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Racing in America, 1866-1921 / written for the Jockey Club, by W.S. Vosburgh.

Racing in America, 1866-1921 / written for the Jockey Club, by W.S. Vosburgh. Vosburgh, Walter Spencer. 400dpi TIFF G4 page images University of Kentucky, Electronic Information Access & Management Center Lexington, Kentucky 2002 b98-56-42680008 Electronic reproduction. 2002. (Beyond the shelf, serving historic Kentuckiana through virtual access (IMLS LG-03-02-0012-02) ; These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Racing in America, 1866-1921 / written for the Jockey Club, by W.S. Vosburgh. Vosburgh, Walter Spencer. Priv. print., the Jockey Club, New York : c1922. x, 249 p. : front., plates, diagr. ; 34 cm. Coleman Microfilm. Atlanta, Ga. : SOLINET, 1999. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (SOLINET/ASERL Cooperative Microfilming Project (NEH PA-23166-98) ; SOL MN08572.02 KUK) s1999 gaun a Printing Master B98-56. IMLS This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has been done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through an automated process using the recommendations for Level 1 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file. Horse racing United States. Horses. RACING IN AMERIWA i866 - 192I RACING IN AMERICA I866 I 92I WRITTEN FOR THE JOCKEY CLUB BY W S VOSBURGH PRIVATELY PRINTED R THE JOC KEY CLUB 4 NEW YORK Q COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY THIE JOCKEY CLUB THE SCRIBNER PRESS NEW YORK PREFACE o[ PURPOSE to write a history of racing in the United States from the period of its revival following the close of the Civil War down to the time of writ- ing-i921. I shall show that, owing to want of popular support, racing had fallen so low, and so infrequent, as to excite little or no interest. I shall recount how, under the auspices of the leading citizens of New York City, the American Jockey Club revived it at Jerome Park, from which date, having the respect and confidence of the public, it rose to a high degree of popularity which spread throughout the adjoining States and penetrated the West and South until it had attained a growth that rendered it of national interest. That I should have omitted the racing prior to the Civil War is due to several reasons. In the first place, it would have been a mere compilation of matters of which I had no personal knowledge, but only that derived from reading; hence second-hand information. Moreover, that period had already been treated by other and abler hands. But with racing since its revival at Jerome Park I had a considerable degree of familiarity, having been in constant attendance at race-meetings, and for more than forty years an active participant, thirty- two years of which as a racing official. In the first part of the book I have endeavored to give a condensed record of the different racing clubs and their officials and also of the gradual building of racing government. In the second part I have essayed the careers of the most noted race-horses of their respective periods, the figures placed under the name of each indicating the year in which it was foaled. NV. S. VOSBURGH. NEW YORK, January 17, 1922. This page in the original text is blank. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE V THE REVIVAL OF RACING THE REVIVAL OF RACING 3 T.IE MORNING GALLOPS AT JEROME PARK 14 JEROME PARK IN I921 17 RACING AT SARATOGA 21 MONMOUTII PARK 24 SIIEEPSHEAD BAY 26 BRIGHTON BEACH 29 GRAVESEND 30 NIORRIS PARK 32 BELMONT PARK 34 AQUEDUCT 3 JAMAICA 38 YONKERS 39 THE GOVERNMENT OF RACING THE BOARD OF CONTROL-TIIE JOCKEY CLUB 43 TIlE "STUD-BOOK" 46 THE "RACING-CALENDAR" 48 RACING THROUGHOUT AMERICA RACING IN MARYLAND TIlE MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB 51 HAVRE DE GRACE 53 LAUREL PARK 53 PRINCE GEORGE PARK (BOWIE) 54 N-'1 CONTENTS RACING IN KENTUCKY PAGE LOUISVILLE 55 LATONIA 57 LEXINGTON 57 RACING IN ILLINOIS 59 RACING IN OHIO 6o RACING IN MISSOURI 61 RACING IN LOUISIANA 62 RACING IN CALIFORNIA 63 RACING IN CANADA. 65 CELEBRATED RACE-HORSES "CRACKS" OF THE "SIXTIES," 1865-1870 69 "CRACKS" OF THE "SEVENTIES," 1870-1880. . 85 "CRACKS OF THE "EIGHTIES," 1880-1890 115 "CRACKS" OF THE "NINETIES," 1890-1900 147 "CRACKS" OF THE CENTURY, 1900-1910 .81 "CRACKS" OF THE CENTURY, 1910-1921 211 INDEX . 241 INDEX TO HORSES 246 viIi PLATES Jerome Park The Club-House Lawn at Jerome Park Kentucky-i86i Norfolk-i86i Longfellow-1867 Harry Bassett-i868 Ten Broeck-1872 Parole-1873 Spendthrift-1876 Luke Blackburn-1877 Hindoo-1878 Iroquois-1878-Fred Archer up George Kinney-i88o Troubadour-i882 Hanover-1884 Kingston-i 884 Firenzi-i884 Raceland-1884 Salvator-x886 Yorkville Belle 1889 Sir Walter-i89o Ramapo-18go-Winner of the Suburban of 1894 Domino-i89i-The Unbeaten Two-year-old Henry of Navarre-iSg8 Hastings-1893 Ix . Frontispiece FACING PAGE 4 70 72 86 88 100 102 io8 i6 u8 122 124 134 136 I38 140 142 148 152 158 160 62 164 i66 PLA4TES Imp-1894 Plaudit-1895 Ethelbert-i896 Sysonby-1902 Commando-1898 Hermis-0goo Irish Lad-Igoo Beldame-igo Broomstick-i go Hamburg Belle-igo Artful-1902 Ballot- 19o4-Notter up Fair Play-igog-Notter up Colin-igo5-Notter up Olambala-igo6 Sweep-1907-Notter up Man o' War-19I7--Clarence Kummer up Roamer-191 i-Schuttinger up Pennant-1 9 i i-Notter up Hourless-1914-Butwell up Regret-1912-Notter up Omar Khayyam-1914-Butwell up Whisk Broom 11-1907 Sir Barton-1916 Friar Rock-1913-Haynes up Exterminator-1i95 Sunbriar-1915-Knapp up Purchase-1916-Sande up Grey Lag-ig98-Sande up Black Servant-igi8-L. Lyke up Morvich-igig-Johnson up FACING PAGE 170 . . 172 . '74 x8i . , I82 . . 84 . . 1i86 1i88 190 . 192 . ' 194 . . 196 . . 198 . . 200 . . 202 . . 204 . . 211 212 . . 214 . . 216 218 220 222 . . 224 226 . . 228 . . 230 . . 232 234 . . 236 . . 238 x TIHE REVIVAL OF RACING This page in the original text is blank. THE REVIVAL OF RACING T ACHE outbreak of the Civil War in i86t was followed by a general suspension of racing in the Southern States, and many owners of racing stables brought their horses North to places of safety. Occasional meetings were given at Lexington and Louisville in Kentucky. In the North there were occasional meetings at the old Fashion course, the Union and the Centerville courses, on Long Island; at Jamesburg in New Jersey, and Suffolk Park, Boston. The race-meetings at Paterson, N. J., began in i863, and the same year Mr. John Hunter and Mr. W. R. Travers inaugurated a meeting at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., over the old "Horse Haven" track among the pines, a meeting of four days' duration, two races each day. Racing revived at St. Louis, Mo., in 1864 with a meeting over the Laclede course, and the spring meeting at Paterson, N. J., the same year, was sufficiently successful to encourage the management. The Jersey Derby, won by Norfolk (who was sold for i5,001) defeating Tipperary, Eagle, Kentucky, and a field of eleven, attracted attention throughout the country. The same year there was a meeting at the Centerville course on Long Island, while Saratoga opened its new course with the Travers Stakes and Saratoga Cup; Paterson followed with an autumn meeting, but, while there were some enthusiasts, the general public had not awakened to an interest in racing. It was at this period that Mr. Leonard W. Jerome conceived the plan of building a race-course in the suburbs of the city of New York, and the organi- zation of a jockey club similar, in some respects, to that of Newmarket, in Eng- land. Accordingly, in i865, he purchased the old Bathgate estate, located at Fordham, then in Westchester County, but in 1873 annexed by New York City. The property had been in possession of the Bathgate family for more than half a century, and already was noted for its racing traditions. It was here that in 1829 the celebrated race-horse Medoc was foaled. It was here that Barefoot, winner of the Doncaster St. Leger of 1823, held his court. Mango, the St. Leger winner of 1837, also made several seasons here, as did Lapidist by Touchstone. Trustee also made it his home after his importation, and it was here he sired the renowned mare Fashion who defeated Boston, but that was before he sired Levity, from whom Luke Blackburn, The Bard, Monarchist, Leonatus, Long- street, etc., descended. 3 Conditions at the Close of the Civil War Racing Awakens The American Jockey Club "ACING IN zHMERICA Jerome Park The race-course since known as Jerome Park was completed in i866. It was unique in shape owing to a great hill, since known as "The Bluff," upon which stood the club-house, and which can best be shown by the following diagram: C I G A. CLUB-HOUSE. B. GRAND STAND. C. STEWARDS' AND JUDGES' STAND. D. TIMER'S STAND. F. STARTING-POST-I!4 MILES. F. STARTING-POST-3 MILE. G. BETTING ENCLOSURE. TIhe Jerome The club-house, located on the hill called "The Bluff," overlooked the course, Park Club- which was reached by descending a wooded path. It was equipped with spacious fouse dining-rooms ornamented by a gallery of pictures of all the famous English and American race-horses of celebrity. Adjoining them was a magnificent ball- room, and a club ball after the races was a frequent feature. The club-house was open the year round, and an experienced chef was in occupation. It soon became a favorite society rendezvous. Driving and sleighing parties, trap-shooting, skating, and, at a later period, polo-playing rendered it a favorite tryst. Sleep- ing accommodations were plenty, and it became quite the thing for an owner to take a party of friends to dinner, stop overnight, and be up betimes to witness the morning gallops. To the south of the club-house was a stand where on race days the Fort Hamilton band furnished music-generally Offenbach, as at that period "Orphhe aux Enfer," "La Grande Duchesse," and "Genevieve de Bra- bant" were the rage in Manhattan. Thic Grand The grand stand was double-tiered and divided into three sections, the middle . land section being reserved for club members. Coaching was in great vogue at the time, and on race days the stately four-in-hands rolled gracefully through the members' gate to the level below the club-house, where the drags were "parked," the horses unhitched, and refreshments served, while Manhattan's fairest daughters viewed the racing in a display of costume that caused old-fashioned people to stare at this exhibit of the "wealth of nations," visiting, as at the opera, 4 LU LLU I z LU ar: coI C1: 0D I This page in the original text is blank. THE REVIJVL OF JCING among the boxes. Then, for the great race of the day, the ladies and their escorts would descend the hill to the members' stand, and all was eminently gentle and well bred. The city quarters of the club were located at No. 920 Broadway, but later were removed to the southwest corner of Madison Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street. Here were opened the "Subscription Rooms," well furnished, hand- somely decorated with pictures, and supplied with newspapers and sporting books, forming an agreeable resort for subscribers. The subscription was io.oo a year. While under the control of the club, the rooms were a separate organi- zation. It was a place at which members met to learn the latest news of racing and to make bets. All bets were play or pay, unless stipulated to the con- trary. Payment was made within twenty-four hours, under pain of expul- sion. Disputes were settled by a committee composed of Mr. Francis Morris, Mr. M. H. Sanford, Mr. W. Constable, Mr. Jerome, and Mr. Geo. Dennison. Previous to i868 the city office of the club had been at No. 46 Exchange Place. The club consisted of 1,300 members, 1,250 of which were "Annual Sub- scribers," while the 5o "Life Members" were: R. Aitcheson Alexander, S. L. M. Barlow, Chas. W. Bathgate, James A. Bayard, August Belmont, James Gordon Bennett. Jr., R. W. Cameron, J. W. Clendenin, E. Boudinot Colt, David Craw- ford, Jr., Wm. P. Douglas, Henry Duncan, W. Butler Duncan, Wm. J. Emmett, W. A. Fitzhugh, Paul S. Forbes, John R. Garland, W. H. Gibbons, George Griswold Gray, H. W. Gray, Gardner G. Hammond, John Hoey, Gardner G. Howland, John Hunter, Lawrence R. Jerome, Leonard W. Jerome, Alexander S. Macomb, Adolphe Mailliard, Manton Marble, Wm. H. McVickar, W. J. Minor, A. C. Monson, Francis Morris, Lewis G. Morris, Edward Pearsall, Jr., John F. Purdy, Henry J. Raymond, Wm. Redmond, A. K. Richards, Elisha Riggs, A. Robeson, M. H. Sanford, Francis Skiddy, Henry A. Stone, R. Taylor, William R. Travers, Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Craig W. Wadsworth, D. D. Withers, and Isaac l\I. Wright. The fifty "Life Members" were invested with the entire power of legislation. There were, from this body, ten directors in whom the active work of the organi- zation was vested, and two-thirds of this body had power to forfeit the member- ship of any member of the club. The club derived no benefit from gate-moneys. After expenses of a race-meeting were paid, the balance went to the owners of the property. Honorable August Belmont was elected president, and Doctor John B. Irving was appointed secretary. The important position of clerk of the course was intrusted to Mr. Charles Wheatley, Mr. John F. Purdy was handi- capper, and the stewards were W. Butler Duncan, P. S. Forbes, J. F. Purdy, E. Boudinot Colt, and A. K. Richards. 5 Tbe Subscrip- tion Rooms Thje Club Organization qR;jCIJNG IN dHME RICA Club Officials, August Belmont Returns to Racing Doctor Irring, Secreta r- AIr. Leonard 11'. Jero.e The late Honorable August Belmont was president of the Jockey Club, chosen from his leading social and business prominence, and he began immediately to select a stable of racers worthy of representing his "maroon, with red sash and cap." He purchased of Mr. R. W. Cameron the filly Maid of Honor and also the yearling Glenelg, destined to play a leading part in racing. He also bought the mare Spiletta with her colt Fenian. The Earls of Derby have for years es- sayed to win the great Epsom race bearing their title, but Mr. Belmont won the Belmont Stakes in its third renewal (i869), running first and second with Fenian and Glenelg. In i868 and i869 Attraction, Finesse, Nellie James, and Telegram won him many races, and in 1870 he led the "Winning Owners." He began a breeding stud and imported Fleur des Champs, Fluke, and others. He never stopped at price when he wanted a horse. Kingfisher became his for 15,000 after winning the Travers Stakes, and Grey Planet for i o,ooo after the Cham- pagne Stakes of '71. He purchased The III Used in England, and when Mr. Hunter retired in 1875 he purchased of him the black flier Rhadamanthus for 7,ooo and Sultana and Olitipa coupled for io,ooo. Mr. Belmont retired in i88i but " he'll be back soon," they said, and so it proved, for in i 888 the " maroon and red " jacket reappeared and St. Blaise, the Epsom Derby winner, was brought over the ocean. Raceland was purchased and then began a revival of the glory of the "maroon jacket" of the Nursery (as he called his stud) with Prince Royal, La Tosca, Fides, St. Carlo, Potomac, and Peeress. Doctor John B. Irving, the first secretary of the club, was a selection quite in keeping with its tone. He was one of those ante-bellum South Carolinians who shone in politics, literature, or diplomacy during the first half of the last century. He was a man of exceeding culture and elevated character; to a becoming mod- esty he joined an elegance of manner, graceful and insinuating. To a brilliant wit he joined a delicacy of taste that enabled him to apply the ablest authors to the most commonplace affairs of life and rendered him one of the most charm- ing and instructive of men. Educated in England, he had "chummed" with Lord Macaulay as a classmate at Cambridge, hobnobbed with nobility, witnessed the riding of Buckle Chifney, Robinson, and all the "crack" jockeys of the Georgian era. He had never missed a "Guineas" or a Derby while abroad, and had beheld Blacklock and Doctor Syntax in their salad days. While at Cambridge he had ridden in the university races. His racing lore was as profound as his classics. He had long been secretary of the South Carolina Jockey Club, and, transferred to New York, he presided in a similar capacity with native dignity and unpre- tending grace. Mr. Leonard W. Jerome, who was the master spirit of the club, began col- lecting a stable of racers with characteristic dash. He purchased Kentucky shortly after that famous horse won the Inauguration Stakes, paying 40,000, 6 THE RqEVI"VL OF RqjCING and built an elegantly appointed stable west of Jerome Park, where Kentucky was installed and a select stud of mares was also acquired. But Mr. Jerome will be remembered more as a promoter than as an owner. Fleetwing came to his stable late in life, and with brittle hoofs; Clara Clarita was only fair; Redwing, quite moderate; and De Courcy was about the best of the racers under the "blue and white stripes." It was Mr. Jerome who led to the formation of the Coney Island Jockey Club and the building of Sheepshead Bay race-course, where he resumed racing with Irish King, One Dime, and Onondaga. When Jerome Park's existence was threatened, he was alert to provide it a successor, and, interesting the late Mr. John A. Morris, he set about to build another. Van Courtlandt Park was selected, but the city wanted it, and finally Morris Park was built, and Mr. Jerome was once president of both the Coney Island and New York Jockey clubs. Mr. Charles Wheatly was clerk of the course when Jerome Park opened, and Mr. Cbas. joined to vast experience an unbending habit of application which at one period Wbeatly enabled him to compass the duties of secretary of three race-courses-Jerome Park, Saratoga, and Monmouth Park. In 1870 he succeeded Doctor Irving as secretary of the American Jockey Club. Mr. Wheatly was a printer by trade, an editor by profession, and acted as secretary to Vice-President