, Ambush, who came gallantly when Barbee called upon him, being second, and Fiddlestick third ; time, 4:372. At Saratoga, July 21st, in the Sweepstakes for all ages. Parole and Tom Ochiltree wore the favorites, and made the running, but Vera Cruz, a very fast fine colt, lay well off for a mile, and then coming with a rush, closed up on the leading pair so rapidly that the three went under the wire so close together that none but the judges could place them. The verdict was in favor of Vera Cruz, Tom Ochil- tree being placed second, and Parole third. The first of the other three was half a dozen lengths away; time, 2:12}. His next efl'ort was the Saratoga Cup, two and a quarter miles. There were twenty-four nominations for this event, of which the following came to the post : Charles Reed's chestnut filly Athlene, by Pat Malloy, 4 years old, 113 lbs. ; (t. L. Jjorillard's bay horse Tom Ochiltree, by Lexington, 5 years old, 124 lbs.; P. Lorillard's brown gelding Parole, by Leamington, 4 years old, 115 lbs.; J. T. Owing's bay colt Vera Cruz, by Virgil, 3 years old, 97 lbs. Tom Ochiltree was a favorite over the field. The start was a good one, and the horses came away very leisurely, Tom Ochiltree going to the front, followed by Vera Cruz, who soon took sides with him; Athlene third. Parole bring-- ing up the rear. When the horses came up U> the stand. Vera Cruz and Tom had their heads together, Athlene four lengths behind, with her head in advance of Parole. The first quarter was run in 280 seconds. Going around the upper turn, Vera Cruz had his head in front of Tom, both of the jockeys pulling their horses double ; Athlene three lengths behind ; half a length in front of Parole. Time, to this point, 57 •> seconds. Going down the backstretch. Vera Cruz moved away from Ochiltree, and when he passed the half-mile pole he was two lengths in front of Tom ; the latter three lengths ahead of Athlene, who was one length in advance of Parole. Time, 1:23. The horses ran in this way to the lower turn, going around which they got two lengths apart. Vera Cruz leading ; Tom Ochiltree second, Athlene third. Parole fourth. Time, this mile, 1.51 J. They came into the quarter-stretch in this order, and then the pace was much accelerated by theui all. Vera Cruz kept the gap open, and had two lengths the best of it as he passed under the wire at the stand ; Ochiltree second, two lengths ahead of Athlene, who was three lengths in front of Parole, the latter running very leisurely under a pull. Time of the mile and a quarter, 2:20. Going around the upper turn, big Tom made strong running, and closed the daylight, Athlene following, with Parole also moving a little sharper. When Vera Cruz passed the quarter pole he was leading one length, Ochiltree second, two lengths in advance of Athlene, who was one length ahead of Parole. Time of the mile and a half, 2:47 ■>. Tom Ochiltree forced the pace down the backstretch and closed up on Vera Cruz at every stride, until at the half mile the latter only led a neck, Tom four lengths ahead of Athlene, who was three lengths ahead of Parole, the latter still under a pull. Time, for a mile and three-quarters, 3:12. Turning into the lower turn, Ochiltree took Vera Cruz by the head and ran parallel with him to the three-quarter pole. 1'he time of the two miles was 3:38. Parole now was third, he having begun his run for the Cup. Alter the horses got into straight running. Vera Cruz was in trouble, and was soon passed by Parole, who, coming on in a gallant manner, picked up Tom at every stride, and, finishing like a race- horse, won the race by two lengths, Ochiltree four lengths in front of Athlene, the latter one length ahead of Vera Cruz. The time of the race was 4:041, which is remark- ably good, considering the weights. Tom Ochiltree ran the last two miles in 3:36, and Parole the same distance in 3:35. !i:Ji,ista'iM if:' 63 AGRANT was biod by Mr. iM. H. Sanford, of the Pi-eakness stud; was foaled May 17, 1873, by Virgil (he by A^andal), dam Hymenia, by imp. Yorkshire ; 2d dam Little Peggy, by Cripple, son of Medoc : 3d dam Peggy Stewart, by Cook's Whip ; 4th dam Mary Bedford by Duke of Bedford ; 5th dam by imp. Speculator ; 6th dam by imp. Dare Devil, out of inip. Trumpetta, by Trumpator, &c. Virgil was a fine race-horee, a winner both on the flat and over timber in good time. On the Dam's side, Vagrant is descended from one of the most celebrated racing families of the country. Vagrant is a brown bay, stands 16 hands high, with four white stockings and a bald face ; he has a very fine, expres- sive head, well set on rather a light nock, resulting, doubt- less, from being early gelded, the neck running back into faultless shoulders, with great depth in the heart, which makes his body appear rather light. His hips, quarter and second thigh cannot be excelled, while his legs are perfec- tion, being without a scar or abrasure of any kind. He runs with his head rather low, but his action is low and easy, with an immense stride and great speed, which is the first and most important element in a race-horse. No horse is more easily controlled or has a finer temper. He was purchased at Mr. Sanford's sale in 1874 by Thos. J. Nichols, for $250, the Virgils being then wholly untried and unknown to fame. He made his debut upon the turf at Louisville, Ky., May 18, 1875, for the Alex- ander Stake, half a mile, $25 subscription, play or pay, 24 subscribers, $250 added. This he won handily in iSOJ, defeating Harry Hill, Russ Butler, Congressman, Malmistic, Bazar, Virgil, Creedmoor, Pluto, Grit, Mclnotte, Ceylon and Mediator; value to winner, $750. May 21, Louisville, Ky., Tennessee Stake, for two-year-olds, three-quarters of a mile, ran third to Creedmoor, Tecalco second. In the race he carried a penalty of 5 lbs. There were 15 starters, and getting a bad start, he was unable to get through the horses before the race was ended. Lexington, Ky., Sep- tember 7, sweepstake, for two-year-old colts, $25 each, play or pay, $350 added, of which $50 to the second colt; 12 subscribers. This Vagrant won in 1:18, defeating The Nipper, Creedmoor, Melnotte, Grit, Bazar, Guldsberg, Berlin and Bombay ; value to winner, $600. Lexington, Ky., September 10, .sweepstake, for two-year-olds, one mile, $25 each, play or pay, with $400 added, of which $100 to the second ; 11 subscribers. Vagrant won, beating Clem- mie G., The Nipper, Creedmoor, Bazar, Goldsberg, Berlin and Bonibay, in 1:45}; value to winner, $575. Louisville, Ky., September 22, Belle Meade Stakes, for two-year-old colts, three-quarters of a mile, $25 each, play or pay, with $300 added, of which $100 to the second ; 23 subscribers. Vagrant won, beating Bengal, Bombay, Malmi.stic, Harry Hill, Grit, Melnotte, Johnny B., Pluto, The Nipper, Russ Butler and Preston, in 1:17} ; value to winner, $775. Louisville, Ky., September 24, Sanford Stakes, for two-year- olds, $25 each, play or pay, with $500 added by M. H. Sanford, of which $100 to the .second; 28 subscribers. Vagrant won, beating Alborac, Miriam, Lexington filly, Blue Coat, Bombay, Clemmie G., The Nipper, Harry Hill, Russ Butler and Pirouette, in 1:46 ; value to winner, $1100. This closed Vagrant's career as a two-year-old, in which he started six times, won five and lost one, when he was beaten by Creedmoor on a heavy track, whom he had previously and afterwards defeated. Net winnings as two-year-old, $3800. Vagrant was purchased by S. D. Bruce, of this paper, on the 8th of May, 1876, for Mr. Wm. A.stor, of this city, with his engagements, and on the same day won the Phoe- nix Hotel Stakes, for three-year olds, one and an eighth miles, $50 each, play or pay, with $300 added, 15 sub- scribers, beating Clemmie G., Knapsack, Very Fine, Yan- dall and Janet in 1:56| ; the first mile was run in 1:43. Vagrant won by 40 yards; value to winner, $1050. Louis- ville, Ky., May 15, Kentucky Derby, for three-year-olds, one and a half miles, $50 each, play or pay, with $1500 added, of which $200 to the second; 34 subscribers. Vagrant won, beating Creedmoor, Harry Hill, Red Coat, Bombay, Harper's Enquirer, Ninette colt, Leamingtonian, Maria Michon, Bullion and Germantown, in 2:38i; value to the winner, $3000. Louisville, Ky., May 20, 1876, Clarke Stakes, for three-year-olds, two miles, $50 each, play or pay, $1000 added, of which $200 to the second horse, 28 subscribers. Creedmoor won. Vagrant second, beating Henry Owings and Leamingtonian, in 3:34|; very fast for the track. Vagrant was not in condition, coughing and much tacked up. Vagrant was now shipped East, and made his next ap- pearance at Philadelphia, Pa., June 26, Grand Exposition Stakes, $100 each, half forfeit, with $1000 added, of which $200 to the second, the third to save his stake, one and a half miles; 24 subscribers. Vagrant won easily, beating Woodland, Virginius, Fugitive and Coupon, in 2:42i, thus winning three out of the four stakes in which he was en- tered, and $6350 in money. — Tarf, Field and Farm. Q o o P5 bT Z C pa S. Ed PC C C C LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Almont, T. J. Scott, 58 Amkrican Giei,, 12 Ulackwood 60 Blackwood, Jr., Henry Stull, 34 BoDiNE, Henry Stull, 22 Dexter, Edwin Forbes, Frontispiece. Flora Temple, 24 Georoe M. Patcoen T. C. Carpemdale, 40 Goldsmith Maid, J. McAhlipfe, 6 Governor Spbague, ,30 Hambletonian (Rysdyk's) Theodore Marsden, . . .... 52 Happy Medium, Henry C. Bispham, 56 Hopeful, Edwin Forbes, 16 Jay Gould, Edwin Forbes, 32 Judge Fullerton,. ..... C. Lloyd, 18 Lady Le Vert, T. C. Carpendale, 62 Lady Suffolk, 46 J „„^ f From Photograph by ) „« ^^^^' I Schreiber & Son, | ^^ Lula, Thomas Worth, 8 Mac, A. L. Rawson, 50 Mambrino Gift, 26 Planter, Henry Stull, 42 Prospero, 36. Sadie Bell, Henry Stull, 44 Sam Purdy, Henry Stull, 28 Smuggler, E. P. Howe, 10 Tacony, Robert Clarke, 48 Thomas Jefferson, C. Lloyd, 38 Volunteer, Charles S. Humphreys, 54 BS O o H GO P o W K CO 6- O H OS M 111 O OS Ph JlOLDSMtTH MAID was bred in Susses county, N. J., by Mr. John B. Decker. She was got by that son of Ilanibletonian called in Oranfre County Edsall's Hambletouian, but after his purchase and removal to Kentucky, Alexan- der's Abdallah. Her dam was by the original Abdallah, son of Mambrino (American), and sire of Hambletonian. Consequently she is very closely in-bred to the famous old saddle-horse whose rat-tail is still to bo seen among the mementoes shown to his visitors by that fine horseman, Simeon Hoagland. Goldsmith Maid was foaled iu 1857, is now twenty years old, and still full of vim and vigor, as her performances of late have abundantly shown. She was the smallest of her dam's products, and was by no means exempt from temper and accidents. She jumped fences; she reared up and fell over when hitched to a harrow; she kicked herself loose and ran away when put to a wagon. She was thought to be so ungovernable as to be practically useless, and when she was eight years old Jlr. Decker sold her to his nephew for $350. On his way home with her, young Decker met William Thompson, and after some negotiations, he bought her for $400. Three months after- wards Thompson sold her for S650 and a buggy to Mr. Alden Goldsmith, one of the most sagacious and patient horsemen we have ever known. In his hands the good she had in her was sure to come out. She was then very wild, timid, and nervous, but had none of that malicious disposi- tion which is called "vice." Mr Goldsmith, by patient, gentle usage, made her more quiet, but he could not get her to go with a ckeck-rein or running martingale, so he dis- carded them and took off the blinders. In all her races for the first three years she trotted without check. She had the distemper severely the first spring she was in Mr. Gold- smith's possession, and had not recovered entirely from it when we first saw her at his Walnut Grove Farm. Even at that early date he was convinced that he had got a treas- ure, and we greatly admired her breeding and her looks. Slie was of small stature, but long and low, deep through the heart, of wiry, whalebone texture all over, and with a b;ick which is of amazing strength for a horse of her size. Now, the back, according to our notions, is the great source of muscular power. In the August of that year, 1865, she trotted her first race. It was at Goshen, and slie won in three heats, the best time being 2:20. Goldsmith Maid trotted two umre races that year, both of which she lost. She was well wintered, but in nowise pampered. In 18GG she trotted nine or ten times, and won all her races except the last. In that. General Uutler beat her after scoring above twenty times on account of his own proceedings and those of the black mare C'lra. Next year Goldsmith Maid met Dexter, who beat her with ease. Goldsmith Maid contiuued to improve all that season in the hands of William Bodine, but for the last race of it she was passed over to Budd Doble. In 1868 Doble won eiuht times with her, and she made a record of 2:21 i. That fall Mr. Goldsmith sold the mare to IJudd Doble and Barney Jackman She was wintered in Philadelphia, and began the next sjason by losing five times to American Girl, who trotted in 2:111 at Nar' agansett Park, and seemed likely to take up the sceptre which Dex- ter upon his retirement had relinquished. But now the little mare of the concentrated Abdallah blood began to come again. She beat Lucy at Boston, and trotted in 2:20 i. She beat George Palmer on the Fashion Course. She met American Girl at Suffolk Park, Philadelphia, and beat her in three straight heats, all better than 2:20. That was the first time any horse beat 2:20 in all the heats of a race. Goldsmith Maid won eight races that year, and beat all those that beat her, save Lady Thorne, who was then in her prime and pride, and who won five races from her. In 1870 Goldsmith Maid won eleven times. She did not beat 2:20 that year, but she trott«d in 2:24 J to wagon. In 1871 Goldsmith Maid continued her brilliant career. At Fleetwood Park, Baltimore, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Boston, and Buffalo she beat all her com- petitors, including American Girl and Lucy, At the latter place she again won all the heats in better than 2:20. Here she failed in an effort to beat Dexter's time — 2:17 i, for an extra purse. But she soon after trotted in 2:17 at Milwaukee, and thus clutched the crown which Dexter upon his retirement had virtually laid down. Goldsmith Maid continued on tiie great Western route, and reached as far as Omaha and Council Bluffs, away up the Missouri Biver. In 1872, after one trot at Philadelphia, the little mare went to Boston to assist at the Grand Jubilee, and contributed to the music by a merry-go-round on the Mystic Course in 2:16J. Afterwards, at Prospect Park, she put in all the heats in better than 2:20 ; and at Cleveland she did it for the fourth time. The little mare was now taken across the continent, and at Sacramento, in a little more than a month after her hist previous race on this side of the Rocky Mountains, she trotted in 2:17}. She afterwards trotted at San Francisco, and returning to Sacramento, beat Occident very easily. In 1873 she did not trot any especially fast heat. In 1874 Goldsmith Maid trotted seventeen times, and with increase of speed. At Saginaw, Michigan, she went in 2:16. At Springfield, Mass., she again made 2:16, and all the heats Were bet- ter than 2:20. Three times that year she boat 2:20 in all the heats. At Rochester she trotted a second heat in 2:14|. And at Mystic Park, Boston, for a special ptirse, in which she was required to beat her Rochester time, she trotted in 2:14. That was September, 1874. In 1875 she only trotted six races, and Was beaten once by Lula, at Rochester, a memorable event, but reversed the tables at Utica. In 1876 she trotted seven races, and was beaten but once by Smuggler, at Cleveland. Besides this she trotted against her own record seven times, and though failing' to reduce it, she trotted at Belmont Park, Philadel- phia,June 23d, in 2:14. This year, 1877, she has trotted several races in California, against Raru,s and other fast ones At Chico, Cal., May 19th, over a rough track, she defeated Rarus, in 2:19?