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HENRY D. ASHMEAD,
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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.

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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.

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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.

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[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.

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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.

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RIORESS was foaled 1854, and was got by imp.
Sovereign out of Reel, by Glencoe. She was a
bay mare, about sixteen bauds bi<rh, with a white
star on her forehead, and a small ring of white
on her near hind pastern. She made her debut,
under the name of Poison, on the Metairie Course, April 3,
1856, in the Equus Stakes, for two-year-olds, mile heats,
which she won easily — beating the filly by Gleneoe out of
Blue Filly, Lucy Dashwood colt and L'Ingot D'Or. April
10, same course, won similar stakes for two-year-olds, mile
heats, beating the Lucy Dashwood colt easily. June 19,
Fashion Course, was beaten, under the name of Prioress,
for the Association Stakes, mile heats, by Nicholas I.
Prioress was second in the first heat, and distanced in the
second. In August, 1856, she was embarked for England
with Pryor and Lecompte.

Mr. Ten Broeck's enterprise in thus lx)ldly pitting his
stable against the whole of England had been widely
noticed by the American press, and their first races on
English soil excited great interest on both sides of the
Atlantic. Prioress, riddeu by Gilpatrick, who rode Lexington
in his famous match against time ; and Pryor, with Little-
field up, made their debut in the race for the Goodwood
Cup, two miles and a half, July 30, 1857, for which four-
teen horses ran. For a while they figured prominently in
the race, but not being thoroughly acclimated, they could
only run into the fifth and sixth places respectively, Count
La Grange's Monarque, the sire of the renowned Gladia-
teur, winning the race, with Riscber second, the famous
Fisherman third and Anton fourth. The result of this race
created much disappointment in America. The horses were
put into the hands of a new trainer, and Charlton, the cele-
brated English jockey, who had recently won the Derby
and Oaks with Blink Bonny, was engaged to ride Prioress
in her next engagement — the Sussex County Cup, two
miles, August 12, for which five horses started. In worse
condition than at Goodwood, nervous and leg- weary, she only
obtained fourth place to Tournament, Polestar, and Chevalier
d'Industrie. October 5, in the Shorts Handicip, at the
Chester Autumn Meeting, she was last in a field of seven.
The American mare had now recovered from the sickness
which haunted Mr. Ten Broeck's stable, and had become
acclimated ; hut still the betting public would not believe
in her, and in the race for the Cesarewitch Stakes, two
miles and two furlongs, October 13, she was hardly even
named in the betting, 100 to 1 being oflTered against her.
Thirty-four horses ran, among which were many of the best
in England, notably Fisherman, 4 years, carrying 129 lbs. ;
Warlock, the winner of the St. Leger, 1856, 4 years, 123
lbs.; Saunterer, 3 years, 117 lbs.; Black Tommy, second in
the Derby, 1857, 3 years, 109 lbs.; Gunboat, 3 years,
103 lbs., and El Hakim, 3 years, 93 lbs. The race resulted
in a dead heat between Prioress, El Hakim, and Queen
Bess, a three-year-old who only carried 66 lbs. In
the deciding heat, she came home an easy winner by a
length and a half, El Hakim beating Queen Be.ss by a head
only for second place. For the Cambridgeshire Stakes,
October 30, she was unplaced, and then went into winter
quarters.

Her first appearance in 1858 was for the Great York-
shire Handicap, September 14, where she achieved an easy
four-lengths victory over brother to Bird-ou-the-Wing and
ten others. The Cesarewitch day now rolled round, and
thirty-five of the pick of England's race-horses came together

for this rich prize. Among them were Leamington, 5 years,
130 lbs.; Odd Trick, the winner of the Cambridgeshire of
1857, 4 years, 119 lbs ; Malacca, the winner of the Cam-
bridgeshire of 1856, 5 years, 99 lbs. ; the game little Under-
hand, 4 years, 1 14 lbs. ; Mr. Sykes, who won the same stakes
in 1855, carrying 106 lbs.; Poodle, Yandermeulin and
others. Notwithstanding Prioress carried 126 lbs., the
highest weight but one, her game qualities were so univer-
sally recognized, that the despised outsider of the previous
year now stood at the starting-post the first favorite. A
very exciting race resulted in the success, by a head only,
of the three-year-old Rocket, who only carried 88 lbs., while
Prioress ran a dead heat for second place with the Brewer,
who, although her own age, carried 28 lbs. less than she did.
The rest of the field were soujc distance behind the trio.
The London Sunrhiy Times said of this race : '• Prioress ran

with extraordinary gamenoss Had she not incurred

the seven pounds penalty for winning at Doncaster, she
would unquestionably have repeated her triumph of the
preceding year." The day before the Cesarewitch, the
mighty Beadsman elected to pay forfeit, in a match for
£500 a side, rather than meet the American mare. October
27, she ran in the Cambridgeshire Stakes, but only obtained
sixth place; and with a victory over Poodle, in a match for
£200 a side, she closed her labors for the season.

As a six-year-old, April 28, 1859. at the Newmarket
Craven Meeting, she gave Count Batthyany's Olympus a
twenty-lengths beating, in a match for 100 sovereigns, ditch
mile; and in the Chester Cup, May 4, carrying 102 lbs., in
a field of thirty-three horses, she was fourth to Leamington,
6 years, 114 lbs.; Heme, 4 years, 88 lbs., and Botany, 4
years, 76 lbs. Two days afterwards, at the same meeting,
carrying 102 lbs., .she was fourth for the Steward's Cup,
won by Tunstall Maid, for which eleven horses started.
May 9, at the Newmarket Spring Meeting, carrying 140
lbs., she won the Queen's Plate for mares, defeating Pole-
star, 140 lbs., and Target, 4 years, 121 lbs. The latter
" led to the Bunbury mile-post, where she shut up, and
finished a quarter of a mile ofi'; Prioress coming on,
defeated Polestar by fifteen lengths." .June 2, at the
Epsom Summer Meeting, carrying 131 lbs., she won the
Queen's Plate for mares, beating Archduchess, 3 years,
98 lbs., by three lengths ; Julie. 3 years, 98 lbs., a bad
third, and three others not placed. July 28, carrying 118
lbs., she ran third to Promised Land, 3 years, 105 lbs., and
Newcastle, 3 years, 105 lbs., in the Goodwood Cup; and
on the following day she again ran third for the Bentinek
Memorial Plate, which was won by her stable companion,
Starke. In the Cesarewitch, she was sixth in a field of
thirty-six. October 24, at the Newmarket Houghton Meet-
ing, carrying 101 lbs., she beat, by twenty lengths. Lord
Glasgow's Toxophilite, 4 years, 124 lbs., generally con-
sidered the best horse of his year. The following day she
was unplaced for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, won by Red
Eagle, and October 28, carrying 126 lbs , she beat, by six
lengths, Lord Glasgow's Maid of Masham filly, 4 yeare,
112 lbs., and thus closed her third year on the English turf.

At the Newmarket Spring Meeting, 1860, she challenged
for the whip, but the weight carried (140 lbs.), and the con-
dition of her oflF fore leg. was too much for her, and though
she ran with wonderful gameuess for three miles, she was
forced to succumb to Mr. Merry's Special Liceuse. After
this race she was sold to Sir Ijydston Newman, and with-
drawn from the turf for breeding purposes.

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RAMIXGTON was got by Fangh-a-Ballagh.
His dam was a very high-breil mare by Pan-
taloon. Leamington was foaled in 1853, and
was run when a two-year-old in the name of
his breeder, Mr. Halford. It is said, however, that he had
already been sold to Mr. Higgins, an innkeeper of North-
ampton, who was connected with Tom Parr and his son
Edward, who in turn were connected with Starkie. He
first started at Warwick, in the Woodcote Stakes for two-
year-olds, and won. At Nottingham he was beaten in the
llubin Hood Stakes, and also in the Bunney Park Stakes.
He was also beaten in the Convivial Produce Stakes at York.
At Derby he won the Chesterfield Stakes. In 1S5G his
first start was for the Derby. On the day of the race he was
suffering from an attack of the throat disease called stran-
gles, which had defeated Stockwell four years before. The
party now determined to play him for big handicaps. He
was started in four little ones, and was beaten with light
weights up, the last of them Hi lbs. They then let him
win a half-mile race, however, at Wolverhampton. At
Warwick, in the Town Plate, he was beaten; at Leicester,
in a half-mile handicap, he was beaten ; at Shrewsbury, in
the Corporation Plate, he was beaten ; but he won the
Stewards' Cup, one mile, with 98 lbs., and beat a large
field of horses. Parr & Co. must have been hard up then,
so they won this stake to enable them to pay their way.
The horse was entered for the Chester Cup, two miles and
a quarter, to be run for on the 6th of May, 1857. His
party had so managed that Leamington Was regarded as
a non-stayer, and before the weights came out 100 to 1
was laid against him. Leamington was weighted with
93 lbs., and they knew he could win with 110 lbs.
Before the start Leamington wr.s at 6 to 1, while Com-
motion, a three-year old, with 83 lbs., was at 3 to 1.
Thirty-five started. David Hughes, the boy who had
always ridden Leamington in his work, was in the saddle,
and Edward Parr's last words to him were : '■ Keep out of
the crowd. When you have gone two miles call upon
Leamington, and he will bring you through." The horse
stood very calm and quiet at the post, while many of the
others were dancing and scuffling about. Away they went !
Hughes galloped on the outside of them all for two miles,
then let Leamington shoot out, and he ran clean away from
them, and won in a walk. He next started for the Gold
Cup at Ascot, and was not placed. Three three-year-olds —
Skirmisher, Gemma di Vergy, and Saunterer — ran first,
second, and third. At Goodwood, Leamington was in the
Goodwood Stakes, Cup course, two miles and a half. His
weight was 118 lbs. Fisherman, the only horse that carried
more, had 124 lbs. Nineteen ran. Fisherman was a hot
favorite, and 100 to 3 was laid against Leamington at the
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start. But his time was come again. He won easily by a
length, ridden by Tom Aldcroft, and Gunboat, a very good
three-year-old, with 91 ttjs., was second. Fisherman was
not placed. This was a magnificent performance on the
part of Leamington. He started in the Chesterfield Cup
at the same meeting, with the top-weight, 131 lbs., and was
not placed. At Egham he was beaten in (he Queen's Plate,
won by Fisherman. In 1858 he ran but once, which was
in the Cesarewiteh. The Admiral had now found him out,
and put 130 lbs. upon him, which was 30 fts. more than
he allotted to Prioress, of the same age. Rocket, to whom
Leamington was giving 42 lbs., won.

In the following spring, Fisherman and Leamington
were accordingly entered in the Chester Cup. The former
had 126 lbs. allotted to him, and Leamington got off' with
114 lbs. He had to meet four-year-olds at a difference of
38 lbs. and 40 lbs. The public in general concluded that
he could not do it, and though the bookmakers dreaded
him, because of his former victory in the Chester Cup and
that in the Goodwood Stakes, in both of which his party
hit them very hard, they laid heavy odds against him. They
started, and Leamington got a bad start, which is a very bad
thing on the Rhoodee; but when Wells really set him a-tjoing
he galloped clean through the other two and-thirty without
apy apparent exertion, and won in a canter by two lengths.
The four-year-old Hcrne, to whom Leamington gave 26 fts.,
was second. Botany, another four-year-old, to whom he
gave 38 lbs., was third. Prioress was fourth. Fisherman,
Lifeboat, LTnderhand, and some other very famous horses,
were among the twenty-nine who were not placed. There
was in truth nothing in it at the finish but Leamington,
and Mr. Minor said " it seemed to me that he could have
won with nine stone (126 lbs.)." At Ascot Heath, Leam-
ington, with 131 lbs., ran second to Schism for the Queen's
Gold Vase. He gave the winner 34 lbs., and beat Tourna-
ment, Miss Cath, and Black Tommy. In the Goodwood
Cup, with 138 lbs., he was not placed. His off fore leg was
under suspicion. In the spring his party, confident of his
great staying powers, had challenged for The Whip, over
four miles, with 140 lbs. up. This race was to be run in
October. During his preparation for it, Leamington broke
down in his off' fore leg, and the courses of England knew
the great modern race-horse no more. Leamington lost
many races, but, as Mr. Minor said, with a low laugh,
" He never lost when his party had their money on, after
his defeat in the Derby." Leamington went to the stud
in 1860, and stood at the Rawcliffe Paddocks, getting
many winners. In 18G5 he was purchased by Mr. R. W.
Cameron, of Clifton Stud Farm, for £1575, and brought
over to this country, and is now the property of 31r. A.
Welch, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. — JV. Y. S^iortsman.