John C. Brecken- ridge. Political honors would have been his had he not been under the Iealous and absorbing spell of the more congenial study of racing. He had early collected the scattered records of the old American pedigrees, and before the publica- tion of the Stud Book he was the leading authority in thoroughbred genealogy. Mr. John F. Purdy was one of the early stewards of the club. He also filled the Mr. Jobn F. position of handicapper, for which he was well fitted by experience and tempera- Purdi ment. His mind was clear, comprehensive, and correct, with a keen faculty of discrimination. He was "bred to the turf"; one of his immediate relations, a great gentleman jockey, Mr. Samuel Purdy, had ridden American Eclipse in the match with Henry in 1823. Mr. Purdy raced in partnership with Mr. D. D. Withers and with success, for they won the Ladies' Stakes of 1869 with Tasmania and the same year Vespucius carried their "black, pink sleeves" when he won the rich Annual Sweepstakes, beating the mighty Glenelg, who was the "crack" of the year. Mr. Milton H. Sanford was one of the most noted of that coterie of turfmen Mr. fit. H. that came into racing with the birth of Jerome Park and the American Jockey Sanford Club. Few made racing a deeper study, and none could approach this Talleyrand of racing in bringing off a great coup. Far back in the Preakness hills of New Jersey he purchased a farm, and there built a private training-ground where profane eyes could not witness his trials nor hear of them until he appeared in the "Subscription Room" on Madison Avenue the night before a race, and bet 7 A CINJG INl MMERICA4 them to a standstill. Handicaps were his chief delight, and in six seasons the Grand National fell to him five times. He was an extensive buyer of Lexington's colts, and for Hotspur, a brother to Asteroid, he paid the highest price then paid for a yearling. He brought William Hayward over from England to ride, and with that jockey up won the Westchester Cup of '67 with Loadstone. La Polka's Grand National of '69 was one of his greatest coups, but for once the "fine Italian hand" could not conceal Madame Dudley's merit in the Champagne of '70. It was mainly Mr. Sanford's effort that led to the great Dinner Party Stakes at the inaugural meeting at Baltimore in i870, and he won it with Preakness, a colt, which up to that time had never started and was "as big as a bull." Mon- archist, however, was the favorite of all Mr. Sanford's long list of racing heroes. He was beaten for the Belmont, but a few months later the "dark-blue" jacket found in him the weapon it had pined to wield and turn the flank of the all- conquering McDaniel Confederacy and its redoubtable Harry Bassett. In I877 Mr. Sanford sent his stable to England, but lack of success and ill health soon brought his "invasion" to a close. Perhaps of all the leading spirits in the "revival of racing" at Jerome Park none was destined to play a more conspicuous part than Mr. David D. Withers. A residence at New Orleans during the piping days of Lexington and Lecompte at the old Metarie track had given him a taste for racing which a subsequent sojourn in France, during the days when Napoleon III and the Compte de Morny were diverting the mind of the grande nation from politics to racing, served to strengthen. His partnership with Mr. Purdy was dissolved in 1870, when Mr. Withers became ambitious of racing on a larger scale, and thus began the career of his " all-black " jacket with Elsie and Mimi. Then he gave Weatherby a stand- ing order, and each season yearling colts and fillies came over the ocean. But a cruel fate seemed to follow this most deserving of owners. King Ernest was tried good enough to win the Belmont, only to develop navicular trouble; Stone- henge could not stay a mile; Macaroon was only moderate; Cyclone was as "mad as a March hare"; and Eothen was foundered on shipboard. Mr. Withers's close attention soon made him a steward, for which he was emi- nently fitted. His mind was judicial and his familiarity with "adjudged cases" seldom denied him a precedent, and thus by degrees he became the authority on questions involving "racing law and usage." He was the master spirit of the great Monmouth Park racing revival (1880-189o). As an owner his most success- ful year was 1889, when he started eleven two-year-olds, ten of which were winners. He established a stud at the Brookdale farm near Red Bank, N. J., to which Mr. Keene and, later, Mr. Whitney added fame. But he did not become a breeder from choice-" I drifted into it," he said one day when we were in Uncas's box. He had an undue fondness for English-bred horses, and fate, with its usual 8 Mkonarcbist, Champion of tbe " dark blue " AMr. D). D. lI'ithers AMr. 11'ithers Bccw7oms a Stei r(rd 77HE REVI"AL OF R"CING irony, ordained that Mimi, largely of native blood, should prove his best brood mare. A man more devoted to racing never existed, nor a better loser. His for- feits, during the twenty years he raced, amounted to a fortune. Yet, his com- posure was such that even an occasional success could not disturb him, unless we except the day when his home-bred Laggard defeated Hanover and Firenzi for the Omnibus Stakes. When Jerome Park was opened Mr. John Hunter was still a young man, with the racing experience of an old one. The old Westchester families, the Bath- gates, Booths, Morrises, Hunters, and Delanceys (one of whom imported "the Cub mare" to which many of our best race-horses trace), had always kept race-horses. Mr. Hunter's "orange-and-red" jacket appeared as soon as he attained his ma- jority, and the gelding Nicholas the First soon made it famous. He purchased Kentucky as a three-year-old, and to the end of his career Kentucky was cham- pion of the East. Mr. Hunter kept a racing stable until i875, Buckden, Ulricca, Arcola, Nemesis, Olitipa, Sultana, and Rhadamanthus sporting his colors. He also bred at his Annieswood Stud, in Westchester, the famous Alarm, who also raced under the orange jacket. Late in "the eighties" Mr. Hunter returned with Dagonet, Lovelace, and others. He succeeded the elder Mr. Belmont as president of the American Jockey Club in i888; in 1892 he succeeded Mr. Withers as chairman of the Board of Control, and was the first chairman of the Jockey Club upon its organization in i894. Mr. Francis Morris, of Throgg's Neck, and his son, the late John A. Morris, had raced for years before Jerome Park opened. But his "all scarlet" now be- came famous for its home-breds bred in Westchester, largely the progeny of Eclipse and the imported mare Barbarity, among which were Ruthless, Relent- less, Remorseless, and Merciless, of which Ruthless was the best, she winning the Nursery and at three the inaugural Belmont Stakes, the Travers, and Sequel. In fact, from i866 to 1871 Mr. Morris's fillies dominated the great stakes for two and three year olds. His son, Mr. John A. Morris, accompanied Mr. Ten Broeck to England, and saw several seasons' racing. He was a familiar figure in the early days of Jerome Park, but withdrew to "make his fortune," and kept his promise, returning to the turf in "the eighties," building Morris Park and reviving the glories of the "all scarlet" which his son, Mr. Alfred H. Morris, now sustains. Mr. Lewis G. Morris, of Fordham, was "no relation but the best of friends" to Mr. Francis Morris. He had years before owned the noted mare "Fashion," and upon the opening of Jerome Park formed a racing stable with a small breed- ing stud at Scarsdale. But Mr. Morris's heart was ever for Shorthorn cattle and Dorking fowls. He raced a short time, and then created a furor by paying 40,000 for Eighth Duchess of Geneva, a seven-year-old Shorthorn cow at Sheldon's sale in 1873. He had bred her grandam Duchess 7Ist by Duke of Gloster and 9 Mir. Jobn Hunter Mlr. Francis A Morris Mr. Lewis C. A Iorri-s Leading Spirits TI1e Inaugural . 'liS a1 i, I8 46 A Greut Array of Beauutt and Fasbioll 91i&CING IN IL4MERICCA Oxford 5th to which she traced; he had bought at Lord Dacie's sale in 1853- the first importation of "the Duchess tribe" into the States. Three calves of this famous cow had sold for 564,ooo and he had a standing offer of io,ooo for her next, which was not to be, however, as she died a few months later. These were the leading spirits in the formation of the American Jockey Club, but there were many others who, while not all owners, were conspicuous in its management. Mr. W. R. Travers was president of the Saratoga Association, a racing partner of Mr. Hunter, and in time became principal owner of the Jerome Park property. Mr. William Constable always had a few horses (including Glen- garry) and was very efficient as a steward. Sir Roderick Cameron was one of the enthusiasts-he imported liberally, among others the renowned Leamington, also Warminster, Glengarry, Inverness, and Invercauld, as well as Glenelg (imported in utero). Judge Monson sported racing colors occasionally, as did the late Mr. George Peabody Wetmore, Mr. P. A. Hargons, and Mr. C. W. Bathgate. The Lorillards, Pierre and George, did not come upon the scene until i873, and Mr. James R. Keene until i879, when Spendthrift introduced his spotted jacket, destined to become famous. Mr. A. J. Cassatt and Mr. W. L. Scott came later, also. The inaugural meeting at Jerome Park was held beginning September 25, 3866, Mr. R. A. Alexander's brown colt Bayswater winning the opening race iY4 miles-from Local, Jim Tisdale, Ripley, Delegate, and Tom Woolfolk; time 2.17. Then followed the Inaugural Stakes, 4-mile heats, which was won by Mr. John Hunter's bay horse Kentucky, five years, defeating FIeetwing, Onward, and Idlewild; time 7.35-7.47Y2. The meeting was of four days' duration, during which Mr. Morris's filly Ruthless won the Nursery for two-year-olds, Watson won the Jerome Stakes for three-year-olds, Kentucky won the Grand National Handicap, 234 miles with i24 pounds, beating Aldebaran, Nannie Butler, On- ward, and Luther. Such was the success of the meeting that an extra day's racing was given November 8. Previous to the opening of Jerome Park it had not been the custom in the Northern States for ladies to attend races in large numbers. The old Puritan spirit had held it as improper. But the inaugural day at Jerome Park was marked by a display of the beauty, wealth, and fashion of the Metropolis that amazed the country. People talked of it, editors wrote columns on it, and some in cen- sure "that ladies of New York's leading families should be seen at a horse-race." But after the shock had passed they realized that different times had different manners, and soon special writers were engaged to describe the toilets of the ladies, and the magnificence of the equipages. Society had pronounced in favor of racing and Jerome Park became the Mecca of fashion. From the outset there was a tone to racing at Jerome Park that dignified and I0 I7HE tEYIVAL OF R94CING elevated it. It had the atmosphere of pure sport, as distinguished from a mere A Gentleman's scramble for stake money and betting. Owners of the leading stables started their Sport horses without regard to whether they could win, but from that fine sporting spirit to see their colors represented in the leading stakes and contribute to the success of the meetings. The horses came out with their manes plaited and tied with ribbons of each stable's colors, the "flag" of each horse was "banged," as a race-horse's tail should be, instead of as in recent years, when they come to the post with long tails, looking like a lot of coach horses. The "maroon and red" of Belmont, the "dark blue" of Sanford, the "green and gold" of McGrath, the "all black" of Withers, and the "cherry and black" of Lorillard, as they paraded to the post reminded one of a tournament of the Knights in " Ivanhoe." The thoroughbred was a sporting horse and his owners sportsmen. There was, in fact, a constant evidence of refinement, taste, and real sporting spirit that appealed to the imagination and rendered the racing impressive. In those days a considerable proportion of the stable attendants, cooks, rub- 4 Negro bers, and some trainers, were colored people. There were among them such nota- Bull" bilities as Bill Towser, "Polo Jim," Harvey Welch, Sam Dupee, and old Andrew. Music and dancing beguiled their leisure hours, but as the nights grew cool and compelled them to betake themselves indoors, a ball was proposed and the motion carried. Tickets were ordered, but the question arose how to make them non-transferable, and it was only after considerable controversy that the tickets were printed to read "Gentlemen not admitted unless they come themselves." The baseball epidemic reached Jerome Park and the jockeys organized a team. The Jockeys Mr. Belmont's jockey, Joe Palmer, Hardy Durham, Charlie Miller, Hennessy, as Baseball Billy Stoops, and all the jockeys forsook "silks" for flannels and met the Ford- Plavers ham village team in a game. Hardy Durham was the first of the jockeys to face the pitcher, who, while not a Carl Mays, pitched a very swift ball. Hardy struck at the first ball pitched, but it was after it had passed him. It was evident the jockeys had no idea of swift pitching, but thought the ball should be pitched so they could hit it. The second ball was pitched; Hardy again swung and missed. Laying down his bat with great deliberation, he turned to the pitcher: "See here I You Mr. V., " he exclaimed, " I'm here to hit that there ball, ain't I Well, if you're going to fire it at me like a rifle-shot, I can't do it-I have about as much chance as a man on foot would have to beat Glenelg in a 2-mile race." A light-hearted, careless lot were the stable lads, but they were hardly as A Judicial popular among the people of the neighborhood as they might have been. If "Bull" garments disappeared from the clothes-line on wash-day, or eggs were missing in the hen-house, "those race-track boys" were invariably blamed. Mrs. Van Cott, an old resident on Kingsbridge Road, identified several of the lads as hav- I I W(ACING IN cAMERICA General Effect of Jerome Park Racing A Great Retiral Improlremcnts at Jerome Park Tbe Beginning of the End mg robbed her apple orchard and they were haled before Justice of the Peace Dennis S-. It was late in the afternoon, and perhaps the justice had an ap- pointment. At all events, he wanted to get away, and was in no humor to hear the case. "Now boys," said he, "I want yez all to be here at tin o'clock to-morrow morning, and if yez don't come I'll lock yez up to-night, sure." The impetus the revival of racing at Jerome Park gave to the sport generally was soon felt. In 1867 the Jockey Club gave an extra summer meeting of three days in addition to the regular spring meeting, and in the autumn a meeting of five days. Saratoga gave six days, Paterson and Hoboken gave excellent race meetings and even Massachusetts contributed with four days at Hampden Park, Springfield, and two at Clyde Park, Brookline. Trenton, N. J., came for- ward with a meeting and Rhode Island awoke with a meeting at Cranston. In i868 racing had begun to spread. Brookline, Hoboken, Troy, Providence, Paterson, Saratoga, and Springfield all gave meetings, and a meeting was brought off at Prospect Park Fairgrounds, Brooklyn, since known as the Gravesend track. In 1870 the new Monmouth Park course was opened near Long Branch, and the same autumn saw racing revived at the Pimlico course, Baltimore, under the auspices of the Maryland Jockey Club. All over the country there were signs of an awakening. Columbus, Newark, Zanesville, Cincinnati in Ohio, Chicago, Springfield in Illinois, Lawrence in Kansas, all held racing meetings. In 1874 a new straightaway course was added to Jerome Park. It was a half mile, starting in the meadow near the Kingsbridge Road under the shadow of the old Reformed Dutch Church, finishing at the usual winning post It was con- structed for the special purpose of the Juvenile Stakes, and was the first of its kind seen in connection with American racing. Meantime, many new events had been offered-the Nursery and Champagne had been fixtures from the outset in i866. So had the Belmont, the Champion (since called the Jerome), the Ladies, the Westchester Cup, and the Fordham, Jockey Club, Manhattan, and Grand National Handicaps. To these was added the Maryland, the Sequence, the Dessert, and the Maturity for four-year-olds three miles. Jerome Park became quite the headquarters of racing, quite a Newmarket. However, the organization of the Coney Island Jockey Club and the opening of its course at Sheepshead Bay, and the prestige of Monmouth Park after Messrs. Withers, Cassatt, the Lorillards, and Wetmore had taken charge in 1882, were of a nature to somewhat diminish Jerome Park's importance. It still continued the resort of the fashionable-society element and the best horses took part. But both Sheepshead Bay and Monmouth Park began offering stakes of greater value. The Jerome Park classics, such as the Belmont Stakes, continued to hold their own as the great test of three-year-old form, but Sheepshead Bay with its Suburban, I2 7THE JE VIFVL OF R&CING Futurity, and Realization, and Monmouth with its Omnibus and Junior Cham- pion, rather dwarfed the Jerome events. The building of the magnificent Morris Park in i889 at Westchester, only a few miles from Jerome Park, was the last straw. A schism arose among the members of the American Jockey Club. The late Mr. Belmont resigned the presidency, although he remained loyal to Jerome Park racing, and Mr. John Hunter was elected president. The autumn of i889 found Jerome and Morris Parks racing in conflict, and the following season there was no meeting at Jerome Park. In 1891, being unable, owing to legislation, to race at Long Branch, the Monmouth Park Association leased Jerome Park for its summer meeting. In 1892 and 1893 there was no racing at Jerome Park. In i894 the late Mr. M. F. Dwyer leased the