— 2:14|— 2:17. It is announced that she will not trot in any more races, but will reserve her powers for special tilts with old Father Time, in the hope of lowering her record, if possible. — New York Spurtsman. o OS- o o 03 O &^ w ps" M M M n a< CO O 1-5 &4 O >• H es w o IS p- ULA was bred in 1863, by Col. Crockett, then resiJinp; in Kentucky, but now living in Rock Island, 111. She was got by Alexander's Nor- man out of Kate Crockett by imported Hooten. Lula was taken by her owner to Illinois when she was ciuite young, and was for some time used as a saddle mare by him in his trips across the country buying cattle ; but she began to show promise of speed, and Colonel Crockett placed her, in the spring of 1870, when she was seven years old, in the hands of Sherman Perry, one of the ablest trainers in the West. Her improvement in his hands was very rapid, and during that season she first appeared upon the turf Her maiden race was at the Scott County Agricul- tural Association, at Davenport, Iowa, where, September 8th, 1870, she was beaten by Sleepy John, for a purse of ^1000, after winning the first and fourth heats, in 2:35 — 2:59, Albatross being third. She also trotted that season at Iowa City, Keokuk, and at Canton, 111 , at the last- mentioned place winning the first heat in 2:271, but losing the race to the chestnut stallion Logan. In 1871, she was let up, but in 1872, having been purchased by Mr. Joseph Ilarker, of New York City, who changed her name to Lula, she made a season's campaign in the 2:27 class. It was an unsuccessful year for lier, as she started in five races and won none, while at Utica, she took the first heat in 2:24J, and then behaved so badly that she was distanced in the second. Her bursts of speed were wonderful, but she was too nervous to be reliable. In August, 1873, she trotted in the Free-for- all Race at Springfield, and only got fourth place, and she was then turned over into Green's hands, who has since had charge of her. lie won a fine race with her at Prospect Park, September 23d, beating four good ones, the best time being 2:24}. In 1874 she won at Cleveland, in the 2:24 class, lowering her record to 2:20], and two weeks later, at Rochester, placed herself in the very front rank of trotters by taking a third heat in 2:16i. At Springfield, August 18th. she acted badly, and was distanced in the first heat. At Hartford, ten days later, she was fourth and last in the Free-for-all Purse, won by (iroldsmith Maid ; and at Mystic Park, September 1st, she was beaten by Bndine in the 2:24 race, but captured the second heat in 2:18], the fastest of the race, and secured second money. She commenced the seMon of 1875 at Cleveland, July 30th, where she was second to Goldsmith Maid in the Free-for-all Purse, Ameri- can Girl being third. At Bufiiilo, August 9th, she van- finished her only competitor, Nettie, in three straight heats, in 2:22 — 2:18; — 2:15. This performance, although a great one, hardly prepared the public for what was to follow. At Rochester, August 14th, Goldsmith Maid, American Girl. Nettie, and Lula appeared in the Free-for- all Race, and, as a matter of course, the Maid was a hot favorite, few deeming it possible that the flighty, nervous Lula could dethrone the peerless Queen of the Turf. "In the first heat American Girl made the trotting, as far as the three-quarter pole, at a rate of speed which, if kept up to the finish, would have carried her to the wire in 2:14, but here she gave it up, and the Maid went to the front, winning the heat in 2:15V. On the second heat, the Maid led the way until she reached the home- stretch, when Lula began to close the great gap of five lengths which had separated her from the leader at the half mile, and, overhauling the Maid at the distance-stand, it was a neck-and-neck struggle to the wire, Lula winning by little more than a head, in 2.1 6 J. The third heat was a still more signal triumph for Lula. Making a bad break around the first turn, and again on the backstretch, she was fully seven lengths behind when the Maid reached the half, in 1:07 J, but, squaring herself, she seemed to fly rather than to trot, so agile, and graceful, and swift was her move- ment, and, passing the Maid at the distance-stand, she won the heat by two lengths in 2:15 i, having actually made the last half mile of this, the third heat, in 1:06. On the con- cluding heat, Lula had a little the best of the send-oflT, and kept a lead of about two lengths, making the first quarter in 34s., the second in 333s., and the third in 32|s., going at a rate of speed on the last turn that would have carried her to the wire in 2:11, without gaining a perceptible inch on the resolute old marc; but just as she was turning into the homestretch, Lula made a bad break, and the Maid was again in the lead. Settling quickly to her work, however, another desperate contest ensued down the homestretch, and gamely the great old mare fought every inch of the way. There was no quitting, no flagging, no giving up; but, at the finish of the fastest fourth heat, and of the second fiistest race ever trotted in the world, Goldsmith Maid, in her nine- teenth year, was beaten under the wire only a head in 2:17." At Utica, August 21, she was beaten by the Maid in three straight heats, American Girl being second. At Cincinnati, October 9th, she trotted against time, to beat 2:18, but lost; and five days later, at Rochester, she at- tempted to beat Goldsmith Maid's record of 2:14, and again lost; her time actually being 2:16.1— 2:14!;— 2:16. The day was windy, and not favorable for fast time, and although not appearing as a record, this performance is really more wonderful than her race at Rochester. In 1876 she was notoriously amiss, as were all the horses in Green's stable, and did nothing worthy of note. This year (1877) she has appeared once in the Free-for-all Purse, at Fleetwood Park, June 1, won by Nettie; but the impression among many shrewd horsemen is that before the close of the present year, she will reduce her present record, and crown herself the Queen nf the Turf. 11 MUGGLER was foaled 1866; bred by Jolin M. Morgan, who at that time resided near Columbus, Ohio. He was taken by Mr. Mor- gan to Olathe, Kansas, in August 1872, and at that time was a confirmed pacer. He was very soon thereafter placed in the hands of Charles Marvin — who has been his trainer and driver ever since — and in about three months he showed a mile in 2:30. His improvement con- tinued to be very rapid, and in July 1873, he showed a trial of amilein 2:104. This performance created a great sensation in trotting circles, but it was not generally credited. Several parties of horsemen, however, visited Olathe, for the purpose of seeing the famous horse, and he was finally purchased by Colonel Tuifts, of Kansas. Soon after this purchase he was taken to Prospect Park, N. Y., by his new owner, and in the presence of experienced and accurate timers he was given a public trial of three heats, one mile each, in 2:19| — 2:21i— 2:21 ; making the last half of the third mile in 1:09. Immediately after this performance he was purchased by Colonel H. S. Russell, of Milton, Mass., for the enormous price of $iO,000. His first appearance in a race was at Buffalo, Aug. 5th, 1874, in a purse of $10,000, free for all stallions, where he was pitted against Thomas Jefferson, Mambrino Gift, and several others of the most noted trotting stallions of the continent. He won the first and second heats in 2:224 — 2:20|, going from wire to wire in the second heat in 2:18|, but was finally distanced in the fourth heat. On Sep- tember 14th, of the same year, he won the champion stallion race at Mystic Park, Boston, in three straight heats, in 2:23 — 2:23 — 2:20 ; which has stood as the best stallion record, until Smuggler himself commenced to cut it down this year (1876). First, at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, he won a race over Judge Fullerton, in 2:17J^2:18 — 2:17—2:20; the second heat being a dead heat between the two. Again, at Cleveland, July 27th, he won the " Free for All," beating Goldsmith Maid and others. The Maid took the first two heats in 2:152 — 2:17}, and Smuggler the next three in 2:161 — 2:19| — 2:172; being the fastest five-heat race ever trotted. On the following week, at Buffalo, he was defeated by the Maid in the fastest three consecutive heats ever trotted; time, 2:16— 2:15}— 2:15. At Rochester, the Maid failed to put in an appearance, and here the " King of the Trotting Turf" astonished the world by winning, in three straight heats, in 2:15!I — 2:18 — 2:191; thus making a record four and a quarter seconds lower than has ever been made by any other stallion. He probably possesses as much speed as any other horse, mare or gelding that has ever appeared upon the trotting turf; and under favorable cir- cumstances it is not at all unlikely that he may, before the end of the present season, wipe out the record of 2:14, which at present marks the ultima tliule of trotting time, reached only by Goldsmith 3Iaid. Smuggler is a brown or very dark bay horse, standing 15J hands high, with a blaze commencing between the eyes, and widening out, until, at the end of his nose, it reaches from nostril to nostril. Like all " converted pacers," he wears a heavy shoe in front to steady his gait, and the carrying of twenty-five ounces of iron on each of his front feet must cause so severe a strain upon the muscles which control their action, that we shall not be surprised at any time to hear of his breaking down from this cause. At Buffalo, he was so badly used up from the effects of his bruising race at Cleveland, that he was in no condition to trot, and was ignobly distanced. He rallied, however, on the week following, and won the great race to which we have heretofore alluded, at Rochester ; but on the succeed- ing week, at Utica, he was again off. On August 24, at Poughkeepsie, he was distanced in the first heat; and on September 1, at Hartford, he trotted against Goldsmith Maid, Judge Fullerton, and Bodine, and won the two first heats in 2:15} — 2:17. In the second heat he was very far behind at the start, and the judges were much blamed in consequence. Notwithstanding this, he closed up the gap, and made a dead heat with the Maid in 2:16i. Goldsmith Maid then took the last three and the race in 2:171 — 2:18 — 2:19, Smuggler pushing her closely in them all. At Springfield he trotted in the same com- pany, but did not win a single heat. Later in the season he trotted two races against the mammoth trotter Great Eastern, but acting badly, he lost them both. He was got by Blanco, a son of Iron's Cadmus, and his dam was a bay pacing mare brought from West Virginia. This mare was for a long time reported as by Tuckahoe, but subsequent investigations have exploded that story, and it may .safely be said that her blood is hopelessly unknown. The dam of Blanco was by Blind Tuckahoe, a son of Herod Tuckahoe. Iron's Cadmus was by Cadmus, .son of American Eclipse, out of a mare by Brunswick. This horse. Iron's Cadmus, was the sire of the famous pacing mare Poca- hontas, who, in turn, was the dam of Mr. Bonner's trotting mare of the same name, by Ethan Allen. It will be seen from the foregoing that all that is known of the blood of Smuggler is through his sire, Blanco, and that from this source he inherits a good share of pacing blood, mixed with thoroughbred; and that his dam was also a pacer. — National Live- Stock Journal. CO o o P5 I— I O O I— I P5 13 MERICAN GIRL was bred, in 1801, by Mr. rhilip Travis, of Westchester County, N. Y. She was got by Amos' C. M. Clay, out of a mare of utterly unknown blood, that was brought in a team from Virginia, at the breaking out of the war, and did service in a brick-yard at Kruger's Station, on the Hudson Eiver road, until her death. Mr- Travis presented- the tilly to his sons, and they soon after sold her to Mr. Odell, who was not long in finding out that, in the daughter of the black horse and the old mare that worked in the brick-yard, he had a trotter of no ordinary merit. He started her in a scrub race at Newburgh, and then sold her to Messrs. Travis & Mason, near Peekskill. In the fall of 1807, when the mare was only five years old, she had developed such speed as war- ranted her owners in matching her two races against J. J. Bradley, in the first of which the mare was to go to wagon, and the horse in harness, and in the second, both were to go iu harness, and this may be said to have been the beginning of her turf career. The mare won the first heat, the fast- est of the race, in 2:321 ; the third was a dead heat, in 2:30, and the horse won the second, fourth, and fifth; but each heat was so closely contested, that Borst, who controlled the horse, became satisfied that when they came together on equal terms, the mare would win the race. He accordingly elected to pay forfeit ou the second match. Soon after this race she was sold to Mr. Wm. Lovell, of New York, for S7000, who pjjiced her in the hands of John Lovett, and on the 4th of June, 1808, she first met Goldsmith Maid in a race. It was a hotly fought contest, which was not de- cided until six heats were trotted, the Girl taking the third, fifth, and sixth, and the fourth a dead heat, the Girl's best time being 2:28. On the 17th of June, she was defeated by General McClellan, after having won the first and sec- ond heats. After this race the change of drivers, which has so often been made under Mr. Lovell's ownership, com- menced. She first went into Hiram Howe's hands, and under his management met and defeated Goldsmith Maid again, in a race of six heats, best time, 2:25. She trotted several other races during the year 1808. winning four races during the year, and beating, among others, the Maid, Geo. Wilkes, and Rhode Island. Her best record that season was 2:24, made in a third heat in her race with Rhode Island. In 1809, she started out, under the care of Peter Manee, and her first tilt was with Lady Thorne, by whom she was defeated. She next met with Lucy, and was again beaten. Then another change of drivers came about, and Roden became her pilot. Her first race under Roden's administration was a great one, and occurred on Prospect Park May 29, in which she won in straight heats, beating Lucy, Goldsmith Maid, Rhode Island, Bashaw, Jr., and Geo. Wilkes; time, 2:23J— 2:231— 2:21. This race established the big mare's fame as a first-class trotter beyond dispute; but on the 20th of June, of the same year, at Narragansett Park, she capped the climax, and placed her- self second ou the scroll of fame, at that date, by defeating Lady Thorne, Goldsmith Maid, Lucy, and Geo. Palmer, in straight heats, in 2:22J — 2:19 — 2:20J, which was the best race ever trotted up to that date, and against four of the very best trotters that the country could produce. During this season, 1809, she won ten races, and trotted sixteen heats in 2:25 or better. In August of this year, another change of drivers took place, Ben Daniels superseding Roden, but the change did not add anything to her .speed. She com- menced the campaign of 1870, in Daniels' hands, by beat- ing Geo. Palmer and Geo. Wilkes, May 31, and won seven races, but only made seven heats in 2:25 or better, during the season, and was clearly not up to the .standard of the previous year. In 1871 she remained in Daniels' hands, and won six races, but none of them up to the mark of her 1809 performance, her best heat during the year being 2:20. The next year she was handled by Ben Maee, and won eight races, beating W. H. Allen. Lucy, Henry, Goldsmith Maid, Geo. Palmer, Rosalind, and others. It was on the 9th of August of this year that she made the record of 2:17i, that placed her by the side of Dexter in point of record, but she lost the race to Lucy. Her best race of the year was at Fleetwood, July 9, when she won over Lucy, Henry, and the Maid, in 2:21 — 2:191 — 2:24, and during the season she won sixteen heats in 2:25 or better. In 1873, she was handled by Dan Pfifer, and won five races, the best of which was over Fullerton and Camors, at Prospect Park, October 24, in 2:20—2:22—2:22}. In 1874 she started in a great many races, and won nine of them. Her best race, and the crowning one of her career upon the turf, was at Albany, Sept. 25, when she beat Camors in 2:201 — 2:162 — 2:19, being an average of about 2:18 J to the heat, among the fastest three consecutive heats ever trotted in a race. She commenced the campaign of 1875, at Jackson, Mich., June 18, where she won a heat in 2:28i, but lost the race. She was subsequently beaten at East Saginaw, Detroit, Chicago (winning fourth heat in 2:25), Cleveland, Pough- keepsie (winning first heat in 2:17}), Rochester, Utiea, and Hartford. At Springfield she beat Lula and Nettie in 2:22 —2:24—2:22. And at Elmira, N. Y., on Saturday, Oct. 2, 1875, in the Free-for-all Race, she dropped dead at the quarter-pole in the first heat. She had been slightly ailing from the prevailing epizootic, but it was thought that she had recovered so far that there was no danger in starting her in this race. A post-mortem examination showed her lungs in a congested condition, engorged with blood. — Spirit of the Times. 