THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESENTED BY PROF. CHARLES A. KOFOID AND MRS. PRUDENCE W. KOFOID O O m o rt o .FAMOUS HORSES OF AMERICA. C 0 N T A I N I N G * | T t f t | f^ $fiftu=mine IJottraits of the €elekitie$ of tlje ^iuenrcinSurl|}a$t and pment, ° j /i ^ t/| '-j, fi "• \ ii ^ "-|v ] n ^ ^IP i WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHIES. PHILADELPHIA: PORTER AND C 0 A T E S, No. 822 CHESTNUT STREET. COPYRIGHT, 1877, BY PORTER & COATES. PRESS OF HENKY B. A8HMEAD, PHILADELPHIA. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. ACROBAT AND TOM OCHILTREE, AMERICAN ECLIPSE. ARISTIDES, BOSTON, . . . . COUNTESS, DANIEL BOONE. DIAVOLO, . . FIDDLESTICK, .... HARRY BASSETT. IDLEWILD, KINGFISHER, . LEAMINGTON, . LECOMPTE, LEXINGTON, LYTTLETON, NETTIE NORTON. OLITIPA, ... OZARK, PAROLE, .... PLANET, PREAKNESS, .... PRIORESS, RHADAMANTHTJS, 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, I FROM PHOTOGRAPH BY ) ( A. J. RUSSELL, j J. A. 0 , . C. LLOYD, C. LLOYD, W. FORD ATWOOD. KELLER, . C. LLOYD, .. C. LLOYD, C. LLOYD, C. LLOYD, HENRY STULL, E. S. H., ... C. LLOYD, H. DE LATHE, HENRY STULL, C. LLOYD, HENRY HILL, . HENRY STULL, C. LLOYD, C. LLOYD, T. J. SCOTT, . HENRY STULL. PAGE. Frontispiece. ... 6 . 44 . 8 . 40 . 22 . 36 . 58 . 32 . 24 . 28 . 16 . 12 . 10 . 26 . 42 . 56 . 48 . 60 . 20 . 30 . 14 . 54 : 34 . 18 50 . 52 . 38 . 62 46 M37C248 GQ PL, o o I-H 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, Fearnaught, 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 Union 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 first 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 Ibs. against Sir Charles's 120 Ibs., 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," offered to produce a horse, on the last Tues- day in May, 1823, 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 assembled to witness it, and the bet- ting on the result was enormously heavy, each section back- ing its representative racing champion without stint or limit. Henry, carrying 108 Ibs., was ridden by a lad; Eclipse, nine years old, 126 Ibs., 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 J. 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 favorite 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 23:50J. 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 Heary 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. JOSTON, foaled 1833, was bred by Mr. John Wickham, 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, D. 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 Union Course, L. I., and two weeks later beat Dosoris for the four-mile-heat purse of $1,000 over the Beacon Course, N. J. A week afterwards, he beat Decatur at Camden, N. J., in the four-mile-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 the first heat, of which the first three miles were run in 5:36} — 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 Course, L. I., in 8:00 — 7:57} 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 Lady 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- niile-heats, at Camden, N. J., he next proceeded to Tren- ton, N. J., and won the Jockey Club Purse of $1000, 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., beating Decatur in 7:57 — 7:58. On May 1, 1840, at Petersburg, Va., he encountered the gray mare Andrewetta for the four-mile-heat 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. Andrewetta 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 beat 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, 8:14}. A week after, at Alexandria, Va., he walked over for the 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 Mariner in three heats, for the Jockey Purse, four-mile-heats, Mariner winning the first heat in 8:00}, 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. L, for $20,000 a side, and on May 10, 1842, the great match came off. The number of spectators was esti- mated from 50,000 to 70,000 ; 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 7:32}, 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, in 8:13—7:46—7:58} ; Mariner 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 8:00} — 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, 11 JEXINGTON was foaled in 1850, and bred by Dr. Warfield of Lexington, Ky. He was got by Boston, out of Alice Carneal, by imported 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 $5,000 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 Mr. 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 8:08 J — 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 consent 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 many 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 was made for Lexington to run against Lecompte's time (7:26), 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 (7:26) for $20,000. Lexington won with great ease, running in 7:191- 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 pole 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 l:47i — 1:52J — 1:51 J — 1:48 J. 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 for the Jockey Club Purse in 7:231, he could have run in 7:10, or better. The style and action of this king among horses were of the finest description. He 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 burning 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 Comanche bow. He was not a horse of the large bone, which some declaim about as the summum bonum, 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 age. He died at Woodburn Stud Farm, in Kentucky, July 1, 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. o o 13 [ECOMPTE was bred by General Thomas 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 1:48} — 1:45}, 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 fts. ; beating his two opponents, Atala and Conrad the Corsair, in 3:45}— 3:46}. On Jan. 6, 1854, he beat the famous 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 3:45} — 3:52}. Seven days afterwards, he won the two-mile heat purse, same course, in 3:441—3:55, beating the Cora Colt, by Gallatin. On April 1, 1854, on the Metairie Course, New Orleans, he 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 8:08J ; 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 favorite at $100 to $80 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 lead, 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 7:38f , 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 — 3:46}, 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 7:19|. Three weeks afterwards, Lexington and Lecompte again encountered eacli other, over the Metairie Course, for the Club Purse, when Lexington obtained a decisive vic- tory, winning, with ease, the first heat, in 7:23J , after which Lecompte was drawn. At Natchez, Nov. 17, 1855, Lecompte won the four-mile heat Purse, beating Arrow, in 7:55} — 7:56J; 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 — 7:44J. 