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TARKE was bred by General T. J. Wells, the
former owner of Leconite. He was foaled in
1855, and his sire was the four-uiiler Wagner,
and his dam the famous Reel, the dam of Le-
comte and Prioress. He was a mealy chestnut
horse, about fifteen hands three inches high, rather short-
bodied, but with plenty of depth of girth and capitally
arched loins. He ran very creditably at the winter meeting
of the Metairie Jockey Club in 1850, where, when not in
condition, he ran against La Variete, two-mile and four-mile
heats ; and, though beaten in both races by the mare, he so
pleased Mr. Ten Broeck, that he immediately purchased
him for S7,500, to add to his stable in England. Way
12th, little over one month after landing in the "old coun-
try," carrying 124 lbs , he started at the Newmarket First
Spring Meeting in a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovereigns
each, and, not being acclimated, was unplaced. At Royal
Ascot, June 15th, carrying 115 lbs., he ran fifth and last
for the Royal Stand Plate, 2 miles 174 yards. July Gth,
at Newmarket, carrying IIG fts., he was beaten twelve
lengths by the Duke of Bedford's Killigrew, 4 years, 11!)
lbs., in a match for 10(( sovereigns, over the Bunbury mile.
But he had now run himself into condition, and at Good-
wood, July 27th, carrying 105 lbs., to the astonishment of
the betting public, he won the Goodwood Stakes by half a
length from Lifeboat, 4 years, 119 lbs., and Blue Jacket,
5 years, 118 lbs., with fourteen others beaten off. Two
days afterwards, carrying as much weight as any horse of
his j'ear in the race, with one exception, and giving weight
to the second horse, he won the Bentinck Memorial Plate
in a canter by six lengths. In this race America was
third with Prioress, and the Stars and Stripes suffered no
discredit from their champions that day. Starke's next race
was at York, August 18th, for the Ebor Handicap, 2 miles.
Thirteen ran, and, notwithstanding the fact that he carried
more weight than any horse of his year in the race, and
more weight for age thau any of his competitors, he started
first favorite, but came in third ; Underhand and Arch-
duchess being before him. At Warwick, September 7th,
carrying 1111 lbs., he gained for Mr. Ten Broeck his first
cup trophy, the Warwick Cup, defeating easily Liveryman,
3 years, 79 lbs., and Lifeboat, 4 years, 119 lbs., considered
one of the best distance horses in England. At the New-
market First October Meeting, September 29, carrying 147
lbs., he ran for a Royal Plate, three and a half miles, and
was beaten half a length by Independence, 3 years, 128 lbs.,
the rest of the field being beaten off. In the Cesarewitch,
he was unplaced, and on the Cambridgeshire day, he ran for
a £50 Plate, but was only fourth in a field of five, Zuyder
Zee, 5 years, 122 lbs., winning. Starke made his first
appearance, in 18G0, at the Newmarket Craven Meeting,
April 11, in the Subscription Plate, a weight-forage race,
five furlongs (140 yards), for which seven horses started,
and only obtained the third place, Gallus, by Chanticleer,
winning, with Cynricus second. At the Newmarket First
Spring Meeting, carrying 126 lbs., in a handicap, 1 mile 2
furlongs 73 yards, he was second in a field of twelve.
The winner. Precursor, by Pyrrhus the First, 4 years old,
carrying 115 lbs., while the third horse. Toucher, though
of the same age as Starke, only carried 110 lltjs. At
Goodwood, the scene of his last year's unexpected triumph,
in the Goodwood Cup, won by Sweetsauce, he was fourth ;
and on the next day he was pulled out again for the

Queen's Plate, but was beaten by the three-year-old Crater,
by Orlando, to whom he was conceding 36 lbs. At the
Newmarket Second October Meeting, he was defeated for
the whip by Mr. Merry's Special License, who had, at the
Spring Meeting, beaten Prioress for it.

In 1861 he commenced badly, being unplaced in the
Great Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom, won by Parmesan,
since famous as the sire of the Derby winners, Favonius and
Cremorne. He was now kept for the Goodwood Meeting,
and in the Stakes (which event he had won two years
before) he started a hot favorite. Eleven ran, and Umpire
made the running for Starke at his best pace for two miles,
when he was passed by Starke and Jingling Johnny, who
raced neck and neck to the distance, where Elcho, a three-
year-old by Rifleman, dashed past them both, and, after a
game struggle with Starke, won by half a length. Jingling
Johnny being third, the rest nowhere. Notwithstanding
this severe race, Starke was brought out the following day
for the Goodwood Cup. In this race Mr. Ten Broeck had
three horses engaged, Starke, Optimist, by Lexington, and
Wallace, an English horse. The Wizard, the winner of the
2000 guineas, and second in the Derby the year before, was
the favorite, with 5 to 2 against him. The mighty Derby
hero, Thormanby, was second favorite at 3 to 1, while 7 to
1 was freely offered against Starke, and 20 to 1 against his
stable companion, Wallace. The race is thus described in
the Illusitratid London News:

Betting : 5 to 2 against the Wizard, 3 to 1 against
Thormanby, 9 to 2 against Mon Etoile, 100 to 15 against
Doefoot, 7 to 1 against Starke, 20 to 1 again.st Optimist,
loo to 4 each against Royallieu and Lady Clifden. Wal-
lace made the running, Starke second, Royallieu third.
Wizard fourth, and Doefoot fifth ; Lady Clifden, Thorm-
anby, and Mon Etoile being the last three. They proceeded
in this order by the " ladies' lawn" towards the top end of
the course, when Wallace, whose rider fully obeyed his
strong-running orders, to make a greater pace than in the
Starke race of the day previously, increased his lead to
seven or eight lengths. When they again appeared in sight,
Wallace was still splitting away at the head of affairs, but
with a sadly-diminished lead ; Starke second ; Wizard, the
northern hope, third; and Optimist and Thormanby fol-
lowed next, Doefoot being close on their flanks. Wallace,
having fulfilled his required duty, shut up before the dis-
tance was reached. Wizard then took the lead. Starke
joined him at the half-distance, and a splendid race ensued
home between them. At the stand the couple were neck
and neck, but the Wizard, at the last moment, was " bested "
by Starke, who won a terrific and quickly-run race by a
head only. Optimist (who had been so judiciously steered
by Edwards as to be ready for any po.ssible emergency) was
close in the wake of the two just named, and finished third,
but two lengths from the quarters of the Malton crack.
Thormanby, evidently overpowered with the weight, was
declining every stride he took towards the close, but finished
a moderate fourth. Mon Etoile, who was beaten thoroughly
a mile away from home, pulled up next, and then came
Doefoot.

Starke followed up his victory by winning the Brightim
Stakes, August 7, "in a walk" by four lengths, beating
Blue Jacket and others. This was his last race ; in No-
vember, 1861, Mr. Ten Broeck sold him for §7000 to go to
Prussia, where he was put to the stud.

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IjANET was bred by tbe late Thomas W. Dos-
well, Esq., of Virgiuia, in 1855, and was the
first foal of that famous stud matron Nina (by
Boston out of imp. Frolicksome Fanny, by
Lottery), the dam of Exchequer, Ninette, Orion, Ecliptic,
Winesap, and otliers. Planet's sire was Revenue, by imp.
Trustee out of Rosalie Somers, by Sir Charles, who was
bred and owned by Hon. J. Minor Botts, of Virginia, and
was not only a great racehorse himself in his day, but the
sire of many renowned racers also. Planet was, perhaps.
Revenue's best son, for he was a winner at all distances.
His first appearance on the turf was at Fairfield, Va., May,
1858, in the Doswell Stakes for three-year-olds, mile heats,
which he won in 1:-174 — 1:48, beating four opponents, the
stake being worth §10,750. At Mobile, Ala., he won the
three-year-old sweepstakes, mile heats, in 1:19.1 — 1:54; a
similar sweepstakes, at Savannah, Ga., mile heats, in 1:51 —
l:52i, beating Socks; the Post Stakes, for all ages, four-
mile heats, at New Orleans, beating Bonnie Lassie, Lizzie
McDonald, La Variete and Glycera, in 7:4G — 7:492, on a
very heavy track; a match for $5000, two-mile heats,
against Hennie Farrow, at Charleston, S. C, in 3:47 — 3:48 ;
being beaten by Socks, by Albion, for the Hutchinson
Stakes, mile heats, at Charleston, S. C, in 1:48J— 1:47J.
At four years old he won the Post Stakes, for all ages,
four-mile heats, at Ashland, Va., in 7:46 — 7:51, beating
Tar River and Don Juan ; a three-mile-heat purse at Fair-
field, Va., in 5:44-2, beating John L. ; and the Baleubrook
Stakes for four-year-olds, two-mile-heats, at Petersburgh,
Va., in 3:50.;— 3:52, beating Fate and Gold Leaf In
1800, at Savannah, Ga., he won the Post Stakes for all
ages, four-mile heats, distancing x\rthur Macon in the first
heat, a performance he repeated two weeks afterwards, at
Charleston, S. C, in the four-mile-heat race for the Jockey
Club Purse of $1000. At Augusta, Ga., he beat Delphine,
by Red Eye, for the purse of $500, three-mile heats ; and

at Mobile, Ala., the same spring, he won the Jockey Club
Puree of $700, three-mile heats, beating John C. Breeken-
ridge. Bill Alexander, and another. At New Orleans spring
meeting he won the Planet Post Stakes, four-mile heats, in
7:351 — 7:46|, beating John C. Breckenridge and La Va-
riete. Three days afterwards, at the same meeting. Planet
started against Daniel Boone and Sigma, in the Crescent
Post Stakes, two-mile heats, with the odds of two to one on
him, but had to succumb to that grand racehorse, Daniel
Boone, who won in two straight heats. After this race, a
match was informally made to run Planet against Daniel
Boone at four-mile heats ; but it went off, however, as
Messrs. Jackson and Cheatham were not able to command
the services of Boone. At this juncture, Mr. H. J. Colton
offered a $20,000 sweepstakes for a four-mile-heat race over
the Fashion Course, L. I., for which Planet, Daniel Boone
and Congaree entered. The race was fixed for September
25, 18()0, but, unfortunately, Daniel Boone hit his leg at
exercise, a few mornings before, and he was unable to start.
Planet had no difiiculty in beating Congaree, who was dis-
tanced in the fir.st heat, in 7:39, the track being very heavy.
Planet did not run again until the New Orleans spring
meeting, in 1861, when he ran against Lightning and
Panic, for the four-mile-heat Jockey Club purse, won by
the first-named horse. Panic being distanced. He was sub-
sequently beaten by Albine, at four-mile heats, which was
Planet's last race, for Major Doswell placed him at the stud,
where he has gained high honors. Katie Pease, a winner
at all distances from one mile up to four-mile heats, Gray
Planet, Hubbard, Brigand, Falmouth, Minnie Mac Platina,
Planetarium, Larry Hart, Moonbeam, Planter, Playmate,
Steel Eyes, Whisper, and many other good racers, testify,
by their performances on the turf, of the merits of Planet
as a sire.

Planet died at the Woodburn Stud Farm, Kentucky,
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IJANIP^L BOONE was bred by Mr. J. M. Clay,
of Asliland, Ky., in 185G, and is by Lexington,
out of Magnolia, by imp. Glencoe. His first
appearance on the racing turf was at the
Spring Meeting of the Kentucky As.soeiation at Lexington,
in 1859, when three years old, where he was beaten in the
Association Stakes, for colts of that age, by the chestnut
colt Sherritt (subsequently named Satellite), by imp. Albion
out of a Leviathan mare owned by Hon. Baillie Peyton,
and taken, by Mr. Ten Broeck. to England, where he won
many races. In the third heat of this race, Daniel Boone
was distanced. His next appearance was at the Lexington
Fall meeting, the same season, in the Produce Stakes, for
thrue-year-olds, mile heats, won by Mr. Alexander's Liu-
dora. Daniel Boone won the first heat, and Goodwood,
Endorser, and two others ran. In both these races he ran
full of flesh; but, training down, his next essay was more
successful, for, at Woodlawn Course, Louisville, Ky., the
following month, in the sweepstakes for three-year-olds,
two-mile heats, he won easily, beating Lindora, Endorser,
the chestnut colt by Wagner, dam by Glencoe, and the bay
filly, by Lexington, dam by imp. Margrave. The ensuing
month, November 3, 1859, he won the Jockey Club purse,
two-mile heats, at Memphis, Tenn., beating Hempland,
Mary Wylie and Birdcatcher. This was his last race at
three years old, and he now became the property of Cap-
tain Cottrill, of Mobile. He commenced his four-year-old
career brilliantly, for, at Mobile (Ala.') spring meeting,
March 15, 1860, he won the Campbell Handicap, two and
a half mile heats, carrying 86 lbs., beating the famous
racer Nicholas I., with 105 lbs. up, iu two straight heats,
and with great ease, in 4:431 — 4:42J. Planet, Fanny
Washington, Allendorf, Arthur Adams, and Marengo,
were entered, but paid forfeit. Proceeding to New Orleans,
at the Metairie Spring Meeting, April 2, 1860, he started
for, and won, the Crescent Post Stakes, for all ages, $500
entrance, half forfeit, with $500 in plate, given by the
proprietor of the New Orleans Crescent, two-mile heats.
His opponents were the renowned racehorse Planet, owned
by Messrs. Doswell, and Sigma, the property of that dis-
tinguished Southern gentleman, the Bayard of the Ameri-
can turf, Duncan F. Kenner, Esq. Planet had run with
such brilliant success in his previous engagements at
Charleston, S. C, Augusta, Ga., Mobile, Ala , and New
Orleans, that his victory was regarded as assured, and the
odds of two to one were currently offered and freely taken
by the partisans of Daniel Boone. The latter won the first
heat easily in 3:381, Planet not going for the heat; but
the second heat produced a magnificent contest, and re-
sulted in the victory of Daniel Boone in 3:364 ; Sigma
distanced. The Virginia stable was greatly disappointed