14 (SEE FRONTISPIECE.) EXTER was bred by Mr. Junathau Hawkins, of Orange County, New York. He was foaled ill 1858, and bought, when four years old, by Mr. George B. Alley, for $400. Although a fine colt, he had been held in disfiivor because of his four white legs and blaze in the face. At that time he was practically unbroken, and had never had a feed of oats in his life. Mr. Alley had him broken in harness, and drove him a little, but Dexter was very high-strung and nervous. Two accidents happened — one when lie was in a sleigh and the other to a wagon. He ran away both times. In the fall of his five-year-old season, the young horse was sent to Hiram Woodruff', and after a very short time he went in 2:42 to wagon. The following week he was tried a mile in harness, and trotted in 2:31 f. He then fell lame behind, from kick- ing in his stall, as was supposed. He was turned out, and taken up again on the 1st of December, after which Mr. Alley drove him and Baby Belle together in double harness. On the 4th of May, 1864, when six years old, Dexter made his first trot. It was on the Fashion Course, where he beat Stonewall Jackson, of New York, General Grant and Lady Collins. Two days after he beat Lady Collins on the Union Course. On the 13th of May he beat Doty's mare to wagon on the Union Course. On the 18th, at the Fashion Course, he beat Shark and Lady Shannon, and jogged out the third heat in 2:30. On the 3d of June he trotted mile heats to wagon, at the Fashion, against Shark and Hambletonian. It was five to one on Dexter. There was a great deal too much scoring. Dexter got mad, broke at the word, and hit his knee in the heat, which made Hiram mad too, and he drew him. After the swelling of his knee was reduced, the horse was turned out for two months. He was then taken up and driven by Mr. Alley until October 1st, when he was sent to Hiram Woodruff again. He gave him two weeks' work, when he trotted in 2:29. He had three weeks' more work, and then, on a damp, cloudy day in November, he went a mile trial on the Union Course, Blr. Alley and M. Sheppard F. Knapp timing him. At the end of it, when Hiram brought Dexter back to the .stand, he threw up his hands and exclaimed, '■ Oh ! what a horse !" The time was 2:23^^, and that on the Union Course on that day was about as good as 2:20 on the fastest courses we have now. So much for the King among horses in his first season on the course. On June 2, 1865, Dexter beat General Butler in harness, on the Fashion Course, and trotted the third heat in 2:24J. On the preceding day. Lady Thorne had trotted in 2:24 J on the Union, and these two were now matched for the Union Course, to trot Friday, June 9th. On that day there was a great storm, and the race was postponed. They trotted on the following Monday, and the mare won in four heats, the best of which was 2:24. This was the only time Lady Thorn ever beat him; he was then young and "in his green and salad days." Afterwards, she never had much chance with him. June 26, Dexter defeated Stonewall Jackson, of Hartford, three-mile heats, to saddle, Stonewall winning the first heat in 8:02}, and Dexter the last two and the race, in 8;0o — 8:09 J. He next beat General Butler, under saddle, in a match for $2,000, in straight heats, and then defeated the black horse and George Wilkes, in har- ness, in the same easy manner. He was then backed to trot against time, and beat 2:19. Five thousand to one thousand was staked against him, but he won easily in the first trial, in 2:18}, although he lost ground by a break. In a week he met General Butler on the same course, the Fashion, in a match, to wagons, mile heats. Dexter won as he pleased in 2:27i— 2:29. The next week, on the 27th of October, the horses met again, two-mile heats, to wagons. Butler had made the best two-mile heat to wagon that had ever been trotted, 4:56J^, when he went against George M. Patchen. Nevertheless, one hundred to forty was now laid upon Dexter. Butler led for a mile, with a few spurts of running. Then Dexter went in front, and won in 5:00i. Ten to one on Dexter. Butler got off four lengths ahead, and Hiram did not know that the word had been given until at the turn Mr. Crocheron told him to go along. At the half-mile Dexter reached Butler's wheel. On the lower turn he passed him, and the black horse broke. Dexter went on with powerful stroke and commanding style, and jogged out in 4:56} This was Dexter's second season on the turf, and it remains to this day altogether without a parallel In April, the California stallion, George M. Patchen, Jr., made his maiden race on this side, and beat Commodore Vanderbilt with ease. In May, Mr. Crocheron opened a purse of $2000. Dexter, the California stallion, General Butler and Commodore Vanderbilt entered. They trotted on the 15th of June. Dexter won in three heats, with consummate ease. On July 2d General Butler and Van- derbilt appeared against him. It was the last time that Hiram drove Dexter, and this day Eoff drove Butler. Dexter had been lame, and was still lame. Butler won the first and second heats in 2:28 — 2:27. Dexter second in both. Ten to one on Butler. I went with Mr. Alley to Hiram. He said : " With any other horse but Dexter, in his condition, and two heats gone, the race would be over; but his spirit is so high, and his game so unflinching, that there is still a chance to win." The third heat was a despe- rate one, and Dexter won it in 2:273 . The fourth heat was very close between Dexter and Butler all the way, but the 15 former lasted the longest, and won in 2:24j ; and then the Long Islanders of the south side raised a shout that swelled like the roar of the sea when it bursts upon their own shore. A hundred to sixty on Dexter. They were but two, for Vanderbilt had been distanced in the preceding heat, and they had each won two heats. They went away together, and Dexter led a neck at the Cjuarter. Neck-and- neck at the half-mile, in 1.124, and the eighteenth quarter of the race trotted in better than 35s. Neck -and neck still at the head of the stretch, and it was which can stand the high pressure longest. That was soon settled, for Butler broke when they entered the straight work, and Dexter won in 2:24^ The la.st half was trotted in 1:12, and it was the tenth half-mile in the race. I consider this race one of the greatest of Dexter's exploits, for he was not well, and nothing but the stubborn endurance of a bull-dog, and the unyielding valor of a game cock, enabled him to win. Budd Doble now took charge of Dexter, and a hippodromiug cam- paign began. At Philadelphia Dexter beat the California stallion, and trotted in 2:23 j. At the Fashion Course he beat Butler and Toronto Chief, under saddle. At Avon Springs Dexter beat the California stallion. At Buffalo he beat the stallion and Kolla Golddust. He also beat But- ler, under saddle, in 2:18, and trotted the last half in 1:08. At Cleveland he beat the stallion and Butler in harness. To recapitulate the further races in which Dexter beat Eoff and the stallion, would be useless. At Kalamazoo, the former tried to beat Flora Temple's time. He trotted the second heat in 2:21:], and the third in 2:2U. The track was not as good as it was when .she made her 2:19J, and this is one of the great things which make the time-test a very uncertain one. In his third year upon the turf. Dex- ter won twenty-five races of heats, three in five, and lost one, which was when he was off, and General Butler beat him under saddle. In 1867 he was matched against Lady Thorn to trot mile heats and two-mile heats in harness, and the same races to wagon. Before they came off, he met Goldsmith Maid at Middletown, and beat her with great ea.se. On the 28th of May, he met Lady Thorne at the Fashion Course, mile heats, throe in five, in harness. The mare was beaten with ease in the first heat, and distanced in the second. On the 7th of June they trotted to wagons. The first heat was slow. The mare broke twice, and Dexter was held back for her. The second was an amazingly fine heat. He beat her in 2:24; and then won the third, under a hard pull, in 2:28. On the 14th, they trotted two-mile heats in harness, and Dexter won easily in 4:51 — 5:012. On the 21st, Dexter trotted a race on the Fashion against Ethan Allen and running mate, mile heats, three in five. The team won the first heat in 2:15, and Dexter got home in 2:16. In the second heat he trotted on the outside. round the turn, and went to the half-mile in 1:06. On the lower turn the pace was still very hot, and Ethan broke; but the runner enabled him to catch without loss, and, pull- ing him along through the air, they overhauled Dexter and beat him three lengths in 2:16. The team won the third heat in 2:19. This, though a losing one, was the best per- formance Dexter ever made upon the course. To trot mile after mile at such a rate, against winning opponents, runner and trotter on the outside, and never to flinch an inch, mani- fests the most admirable resolution. He never broke, and was not forced out at the end of the heats. I never saw another trotter that could, in my estimation, have stood the pinch. I have seen some very fast ones that would have gone all to pieces when collared in the second heat, as Dexter was. On the 29th of J une Dexter beat Lady Thorne, two-mile heats to wagon. He was very fine-drawn from his previous races with her and with the double team, but he beat her with ease in 5:01 — 5:09. On the Fourth of July, he trotted against Ethan Allen and his thorough- bred runner, Charlotte F., on the half-mile track at Morris- town, and they won a very fast race for that course. On the 10th day of July. Dexter encountered Lady Thorne at Trenton, and beat her. This was the last time they met. On the 16th, he beat Brown George and running mate at Albany, and trotted the second and third heats in 2:20}. He beat them again at Providence, July 26. And on the 30th, he beat them again at the Kiverside half-mile course, Boston. In this race he made 2:21 1 — 2:19 — 2:2H. After that, at Buffalo, he beat his Boston time by trotting in 2:17i. The course was then over a mile in length, and much slower than it now is. At that meeting no horse save Dexter beat 2:30. He was now purchased by Mr. Bonner, and retired from the turf. During his career of less than four seasons Dexter won forty-nine races. The great ma- jority of them were mile heats, three in five, in harness. He also won at three-mile heats, and at two-mile heats, in harness, and to wagon he was never defeated. He lost a race to Shark through hitting himself Lady Thorne de- feated him once when he was not seasoned, and was off as well. He beat her five times in much better races. General Butler beat him once in a poor race, under saddle, when he was all off. Ethan Allen, with running mate, beat him twice. Dexter made the best mile under saddle, the best mile in harness, and the best mile to wagon that had been made. His two miles to wagon, second heat, was perhaps his greatest performance. He had lots of speed left at the end of it, and could have gone another mile without pulling up at a tremendous rate. It is manifest to those who carefully consider the breeding, the form, the wonderful exploits, and the rare characteristics of this famous horse, that he never had an equal. — C'Juis. J. Foster in Wallaces Monthly. o o u P O 17 I 'dPEFUL is a grray j^olJing, standing a little over fifteen hands high. Although a horse of great length, he is short in the back, and with a remarkable evenness of development through- out his entire make-up. His style of trotting is well-nigh perfection, going apparently with the most perfect ea.se to himself, and with the most complete control over his entire machinery. He was foaled in 18C6, and was got by God- frey's Patchen, a son of the famous trotting stallion, George M. Patchen, out of a gray mare bred and raised by Daniel Fletcher, in Buekfield, Oxford County, Maine. The pedi- gree of Hopeful's dam was until recently unknown; but a writer in TH/ffafo's Monlhli/ has ascertained that she was sired by the Bridgham Horse, '' whose exact breeding was never known in Buekfield, yet he was always under- stood to have been sired either by Winthrop Messenger or a son of his. He left behind a valuable race of horses noted for pluck and endurance, and invariably gray in color." " She had an open, slashing gait, a great stridor, and could, at that time, show a three-minute gait handy." Hopeful's grand-dam was a rapid-gaited mare by Whalebone Morgan, a son of Sherman Morg.in, one of the very best of the Morgan horses. Hopeful's first race was on August 25. 1873, at Springfield, in theSGOO Purse for all horses that had never trotted for premium or money, where he was fourth to Harry Spanker, Dolly Vardcn and Jennie, and only finish- ing in front of Lady Lightfoot. At Plainville, Sept. 9, 1873, he improved his position, and obtained the second place to Commodore Perry, in the 81000 Purse fur three-minute horse.s, two others finishing behind him ; and two days later, at the same place, he was again beaten by Com- modore Perry, this time only winning the third place. Hopeful's next appearance was in the three-minute race at Prospect Park, September 23d, where he scored his first victory, defeating Everett Ray, who was second. Lady Walton, Lizzie Keeler, and nine others, in three straight heats, in 2:30— 2-.2S— 2:30 1. Four days later, at the .same place. Hopeful continued his victorious career, carrying off the 2:45 Purse in 2:30— 2:32i— 2:20— 2:27— 2:25; Everett Bay taking the first heat, and Miss Miller the second heat, while Hopeful won the three last. He was then taken to Canada, and in the Free for all Purses, at Fredericktown, N. B., he defeated Queen and Gypsy Queen in three straight heats, in 2:41J — 2:-l01— 2:42', ; and at , where he trotted against time, and lost. Hopeful commenced his second season at Hartford, August 27. 1874, where he defeated Susie, Kansas Chief, Lucille Golddust, Joker and Ella Wright, in 2:25— 2:23^— 2:23|. On the first of the following month, at Mystic I'ark, he was third to Bodine and Lula, in the 2:24 Purse, Susie, Castle Boy and George being in the rear. Hopeful won the third heat in 2:23, thereby lowering his record two seconds. At Beacon Park, in September, ho could only obtain second place to Bodine, who was going unusually well that year. On the 23d of the same month. Hopeful showed his heels to Susie, Music and the Spotted Colt, in the 2:24 Purse, in 2:27—2:23— 2:251. At Taunton, Mass, one week later, he defeated Parker's Abdallah and 15illy Platter, in 2:341—2:37— 2:36|, and, turning his head towards Goshen, defeated Thomas L. Young, Huntress, Kansas Chief and Tanner Boy, in 2:28i — 2:27 'v — 2:271 — 2:26, Thomas L. Young capturing the first heat. At Fleetwood Park, on Oct. 26th, he concluded his campaign by defeating Thomas L. Young, Sensation, Kansas Chief and Young Bruce, in 2:22^-2:24 — 2:21 — 2:'22), Thomas L. Young again taking the first heat. His record now stood at 2:21. At Fleetwood Park, on May 22, 1875, he was unsuccessful, Kansas Chief winning, with Sensation second. He now lay by until August 5th, when he appeared at Poughkeepsie, in the $4500 Pur.se for horses that have never beaten 2:18, and defeated Lady Maud, Judge Fullerton, who took the first heat. Huntress and two others, in 2:21— 2:22|— 2:28— 2:28. At Hampden Park, three weeks later, he defeated Lady Maud and Kansas Chief, in 2:28—2:24—2:20 ; and on the last day of that month, at Hartford, he met Lady Maud, Lucille Golddust and Henry, when a fine race ensued. Hopeful won the first two heats in 2:181 — 2:221 ; Lady Maud the next two in 2:19—2:20}, and Hopeful the fifth and the race, in 2:23 J. He had now reduced his record to Lady Thome's famous figures, but now it was destined to a still further reduction; and at the same place, on Sept. 3d, he defeated the famous American Girl, in three straight heats, in 2:171 — 2:181 — 2:181, thus placing him side by side with the glorious Dexter. Great as the achievement was, Dan Mace, in his " Experience with Trotters," recently published in the Spirit of tlw Timra, says, ''On that day Hopeful could have trotted a mile iu 2:12, although his best time was only 2:171. I never let loose of his head, never asked hiui to go, and never wanted him to go ; and in no place in that mile did he go as fast as he could. . . I don't think there is a horse alive that can out-trot him now ; not a horse on the turf that can outspeed him." This was Hopeful's last race until this year. In 1870, owing to a foot difficulty, he was unable to trot, but, June, 1877, at Fleetwood Park, he started in the Free- for-all Purse, with Judge Fullerton, Albemarle, and Ade- laide, and astonished his owner, driver, and everybody else, by his pcrfiirninnce, winning the first heat in 2:181, bj- three quarters of a second the fastest mile ever trotted on the track, and taking the race handily without a skip, in three heats. Time, 2:181— 2:20— 2:171. At Boston, July 23, he defeated Smuggler in three straight heats, in 2:22 — 2:191—2:201. 