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, 5:58| — 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. — Spirit of the Times. H 02 £ 02 S O S PL, o 15 RIORESS was foaled 1854, and was got by imp. Sovereign out of Reel, by Glencoe. She was a bay mare, about sixteen hands high, 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 Glencoe 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 boldly 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, ridden 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 Riseber 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 Handicap, 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 ; but 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 offered against her. Thirty-four horses ran, among which were many of the best in England, notably Fisherman, 4 years, carrying 129 Ibs. ; Warlock, the winner of the St. Leger, 1856, 4 years, 123 Ibs.; Saunterer, 3 years, 117 Ibs.; Black Tommy, second in the Derby, 1857, 3 years, 109 Ibs.; Gunboat, 3 years, 103 Ibs., and El Hakim, 3 years, 93 Ibs. The race resulted in a dead heat between Prioress, El Hakim, and Queen Bess, a three-year-old who only carried 66 Ibs. In the deciding heat, she came home an easy winner by a length and a half, El Hakim beating Queen Bess 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-on-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 Ibs.; Odd Trick, the winner of the Cambridgeshire of 1857, 4 years, 119 Ibs ; Malacca, the winner of the Cam- bridgeshire of 1856, 5 years, 99 Ibs. ; the game little Under- hand, 4 years, 114 Ibs. ; Mr. Sykes, who won the same stakes in 1855, carrying 106 Ibs.; Poodle, Vandermeulin and others. Notwithstanding Prioress carried 126 Ibs., 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 Ibs., while Prioress ran a dead heat for second place with the Brewer, who, although her own age, carried 28 Ibs. less than she did. The rest of the field were some distance behind the trio. The London Sunday Times said of this race : '• Prioress ran with extraordinary gameness 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 Ibs., in a field of thirty-three horses, she was fourth to Leamington, 6 years, 114 Ibs.; Herne, 4 years, 88 Ibs., and Botany, 4 years, 76 Ibs. Two days afterwards, at the same meeting, carrying 102 Ibs., 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 Ibs., she won the Queen's Plate for mares, defeating Pole- star, 140 Ibs., and Target, 4 years, 121 Ibs. The latter " led to the Bunbury mile-post, where she shut up, and finished a quarter of a mile off; Prioress coming on, defeated Polestar by fifteen lengths." June 2, at the Epsom Summer Meeting, carrying 131 Ibs., she won the Queen's Plate for mares, beating Archduchess, 3 years, 98 Ibs., by three lengths; Julie, 3 years, 98 Ibs., a bad third, and three others not placed. July 28, carrying 118 Ibs., she ran third to Promised Land, 3 years, 105 Ibs., and Newcastle, 3 years, 105 Ibs., in the Goodwood Cup; and on the following day she again ran third for the Bentinck 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 Ibs., she beat, by twenty lengths, Lord Glasgow's Toxophilite, 4 years, 124 Ibs., 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 Ibs , she beat, by six lengths, Lord Glasgow's Maid of Masham filly, 4 years, 112 Ibs., 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 Ibs.), and the con- dition of her off fore leg, was too much for her, and though she ran with wonderful gameness for three miles, she was forced to succumb to Mr. Merry's Special License. After this race she was sold to Sir Lydston Newman, and with- drawn from the turf for breeding purposes. 17 (EAMINGTON was got by Faugh-a-Ballagh. His dam was a very high-bred 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 Robin 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 1856 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 84 fibs. 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 Ibs., 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 Ibs., and they knew he could win with 110 Ibs. Before the start Leamington was at 6 to 1, while Com- motion, a three-year old, with 83 Ibs., 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 fibs. Fisherman, the only horse that carried more, had 124 fibs. Nineteen ran. Fisherman was a hot favorite, and 100 to 3 was laid against Leamington at the 3 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 Ibs., 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 fibs., and was not placed. At Egham he was beaten in the Queen's Plate, won by Fisherman. In 1858 he ran but once, which was in the Cesarewitch. The Admiral had now found him out, and put 130 Ibs. upon him, which was 30 fibs, more than he allotted to Prioress, of the same age. Rocket, to whom Leamington was giving 42 fibs., won. In the following spring, Fisherman and Leamington were accordingly entered in the Chester Cup. The former had 126 fibs, allotted to him, and Leamington got off with 114 fibs. He had to meet four-year-olds at a difference of 38 fibs, and 40 fibs. 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 theRhoodee; but when Wells really set him a-going he galloped clean through the other two-and-thirty without any apparent exertion, and won in a canter by two lengths. The four-year-old Herne, to whom Leamington gave 26 Ibs., was second. Botany, another four-year-old, to whom he gave 38 Ibs., was third. Prioress was fourth. Fisherman, Lifeboat, .Underhand, 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 Ibs.)." At Ascot Heath, Leam- ington, with 131 fibs., ran second to Schism for the Queen's Gold Vase. He gave the winner 34 Ibs., and beat Tourna- ment, Miss Cath, and Black Tommy. In the Goodwood Cup, with 138 R>s., 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 fibs. 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 1865 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 Mr. A. Welch, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. — N. T. Sportsman. CO oo Q w § K> E: W « 5! 02 I Z 19 TARKE was bred by General T. J. Wells, the former owner of Lecomte. He was foaled in 1855, and his sire was the four-niiler Wagner, and his dam the famous Reel, the dam of Le- comte and Prioress. He was a nicaly 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 1859, 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 $7,500, to add to his stable in England. May 12th, little over one month after landing in the "old coun- try," carrying 124 Ibs , 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 Ibs., he ran fifth and last for the Royal Stand Plate, 2 miles 174 yards. July 6th, at Newmarket, carrying 11G Ibs., he was beaten twelve lengths by the Duke of Bedford's Killigrew, 4 years, 119 Ibs., in a match for 100 sovereigns, over the Bunbury mile. But he had now run himself into condition, and at Good- wood, July 27th, carrying 105 Ibs., to the astonishment of the betting public, he won the Goodwood Stakes by half a length from Lifeboat, 4 years, 119 Ibs., and. Blue Jacket, 5 years, 118 Ibs., with fourteen others beaten off. Two days afterwards, carrying as much weight as any horse of his year 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 than any of his competitors, he started first favorite, but came in third ; Underhand and Arch- duchess being before him. At Warwick, September 7th, carrying 119 Ibs., he gained for Mr. Ten Broeck his first cup trophy, the Warwick Cup, defeating easily Liveryman, 3 years, 79 Ibs., and Lifeboat, 4 years, 119 Ibs., considered one of the best distance horses in England. At the New- market First October Meeting, September 29, carrying 147 Ibs., he ran for a Royal Plate, three and a half miles, and was beaten half a length by Independence, 3 years, 128 Ibs., 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 Ibs., winning. Starke made. his first appearance, in 1860, at the Newmarket Craven Meeting, April 11, in the Subscription Plate, a weight-for-age 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 Ibs., 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 Ibs., while the third horse, Toucher, though of the same age as Starke, only carried 110 libs. 