and dissatisfied with the result of this race, and a match
was informally made tn run Planet against the winner at
four-mile heats ; but, in consequence of Messrs. .Jackson
and Cheatham, who made the arrangement on the part of
Daniel Boone, not being able to command his services, the
match fell through. At this juncture, Mr. H. J. Colton,
of New York, offered a $20,000 sweepstakes for a four-mile
race over the Fashion Course, L. I., and for which Planet,
Congaree, and Daniel Boone entered. The race was fixed
for September 25, 1860, and no turf event, since the day
when Fashion and Peytona ran their memorable match on
the Union Course, L. I., created such intense and wide-
spread excitement iu racing circles as this anticipated con-
test. The turf for some years past had been steadily
declining in the North, and the prospect of the meeting
together in a four-mile-heat contest of the three confessedly
best racehorses of the day, was anticipated with absorbing
interest. Planet had never been defeated at either three-
mile or four-mile heats, and his Virginia partisans looked
upon him as invincible iu races at these distances. Con-
garee, the champion of the Palmetto State, had won all his
three-ycai'-old engagements for which he started in com-
manding style, at one, two, and three-mile heats, and he
carried the entire confidence of the South Carolina turf-
men. Daniel Boone, as we have already stated, had, a
short time before, signally defeated Planet and Sigma in a
two-mile-heat race, and his experienced trainer, the late
Col. Tom. Patterson, was confident he could go four miles
and repeat with the best of them. How the expected great
race ended, as far as Daniel Boone was concerned, in
grievous disappointment alike to his owner, trainer, and
the public, is now a matter of history, for he broke down
hopelessly a few days previous to the race, and his brilliant
turf career was thus abruptly terminated. At the stud he
has been fairly successful, considering his limited chances ;
Sallie Watson, AVinifred, Ino. Nannie F. Sweepstakes,
Magnolia, Frank Ross, Billy Williamson, and Cottrill (a
horse whose great racing merits were never allowed full
development), being among those who can boast of him as
their sire. He is still standing at Captain Cottrill's Stud
Farm, Magnolia Course, near Mobile, Ala. In color he is
a bay. standing close on sixteen hands in height. When
in training, his shoulders are capital, arms immensely long
and muscular, tremendous hips and good gaskins, his hocks
and knees coming very low down. All his points indicated
the possession of great speed, and his gameuess and endur-
ance were unquestionable. In his races he was always
looked upon as a racing wonder, from his splendid action
and thorough gameness; whenever beaten, his backers knew
that he had done all in his power, and honored him for it.
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jDLEWILD is a brown mare, blind in one eye,
foaled 1859. She was bred by W. S. Buford,
Esq., and was got by Lexington out of Florine
by imported Glencoe. She first started at
Lexington in a sweepstakes for three-year-
olds that had never won a race. In this she won the
first heat, and was placed third in the race, two Glen-
coe colts being first and second. There were six others
behind Idlewild, and three of them distanced. That was
in June, ISGO. In the Fall of the year she was taken
down the river, and ran at Memphis, Mobile, and New
Orleans. At Memphis, October 20th, she won the Walker
Stake for three-year-olds, and it was after this that she
received the name of Idlewild In December, at Mobile,
she was again victorious, winning the Grant Stakes for all
ages, beating Twilight, Neil Robinson, and James Cropper.
In the Club Purse for all ages, mile heats, at the same
meeting, Idlewild was ruled out. Idlewild next appeared
at New Orleans, in the Spring Meeting of 1861, and
on the 5th of April, and running as a three-year-old
according to Southern rules, she won the Club Purse of
$400, mile heats. She beat the two-year-old filly Regret,
by Brown Dick, and an imported two-year-old colt by
Stockwell, running the two heats in l:45j — 1:461. Four
days afterwards she defeated Dick Edward for the Club
Purse of $600, heat of two milts, in 3;38.5— 3:41. On
May 18th, at the Woodlawn Course, in the Purse for All
Ages, mile heats, she beat Austerlitz and three others, in
1:48 — l:44i. F'ive days afterwards, at the same meeting,
she beat Pope Swigert, Lucy Fowler, and a Sovereign filly,
in the Purse for All Ages, mile heats, best three in five, in
three straight heats, in 1:46 — 1:47^ — 1:47.

The outbreak of the great civil war for a while crushed
out the sports of the turf, but the Lexington Fall Meeting
was held as usual, despite the fact that many of Kentucky's
bravest sons were facing each other on the fatal battle-fields
scattered over that State. September 25th, in the Purse
for All Ages, mile heats, best three in five, Idlewild beat
Pope Swigert, and four others, in three straight heats ;
time, 1:471 — 1:45 — 1:46 ; and the next day she beat Bettie
Ward, a Vandal filly, Simon Kenton, and Pope Swigert,
two mile heats, in 3:573 — 3:55. She then went to Louis-
ville, and, on October 5th, beat Ella D. and Bettie Ward,
for the Challenge Vase, valued at $1000, a dash of three
miles. Her first race in 1862 was at Georgetown, Ken-
tucky. May 21st, where she beat Kansas easily, two mile
heats, in 3:47 — 3:50. At Lexington, June 3d, she beat
Ella D. and Jerome Edgar, two mile heats, easily, over a
very heavy track, in 4:32 — 4:28. For a Purse for All
Ages, three mile heats, run June 7th, for which six started,
she was the favorite, at evens against the field, and seemed
to justify the confidence of her admirers by winning the
first heat in 5:43j, but was absolutely last in the second
heat, which was won by the colt by imported Sovereign
out of Sallio Lewis. She was then drawn, and the
Sovereign colt won the third heat and the race in good
time. She now left the Sunny South, and at Philadelphia,
June 28th, .she won the three-mile-heat race easily, from
Ella D. and Bettie Ward, in 5:481—5:48. At Boston,
July 20th, she defeated Wagram and Avalanche, in the
three-mile-heat race easily, in 5:42 — 5:48. At Philadel-
phia, October 25th, she won the Post Stake for All Ages,
three-mile heats, beating Blackbird, Avalanche and Wo-

gram, in 5:45 — 5:35|. In 1863 she made a wonderful
performance. It was at the Centreville Course, June 25th,
in the four-mile dash for all ages; weight for age; and
Idlewild, 6 years, carrying 117 lbs., ridden by Tom Patton ;
Jerome Edgar, 4 years, 104 lbs., ridden by the famous
Gilpatriek; and Dangerous. 4 years, 104 lbs., ridden by
Gordon Davison, were in it. The track was excessively
hard, and very trying upon the horses.

The following report of the race is from The Spirit of
the Times: "Dangerous had the inside — the blind side
of the mare — Jerome on the outside was on that of her
good eye. She, sandwiched in between, reminded one of
the great Queen Bess, with Philip of Spain on one side and
Louis of France on the other, and more than a match, in
craft and power, for both. At the word they jumped olF
together, but Idlewild was soonest on her legs in earnest,
lor she was ahead of the others going round the turn. But
Tommy Patton's orders were to wait, and he pulled her to
the rear as soon as he could. Gilpatriek now made the
running, but not at a strong pace. At the half-mile pole
he was four lengths ahead of Dangerous, and the mare as
much behind that stout little horse. Idlewild was pulling
as hard as Glenartney when Lord Jersey's other colt, Mame-
luke, beat him for the Derby, and all the fielders exclaimed,
" If the bridle had a broke, he couldn't have lost it." Going
around the turn. Tommy indulged the mare with a little of
her head, and she ran by Dangerous, taking a place about
three lengths from Jerome, while the other colt fell as much
behind her. Thus they came along to the stand in 1:59,
the pace not having been strong in any portion of the mile.
Perhaps Gilpatriek now received a signal to that effect, for
they were no sooner out of the crowd than he put on steam.
The mare followed suit and maintained her relative position,
but Dangerous fell a little more to the rear. The pace was
maintained by Jerome all through the mile, which was run
in l;48-j. Idlewild just lay about three lengths behind the
leader, while Dangerous was some five behind her when
they came to the stand. Another mile was run, and there
was no change worth mentioning in the relative positions
of the horses, save that Dangerous dropped a little further
back. This mile was not quite as hst as the second, 1:51
being the time of running it. As they ran along the back-
stretch of the fourth mile, the mare began to creep towards
Jerome Edgar. At the half-mile there was but a length
of daylight between them. Now the great struggle in reality
beo-au. Inch by inch the stride of the mare closed this
gap of daylight. Soon it was all gone. And then steadily
but inevitably, as the shadow of the moon during an eclipse
advances over the face of the sun, she fore-reached to his
head. But Jerome was not to be passed, and streamed away
from her. Carefully nursed by Gilpatriek, he had a run
yet in him, even at the rate they were going. Neek-and-
neck with the mare in the hollow of the turn, as though
cheered on by the clarion voice of Clay of Kentucky, the
capital game colt raced. As they swung into the home-
stretch the mare had about half a length the best of it, and
no more. Once in the straight, however, her stroke, strong
and elastic as the Saxon bow that strewed the field of
Cressy, soon decided the matter. She got clear of her gal-
lant opponent, took the track, and won it by two lengths
(such was the fiat of the judge) in 7:2(U, the last mile
having been run in 1:47J." Her son Wildidle won a four-
mile heat, at San Francisco, October 22, 1875, in 7:25i.

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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
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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. —
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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.

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AKRY BASyi'n'T was foaled 18G8, aiul was
got by Lexiiiiiton out of Canary Kird. lie
made his eutree into racing society at Saratoga,
August 13, 1870, by winning the Kentucky
Stakes for two-year-olds from seven opponents.
He next won in the Nursery Stakes, at the Fall Meeting
at Jerome Park, and concluded the season by carrying off
the Supper Stakes, at Baltimore, October 2G, his solitary
opponent being Madame Dudley, the dam of Mr. Sandford's
Brown Prince, who ran so well in Kngland this year in the
Guineas. He commenced the season of 1871 at Jerome
Park, June 8th, in the Belmont Stakes, one mile and five
furlongs, for which eleven horses mustered at the starting-
post, among them were the famous four-milers, Slonarchist
and Wanderer, Mary Clark, Tubman and Stockwood. Harry
Bassett, however, won the race, Stockwood second, and Mr.
Belmont's imported By tbe-Sea, by the famous Derby win-
ner, Thiirmanby, third. Time. 2:56. He next won the
Jersey Derby, at Jlonmouth Park, Long Branch, July 4,
Monarchist second, Idaho third, and Wanderer, Nathan
Oaks, and four others not placed ; and at Saratoga, July 12,
won the Traver's Stakes, Nelly Gray second, Alroy third,
and four others not placed. At the same place, August 16,
in the Kenner Stakes, ho defeated Nellie Ran.som, Alroy,
Wine Cup, yEolus, Nathan Oaks and Express. At Jerome
Park, Octi ber 7, he won the Champion Stakes for three-
year-olds. Monarchist second, Alroy third, and Mary Clark,
Nellie Kansom and Stockwell not placed. At the same
place, one week later, he raced off with the purse for all
ages. Thence he went to Baltimore, where, October 24, he
walked over the course for the Reunion Stakes ; and on
the next day defeated Preakness in the SIOOO purse for all
ages, two-and-a-half-miles, in 5:41i; and on October HO, he
defeated his .solitary opponent, Helmbold, in the Boone
Stakes, four-mile heats, in 7:541 — 8:03J.

In 1872, at Jerome Park, June 8, in the Westchester
Cup, ho defeated Lyttleton easily by half a length ; and five
days later, at the same place, he distanced Metalla in the
$1000 purse. He had up to this time won fourteen races,
meeting some of the best horses on the turf, and had never
been beaten, and when it was announced that he was to
meet Longfellow, July 2, at Long Branch, in the Mon-
mouth Cup, two-miles-and-a-half, the greatest interest was
manifested in almost every part of the country. A vast
concourse assembled to see the race. The betting was
strongly in favor of Harry Bassett. Bassett led a length as
they passed by the club-house at the beginning of the first
turu, but Longfellow ran up to him on the backstretch, and
when they had gone a mile they were together in 1:44. On
the turu, Longfellow, running on the outside, was a neck
ahead, but at the head of the stretch they were even, and
on they came. Nearly up to the end of the first mile and
a half it was as close and good a race as a man could wish
to see. But the pace was too strong for Harry Bassett at
the stand. Longfellow took the lead. On the turn Bas-
sett's rider applied the whip, but it was of no use. The
horse shut up at once. Longfellow went away from him,
and beat him out in a common canter by about sixty yards,
in 4:34. The defeat of Harry Bassett was signal and sur-
prising. The idol had fallen — the oracles were dumb.

An explanation of his quitting is given by a writer in the
Golden Rule: "The boy who was left to watch Harry
during the morning, subsequently confessed to Colonel

JIcDaniels that he had received money from outside par-
ties, and he had allowed a fiend in human shape to give the
horse a bunch of grass upon which was sprinkled a quan-
tity of powder, which from its efl'ects was proven to be
morphine. Although for the first time in his life Harry
had refused to eat, and what seemed more strange, allowed
anyone to go near him without paying attention, his owner
thought the extreme heat and annoyance of the flies, which
were almost intolerable, caused this singularity in his favor-
ite's behavior. The result of the race was so unexpected
and exceptional, that inquiries were made, and elicited the
above information."

Taken immediately to Saratoga, he remained quietly
under treatment until July 13, when he won a sweepstakes
for all ages; and on July 16, he and Longfellow started
together for the Saratoga Cup ; the mighty Western cham-
pion twisted his plate, and broke down when victory
seemed in his grasp, and Bassett won by a length amidst
great excitement. Three days after, Harry Bassett defeated
Lyttleton by a length in the SIOOO purse, three miles ;
time, 5:43| ; and with a twenty lengths' victory over Mary
Louise, August 21, he left the fashionable waters of Sara-
toga, and at Fordham, Oct. 2, administered a three lengths'
beating to Else, Fadladeen, Lochiel, Hattie O'Neil, Nema,
Henrietta, and WMieatly, for the $600 purse. But now
reverses were in store for him. October 5, at the same
meeting, he was defeated by Monarchist in the Maturity
Stakes by two lengths, and though he in the meantime beat
Albuera, Mary Louise, and Wheatly with ease, in a dash of
a mile and three quarters, he was again defeated by Mon-
archist, on the last day of the Fall Meeting, at Jerome
Park, in the four-mile dash, by two hundred yards, in the
excellent time of 7:33J, King Henry being third.