park and gave a race meeting. It was the last meeting run over the old track. Closing Years '3 The Trainin,- Ground Miss Woodford Has a Gallop THE MORNING GALLOPS AT JEROME PARK Jerome Park at sunrise I There is a buoyancy in the air that some mornings have and seem to imbue us with its spirit. The blossoms of the apple and the peach, the cherry and the violet crown the orchards and spangle the outlying meadows; the notes of the robin and the meadow-lark, the thrush and the oriole blend in the anthem that rings through the woodlands, while the white-capped bobolinks whistle pleasantly as they skim over the meadows. The very brooks have a joyful sound as they ripple through the mossy banks and the vernal foliage sparkles with the dewdrops of the early morning. "The Bluff," where the club house rises among the firs, is a picture of rock and dell backed by the grove where the dome of the old Dutch church rises in quiet majesty. There are no laggards at the track this morning-the trainers are "up and at it." Smoke may be seen curling upward from the stable kitchens; the lads are hurrying to and fro, and the shrill neigh of a Belmont or Withers candidate breaks upon the air as, from the elm-shaded walk, a cavalcade is approaching. " It's Rowe's lot," somebody remarks as they file out on the track. Sure enough; it is the champions of "the Dwyer dynasty," looking like mummies in their hoods and body-clothes. Rowe takes them up to the half-mile ground, and they break into a gentle trot for a mile. Then off come the clothes, McLaughlin leaps into the saddle, and a bay leader dashes away from the lot, moving like a machine. "There's the 'crack' I" is the shout as George Kinney leads Bootjack a strong canter for two miles. A halt, a walk, and they are off again. Watches are out, and each quarter is carefully noted. The favorite for the Withers Stakes is in great form this morning. "Bootjack has a pull in the weights," we hear it said, but the "crack" draws away, and "the best mile of the season" is the verdict. Miss Woodford now has her spin with the black Carley B., and despite the winter's rumors of "her unsoundness," she shows such speed that few deny her claim to the Ladies' Stakes. Barnes does only a slow canter with "that impostor," Joe Blackburn, a full brother to Luke Blackburn ("a little more than kin and less than kind") and then they return to the stand. Already another string of horses has appeared on the track, and their red-checked clothing tells of Sutcliffe, who soon joins us. Forager in red bandages looks well bodily, but what is the use of lavishing words on "a patched-up horse." Mamie Fields is "asked a question" as Sutcliffe calls to her boy to "keep out from the rails," as she sails away with Fairwater. Fred Carter joins us with Secret and Felicia, the long and short of it 14 THE (EVVIYL OF Rd4CING in size. And now Eph Snedeker leads his brigade up the stretch. Eole, stanch and statuesque, leads the rejuvenated Dan K. and Strathapey (fresh from stand- ing hours in a bucket of water) while Blue Peter and Touch Me Not only do light work. A dozen watches are out as Soubrette dashes down the quarter stretch, and though they say she "makes a noise" it does not seem to hamper her speed. "That'll do, Mike-Billy, walk the mare to the head of the stretch and back; " Tbat'll Do, and you [to another lad] follow him-don't pull at his head," comes up to us, Mike" and, having waved them off, Snedeker crosses over to read us one of his "health bulletins," according to which he hasn't a sound horse in his stable, and is laughed at for his pains. Now Mr. Chas. Bathgate joins us. His talk is all of English rac- ing, Foxhall's Cambridgeshire, Archer's riding, and the potency of Leamington blood. Mr. Dwyer, with a friend, also arrives. They are just from town and the prospects of the Withers and Belmont are discussed. They have excellent re- ports of Kinglike, but the chances of Trombone are treated lightly. Pizarro is mentioned with a show of respect as the contender with George Kinney. There is a lot of gossip. It is whispered about that Pizarro had had a trial at Pizarro's 3 o'clock in the morning-"a trial by moonlight," they say. While the trainers Trial were thought to be sleeping soundly, Matt Byrnes, seeing his chance, stole out with Pizarro unobserved; but the sound of horses galloping in the dark aroused the sleeping touts, and while Byrnes chuckled, thinking he had baffled them, they rushed out, watches in hand. Rowe also came upon the scene in time to see the finish and, while he admitted it was a good trial, thought "it wasn't worth so much trouble." "Here comes the Lorillard crack," is heard as Matt Byrnes leads the Rancocas "Here's the lot with rare old Parole, the conqueror of Ten Broeck and Isonomy-"the hero Lorillard of two hemispheres"-leading. Pizarro is there, but this is not his working day, Crack and he only does a mild canter. Hiawasse, the brown daughter of Vandalite, with Venetia, Zamora, Battledore and others, does gentle work and is followed by Wyndam Walden, who brings out the " blue-and-orange " battalion. Old Monitor, as frisky as the day five years ago when he jumped the rails and narrowly es- caped his ruin, leads Greenland and Trafalgar in a style that promises great things for the Westchester Cup. General Monroe is also out doing his little act, with that mincing stride that a year later was to bring him to the front at the finish for the first Suburban. Runnymede is missed from the gallops and there are various surmises why. Runnymede Rica, too, is in the stable eating "idleness' corn," and Wyoming is reported Is Missed coughing. Carnation has "not been seen out for three days," and "tired to noth- from fWork ing" the last time out. Trombone is said to have "come on a bit," but "lacks class," and George Kinney and Pizarro will show him little mercy when they meet for the Withers. Hyland's and Stuarts' lots come galloping along in twos 15 _MCING IN AMERICA Go ULp and and threes. Hilarity and another colt, which no one seems to know, rattle along Settle Him" merrily, the former fighting for his head, as if he wanted to "go up and settle" his leader. 'Schooling" Now the sun has mounted high as the morning wanes. There are still quite tbe Y oung a number of people who have remained to watch the gallops, but the chief work Ones is over, and long lines of horses are en route back to the stables. The two-year- olds are not through, for Walden reappears with the elect of the George Loril- lard lot. There is no Sensation, no Spinaway among them, as in other years, but we will still have a "competitive examination" (as the civil-service reformers would put it) for the Juvenile Stakes. Reveller, a pale chestnut, and Thackeray, a sturdy bay, do a spin that brings fear to the hearts of trainers who have candi- dates for the Juvenile. Duchess, a wiry brown, destined to shine before the snow flies as "the filly of her year," and years later as the dam of Clifford, is the queen of Snedeker's lot; and Burton, a long-backed colt of Billet paternity, seems the pick of the Dwyer stable, as the white-faced Leo is of the Rancocas division. Now Mr. Cassatt's Water Lily and Equipoise do a half-speed gallop of five furlongs. Breeze does a spin of a quarter, pulling to Inconstant all the way. Volusia leads Swift a five-furlong scurry, and the morning's work is over. JEROME PARK IN 19 21 Very different is the scene as we visit Jerome Park in 1921. We ascend the hill at Kingsbridge Road, where the old Reformed Dutch Church, founded, as the tablet tells us, in 1696, raises its tower among the trees and shrubbery of the Fordham village churchyard where "The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep"; and we read among the tombstones that "Daniel M. Horton died Sept. 6, 1852." A little farther a moss-covered stone, almost hidden in the briers, tells us that "Richard Hyatt Cromwell departed this life March 31, i85o," and another, near by, that "Elisha Webb died April 9, 1843, aged 42 years." Evidently a "Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood" and, perhaps, "some mute inglori- ous Milton" rest in this "God's Acre"; but we are in no mood for meditation on the probability. Now we turn our steps up the road, past the old Claflin property, the road A Sbeeted once bordered by lilac-trees where the sheeted regiments of racers were wont Regiment of each spring and autumn to wend their way to the race meetings; past Ken- Racers tucky's old stable, which alone remains among the familiar sights of past and pleasant years. The old Bathgate homestead has disappeared, the Clamin property has been cut into building lots. To the south a great military armory looms up, near where, in former years, the fields for the Juvenile Stakes were wont to gather at the post. Jerome Avenue, once the scene of gay equipages, four-in-hands, and the vehicular crush of a race day, is covered by the elevated railway structure, and long trains of cars rattle along as they transport suburban residents cityward. A few steps farther, and, on the side of a huge rock, we find a tablet that tells A Sbrine of us it marks the location of Patriotism ")FORT NUMBER FOUR OF THE EXTERIOR DEFENSES OF FORT WASH- INGTON AND KINGSBRIDGE, Cx)NSTRUCIrED BY THE AMERICAN ARMY UNDER GENERAL WASHINGTON, i776. DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL, 1914" to remind us that we are on ground hallowed by one of the most memorable battles of the War of Independence. Now we pass the spot where stood the old yellow barns where, on race days, The Old the horses were taken from the four-in-hands for shelter during the afternoon's Yellow Barn 17 RJCING IN efMERICA4 racing; now we are where the club-house "bluff" rose majestically above the grove of fir-trees, where the four-in-hands were parked, filled on race days with gay parties of beaux and belles, where lunches were served and the champagne corks popped merrily. Fair women and gallant men, the Slite of fair Manhattan, most of whom have long since passed away, were gathered together. Dynamite has done its deadly work, for not a vestige of the "bluff" remains. Once a Race- Here, where once came the bend of the track, where GIeneIg, Hanover, and Course, Now a Kingfisher strode in triumph, the great Jerome Park reservoir stretches far out Reservoir to the north toward the Mosholu Road-a vast expanse of water. A few gulls are soaring laily over it, before joining a flock of their mates gathered on the surface of the water where they are feeding. There to the left is where Preak- ness made his memorable dash to the front when he led the Maturity field in the great 3-mile race of 1871-days when Maturity had not been superseded Historic by Futurity Stakes. Here stood the tree under which Tom Bowling, Duke of Ground Magenta, Sir IVixon, and many gallant steeds were "cooled out." There, to the right, is where Billy Hayward on Monarchist challenged Jimmy Rowe on Harry Bassett in that terrible struggle for the 3-mile Maturity Stakes of '72. Op- posite is where stood the paddock from which Aristides, Spinaway, Hindoo, and other good racers and true have sallied forth with Bob Swim, Lloyd Hughes, or McLaughlin in silk, booted and spurred. Here is where stood the little weigh- ing room, where Gilpatrick, Hayward, Rowe, and Feakes have repaired, saddle on arm, to "weigh out." Memories of A world of memories cluster around the famous old course, as we view it Great Races from the foot of what was once "The Bluff"; Spendthrifts' Lorillard Stakes of '79 catching his field, one after another, and winning in the last strides after being left at the post; Parole shooting to the front like a rocket for the All- Aged Stakes of '77; Saxon's electric finish for the Belmont of '74, when he an- swered Barbee's call and seemed to rise out of the ground and win on the post; Luke Blackburn fighting for his head and almost pulling McLaughlin out of the saddle; Hehmbold smashing the Westchester Cup field of '70 with Glenelg and Abdel-Kader floundering in the rear; Sensation with rolling eyes and a coat like shimmering brown satin, going to the post for the Juvenile, looking, they said, "more like a four-year-old than a two-year-old maiden." Tbe Fatbers The old quarter-stretch I What notable gatherings have been held there be- of Racing tween the races I The Honorable August Belmont, resplendent in a light Melton box-coat, pearl Alpine hat and gloves, resting one hand on his stick, as he chats with Mr. Milton Sanford, in brown velvet coat and an eye like a hawk, holding his hand to his ear to assist hearing. Mr. Francis Morris, of the patriarchal locks, debates with Mr. R. W. Cameron on the possibilities of the Leamington- Eclipse cross. Price McGrath, with a weakness for red neckties, holding forth on 7THE REVIVAL OF R;&CING Lucy Fowler's last foal ("a perfect model of old Lexington, sir") to Major Doswell, who never is without his umbrella Mr. D. D. Withers, with thoughtful stoop of head, discussing "a point of racing law" with Mr. Lawrence. Mr. John Hunter joins them and their talk is all of the coming race for the Belmont. There is doubtful news of Wildidle, Springbok's trial is mentioned, and the ability of The Ill Used to stay a distance is canvassed with as much earnestness as though the fate of the nation depended. Governor Bowie of Maryland, bluff and hearty, is engaged with Senator Bayard in earnest discussion-perhaps on the effect of the Cincinnati Liberal Convention on the national election. Mr. Daniel Swigert is on hand with an eye to carrying off another Belmont Stakes which Kingfisher won for him and for which Stockwood failed to land the "blue-and-white" banner. Mr. Grinstead, who pins his faith on the beautiful brown Waverley, is tracing the pedigree of Crockford with Mr. Clabaugh, whose talk is all of the Vauxhall yearlings. Colonel McDaniel shuffles along thumping his cane; Judge Monson bustles about, bristling with business; John Chamberlain, prince of epicures, is here and Mr. John F. Purdy of the silver voice is profound in handicap studies and his talk is all of "maximums" and "minimums." Mr. O'Fallon of St. Louis, Major Bacon of South Carolina, Mr. Chas. Lloyd of New Jersey, Mr. Duncan F. Kenner of New Orleans-every walk of life is represented-law, medicine, art, drama, journalism, etc. To the east, where the grand stand double-tiered loomed against the sky-line and once the scene of great assemblages to cheer the Withers, Belmont, and Nursery winners, not a trace remains. Beyond on the far side of the hill was once a huge pasture where years before we recall a troop of brood-mares roaming at will. They were Mr. Jerome's-Cyclone by Vandal; Blue Ribbon (4th dam of Ben Brush) by Revenue; Mary Biddle by Glencoe; Parachute by Yorkshire; Zaidee by Belshazzar; Redwing by Balrownie; Keystone by Lapidist and Gilda, daughter of Mango the St. Leger winner. Now it is dotted with the little brush- fenced garden patches of the Italian laborers. Huge masses of rock and heaps of broken stone lie about as if an earthquake or landslide had accomplished the destruction which the municipal government had accomplished in its efforts to make a water-supply. The old Lorillard stable on the upper turn from which Parole, Iroquois, Saxon, Wanda, Pontiac, and others have gone forth to do battle for the "cherry and black" of Rancocas; the Belmont stable beyond the picnic hill that sheltered Glenelg, Kingfisher, The Ill Used, and other "cracks" of the "maroon-and- red" jacket; the stable near the aqueduct where George Lorillard's "blue-and- orange" brigade, Sensation, Spinaway, Harold, Monitor, Duke of Magenta, and Ferida rested after many a "rough gallop"-all have vanished and like '9 Gathering of Notables Wbere the Brood-Mares Roamed The Old Lorillard Stable R(ACING IN c/ME RICA Prospero's "Cloud-capped towers and gorgeous palaces" have "left not a wrack behind." A Contrast A great stillness hovers over the scene, broken only by the occasional cry of a gull flying over the reservoir. There is scarcely a sign of human life to be seen to remind us of our proximity to the great city so near at hand. On a fence near by an old torn poster flaps in the wind announcing Mr. Rossdale a candi- date for Congress, reminding us of the asperities of a recent political contest, and in the distance a dog barks where once the shrill neigh of the thoroughbred was the paramount note, and we can imagine Lord Byron's feelings when he stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs and meditated on its dying glory. A Scene of It is a scene of desolation, once a scene throbbing with life and gaiety-the Desolation cradle of racing but, fortunately, not its grave, for it was the inspiration that led to Sheepshead Bay, Monmouth, Morris Park, Belmont Park, Pimlico, Brighton, Aqueduct, Jamaia Gravesend. Greater race-courses have succeeded it, and though its present appearance reminds us of the mutability of human affairs and calls us to question the value of "local improvements" which have rendered one of the loveliest spots on earth an unsightly wreck, we can still, despite its unsightliness, regard it as a shrine to which the racing enthusiast can turn with veneration, if not affection, as the birthplace of organized racing. 20 RACING AT SARATOGA It was early in i863 that the late Mr. John Hunter and his partner, Mr. W. R. Travers, conceived the plan of a race meeting at Saratoga Springs. For more than half a century it had been the summer resort of people from all parts of the country who sought relief from the heat of the cities in its bracing mountain air, and to drink of its famous mineral waters. The first meeting, a sort of preliminary or trial, was given beginning August 3, 1863, over the old Horse Haven track in the pine woods, and was of four days' duration, two races each day. The racing began at noon, to enable the people to leave early enough for the long drives throughout the vicinity (which was the great feature of Saratoga life at that period) and return to their hotels, or cottages, in time for dinner. From a racing standpoint the meeting was satis- factory, considering the conditions prevailing in the midst of a great civil war, and following a month after the desperate battle at Gettysburg, and its conse- quent excitement. For the eight races run twenty-six horses started, the winners being Doctor Weldon's Lizzie W. and Sympathy, Mr. Bush's Seven Oaks, Mr. J. Watson's Aldebaran and Captain Moore, Mr. Murphy's John Morgan. The best time for a mile was made by Lizzie W.