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 Ibs. 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 o£ the Derby winners, Favonius and Cretnorne. 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 Illustrated 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 against Optimist, 100 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, hut 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 possible 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 Brighton 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. £ tn § - H S H a 21 [LANET was bred by the late Thomas W. Dos- well, Esq., of Virginia, 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 others. Planet's sire was Revenue, by imp. Trustee out of Eosalie 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 1:47J — 1:48, beating four opponents, the stake being worth $10,750. At Mobile, Ala., he won the three-year-old sweepstakes, mile heats, in l:49i — 1:54; a similar sweepstakes, at Savannah, Ga., mile heats, in 1:51 — 1:52 J, beating Socks; the Post Stakes, for all ages, four- mile heats, at New Orleans, beating Bonnie Lassie, Lizzie McDonald, La Variete and Glycera, in 7:46 — 7:49}, 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, 8. C., in 1:48} — 1:47}. 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}, beating John L. ; and the Balenbrook Stakes for four-year-olds, two-mile-heats, at Petersburgh, Va., in 3:50}— 3:52, beating Fate and Gold Leaf. In 1860, at Savannah, Ga., he won the Post Stakes for all ages, four-mile heats, distancing Arthur 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 Purse of $700, three-mile heats, beating John C. Brecken- ridge, Bill Alexander, and another. At New Orleans spring meeting he won the Planet Post Stakes, four-mile heats, in 7:35} — 7:46f, beating John C. Breckenridge and La Va- ri6te". 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 wen,t 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, I860, but, unfortunately, Daniel Boone hit his leg at exercise, a few mornings before, and he was unable to start. Planet had no difficulty in beating Congaree, who was dis- tanced in the first 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, September 3, 1875.— Spirit of the Times. 23 |ANIEL BOONE was bred by Mr. J. M. Clay, of Ashland, Ky., in 1856, 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 Association 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 three-year-olds, mile heats, won by Mr. Alexander's Lin- 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 Ibs., beating the famous racer Nicholas I., with 105 Ibs. up, in two straight heats, and with great ease, in 4:43| — 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 3:38£, Planet not going for the heat; but the second heat produced a magnificent contest, and re- sulted in the victory of Daniel Boone in 3:36f ; Sigma distanced. The Virginia stable was greatly disappointed and dissatisfied with the result of this race, and a match was informally made to run Planet against the winner at four-mile heats ; but, in consequence of Messrs. Jackson and Cheathaui, 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 in racing circles as this anticipated con- test. The turf for sonic 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 in races at these distances. Con- garee, the champion of the Palmetto State, had won all his three-year-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, Winifred, 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 gameness 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. — Spirit of the Times. to IM CO co oo (M H P s i g£ o ™ o H o t-3 S M H Z H o T ~ o 25 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, 1860. In the Fall of the year she was taken down the river, and ran at Memphis, Mobile, and New Orleans. At Memphis, October 29th, 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 1:45 J — 1:46J. Four days afterwards she defeated Dick Edward for the Club Purse of $600, heat of two miles, in 3:38^—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 — 1:44 J. Five 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 J— 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, 1:47 J — 1:45 — 1:46 ; and the next day she beat Bettie Ward, a Vandal filly, Simon Kenton, and Pope Swigert, two mile heats, in 3:571 — 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 Sallie 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 5:48|— 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 Ibs., ridden by Tom Patton ; Jerome Edgar, 4 years, 104 Ibs., ridden by the famous Gilpatrick; and Dangerous, 4 years, 104 Ibs., 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 off together, but Idlewild was soonest on her legs in earnest, for 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. Gilpatrick 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 Gilpatrick 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 1:48}. 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 fast 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 began. 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 Gilpatrick, he had a run yet in him, even at the rate they were going. Neck-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 7:26}, the last mile having been run in 1:47|." Her son Wildidle won a four- mile heat, at San Francisco, October 22, 1875, in 7:25-}. Si w EH EH a a w" S o - PH O a EH 27 YTTLETON is a bay horse, by imported Leamington out of Fannie Holton, by Lexing- 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 1:47} — 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 Allie 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 Allie 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 8700, 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 Bas- sett beat him again, in a three-mile dash. His last race that year was at Long Branch, August 9, where Susan Ann beat him by two lengths, in a dash of four miles, in 7:40} : Milesian was third, two lengths behind Lyttleton ; King- fisher, who started first favorite, broke down in the third mile. Lyttleton was bought by Mr. A. Welch, and is now in the stud at that famous stud farm, where his sire, Leamington, is the lord of the harem. If there is any virtue in crossing the thoroughbred sire upon the trotting dam, Lyttleton, with his well-known stoutness and gameness, ought to have many representatives on the trotting as well as the running turf. W CO E-i SB O g P I i W I 29 jINGFISHER is by Lexington, out of the im- ported mare, Eltham 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 Sultan (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 famous 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 suffered 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 off 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 Westehester 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 Westehester 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 running 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 1:43 1. He was 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}. Alarm was a tremendous colt. King- fisher's last race was run at Long Branch, where he broke down in a four-mile race with Susan Anne and Lyttleton. — Sportsman. 