As a five-year-old, his first appearance was at his favorite
Saratoga, July 26, 1873, where he was fourth to Crock-
ford, Mate, and Gray Planet; in the Saratoga Cup, where
making the running for his stable companion Joe Daniels,
he was second. At the same meeting, August 2, he was
third in the $1000 purse for all ages, a dash of three
miles, his stable companion, Hubbard, winning by twenty
lengths, with Wanderer second. In the Manhattan Handi-
cap, one mile and a ((uarter, October 4, he was among
the unplaced, the game old Preakness winning the race;
and in the Grand National Handicap, two and a quarter
miles, run one week later, he was again beaten by him, the
famous four-miler Fellowcraft being third, and Galway
fourth. October 15, at the same meetiug, he scored his
first victory that year, in the Free Handicap, two miles,
defeating Katie Pease, Mendac and four others, in 3:39|.
At Baltimore, October 25, he defeated Shylock, Warlike
and three others, two-mile-heats, in 3:56 — 3:571, and the
next day he wound up a not altogether successful season,
being distanced by the game little True Blue in the first
heat, in the four-mile-heat race. In 1874, he ran four
times. On October 3, at the Annual Fall Meeting of the
American Jockey Club, he was beaten by Countess, in the
$400 purse for all ages, the Warminstcr-Sophia filly being
second ; and four days later, he was unplaced in the $600
purse, won by Grinstead At Baltimore, October 20, he
defeated Gray Planet, Lottie Moon, and thirteen others;
and at the same place, two days later, he was fourth in the
Free Handicap Stakes for all ages, Ballaiikeel winning the
race ; after which, he was put to the stud.

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PRINGBOK is ouo of that grand g:ilaxy of
race-horses bred at the Woodburu Stud by Mr.
Alexander. He was got by Australian, a sire
who has produced a veryl arge proportion of
capital race-horses, and fur whose importation the country
is indebted to Mr. A. Keene Richards of Kentucky.
Springbok is one of the highest bred, as well as one of the
most beautiful and swift of all our race-horses. His dam,
Hester, by Lexington, was out of Heads-I-Say, by Glencoe,
grandam the imported mare Heads-or-Tails, by Lottery.

Springbok is a chestnut, and he was modelled by nature
for a great race-horse, being sixteen hands high, with great
length and power, and fine quality. His speed was first-
class, and he was not deficient in bottom. But some said
he lacked courage when collared and compelled to struggle.
Now, to our mind, he was as game as flint when three
years old, and though he afterwards got to run cunning, it
was as much the fault of the system pursued with him as
his own. He had boys to ride him, and, as might have
been expected, instead of their mastering him, he mastered
them. A gamer horse was never bridled than he was in
the Travers Stake at three years old, and if he afterwards
declined to run any more than he could help, he only fol-
lowed the example of Monarchist and Foster. Perhaps, if
he had been as wisely treated as they were, he would have
struggled for victory with nearly as much stubbornness.

Springbok was bought by Mr. Daniel Swigert, who ran
him as a two-year old at Jerome Park Spring Meeting of
1872, where he beat Minnie 3Iac, Katie Pease, and others.
Colonel McDaniel then purchased him. He ran in the
Saratoga Stakes that year, but was not placed, and this
ended his doings at that age. In 1873 he came out a
splendid three-year-old, and won the Belmont Stakes at
Jerome Park Spring Meeting. Count D'Orsay was second
and Strachino third. Behind them there were eight others,
the since famous Fellowcraft among the lot. At that meet-
ing Springbok also won a purse, mile heats, and distanced
the field in the second heat. At Long Branch, in the
Jersey Derby, he first encountered the famous horse Tom
Bowling, who was for a good while the lion in his path, and
beat him every time they met. Springbok was second and
Count D'Orsay third in the Jersey Derby. At Saratoga
these horses met again in the Travers Stake. The Count
was left at the post. Tom Bowling and Springbok ran one
of the closest and most desperate of races for a mile and a
half, leaving all the others far behind. At the head of the
stretch Bowling had the best of it, and by some means
Springbok tripped and fell, while his great antagonist went
on and won. Springbok was started again in the Kenner

Stakes, but he had not recovered from the effects of the
fall, and was third to The Ill-Used and Strachino. At the
Fall Meeting of the American Jockey Club Springbok met
Tom Bowling again in the Jerome Stakes, two miles, but
could not conquer him. He was .second, and his relative,
the great four-miler, Fellowcraft, was third. Concerning
this horse, we may remark, in passing, that though he was
commonly defeated until they sent him four miles and made
running, he was almost always " placed " with very superior
horses, such as Tom Bowling, Springbok, and Mate. At
that Fall Meeting Springbok won mile heats. In 1874,
Springbok first met his particular friend, the illustrious
Preakness. It was in the Jockey Club Handicap, two
miles. The four-year old carried 11] lbs., the old horse
had 130 lbs., and beat him. Springbok was second, and
there were sis light-weighted ones behind him. At the
same meeting he won a race of a mile and three-quarters,
Mate second, and Fellowcraft third. He also gave weight
to Lizzie Lucas, and beat her a mile and five furlongs. The
Colonel now took Sprinkbok and Katie Pease to Utica.
The colt was in high form, and the visitors at the beautiful
course on the banks of the Mohawk had the pleasure of
seeing one of the finest four-year-olds in the world win two
races. In a two-mile handicap ho carried 112 lbs., and
beat Artist and Lizzie Lucas in 3:361. There was some
grumbling when Captain Connor put this 112 lbs. upon
him to 100 lbs. for Artist of the same year; but we sai^ :
" Why, 120 lbs. will not stop Springbok, in our judgment."
From Utica the great colt went to Saratoga, and achieved
the most brilliant successes one after another. His tre-
mendous antagonist, Tom Bowling, had run and won his
last race, the Monmouth Cup, at Long Branch, and his
leg had gone. Springbok seemed to have it all his own
way. He won the mile and a quarter sweepstakes for all
ages. Mate second, and Survivor third ; he won the Sara-
toga Cup, Preakness second, and Katie Pease third ; he
won three miles, Preakness second, and Fellowcraft third.
In 1875 he won four purses for all ages at the Jerome
Park Spring Meeting. At Saratoga he was beaten by
Grinstead, in the mile and a quarter stakes for all ages, in
one of the swiftest and closest races ever run. In the
Saratoga Cup, he ran the dead heat with Preakness in
3:56J, beating the time of Harry Bassett, when he floored
Longfellow, by two and three-quarter seconds.

In 1876 he ran but once. In the purse for all ages, mile
heats, at Jerome Park, June 8, 1876, carrying 124 lbs., he
was distanced in the first heat, Freebooter, 3 years, 103 lbs ,
winning both heats, with Leander, 4 years, 118 lbs., second.
— i\y.'U' Yuik Sportsman.

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lAVOLO is a bay gelding, fifteen hands three
inches liigh, with a great deal of strength and
propelling power. He was bred by Major
Thomas Doswell, of Virginia, and was foaled
1870, and got by Jonesboro' out of Ninette, by Revenue,
grandam Nina, by Boston. Nina was out of imported
Frolicksonie Fannie, by Lottery. Jonesboro' was got by
Lexington out of Alice Jones, by Glencoe, grandam Blue
Bonnet, by Hedgeford, dam of Lightning, Thunder, Load-
stone, Lancaster, Nebula, &c. When Diavolo was young,
very little was done with him. He was lame on and off, and
had a violent attack of distemper. When he was four years
old, Major Doswell sold him to Ayres & SutcliflFe, his pre-
sent owners, for 8500. He was to retain the privilege of
starting the horse twice on the flat, and did start him once,
after which he turned him over to the purchasers. George
SutclifFe then undertook to teach him how to jump. At his
first lesson he behaved kindly and well, but at the second
his conduct was the reverse. He refused his leaps after the
first fence, plunged about like a wild horse, and bolted all
over the course. His rider was unable to control him at all.
He then got lame, and was let-up for three weeks At the
end of that Sutcliffe mounted and went at him again. He
is a powerful man in the saddle, rides 145 lbs., and has un-
daunted resolution. Somewhat to his surprise, he found
Diavolo more tractable. Every three or four days the horse
had a slow gallop and a number of leaps. He soon took to
the business and appeared to like it. He is now a very fast
horse, a great weight-carrier, and a good stayer. But he
is a dilfieult horse to ride, especially at his fences. He has
plenty of power to lift his weight, but he goes with his head
very low, and unless it is got up at his leaps he never clears
the obstacle. He first appeared as a juniper at the Utica
Fair, in the fall of last year, where he ran in a hurdle race
with his stable-companion. Blind Tom, Lil}', and Lobelia.
Diavolo, in making the running for Blind Tom, fell at the
first hurdle, and the latter won. At the same place he
started in a steeplechase, and when leading at the last fence
but two, he overjumped, and his rider fell. He next ran
at the extra meeting at Jerome Park, in the Handicap
Steeplechase, against Trouble, Resolute, Moonstone, Mary
Clark, Harry Booth, Impecunious, Vesuvius, Austrine, and
Blind Tom. Diavolo ran Trouble to a neck, but he was in
receipt of 18 lbs. Diavolo's first race this year was the
Grand National ILindicap Steeplechase, at Jerome Park
Spring Meeting. He was opposed by Kesohite, Daylight,

Moonstone, Austrine, and Bibakiba. Diavolo won with
146 lbs.. Resolute second (150 lbs.). Daylight third (143
lbs.). His next race was a handicap steeplecha.se at the
same place, in which Deadhead, Resolute, Moonstone,
Meteor, Stanford, Daylight, and Coronet also started.
Diavolo carried 149 lbs., and won ; Deadhead (140 lbs.)
second. Resolute (147 lbs.) third. At Monmouth Park, in
a two-mile hurdle race, Diavolo was third to Trouble, at
even weights. At the second meeting Diavolo beat Trouble
at even weights, over hurdles, and also defeated Deadhead,
Risk, and Minnie Mac. At Saratoga, in the Handicap
Steeplechase, about three miles, Diavolo, with 155 lbs., beat
Trouble (158 lbs.), together with Deadhead, Daylight,
Stanford, Helen Bennett, and Prodigal Son, all of whom
had much lighter weights. In the second Handicap Steeple-
chase, Diavolo, with 158 lbs., ran second to Deadhead (140
lbs.), Stanford (140 lbs.) third. Daylight (135 lbs.) not
placed. At Jerome Park fall meeting, Diavolo, with 158
lbs., beat Trouble (same weight) second. Deadhead (152
lbs.) third. Coronet, Busy Bee, and Boz not placed. At
the same meeting. Trouble (158 lbs.) beat Diavolo (163 lbs.)
second. Deadhead (149 lbs.) third. Busy Bee and Coronet
also started. At the same meeting Diavolo, with 164 lbs.,
bolted, and was not placed to Trouble, who won with 100
lbs. ; Coronet second, and Busy Bee third. At Baltimore,
Diavolo won the Grand Steeplechase Post Stakes, with 154
lbs.. Coronet (154 lbs.) second. Deadhead (148 lbs.) third.
At Washington he won a hurdle race, a mile and a half
over eight hurdles, beating Busy Bee and Cariboo At the
same place, he won a hurdle race of two miles and a half,
over fifteen hurdles, beating Bu.sy Bee. At the Jerome
Park extra meeting, Diavolo won the Handicap Steeple-
chase with 165 lbs., beating Boz (117 lbs.), Resolute (138
lbs.), and Osage (140 lbs ). He was then handicapped
with 175 lbs. in another steeplechase, Resolute 14(1 lbs.,
Osage 130 lbs., and Boz 118 lbs. In this effort to give
Resolute, a horse of his own age, thirty-five pounds, Diavolo
failed through slipping at the water-jump. He went to his
.stable on three legs, having wrenched the muscles of the
hock and thigh. We are glad, however, to be able to
state that he is getting better, and that there is great
hope of his recovery from that severe and very painful in-
jury. It has, as might very naturally have been expected,
reduced him somewhat in flesh, and has also tended to
bring back a cough to which he has been subject at times
ever since last Fall.