-I47,4. The success of the very informal inaugural encouraged the management to build a mile track across the road from Horse Haven which thereafter was used as a training ground, and sweepstakes were opened for the meeting of 1864. The meeting opened August 2 before a large and fashionable attendance. The Travers Stakes had thirty nominations, and Mr. Hunter won it with Kentucky, who, ridden by Gilpatrick, defeated Tipperary, Throgg's Neck, Jr., Patti, and Ringmaster. Mr. J. S. Watson's Aldebaran defeated Mr. Philo Bush's Fleetwing, 2-mile heats. Mr. Hunter won the Saratoga Stakes for two-year-olds with the filly Saratoga by Knight of St. George. There was only four days' racing. Saratoga racing promised so well that the meeting of 1865 was extended to six days, two races each day. The Travers Stakes had thirty-nine nominations and Captain T. G. Moore won it with the filly Maiden (since noted as the dam of Parole) beating Oliata (afterward dam of Olitipa), Gilda Baltimore, Rich- mond, and a Vandal colt. It was at this meeting the first race was run for the Saratoga Cup, 2,4 miles, which Mr. Hunter won with Kentucky, beating Cap- tain Moore and Rhynodine, and in i866 Kentucky won it again. In 1867 three races each day instead of two became the order, and in 1869 the meeting was extended to seven days. Saratoga had now become the scene of some of the greatest racing of the year. It was the neutral ground where the 21 Tbe Inaugural Meeting- 1863 Opening the New Course in 1864 Racing Expands 9&.A4CING IN c(MERICG4 An Inter- Western stables came with their horses to meet the "cracks" of the East. Some sectional memorable races took place, notably the Saratoga Cup races of 1871 between Racing Longfellow and Kingfisher, and that of x872 between Longfellow and Harry Ground Bassett, as well as the dead heat for the cup in 1875, between Preakness and Springbok. The During these years Mr. W. R. Travers was president and Mr. Chas. Wheatly Management secretary. Later, Mr. J. M. Marvin became president with a board of stewards consisting of Mr. John Hunter of New York, Mr. Es A. Clabaugh of Maryland, Mr. Addison Cammack of New York, Major T. W. Doswell of Virginia, and Mr. J. A. Grinstead of Kentucky. In 189o Mr. G. Walbaum and a party of his friends purchased control of the track and held it until i9oi. Since i882, when Mr. Withers and his party assumed control of Monmouth Park at Long Branch, the Saratoga meetings had not been as brilliant as formerly. Monmouth ceased racing in i893, but the removal of its rival did not seem to benefit Saratoga. The leading stables all came to Saratoga, but they did not support the racing by starting their horses. They came to rest after a hard spring campaign and to recuperate for the autumn meetings around New York City. It was claimed, also, that the value of the Saratoga sweepstakes was too small, and made up of owners' subscriptions, rather than having liberal added money. Ajr. Wilson It was at this time that Mr. Richard T. Wilson, Jr., appeared as the Warwick tbe Warwick of Saratoga's racing. He had long been an enthusiast on the subject of Saratoga, and made his summer holidays there with his racing stable. He claimed that Saratoga only needed the identity of prominent turfmen and the increased value of races to insure its resumption of the prominence it enjoyed as a racing point in the years between 1870-1882. A company was formed and purchased The New control of the association and its grounds. Honorable W. C. Whitney was made R6gime president and Mr. Andrew Miller secretary. At once the new management proceeded to enlarge and embellish the property. Additional land was secured, and the track rebuilt with an additional training track. An attractive list of stakes was offered and the meeting of igoi saw Saratoga completely rehabili- tated, as the racing was of the highest class. An Ideal On the death of Mr. Whitney, in i1o4, Mr. Francis R. Hitchcock was made Racing Plant president. He was succeeded a few seasons later by Mr. R. T. Wilson, Jr., and at the death of Mr. Miller, in 19i9, Mr. George H. Bull was elected secretary and treasurer. Under this regime Saratoga racing reached the pinnacle of popularity. They beautified the property until it is one of the most attractive racing plants in the world. Great trees have been planted, shrubbery and flowers in profusion have added much to its beauty. A large lake has been formed in the field inside the course. A beautiful park has been laid out for the parking of the motor- cars. 22 THE RAEVIVAL OF 9VSCING In the matter of sweepstakes the association at once restored the events that Tbe Great had made Saratoga famous in early days. "The Cup" was revived, though at a Sweepstakes shorter distance. The Travers Stakes was restored. The Alabama Stakes, which was founded in x872 (named in compliment to Mr. Wm. Cottrell of Mobile, who always brought a stable of horses there), was likewise restored, as was the Spinaway, named for the great filly of 88o. The Kenner, named for the late Mr. Duncan F. Kenner, first run in 1870 when Enquirer won it, was renewed, but has since 1920 been renamed the Miller, as a memorial to the late Mr. An- drew Miller, its secretary. 23 MONMOUTH PARK Building Racing had taken so strong a hold upon the public through the Jerome Park Monmoutb and Saratoga meetings that the hotels at Long Branch, N. J., began to cast Park about to do something to draw its patronage toward that popular seaside resort. Mr. John F. Chamberlain was the prime mover, and Mr. John Hoey also became influential in the enterprise. The land selected as the site of the Monmouth Park course was purchased in i869, located near the village of Little Silver, some three miles from Long Branch. The course was a mile with a "chute" for 6- furlong races. Mr. Amos Robins, president of the New Jersey Senate, was made president and Mr. Wm. E. Raynor secretary. The The Monmouth Park course was opened July 30, 1870, Mr. James Thompson's Inaugural Lobelia winning the first event-a hurdle race. On the same day, Enquirer won Meeting the Continental Hotel Stakes, mile heats, defeating Maggie B. B., Ortolan, Haric, Susan Ann, and Lynchburg, the latter breaking down after winning the first heat. On the same day Helmbold defeated Glenelg and Invercauld for the Monmouth Stakes, 2 miles. The meeting continued five days. The late Mr. Frank Hall won the Mansion House Stakes with Major. Mr. John O'Donnell won the Americus Club Stakes with Judge Curtis and West End Hotel Stakes with Mary Louise. Enquirer, in General Buford's colors, won the Robins Stakes, 2-mile heats, beating Kingfisher and Major, and ex-Governor Bowie of Maryland won the Restoration Stakes, 4-mile heats, with Legatee. Longfellow At the time Long Branch was the favorite summer resort of the theatrical pro- and Harry fession as well as the political chiefs of New York, and there was a demand for Bassett more racing. Hence, in 1871 there were two meetings in July and August, both of which were well supported. In i872 the racing at Monmouth was rendered memorable by the first meeting of Longfellow and Harry Bassett for the Mon- mouth Cup, an event that for months previous attracted the attention of the entire country. In 1873 Mr. B. G. Bruce became secretary. Meantime the affairs of the association became involved in trouble, patronage had fallen off, and the property was offered for sale. Racing In 1878 a company composed of Mr. George L Lorillard, D. D. Withers, Classics G. P. Wetmore, and James Gordon Bennett purchased the property. Mr. Lor- illard became president and Mr. Chas. Wheatly secretary. The new manage- ment at once began making improvements in the property and increasing the value of the races. In 1882 it began continuous racing from July 4 until the close of August. Such events as the Lorillard Stakes, Omnibus, Junior Champion, 24 T-HE 9EVIVAL OF R"CING ___ Hopeful. Select, and Monmouth Stakes, Champion Stakes, and Monmouth Cup were offered. The meetings became the great attraction for owners from all over the country. Such celebrated racers as Iroquois, Hanover, Eole, Miss Woodford, Parole, Hindoo, Spendthrift, Kingston, Wanda, Salvator, and others competed for the stakes. In i890, it having been found that the demands of racing had outgrown the old course, a large tract of land was purchased and a new and greater Mon- mouth arose. It covered 66o acres, the track had a circuit of IY miles and a ii straightaway. The grand stand, entirely of iron, was the largest that had ever been built, 700 by 210 feet, with an enormous paddock under cover and fitted with 96 box-stalls. On the death of Mr. Lorillard, Mr. A. J. Cassatt became president, while Captain John G. Coster became secretary, succeeded later by Mr. Crickmore, and Mr. W. S. Vosburgh, handicapper. The new Monmouth Park course was opened July 4, I89o, with great &lat. In i89i repressive legislation compelled the association to abandon its meeting, and the meeting was run off at Jerome and Morris Parks. In February, I892, the death of Mr. Withers led to a reorganization. Mr. A. F. Walcott, the Dwyer Bros., and Mr. Croker became interested, and their influence enabled the asso- ciation to resume racing at Monmouth Park, and a very successful meeting was given. The new management, however, was so encouraged that, not content with the old order of twenty-four days' racing-four days each week-it began in I893 with the startling innovation of forty-six consecutive days' racing. It was the last meeting ever held at Mounouth Park, owing to legislation, and ultimately the land was sold and the association dissolved. The Greater Monmoutb A Suspension The End 25 SHEEPSHEAD BAY CONEY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUB Its The victories of Parole in England during the spring of I879 aroused an in- Organization terest in racing that had an immediate effect. The Jerome Park meeting of that season had also been one of unusual success. Accordingly, the "younger set" of turfmen, led by Mr. Leonard W. Jerome, conceived the idea of a race-course at Coney Island, which had gradually become the favorite resort of the people of New York during the summer months. Its In June, 1879, the Coney Island Jockey Club became a legal corporation as Incorporation prescribed by the laws of 1834, entitled an Act "To Encourage the Breeding of Horses." The founders and governors of the club were: H. C. Babcock, J. H. Bradford, A. J. Cassatt, C Fellowes, John G. Heckscher, James R. Keene, August Belmont, Jr., General Daniel Butterfield, Robert Center, Frank Gray Griswold, Leonard W. Jerome, James G. K. Lawrence, Pierre Lorillard, Jr., James V. Parker, A. B. Purdy, A. Wright Sanford, F. A. Schermerhorn, Richard Peters, George Peabody Wetmore, Skipworth Gordon, Christopher R. Robert, Henry Alexandre, Wm. R. Travers, and Wm. K. Vanderbilt. A Race- In June, 1879, the new club gave a race-meeting on the Prospect Park Fair Meeting Grounds-the property since known as the Gravesend race-course of the Brook- lyn Jockey Club. The meeting covered three days-June 21, 24, and 26. It was a hastily organized affair but quite successful. On July 4 the club met at the West End Hotel, Long Branch, and selected officers, appointed committees, and adopted rules and by-laws. Mr. Leonard W. Jerome was elected president and Mr. John G. Heckscher secretary and treasurer. An autumn meeting was held at Prospect Park in September of that year (1879) and met with sufficient patronage to encourage the club to greater efforts. Plan and At a meeting held at No. 25 East 26th Street, New York City, December 4, Scope 1879, Mr. Jerome stated that on the organization the capital stock was fixed at Sioo,ooo, which was at once subscribed, and twenty-five per cent paid in, but no part of the money had been used or required. He announced the selection of a site for the club's new race-course of 112 acres on Ocean Avenue, three-quarters of a mile from Manhattan Beach. He proposed building a grand stand, 5oo feet in length, two stories high, and an entresol divided into boxes. He also proposed that the capital stock be raised to 250,000, of which he would take I25,000 in 26 THE R9EVIVAL OF RMCING payment for the land. He proposed a construction committee to superintend the building of the race-course and a programme committee to arrange for race-meetings in June and September. The race-course at Sheepshead Bay was opened June ig, i88o, with a meeting Sbeepsbead of six days and was an immediate success. Mr. Frank Grey Griswold became Bay Race- secretary and Captain J. H. Coster clerk of the scales. Later, Mr. James G. K. Course Lawrence became secretary. Among the sweepstakes at the inaugural meeting were the Tidal, Foam, Coney Island Handicap, Surf, Mermaid, Coney Island Derby. In i884 the Suburban was inaugurated and at once became the most- talked-of race in the country. It closed in January of each year and became the great medium of ante-post betting. In i886 the Futurity was opened to be run in I888. It was a gigantic produce stakes, the entrants being nominated before Great Stakes they were born by the means of their dams being named. It brought a great Opened field to the post and was the most valuable race that had been run up to that time. The Realization was first run in i889 and was won by Salvator beating Tenny and others, and became as popular as the Futurity. In 1889 Mr. Jerome was succeeded as president by Mr. J. G. K. Lawrence, and, after his death in i895, Mr. Lawrence Kip was elected. In igoo Mr. Wm. K. Vanderbilt succeeded to the presidency after the death of Mr. Kip and Mr. Cornelius Fellowes be- came secretary. In i886 the club added a turf course to its other attractions. It acquired addi- A Turf tional land and proceeded to beautify the grounds until it became the most Course popular racing ground in all America. The last meeting was held in ig9o when, owing to repressive legislation, the grounds were closed, and in 1916 the club was dissolved; most of its great events, such as the Suburban, the Futurity, and Realization, were transferred to Belmont Park. The same refined sporting tastes begun at Jerome Park were continued at Sheepshead Bay. The club members' badges were of metal and both artistic and unique in design, a sea-shell, a jockey-cap, or a horse's head in enamel with the club's initials; its entry books in colors representing the finish of great races. The club had a flower girl, and the winner of the Coney Island Derby was ex- pected to present her with clothing of the colors of his stable. Mr. Geo. Lorillard promptly complied when Grenada won by presenting her with his "blue and orange"; but the custom did not appeal to the less artistic taste of later winners and thus fell into disuse. A lunch was provided free in the club-house to mem- bers and others on the principle that men were in better humor when well fed than if compelled to patronize the doubtful food of the public restaurant or go hungry. As early as 1884 the club had remodelled the race-course at Sheepshead Bay, The Course making it a mile and a furlong. It was the first time a course of more than a Remodelled 27 RACING IN ed MERICA mile had been built in America and for that reason attracted considerable at- tention. Indeed, at the outset it caused some confusion, as in the case of the late Mr. Frank Hall, of Maryland, who tried his Suburban candidate War Eagle over it, and when the horse ran it in .;55, Mr. Hall, forgetting it was no longer a mile, was unable to believe his eyes, and concluded "something's wrong with my watch," until Mr. A. J. Joyner reminded him that the horse had covered 9 furlongs. 28 BRIGHTON BEACH Toward the last years of the "seventies" the New York public suddenly awoke to the advantages of Coney Island as a summer resort. Its proximity to the city soon caused great crowds to frequent it and railway facilities im- proved, hotels were built, theatres sprung into existence, museums and all sorts of shows flourished where before only a long sandy beach, washed by the waves of the ocean, had for years existed unknown to many. Observing the great and sudden popularity of the island, the late Mr. Wm. Engeman resolved to profit by it. He owned a large strip of the water-front and proceeded to build a race-course, organized the Brighton Beach Associa- tion, and opened the course for a meeting June 28, 1879. On July 4 the racing was resumed and on the 5th continued and the i4th. Only auction pools were sold, none of the great stables entered; but the success of the four days was such that on July I5 a second meeting was begun of six days, ending July 28. July 29 a third meeting of six days followed, ending August 9. On August 12 the fourth meeting began, lasting five days. By this time the afternoon crowds to the seashore began to become attracted and a new lot of race goers were made. The new track did so well and the demand for more war racing so great that a fifth meeting began August 25, with five days' racing. Brighton now launched forth in an ambition to attract the "star" horses and gave a 2,000 race for which Fortuna beat Bramble and offered the Brighton Cup, which Bramble won. The demand for racing caused a sixth meeting, September 8-I7, nine days. Thus from a mere experiment Brighton became an all-season racing point. Each succeeding year it became more popular and the class of horses better. In 1897 on the death of Mr. Engeman he was succeeded by his son, Mr. Wm. Engeman, who built a new grand stand and improved the grounds. He likewise offered sweepstakes of great value and attracted the best horses in the country. In i9o6 Mr. C. J. Fitzgerald was engaged as manager and Brighton took its place as one of the most important racing grounds of the country. The Brighton Handicap and Cup became the occasion of great races. Like other meetings, however, the repressive legislation caused a suspension, and after i908 the rac- ing was discontinued. 