31 | REAKNESS was bred by the late Mr. R. A. Alexander, of Woodburn 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, Bay wood, Bayonet, Bingaman, Niagara, M. A. B., Bay Final, and others. He was purchased when a yearling, at Mr. Alexander's annual sale, for $4,100, 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.j 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 3:47J, 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 J, beating Glenelg and Helmbold in commanding style ; the Maturity Stakes, for four-year-olds, three 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 ; suffering 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-mile- 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 3:451; by Susan Ann, at the same meeting (again running second), for the Hoey Stakes, three miles, won in 5:33£ ; 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 3:15J, 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 3:38J, 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 1 874, being seven years old, he ran and won four out of seven races, being credited with the Jockey Club Stakes, the Mile-and-a-quarter 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 Ibs. in the first race and 19 Ibs. in the second race. At Saratoga he and Springbok ran their memorable dead heat for the Saratoga Cup in 3:561, 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 Ibs., Preakness carrying 94 Ibs., in the High Level Handicap, one mile and a half, carrying 119 Ibs., Preakness was third to New Holland, 4 yrs., 122 Ibs., 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. 33 ARRY BASSETT was foaled 1808, and was got by Lexington out of Canary Bird. He made his entre'e 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 26, his solitary opponent being Madame Dudley, the dam of Mr. Sandford's Brown Prince, who ran so well in England 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, Monarchist and Wanderer, Mary Clark, Tubuian and Stockwood. Harry Bassett, however, won the race, Stockwood second, and Mr. Belmont's imported By-the-Sea, by the famous Derby win- ner, Thormanby, third. Time. 2:56. He next won the Jersey Derby, at Monmouth 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 Kcnner Stakes, he defeated Nellie Ransom, Alroy, Wine Cup, j35olus, Nathan Oaks and Express. At Jerome Park, October 7. he won the Champion Stakes for three- year-olds, Monarchist second, Alroy third, and Mary Clark, Nellie Ransom 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 $1000 purse for all ages, two-and-a-half-miles, in 5:41}; and on October 30, he defeated his solitary opponent, Helmbold, in the Boone Stakes, four-mile heats, in 7:54| — 8:03J. In 1872, at Jerome Park, June 8, in the Westchester Cup, he 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 turn, but Longfellow ran up to him on the backstretch, and when they had gone a mile they were together in 1:44. On the turn, 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 McDaniels 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 effects was proven to be morphine. Although for the first time in his life Harry had refused to eat, and what seemed more strange, allowed any one 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 $1000 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 Wheatly, 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 hy 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 quarter, 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 meeting, 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 — 3:57J, 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 Warminster-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, Ballaukeel winning the race ; after which, he was put to the stud. co in no a tf 3 PL, co o o w B! ra. Next year Goldsmith Maid met Dexter, who beat her with ease. Goldsmith Maid continued 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 eight times with her, and she made a record of 2:21*. That fall Mr. Goldsmith sold the mare to Budd Doble and Barney Jackman. She was wintered in Philadelphia, and began the next season by losing five times to American Girl, who trotted in 2:19 at Nanagansett 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 2:20J. 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 Thome, 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 trotted in 2:24J 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 — 2:17i, 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 the great Western route, and reached as far as Omaha and Council Bluffs, away up the Missouri liiver. 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 2:16|. 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 last previous race on this side of the Rocky Mountains, she trotted in 2:17 i. 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 beat 2:20 in all the heats. At Rochester she trotted a second heat in 2;14|. And at Mystic Park, Boston, for a special purse, 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 Rarus and other fast ones. At Chico, Gal., May 19th, over a rough track, she defeated Rarus, in 2:19 i — 2:14 J — 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 Sportsman. Q - o PS H - B m 3 g I o (£ H H ULA was bred in 1863, by Col. Crockett, then residing 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 quite 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- ineutioned place winning the first heat in 2:27}, but losing the race to the chestnut stallion Logan. In 1871, she was let up, but in 1872, having been purchased by Mr. Joseph Harker, 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 her, as she started in five races and won none, while at Utica, she took the first heat in 2:24f, 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. He 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 2:16f. 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 Goldsmith Maid; and at Mystic Park, September 1st. she was beaten by Bodine 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 season 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 Buffalo, August 9th, she van- quished her only competitor, Nettie, in three straight heats, in 2:22—2:182—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 2 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 2:15}. 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 2.16}. 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}, 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}, 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-off, and kept a lead of about two lengths, making the first quarter in 34s., the second in 33}s., 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 mare; 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 fastest 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}— 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 Flcetwood 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 of the Turf, 11 [MUGGLER was foaled 1866; bred by John 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 a mile in 2:19 J. 