19 UDGE FULLERTON was bred ia Motitgo- inery, Orange Couuty, New York, in ]8t!5, by Towijsend Bull, and was known in his earlier years as the Bull colt. The dam was a blocky, substantial bay mare, brought from Western New York, whose breeding is entirely unknown. She was a good road- ster, could trot about a three-minute gait, and the presump- tion is that she had good blood in her, probably Star, as, though both sire and dam Were bay, Fullerton is chestnut. She was bred to Edward Everett, and the produce was a colt with four white feet and ankles, and a blaze face. Up to his four-year-old form he developed nothing remarkable; indeed, a sale for him at the low price of $450 was v.iiuly 8')ught in 1869. The spring that he Was five years old he began to strike his gait, and so rapidly did he improve, that, aft€r winning a colt race in June, he was purchased by Mr. S. W. Fullerton, of Orange County, in July, 1870, for S3000. It was a capital speculation for Mr. Fullerton. as, two months later, he sold him to 3Ir. William M. Humphrey, of New York, for $20,000, after showing a half mile in 1:09|. He was placed in hands of Dan Mace for training, who soon f lund that he had a trotter indeed, and to his skill as a trainer and driver the success of the horse is largely due. His d<-bO,t on the turf, in an important event, was made at Buffalo, N. Y., August 8, 1871, in a purse for $5000, for the 2:34 class, under his new name. It was a Very trying race for a novice, there being fifteen starters, most of them seasoned trotters. Judge Fullerton had never been trained in company, as he had shown so much speed that the pre- caution was not deemed necessary, and, in consequence, the presence of so many discomposed him. and he made disas- trous breaks early in the first two heat.s, which were taken by J. H. Burke, each in 2:29 J. Fullerton now became accustomed to his new surroundings, settled down, and won the third heat in 2:26}, and the next two handily, in 2:29 — 2:32}, to the great joy of those who had heavily invested on him because of his reported speed. Three days later, at Buffalo, he was beaten by Judge Brigham, now Jay Gould, after winning the first heat, in 2:25}. He had encountered more dangerous foes than was expected in these races, and at once had obtained a record which located him in fast company thereafter. Later in the season of 1871 he trot- ted four races, winning three, beating such good ones as J. J. Bradley and Sea Foam, but getting no better record than 2:25}. The next season, 1872, we find him trotting in eight races, and winning six, and reducing his record to 2:21 J, at Fleetwood, Oct. 4. The following season, although it witnessed the most conspicuous defeat of his career, was very successful for Lim. He trotted fourteen races, and won twelve. The most important of them was the great race for the 2:21 cla.ss, at Buffalo, for the mammoth purse of $20,000, in which he was a warm favorite, but Caniors won the first two heats and Sensation the last three. Notwith- standing this defeat, he appears by the record to have won $27,550, enough to pay for hini.self, and entrance-money and expenses besides. He cut his record down this season to 2:19}, at Beacon Park, and placed himself in the free- for-all cla.ss. In 1874. a large proportion of his races were trotted ag.iinst Goldsmith Maid, and he encountered none but the speediest flyers. The result was that he only won three out of eighteen races, but he reduced his record to 2:19, and his winnings amounted to over $20,000, as he generally captured second money. Nov. 21, of this year, be distinguished himself in California, by winning a wagon r.ice from Occident, in straight heats, in 2:20J — -2:22J — 2;2H, and the first of these is to this day the fastest re- cord to wagon. He was not kept so busy in 1875, as he trotted only six races, winning three of them, and at Cleve- land reducing his record to 2:18, where it now stands, and has been excelled only by Goldsmith Maid, Lula, Smuggler, American Girl, Occident, Gloster, Dexter, and Hopeful. In 1876, although trotting twelve races. Judge Fullerton did not appear as a winner, but he showed himself conclusively a faster horse than ever. Early in the season he made a dead heat with Smuggler, in 2:18. At Buffalo, he was second to Goldsmith Maid in each of her three fast heats, and was separately timed, in 2:16i-^2:16i — 2:16i, while at Rochester the following week, when Siiiuggler trotted in 2:151, he was close up, and was separately timed in 2:16, the fastest heat he ever trotted, though not a record. He was unfortunate in losing the experienced hand of his old driver, Dan Mace, after the Buffalo races, and did not do so well subsequently, being driven by Voorhees, Splan, Mur- phy and Doble, neither of which excellent drivers had time enough to get acquainted with his peculiarities. At Fleet- wood Park, June 1, 1877, he was second to Nettie in the Free-for all Purse, taking the second heat in 2:20J, Lady Maud, Great Eastern and IjuIu being behind them ; and at Point Breeze Park, June 11, he was again second to Nettie, Lady Maud being third; and at Fleetwood Park, June 28, he was second to Hopeful in the Free for-all Purse, and at Springfield, July 13, he Was second to him again. Judge Fullerton is a reujarkably resolute trotter, with ex- cessive knee action, which tends to tire him. His fault has been an inability to finish his miles as well as he begins them. Could he do this, he would be the fastest trotter in the world, as he is noted for leading the way to the quarter and half mile poles, even in the very fastest company. He was timed a half mile at Utica, in 1:04, and frequently goes to the quarter-pole in less than 33s. He stands 15J hands high; weighs, in condition, about 1000 pounds, and strides 18J feet. — -Spirit uf the Times. 21 UCY is a fine slashing bay marc, without white, IS] hands high. She was bred by Mr. Job Buttcrworth, of \'inccntown, Burlington Co., N. J., and was foaled in 1856, her sire being the famous Jersey stallion George M. Patchcn (see page 41), and her dame a mare by May Day, a son of the race- horse Sir Henry, the renowned competitor of American Kelipse. Her turf career began at Hartford, Conn., Sep- tember 14, 1865, where she was second to Avtemus Ward, but won the third heat in 2:375, Honest Abe and Ben Allen being distanced in the first heat. Her next cflFort was more successful. At New Haven, October 19, she defeated Volcano and one other for a Purse of $150, in 2:40 — 2:39 — 2:39. In 1866 she made a great stride for- ward, and at the Fashion Course, L. I., July 10th, she defeated Amber, Daisy Burns and three others, in three straight heats, in 2:33— 2:30— 2:32i. Then at Boston, September 11, under saddle, she defeated Fanny Allen and Leviathan, in 2:30 — 2:283 — 2:30. Four days after- wards, at the same place, she succumbed to Mountain Maid, by Old Morrill, in slower time; Fearless being also in the race, and taking the first two heat-s. Two weeks after this race, at the Fashion Course, she beat Rosamond, who won the third heat, and Cora, in 2:30— 2:30i— 2:31 J— 2:28. At Providence, October 27, she met with the stallion Rhode Island, the sire of the magnificent trotting stallion Governor Sprague. Rhode Island was then named Dan Rice, and he was a good one. Lucy won the first heat, in 2:32o, then the stallion took the second in 2:283 ; the third was Lucy's, in 2:28-5. and the stallion won the two last and the race, in 2:29-1 — 2:27-]. She trotted her last race that year at Boston, November 22, where she beat Uncle Dudley, in three straight heats, in 2:445 — 2:41] — 2:385. June 13, 1867, she met Panic, by Sherman Black Hawk, and the famous black gelding General Butler, at the Fashicm Course, and a closely-contested race ensued. Lucy took the first two in 2:32— 2:31} ; Panic the third, in 2:305 ; Butler the fourth, in 2:27; the fifth was a dead heat between I'anio and Butler, in 2:28; the sixth I'anic won, in 2:325. Lucy was then drawn, and all the others were distanced in the seventh heat for running. At Narragausett, August 1, she beat Colonel Maynard and Bruno, in 2:27 — 2:27 — 2:28 ; and four days afterwards, at the same place, she boat General Butler and Bruno, in 2:28|— 2:27— 2:265. Lady Thorne now defeated her three races right off the reel, but at the fourth time of their meeting, at Narragausett Park, October 24, she turned the tables on the one-eyed mare, and beat her, Bruno and Rhode Island, in 2:27 i — 2:28 — 2:265—2:255, Lady Thorne taking the first heat. The filth race of the series the Lady won. She had previously defeated Rhode Island and Old Put at New Haven, October 3. In 1868 she was beaten six times by Lady Thorne, and did not win a single race from the game old mare. At the Fashion Course, June 3, she defeated Gen. Butler, to saddle, in 2:255—2:26—2:22*; and at Boston. July 2d, she beat Rollo Golddust, also to saddle, in 2:37 i —2:255—2:23}^. Two weeks later, at Troy, N. Y., she met Goldsmith Maid for the first time, and defeated her and Fred Pense, in 2:28—2:29—2:24}. At Buff'alo, July 31, she beat Rollo Golddust and Silas Rich, in 2:2.^3— 2:31 — 2:27; and at Syracuse, August 21, she defeated George Palmer and Mountain Maid, in 2:26— 2:28}— 2:29 — 2:25, Palmer taking the first heat. In 1869 she won but one race, that against American Girl, at the Fashion Course, L. L, May 17, 1869, in 2:295—2:275—2:25. She was defeated seven times by American Girl, once by Gold- smith Maid, once by Lady Thorne, and once by George Wilkes. In 1870 she won four races from George Wilkes, Mountain Boy and Henry being also in two of them, and was beaten three times by Goldsmith Maid, twice by George Wilkes, and four times by American Girl. In 1871, after defeating George Palmer, at Narragausett Park, in 2:26] — 2:25 — 2:24, she started out on a hippodroming tour with Goldsmith Maid through the principal towns of the West. She was well up to the Maid in nearly all the heats, but did not win a single one from her. That she could have done so, had it been the interest of those who controlled her, is asserted by many good judges. In 1872 she was more fortunate. She commenced the season at Philadel- phia, June 7, where she was beaten by Goldsmith Maid, in straight heats; and again at the same place, five days later, she was second to Jay Gould, in slow time. At Mystic Park, June 19, and at Prospect Park, June 27, Goldsmith Maid beat her ; and at Fleetwood Park, July 9, American C4irl beat her, Goldsmith Maid and Henry. At Cleve- land, Goldsmith Maid beat her and American Girl, and at Cincinnati beat her again. At Buffalo, August 9, the three mares mot again, and Henry was with them, and an excellent race ensued. Lucy won the first heat, in 2:18} ; American Girl won the second, in 2:171 ; Lucy won the third, in 2:193, and the fourth, in 2:22. Although she was unable to win a heat herself. Goldsmith Maid was second in all of them. The Maid and Lucy now proceeded on their expedition to California, and at Sacramento and San Francisco the Maid beat her. She wound up the season by beating Occident at Alameda, in two heats, 2:25 J — 2:20, Occident being distanced in the second heat. In 1873 she trotted but one race — at Cleveland, August 2, which she won in three heats— 2:21 1—2:23|— 2:24}, American Girl being second in all the heats, and Goldsmith Maid distanced in the first heat. After this she was put to the stud, and is now at the Fashion Stud Farm, Trenton, N.J. -■;■■? *■;• 1^ t-H o o c < a o sT 1^ Bi O O O O d si o si 23 ODTNK was bred by Alden Goldsmith, of Orange Couuty, N. Y. He was foaled in June 1865. He was got by Volunteer out of a strong, coarse- looking mare, by Harry (Hay. She was a fair traveller, gentle and kind in all harneps, but nothing further is known of her blood. When coming five years old he was broken to single harness, and in the May following, Mr. Gold- smith commenced to drive him. He was a natural trotter, and his owner had high expectations of him from the day he first sat behind him. His stride was long and easy-=.there being no appearance of labor about it — and of that peculiar style which only requires quickening to produce great speed. He was an honest, resolute trotter from the begin^ ning, and his gait steadily improved with the light work that was given him. In the autumn of that year he was entered in the five-year-old class at the Goshen fair, where he won with ease in 2:45i, After the fair he was turned out, but was fed grain until the nest spring, when he was again taken up, and, after the usual preliminary jogging, was given some pretty sharp work, with a view to preparing him for the saddle race at Bufiiilo, in August, Shortly before the closing of the entries at Buffalo, he showed a trial in 2:32, and repeated in 2:31, but Mr, Gold- smith was of the opinion that that time was too slow to win the race, and decided not to enter the lists. The horse was kept in training, and on the 19th of September, he started in a race at Fleetwood, where he won over Belle of Oneid:i, Constance, Nettie Morris and Joe, in 2:3 1-^2:30 J^2:33 — 2:30J — the third heat being a dead heat between Bodine and Belle of Oneida, the horse having thrown a shoe at the halfmile pole. This race made a reputation for Bodine, and stamped him as a coming trotter, Immediately after this race he was taken with the prevailing influenza, which used him severely for several weeks, but, notwithstanding this, he was started in several races afterward, before going into winter quarters, and was beaten but once. He was then turned out for the winter with a louse bos stall, but into which he could seek shelter, when he chose to do so, but the door was not closed on him during the winter. The next spring he was taken up, and appeared very strong, and showed a fine turn of speed ; but before he had been driven a trial he was sold to his present owner, Mr, H, C. Goodrich, of Chicago, who took him west. The change of climate, or some other cause, operated unfavorably on him, and he did but little that season ; but the next year he won several good races, winning eight heats bettor than 2:30, and making a record of 2:25|, on a slow track. He commenced the campaign of 1874, at Freeport, 111., June 0th, where he won in three straight heats, over Pilot Temple and others, in 2:31J— 2:26— 2:27i. He entered the Grand Quadri- lateral at Cleveland, and in this first race of the series for the 2:24 class he won the first heat in 2:22}, but was beaten the nest three heats by Lula, in 2:20} — 2:23} — 2:24|. From this on he was the winner of every race in which he was engaged with horses of his own class, his only defeat during the remainder of the season being at Hartford, where he was pitted against Gloster and Sen- sation, and in this race he won the first heat in 2:21. During the season he won twenty-five heats better than 2:30, fifteen of which were in better time than he had ever shown prior to this year. Perhaps the best race of his campaign was at Buffalo, when he won what was, up to that date, the best race of five heats ever trotted, the time of the heats being 2:22}— 2:21— 2:21}— 2:2U— 2:22} ; and there is no doubt but that it will take rank among the best and most hotly-contested races ever trotted on the American turf. During that season he started in twelve races, in nine of which he won first money, and second in one. His winnings for the year amounted to $19,400. His best record was made at Beacon Park, where he won in three straights, in 2:2U— 2:19J— 2:21 J. He entered upon the campaign of 1875 in splendid condition, and bid fair to outstrip his last year's fame as a campaigner. His first race was a match against time, at Grand Rapids, Mich., which he won with ease. On the week following, he met and defeated Judge FuUerton, at East Saginaw, in 2:1'J}— 2:20— 2:2U— 2:21, Fullerton taking the second beat. In his race at Grand Rapids he had the misfortune to hit his ankle, which lamed him a little, but not seriously; but a few weeks later, after the wound had healed, he suddenly grew worse, so much so that it was thought best to withdraw him from his engagements for the rest of the year, Bodine commenced the campaign of 1876 at Jackson, Mich., June 23d, where he was defeated by Frank Reeves and General Garfield, in slow time; and at East Saginaw he was compelled to take the second place to Kansas Chief, General Garfield Taeing third. But at Detroit, on July 8, he defeated General Garfield and Kansas Chief in three straight heats, in 2:21— 2:23J— 2;22. At Grand Rapids, Mich., July 14, he defeated Cozette, Observer and General Garfield in three straight heats, in 2:25—2:27 — 2:24}; and in the following week, at the Dexter Park, Chicago, he was again victorious, defeating Mollie Morris, General Garfield and Badger Girl, in 2.25f— 2;25}— 2:27J. This was his last victory that year. In the Septilateral Circuit he was unsuccessful, not winning a single heat in any of the Free-to-all Purses, although generally close up at the finish. At Cincinnati, October 6, he was third to llarus and Silversides: Elsie Good, Cozette and Monarch being behind them. Last winter he spent in California, where he won several races against Occident. — Spirit of the Times. OS O u u P5 1—1 H O a. H o w p4 O (H H Bi 111 C OS pL, a H 25 LORA TEMPLE was foaled in the year 1845, and was bred by Mr. Samuel Welch, Oneida County, N. Y. She was got by One-Eyed Hunter, who was by Kentucky Ilunter, and her dam was Madam Temple, who was got by a spotted Arabian horse, owned at that time by Mr. Horace Terry, and brought from Dutchess County, N. Y. Her owner, a Mr. Traiy, kept her until she was four years old, when, finding her wilful and unserviceable, he disposed of her to Mr. William H. Congdon, of Smyrna, Chenango County, for the sum of thh-toen dollars. Mr. Congdon shortly afterwards disposed of her to Kelly & Richardson for SG8. After passing through several hands, part of the time wiu'king in a livery stable, she was sold to Mr. George E. Perrin, of New York, for .S350, in whose hands the flighty young mare became a true stepper. Her first regular appearance on the turf was at the Uuiou Course, L. I., September 9, 1850, where, a mere outsider, to the astonishment of the turf habitues, she defeated Whitehall and three others, I'or the large Purse of §50, in '2:a'l — 2:55 —2:52—2:40, Whitehall taking the first heat. The nest year, owing to an accident, she was not in training, and in 1852 she trotted but two races, both of which she won ; but in 1853 she entered upon that wonderful career which only ceased when the great civil war deluged our land with blood, and the clash of arms well-nigh silenced the sports of the turf. Her fii'st race that year was at the old Hunting Park Course, Philadelphia, where she was beaten by Black Douglas, a horse of some local celebrity, but afterwards beat him twice without much difficulty. She also beat Highland Maid twice, Green Mountain Maid three times, Tacony seven times, Rhode Island three times, and Lady Brooks and Lady Vernon each once. She was beaten twice by Tacony, and once each by Black Douglas and Green Mountain Maid. In the next year she defeated Jlac, Jack Waters, Green ]\I(mntain Maid, and was beaten but once — by Green Moun- tain Maid. In 1855, after being defeated in her opening race by the gray mare Sontag, and then losing a match to trot twenty miles against time, owing to her casting a shoe and cutting herself, she won six races right oft' the reel, defeating Know-Nothing (afterwards Lancet), Sontag, Lady Franklin, Chicago Jack, Mac, Frank Forrester (afterwards Ike Cook), and Hero the pacer. The next two years were principally distinguished by her contests with the slashing black gelding Lancet, in which she carried ofl' most of the honors, although she also defeated Tacony, Chicago Jack, Ethan Allen and others, thereby reducing her record to 2:24 J. In 1858 she was sold to Mr. William McDonald, a wealthy gentleman of Baltimore, for ISOOO, and during the year scored thirteen victories without a single defeat. Her first race in 1859 was with Ethan Allen, at the Fashion Course, to wagon, whom .she beat, in 2:25 — 2:27'. — 2:27 5. On June 16, she met the bay mare Princess, who had