29 GRAVESEND BROOKLYN JOCKEY CLUB Early History of tbe Gravesend Course Old Prospect Park Fair Grounds Racing in 1869 Organization of tbe Brooklyn Jockey Club Beginning of "Every-Day Racing " The Brooklyn Jockey Club was organized in the winter of I885-i886, and mainly through the efforts of the Dwyer Bros., who for nearly ten years had raced a stable containing many of the most celebrated racers of that period. In the language of one of their friends, they had "found ownership of a race-track more profitable than owning race-horses." Considering how very successful the Dwyers had been as owners, the above remark is difficult to believe. However it may be, it will suffice to say that at the time mentioned above they concluded a sale of the old Prospect Park Fair Grounds at Gravesend and, having organized the Brooklyn Jockey Club, pro- ceeded to rebuild the old track and erect new buildings. The fair grounds had for nearly twenty years previously been a well-known trotting track, and some of the greatest trotting-horses of the "sixties" and "seventies" had made records over it. Race-meetings had been held also from time to time, especially one in 1869, when Vauxhall, General DWike, and many other "cracks" had flashed "silk" over it. It was this track that the Coney Island Jockey Club leased for its meetings of I879, the year before Sheepshead Bay was completed. Its soil was well suited for the purpose, and it was well located and the transportation easy and inexpensive. Mr. Philip J. Dwyer was president of the club and Mr. H. D. McIntyre secretary. The track was completed during the summer of i886, and the club took the field with the announcement that it would race on off days during the Coney Island meeting at Sheepshead Bay. It should be remarked that, up to that time, race-meetings about New York had not been continuous, day after day, but usually three days each week. The Coney Island Club, like Jerome Park, raced Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Accordingly, the Brooklyn Club claimed Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Thus was begun "every- day racing" and so it has continued. Brooklyn's inaugural meeting began August 26, i886, and continued seven days, alternating with Sheepshead Bay. It was thought when the plan was announced that many of the "crack" stables would not race at Brooklyn, owing to a prejudice on the part of the conservative element against continuous or "every-day racing"; but when the meeting began they all fell into line, the best horses took part, and the meeting was quite a success-so much so that when 30 SHE X7E VI VAL OF R.4CING Sheepshead Bay's meeting ended, Brooklyn continued and raced seven more days, and when the Jerome Park meeting was abandoned, Brooklyn raced an additional six days in October. In i887 Brooklyn, now firmly established in the sisterhood of racing clubs, offered an attractive programme, including for its spring meeting the since-noted Brooklyn Handicap, which resulted in the memorable finish in which Dry Mono- pole defeated Bluewing and Hidalgo. As years rolled on, the Brooklyn Handicap became one of the most famous of our "classics," rivalling, if not exceeding, in interest the Suburban, upon which it was modelled. The greatest horses of their period have taken part m it, and among its winners are such names as The Bard, Exile, Tenny, Ornament, Kinley Mack, Irish Lad, Delhi, Celt, King James, Fitzherbert, Whisk Broom, Friar Rock, Cudgel, etc. The Brooklyn Club prospered enormously from the start. Its property was small and inexpensive, its patronage heavy, and it paid dividends such as made its stock unobtainable. The club branched out and began a most liberal policy. S25,000 was added to the Brooklyn Handicap, the Brooklyn Derby, the Gazelle, the Tremont, Great American, Expectation, and other valuable stakes were offered. Finding profit in racing, some of its members purchased control of the Aqueduct track of the Queens County Jockey Club, where they have since con- ducted meetings. With the suspension of racing in 1910-1912, Brooklyn, with the other clubs, closed its gates and they have never been reopened for racing; but the track was kept open and a large number of stables remained there to fit their horses for races at other tracks. On the death of Mr. McIntyre, Mr. Frederick Reh- berger became secretary and proved a most efficient one. On the death of Mr. Dwyer, Mr. James Shevlin became president. The Brooklyn Handicap Famous Sweepstakes Gravesend Passes Into History 31 MORRIS PARK NEW YORK JOCKEY CLUB In i887 it was a common rumor that the municipal government of the city of New York contemplated the purchase of Jerome Park for the purpose of con- structing a reservoir for water-supply to the city. Mr. Jerome at once began to cast about for a new home for the American Jockey Club. It should be stated here that, while it is not generally known, it was a fact that the A. J. C. did not profit financially by the gate receipts and other sources of revenue accruing from its meetings. These went to the Villa Site Company, owners of the prop- erty. Thus the club had no funds such as other clubs possessed. Selecting Mr. Jerome, therefore, approached the late Mr. John A. Morris, who agreed a Site to build a race-course where the American Jockey Club could continue its meet- ings. Mr. Jerome then selected Mr. Charles W. Bathgate-the very man from whom he had a quarter of a century before purchased the Jerome Park property -to find new quarters for the club in the vicinity of Jerome Park. Mr. Bath- gate selected the property now known as Van Courtlandt Park; but again it was found that the New York City government had in contemplation taking the property for a public park and parade-ground for militia-which it has since become. Magnificence Accordingly, Mr. Bathgate went east, where, about two miles from Jerome of Morris Park, he found the Pearsall and Bradford properties suitable for the purpose. Park The purchase was made, and the building of Morris Park was begun in the sum- mer of i888. Mr. Morris never did things by halves. A magnificent racing park, covering 330 acres, "rose like a temple" (as Milton would say), devoted to the sport of racing, and once more the sport had a home among the Westchester hills. The The race-course was an oval io miles in circuit, while a straightaway course Race-Course ran diagonally through the inner field, and became known as "the Eclipse Course," a memorial of the noted horse Eclipse, imported by Mr. Morris, and whose stud career was passed at Mr. Morris's estate, only a short distance from Morris Park, where he founded the great family of Alarm, Himyar, Domino, The Toboggan Commando, Colin, Peter Pan, Pennant, and Bunting. There was a slight descent in the Eclipse course, and some of the newspapers affected to be jocular over it, calling it "a toboggan-slide," at which Mr. Morris, nothing loath, adopted the title for one of the spring handicaps, and the Toboggan it is to this day-one of the features of the spring racing at Belmont Park. 32 7THE REVIV"L OF R24CING The grand stand was built upon a hill, a single tier with boxes along the front row. The lawn sloped from the stand to the track to a degree that a spectator could stand in any part of it and have a clear, unobstructed view of the races over the heads of the people in front of him. The club-house, a palatial struc- ture, stood on a hill adjoining the grand stand, and its elevation enabled one to view the country for miles away. The stables were the finest that had ever been seen, "built to stand for a century," as was remarked at the time. The paddock, to the south of the club-house, was partially wooded, sloping toward the track, with boxes for the reception of horses intended for racing. Mr. Leonard W. Jerome was elected president, but later was succeeded by Mr. H. De Courcy Forbes, and Mr. T. H. Kock was secretary, succeeded later by Mr. H. G. Crick- more, and Mr. W. S. Vosburgh was handicapper. Morris Park was opened for racing August 20, 1889, before an enormous as- semblage. It was a most auspicious inaugural. Everybody was in ecstasies over the magnificence of the plant, while the racing was of the highest class. The California mare Geraldine won the inaugural race of 4 furlongs over the Eclipse course in 46 seconds, beating the world's record. The meeting continued for ten days; among the famous horses taking part were Hanover, Raceland, Kingston, Firenzi, Tenny, El Rio Rey, Proctor Knott, and Banquet. The autumn meeting opened October 3, and, despite the fact that it was run in conflict with the meet- ing at Jerome Park, it was highly successful. Jerome Park was abandoned the following spring (189o), leaving the field open, and from that date until I895 racing at Morris Park flourished. Great events followed, prominent among which was the Metropolitan Handi- cap in i891, which produced the memorable finish between Tristan, Tenny, Clarendon, and Sefiorita. The old classic events of Jerome Park, the Belmont, Withers, Ladies, Nursery, Juvenile, and Champagne Stakes were transferred to Morris Park and gathered new prestige. New events, the Eclipse Stakes, the National Stallion Stakes, the Matron (a produce stakes) and the Grand National Steeplechase were added and rose to national importance. In 1895, in consequence of certain legislative enactments, the New York Jockey Club abandoned its meetings at Morris Park, and the sweepstakes were de- clared off. A steeplechase meeting was held in May of that year. Then the West- chester Racing Association was organized by Mr. August Belmont, Mr. James R. Keene, Mr. F. K Sturgis, and others, and took a lease of the property. An autumn meeting was given late in the year. Then spring and autumn meetings followed regularly and Morris Park renewed its popularity until I905, when the lease was not renewed and the association took possession of the new Belmont Park on Long Island, and Morris Park as a racing ground became a glorious reminiscence. 33 Grand Stand and Buildings The Inaugural in 1889 The First Metropolitan Reorganiza- tion BELMONT PARK WESTCHESTER RACING ASSOCIATION Westcbester In 1895 the New York Jockey Club had dissolved and Morris Park was aban- Racing doned as a racing ground. It was then that Mr. August Belmont, Mr. J. R. Association Keene, and other members of the Jockey Cub organized the Westchester Rac- Leases Morris ing Association and leased Morris Park. Racing revived and the new association Park conducted very successful meetings, renewing their lease until 1905. In the meantime a difficulty had arisen as to the terms of a further renewal of the lease. Besides, there was an insistent demand by the Long Island element to have the association transfer its racing to that quarter. Accordingly, in 1904, the property now known as Belmont Park, located at Queens, Long Island, was purchased and a mammoth plant was laid out.' Building It was by far the most extensive racing property that had been opened, cov- Belmont ering 65o acres with a race-course, an oval circuit of If4 miles, a straight course Park of 7 furlongs, and a training track of a mile circuit. The races were run the re- verse way, that is, with the inside rail on the right hand instead of on the left hand, as all other American race-courses were built. The grand stand was an enormous structure, 65o feet in length, with a capacity for seating 9,ooo per- sons, with the unusual feature of the roof being made available for spectators, a feature common in England but hitherto deemed undesirable in America owing to its entailing exposure to the sun. The club-house, a substantial structure, af- forded a fine view of the racing and was furnished with dining-rooms, bedrooms, The Buildings and balconies, and was connected with the grand stand by a bridge. The adminis- tration building adjoining the club-house was complete in all its departments; separate rooms provided for the stewards, clerk of the course, the handicapper, clerk of scales, jockeys' dressing-room and wardrobe, shower-baths, and infir- mary. Turf and The saddling paddock was the most beautiful seen anywhere in this country. Field Club Stately oak and chestnut trees shaded the ground, where the horses were put through their toilets and where the ladies and gentlemen could roam about and inspect the candidates for the great events. The lawn fronting the club-house became the favorite resort of many who preferred its grassy freshness to the dub-house as a point from which to view the racing. Beyond the paddock was the quarters of the Turf and Field Club, with its quaint but beautiful old man- sion of the Manice family, embowered in woods and shrubbery, rendering it 34 T-HE REVIVAL OF IJCING__ an abode "fit for Juno and her peacocks," as an enthusiastic lover of nature described it. Belmont Park was a revelation. People were in ecstasies over it. The inaugural meeting began May 4, i9o5, and was attended by a brilliant array of beauty and fashion. The racing began with a sensation of the highest order when Sy- sonby and Race King ran a dead heat for the Metropolitan Handicap. Mr. August Belmont was president, Mr. H. G. Crickmore was secretary, Mr. S. S. Howland was general manager, while Mr. Hwfa Williams, secretary of San- down Park, in England, acted in an advisory capacity, lending his valuable ex- perience which had borne such fruit in the success of the Sandown meetings. The official staff comprised Mr. W. S. Vosburgh, handicapper, Mr. Mars Cas- sidy, starter, Mr. Clarence McDowell and Mr. Chas. H. Pettingill, placing judges, while Mr. Crickmore acted as clerk of scales. All the great sweepstakes which had originated at Jerome Park, or later at Morris Park and with the march of time had become classics, were transferred to Belmont Park-the Withers, Belmont, Jerome, Ladies', Juvenile, Nursery, Champagne, Toboggan, and Metropolitan, all found a new home and gathered added fame. Then came legislation that affected racing not only in the State of New York but over the entire country, and in 19i l and 1912 it was found in- expedient to race, and the gates of Belmont were closed. In 1913 racing was revived at Belmont Park before a great assemblage and under the most flattering auspices. When the horses appeared for the first race of the day, the people broke forth in ringing cheers, the band played "Auld Lang Syne," the populace joining it with singing. In 1914 an autumn meeting was added and racing had quite re-established itself, thanks to Mr. Belmont and his associates, who had never relaxed their efforts to restore it in the face of opposition and apathy. Meantime an important addition was made to Bel- mont Park's racing fixtures in the transfer of the Suburban, the Futurity, and Realization Stakes, the three greatest events of the Coney Island Jockey Club, to Belmont Park, the Futurity having been run in i910, I913, and 1914 at Saratoga. In April, 1917, the grand stand and many of the buildings were swept by a destructive fire-the evident work of an incendiary. The result was a complete wreck, and it seemed impossible that the grand stand could be repaired suffi- ciently to be used on Decoration Day (May 30), the date set for the opening. Yet, in the seven weeks intervening, the grand stand was repaired and the race- meeting held. It was only a temporary measure, but in I919 further repairs were made, but not enough to restore its original seating capacity. In 1920 the success of the meetings encouraged the association to rebuild the grand stand and change the direction in which the races would be run. The 35 Dead Heat for tbe Metropolitan -Sysonby and Race King Tbe Racing Classics Racing Revival, 1913 The Suburban and Futurity Transferred to Belmont Park Buildings Destroyed by Fire Belmont Park Remodelled "I(CING IN, cXMERICGA old field stand was removed and added to the grand stand, making the entire structure 95o feet in length and increasing the seating capacity to 17,500. The seating was brought forward closer to the track. A promenade was added to the rear of the stand and a mezzanine floor also. The concreting of the seats and floors required 1,395,000 pounds of cement, 8oo motor-trucks of gravel, soo motor-trucks of sand; IO miles of gaspipe were used in the hand-railing. One hun- dred thousand (iooooo) square feet of corrugated iron for floors, cornices, etc., were used; 207,000 feet board measure of timber and lumber were used, and 350 men were employed on the work. The Belmont Park race-course comprises the most magnificent racing prop- erty in America. It is within easy distance from New York and is favored with fine transportation. The disappearance of Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend has driven many training stables to Belmont Park, and it has become quite the headquarters of racing, while its being so close to Jamaica and Aqueduct-its "geographical propinquity," as Mr. Lloyd George would call it-renders it available to trainers from those tracks to reach it in a short period of time and at little expense. Mr. August Belmont is president and Mr. A. M. Earlocker secretary. 