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jlROUULE Wiis bred in Franklin County, Ky.,
by Mr. A. K. Richards and Dr. Butler. He
was foaled 1870, and was got by Ulrerstone,
a son of Ijexinpton and Utilla. by jMargrave.
Trouble's dam was Kate jMePonald, by Mickey Free out of
Annie Laurie, by Vincent Nolle (son of American Eclipse).
When a two-year-old he was sold to Dick Jackson, the
jolly Kentucky blacksmith, whose well-known face it is
pleasant to see at the beginning of everj- great meeting.
He had the colt galloped a little as a two-year old, and
during the spring he was three, he sent him to our gal-
lant friend Major B. G. Thomas, of Fayette County, to
be trained. There he was seen by Mr. Clement Alloway,
of Montreal, who fancied he would make a jumper, and
purchased him for himself and !Mr. Torrence for $300,
That was in the spring of 1873. In Canada they sold him
for §1500, and afterwards Jlr. Torrence purchased him
back. That year he started twice over the flat while Major
Thomas had him, was not placed the first time, but ran
second to Florence I. in the other. In May, 1874, he ran
a two-mile hurdle race at Carleton Park, Toronto, Canada,
and won, beating Jack the Barber, Jr., Kelso, Blackbird,
and Olga. On the same day he was second to Lulu, for-
merly Sunrise, in the Stewards' Plate, mile heats. At
London, Canada, he was third in a race of two miles for
all ages. At Carleton Park, in July, he was beaten mile
heats, but won a mile dash, beating Helen Bennett and
Alfred. At Toronto was second to Lady Washington in
the Merchants' Purse, mile heats. Same place he won a
purse, one mile, beating Helen Bennett and Alfred. At
Hamilton, Trouble won a hurdle race, two miles, beating
Kelso and Jack the Barber. At Ottawa, he was second to
War Cry in the Citizens' Purse, and won the Flash Stakes,
beating Tradewind and Hampton. He also won the steeple-
chase, two miles and a half beating Tradewind and Abbots-
ford. Trouble was brought by Mr. Torrence to Jerome
Park last fall, and won the handicap steeplechase, carrying
the top weight, 150 lbs., and beating Daylight, Vesuvius,
Lady Bruce, Chief Engineer, Buckshot, and Impecunious.
He alsQ won a handicap steeplechase, carrying 160 lbs.,
and beating Mary Clark, Vesuvius, and Daylight. At
Baltimore Trouble beat Austrine in the Grand Steeplechase
Post Stakes. At Jerome Park extra meeting he won the
Grand Steeplechase Handicap, carrying the top weight,
158 lbs , and beating Diavolo, Resolute, Moonstone, Harry
Booth, Mary Clark, Impecunious, Vesuvius, Austrine, and
Blind Tom. In these great steeplechases, Johnny High-
land rode Trouble. This year at Baltimore Spring Meeting-
he won the Steeplechase Post Stakes, beating Coronet,

Daylight, Calvert, and Linda. At Jerome Park he came
in first in the Handicap Steeplechase with the top weight,
158 lbs , but was disqualified, because Murphy dismounted
without notice. At Long Branch he won the Grand
National Steeplechase, beating Bullet, Stanford, and Vesu-
vius. He also won a hurdle race, two miles, beating Dead-
head, Diavolo, Vesuvius, and Stockwood. At the second
meeting he was second to Diavolo in a hurdle race, in which
Deadhead, Risk, and Minnie Mac also ran. At Sarat<iga,
Trouble, with 158 lbs., ran second to Diavolo, 155 lbs., in
a steeplechase. Deadhead, Daylight, Stanford, Helen Ben-
nett and Prodigal Son also ran. After this Mr. Torrence
sold him to Mr. Charles Reed of this city, to whom he now
belongs. Anthony Taylor took him to train, and Tom
Little was engaged to ride him. At the Jerome Park Fall
jMeeting he was second to Diavolo in the Handicap Steeple-
chase, both 158 lbs. Deadhead, Coronet, Busy Bee and
Boz also ran. Next week, with 158 lbs., he beat Diavolo,
who carried 163 lbs. Little rode, and Midgely was on
Diavolo. The race was exceedingly close and good ; won
by a head only. Deadhead was third, a length behind;
Coronet and Busy Bee also started. On the last day of the
Fall Meeting Trouble carried 160 lbs., and beat Coronet,
Busy Bee and Diavolo. The latter bolted twice in that
race. Geo. Sutcliffe was riding, and being weak from
recent illness, was unable to hold him. Trouble was then
sent into winter quarters at Long Branch, with Taylor's
other horses. In 1876, at Jerome Park, June 6th, he won
the §800 purse, beating Point Blank, Bulk't and Colonel
Nelligan ; and at the same place, on June 17, carrying the
top weight, 165 lb.s., he defeated Stanford, 6 years, 158
lbs.; Risk, 4 years, 138 lbs.; Warlike and Resolute, who
were also in this race, fell. At Saratoga, July 27, carrying
165 lbs., he was second to Osage, 5 years, 142 lbs. ; Doubt-
ful, 3 years, 120 lbs., and Katie P. being behind the pair;
and at the same place, August 8, carrying 160 lbs., he was
again second to Osage, 5 years, 134 lbs. ; Resolute, 6 years,
140 lbs., being third, and Stanford and Coronet not placed.
One week later, at the same place, he was among the not
placed, Resolute winning the race, with Kelso second and
Stanford third ; and at the same place (Saratoga), August
19, he finished his labors for the year by winning a S750
purse, defeating Resolute. Osage was killed by falling, and
Stanford was distanced.

This year, 1877, at Jerome Park, he won twice. On June
5th, he won the Grand National Handicap Steeplechase,
defeating Resolute, Deadhead and Fredericktown ; and on
June 12th, he won the $600 Purse, defeating Deadhead,
Waller, Resolute and Coronet. — Sjiorfxman,

Ol'NTESS is a daughter of Kentucky and
Lady Blessington, by Eclipse. Lady Klessing-
ton was a very fast and good-looking mare out
of Philo, by Mariner, grandam Cassandra, by
Priam. Her first colt was Lord Byron. Her nest was a
much better horse, Count D'Orsay. He always ran well,
but it was his luek to meet such grand three-year-olds as
Tom Bowling and Springbok. The next thrown to Ken-
tucky and Lady Blessington was Countess. She came
out as a two-year-old, in 1873, at Baltimore, in the
sweepstakes for two-year-olds, three-quarters of a mile, the
same race which Mr. Belmont won this year with Sul-
tana. Countess was immediately thought by the connois-
seurs to be one of the very best-looking two-year-olds
that Kentucky had produced. She was of fair size, very
muscular, very full of quality, and very high behind.
She defeated King Pin, the Sue Washington colt, Shil-
lelagh, Vandulite and Dublin with great ease, in 1:17J.
Last year her success was not as great as we had anticipated.
Bonaventure beat her in the Ladies' Stake, and Kegardless
defeated her in the Monmouth Oaks, at Long Branch. The
same filly beat her in the Alabama Stakes, at Saratoga, a
mile and a furlong, in 2:00}, 107 lbs. each. Madge, Val-
dine, Bonavonture, Beatrice and Moonbeam were behind
Countess. In the Sequel Stakes, two miles, she was not
placed. She was second to Madge in her next race, nine
furlongs, in the splendid time of 1:571, but in this they
carried 95 lbs. Grinstead and six others were behind
Countess. At the Jerome Park Fall Jleeting she beat Li-
spiration, Harry Bassett, Lotta Moon and Audubon, three-
quarters of a mile. This spring Mr. Belmont let her racing
qualities to Mr. Longstaff, a Yovkshireuian of great shrewd-
ness and fine business qualifications, with a large livei-y
establishment in this city. With Countess they began at
Baltimore, mile heats, a handicap, in which she conceded
even weights to the colt Piccolo. She won the first heat,
and made a dead heat for the second with him, thus getting
second monej-, when he won third and fourth heats. Seven

others were behind her. In the Fordham Handicap, at
Jerome Park, she was not placed with 100 lbs. At the same
meeting she beat Bob Woolley, Dublin and five others,
three-quarters of a mile. At Long Branch, Searcher, who
had the fastest mile record, beat her a mile, but Countess
did not get ofi" well, and really ran it faster than he did.
Verdigris and eleven others were behind Countess. In
this race Field-Marshal Swim first rode the coroneted lady,
and she has been a favorite of his ever since. Countess
started in the Mansion House Stakes, for four-year-olds,
which Grinstead won, with Rutherford second. In her
next race, three-quarters of a mile, at Saratoga, she beat
Madge, Searcher and three others, in l:16i; Swim rode.
She next beat Inspiration, the Naphtha filly and sis others,
a mile handicap, 1:42 ■! ; Countess carrying her full weight,
and ridden by the Field-Marshal, who said she had plenty
left. It was a great performance. At a mile and a furlong,
she was beaten by Brigand and Rhadamanthus, but five
others were behind her. At Prospect Park, she beat B. F.
Carver, Wyndham and Lutctia H., mile heats, in straight
heats, each 1:46. At the same meeting she beat Burgoo
and Wyndham, a mile and a quarter. She now had a rest,
and was kept quiet for a race which many thought she
could never compass. It was the Maturity Stakes for four-
year-olds, three miles. George Longstaff and Snedeker
had tried her mile heats with great success, and a mile and
a quarter. They now held a council of war, debated and
disagreed. Field-Marshal Swim was called in as a sort of
umpire, and the result was that these three worthies finally
determined to stretch her out further, and won a sackful
of money. The race is undoubtedly fresh in everybody's
memory. Countess met Madge and The Hoaxer, outran
the latter, and lasted somewhat longer than the Austra-
lian filly. At the same meeting she ran second to Shylock
for the 1600 Handicap, Arcturus and Athlete being third
and fourth. After the race she went into winter quar-
ters, and has not since appeared on the turf. — Niic lurk
Sjiorfsmaii.

ETTIE NORTON was bred by Mr. John Coffee,
of Sufferns, N. J., and w;is foaled in 1S7I.
She was by imported Leamington oiit of Long
Nine, a daughter of Lightning, and Sallie by
imported Sovereign. She was a dark bay mare,
fully sixteen hands high. She made her first appearance on
the turf in the August Stakes for two-year-olds, one niile;
at Monmouth Park, N. J., July 21, 1873. Imported Saxon
won an easy victory by five lengths, and Nettle and Scratch
ran a dead heat for second place, Vandalite being behind
them. Her only other race that yeat was at the same place,
August 21, when she beat Visigoth after a hard struggle,
by a short neck, for a purse of §500, three-qiiarters of a
mile. She did not start at three years old until the Fall
Meeting at Jerome Park, October 14, when she won a purse
of $500, one mile and three-quarters, beating The Hoaxer;
Emma, and O'Neil. Three days afterwards she was beaten
by Shylock, in a free handicap, Jack Frost being second;
and on the same afternoon was again brought out t« do
battle against Kadi for another handicap, with a like result.
Kadi winning, with Resolute second, London third, and
Stanford, R. F. Carver, Nellie Norton, and Minstrel un-
placed. In 1875 she had plenty of work to do, and did it
well. Her first race that year was at Jerome Park, June
17, where she was among the ufiplaced in a handicap
sweepstakes for all ages, one mile and a quarter, time 3:08|,
Survivor winning, with Willie Rurke second and Cariboo
third. At Saratoga, August 17, she \fon a purse of ?600j
one mile and three-quarters ; Scratch was second, Willie
Rurke third, and Vagabond fourth ; and two days later she
captured another purse of $600, one mile and a half, in
2:44}, defeating R. F. CarVer, Enlister, Rrigand, Caroline,
and Survivor. At Long Rranch, August 28, she was third
and last to Galway and Osage, in a Purse of $450 ; and at
the Fall Meeting, at Jerome Park, October 5, she was third
to St. Martin and Joe Cerns, in a purse of $600, one mile
and a half, Invoice and Warrior being unplaced. October
14 she was again unsuccessful, only attaining second place
in the Post Stake for all ages. Aaron Pennington winning,
with Willie Rurke third, and Deadhead and Warrior un-
placed. Four days afterwards, at the same meeting, she
beat Madge for a purse of $800, two and a half miles.
Her next engagement was at Raltimore, October 21, in the
Rowie Stakes for all ages, four-mile heats; $100 entrance,
half forfeit, and $25 if declared out, with $2200 added, had
originally nine subscribers, of which three only cattle to the
post. Of the added money, $200 went to the second horse,
who was also entitled to receive $300 out of the stakes.
The runners were: Mr. H. P. McGrath's Aaron Penning-
ton, 4 years, by Tipperary, carrj'ing 108 lbs.; Mr. J. G.
K. Lawrence's Shylock, aged, by Jjexington, 118 lbs,; and
Mr. John Coffee's Nettie Norton, 4 years, by Leamingtouj
105 lbs. Aaron Pennington was the favorite in the pools,
selling for $1000 ; Shylock, $310 ; and Nettie Norton, $220.
Hayward had the mount of Shylock, Evans on Nettie Nor-
ton, and Robby Swim on Pennington. The conditions
of the horses were critically scanned by their backers.
Opinions differed as to Pennington ; some alleging that he
was far from fit, and had not recovered from his four-mile
race at Jerome Park, while others as stoutly asserted that

he was fit to riin for a man's life, and could not be beaten.
Nettie Norton was quite ignored, although her owner and
trainer were equally confident, and the former had brought
with him from New York a number of friends, who never
tired of backing her. She looked light, wiry, and fine
drawn, and evidently had been specially prepared for this
race. The favorite indulged as usual in backjumping before
the lot were sent off, Evans senditlg Nettie Norton quickly
to the front, and at once opening a wide gap, for at the
quarter she led Shylock eight lengths, while Pennington
ftas as far behind the latter, both pulling double. The
jockeys on the favorite and Shylock paid little attention to
the wide gap that the Leamington filly was steadily opening
on them, confident that she would in time come back to
them. With Nettie Norton under a steady pull, Evans
kept her steadily going along the back and lower stretches,
and up the straight run in, passing under the string full
forty yards ahead, and making the first mile in l:55i : Shy-
lock ten lengths before Pennington. On the .second mile,
the filly kept rapidly increasing her commanding lead, for
she made the pace considerably faster, and at the end of
the second mile, run in l:47j (the two miles in 3:43), she
was fully fifty yards in front : Shylock arid Pennington run-
ning head and head. Their backers now anxiously looked
to see them go up and pass the leading filly, but. to their
consternation, neither of them appeared able to gain a yard
on her, but, on the contrary, she was increasing h^r pace,
and leaving them further behind at every stride. At the
end of the third mile (rUn in 1:53, and the three rililes la
5:36), Nettie Norton was seventy yards ahead, and shouts
arose, "$100 to $75 she distances both," without any one
having the courage to accept the odds; It was evident that
both Shylock and Pennington were in difficulties, for their
riders \Tere already at work with catgUt and steel without
effect. Evans took in the situation at a glance, and gently
Urging Nettie Norton along, he galloped home the easiest
of winners in 7:37i; the distance flig dropping when the
other two were thirty yards outside, Shylock being in front.
Tremendous cheering greeted the victorious filly and hei"
clever jockey, George Evans, as they returned to weigh ;
Nettie thus securing both first and second money, $2800
altogether. Although somewhat tired, she soon reCoveredj
and could have run another heat handily. Some credit
must be given to her trainer, William Strong, for the fine
condition in which he brought her to the post, slie being a
most diflicult filly to train. At the National Capitol, Oct.
27, she was second to Ozark, Galway and Kenneth being
behind them ; arid two days after she was again second to
the same horse, five others being in their rear. She was
engaged the Centennial season in the Jockey Club Handi-
cap, the Centennial Stakes, and Centennial Cup at Jerome
Park, the Monmouth Cup at Long Rranch, and the Phila-
delphia Cup and Intern.ational Handicap at Philadelphia,
and Would undoubtedly have won most of them, as she was
an improving mare. She died suddenly while at Mr.
Coffee's farm near Sufferns, N. J,, on F'riday, May 12,
1876. She was grazing in the paddock, and was observed
to suddenly fall on her fore-knees, but before the lookers-on
could reach her, she was dead.