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 Tuffts, 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! —2:211—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 $40,000. 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 2:221 — 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 2:17 J — 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 2:15J — 2:171, and Smuggler the next three in 2:16} — 2:19J — 2:17J; 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 2:15J — 2:18— 2:19J ; 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 thule of trotting time, reached only by Goldsmith Maid. Smuggler is a brown or very dark bay horse, standing 15| 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 2:151 — 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 2:163. 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. Hi PS O 13 | MERICAN GIRL was bred, in 1861, by Mr. Philip 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 River road, until her death. Mr- Travis presented the filly 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 1867, 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 in 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 2:32 J ; the third was a dead heat, in 2:36, 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 on the second match. Soon after this race she was sold to Mr. Win. Lovell, of New York, for $7000, who placed her in the hands of John Lovett, and on the 4th of June, 1868, 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 1868. 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 1869, she started out, under the care of Peter Manee, and her first tilt was witk 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, 2:23}— 2:23i— 2:21. This race established the big mare's fame as a first-class trotter beyond dispute; but on the 26th of June, of the same year, at Narragansett Park, she capped the climax, and placed her- self second on the scroll of fame, at that date, by defeating Lady Thorne, Goldsmith Maid, Lucy, and Geo. Palmer, in straight heats, in 2:22} — 2:19—2:20}, 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, 1869, 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 1869 performance, her best heat during the year being 2:20. The next year she was handled by Ben Mace, 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 — 2:19} — 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— 2:22J. 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 2:20i— 2:16}— 2:19, being an average of about 2:18} 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 2:28}, 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 2:17.1), Rochester, Utica, and Hartford. At Springfield she beat Lula and Nettie in 2:22 —2:24—2:22. And at Elmira, N. Y., on Saturday, Oct. 2, 1875, in the Free-for-all Race, she dropped dead at the quarter-pole in the first heat. She had been slightly ailing from the prevailing epizootic, but it was thought that she had recovered so far that there was no danger in starting her in this race. A post-mortem examination showed her lungs in a congested condition, engorged with blood. — Spirit of the Times. 14 (SEE FRONTISPIECE.) EXTER was bred by Mr. Jonathan Hawkins, of Orange County, New York. He was foaled in 1858, and bought, when four years old, by Mr. George B. Alley, for $400. Although a fine colt, he had been held in disfavor 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 he 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 2:31f. 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, Mr. 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 Thome had trotted in 2:24J 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 J, and Dexter the last two and the race, in 8:05 — 8:09J. 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 2:27} — 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, 4:56}, 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 5:00:]. 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 Hiraui. 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 2:27}. The fourth heat was very close between Dexter and Butler all the way, but the 15 former lasted the longest, and won in 2:243 ; 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 quarter. Neck-and- neck at the half-mile, in 1.12}, 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 last 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 hippodroining cam- paign began. At Philadelphia Dexter beat the California stallion, and trotted in 2:232. 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 Rolla 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 t;me. He trotted the second heat in 2:21 J, and the third in 2:21}. The track was not as good as it was when she made her 2:1 9|, 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 ease. On the 28th of May, he met Lady Thome at the Fashion Course, mile heats, three 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 mave 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 — 5:01 i. 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 June Dexter beat Lady Thome, 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 Riverside half-mile course, Boston. In this race he made 2:21 J — 2:19 — 2:21}. After that, at Buffalo, he beat his Boston time by trotting in 2:17}. 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. — Chas. J. Foster in Wallace's Monthly. O o ta K PH O w 17 10PEFUL is a gray gelding, 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 welUnigh perfection, going apparently with the most perfect ease to himself, and with the most complete control over his entire machinery. He was foaled in 1866, 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 Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine. The pedi- gree of Hopeful's dam was until recently unknown ; but a writer in Wallace's Monthly has ascertained that she was sired by the Bridgham Horse, l( whose exact breeding was never known in Buckfield, 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 stridcr, 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 Morgan, one of the very best of the Morgan horses. Hopeful's first race was on August 25. 1 873, at Springfield, in the $600 Purse for all horses that had never trotted for premium or money, where he was fourth to Harry Spanker, Dolly Varden 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 $1000 Purse for three-minute horses, two others finishing behind him ; and two days Inter, 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— 2i28— 2<30|. Four days later, at the same place, Hopeful continued his victorious career, carryipg off the 2:45 Purse in 2(30— 2;32}— 2*26— 2;27— 2:25; Everett Kay taking the first heat, and Miss Miller the second heat, while Hopeful won the three last. IJe was then taken to Canada, and in the Free for, all Purses, at Fredericktown, N. B., he defeated Queen and Gypy Queen in three straight heats, in 2:41 » — 2;40i— 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;23f. On the first of the following month, at Mystic Park, 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, he 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;25}. At Taunton, Mass , one week later, he defeated Parker's Abdallah and Billy Platter, in 2:34}— 2:37— 2:361 , and, turning his head towards Goshen, defeated Thomas L. Young, Huntress, Kansas Chief and Tanner Boy, in 2:28} —2-;27}— 2:27}— 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!22i^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, 18^5, he was unsuccessful, Kansas Chief winning, with Sensation second. He now lay by until August 5th, when he appeared at Poughkeepsie, in the $4500 Purse for horses that have never beaten 2;18, and defeated Lady Maud, Judge Fullorton, who took the first heat, Huntress and two others, in 2:21—2:221—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 arid Henry, when a fine race ensued. Hopeful won the first two heats in 2:18} — 2:22}; Lady Maud the nest two in 2:19^2:20}, and Hopeful the fifth and the race, in 2:23}. 