36 AQUEDUCT QUEENS COUNTY JOCKEY CLUB The Aqueduct race-course of the Queens County Jockey Club began in a humble manner, but has risen to the front rank of racing clubs. It was built and opened in I894 with a grand stand such as might be seen at a county fair, while the building dignified as "the Club-House" could only be described as a shanty held up by stilts. Its chief spirits were Messrs. Thos. J. Riley, D. Hol- land, and the late Robert Tucker. In i895 a racing enthusiast named Carter came forward, and, to help the club, offered to endow with a considerable sum of money a handicap to be run at the spring meeting. Thus was inaugurated the Carter Handicap, a race which has since become one of the leading events of the racing year. Its location, within easy distance from New York, and the improved quality of its racing soon brought Aqueduct into the highest degree of popularity. In a few years President Riley found that the patronage justified expansion, that Aqueduct had assumed greater proportions than a mere "merry-go-round," and announced that he would remodel the place and build "a real race-track of a mile and a quarter with only one turn." This was done, and Aqueduct emerged one of the finest race-courses in the country, with a stretch 8o feet in width, a back stretch go feet wide, and a straightaway of 5 furlongs for races for two-year-olds. After Mr. Riley's death a company composed of members of the Brooklyn Jockey Club purchased the property, and in 1914, upon the resumption of racing, began a series of spring and autumn meetings which for popularity with the public are excelled by none. The famous Brooklyn Handicap was brought to Aqueduct and gathered new fame until it has become the great all-aged race of the spring season. The Brooklyn Derby, Tremont, and Great American- all old events of the Gravesend course-were brought to Aqueduct, the Derby in 1919 being renamed the Dwyer, as a memorial to the late Mr. Dwyer, whose enterprise and energy had contributed so greatly to the success of the plant. When Mr. Dwyer died in 1917, Mr. James Shevlin was made president. Mr. Rehberger has always acted as secretary and Mr. Thos. Courtney as treasurer. It cannot be denied that Aqueduct is the favorite race-course of the trainers, and for this there is an excellent reason. The quality of the soil is surpassed by no other track in America. It is a light loam quite free of stone, splendidly drained, and available in all weathers. Its long home-stretch of over half a mile renders it ideal for a long striding horse, and it is thought to be the nearest to perfection for great tests of speed. 37 A Modest Beginning Tbe Expansion Brooklyn Handicap Finds a New Home Popularity of Aqueduct JAMAICA METROPOLITAN JOCKEY CLUB Tbe Race- The Metropolitan Jockey Club was organized in I1o0 and located its race- Course course in Queens County, N. Y., at a point nearly four miles from the town of Jamaica, L. I., and about fifteen miles from New York City. The course is in the shape of an egg, a circuit of one mile. Originally a chute formed part of the course but was never used. The track is excellent as to soil, being a sandy loam and drains easily after a rainfall. The home-stretch is rather short, being 385 yards from the last turn to the winning-post, but is very wide-105 feet. The Grand The grand stand has a seating capacity of 9,ooo and the pitch is so good that Stand every movement of the horses can be seen from every portion of it. The club- house is a most pretentious structure, with an entresol of boxes, and has a ca- pacity of seating i,5oo people. It is admirably arranged with a great dining- hall, and on the ground floor are the offices for the transaction of the business of racing. The paddock is an extensive one, with a great shed, or receiving stable, fitted with boxes for the horses taking part in races. Racing at The inaugural meeting of the club was on April 27, 1903, and with the ex- Jamaica ception of the interval of suspension, 1909-1915, spring and autumn meetings have been held each season. The Excelsior Handicap is the great feature of the spring meeting and has been won by some of the most prominent race-horses. The Youthful Stakes is the chief event for two-year-olds, the Stuyvesant and Southampton Handicaps for three-year-olds. Officials The president at the outset was Mr. W. H. Reynolds, and Mr. Geo. F. Dobson was secretary, while Mr. Walter C Edwards filled the important post of racing secretary. In 1920 Mr. Matthew Corbet became president of the club, but upon his death, in 1921, Mr. William N. Street succeeded to the presidency. 38 YONKERS EMPIRE CITY RACING ASSOCIATION The Empire City race-course on the hill at east Yonkers, Westchester County, was built by the late Mr. William H. Clark in i900. It was intended, primarily, as a trotting track, Mr. Clark being an enthusiastic driver of trotters, but he had meantime entered the ranks as an owner of race-horses, having won the Brooklyn Handicap with Banastar in i899, and he now asked for dates for a race-meeting. These, after some delay, he secured. But his death occurred be- fore the meeting was given under the auspices of Mr. P. J. Dwyer in October, 1900. Occasional trotting meetings followed, but the grounds remained to a great extent idle until i9o7, when Mr. James Butler, having purchased it, asked for dates for a race-meeting. These were secured after some delay and a meeting held in August, with Mr. Matthew J. Winn as manager. The location of the grounds rendered it difficult of access, but despite this drawback the meeting was well attended. The engagement of Mr. Winn, a Western man, enabled the meeting to secure the patronage of sufficient horses from the Western racing stables to overcome the lack of Eastern-owned horses, which at the time were racing at Saratoga, and some excellent racing followed. In the following season Empire became a full-fledged member of the metro- politan racing circuit. New stakes were opened, and the meetings began to assume an importance. With the suspension of racing in i91 and 1912, Empire's gates remained closed, but in 1914 racing was resumed. In 1915 the summer meeting was held at Belmont Park, but the following year Empire's gates were again thrown open, and a summer meeting in July and an October meeting have since been regular fixtures. The Empire City Handicap, first run in 19o7, has become one of the great all-aged events of the year. In 1917 the Empire City Derby was opened, and has also become an event that draws the best three- year-olds of the season. The East View Stakes for two-year-olds, named for Mr. Butler's farm, is one of the most richly endowed stakes for the juvenile division. The Whirl, the Wakefield Handicap, the Knickerbocker, the Yorktown, Scars- dale, and Mount Vernon are among the other events offered each season. The Empire City course is a circuit of a mile oval. It has a grand stand capa- ble of seating 6,ooo people, a handsome club-house, and extensive stables. It is located within twelve miles of Central Park, and the motor-car has quite solved the matter of transportation, as it is a most delightful drive from the city through Central Park, the Concourse, Mosholu, and Van Courtlandt Parks to the course. Mr. James Butler is president and Mr. Victor Schaumberg secretary. 39 Building tbe Empire Course Mr. Butler Assumes Control Its Inaugural Meeting-1907 Empire City Becomes a Fixture Its Principal Stakes This page in the original text is blank. THE GOVERNMENT OF RACING This page in the original text is blank. THE BOARD OF CONTROL THE JOCKEY CLUB NTIL i891 there had been no concerted action on the part of the racing Necessity of U associations toward the general government of racing. Each associa- Government tion was a law unto itself. Each selected the dates for its meetings, each had its own code of rules. While all the clubs of the metropolitan district raced under the Rules of the American Jockey Club, each of them had special rules for racing over its own tracks. The growing popularity of racing and the organization of new associations, however, convinced turfmen that the time had arrived when it was necessary to exert some control and a uniformity of pro- cedure in racing affairs. During the summer of i890 the matter was discussed almost daily. It was Mr. Pierre Lorillard who took the initiative at a dinner given by him Mr. to the representatives of the different clubs and owners of horses. He stated Lorillard's that unless some control were exercised, growing abuses would soon and seriously Conference affect the popularity of racing; there should be united action of the clubs in all matters where now only a half-hearted reciprocity existed. Jockeys and trainers should be licensed in order to control their conduct, the dates of meetings should be allotted after consultation by all concerned; the enforcement of the forfeit list should be made obligatory-for example: a Futurity had been won, the value to the winner reported as some 56o,ooo, only about 6o per cent of which had been paid. The outcome of the Lorillard dinner was the formation of the Board of Control, The Board organized February i6, i89i. It was composed of seven members: Mr. D. D. of Control Withers, representing Monmouth Park; Mr. J. G. K. Lawrence, representing the Coney Island Jockey Club; Mr. P. J. Dwyer, representing the Brooklyn Jockey Club, and Mr. John A. Morris, representing the New York Jockey Club (Morris Park). The remaining three members, representing the owners of racing stables, were Mr. Alexander J. Cassatt, Mr. John Hunter, and Mr. James Gal- way. Mr. Withers was elected chairman, Mr. Walter S. Vosburgh secretary, and Mr. Lawrence treasurer. The Board of Control thus began the first step in the general government of Powers of racing. Jockeys and trainers were licensed, the forfeit lists of each club were tbe Board compiled as a general list and enforced. The Rules of Racing were revised, one of the most important revisions being that of Rule 15: "The express conditions of a race or of a meeting supersede the Rules of Racing when they conflict." 43 RJtCING IN etfMERICA The Need of This was amended, making the Rules of Racing paramount. The board took Expansion quarters at No. 173 Fifth Avenue, and the racing of i891, 1892, and 1893 was conducted under its auspices. Reciprocal relations with the Western clubs were completed, also with the Jockey Cub of Newmarket, England. The The Jockey Club, which succeeded the Board of Control as the governing Conference body of racing, had its origin at a meeting held by owners and trainers in De- of 1893 cember, 1893, to protest against the reduction of the value of sweepstakes and purses which the racing associations had announced in consequence of a fall- ing off in revenues that season. The meeting was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City, and Mr. James R. Keene, as owner of one of the leading stables, took a conspicuous part. In an address Mr. Keene took the ground that the time had arrived for the organization of a jockey club, that the Board of Control was unequal to dealing with the exigency that had arisen, owing to its defective organization. A majority of its members were representatives of race- courses, hence considered the interests of the race-courses as paramount. The balance of power should be vested in the owners of race-horses who had no pecuniary interest in race-meetings but in the general welfare of racing. A jockey club similar to that of England should be formed. It should be autocratic- the racing clubs should relinquish all authority in the management of the racing. The Jockey Club should have the power to allot the dates for meetings, the licensing of jockeys and trainers, enforcement of the forfeit list, revision of the rules, the appointment of officials, and constitute a final court of appeal in the interpretation of the rules and with power to discipline all persons under its jurisdiction. The Jockey A committee was appointed to meet the Board of Control and take steps Club for the formation of the Jockey Club into which the Board of Control was to Organized be merged and also to obtain the views of the racing associations. The birth of the Jockey Club was the result. It was composed of fifty members, and the management of the club was intrusted to seven stewards, viz.: Mr. John Hunter, Mr. James R. Keene, Mr. August Belmont, Mr. J. 0. Donner, Doctor Gideon L. Knapp, Colonel W. P. Thompson, and Mr. F. K. Sturgis. Mr. Hunter was elected chairman, Mr. W. S. Vosburgh secretary pro tem. to conduct correspon- dence until organization was completed, when Mr. Sturgis became secretary- treasurer, and thus in i894 the Jockey Club assumed control of racing. Stewvards of Colonel Thompson and Doctor Knapp did not long survive their election as tbe Jockey stewards, and Mr. James Galway and Mr. Andrew Miller were elected to suc- Club ceed them. Mr. Donner's death was followed by the election of Mr. Francis R. Hitchcock to the succession. Mr. Hunter resigned and Mr. John H. Brad- ford succeeded him. Mr. Belmont was in 1895 elected chairman. Later Mr. H. K. Knapp was elected to succeed Mr. Galway. Mr. Bradford's death led to 44 THE GOVERNMENT OF RACING the election of Mr. Schuyler L Parsons. Mr. John Sanford succeeded Mr. Keene on the death of the latter, and Mr. R. T. Wilson succeeded Mr. Parsons upon his death in I917. On the death of Mr. Miller in 19i9 he was succeeded by Mr. Joseph E. Widener. Mr. Sturgis remained as secretary-treasurer until 1917, when Mr. H. K. Knapp assumed the duties. In 1921 Mr. John Sanford was succeeded as steward by Mr. William Woodward. At the time this is written the Jockey Club is composed of the following Members members: Archibald Barklie, August Belmont, Perry Belmont, C. K. G. Billings, of the F. C. Bishop, Ogden Mills Bishop, George H. Bull, Edward B. Cassatt, Wm. Jockey Club Astor Chanler, F. Ambrose Clark, Alexander Smith Cochran, John E. Cowdin, Joseph E. Davis, W. S. Fanshaw, Robert L. Gerry, J. 0. Green, F. Grey Gris- wold, Francis R. Hitchcock, Thomas Hitchcock, S. S. Howland, C. Oliver Iselin, Spalding L. Jenkins, Foxhall P. Keene, H. K. Knapp, Pierre Lorillard, Clarence H. Mackay, A. K. Macomber, Price McKinney, E. D. Morgan, A. H. Morris, H. T. Oxnard, Ral Parr, Samuel Ross, Samuel D. Riddle, J. Rup- pert, Jr., John Sanford, John Stewart, Jr., F. K. Sturgis, L. S. Thompson, W. P. Thompson, Edward F. Whitney, H. P. Whitney, Payne Whitney, Joseph E. Widener, Geo. D. Widener, Richard T. Wilson, and William Woodward. The business of the club has extended vastly in scope. It publishes the Stud- Powers Book, it licenses trainers and jockeys, it appoints officials, allots dates of meet- of the ings; through its stewards it hears cases on appeal, it revises the Rules of Rac- Jockey Club ing, it enforces the forfeit list, it provides for disabled trainers and jockeys, it publishes monthly the Racing-Calendar, which is the official record. The club holds monthly meetings at its headquarters, but the business of the club is con- ducted by the stewards, who constitute a sort of Racing Senate. The rooms are furnished with the stud-books and racing-calendars of all countries as part of a well-equipped library. The business offices are under the direction of Mr. Algernon Daingerfield, Officials assistant secretary. The official staff of the club for race-meetings are: handi- of the capper, W. S. Vosburgh; starter, Mars Cassidy; placing judges, E. C Smith Jockey Club and C. Cornehlsen; clerk of scales, Alfred Burlen; paddock judge, James Mc- Laughlin; patrol judge, Edward Hanna; assistant to stewards, E. C. Potter. The office of registrar which manages the Stud-Book was originally held by Mr. F. T. Underhill, who was succeeded by Mr. Jas. E. Wheeler. Later Mr. W. H. Rowe assumed the duties and, on his death, in 1921, he was succeeded by Mr. Andrew Hurket. 45 THE "STUD H BOOK" Early Attempts Mr. Wallace's Book Colonel Bruce's Book While the racing and breeding of thoroughbred horses had for more than a hundred years flourished in the United States, the publication of the Stud-Book dates from as recent a period as i868. The old American Farmer published pedi- grees, but it was not until 1829 that the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, published in Baltimore by Mr. J. S. Skinner, began to record such pedi- grees as he could obtain and placed them in the back pages of that monthly publication. In 1833 Mr. Edgar published the Sportsman's Herald and Stud- Book, which was the first of its kind, but it was very incomplete. Some years later Mr. J. H. Wallace began collecting data and in 1867 pub- lished Wallace's American Stud-Book. It was not a popular work, inasmuch as it departed from the English system of giving the foals under the names of their dams, to which readers had become accustomed. Instead, he published the horses and mares in alphabetical order. It was a laborious work, and its failure to meet with expected support soured Mr. Wallace, who abandoned the work to devote himself henceforth to a Stud-Book of trotting-horses and declared the thorough- bred anathema. In 1865 Colonel S. D. Bruce of Lexington, Ky., removed to New York City and with his brother, Mr. B. G. Bruce, and Hamilton Busby began the publica- tion of the Turf, Field, and Farm, a newspaper devoted to racing, trotting, and sporting subjects. Colonel Bruce had for years contemplated the publication of an American Stud-Book and had collected a great amount of material for one from old papers and family records of the breeding of race-horses. The Civil War, in which he had taken an active part as a federal officer, had interrupted the work, but which was now resumed, and Vol. I appeared in i868. The preface is dated May i2 of that year and the volume is dedicated to Mr. Robert A. Alexander of Woodburn, Ky., and John J. McKinnon of Chicago, Ill. It was published by E. B. Myers & Co. of Chicago, and printed by Weed, Parsons & Co. of Albany, N. Y. The book contained 649 pages and was embellished with engravings of Godol- phin, Darley Arabian, Flying Childers, Marske, Shark, Duroc, American Eclipse, Sir Ardry, Diomed, T-moleon, Boston, Bonnets CYBlue, Fashion, Grey Eagle, Delphine, Ophelia, etc. It was arranged on the fashion of the General (English) Stud-Book, under a list of the mares from A to K inclusive with the imported stallions and mares in a separate department. There was also an Appendix of stallions from A to K "whose dams have no names." Some years later 46 SHE gOVERNMENT OF RJCING Colonel Bruce brought out a revised edition of Vol. I, and in 1873 he published Vol. II. In i883 Vol. III appeared, and in 1884 Vol. IV. In the earlier volumes he had the assistance of his brother, B. G. Bruce, but the latter, in i874, returned to Lexington and established the Live Stock Record, now known as The Tboroug- bred Record. VoL V appeared in i889 and VoL VI in i894. In 1896 Colonel Bruce found the Stud-Book too expensive a publication and approached the Jockey Club with an offer to sell. His price was considered too high, and Mr. Belmont, then in Europe, wrote to the writer of this work asking him to see Mr. Wheatly and get his price for the sale of the large number of pedi- grees he had collected during the fifty years previous. The idea was to publish the Stud-Book under the auspices of the Jockey Club. Before a bargain with Mr. Wheatly could be made Colonel Bruce sold the Stud-Book to the Jockey Club, and VoL VII was compiled and printed by the club, as have all subsequent volumes. 