come from California with a great reputation, especially for long- distance races, and beat lier, at the Eclip.se Course, three- mile heats, to wagon, in 7:54 — 7:59-}. In their second en- counter at the same place, twelve days later, she was beaten by Princess, but Flora beat her eight races right off the reel, and Princess never won another race from her. On October 15, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, she appeared to trot again with Princess and Honest Anse. The people of that section were terribly excited over the contest, and gave a purse of S2U00. The first heat was jnst about fiist enough to warm 4 Flora up. In the second heat Honest Anso made her trot fast for three-quarters of a mile; he then shut up, and she won it in 2:22>. He was after this withdrawn, and Flora and Princess started for the third heat. The little mare went clean away from Princess, did the first half in 1:09, and trotted the heat in 2:191, which created the most intense excitement among turfmen all over the country. After this great exploit .she went to Cleveland, where she beat Princess with great ease and in poor time; then, at Cuyahoga Falls, on the 28th of October, she beat Ike Cooke — they had four heats, the second being a dead heat. On the 21st of November she appeared on the Union Course against George IM. Patchen. It was mile heats; the mare was to go in harness, while her only competitor was to go under saddle. In the first heat Patchen took the lead, but Flora won it in 2:28. In the second heat they travelled very fast, but the mare again came in ahead, in 2:23. The third she made in 2:24 ; but the heat was given to the stallion because Flora broke near home, and cro.s.sed him when she ought not to have done so. They came up for another heat, and went away at great speed without the word. It was getting dark, and in spite of a recall they kept on. Flora came out ahead, but the judges had not given the word, and declared it was no heat. The race was postponed till the Ibllowing day, but it was never trotted out. She then defeated Ethan Allen, at the Union Course, November 24, and then went into winter quarters. In the spring of 18G0, the Jersey stallion George M. Patchen was matched" against her again for $1000, mile heats, three in five, in harness, over the Union Course. The first heat she won by a throat latch, in 2:21, the second in 2:24, and the third in 2:215, which, according to the veteran turfman Ilirani Woodruff, "was the best race that Flora Temple ever made." In their next encounter, at the l^'nion Course, June C, two-mile heats, she was the fovorite at long odds, but Patchen won easily in two straight heats in 4:58] — 4:57]. Two other races followed at Philadelphia between these two hor.ses. Flora winning both ; the one on July 4, mile heats, in 2:225—2:213 — 2":375; that on July 10, two-mile heats, in 4:51 i — 5:01.!. On August 2, at the Union Course, Flora and Patchen again met; Patchen took the first heat in 2:231, but the mare won the others and the race, in 2:22.1-2:235-2:251. After this Flora went to Fonda, and beat Brown Dick, in harness, in three heats. On the 28th of the same month she met George M. Patchen, at Boston, for a Purse of §1500, mile heats, three in five, in harness. The mare won in four heats, the second being a dead heat, and the best time was 2:28^. On the 15th of September, at Kalamazoo, she beat Ethan Allen, best time 2:23. Returning to New York, she failed to beat Dutchman's time, and then started out upon a tour with Patchen. In 1861 it was difficult for the mare to get engagements, but at length a new candidate put in appear- ance in John Morgan. He was beaten in 2:24$ — 2:26 — 2:285, and in the two-mile race in 4:55-5 — 4:521. Her owner, Mr. McDonald, sympathizing with the rebellion, she was confiscated by the government in 1861, and never trotted again. After the death of Mr. McDonald, in 1864, she was purchased by Mr. Welch, of Chestnut Hill, Pa., for $8000. The last time that Flora appeared in public was when Gen. Grant reviewed the great trotters on Dubois's track a few years ago. 'She showed well then, but afterwards her hind legs failed, and she had to be let up, and was put to the stud. © P Bi O a o I— I m Z bT H to O P^ w ^; o tH H M o « Ph w 27 AMBRINO GIFT was bred by the late E. P. Kinkead, of Woodford Country, Ky., and was foaled in 18GG. lie was got by Relf's Jlam- brino Pilot out of Waterwitch (the dam of Diadem) by Alexander's Pilot, Jr., second dam by Kinkead's St. Lawrence, third dam was always called a thorough-bred mare, but we are not able to give her pedigree. His sire, Mambrino Pilot, was got by Mambrino Chief out of Juliet, by Alexander's Pilot, Jr. It will thus be seen that Gift is strongly inbred to Alexander's Pilot, his own dam and the dam of his sire having been got by that horse. When he was two years old he was placed in the hands of that skill- ful trainer and astute horseman, Dr. L. Herr, of Lexington, who had entire charge of his early education as a trotter. At three years old, Dr. Herr is reported as stating that he thought Gift the fastest colt of his age in Kentucky. He was purchased by his present owners, Messrs. Nye & Foster, of Flint, Mich., in July, 1873, from Messrs. J. Monahon, of Springfield, Ohio, and E. Wade, of South Bend, Ind. He trotted in one race at three years old, and did not again appear on the turf until after his purchase by his present owners. At the commencement of the trotting season of 1873, he was not able to show a trial better than 2:40, but he steadily improved during the season, and was very suc- cessful in his races. He started eight times, and was seven times winner of first money, winding up with a record of 2:26i, at Bufl'alo. He suffered during this entire campaign from cracked heels, and they bled more or less in every one of his races. During the next winter it was not contem- plated to put him on the track again, and he was permitted to become loaded with fat. He made a short season in the stud in the spring of 187-1, covering twenty-five mares, and was then put into training. His first race was at Jackson, Mich., in June, when he lapped out Bed Cloud, in 2:25. On the week following, at Saginaw, he again lapped out the same horse, in 2:22. He entered the Quadrilateral at Cleveland, where he was beaten by Fred Hooper, in 2:23^ — 2:23— 2:27i, Gift taking the third heat in 2:26*. On the following week he trotted at Bufl'alo, in what we must be permitted to call the gTcatest stallion r,ice of the season, for a purse of $10,000; and although he was defeated, yet he covered himself with glory in this hard-fought contest. It was a race for blood from the beginning to the end of the sixth heat with Gift. He was not saved up or rested, but was driven for every heat. The first was won by Smuggler, in 2:22J^, with Gift second. The next was taken by the same horse, in 2:20|, with Gift fighting for the lead to the last moment. The third was won by Gift, in 2:22^, and, Smuggler having been dispo.sed of by Gift, the next three were fought out, inch by inch, between the game chestnut and the resolute black stallion, Thomas Jefferson ; and it was not until the wire was reached, at the finish of the .sixth heat, that it was a sure thing for either horse, but Jefferson secured the honor of victory. But it was in the next week, at Kochester, that he made his great record ot 2:20, and won a race in three heats, which aggregate two seconds faster than any other three heats ever trotted by a stallion. In this race his competitors were Tanner Boy, Joe Brown, Joker, Barney Kelly, Fred Hooper, and Gift's time was 2:21 — 2:20 — 2:23. In the great stallion race at Boston, Gift was defeated, the race being won by Smuggler, in 2:23 — 2:23 — 2:20 ; but the aggregate time of the race is two seconds slower than that of the race won by Gift at Rochester. Messrs. Nye & Foster claim that their horse was drugged, in order to prevent him from winning this race. They state that it was the opinion of a veterinary surgeon, who examined him at the time, that he had been given a heavy dose of aconite; but, be this as it may, he was clearly and decidedly out of condition on the day of the race, and was only able to secure fifth place in the award. Mambrino Gift is a very dark chestnut, without white, is about 16 hands high, and, in full flesh, weighs over 1,200 lbs. He trots level and true, with a manifesta- tion of a very great degree of nervous will, power and intelligence; but, when closely pressed, has a way of leaving his feet and running rather oftener than we like to see. Whether this is from an infirmity of temper, or from defect- ive training, we are not able to say ; but we would like him better if he would stick closer to his gait. He is a natural trotter, was easily trained to go fast, comes of most excellent trotting blood on both sides, backed up by several stout crosses of thorough blood. — Spirit of the Times. 29 AM I'URPY was foaled June 21, 1860, in .■^(iiioiiia Couuty, Cal. His sire was George M. I'atchen Jr., often called California Patchen, who was got by George M. Patehen, the great son of Cassius M. Clay, his dam by Top-Bell-Founder, a grandson of imp. Bell-Founder, the maternal grandsire of Rysdyk's Hamblctonian. The dam of Sam Purdy was a mare called Whiskey Jane, by Illinois Medoc, dam of un- known blood. Whiskey Jane went to California from Illinois in 1852. Sam Purdy is a bright bay. stands just sixteen hands, and weighs, in trotting condition, a little over one thousand pounds. He has no white or black points. His owner is C. W. Kellogg. Esq., of San Fran- cisco. The stallion did a limited amount of service in the stud before he was sis years old, covering thirteen mares and producing eleven colts. These colts are all in Califor- nia, and have shown good speed, but are all young, as yet, and the commendable practice of not training too young has been followed with them. Sam Purdy 's reputation has been made on the turf, rather than in the stud. He showed signs of great speed at an early age, but was not trained until ho was seven years old, and trotted his first race June 14, 1873, at Oakland, Cal., in which he beat a good field of horses, and got a record of 2:30'}. He after- wards appeared, in the same year, in seven races, winning five of them, and became famous on Sept. 15, that season, by winning second, third and fourth heats, at Sacramento, in 2:233—2:231—2:23}. This race established both his speed and staying powers, and gave him a stallion record surpassed at that time by very few. He was now consider- ed a formidable horse in the stallion championship race at Boston, in 1874, and was entered for that event, but did not come East. The only race he trotted in 1874 was one in September, at Sacramento, in which he defeated Occident and Blackbird, after the former had won two heats, in 2:21 — 2:24}. Sam Purdy's best time was 2:25i. Although he did not lower his record in this race, he enhanced his reputation, as in it he defeated the great flyer of the Pacific Slope, Occident. Last season he was let up entirely, but this year he showed so much speed, having been put into Doble's hands, that it was concluded to send him East with the stable of that driver, and let him try conclusions in the Septilateral Circuit with the trotters of the 2:22 class. He was entered throughout the Circuit, except at Rochester, and his very successful campaign therein is now a matter of history. At Cleveland he was not thought likely to win, having to encounter Badger Girl, Joe Brown, and Cozette, but he did so in fine style, making the first heat dead with Badger Girl, in 2:23J, and winning the next three, in 2;25J— 2:23i— 2:25}. This race did not open the eyes of the betting men to his merits, and when Buffalo was reached, the California stallion still sold in the field. His victory here was a great triumph, over Cozette, Prospero, Lady Turpin, and Badger Girl. Cozette took the first heat, in 2:222, and then Sam Purdy won the next three, in 2:20J — 2:22} — 2:23}. His record in the second heat has only been beaten by two stallions, and equaled by one other. The Buflalo race was a very trying one, and hotly contested throughout, and the reso- lute style of the winner, in his finishes, was much admired. At Rochester, Sam Purdy was not entered, none of Doble's stable going to that point. At Utica he met his first de- feat. He encountered here some new competitors, notably the mare Adelaide, who won the race in fine style, Sam Purdy being obliged to content himself with fourth money. The track was very bad for him at Utica, being covered with pebbles, which were constantly striking him and irri- tating him. At Poughkeepsie, Sam Purdy did not take part in the contest, which was protracted to eight heats, and would have been just the kind of a race for him. The 2:22 race at Hartford was another protracted struggle. On account of his former victories, Sam Purdy was made the favorite. Bella won the first heat, Adelaide the second, and Slow Go the third, and matters looked very squally for the favorite. He managed, however, to wrest the fourth heat from Slow Go, in 2:23, and took the fifth handily in 2:26}, the party beginning to tire, but Adelaide, who had been laid up in the fifth heat, won the sixth, in 2:27}, and the finish was postponed on account of darkness. The next morning, the four heat winners had a very close and excit- ing struggle for victory, but Sam Purdy showed the stuff that was in him by taking the lead early in the heat, never being headed, and winning by a length, in 2:22f , the fastest seventh heat ever trotted, and the race may be considered, on the whole, the best one ever trotted by this stallion. At Springfield he had to yield first place to Bella, who won in three straight heats, Sam Purdy getting second money. It will be seen that out of five races, in which he started, pitted against famous flyere, he won three, took second money in one and fourth money in one. This is a most flattering record. Late in the Fall he returned to the Pacific Slope, and on January 13, 1877, at the Bay District Course, San F'raneisco, was defeated by the "glorious geld- ing" Rarus to wagon in three straight heats in poor time. He has shown great speed, steadiness, and endurance, his fault being a lack of courage, rendering it necessary to use the whip freely on him. This is attributed to the effect upon him of the warm nights in this climate, as he never showed a lack of courage in California. — Sjiirit of (he Times. 31 OVERNOK SPRAGUE was bred by the Hon. Aniasa Sprague, of Providence, R. I. He was foaled February 24, 1871 , and was got by Rhode Island (formerly Dan Rice), who has a trotting record of 2:23-}, out of Belle Brandon by Rysdyk's Hamble- tonian. The fall this colt was a weanling he was sent, along with other stock, from Providence to the Kansas Stud Farm of Messrs. Sprague & Akers. Pie ran out with the other youngsters of the farm until July 1873, when he was taken up and broken to harness, but was not trained. In the October following he was sold for S1500 to the Higbee Brothers, of Canton, 111., and showed at the time of sale a 2:45 gait. He was a natural trotter from the start, requiring no artifi- cial appliances whatever to make him go squarely and fa.st. The price at which he was sold was, at the time, considered very low by Mr. Akers, but he knew that Morrell Higbee, one of the purchasers, was an excellent horseman and an experienced trainer (he having brought out Flora Bell and other good ones), and it was a part of the consideration that Higbee was to train the colt, and develop and exhibit his speed. After the purchase Mr. Higbee took the colt home, turned him into a large box-stall, and never put harness on him until the next spring, when he was three years old. During that season he allowed him to serve eight mares, out of which he got seven foals. His work that season was very light, and consisted merely of a fair degree of exercise, with a view to accustom him to harness, and could not be termed icork as trainers use the word. During the year he was never driven at speed a full mile, except on one occasion, when he showed 2:27, and he had two half-mile trials, each in 1:12, all on a half-mile track. During the winter of 187-4-75, he was not in harness more than three or four times, on which occasions he was driven double with Mr. Higbee's celebrated gelding Little Fred, on the road. About May 1st, he was put into regular train- ing— the first regular work that he ever had. His first mile trial this season was given him under a heavy load, and he showed 2:27. His work was very moderate and rather irregular ; but, previous to his appearance at Cleveland, where public attention was first directed to him, he had been given five trials of one mile each, and on the last one he showed 2:21 i on a half-mile track. He was jogged two miles by the side of Preston, at Cleveland, and was then driven a third, without stopping, in 2:26J, showing no signs of being urged at any time, and coming out as though it was merely an exercising gait for him. At BuflTalo, on the last day of the late meeting, he was jogged once around the track, and was then sent a full mile — the first time he was ever speeded on a mile track— in 2:211, making the last half a half a second faster than the first one, and finishing the third quarter in 34 seconds — a 2:16 gait. On the last day of the Utica meeting he again made a public trial, in which he scored 2:21?. There can be no doubt of the time of either of these public trials, as hundreds of watches were held upon him in each case. The time made in these trials was taken by the