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 2:17} — 2:18} — 2:18}, 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 the Times, says, ''On that day Hopeful could have trotted a milo in 2;12, although his best time was only 2:17}. I never let loose of his head, never asked him to go, and never wanted him to go ; and in po place in that mile did he go as fast as he could- . . I don't think there is a horse alive that can outrtrot him now ; not a horse on the turf that can outspeed him-" This was Hopeful's last race until this year. In 1876, owing to a foot difficulty, he was unable to trot, but, June, 1877i a* Fleetwood Park, he started in the Freer for-all Purse, with Judge Fullerton, Albemarle, and Ade- laide, and astonished his owner, driver, and everybody else, by his performance, winning the first heat in 2;18£, by three-quarters of a second the fastest mile ever trotted on the track, and taking the rape handily without a skip, in three heats. Tiine, 2:18}— 2:20— 2:17}. At Boston, July 23, he defeated Smuggler in three straight heats, in 2:22 — 2:19}— 2:20}. 19 |UDGE FULLERTON was bred in Montgo- mery, Orange County, New York, in 1865, by Towusend 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 vainly sought in 1869. The spring that he was five years old he began to strike his gait, and so rapidly did he improve, that, after winning a colt race in June, he was purchased by Mr. S. W. Fullerton, of Orange County, in July, 1870, for $3000. It was a capital speculation for Mr. Fullerton. as, two months later, he sold him to Mr. William M. Humphrey, of New York, for $20,000, after showing a half mile in l:09f. He was placed in hands of Dan Mace for training, who soon found that he had a trotter indeed, and to his skill as a trainer and driver the success of the horse is largely due. His (I<'l>lit 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 heats, which were taken by J. H. Burke, each in 2:29J. Fullerton now became accustomed to his new surroundings, settled down, and won the third heat in 2:26 J, and the next two handily, in 2:29 — '2:'->'l\. 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 J. He had encountered more dangerous foes than was expeuted 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 2:251. The next season, 1872, we find him trotting in eight races, and winning six , and reducing his record to 2:21 f, at Fleetwood, Oct. 4. The following season, although it witnessed the most conspicuous defeat of his career.'was very successful for him. He trotted fourteen races, and won twelve. The most important of them was the great race for the 2:21 class, at Buffalo, for the mammoth purse of $20,000, in which he was a warm favorite, but Camors 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 himself, and entrance-money and expenses besides. He cut his record down this season to 2:19J, at Beacon Park, and placed himself in the free- for-all class. In 1874, a large proportion of his races were trotted agiinst 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 $20,0(10, as he generally captured second money. Nov. 21, of this year, he distinguished himself in California, by winning a wagon race from Occident, in straight heats, in 2:20J — 2:22| — 2:21}, 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 2:16}^2:16| — 2:16J, while at Rochester the following week, when Smuggler trotted in •2:15:|, 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 2:20|, Lady Maud, Great Eastern and Lulu 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 remarkably 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 18 J feet. — Spirit of the Times. r-1 HH 1 771J I * *';;•'•' ,'f/V' ' Wvs/w I'/y/ji \' ffflll iwsi ilw IllSlf I WMw ^Iw ffiiMp w']%n™ •if1.; /m?Uiill 5 -lr--.- 21 [UCY is a fine slashing bay mare, without white, 15} hands high. She was bred by Mr. Job Butterworth, of Viuceutown, Burlington Co., N. J., and was foaled in 1856, her sire being the famous Jersey stallion George M. Patchen (see page 41), and her dame a mare by May Day, a son of the race- horse Sir Henry, the renowned competitor of American Kclipse. Her turf career began at Hartford, Conn., Sep- tember 14, 1865, where she was second to Artemus Ward, but won the third heat in 2:373, Honest Abe and Ben Allen being distanced in the first heat. Her next effort was more successful. At New Haven, October 19, she defeated Volcano and one other for a Purse of f 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—2:32}. Then at Boston, September 11, under saddle, she defeated Fanny Allen and Leviathan, in 2:30— 2:28f— 2:30. Four days after- wards, at the same place, she succumbed to Mountain Maid, by Old Merrill, in slower time; Fearless being also in tire race, and taking the first two heats. Two weeks after this race, at the Fashion Course, she beat Rosamond, who won the third heat, and Cora, in 2:30— 2:30}— 2:31}— 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 2:32}, then the stallion took the second in 2:281 ; the third was Lucy's, in 2:28}. and the stallion won the two last and the race, in 2:29 £ — 2:27 J. She trotted her last race that year at Boston, November 22, where she beat Uncle Dudley, in three straight heats, in 2:44}— 2:41 \ — 2:38}. June 13, 1867, she met Panic, by Sherman Black Hawk, and the famous black gelding General Butler, at the Fashion Course, and a closely-contested race ensued. Lucy took the first two in 2:32— 2:31} ; Panic the third, in 2:30 J ; Butler the fourth, in 2:27 ; the fifth was a dead heat between Panic and Butler, in 2:28; the sixth Panic won, in 2:32}. 