47 Jockey Club Purcbases the "Stud-Book" THE "RACING-CALENDAR" Demand for With the organization of the Jockey Club in i894 there came a demand on an Official the part of some members for a Raing-Calendar, which should be a record of Organ all official actions of the club. The first issue was published in May, i894, and Mr. H. A. Buck was the publisher and remained such until 1916, when Mr. A. Daingerfield assumed charge. The Calendar, then, is the official organ of the club. All notices published therein are duly authorized by the stewards. Tbe Montbly The Calendar is issued monthly and contains announcements of stakes clos- "Calendar" ing, declarations from stakes, dates of meetings, and summaries of all races taking place under Jockey Club rules. It contains reports of meetings of the stewards, meetings of the club, registered racing colors, registered partnerships, registry of authorized agents, and special notices. Stallion advertisements are pub- lished, as well as some general matter not strictly of racing. 48 RACING THROUGHOUT AMERICA This page in the original text is blank. RACING IN MARYLAND THE MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB Wm = lITH racing established at Jerome Park and Saratoga, there came a The Reviral demand for racing at Baltimore. It was at one of those pleasant at Baltimore little dinner parties such as have always been a feature of the Sara- -1870 toga racing season that, in the summer of i868, the subject of reviving racing at Baltimore was mooted. The gentlemen present all promised it support, and it was The Dinner agreed that the club should open its course in the autumn of 1870. Warming with Party Stakes the subject, it was urged that, in order to give &lat to the inaugural, an owners sweepstakes of such magnitude as would command, from its value, and the celebrity of the colts and fillies that would probably be engaged in it, an atten- tion and interest from the racing public gratifying to all friends of the sport. Before separating, an impromptu sweepstakes was agreed upon by the gentle- The Stakes men at the dinner, to which seven of them subscribed. The following day the Reopened sweepstakes being talked about at the Saratoga hotels and at the race-course, an earnest desire was expressed by many turfmen to make additional nomina- tions. Hence, the original subscribers consented to reopen the sweepstakes, and the following was advertised: DINNER PARTY STAKES SATocTAO August io, 1868. We, the subscribers, agree to run a sweepstakes at the Baltimore fall meeting of 1870, for colts and fillies then three years old, a dash of two miles; entrance, one thousand dollars, half forfeit, to be called the Dinner Party Stakes; to be run over a course to be built at Baltimore, Md.; to be governed by the rules of the American Jockey Club. BowtE & HALL DztwsoN & CRAWFORD M. H. SANroRD D. D. Wmieas J. J. O'FAJ.O R. W. CAMERON F. Moms By consent of the subscribers the above sweepstakes is open to the public to name and close October io, 868. Entries to be made to Bowie & Hall, care of Subscription Rooms of the American Jockey Cub, 92 Broadway. New York City. The Dinner Party Stakes closed with thirty nominations. As an indication A Sporting of the sporting spirit of that period it might be mentioned that a week follow- Event ing the closing of the sweepstakes a betting-book was opened on the event- two years before it was run. It was opened at No. i i6o Broadway, New York, and the odds were: 20 to I against Dennison & Crawford filly. 20 to i F. Morris's sister to Ruthless. 25 to i Littell's Exmma Johnson colt. i5 to i Capt. Moore's brother to VauxhalL 51 "I(ACING IN f MERICA Race for tbe October 25, 1870, the Pimlico course of the Maryland Jockey Club was thrown Dinner Party open. Governor Oden Bowie officiated as president, with Major J. F. Ferguson Stakes as secretary. A heavy rain-storm had left the track very deep and muddy, but the public response was encouraging. The Dinner Party Stakes was, of course, the great event and Mr. Sanford, one of the original subscribers, won the race with the bay colt Preakness by Lexington-Bayleaf by imported Yorkshire, Major Doswell running second with Ecliptic by Eclipse, and Captain T. G. Moore was third with Foster, the brother to Vauxhall; the other starters being Mr. McGrath's Susan Ann, Mr. Belmont's Finesse, Mr. Richard's Lida Grissom, and Governor Bowie's My Maryland. Renewal as Despite stormy weather, the inaugural meeting was a decided success and tbe Dixie marked by the appearance of some horses which made great names on the turf. Stakes Harry Bassett won the Supper Stakes for two-year-olds; Glenelg won the Break- fast Stakes for four-year-olds, and the Bowie Stakes, 4-mile heats. The Din- ner Party Stakes reached a value of i8,5oo, and, having won it, Mr. Sanford liberally offered 2,ooo as added money for a renewal of the stakes in x872, to be called the Dixie Stakes, which became a regular fixture and the feature of future autumn meetings. The Breckenridge Stakes was then added as a sequel to the Dixie and was first run in 1874. The Bowie Stakes continued as a 4-mile heat race until 1883, when it was reduced to a dash of 3 miles. Decline of Throughout the "seventies"-and well into the "eighties"-the Pimlico meet- Maryland ing flourished, but the increasing popularity of racing in New York and New Racing Jersey, particularly the latter, affected Pimlico's patronage. Meetings had sprung up at Linden, Elizabeth, Clifton, Guttenberg, and Gloucester in New Jersey, and racing at Pimlico began to languish until, at last, the Maryland Jockey Club was compelled to abandon its meetings. Occasional steeplechase meetings were held, but it was not until 1904 that a number of Baltimore gentlemen conceived the plan of short meetings at Pimlico, of which steeplechasing formed the main feature. It was entirely amateur in its management, but gradually developed in importance. Mr. W. P. Riggs was the leading spirit, aided by Mr. Robert Walden. Then came the temporary suspension of racing in New York in I91 I-1912, and it gave Pimlico its chance. It offered an asylum for the exiles, and its meetings attracted stables that had never before raced there. Mr. Thos. Clyde had taken an important part in the management, and his influence had a great deal to do with Pimlico emerging as a racing point of national interest. The Rerival Then followed the legalizing of betting in Maryland, and the Maryland Jockey Club was soon in receipt of revenue "beyond the dreams of avarice," owing to the operation of the pari-mutuel system. The club was liberal in its prosperity. It began offering racing premiums of such value as to attract the best horses in the land. The Preakness Stakes became an event of national importance, 52 I(-aCING 7HROUGHOUT c4MERICA while its other events became so richly endowed as to secure the highest class fields. Thus the Pimlico meetings became events of even greater prestige under the new Maryland Jockey Club than had those of the older club in the early "seventies." Mr. Charles E. McLane is president of the club, Mr. F. J. Bryan racing secretary, and Mr. W. P. Riggs secretary. HAVRE DE GRACE The race-course at Havre de Grace of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association was built in 1912 and opened in August of that year with an ex- tended meeting. It is admirably located two miles south of the town of Havre de Grace on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, being 36 miles from Baltimore and Wilmington, 68 miles from Philadelphia, and thus draws its attendances from those cities; while being 75 miles from Washington and 150 miles from New York it also is within reach from both cities. Its meetings have been very successfully managed by Mr. Edward Burke. The track is an oval mile with a chute for 6-furlong races and a home-stretch 390 yards in length. The soil, being that of old farmland, is loam. The grand stand is of iron and seats nearly 5,ooo people. The course is reached by the Pennsyl- vania and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads. The club has always been liberal in the matter of attractions to the public and the events offered are of great value. The Harford, the Havre de Grace, Eastern Shore, and Philadelphia Handicaps are special features of the meetings in April and September. LAUREL PARK Laurel Park, the race-course of the Maryland State Fair, was opened in 191 1 with a short meeting, but in 1912 racing was held throughout the month of October. In 1913 the management changed hands, Mr. M. J. Winn taking charge, and the meetings at once rose to a prominence second to none. The best horses in the country took part in the racing, and the value of the stakes was raised to a higher figure. The course is a one-mile oval located at Laurel, in Ann Arundel County, eigh- teen miles from Washington and twenty from Baltimore. The soil is clay and sand. There are chutes for races of 6 furlongs and also for i 4-mile races. The stretch is 85 feet in width with a length of 350 yards. The course is reached by 53 7(G4CING IN cfMERICAt the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the trains entering immediately in the rear of the grand stand, which has a capacity of seating 4,ooo people. The meetings of the club are limited to the month of October owing to a clause in the charter confining them to that month. Valuable stakes are given, and steeplechases, as well as races on flat, form a portion of the programme. Mr. Spalding Lowe Jenkins of Baltimore is president of the association. PRINCE GEORGE PARK (BOWIE) Prince George Park, the race-course of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, was opened for racing in I914 and for a time raced in conflict with Laurel, but latterly has raced without conflict, opening and closing the Eastern racing circuit in April and November. The course is located near the town of Bowie in Prince George County, Maryland, eighteen miles from Washington and twenty from Baltimore on the Washington, Baltimore, and Annapolis R. R. It has a mile oval with a chute for races of 7 furlongs with a splendid home- stretch of a full quarter of a mile. The stretch is go feet in width and the back-stretch 7_ feet in width. The grand stand is capable of seating 4,ooo people. The soil of the track is loam and the turns easy. Mr. M. H. Magruder is president, Mr. C. S. Dove vice-presi- dent, Mr. W. G. Brooke secretary and treasurer, while Mr. James F. O'Hara has the general management of the track during racing. 54 RACING IN KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE Racing in Kentucky at the outset centred around Lexington, where the Ken- tucky Association has held meetings since i827 with only one year's interval -in i863-caused by the Civil War. Louisville, the metropolis of the State, has always been a great racing centre, but its racing has not been so continuous as that of Lexington. The old Oakland course at Louisville was early the great trial ground made famous by the races between Wagner and Grey Eagle in i839. The Greenland course was never popularly patronized and the Woodlawn course was built. It was pleasantly located, but for some reason the public did not pat- ronize it, and from i87o to i875 racing dwindled at Louisville. In I86i, despite war's alarms, racing held its place at Louisville, where a meet- ing of six days in the spring saw such "cracks" as IdIewild, Mollie Jackson, Magenta, and Lucy Fowler among the starters. Four days were given in the autumn. Then there was a suspension owing to the Civil War, but in October of 1864 six days' racing was held at the Woodlawn course, where Maiden, As- teroid, Rhynodine, and Beacon played important parts. In i865 there were spring and autumn meetings at Woodlawn. In i866 there was a spring meeting of two days at Woodlawn and one of six days in October. In November a six days' meeting was given at the Greenland course. In 1867 both Woodlawn and Greenland gave spring and autumn meetings. In i868 and i869 these were re- peated, after which Greenland was abandoned. Woodlawn gave a three days' meeting in May, i870. Then came a long interval without racing, and the sport seemed to have lost all power of attraction to Louisville and its people. It was in I874 that Colonel M. Lewis Clark and a party of friends came to the conclusion that racing might be revived in Louisville if placed under the control of the "right people." The Churchill property was acquired, and May I7, i875, the grounds of the Louisville Jockey Club were thrown open. It was marked by the inaugural of the Kentucky Derby, a race which has since risen to the importance of a classic event. Fifteen three-year-olds faced the starter, Colonel W. H. Johnson of Nashville, and Aristides, bearing the "green-and-orange" satins of Mr. H. P. McGrath, won, with Volcano and Verdigris second and third. That racing had still a hold upon the taste of the people was evidenced by the large attendance. Taking a hint from the success of Jerome Park, the club had made a special effort to attract the ladies, who flocked to the course in great numbers. 55 Early Race-Courses in Kentucky Racing Struggles for Existence Racing Revires in Louisville ___RCING IN AMERICA Tbe Kentucky At the outset Mr. M. Lewis Clark was president, Mr. Wm. Murphy secretary, Derby and Mr. Robert A. Newhouse treasurer. The club did not stop with its Ken- tucky Derby, but instituted such stakes as the Oaks, the Clark, Alexander, Ladies, Falls City Merchants, and Louisville Cup. For the following fifteen years the meetings of the club were events of country-wide importance. The Kentucky Derby became the object of every turfman's ambition, and Parole, Vagrant, Luke Blackburn, Hmdoo, Runnymede (by Billet), and other champions of the East were sent to contest it. Such celebrities as Leonatus, Baden Baden, Hindoo, and Spokane were among its winners. But gradually the meetings de- clined somewhat and in 1895 there was a reorganization, Mr. W. F. Schulte be- coming president and Mr. Chas. F. Price secretary, while Colonel M. Lewis Clark became presiding judge. The Club In igoo there was a further reorganization and the directors were Messrs. Reorganized W. E. Applegate, W. F. Schulte, and Chas. Bollinger, with D. F. Dressen secre- tary. In i904 Mr. Charles F. Grainger became president, Mr. Price secretary and judge, and Mr. L. H. Davis later assumed the place of secretary. Mr. Matthew J. Winn was placed in charge as manager-a title new in racing and not men- tioned in racing rules. Mr. Winn was the right man in the right place. As a pro- moter and manager of racing he proved himself a marvel. Under his manage- ment racing became more popular than ever. Even during the dark days of the suspension of racing, almost over the entire country, he kept the flag flying at Louisville, and its meetings suffered no interruption. Pari-Mutuel In i9i8, when the Kentucky Jockey Club was formed and took jurisdiction Betting over all racing in the State, it opened a new lease of life to the sport. The legali- Legalized zation of pari-mutuel betting was secured through the legislature of the State, the revenues from which enabled the clubs to offer racing premiums of value beyond "the dreams of avarice." From a race of the value of some S5,ooo the Kentucky Derby rose to a value of 5o,ooo and the other events in propor- tion. It became the most-talked-of event of the year and the Eastern stables began each spring to send their "crack" colts in quest of it. The crowds that congregate each year to witness its running come from the most distant points of the country and exceed those gathered to witness any other race of the year. Kentucky The formation of the Kentucky Jockey Club in i9i8 comprised the taking Jockey Club over of the Lexington, Churchill Downs, and Douglas Park at Louisville, and the Latonia course near Covington, all of which were placed under the management of Mr. M. J. Winn, with Mr. Chas. F. Grainger resident-manager of Churchill Downs, the property of the new Louisville Jockey Club. Ex-Senator J. N. Cam- den was elected president of the Kentucky Jockey Club, Mr. Winn vice-presi- dent and manager. 