official timers of the course, and was announced from the judges' stand ; but as it was not a race, it does not constitute a technical record. He made his first appearance in a race at Dexter Park, Chicago, July 20, 1876, in the $1500 Purse for horses that have never beaten 2:35, defeating easily Mambrino Kate, Edward and five others, in 2:271 — 2:29 — 2:30i ; and on the succeeding day he was sold to his present owner, Hon. Jerome I. Case, of Racine, Wis., for $27,500, cash. At Rochester, Aug. 8th, he defeated Mambrino Kate, Hattie R. and Rose, in 2:24 —2:211—2:23. At Poughkeepsie, Aug. 22d, he lost the first heat to his old antagonist, Mambrino Kate, but won the remaining three and the race, in 2:20* — 2:241 — 2:211, Irene, Carrie N. and Big Fellow being behind the pair. At the Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia, Sept. 16th, to the astonishment of all, he lost the Free for All Race to Elsie Good, the fast daughter of Blue Bull. Governor Sprague was evidently off in this race, for in the first heat he was the very last, and the time was slow throughout. At the Breeders' Centennial Trotting Meeting, at Suffolk Park, Philadelphia, he appeared in the Independence Race for five-year-olds in such poor condition, that his withdrawal before the race was asked for and refused. He won in the three straight heats, over Blackwood, Jr., Elsie Good and Lady Mills. The race is thus described by the National Live Stock Journal, for November 1876 : " The Independence Race for five-year-olds attracted a good deal of interest, from the fact that upon this occasion the great black stallions, Governor Sprague and Blackwood, Jr., for the first time, were to try conclusions. It was generally known that the former was out of cnndition, and among the betting fraternity Black- wood, Jr., was made a favorite on the evening preceding the race ; but the result upset all of their calculations. On the first heat Blackwood, Jr., took the lead, closely pressed by Governor Sprague, and kept his position, trotting rather unsteadily and breaking often, until they entered the home- stretch, when Doble sent Governor Sprague to the front and won the heat by half a length. In the remaining two heats Governor Sprague took the lead from the start and kept it to the wire. Blackwood, Jr. appeared very unsteady through- out the race, while Governor Sprague appeared perfectly unconcerned, and never made a break." At the same meeting he trotted several trials for the National Stallion Cup against Sam Purdy and Blackwood, Jr. ; but his want of condition told on him, and Blackwood, Jr., won the coveted trophy. This was his last public appearance ; he then was put to the stud at Racine, Wis. OS o p^ p O Q H o a" s CO o 03 W o 03 a 33 AY GOULD is a bay stallion, foaled 1864, got by Rysdyk's Hambletonian out of Lady Sand- ford by American Star, second dam by a son of Sir Henry, the famous competitor of Ameri- can Eclipse. He was bred by Richard Sears, and was sold with his dam, while at her side, to Mr. Chas. H. Kerner, of New York, who soon after traded them to Mr. John Minchen of Goshen, N. Y. Mr. Minchen disposed of him to Mr. A. C. Green, of Fall lliver, Mass., who named him Judge Brigham. Hark Comstock, in Wallaces Monthly, thus describes his first entree into turf society : " He grew to be a handsome, blood-like horse, like most of the produce of the Hambletonian and Star cross, and had the open, slashing action that almost invariably follows it. Mr. Green was not convinced that he had a trotter until one fine day, in the year 1870, the horse took fright at the steam-cars, and ran away with him on a trot. He improved very rapidly from that time on, and the nest year he was ent«red to trot for the $.5000 Purse, at Buffalo, where five com- petitors appeared against him, the best of which was Judge Fullertou, by Edward Everett, whose backers were confident of his success, and doubly so after he had taken the first heat in 2:254. Great was their astonishment, however, wlien Judge Brigham cut loose, after a very unfavorable start, and led the field home, in 2:22, the fastest record that had ever been made by any horse in his first race, and equalling the best stallion time to that date. He then finished the race by taking the next two heats, in 2:22} — 2:26i. Great excitement prevailed at the close of the race, and three prominent gentlemen and capitalists, who took deep interest in horse matters, made a joint purchase of him. He thus became the property of Messrs. H. N. Smith, Jay Gould and Mr. George C. Hall. In compliment to the great broker whose name appears in the ownership, he was named Jay Gould. Subsequently, Mr. Smith pur- chased the interest of Mr. Hall, and that of Mr. Jay Gould was purchased by Mr. Chas. H. Kerner, and thus the horse is still owned." His next race was at Kalamazoo, Ausnist 17th, against Uncle Abe, Judge Fullerton, and others. Uncle Abe took the first and second heats in 2:28} — 2:281, but Jay Gould took the next three, and the race in 2:30— 2:26}— 2:30}. This was his last race for the year, but the year following, being then eight yeare old, he trotted at Philadelphia, June 12th, with Lucy, and beat her in three straight heats in 2:24^-2:28 J— 2:25. He next started at Cincinnati, July 26th, where he defeated the famous Thos. L. Young; the first two heats in 2:28 — 2:30, and then, to show what he might do if he tried, he finished the third, and the race, in 2:24J. He then went to Buffalo, August 7th. where he had made his debut a year before, and met and conquered W. H. Allen and 5 Huntress in three straight heats, in 2:27— 2:23i— 2:2U, making what was, up to that time, the fastest stallion time on record, and this, too, without having anything in the race with him that could crowd him, so as to urge him to the top of his speed. A few weeks later, he met Pilot Temple, Pat Ring, and Elmo, at Dexter Park, Chicago, and finished his racing career by winning, in three straight heats, in 2:222 — 2:25 — 2:25>, making the total number of heats in which he had been engaged during his two years upon the turf, twenty-one, in eighteen of which he was a winner, the total number of races being six, in all of which he was victorious. During his last season upon the turf he trotted in twelve heats, and was victorious in every one of them. The average time of all his heats upon the turf, up to this time, is less than 2:25}. In 1873 he did not appear on the turf, having been installed as premier stallion of the famous Fashion Stud Farm, at Trenton, New Jersey, the home of Lucy and Goldsmith Maid ; but, in 1874, the owners of Bashaw, Jr., having published a challenge against him, a match for $5000 was arranged, which was trotted at Bishop's Park, Baltimore, on Oct. 15th. The large audience attracted by the fame of these horses, and who looked for a settlement of the vexed question of the relative merits of the Bashaw and Hambletonian strains of blood, were doomed to disappointment, as Bashaw, Jr., who had been amiss in one of his fore-legs, broke down in the first heat, and Jay Gould won on a jog, in 2:40. Bashaw, Jr., was then withdrawn, and the race declared ended. But to gratify the crowd of spectators, Gould was again sent around the track, this time at speed. He went to the quarter in 34|s., to the half in 1:08, and finished the mile in 2:19}. This performance was con- ducted strictly according to rule, with the driver, Dan Mace, carrying full weight, and with the judges of the race in the stand. Nine days afterward, at Mystic Park, Boston, he endeavored to beat Goldsmith Maid's record of 2:14 ; but the day was unpropitious, and he failed, only making 2:20i — 2:21*, in his trials. His last race that year was trotted on the track at the Fashion Stud Farm, Nov. 2d, against Sensation, and was easily won by Jay Gould in three straight heats, in 2:23J— 2:24}— 2:27. He is described by Mr. H. T. Helm, in his valuable " Essays on Trotting Stallions," now being published in the National Live Stock Journal, as " a bright bay horse, of fine mould and finish, fifteen hands two inches in height, rather light appearing in form, but of great and powerfully-formed quarters and a tolerably fair set of limbs. His head is a finely-formed one, and he has a face that indicates the highest degree of intelligence that in so great a degree marks this branch of the family." His son. King Philip, trotted a fourth heat in 2:24, at Springfield, July 11, 1877. — 2:34, AVoodford Chief taking the third, in 2:30}, These age races at this meeting, by tacit consent, partook of the nature of championship contests, and the Virginia filly may now be considered as bearing the bell among the four- year-olds. Sadie Bell stands fifteen hands one inch, and is lightly built. Her color is called chestnut, but is so light that it rather verges on the cream, while her tail and mane are flaxen. She has a good head, with considerable brain development, and a neat set of rather lengthy limbs. Her quarters are strong, but her hips are very ragged. She wears no hoots or weights, and seems to know no other gait but trotting. When at full speed, she goes very wide behind, sn that, as the phrase goes, you could roll a barrel between her hind legs. While she has not as yet trotted a mile in public faster than 2:32, she has, in bursts of speed, shown a gait far fa,ster than that, and if she does not succumb to the severe work she has had in her youth, she may yet be a world beater. Her advent to the turf bears some similarity to that of Flora Temple, and .she may become as fiimous. As a five-year-old she commenced the season of 1877 at Norfolk, Va,, by defeating Carrollton, in three straight heats in 2:48 — 2:45 — 2:4(5. At the Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia, May 25, she met her first defeat; Champion Morrill winning in three straight heats, to the great surprise of the betting fraternity. At Ambler Park, near Philadelphia, May 30, she was distanced in the 2:31 class, and two days later, at the same place, she won the five-year-old Purse, defeating David Wallace and Helen R. At Pottstown, June 8, she was second to Delaware in the 2:30 class, taking the third heat, however, in 2:30, her best record. Thence she went to Wilmington, where, June 13, she defeated Delaware, Andy Johnson and Lizzie Keller, after an obstinate race of six heats, the best of which was 2:32-}, and at Woodbury, July 3, though a great favorite she succumbed to Jersey Boy, the best time being the second heat, which she won in 2:32}. At Wil- mington, July 13, she was defeated by Delaware in two races in poor time. — Spirit of the Tinxii. ■\l,l . I; i:i<„.LL 'A [i ' '"^^iX: n Ph O m P 1^ 47 ADY SUFFOLK was bred in Suffolk County, ] liOns; Island, in 1833. Her pedigree, as given in Wallace's Trottinrj Royixter, is as follows : " She was got by Engineer 2d, a thoroughbred son of Engineer by imported Messenger, and her dam was by Don Quixote, a son of imported Messenger. So she was strongly inbred to the grand gray horse whose importation has proved so great a boon to this country. She was bred by Mr, Leonard W. I^awrence, of Smithtown, L. I., and was sold at weaning time to Mr. Charles Little for S60, from whom Mr. Kiehard F. Blaydenburgh bought her, and sold her at four years old for 8112.50, to David Bryant. Hiram Woodruff, in his Trotting- Horse of America , thus describes her : '• When young. Lady Suffolk was an iron-gray, rather dark than light; but in her old age she became almost white. She was, in my judgment, but little, if any. above fifteen hands and an inch high. It has been stated in print, and I have often heard it said, that she was fifteen two ; but I never called her more than fifteen one, or fifteen one and a half at the outside. She was well made, — long in the body ; back a little roached ; powerful long fjuarters; hocks let down low; short cannon bones, and long fetlocks. For many years her ankles were straight, pastern-joints fine; but, prior to the close of her long and very extraordinary career, she was a little knuckled. She had good shoulders, a light and slim but yet muscular neck, a large, long, bony head, and big ears. To look at her, the worst point about her was her feet. They were small and crimpy, — what is called mulish ; but they were sound and tough in te.xture. In trotting, she went with her head low. and nose thrust out. Her neck was very straight. I have seen it stated that it was finely arched, but it is all a mistake: if there was any deviation from the straight, it inclined more to the ewe-neck than to an arch." Her first public appearance was on a very cold day in February, 18.38, at Babylon, N. Y., where she trotted for a purse of eleten (lo/Ziira. and won it after three heats, the fastest of which was in three minutes. In her next race, June 20, at the Beacon Course, she was beaten by Black Hawk and Apollo in poor time ; and two days after- wards, at the same place, she won a trot of two-mile heats, under the saddle, beating Lady Victory, Black Hawk, Cato, and Sarah Puff, in two heats, in 5:15 — 5:17. She was then beaten by Rattler, Awful, and Napoleon, all of them races of two-mile heats ; and October l7, she beat Polly Smallfry and Madame Royal, two-mile heats, in 5:18 — 5:26. Rattler then beat her three-mile heats, and the famous Dutchman beat two races, two-mile and mile heats respect- ively. In 1839 she trotted twelve races, eight of which were two-mile heats, and one of f mr-mile heats, winning six and losing six. She commenced in 1840 by trotting two-mile heats, under the saddle, at the Hunting Park Course, June 6, against Dutchman, and was beaten. Two days afterwards the same horse beat her. three-mile heats, over the same course. In less than a week after these two severe races, she beat, at the Centreville Course, L. I., Celeste and N:ipoleon, two-mile heats, in harness, in 5:26 — 5:33 — 5:32, June 30, she beat Bonaparte easilj^ at the Centreville, fnur-mile heats, in 11:15 — 11:58. She then lay by until September 21, when she beat Aaron Burr, two-mile heats, at the Beacon Course, in 5:22 — fi:21 — 5:35; and three days later she added to her growing fame by beat- ing Dutchman, two-mile heats, under saddle, at the Beacon Course, in 4:59 — 5:031. Owing to an accident, she did no more work that year. She opened the season of 1841 by beating Confidence and Washington, two-mile heats, at the Centreville Course, May 4, in 5:13.} — 5:41. She was then beaten by Confidence, mile heats, and at Philadelphia, .May 6, beat Dutchman, two-mile heats, in harness, in 5:12} — 5:19J — 5:21, and two days afterwards beat him, three-uule heats, under saddle, in 7:40-} — 7:56. On June 13, at the Beacon Course, she was beaten by Aaron Burr, three-mile heats. On July 5, at the Beacon, she beat Ripton, under saddle, mile heats, in 2:35 — 2:37}, and on the •22d of the same month, at the same course, she beat Awful, two-mih heats, in harness, in three heats, in 5:26} — 5:28 — 5:24. Five days after, at the same course, she distanced Oneida Chief, the pacer, two-mile heats, under saddle, in 5:05, with very great ease. She was beaten by Americus, five- mile heats, to wagon. The nest two years she was gene- rally unsuccessful, which was attributed universally to the obstinacy and incompetency of her owner and driver, David Bryant, Had Hiram Woodruff handled her, her defeats throughout her whole career would have been few and far between. In 1844 she was very successful. May 15, at the Cen- treville Course, she beat Duchess, Ripton and Washington, in straight heats, in 5:20 — 5:24 ; and less than a week afterward, at the Beacon, she defeated Americus, Ripton and two others, in 5:17 — 5:19 — 5:18. At the Centreville, June 6, she beat Columbus, three-mile heats, in 7:51 — 8:02 ; then back to the Beacon, where Americus beat her and Columbus, three-mile heats, in 7:53} — 8:01. The Lady then won four races, all mile heats, without losing once, and in 1845, she won four races, three from Americus and one from Moscow, and lost four tiuies : twice to Americus, once to Duchess, and once to Moscow. In 1846 she only won two out of her five races. In 1817, when she was in her fourteenth year, she bore away the palm from all her competitors, winning nine times, and against such horses as Moscow, Lndy Sutton, Ripton, and the pacirs James K. Polk and Roanoke, and lost but once. These performances were at three, two, and one-mile heats, under saddle, in harness, and to sulkies, doing three miles in 7:56 — 8:06}, two miles in 5:03 — 5:10 — 5:12, one mile in 2:33}. In 1848 she only trotted six races, having met with an acci- dent in the middle of the season, when she was winning races hoof over hoof, but in 1849, she came out fresh and fine after her accident, and trotted nineteen races, and came out conqueror in twelve of them ; beating Gray Eagle, Mac, and Lady Sutton each twice ; Pelham, five times ; Trustee, the famous twenty-miler, four times; Black Hawk, Gray Trouble, Ploughboy and others. In her race with Mac and Gray Trouble, at Boston. June 14, to saddle, she won the second heat in 2:26. which for a short time was at the head of the record. In 1850 she beat Lady Moscow six times, at one, two, and three miles ; Jack Rossiter, thrice; Hector once, and in harness once her old adversary, James K. Polk, to wagon. She was beaten four times by Lady Moscow, at two and three miles; and twice at two miles by Jack Rossiter, coming off victorious from both in each match of three events. In 1851 she was only moderately success- ful. In 1852 she trotted twelve races, and won but once, and in 1853 she appeared twice, but was defeated in both races. She died at Bridgeport, Vt., on March 