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 beat General Butler and Bruno, in 2:28|— 2:27— 2:26}. Lady Thome now defeated her three races right off the reel, but at the fourth time of their meeting, at Narragansett Park, October 24, she turned the tables on the one-eyed mare, and beat her. Bruno and Rhode Island, in 2:27i — 2:28— 2:26} — 2:25}, Lady Thome taking the first heat. The fifth 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 Thome, 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 2:25}— 2:26— 2:22} ; and at Boston, July 2d, she beat Rollo Golddust, also to saddle, in 2:37} —2:25}— 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 Buffalo, July 31, she beat Rollo Golddust and Silas Rich, in 2:251— 2:31 — 2:27; and at Syracuse, August 21, she defeated George Palmer and Mountain Maid, in 2:26— 2:28J— 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 2:29}— 2:27}— 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 Narragansett 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 Girl 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 met 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 2:17} ; Lucy won the third, in 2:19f, 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} — 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, Treuton, N. J. - cs c Q O a o M" u M C3 Q O O BL, O 3 w ft si w a H 23 JODINE was bred by Alden Goldsmith, of Orange County, N. Y. He was foaled in June 1865. He was got by Volunteer out of a strong, coarse- looking mare, by Harry Clay. Sbe was a fair traveller, gentle and kind in all harness, 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 2:45}. After the fair he was turned out, but was fed grain until the next 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 Buffalo, 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 L — 2:30} — 2:33 — 2:30} — the third heat being a dead heat between Bodine and Belle of Oneida, the horse having thrown a shoo at the half-mile 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 box stall, but into which ho 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 better than 2:30, and making a record of 2:25}, on a slow track. He commenced the campaign of 1874, at Freeport, 111., June 6th, where 'he won in three straight heats, over Pilot Temple and others, in 2:31|— 2:26— 2:27 }. 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 next 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}— 2:21}— 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 2:2 If — 2:19} — 2:21}. 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 Itapids, Mich., which he won with ease. On the week following, he met and defeated Judge Fullerton, at East Saginaw, in 2:19}— 2:20— 2:21}— 2:21, Fullerton taking the second heat. In his race at Grand llapids 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, whore 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 being third. But at Detroit, on July 8, he defeated General Garfield and Kansas Chief in three straight heats, in 2:21— 2:23}— 2:22. At Grand Rapids, Mich., July 14, he defeated Cozette, Obsarver 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 2.25}— 2:25}— 2:27}. 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 Rarus and Silversides: Elsie Good, Cozette and Monarch being behind them. Last winter he spent in California, where he won several races against Occident. — Spirit of the Times. 0-1 e~ g o K PS 1— I B o 5 i_3 w G rv. <* H £ 3" fH z H H I c. o 25 | LORA TEMPLE was foaled in the year 1845, and was bred by Mr. Samuel Welch, Oneida County, N. Y. She was got by One-Eyed Hunter, who was by Kentucky Hunter, 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. Tracy, 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 thirteen dollars Mr. Congdon shortly afterwards disposed of her to Kelly & Richardson for $68. After passing through several hands, part of the time working in a livery stable, she was sold to Mr. George E. Perrin, of New York, for $350, in whose hands the flighty young mare became a true stepper. Her first regular appearance on the turf was at the Union Course, L. I , September 9, 1850, where, a mere outsider, to the astonishment of the turf habitues, she defeated Whitehall and three others, for the large Purse of $50, in 2:52 — 2:55 —2:52—2:49, Whitehall taking the first heat. The next 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 first 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 Veruon each once. She was beaten twice by Tacony, and once each by Black Douglas and Green Mountain Maid. In the next year she defeated Mac, Jack Waters. Green Mountain 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 off 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 off most of the honors, although she also defeated Tacony, Chicago Jack, Ethan Allen and others, thereby reducing her record to 2:24£. In 1858 she was sold to Mr. William McDonald, a wealthy gentleman of Baltimore, for $8000, and during the year scored thirteen victories without a single defeat. Her first rac« in 1859 was with Ethan Allen, at the Fashion Course, to wagon, whom she beat, in 2:25 — 2:271 — 2:271. Ou June 16, she met the bay mare Princess, who had come from California with a great reputation, especially for long- distance races, and beat her, at the Eclipse Course, three- mile heats, to wagon, in 7:54 — 7:59J. 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 Ause. The people of that section were terribly excited over the contest, and gave a purse of 82000. The first heat was just about fast enough to warm Flora up. In the second heat Honest Anse made her trot fast for three-quarters of a mile; he then shut up, and she won it in 2:22-j. 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 2:19J, which created the most intense excitement among turfunen 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 M. 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 Patehen 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 crossed 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 following 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 1860, 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 2:213, which, according to the veteran turfman H iram Woodruff, " was the best race that Flora Temple ever made." In their next encounter, at the Union Course, June 6, two-mile heats, she was the favorite at long odds, but Patchen won easily in two straight heats in 4:581 — 4:57J. Two other races followed at Philadelphia between these two horses, Flora winning both ; the one on July 4, mile heats, in 2:221— 2:21J— 2^:37 1 ; tnat on July 10> two-mile heats, in 4:51| — 5:011. Ou 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 2:221 — 2:23-5 — 2:25J. 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 2:28J. On the 15th of September, at Kalauiazoo, 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 Patehen. 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 2:24f — 2:26 — 2:281, and in the two-mile race in 4:55 £ — 4:52 J. 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. 27 AMBRINO GIFT was bred by the late E. P. Kinkead, of Woodford Country, Ky., and was foaled in 1866. He was got by Relf s Mam- 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 2:26}, at Buffalo. 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 1874, covering twenty-five mares, and was then put into training. His first race was at Jackson, Mich., in June, when he lapped out Red 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 J — 2:23 — 2:27}, Gift taking the third heat in 2:26J. On the following week he trotted at Buffalo, in what we must be permitted to call the greatest stallion race 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 2:22}, with Gift second. The next was taken by the same horse, in 2:2U|, with Gift fighting for the lead to the last moment. The third was won by Gift, in 2:22}, and, Smuggler having been disposed 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 Rochester, 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 Ibs. 