RISTIDES was foaled 1872, and is by Leaming-
ton out of Sarony. He made his first appear-
ance at Lexington, Ky., May 12, 187i, and
ran second to Leona, by War Dance, from Alu-
mina, in the half-mile sweepstakes for two-year-olds, Katie
Pearce third, beating a field of six others, among tbem Bob
Woolley and Weatherby, in 0:49}. He tben came East,
and ran unplaced to Meco, for the Juvenile Stakes, half-
mile, run at Jerome Park, June 13, time 0:50J. He was
also unplaced to Caroline, by Kentucky, dam imp. Camilla,
for the Hopeful Stakes, a half mile, at Long Branch, July 7,
time 0:51. At the same meeting, July 16, he was second
to Sweet Lips, by imp. Eclipse, dam Prophetess, for the
Thespian Stakes, three-quarters of a mile, in 1:18. At
Saratoga, July 30, he was unplaced to Willie Burke, in a
three-quarters dash, for the Saratoga Stakes, in 1:23'. At
the second Saratoga meeting, August 18, he won a purse
of $500, one mile, Aniella second, Holbrook third, beating
Joe Cerns,Victorious, Enlister, Risk, and Babylon, in 1:46}.
At the Jerome Park Fall Meeting, October 7, he won a
purse of $500, at five furlongs, in 1:04 J, beating Firework,
Babylon, Mr. F. Morris' Warniiuster-Rebel Colt, Joe Cerns,
Enlister, Scramble, Holbrook and Springlet. At the same
meeting, October 14, ran second to James A., for a purse
of $500, three-quarters of a mile, in 1:18}, and closed the
season by a brilliant performance at Baltimore, for a purse
of $400, for two-year olds, one mile, where on October 22,
he took up 100 lbs., and beat Joe Cerns second, Aniella
third, and Holbrook unplaced, in 1:44|.

In 1875, as a four-year-old, Aristides ran nine times.
He was beaten as follows: May 10, Lexington, Ky.,
for the Phoenix Hotel Stakes, one mile and one-eighth,
in 2:11 1, by Ten Broeck, with Bill Bruce second,
Goldmine third, and Millionaire, Eleuii, and Aristides
unplaced ; next by his stable companion, Calvin (with
whom his owner declared to win), for the Belmont Stakes,
one mile and a half, at Jerome Park, June 12, in 2:42}.
Aristides could have won easily, but took second place,
Milner third, with such horses as Chesapeake, Ozark, Rha-
damanthus, Tom Ochiltree, Willie Burke, James A., and
Joe Cerns unplaced ; was second to Ozark for the Ocean
Hotel Stakes, at Long Branch, July 13, one mile and three-
quarters, in 3:10J, Leader third, and Tom Ochiltree un-
placed. At Saratoga, July 24, he was third to D'Artagnan
and Milner for the Travers Stakes, six others beaten off;
was unplaced to Tom Ochiltree first. Viator second, and
Joe Cerns third, for the Dixie Stakes, at Baltimore, Octo-
ber 10.

He won, 1875, the inaugural Kentucky Derby at Loui.s-
ville, May 17, one mile and a half, in 2:374, beating a list
of good horses, and among them his great rival Ten Broeck.

Volcano was second and Verdigris third, and the unplaced
were Ten Broeck, Bob Woolley, Chesapeake, Ascension,
Searcher (afterwards Leander), Vagabond, Goldmine, Bill
Bruce, McCreery, Warsaw, Enlister, and Grenoble. He
then came East, and at Jerome Park, June 5, captured the
Withers Stakes, one mile, in l:45f , llhadamanthus second,
Ozark third, with a field of ten unplaced. At the Jerome
Park Fall ^Meeting. October 2, he won the Jerome Stakes,
two miles, with Calvin second, Joe Cerns third, and Tom
Ochiltree, Ozark, Viator, Milner, and Rambler unplaced,
in 3:43, and closed the season by winning the Breckenridge
Stakes at Baltimore, two miles, October 22, with Viator
second, Tom Ochiltree third, and Joe Cerns and Bay Final
unplaced, in 3:36 J.

As a four-year old (1876), Aristides appeared only at
Lexington, where, on the 10th of Jlay, in the four-year-
old Sweepstakes, ho met Ten Broeck over a distance of two
miles and one-eighth, and Aristides conquered, after a
terrible fight, in the unprecedented time of 3:45}. Ten
Broeck made the running from the string, and Aristides,
after feeling cjf hiui one time on the route, let him stride
along until the two miles had been covered, when he went
up and made his fight and won. He then appeared, again
and for the last time, at the same place, on May 13, for a
purse of $500, two miles and a half, and here he caught a
tartar in the little Bazar (since Waddill), who took up the
running and made the pace fearfully hot. Aristides lay
behind, expecting the little horse to come back to him, but
he refused to slacken the pace or lessen the stride, and,
finally. Aristides was required to go to him. In the home-
stretch, the fight was furious, but Aristides won in 4:27}.
In these struggles the work was very severe. He has not
appeared in public since.

Aristides started twenty times; nine as a two-year-old,
and won three times; nine as a throe-year-old, and won
five times, and started in two events as a four-year-old, and
won both times. He has won ten out of his twenty races.
Five of these performances, to wit, the dash of a mile for
the purse of $400 for two-year-olds, at Baltimore, October
22, 1874, which he won in 1:44 J ; as a three-year-old, the
inaugural Kentucky Derby of May, 1875, one mile and a
half, in 2:37f , the Breckenridge Stakes at Baltimore Fall
Meeting, 1875, two miles, for three-year-olds, in 3:36i, and
the two races at the Lexington Spring Meeting of 1876,
the one in which he beat Ten Broeck, two miles and one
furlong in 3:45}, and two miles and a half, which distance
he covered in 4:27}, are numbered among the best events
ever accomplished by any horse in the country. The two
latter are the fastest on record at the respective distances,
two miles and an eighth, and two miles and a half — Sjjirit
of the Times.

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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.

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.

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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
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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.

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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
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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.

|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
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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.

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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-
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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

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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

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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
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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.

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

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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
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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

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.

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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.

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.

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
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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

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.

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LACKWOOD, Jr., is a black stallion, 16i
bauds high. He was bred by B. F. Van
Meter, Winchester, Ky., being foaled in 1871.
His sire was Blackwood, and his dam was
Belle Sheridan, by Blood's Black Hawk, who in her day
was one of the finest show mares of Kentucky, and bore
away many yards of blue ribbon from the speed rings and
fair grounds of that State. With her daughter, La Belle,
she showed against everything in double harness; and it is
said that she was never defeated, single or double, and that
the younger mare was never beaten except by her dam.
When a suckling, he was sold to Mr. Joseph Vandevere,
and in October, 1871, was purchased by Mr. A. J. McKim-
min, of Nashville, Tenn., for his present owner, Mr. Jacob
Zell, of the same place. He was broken to harness, and
shown at all the principal fairs in Tennessee, and at several
in Alabama and Mississippi, when he was a yearling, and
never failed to get first honors in his class. When he was
two years old, he had a great deal of work for a horse of
his tender age. Very often, after taking his track work in
the morning, he was driven to Nashville and back, double,
in the evening, a distance of five miles. His average rations
were twenty-one quarts of oats a day during this year. As
a two-year-old he served two mares, neither proving with
foal. He had plenty of track work in 1874, and in August
trotted the first race in which he got a record, at Nashville,
winning in straight heats, the first and fastest being trotted
in 2:33|, He next appeared at Lexington, where he was
beaten by Lady Stout, after winning the first heat. Late
in the same year he trotted and won four races, and got
nineteen foals, and was fed, while in training, eighteen
quarts of oats per day. The season of 187o, when he was
a four-year-old, was an extremely active one for him. He
was put to work in February, and kept going until Novem-
ber, and won an almost unbroken series of victories. He
travelled over five thousand miles by rail, served twenty-
eight mares during the season, and was fed sixteen quarts
of oats and three quarts of wheat bran per day. He began
the season by walking over at Albany, for the Country
Gentleman Stakes, in September, then returned to Lexing-
ton, Ky., and won in three straight heats — time, 2:32} —
2:34 — 2:32. From there he went to St, Louis, Mo., where
be was beaten in the Free for All, against such trotters as
Cosette, Little Fred, Huckleberry, &c., after a desperate
race over a heavy track. He then went to Goshen, N. Y,,

and the four-year-old stake, finishing every heat under a
pull, in 2:35— 2:36}— 2:40. From here he went to Wash-
ington, D. (.'., where he was entered in the 2:30 cla.ss, but
did not start, as the race was withdrawn. He then went
into winter quarters at Nashville, Tenn., apparently unim-
paired by this vast amount of railroad travelling and hard
work, which, taken with his three-year-old career, would
have been thought enough to kill any other colt of his age,
but which seems to have had no more effect upon this iron
horse of Tennessee than so many days spent in his paddock.
During the past season a similar policy has been pursued
with him. He served four mares in January, thirteen in
February, and no less than sixty-two during the season, and
yet he trotted ten races, winning nine of them. HLs first
appearance the present year was at Nashville, Tenn., in the
2:29 class. May 23d, which he won, Frank Reeves taking
the first heat in 2:25V, and Blackwood, Jr., the next three
in 2:24 — 2:25J — 2:27. Three days later he won the Free
for All in three straight heats, of which the time was 2:24|
— 2:24^ — 2:36. For these races he was taken directly
from the stud, where he had been serving heavily, and it
must be borne in mind that they do not represent him in
trained form. He then returned to bis stud duties, but
took another recess in the latter part of June and early
July, during which he trotted four races at Harrodsburg,
Lexington and Cynthiana, Ky, and north of the Ohio,
winning each at an exercising gait, in moderate time, there
being nothing to push him. These performances caused
him to be looked upon as a very likely winner in the five-
year-old class, at the Breeders' Centennial Meeting, at Phila-
delphia, where he was entered, although he would have to
encounter the supposed-to-be invincible Governor Sprague,
besides Elsie Good and Lady Mills. He met them under
unfavorable circumstances for him, and was obliged to lower
his colors to Sprague, in the Independence Race, (already
described in the notice of Governor Sprague on page 31),
but got second money, and defeated his conqueror for the
championship Stallion Cup, which emblem he now holds.
His fastest heat for it was trotted in 2:23. The inscription
on this trophy styles him "The Iron Horse of Tennessee,"
and certainly none ever better deserved such a sobriquet.
Throughout his career, the orthodox notions of training have
been reversed ; while in preparation for races he has served
mares, done ordinary road work, and been fed like a glutton,
but all seems hariuless to his wonderful constitution.