7th, IfcSJ. W Q a < BS w n z u '^1 o o o — 2:35; Lady Suffolk won the fifth, iu 2:37 ; and Tacony scored the sixth and seventh, in 2:30 — 2:41. This sixth heat, to wagon, in 2:30 was a most remarkable performance, and we are almost inclined to think there is an error in the record. The campaign of 1852 placed Tacony at the head of the trotting horses of America, although it was only his second season out. It was in the following season, 1853. that he began his famous series of races with Mac. He had been beaten by this horse, in October, 1851, in company with others, and in the meantime the fame of both had been growing. Each had his warm admirers. The first meeting between them in 1853 was May 12, for $2,000, in harness, and Tacony was beaten in straight heats, best time, 2:30. The next race was May 20, for SI, 500, to wagons, with the same result, Mac's best time, 2:33. The next race was June 2, for §1,500, under saddle, and Tacony then turned the tables, winning the first and second heats, each in 2:25 J, after which Mac was drawn. In this race, it will be seen, Tacony eclipsed his own record. The pair then transferred the scene of their struggles to the Union (L. I.) Course, where they trotted a match race, in harness, June 28, and one to wagons, July 4. Each was for $1,500, and each was won by Tacony, after Mac had taken the first two heats. Mac afterwards beat Tacony, in November, 1853, and in October, 1854, while he beat Mac in November, 1853, and in September, 1855. In all their races, Mac won five and Tacony the same number. The latter made the fastest time, but Hiram Woodruff credited Mac with being the better horse, before he got the thumps from over-driving. Every time they met, the result of the race was awaited with the greatest interest by horsemen all over the country. On July 14, 1853, at Union (L. I.) Course, Tacony first met Flora Temple, then becoming famous. The race was in harness, for $1,000, and Tacony won in straight heats, in 2:28 — 2:27 — 2:29. Five days later, she beat him in a two- mile race over the same track, and then the two went off on a hippodroming tour, in which Tacony won one race and Flora six. Thus early in his career Tacony had reached the zenith of his powers. He could never afterwards beat his saddle record, 2:25i, or his harness record, 2:27. He continued trotting, though often long intervals would elapse between his appearances, until 1860, after which year he was finally retired from the turf The last race in which he showed anything like his old speed was trotted at Saratoga, August 13, 1859, when he defeated Jake Oakley and George Dawson in straight heats, trotting the first in 2:29 J. After this his powers seemed to fail him. In September, 1859, Ethan Allen beat him, at Burlington, Vt., in 2:37i — 2:36 — 2:33i ; the Granger Horse, afterwards called Rock- ingham, beat him, at Portland, Conu., in still slower time, the last heat of the race being trotted in 2:45; and it became evident that his days for victories were ended. Nothing remained for him but to leave the field in which he had won so many brilliant triumphs, and he did so with a reputation such as has been achieved by very few horses. — Spirit of the Times. o o o Oh 61 AC was bred in Maine, his sire being a liorse called Morgan Caesar, but better known in Maine under the name of Morgan Post Boy, The dam of Mac was a mare said to be of Messen- ger blood. He was a brown gelding, standing fifteen and one- half hands in height. The first race in which Mae became prominent was trotted November 1, 1848, at Albany, again!5t Jenny Lind, the mare winning the first and third heats, and Mac taking the second and fourth, in 2:38 — 2:42, and after the latter, Jenny Lind was drawn. A I'ecord of 2:38 was fast in those days, and it was not long before Mac was pitted against the speediest horses of the country. On the 16th of May, 1849, we find him in a race against those old flyers. Lady Moscow and Jack Ro.ssiter, two-mile heats under saddle, which he won, taking the second and fourth heats, the fastest in 5:10, a rate of 2:35. On the fifth, sixth, and seventh of June, 1849, we find him engaged in three races, at Providence, with that most noted flyer of her day, Lady Suffolk. In the first of these he was victorious, taking three heats, in 2:29 ^ — 2:32 — 2:31 ; but the old gray mare defeated him in both the other races, leaving him behind the flag each time, though the time was slower than be had marked to his own credit. He subsequently met Lady Sufi'olk on four different occasions, and beat her every time, besides defeating, in her company, Gray Eagle, Trouble, Jack Rossiter, and Boston Girl. In a race with Lady Suffolk, at Boston, June 14, 1849, he trotted a heat in 2:27, which he was afterwards able to equal, but never to surpass. Mac gained much celebrity from his repeated contests with Tacony. These two horses met each other ten times, from October, 1851, to September, 1855, and the honors were equally divided between them, each one win- ning five races. The amount of the purses for these trots ranged from $300 to $3,000, and in one of the later ones, Tacony made his fiimous saddle record of 2:25^. Many of our readers will clearly remember the great interest felt in these races between Tacony and Mac. They were the topic of conversation throughout the country, and people who had never seen either hor.se became strong partisans of one or the other. Even children, catching the spirit of their elders, were ardent champions of Mac or Tacony. Hiram WoodrufiF thought Mac the superior trotter. He says in his book : " This Mac was very famous for his many con- tests with Tacony. They were very close together when in condition ; but Mac had a little the best of the roan, in my judgment, until he was injured by over-driving and got the thumps." This horse met the then Queen of the Turf, Flora Temple, twice, in 1854 and 1855; but she was t»o speedy for him, and beat him on both occasions. In looking over the files of The Spirit, during the years that Blac was trotting, we find frequent allusions to him ; enough to show that he was the sensation of the day. On the 9th and 10th of July, 1848, he beat Lady Suffolk two races, one of mile heats, best three in five, and the other of two- mile heats, under saddle, and was then claimed by the Albany party to be the champion trotter of the world. The owner of a chestnut gelding, named Zachary Taylor, in Philadelphia, became jealous of Mac's growing fame, and challenged him to a race, mile heats, best three in five, under the saddle, at Hunting Park Course, for a piece of plate valued at §500, and the trot took place July 18, 1849. It was won by Mac, in 2:31 — 2:30 — 2:35, and we cite this race becau.se, in connection with it, we find the following . from a Philadelphia correspondent in The Spirit of .July 28, 1849, which is the most interesting extract we can make about the old-time trotter we are describing : " What has become of Jlac ? He created a slight sensation here the other day. Gen. Taylor is nowhere just at this time; his proud owner — I should have said his ambitious owner — is perfectly done brown since the trot, and will not be very apt to get up again in the horse line for some time to come. . . There has not been so great a flurry kicked up in the trotting world, in this usually quiet section of country, for years ; the proprietor of the course sold over seven thou- sand tickets for the stand, and there were not less than ten thousand anxious people collected around and about the enclosures, hoping to get a look at the two great champions of the trotting turf. . . . How fast can Mac trot, or rather fly ? Does any one know his best time when train- ing, except his owners ? Some suppose here that he might do a mile in 2:15 — perhaps a little under!!! And one might readily believe it, if they take into consideration the ease with which he closed the gap of sixty yards made between him and Taylor, on the first heat, in consequence of a bad start. George Young (the driver of Taylor), re- marked to a friend of ours, when speaking of the circum- .stauce, that when Mac came up and passed him at the half-mile score, he thought he was going a tremendous lick himself, but when Mac shot ahead, he looked involuntarily behind, to see if Taylor's legs were moving at all ; he for a moment was under the impression that all had come to a stand, so amazing was the speed of his antagonist." It is less than thirty years ago that this horse was claimed to be the champion trotter of the world, and he had preten- sions to the title ; while now there are a hundred trotters living who could leave him behind the flag. Yet in his day he was as much of a hero, had as strong partisans, and as firm believers in his almost unlimited speed, as Dexter, Lady Thome, or Goldsmith Maid have hud since. — Sj^rit of the Times. 53 AJIBLETONIAN was bred by Jonas Seely, of Chester, Orange County, N. Y. ; foaled May 5, 1S49; got by Abdallali, son of Mambrino, by imp. Messenger. Abdallah, his sire, was out of Amazonia, who was firet claimed as by Messenger, then by a son of Messenger ; but it is now generally conceded that her blood is entirely unknown. She may have been got by a son of Messenger, but the evidence upon which this story rests is too flimsy to carry with it any weight. But, notwithstanding her unknown lineage, she gave to the world, in her son Abdallah, one of the greatest horses that ever trod the American soil — " rough to look at, but king among stallions." Hambletonian's dam was by imp. Bell- founder ; second dam by Hambletonian (son of Messenger) ; third dam by Messenger : which gives him one direct cross of the highly-prized Jlessenger blood on the side of his sire, and a double cross on the side of his dam. The dam, with the colt (subsequently Rysdyk's Hambletonian) by her side, was sold by Mr. Seely to Mr. W. M. Rysdyk, of Chester, for $125. When he was two years old, four mares were bred to him, from which resulted three foals, one of which afterwards became famous under the name of Alex- ander's Abdallah, the sire of Goldsmith Maid. It is worthy of remark, in this connection, that the greatest of all trot- ting mares should have been begotten by a three-year-old, and he, in turn, by a two-year-old colt. At three years old he was taken to Long Island, and underwent a few months' training as a trotter, but the promise which he showed upon the track was not deemed sufficient to warrant a continua- tion of the training, although he showed a trial of a mile in 2:48, and he was retired permanently to the breeding stud. Up to the year 1854, his service- fee was $25 to insure a foal, but it was then advanced to $35, at which it was kept to the year 1863, when it was advanced to $75, and, owing to the fame which his get began to acquire about this time, his services were in great demand at the increased price. In 18fi4 the fee was placed at $100, and in the year following at $300, during which two seasons he was permitted to serve the unprecedented number of four hundred and ten mares, from which there were produced two hundred and seventy six foals. His fee was then fixed at $500, at which it remained up to his death, iu 1875. During the season of 1868, he was retired from the stud, so that there were no sons or daughters foaled by him in 1809. Since that time he has been limited each season to a very small number of mares. Up to twenty-six years of aL;e, he was active, strong, and vigorous. He has sired more foals, perhaps, than any other stallion of any age, the number reaching over 1,225, which is conclusive evidence of his wonderful constitutional vigor. In a pecuniary sense he has been a wonderful success, his services aggregating over $100,000. Not less than fifty-eight descendants of this famous old sire have made public records of 2:30 or better, twenty-one of which are in the first generation. Of the remaining thirty-seven there are thirty-two grandsons and granddaughters, and five that are one generation further removed from their distinguished progenitor. Of those in the second generation twenty-nine are descended in the male line, two in the female line, and one by both branches. Of the sixty-one horses that have made records of 2:23 or better in harness, twenty-one were his descendants, and of the ten that have dropped into the 2:18 class, he claims just one-half — a showing from the records that clearly entitles him to stand preeminent as the great progenitor of trotting horses. He was a horse of great substance, but, at the same time, without a particle of grossness. His bone, though heavy, was of most excellent form and apparent fineness of texture. His mane was originally light, the hairs perfectly straight, but not a vestige of it remained. His tail wa.s once very heavy, but it also grew thin with age. In color, he was a rich mahogany bay, with a small star, and two white ankles behind, but below them the coro- nets were dotted with black spots, and the hoofs mainly dark. His head was large and bony, inclining to what is known as the " Roman nose" type; jowl deep; eyes large and prominent; ear large; neck rather short, and heavy at the throatlatch, but thin and clean ; shoulders very deep, oblique and strong; withers low and broad; back short; coupling excellent; croup high, and enormous length from point of hip to hock ; broad, flat, clean legs, with tendons well detached from the bone; hock well bent rather than straight ; pasterns long and elastic ; and hoofs splendid. The walk of Hambletonian was diff'erent from that of any other horse. It cannot be described further than to say, that it showed a true and admirable adjustment of parts, and a perfect stability and elasticity of mechanism that showed out through every movement. Many have noticed and endeavored to account in difl'erent ways for this pecu- liarity, some crediting it to the pliable pastern, others to a surplus of knee and hock action, but, in fact, the trait is not limited to the influence of any one part. There seemed to be a suppleness of the whole conformation that delighted to express itself in every movement and action of the horse. — Sjiirit of the Times. 55 fOLUNTEER was foaled 1854, the property of Mr. Joseph Hetszell, of Florida, Orange County, N. Y. His sire was the famous Eysdyk's Hambletonian, by Old Abdallah, grandson of imp. Messenger. His dam was Lady Patriot, a bay mare, greatly noted for her indomitable will and endurance ; owned by Edwin Thorne, Esq., of Thorndale, Dutchess County, N. Y. She was got by Young Patriot, a son of Patriot, by Blucher out of the Lewis Hulse mare, who was noted for her ability to both run and trot very fast. Volunteer was her first foal, and he having been dropped when his dam was four years old, and she has since that time added fourteen others to her family, making fifteen in all, the first six by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, the next two by Ashland, the two following by Surplus, then one by Mam- brunello, and four by Thorndale. Of these, Hetzel's Hambletonian, Green's Hambletonian and Sentinel, by the Old Horse, have become distinguished, the latter having made a record of 2:294, and promising great things on the turf, but his death, which occurred some two years ago, put an end to what would, doubtless, otherwise have been a brilliant career. Volunteer is a bay horse, about 15 i hands high, and possesses a good deal more of finish and quality than most of the get of his illustrious sire. He early gave promise of superior qualities as a trotter, and there is but little doubt that, with proper training, he could have beaten 2:30 ; but since passing into the hands of his present owner, Mr. Alden Goldsmith, he has been kept mainly in the stud, it being one of Mr. Goldsmith's theories, that neither a sire nor dam should ever be severely trained, although he seeks for the trotting gait in both, and believes in develop- ing it by proper exercise. But it is as a sire of trotters that Volunteer stands preeminent. If we take the records of horses that have beaten 2:25, as a test of the highest order of excellence among trotters, there is no stallion in the world that has excelled him, and only one, his own sire, has equalled him. Each of these illustrious sires can boast of eight of his get that have beaten 2:25 in a public race, and as Volunteer is five years the younger of the two, if we judge solely by the records of first-class performers, he is entitled to rank much above the Old Horse as a sire of trotters. The great excellence of the get of Volunteer has not been appreciated until within the past three years, as up to that time but one of them had made a record below 2:30, but the great performance of Huntress, when, three years ago, she beat Dutchman's famous three-mile perform- ance, which had stood the wonder of the world for 33 years, opened the eyes of the public to the merits of Volunteer as a sire, and since then the Volunteers have been flashing out as stars of the first magnitude in the trotting firmament. We have Gloster, who has often been called the most won- derful trotter the world has ever produced, who made such a brilliant campaign last year, ending with a record of 2:17, and with whom Doble confidently expected, had the horse lived, to beat 2:14 this season; Bodine, the '-Whirlwind of the West," with a record of 2:19^^; Huntress, with her unparalleled record of three miles in 7:21 J^, and a mile in 2:201 ; St. Julien, the great six-year-old, that, with only three months' training, won six races in three weeks, scoring a record of 2:222, and demonstrating his ability to trot in 2:18; Amy, with a record of 2:22^^; and Carrie, with 