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. -*?1 o 1 N - = O P* O 49 (AGONY was a roan gelding, foaled in 1844. He was bred by Paul Trompean, of Prince Edward County, Canada West; was sired by Sportsman, a son of Tippoo, his dam being a Shakspeare 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 2:36J ; and War Eagle took the fifth, in 2:40. In his next race Tacony was beaten by Jack Rossiter, and on September 18, 1851, he scored his first victory, beating War Eagle, in a race of two-mile heats, in 5:29! — 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, 2:26J, 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 2:26J was made in a first heat. Even readers of The Spirit who were mere lads at the time, will remem- ber the 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 Tacony. 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 2:36} — 2:35; Lady Suffolk won the fifth, in 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 $1,500, 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, 2:25£, 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 2:37t — 2:36 — 2:33J ; the Granger Horse, afterwards called Rock- ingham, beat him, at Portland, Conn., in still slower time, the last heat of the race being trotted in 2:45; and it became evident that his days for victories were ended. Nothing remained for him but to leave the field in which he had won so many brilliant triumphs, and he did so with a reputation such as has been achieved by very few horses. — Spirit of the Times. 8 51 JAG was bred in Maine, his sire being a horse 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 Mac became prominent was trotted November 1, 1848, at Albany, against 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 record 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 Rossiter, 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 he had marked to his own credit. He subsequently met Lady Suffolk on four different occasions, and beat her every time, besides defeating, in her company, Gray Eagle, Trouble, Jack Kossiter, 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, Taeony made his famous saddle record of 2:25 J. 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 horse became strong partisans of one or the other. Even children, catching the spirit of their elders, were ardent champions of Mae or Tacony. Hiram Woodruff 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 too speedy for him, and beat him on both occasions. In looking over the files of The Spirit, during the years that Mac 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 because, 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 Mac ? 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. . . . Ihere 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- stance, 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 Thorne, or Goldsmith Maid have had since. — Spirit of the Times. O H . pq OQ n 02 53 AMBLETONIAN was bred by Jonas Seely, of Chester, Orange County, N. Y.; foaled May 5, 1849 ; got by Abdallah, son of Mambrino, by imp. Messenger. Abdallah, his sire, was out of Amazonia, who was first 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 Messenger 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 1804 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, ia 1875. During the season of 18G8, he was retired from the stud, so that there were no sons or daughters foaled by him in 18G9. Since that time he has been limited each season to a very small number of mares. Up to twenty-six years of age, 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. Ot 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 was 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 different 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 different 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. — Spirit of the Times. 55 jjOLUNTEER was foaled 1854, the property of Mr. Joseph Hetszell, of Florida, Orange County, N. Y. His sire was the famous Rysdyk's Hainbletonian, 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 Thome, 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 Thorudale. Of these, Hetzel's Hambletonian, Green's Hambletonian and Sentinel, by the Old Horse, have become distinguished, the latter having made a record of 2:29J, 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 15J 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}, and a mile in 2:20J ; St. Julien, the great six-year-old, that, with only three months' training, won six races in three weeks, scoring a record of 2:22 J, and demonstrating his ability to trot in 2:18; Ainy, with a record of 2:22}; and Carrie, with 2:24} to her credit; Trio, who trotted last year in 2:23}; Lady Morrison, with a record of 2:27 J ; and then the great stallion, W. H. Allen, with 2:23} ; 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 2:23J, 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. — Spirit of the Times. 57 IAPPY MEDIUM is a very handsome bay stallion, 15J 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 29:10 J and 29:16i. She subsequently beat the famous Queen of the Turf, Flora Temple, in a two-mile-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. M. 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 Honesty was distanced in 2:34J, 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 Luff, Sans Souci, Happy Thought, Alice Medium, Frank Ellis, Dixon, Odd Stock- ing, Happy Medium, Jr., Jennie, Minnie Medium, Harry Ward, Blaze Medium, Rose Medium, Blanche Medium, the Gillender Mare aud 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 2:29 J— 2:32— 2:31 Sans Souci and Alice Medium are full sisters to Baron Luff. They neither of them have ever started in a race, 8 but Mr. Phillips has frequently given them trials in public in 2:30. Harry Ward, another son of Happy Medium, trotted in his four-year-old form at Spring Valley, N. Y., and made a record of 2:42. The black colt Dixon, before Jie 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 2:44*. Blaze Medium obtained a record of 2:41 at three years old, and 2:40 over a half-mile track at four years old. Minnie Medium, a four-year-old filly, trotted a race at Suffolk Park in July last, and got a record of 2:40. At Colonel Penistan's late sale of blooded stock in Ken- tucky, the bay colt Brigadier, a three-year-old son of Happy Medium, was sold for the highest price ($1,250) of any horse on the extensive catalogue. Brigadier had been broken to harness but two months, and had shown quarters in 37 seconds. Mr. Turner subsequently sold Brigadier for a handsome profit, to go to California. 59 | LMONT was foaled in 1864, is a deep bay in color, stands 15 hands 2 inches high, and weighs 1,175 Ibs. in ordinary condition. He was bred at the Woodburn Farm, by the late R. 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 Goldsuiith Maid, Rosalind and others, with those of Mambrino Chief (sire of Lady Thome 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 family amounts to a type by which they arc 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 trote 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 J — 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 $8000, 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 Allie 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, 2:32i — 2:34i— 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 fouv-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 1, 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 element for their production than the blood of Almont. — The Field, Chicago. CO efq § I a H Q O O ft X o cc w 2