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KOSPERO was bred by Charles Backman,
Esq., of Stony Ford Stud Farm, Orange
County, N. Y., was got by Messenger Duroc
out of Green Mountain Maid, by Harry Clay,
son of Neave's C. M. Clay, Jr., and was the first one of the
get of Messenger Duroc that claimed public attention. The
breeding of Prospero is a brilliant illustration of the happy ef-
fects of crossing the inbred descendants of stout old Abdallah
upon the fast trotting Clays. Prospero was foaled July 12,
1869. He is a black gelding, about 155 hands high, possess-
ing great substance, strength of bone, and, like most of the
Hambletonian trotters, with enormous leverage of the hind-
quarters. His gait is that of a pure trotter — no hopping
or hitching behind, no sprawling or pounding of the fore-
legs, but with clock-like regularity and machine-like cer-
tainty, the movements of his feet and legs, when at speed,
impress the beholder with the idea that there is in no part
of his machinery a waste of power, or excessive action.
He is a very rapid scorer, apparently getting to his speed
without an effort, and his average stride is about nineteen
and a half feet. He was kept, on Mr. Backman 's farm
until the spring of 1872, when he was a three-year-old,
and he was then sent to Carl Burr's to be broken to
harness, and put in training for the three-year-old stakes to
be trotted at Prospect Park, Oct. 15. He was jogged by
Mr. Burr occasionally, to accustom him to harness, until
some time in June, when he began to get regular work, and
very soon began to show his prowess as a trotter. The
stake for which Prospero was entered closed with eighteen
nominations, but, whether from the rumors that began to
be heard concerning Prospero's great speed, or from other
causes, all excepting three of them declared forfeit, and
when the colts were called up for the word, only two
answered. The hardy knight that ventured to cross
swords with Pro.spero on this occasion was Highland King,
by Ashland out of Young Highland Maid by Ethan Allen,
At the word, Prospero took the lead, and at the quarter, in
37is., he was ten lengths the better of his antagonist, and
when he got to the half, in 1:142, he had left his com-
petitor behind a double distance. He continued to open
daylight at every stride, and when he reached the wire,
in 2:332, the race was ended, for Highland King was far
behind the distance flag. This performance, when we
remember that Prospero's driver, Carl Burr, weighed over
two hundred pounds, is justly regarded as one of the most
marvelous exploits that has ever been seen, and at once
established Prospero's reputation as one of the wonders of
the age. Immediately alter this race he was purchased by
Wm. M. Parks, Esq., of Brooklyn, for $20,000, and he a

few days thereafter refused an offer of S25.000 for him.
The colt was turned out soon after this race, and nothing
was done with him until June, '73, when he was taken up
and jogged, under Carl Burr's management, until Nov. 1,
when he was again turned out. During the season, Mr.
Parks challenged the world, to match him on equal terms
as to age, offering to stake two to one on his colt, but he
found no takers. In the spring of 1874 he was permitted
to run at will until July 1, when he was again taken up
and put in training, under Carl Burr's direction, but had
very little, if any, fast work. In the month of October he
was brought to Prospect Park, for the purpose of giving a
public exhibition of his speed, when it was confidently ex-
pected that he would be able to show better than 2:20 ; but
in the preliminary warming up for the trial he picked up a
nail in his foot, which injured him so seriously that he had
to be at once turned out. In the spring of 1875 he was
sent to Charley Green, with the understanding that he was
to be entered in the Grand Eastern Circuit; but soon after
he was taken sick with pink-eye, and was returned to Carl
Burr's place. Upon his recovery from this disease he was
put to moderate work, and again had the misfortune to
wound his foot with a nail, and another let-up became
necessary. It now began to be whispered that Prospero
had gone back on his three-year-old form, and that he would
never again be able to trot in 2:30. But the public was not
long left to speculate upon this point, for a match was made
between the black gelding and the famous horse Honest
Dutchman, with a record of 2:2GJ, at $5000 a side. This
satisfied the public that there was mettle in the gelding or
else in his owner, for it was known that it would take a
good one to beat the Dutchman. The race came off on
October 20, 1875, and was witnessed by a large concourse
of erentlemen who were interested as breeders or owners of
trotting horses. All looked forward to an exciting contest,
and very few were prepared to see the race come to an end
in such a summary manner as it did. The horses got the
word, after six attempts, to a good start, and Prospero at
once took the lead, as he did in his former race, and was
never headed. He reached the quarter in 34Js., .the half
in 1:081, and when he got to the wire, in 2:22i, his com-
petitor was just entering the homestretch. He was a very
unfortunate horse last year, and found no opportunity to
display the marvelous speed he undoubtedly possesses. He
has this year (1877) been placed in the hands of Dan Mace,
who will train and handle him during the approaching cam-
paign, and we hope to see him make his way to the front,
and we shall not be surprised at his marking a record low
down in the teens. — Sjjirit of the Times.

HOMAS JEFFERSON is a black stallion,
over 15} hands high, foaled 1863. Ho was
bred by Mr. T. J. Vail, of Hartford, but
was purchased by his present owner, W. B.
Smith, Esq., of Hartford, at $500, before he was foaled.
He was got by Toronto Chief, son of Royal George, out
of the famous old mare Gipsy Queen, who holds a place
in the history of American trotters as one of the ganiest
uiares ever known, remaining perfectly sound after years
of trotting at races of three, five and ten miles. She
was purchased as a " Wagner marc," but it is probable that
she was got by a son of Vermont Black Hawk out of a
thoroughbred, or, at least, a well-bred mare, and she has
stiimped her own great powers and level brain upon her
son, in whom the trotting gait is intensified and improved
by the cross with Toronto Chief Thomas JeflFerson first
appeared on the turf in 18(iG as a three-year-old, winning
four capital races, and making a record of 2:52J. In 18G7
he won several races, and reduced his record to 2:42i. In
1868 he was nut on the turf. In 18GU he won many good
races, and made a mark of 2:38. Among his races that
year was one with Eastern Queen, trotted in 2:33, the
Queen winning the race; but he got first mouey on account
of the mare not being eligible in the race. In 1870 he was
very successful on the turf, winning nine races, many of
them being hotly contested, and lowered his record to
2:29J. In 1871 he came out in fine form, won five of the
hardest-fought races of the season, and made a record of
2:25 i, this being the first season that he had not been kept
in the stud through the early part of the year. From 1871
up to 1874 he was mainly kept in the stud, and he did but
little trotting ; but in the latter year the tempting purses
offered for trotting stallions induced Mr. Smith to again
enter the lists with his favorite horse. He made the season,
as usual, at Hartford, and served fifty-three mares. He
wiis withdrawn from the stud just twenty-seven days before
the stallion race at Buffiilo, last year, which was unques-
tionably the greatest stallion race ever trotted in the world.
True, the lime there made was npt equal to that made
by Smuggler in the champion race at Boston, last year;
but it was a struggle — a hand-to-hand fight between the
champions — Smuggler, Mambrino Gift and Thomas Jeffer-
son, which it required six heats to decide, and in which
each of the three principal contestants covered himself with
glory. Out of this hard-fought ■' Battle of the Monarchs"
Thomas Jefferson emerged a victor — not that he possessed
more speed than either of the others, but he fairly outlasted
them in the race. It was Smuggler's first race, and he
was green, and unused to the worry and excitement of
tcoring. Jefferson and Gift pressed him hard on the first
and second heats, the black being second in the first and

third in the second heat. From this on, it was a race
between the black and the chestnut, and it was a contest
between them to the finish of the sixth heat. In this race
Smuggler won the first two heats in 2:22} — 2:20| ; Gift
took the third in 2:22}, and Jefferson the next three in
2:23}— 2:26 J— 2:28 J. He had had but little fast work
previous to this race, and was not supposed by any one to
be in condition for a hard race ; but all who knew him
were aware that his level brain would never fail him, and
that his wonderful physical organization would stand up
under any call that might be made upon it. Gentlemen in
the stand, who took the time of each of the leading horses
in each heat, reported that Thomas Jefferson trotted the
heats of his race as follows: 2:22^— 2:22^— 2:23|— 2:23}
— 2:26i — 2:2SJ. Soon after this race he became quite
lame, aud he was unable to start in the race for the cham-
pionship at Boston that year, which was won by Smuggler.
In 1875 he was again in the stud during the early part of
the season, but he appeared. May 27, at Point Breeze
Park, where he won the last three heats of a five-heat race
in 2:251— 2:24— 2:25^—2:25}— 2:265, beating St. James,
Sensation and Young Bruno, the former taking the first
two heats. Ou the week following, he again met and
defeated Sensation in three straight heats at Prospect Park
in 2:261—2:24—2:23; the last of which heats stands
as his best record. This was the last race won by Jeffer-
son up to that for the championship at Mystic Park, Sep-
tember 14, 1875, when he had an easy victory over a fine
field of starters. The track was heavy, and consequently,
the time was slow: 2:27-2:26-2:25^—2:26, Common-
wealth taking the first heat. On September 20, he met
and defeated Comee, Bella (alias Maud), Molsey and John
H., in 2:241— 2:23— 2:24i— 2:24; Comee taking the first
heat. On the last heat Jefferson's time, as ofiicially an-
nounced for the last half, was 1:10}. He now chal-
lenged the mighty Smuggler, and was badly beaten for bis
temerity. In 1876 he commenced the season at Waverly,
N. J , September 22, where he defeated Barney Kelly in
slow time. At Providence, October 6, he was unsuccessful,
Comee winning a hard-fought race, with Honest Harry
second, and Jefferson third. At Watertown, Conn., Octo-
ber 12, he defeated George H. Mitchell and Billy Dawes
in three straight heats, but at Fleetwood Park, October 30,
he was again beaten, and at Hartford, November 1 and 2,
he wound up the season by being fourth and last in the
2:23 class, Frank Reeves winning, with Annie Collins
second and Honest Harry third. Thomas Jefferson is one
of the purest-gaited horses on the trotting turf, and is a
perfect picture of grace and elegance when in action. He
is the peer of any trotting stallion in the world in point
of endurance. — Spirit of the Times.

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KORGE M. PATOHEN was by Cassius M.
Clay out of a fine road mare, by a son of im-
ported Trustee. He was foaled in 1S49, and
was bred by Mr. H. F. Sickles, of Monmouth
County, N. J., for Mr. Carman, who owned his
daui. Hiram Woodruff, in his Trotdtnj Horse of Anu'rha,
describes him " as a powerful brown horse, above sixteen
liands hijj;h, with great strength and much bone. He was
coarse about the head, and heavy in the carcass ; but,
though he was what you might call a plain horse, his points
were uncommonly strong and good, and his action capital."
His first appearance in public was against Ethan Allen, at
the Union Course, October 28, 1858, but the little horse
distanced the big one in the first heat, in 2:28. His next
race was at the Union Course, May 9th, 1859, where he
defeated Pilot, in 2:31— 2;293— 2:321—2:391— 2;40, Pilot
taking the first two heats. At the same place, June 21,
he, Lady Woodruff and Brown Dick fought out a desperate
contest of six heats, in which the laurels finally rested on
the brow of the Lady. They did not remain there long,
for six days afterwards he defeated Brown Dick and the
Lady, two-mile heats, at the same place, in 5:011 — 5:031,
and the next day defeated the Lady again. Over the
same course. July 7, he defeated Brown Dick and Miller's
Damsel, in 2:261-2:201-2:29-2:285—2:29, Brown Dick
taking the third and fourth heats. He now lay by until
October 17, when he was defeated by Brown Dick, at the
Eclipse Course, but three days afterwards I'atchen dis-
tanced him in a second heat, in 2:28. He now trotted two
races each with Lancet and Brown Dick, winning one from
each of them. He then tackled Flora Temple, then at the
zenith of her fame, at the Union Course, November 21.
The mare won the first two heats, in 2:28 — 2;23, with the
stallion close up in each. In the third, Flora was first over
the score, in 2:24, but it was given to Patchen, because of
a cross and running. Darkness coming on, the race was
postponed and never trotted out. In 18G0 he defeated
Ethan Allen at the Union Course, in harness, on the 10th
of May, in 2:25—2:24—2:29, and on the 23d, defeated
him again, to wagons, in 2:201 — 2:27 — 2:31. His races
with Flora Temple drew the attention of the whole country
to him. Hiram Woodruff thus describes their first meet-
ing: "It came off" on the 0th of June over the Union
Course. The start was even ; but Flora soon njade a
skip, and the stallion got the lead ; but the mare caught,
and, going on with uncommon resolution, headed him, and
led a length at the quarter in 0;35. On the straight work,
she drew away a little more; but the stallion now made a
great burst of speed, and she broke. At the half-mile, in
1:11, he had a lead of a length, and soon increased it to
two lengths; but, upon the turn, the mare squared herself,
drew up to him, and came into the stretch with him. The
struggle home was one of the fastest and closest things that
ever was seen. They came on neck-and-ueck at an amazing
rate ; and within three strides of home, it seemed to be a
dead heat. McMann, at the verj' last, struck Flora sharply
with the whip, let go of her head, and with one desperate
effort she was first, by a throat-latch, in 2:21, the best time
that we had then seen on the Island. The last half mile
had been trotted in 1:10, and was a neck-and-ncek race
nearly all the way. In the second heat. Flora was two
lengths ahead at the quarter-pole ; and Patchen breaking
on the back-stretch, her lead was three lenf^ths at the half-
mile. On the lower turn he closed the daylight; and