2:24* to her credit; Trio, who trotted last year in 2:23i; Lady Morrison, with a record of 2:27 J ; and then the great stallion, W. H. Allen, with 2:23J ; and Frank Wood, with 2:24; and Sister (full sister to Huntress) that, only taken up from the pasture last June, was at St. Julien's throat- latch in 2:23-2, at Hartford, last week. All these, brought out within the short space of three years, proclaim Volun- teer's preeminent merits as a sire of trotters — not passably fair trotters, but trotters of the very highest stamp — in tones that cannot be mistaken, and which will not longer pass unheeded by breeders. Our picture is said to be an excellent likeness of the horse when extended in a trot, and displays his highly-finished form to great advantage. During the last three years Volunteer has been very popu- lar in the stud, and that popularity will no doubt be largely increased by the performances of his get this season. The bringing out of four such performers as St. Julien, Amy, Carrie, and Sister in one year, was alone enough to establish the reputation of Volunteer as a great sire ; but when it comes backed up by the performances of the others above- named, in the 2:25 class, and with California Dexter, record of 2:27 ; Mary A. Whitney, 2:28 ; and Goldsmith's Abdal- lah (killed last spring at Cynthiana), 2:30, there can be no question as to his ranking first among the sons of Rysdyk's Hambletonian, and when we make allowance for the differ- ence in age, there are many who claim that he deserves to rank even higher than his illustrious sire, as a getter of trotters. There may be those coming after him, younger in years, that may probably wrest his honors from him, but at present his claim to stand at the head of the list of trotting sires can only be disputed by his own famous progenitor. His fame is certainly one of which all lovers of trotting horses may well be proud, and should be espe- cially gratifying to the numerous admirers of this family. — Sjiii'it of the Times. Z n » M O b O H » Cm o as Ph 57 lAPPY MEDIUM is a very haodsome bay stallion, ISJ hands high, with two white hind feet, star in the forehead, and snip on the nose. He was foaled in 1863, and bred by R. F. Galloway, Esq., of Rockland County, N. Y. His sire was the world-renowned Rysdyk's Hambletonian, and his dam was the celebrated trotting mare Princess. She was sired by Andrew's Hambletonian, son of Judson's Hambletonian, by Bishop's Hambletonian. Princess trotted in California on consecutive days, two ten-mile races, both to wagons, winning easily an immense stake of $35,000, in 29:10J and 29:16J. She subsequently beat the famous Queen of the Turf, Flora Temple, in a two-niile-heat race, in 5:02. Her private trial of 2:17 to wagon can be well authenticated by affidavits from such gentlemen as David Gage, Esq., of Chicago ; J. W. Simp- son, Esq. ; 0. JI. Dimick, Esq., and A. Daniel, Esq. When six years old, and with but eight days' training, Happy Medium trotted at Paterson, N. J., September 15, 1869, against Guy Miller and Honesty. In the first heat Hone.sty was distanced in 2:34*, and in the second heat Guy Miller was left beyond the flag in 2:32J. This was Happy Medium's only appearance on the turf — since then he has been used altogether in the stud. Before Mr. Gallo- way disposed of him, he states positively that he had driven him quarters in 35 seconds, to a wagon carrying two hun- dred and fifty pounds. The following list, which is but a partial one, of the produce of Happy Medium, with a brief account of their performances, both public and private, shows most conclu- sively that he is to-day a most successful sire of trotters : Milton Medium, Fleetwood, Baron LuflF, Sans Souci, Happy Thought, Alice Medium, Frank Ellis, Dixon, Odd Stock- ing, Happy 31edium, Jr., Jennie, Minnie Medium, Harry Ward, Blaze Medium, Rose Medium, Blanche Medium, the Gillender Mare and Brigadier. The five-year-old bay stallion Milton Medium won a race at Suffolk Park, Philadelphia, in July last, in 2:37—2:36 — 2:37, over a strong field of horses, consisting of Marshal Ney, Jennie R., Bianca Strife, Carl Burr, and Sand Bank. Two days subsequently he trotted another race, and made a record of 2:31 in the third heat. Since then Milton Medium has been purchased for $5000, by J. S. Menden- hall, Esq., of Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Baron Luff was the winner of Prospect Park colt stake, in a walk-over. Last fall he was driven in a race by John H. Phillips, Esq., of Suffolk Park, over the half-mile track at Elmira, New York, and won in three straight heats in 2:29i— 2:32— 2:31 Sans Souci and Alice Medium are full sisters to Baron Luff. They neither of them have ever started in a race, 8 but Mr. Phillips has frequently given them trials in public in 2:30. Harry Ward, another son of Happy Medium, trotted in his four-year-old form at Spring Valley, N. Y., and made a record of 2:42. The black colt Dixon, before he became lame by an injury to one of his feet, was thought by horsemen to be the fastest colt of his age in the United States. His four- year-old record was 2.36J. At the same age he trotted a trial in 2:27. The bay stallion Frank Ellis, bred and owned by Mr. Galloway, obtained a four-year-old record of 2:37. Last summer, in his five-year-old form, he reduced his record to 2:33, over a half-mile track at Ambler, where he distanced a strong field of horses. Fleetwood, a bay stallion, owned by James McKee, Esq., of Paterson, N. J., last summer won five out of seven races. At Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia, he got a record of 2:29 in a third heat. His owner and driver has repeatedly speeded him a half-mile in 1:10. Mr. McKee also owns Jennie, a five-year-old mare, with a record of 2:40. He is confident that she can now beat 2:30. Happy Thought, owned by Messrs. Palmer and Morgan, of Connecticut, has a three-year-old record of 2:40. This is one of the best known of Happy Medium's colts. The record was made in the " Charter Oak Colt Stake," at Hartford, Conn., October 13, 1875. His competitors were finely bred animals — Adriana, by Messenger Duroc ; Dustin, by Reeve's Tommy, son of Thomas Jefferson. Happy Thought beat them in two heats, 2:43 and 2:40. Many accomplished horsemen and reliable judges, who wit- nessed the performance, were of the opinion, that had Happy Thought been forced, he would have eclipsed the three-year-old record of Lady Stout. Odd Stocking has a four-year-old record of 2:45 ; she was sold at that age for a large price, under the guarantee to show 2:30. Happy Medium, Jr., four years old, has a record of 2:44i. Blaze Medium obtained a record of 2:41 at three years old, and 2:40 over a half-mile track at four years old. Minnie Medium, a four-year-old filly, trotted a race at Suffolk Park in July last, and got a record of 2:40. At Colonel Penistan's late sale of blooded stock in Ken- tucky, the bay colt Brigadier, a three-year-old son of Happy Medium, was sold for the highest price ($1,250) of any horse on the extensive catalogue. Brigadier had been broken to harness but two months, and had shown quarters in 37 seconds. Mr. Turner subsequently sold Brigadier for a handsome profit, to go to California. 59 JjMONT wa,s foaled in 1864, is a deep bay iu color, stands 15 hands 2 inches high, and weighs 1,175 Jbs. in ordinary condition. He was bred at the Woodburn Farm, by the late K. A. Alexander, Esq., got by Alexander's Abdallah, dam by Mambriuo Chief, second dam by Pilot, out of a mare said to be thoroughbred. He has black points, and the color extends to and includes the knees and hocks; he has the badge of the Mambrino Chief family — a gray right hind-leg from the foot to the hock — although not yet very plain, but increasing with age. His mane is medium and tail rather light. In harmony of proportions and connected powers he approaches in a great degree the type of his grandsire, Rysdyk's Hambletonian. He has a good, plain head and mild, pleasant countenance, is wide under the jowls, with throttle well detached, giving a clear passage for the windpipe. His neck is straight, clean and muscular, well let into strong, deep shoulders, well thrown back ; with low and broad withers, he is deep through the heart. His back and loin are excellent. He is higher over the rump than at the withers ; and though his hips are not wide, he fills a very large breeching. There is a world of strength in the combination of blood which he possesses, uniting, as he does, the Hambletonian family, through Alexander's Abdallah, that begat Goldsmith Maid, Rosalind and others, with those of Mambrino Chief (sire of Lady Thorne and Woodford Mambrino), and Pilot, Jr. (sire of John Mor- gan, Pilot Temple, Dixie, etc.). In temper he is very gentle, and perfectly kind when quiet ; but when in motion he seems only impatient of the restraint of the rein. He wants to go with great vehemence, and seems to delight most in the fastest gait he can display. The gait of Almont and all his fauiiiy amounts to a type by which they are as much distinguished as any other feature. He throws his feet well out in front, but does not lift them high, and does not display any excess of knee action ; but their reach is even and steady, and so much lacking in the high lifting displays that are sometimes seen, as to call for the observa- tion from many that he troths unequally before and behind ; for, in the matter of wide spreading, stifle, powerfully- acting hocks and grand stride, coupled with a propelling power that is almost terrific, he is a sight worth beholding when he is on the track going at a rate of near 2:20. As a trotter, Almont made his mark before he entered the stud, in one race — the only one in which he ever appeared, and in which he distanced his field of competitors in 2:39 i — at four years of age. He was trotted over Mr. Alexander's track, in 2:32, which, on other tracks, it is said, would be equal to 2:27. He was soon after purchased by Col. West for S8000, and has since been in the stud constantly. Mr. R. Lowell drove him a half mile, in 1:12, while in stud service, and with no special preparation for speed. He was bought by his present owner. Gen. W. T. Withers, of Lex ington, Ky., in the winter of 1874, for $15,000, and is now doing a large stud service. He made his first season in 1869, at five years old, and of that year's produce twelve have been handled, and all trotted, at three years old, in 2:50 and better. His get are now numerous and are "every one a trotter," which is claimed by those who are fortunate enough to possess them. At the regular meeting of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, at Lex- ington, Ky., in 1873, (the first season of any of Almont's get trotted in public), Alethea won the two-year-old Wood ford stakes; Albrino won the three-year old-stakes, and AUie West the 2:50 race for three-year-olds. Albrino, after making a full season in 1875, trotted a full mile in 2:30. At the meeting in 1874, Consul, by Almont, won the two- year-old colt stakes, beating seven competitors; Alethea the Gold stakes for three-year-olds, Easter Maid, by Almont, winning the first heat, and Allie West won the four-year- old stakes. In 1875, Consul won the three-year-old stakes at Har- rodsburg, making a record of 2:39, over a slow track ; and Piedmont won the Charter Oak stakes, for four-year-olds, at Hartford, Conn., in three straight heats. Time, 2:32^ — 2:341—2:30}. Trouble, another son of Almont, owned in Tennessee, with but little training, won at Terre Haute, Ind., and other points in the Northwest, making a good record of 2:37}. At Vermont (four years old) won first money in the $500 Free for All Purse offered by the Fair Association, at Lexington, Ky., in September, 1875, and Alamo, another son of Almont, took second money. Alamo, now the property of C. B. Jones, Esq., of Des Moines, Iowa, a four-year-old Almont, in October, 1875, won the premium at the St. Louis, Mo., Fair, for the fastest trotting horse, mare or gelding, irrespective of age, over a field of fourteen starters. Alethea reduced her record (four years old) to 2:31, at Cynthiana, and Allie West, five years old, made a record of 2:25. In addition to the actual winners above named, Almont has sired a number of others that have made records, and some of his fastest produce have not yet trotted in public. Additional lustre has been added to the fame of Almont by the victory of his daughter, Aldine, at the Breeders' Centennial Meeting, on Sept. 26th. This was in the contest for the Revolution Race for three-year-olds, for a purse of $2500. She defeated a field of six choice bred ones with ease in 2:40 — 2:40-2, proving in the race that she possesses in a very unusual degree qualities of both speed and bottom. The Almonts represent an early family, and to those who have an eye to breeding of colts for early development, there is nothing we can with more confidence recommend as an experimental clement for their production than the blood of Almont. — The Field, Chicago. CO esi § o u » a tj o < PS Dd p o O O < M S3 o !2; w M P o M a a Hi O Ph H n 61 LACKWOOD is a black stallion, 15J hands, with a small star and one white ankle. He is by Alexander's Norman (sire of Lula and May Queen), dam by Mambrino Chief, grandam a superior road mare of unknown pedigree. He was bred by Mr. D. Swigert, of Spring Station, Woodford County, Ky., at the celebrated breeding establishment known as Wood- burn Farm, owned by the late Mr. R. A. Alexander. The mare, while with foal, was sold at auction for a mere song to a speculator in Lexington, in 1865, who re-sold her to Mr. Andrew Steel, he never dreaming of the embryo prize he had secured. In the spring of 1866, the mare produced the now justly -celebrated Blackwood, but who, when born, was looked upon as of nominal value. When a yearling, he developed a good saddle gait, and was offered by Mr. Steel to a country lad for $150, but his father would not allow the purchase to be consummated. Mr. Steel, much to his chagrin, seemed compelled to keep the horse, but shortly after sold a half interest in him to Mr. Henry Buford, who put him in training, and quickly discovered that he had a great prize. His speed developed so rapidly that it attracted attention, and he was allowed to serve a few mares. In 18G9 he made a short season, and in the fall of that year he won his first three-year-old race, making a record of 2:31, the fastest then known, and at once leaped into fame. Shortly after this race, negotiations were entered into for the sale of the now noted horse, and, it is said, $25,000 was offered for him. Mr. Buford wished to sell, but Mr. Steel, whose eyes were now wide open, positively refused to part with his discovered treasure. A compromise was agreed to between the two, and Mr. Steel purchased back Mr. Buford's half interest, valued at $12,500. The horse was then sent to Edge Hill, where Colonel West, by judicious handling, increased his speed very much. The Colonel sold him eventually to Mr. Harrison Durkee, of New York City, proprietor of Spring Hill Stock Farm, his present owner. Blackwood is of striking and commanding appearance, giving the impression, when in harness, that he is very much larger than he really is. His carriage is attractive, and though not finely drawn, yet he is by no means coarse. His head is somewhat plain, quite wide between the eyes, with a countenance full of intelligence and cheerful resolution. His neck is longer than is usual with fast trotters, shoulders deep, strong and well laid back, being very broad at the withers. His back and loins are strong, and suggestive of great power; smooth hipped, of medium width across, with full quarters and well-developed gaskins. His hncks are full size, clean and well-defined; his legs are massive, full-boned and well-jointed. In action he is particularly noticeable for his courageous freedom of stride, which is far-reaching, and presents a perfect picture of equine beauty never surpassed. Taken all in all, Black- wood is about as perfect a specimen of horseflesh as any one would wish to see. In the stud Blackwood has achieved conspicuous honor, his get having met with remarkable success. Among the most noted of his get we find Black- wood, Jr., with a three-year-old record of 2;33J, and one as a five-year-old, of 2:22}. Rosewood, out of a Mambrino mare, with a record as a five-year-old of 2:27 ; Freshman, out of a Ned Forrest mare, with a four-year-old record of 2:36} ; Blackwood Belle, three-year-old, record 2:46|; Pro- teine, who, as a yearling, trotted in 3:23i — 3:23|, the festest record at that time, and, as a three-year-old, under most adverse conditions, trotted a three-heat trial, doing her last mile in 2:33J. Blackwood is unquestionably the represen- tative stallion of the Norman family, which, in the face of the greatest disadvantages, by its own inherent merit, unaided by time-honored crosses, has forced itself into a prominence secured to no other known stallion. — Spirit oj the Times. 63 jIADY LE VERT was a dark bay browu mare, ' Rattler, the famous competitor of Dutchman, and her dam nearly 16 hands high, with black legs, mane I by the thoroughbred horse Post Boy, whose four-mile-race and tail. Her head and neck were remark- i against John Bascomb created such a sensation years ago. ably beautiful, while she was " as pretty as a | Lady Le Vert never trotted in public, but was for years picture" all over. Her whole form indicated great strength I one of the chief attractions at the princely establishment of and speed. She was foaled in 1853. Her sire was Old ' thelate Mr. Benj. M. Whitlock,of WestchesterCounty,N.Y. ^0 fe)6et5