another very hard, close struggle up the home-stretch,
ended in his defeat by only a neck in 2:24. Tallnian made
an appeal after this heat, alleging that McMann had driven
foul, by swerving out, and compelling him to go to the
extreme outside. The judges disagreed; but the majority
overruled the objection. In the third heat they got off well
together. On the turn she led slightly, being on the inside,
and at the quarter, in 0:36, she led him nearly a length.
He now made a wonderful effort, and trotted one of the best
quarters that I have ever seen. He was nearly a length
behind at the quarter-pole, in 0:30 ; at the half-mile pole,
in 1:10, he led. Therefore, he trotted this, the second
quarter in the third heat, in better than 0:34. On the
lower turn, he led two lengths. But the mare now gathered
herself up for one of her rushes, and closed with him. Up
the stretch it was again, dose and hot. But she had a
little the best of it, and at the very last pinch he broke.
She won in 2:211. I consider this the best race that Flora
Temple ever made; and as the stallion was .so little behind
her that the difference could not be appreciated by timing,
it shows what a remarkable and excellent horse he also was.
On the 12th of June, they trotted two-mile heats in har-
ness, at the Union Course, and Patchen won in two straight
heats, in 4:581^4:571. Two matches were made, to be
trotted at Suffolk Park, Philadelphia, the first, mile heats,
three in five ; the second, two-mile heats. The first of them
was trotted on the 4th of July. She won in 2:221 — 2:21 J
— 2;371. On the 10th of July, they trotted the two-mile
heat. Patchen won the first heat, in 4;511^, and would have
won the second but for the outrageous interference of a
mob, who threw clubs and hats in his face when he had
the advantage, and frightened him. He was then with-
drawn, and Flora declared the winner. At the LTnion
Course, August 2, they met again. Patchen won the firs;
heat in 2:231, and Flora the last three, in 2:221—2:231 —
2:25J. At Saugus, Mass., August 28, she beat him again,
and at the Centreville Course, Septenjber 21. she beat him
two-u)ile heats, in 4:551 — ^5:00. After the failure of Flora
to beat Dutchman's time, she started out upon a tour with
Cireorge M. Patchen, upon much the same principles as those
whicii controlled in her campaign with Prince-ss. They
were at P]lmira on the 3d of October, and, according to the
published programme, trotted for a Purse of 32000 ; the
mare won in three heats, and the best time was 2:30. It
seems probable that Tallman and the owner of the stallion
had come to the conviction that he could not beat Flora
that season, and had made up their minds to earn his share
of the gate-money as easily as might be. On the 17th, they
were at Watertowu ; and here there was a good race between
them. The track was heavy. In the first heat, Flora led
all the way by two lengths, and won in 2:28. In the second
heat, the stallion won in 2:20. But the little mare was not
to be beaten in the race, for she won the third and fourth
heats in 2:26 — 2:25. At Rochester, the stallion won the first
heat, and the mare the other three. The time was 2:29 —
2:29—2:28—2:30. October 27, they were at Geneva, and
trotted on a heavy course. Flora won the first heat in 2:32.
In the second, she was defeated in 2:28. In the third, she
beat the stallion in 2:29. But in the fourth heat she was
distanced. On the 31st, they reached Corning; and there
the mare won in three heats, with 2:31 the "best, the track
being very heavy. That was the last time that Flora and
Patchen trotted together. Patchen then was sent to the
stud, and died, May, 1864.

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LANTER was foaled in September, 1868, in
Kentucky His sire was Red Bird, by a horse
cidled Old Norman, owned near Troy, N. Y , a
son of Bush's Messen<i;er, he by Old Messenger,
and his dam was a Mauibrino mare. His breeding is not
as clearly defined as could be wished on the dam's side;
but that makes comparatively little difference with a geld-
ing, with which performance rather pedigree is the main
thing His trotting abilities were developed by J. W.
Wright, of Rochester, N. Y., into whose hands he passed
when quite young, and he made his debut in lS7o, when a
five-year-old. August 6 of that year, at Buffalo, he won
the first heat in the 2:45 class, at the great race there, in
2:31 ; was subsequently beaten by Clementine, but got
second money. He trotted in a number of races afterwards
the same siJason, but was never a winner. In 1874 we find
him trotting five races and winning two, but without lower-
ing his record. In 1875 he was used for hippodrouiing
purposes, trotting several races, but only winning one, and
that in slow time. He reduced his record that year to 2:.30.
His owner, of course, knew the speed that was in him, and
last winter he was spld, for a large price, to Mr. J. McAn-
drew, Jr., of Jersey City. He placed him for training in
the hands of John Splan, who has driven him so success-
fully in his races this year. He had shown that he was
fast enough to aspire to travel with the very speedy ones,
and was entered through the Septilateral Circuit, beginning
at Bufiylo. At that city he met such flyers as General
Grant, Mattie, Trio, and Marion, and was obliged to content
himself with fourth place in the race, saving his entrance,
but was a good third in the fourth heat, which was trotted
in 2:22}. The following week, at Rochester, he trotted a
splendid race. General Grant won the first heat in 2:222 ;
Planter third. In the second heat Planter took the lead
almost from the word, and was never headed, passing the
quarter in 37s., the half in 1:13, the three-quarter pole in
1:49, and winning, by half a length from Marian, in 2:25.
It will be noticed that he continued to go faster the longer
he trotted. In the third heat he was beaten by Trio by
only a neck, in 2:24; and in the fifth heat, which General
Grant won in 2:21, he was a close third. Planter got second
money in this race. At Utica he scored his first victory.
There were four starters — Planter, Mattie, Marion, and
Trio ; and Marion was made a hot favorite, chiefly because
he had trotted a very close second to General Grant in a
fifth heat, in 2:21, at Rochester. Planter won the fii-st heat
in 2:241 ; Marion the second, 2:23J ; the third was dead

between Marion and Mattie, in 2:24, and Planter took the
fourth and fifth, each in 2:25. This prolonged contest,
every heat fast and bitterly contested, proved him to be a
reliable horse for endurance as well as speed. The following
week, at Poughkeepsie, however, he met with his Waterloo.
There were but four starters — Planter, Jlattie, and Trio,
with Martha Washington in place of the formidable Marion.
On account of his Utica performance, Planter was picked
for a sure winner. In the first heat, he took the lead on
the third quarter, and won it by a length from Mattie, in
2:24J. In the second, the finish was closer, and he only
beat Mattie out by a neck, again in 2:24i. In the third
heat, he led the party uutil entering the homestretch, and
apparently had the race in hand, but then had the misfor-
tune to grab his quarter, and was beaten out by Mattie by
several lengths. This accident, it is supposed, lost him the
race. Trio won the nest two heats and Mattie the sixth,
and then the race was postponed until the following day,
with two heats to the credit of each of the three. Planter
was then made favorite, as he was credited with the most
speed, but was not able to get there, and Mattie won the
deciding heat, Planter and Trio dividing second and third
money. At Hartford, Planter had only Trio to contend
with. He took the first heat in 2;27J, she captured the
second in 2:24}, and he won the third and fourth in 2:26
and 2:27. At Springfield, he scored his third Septilateral
victory. In this race he was apparently laid up the first
two heats, Gray Bill taking thi first in 2:30, and Bay the
second in 2:27^. Planter then won the naxt three, in
2:272 — '2:28} — 2:25J. This race wound up his perform-
ances in the Septilateral Circuit, from which he emerged
with a record of 2:24 i, and winner of $5000, having taken
some part of each of the six purses he st.irted for. There
Were very few, if any, horses that lived through the cam-
paign as well as he. Nearly all the races in which he was
engaged were protracted and hotly contested, but he seemed
to improve as he went along. He is a very stylish horse,
carries his head high, and has a most resolute Way of giing.
His gait is as pure as can bo, and he is a very fair breaker,
but never indulges in a reveille except for adequate cause.
It is claimed for him that the speed he has shown in public
is only an indication of what he is capable of, and that,
under favorable circumstances, he can beat 2:20. Next
season will tell the tale whether this trotter is to bj added
to the rapidly-swelling free-for-all list, or whether he has
nearly reached the limit of his speed. His owner feels
very confident about him. — Spirit of the Times.

ADIE BELL, tin; winlior of llie Reiiublic R;ice
for four-year-ulds, at tliu Bleeders' Centennial
jMeetiug at Pbiladel|ihia, may justly be consi-
dered a pbeuouieuou. for she was bred in a part
of the country which has not been distinguished
for the development of trotters, on the coast of \ irgiuia ; she
represents none of the appioved trotting strains, her pedi-
gree on the side of the dam being entirely unknown ; she wag
brought up, from all accounts, helter-skelter, doing plough-
work rather than track-work ; and yet she won a bitterly-
contested battle over the best-blooded and most carefully
reared four-year-olds from all parts of the country, in a
race where a victory was the highest possible honor, and in
which every contestant was sent for every ounce there was
in them. Once in a while there are such scratches on the
turf; but they furnish no argument against intelligent
breeding, being rather the exceptions which prove the rule.
Sadie Bell was bred by a Virginian, named Duncan, who
has a farm on the little island off the jieninsula formed by
Accomac and Northampton Counties. Her dam was a
mare, which Mr. Duncan worked on his farm, and of whose
breeding absolutely nothing is known. Her sire was a
iiorse called Oden Bell, one to i'ame unknown except through
liis now illustrious daughter. Sadie was a puny foal, and
scarcely considered worth the keeping. No attention was
paid to her ; she was allowed to shift for herself, and pick
up a living as best she could, both summer and winter,
running pretty nearly wild. When three years old, however,
she was taken up, and broken to harness, it being the
intention of her owner to use her as a plough-horse, and in
this capacity she did some service, keeping up her end
creditably, though small and young. But she was not
destined to wear out her days in such ignoble work. Speed
in a horse, like genius in a man, cannot remain concealed.
A sou of Mr. Duncan's discovered that Sadie was very fast,
and ideas of winning great triumphs and bar'ls of money
with her on the turf sprang up in his mind. The father,
however, was adverse to such courses as race-courses, and
more to remove tenjptation i'nmi the young man than for
any other reason, sold the filly for SHOO, to Mr. T. McCon-
nell. of Fungoteague, Accomac County, Va. On trial, this
gentlemen liked his bargain very much. Under training,
she rapidly developed speed, and when the purses for the
Breeders' Centennial were advertised, her owner did not
hesitate to enter her in the four-year-old class. When that
entry was announced last April, "T. McConnell, I'ungo-
teague, Va., chestnut mare Sadie Bell, by Olden Bell,"
horsemen said, " Who is Sadie Bell, who is Oden Bell,
and where is Pungoteague ? " Any one who had predicted
that in this unknown filly, of mysterious breeding, was to
tnrn up the conquerer of such well-known four-year-olds as
Girl E. Queen, Woodford Chief, and Montezuma, would
have been set down as a lunatic. But as time went on,
strange rumors began to be heard of this Virginian filly.
She was quietly being given trials, and .stories leaked out
of her trotting a half mile in 1:06, and all such marvellous
tales. The few who had sight of her, said she was a verit-
able ghost for speed, and those who had entered for the

Republic Race representatives of the more prominent strains,
in their calculations began to have an eye askance on Sadie
]5ell. Soon the encouraging story for her opponents got
abroad that, though very .speedy, she was not reliable, and
they breathed easier. Hut when she first appeared in
public, at Lancaster, Pa, Sept. 5, in a race for the three-
minute class, she showed no signs of unsteadiness. After
dropping two heats, to different horses, she won the next
three, in fine style, her best time being 2:89; and, at the
same place, Sept. 9, she won in the 2:50 class, in straight
heats, best time, 2:37i. Sept. 13, at Point Breeze Park,
she trotted a much better race in the 2:40 class, winning
straight heats in 2:32'. — 2:32 — 2:33. In this race she was
steady as a clock, and it was about the best sustained per-
formance ever made liy a four-ye,ar-oId. On account of it
she was made a favorite in the Breeders' Centennial Race.
In this event her opponents were Woodford Chief, Monte-
zuma, Lady Patchen, Echora, Post Boy, and Girl E. Queen,
The race is fresh in the minds of our readers, Sadie Bell
won the first, second, and fourth heats, in 2:34 — 2:34> —
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.

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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.

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ACONY was a roan gelding, foaled in 1844.
lie was bred by Paul Trompean, of Prince
Edward County, Canada West; was sired by
Sportsman, a son of Tippoo, his dam being a
Shakspearo and Peacock mare. With a number of other
horses, he came to Bucks County, Pa., in 1850, and was
bought by a gentleman living near Philadelphia. The first
race that he ever trotted was a match for one thousand dol-
lars against the gray gelding War Eagle, at Philadelphia,
July 17, 1851. He won the first heat, in 2:34; War
Eagle the second and third, in 2:35 — 2:33 ; the fourth was
dead, in 2:36 J ; and War Eagle took the fifth, in 2:40. In
his next race Tacony was beaten by Jack Rossiter, and on
September IS, 1851, he scored his first victory, beating
War Eagle, in a race of two-mile heats, in 5:29J — 5:25.
In 1852, he trotted a great many races, and scored eleven
victories. September 14, of that year, he achieved a grand
triumph. Since July 4, 1843, the time made by Lady
Suffolk, over the Beacon Course, 2:26i, under saddle, had
stood at the head of the record as the fastest mile ever trot-
ted. On September 14, 1852, at Philadelphia, Tacony met
Zachary Taylor and Black Ralph in a saddle race, and won in
straight heats; time, 2:28 — 2:29 — 2:26. This wonderful
performance, for the period, was heralded over the country,
and caused the greatest excitement. Tacony had beaten
Lady Suffolk's time, and had done it in a third heat;
whereas, her 2:26i was made in a first heat. Even readers
of The Spirit who were mere lads at the time, will remem-
ber thfi furore produced by the event; how the children,
playing horse, at once deposed Lady Suffolk from her
position as favorite, and the great strife was, who should
personate Tacony. It is a great thing for a trotter to stand
at the top of the ladder with a mile record, and Tacony
enjoyed this distinction from September 14, 1852, until
September 2, 1856, when Flora Temple trotted a mile in
harness in 2:24J, distancing both Tacony himself and his
record. Tacony first met Lady Suffolk, the mare whose
glory he had extinguished, September 24, 1852, at Union
Course, L. I. The greatest interest prevailed among horse-
men because of their coming together, and the crowd was
immense. The race was mile heats, best three in five, to
wagon, and Lady Brooks was also in the party. It was a
protracted struggle, but victory finally perched on the colors
of Tacouy. He took the first heat, in 2:34; the second
was dead between him and Lady Suffolk, in 2:40 ; Lady
Brooks won the third and fourth, in 2:30-> — 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.
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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.

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.

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.

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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,

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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