56 R"CING THROUGHOUT d MERICA LATONIA The success of the Louisville meeting was not lost upon the racing enthusi- asts in other parts of Kentucky and led to the organization of the Latonia Jockey Club in x882 and the building of the track at Covington, Ky., which, located across the river from Cincinnati, O., naturally depended largely upon that city for the bulk of its patronage. The Latonia course, a one-mile oval, was opened June 9, x883, when Chinn and Morgan's colt Leonatus repeated his Kentucky Derby victory by winning the Latonia Derby from Drake Carter, Lord Raglan and a "crack" field. Mr. T. J. McGibben was the first president of the Latonia Club, and the genial Mr. Elias Lawrence was the original secretary. Mr. E. C. Hopper suc- ceeded Mr. Lawrence on the latter's death. In 1890 Mr. A. W. Nelson became president and was succeeded by Mr. J. R Sherlock. In 1904 Mr. Julius Fleisch- man became president and Mr. J. B. Dillon secretary. The club has become one of the most popular in the West, having beautified its grounds and rendered its meetings attractive to the general public regardless of mere racing. But its aim has also been for the highest class of racing. The Derby and Oaks, the Latonia Cup, and latterly the Latonia Championship Stakes are of country- wide importance from their monetary value and the character of the horses engaged. LEXINGTON The Lexington Association is the oldest in America. Its records date back as far as x827 and it is almost certain that it has, during all the vicissitudes of racing, never omitted to give a race-meeting each year with the possible exception of x863, when "wasteful war in all its fury burned," and rendered it impossible. Its records show that as early as x828 a Produce Stakes was run at 2-mile heats and was won by Mr. Stepp's bay filly. This stake was renewed each year and was won by such horses as Mr. W. Viley's Dick Singleton (by Bertrand) in i83I, Rudolph won it in i834, Mary Morris by Medoc in 1839, Ariel by Sarpe- don in i847, 1,,exington in 1853, Nanturah (the dam of Longfellow) in i858, Lancaster in i866, Versailles in i869, Enquirer in 1870. The Phcenix Hotel Stakes, another of its classics, was won in i831 by Mc- Donough by Bertrand, Berthune won in 184o, Star Davis in x852, Lexington in i853, Balloon in t855, Parachute in i856, Crossland in i868, Enquirer in i870, Himyar in 1878, and Falsetto in i879. 57 Racing at Latonia Officials Tbe Oldest Racing Club Classic Races I(,4CING IN AMERICA Off icials General J. F. Robinson, Jr., was long president of the club, but in later years Senator Johnson N. Camden had assumed the presidency, and under his admin- istration the meetings have taken new life. With the formation of the Kentucky Jockey Club in 1918 Lexington came under its jurisdiction with Latonia, Louis- ville, and all associations in the State of Kentucky. 58 RACING IN ILLINOIS In 1864 racing was begun in Chicago by a meeting of four days in September at the Driving Park; Springfield also gave a meeting of six days in November. Then followed an interval of four years during which there was little racing in Illinois, although Galesburg gave a five days' meeting in 1867. In i868 the Dexter Park Club gave its inaugural meeting of five days in July, at which Plantagenet, Gilroy, Pat Malloy, and other well-known horses raced, and the meetings were continued up to i877. In i879 the Chicago Jockey and Trotting Club was organized, with Mr. S. K Dow president and N. Rowe secretary. In i883 the Washington Park Club was organized. This was an ideal racing organization, composed, as it was, of the leading citizens of Chicago and with the purpose not of making profits from racing but with racing as one of the fea- tures of entertainment and enjoyment for its members. A handsome club-house was built, a double race-course, one within the other, was laid out, and General Philip H. Sheridan was elected president and Mr. John E. Brewster secretary. The inaugural meeting of the club in i884 was an event that will never be forgotten. It demonstrated, as Jerome Park had some years before, that high- class racing, under the control of representative people, would receive public patronage in a degree none other could equal. The Elite of Chicago gathered at the course and a new chapter had been written in the history of racing. The Washington Park Club signalized its advent by offering great sweep- stakes. The American Derby, for three-year-olds, in the first year, i884, had a value of SIO,7oo and in the year of the World's Fair 49,5oo. The Sheridan Stakes, the Washington Park Cup, the Hyde Park Stakes, Great Western Handicap, Wheeler Handicap were soon known throughout the country as standard events and attracted the best horses from New York to California. The American Derby became almost a public holiday in Chicago. Such crowds as gathered each year to witness it were such as had never been previously seen in that section. For ten years the Washington Park Club swept on, growing each year in popularity; then came a check. Racing in Chicago had grown too fast, or rather its success had the effect of giving too much of it. Harlem and Hawthorne began waging a conflict. Racing from ordinary meetings became a continuous per- formance, and in I894 the Washington Park Club stopped. In 1898 racing was resumed, but in 1904 matters had become so bad that racing could no longer be continued. Harlem and Hawthorne had given meetings of undue length cover- ing the entire season and such action was certain to provoke the measures of suppression they finally did. 59 Early Racing in Illinois The Wasbington Park Club Tbe Inaugural Tbe Popularity of Racing in Cbicago RACING IN OHIO The Buckeqe Racing in Ohio has flourished at times. A State so densely populated, so well Jockey Club adapted in regard to climate and soil for breeding racing stock, should be in a of Cincinnati more prominent position than it is, but adverse legislation has, as in the case of many other States, crippled the growth of the sport but not its popularity. During the period 1865-1870 the Buckeye Jockey Club of Cincinnati held some great meetings, and meetings were also held at Chillicothe, Lancaster, Colum- bus, Norwalk, Zanesville, Newark, Toledo, and minor ones at other points. Queen City The fact is, while the race-meetings were confined to a reasonable limit, Jockey Club say seven or eight days, there never was any trouble. Even in New England race-meetings were frequent, notably at Boston, during the "sixties." It was only when meetings began to extend for long periods that legislation was in- voked to check them through antibetting laws. The Buckeye Club continued to give meetings for several years, but about 1876 the meetings were held at Chester Park under the auspices of the Driving Park Association. In 1877 the Queen City Jockey Club was formed, with Mr. Edgar M. Johnson as president and Mr. C. B. Hunt secretary. In i893 the track at Oakley was opened and continued racing until 1898. Some excellent meetings were held during this time. Mr. A. L. Labold was president and Mr. Letcher secretary, but after that time Cincinnati depended upon the Latonia course at Covington for its racing. 6o RACING IN MISSOURI Missouri has played a leading part in racing. As early as i863 the Laclede Racing Association of St. Louis held a meeting of seven days in October at which Panic, During the Bayflower, Rhynodine, Mammona, Sue Lewis, and other celebrities raced, Civil War and in 1864, despite the fact that the Civil War was raging and the people were divided in their allegiance, the club held meetings of seven days in May, when the renowned Norfolk, Asteroid, Skedaddle, Sympathy, and Tipperary sported silk amid eight days in October. Meetings were also held at St. Joseph. The meetings of the Laclede Jockey Club continued throughout the period The Laclede i863-i869 on the Laclede and Abbey courses. Occasional meetings followed Club until I878, when the St. Louis Jockey and Trotting Club was formed and gave an inaugural meeting in June of that year and again in i879. Mr. J. M. Harney was president and Mr. David Clarkson secretary. In i880 the St. Louis Jockey Club blossomed forth: secretary, Louis N. Clarke. In i886 the St. Louis Fair Association assumed management, with Mr. Chas. Green president and Mr. F. J. Wade secretary. In i892 Mr. Rollo Wells and Mr. C. W. Bellairs were president and secretary. Later, Mr. Chas. Clark and Mr. C. C- Moffit. The Kin- lock Jockey Club also came into existence and gave meetings at Kinlock Park. Racing was very prosperous in St. Louis and Kansas City. The people of St. The Fair Louis and surrounding country became infected with the racing mania, and as it Association increased, the racing authorities catered to it with attractive events, particularly the year of the World's Fair, when events of great value were contested. The St. Louis Derby, run each year, became an event that brought the best three- year-olds of the country to the post, among its winners being Ben Ali, Prince Lief, Ornament, Pink Coat, Otis, etc. But repressive legislation in regard to betting rendered it inadvisable to continue, and in I905 racing ceased. RACING IN LOUISIANA Great Racing New Orleans was for years before the Civil War the great theatre of racing. at tbe The wealthy planters of the South met there regularly in the spring and au- Metarie tumn with their racing stables, and the great events of the period i854-I855, Course when Lexington and Lecompte measured strides, had become one of the best remembered in sporting annals. The old Metarie had for many years been the scene of the principal racing events and the attendance had been the most select and fashionable. A Renewal The suspension during the Civil War was of short duration. Racing revived of Activity quickly, as it had in New York, and many of the Northern stables wintered at New Orleans or Mobile and added to the attractiveness of the spring meet- ings of the Metarie Jockey Club held each April. Up to 1873 the Metarie meet- ings were important features of the year. In 1872 there was a mighty gather- ing at the Metarie. Such noted horses as Monarchist, Salina, Foster, Holly- wood, Madame Dudley, Cape Race took part and some valuable stakes were contested. Reorganiza- It was at this time, when the racing prospects of New Orleans looked brighter tion than they had for many years, a schism arose among the members and led to a secession of a group from the old Metarie Jockey Club and the organization of the Louisiana Jockey Club, with Mr. C. H. Breaux as president. It also led to the purchase of the property on which the Metarie track was located, and the famous old racing ground was dismantled and a cemetery opened instead. It has always been understood as being the result of a personal spite on the part of one man, but however that may be, it was a source of general regret that a place hallowed by so many glorious memories should have been thus sacrificed Tbe Upon the disruption of the Metarie Jockey Club, the new Louisiana Club Jockey Club . continued to hold meetings in April and December until x878, when New Or- leans was visited by the yellow-fever plague. After that had passed, an effort was made to revive racing by the formation of a new club, with Mr. RI W. Sim- mons as president and Mr. G. W. Nott secretary. Later Mr. H. W. Connor became president. 62 RACING IN CALIFORNIA Racing began early, following the settlement of California, and naturally so. The climate was favorable to racing the greater portion of the year, and the sensational meetings of Norfolk and Lodi in the "sixties" gave it a considerable impulse. Sacramento at that time enjoyed more racing than did San Francisco, the State Agricultural Fair each year being marked by considerable racing. The old Bay District track may be said to have been the cradle of San Francisco's racing. In 1872 the Pacific Jockey Club was formed, with Mr. A. J. Bryant president and Mr. Wm. Shear secretary. California was becoming infected with the racing fever, and in the autumn of 1873 announced a purse of 20,000 in gold, 4-mile heats to be run at San Francisco November i5. The idea was to attract the great sweepstake winners of the East, and it succeeded. Joe Daniels and True Blue went over the mountains, but the Cali- fornia-bred aged horse Thad Stevens won. It required four heats, Joe Daniels winning the first in 7.45, True Blue the second in 8.o8, Thad Stevens the third and fourth in 7.57-8.20. The following year (1874) the race was renewed, with a purse of 25,000. This time Katie Pease came from the East and won the race in straight heats, beating Henry, Hardwood, Thad Stevens, Joe Daniels, and Hock Hocking. In 1875 the race was reduced to a dash of 4 miles, and again the Eastern horses won, WildidIe and Grinstead finishing first and second in 7.25/4. In 1876 the race was run over the Bay District course, February 22, 4-mile heats, for a purse of 30,ooo, and Foster won the two heats in 7.3834- 7.53, beating Rutherford, Hock Hocking, Katie Pease, and others. The au- tumn following, Mollie McCarthy won the 4-mile heats, beating Mattie A. Racing now became frequent over the Bay District and Oakland tracks, as well as at Marysville, Sacramento, Petaluma, and San Jose. In 1879 the Pacific Coast Blood Horse Association was formed, with Mr. Joseph Cairn Simpson, the sporting journalist, as secretary and Mr. Theodore Winters as president, and gave its inaugural meeting in May, 1879, the stables of Messrs. Winters, E. J. Baldwin, W. Boots, H. Schwarz, W. L Pritchard, and L R. Martin com- peting. Later Mr. Baldwin succeeded Mr. Winters as president. During the decade i88o-i89o racing made rapid strides in California. The California Jockey Club had been reorganized, and in 1895 the Pacific Coast Jockey Club was formed, with Mr. A. B. Spreckles as president and Mr. W. L Leake as secretary. The California Jockey Club had Mr. Thos. H. Williams as president and Mr. R. B. Milroy as secretary. The California raced at Oakland, and the Pacific Coast Club at the new Ingleside track. They were soon after joined 63 Early Racing on tbe Coast Four-Mile Heats Racing Grows An Excess of Racing 1;(v4CING IN efMERICA by the newly organized San Francisco Jockey Club, with Prince Poniatowski as president, Mr. Chas. L. Fair as vice-president, and Mr. Milton H. Latham as secretary; opened the Tanforan course, while in the south the new Ascot Park opened at Los Angeles. Continuous Continuous racing now became the order. Meetings of months' duration Racing followed. The San Francisco Jockey Club did not last long and the Pacific Coast Club likewise. The California Club continued. Meetings such as one of 143 days alternately at Oakland and Ingleside in 1903 were a fair sample. Of course such a state of things could not last, and in i9o0 the sport was abandoned in consequence of antibetting legislation. 64 RACING IN CANADA Canada has always been a home of racing. In the early "sixties," when the British garrisons were quartered in the country, the officers did a great deal of racing. Settled so largely as the Dominion is with English, Irish, and Scotch, the sporting tastes of the British Islanders has been transplanted in fruitful soil. Meetings at Montreal, Toronto, St. Catherines, Hamilton, London, Brad- ford, Whitby, and Three Rivers, Quebec, were frequent. Among the most enthusi- astic supporters of racing were Mr. T. C. Patteson, Mr. Wm. Hendrie, Doctor A. Smith, Messrs. C. and H. Alloway, Doctor Kerwin, and Mr. Torrance. It was not until i88i, however, that the Ontario Jockey Club was organ- ized in Toronto. Mr. Lyndhurst Ogden was secretary and held the position until 1897, when Mr. W. P. Fraser became secretary. Mr. Wm. Hendrie mean- time had become president and has since been succeeded by his son, Colonel Wm. Hendrie. The club holds meetings of seven days' duration in May and September. It is an ideal organization, on the same model as the old American Jockey Club of New York or the Washington Park Club of Chicago. The meet- ings are attended by the leading people of Toronto, and the events such as the Toronto Cup, Autumn Cup, Queens Hotel Cup, and Minto Stakes draw the best class of horses. Montreal, Fort Erie, Hamilton, Ottawa, and Windsor have all well-organ- ized jockey clubs and hold two meetings during the year and attract large num- bers of horses from the States. Numerous half-mile tracks have been opened within the past ten years and the growth of racing has been in keeping with that in the United States. The pari-mutuel system of betting has had, no doubt, much to do with it, as it enables people to speculate in a modest way. 65 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RACE-HORSES listening to some grey-hired sage Full of the dignity of age, How neither pace nor length could tire Old Muley Muloch's speed and fire- How Hambletonian beat of yore Such racers as are seen no more. With such keen feeling they retrace The legends of each ancient race, Recalling Reveller, in his pride, And Blacwkkxk, of the mighty stride. -DoymL "CRACKS" OF THE I865-I870 "SIXTIES" I T is one of the noteworthy facts in the history of racing that the most cele- brated race-horses of the "sixties "-Asteroid, Kentucky, and Norfolk- were all foaled the same year (i86i); that each was a son of Lexington and each was the son of a Glencoe mare. Each of them swept all before him; each dominated racing in his own sphere. They never met when each was at his best; indeed they never met at all, except when Norfolk finished first and Kentucky fourth for the Jersey Derby at Paterson, N. J., in the spring of their three-year- old season. The question which was the best of this famous triumvirate formed the chief subject of contention between the turfmen of the "sixties," and for years fol- lowing. Asteroid raced exclusively in the Middle West, Kentucky in the East, while Norfolk was taken to California immediately after his race for the Jersey Derby. Opinions, therefore, took a local coloring. Western men claimed that no such horse as Asteroid had appeared since the days of Lexington, Eastern turf- ites claimed the same distinction for Kentucky, while Californians pointed to the Jersey Derby of i864 as evidence of Norfolk's superiority over Kentucky and his triple victory over Lodi It was also claimed that, as Mr. Alexander had sold Norfolk and refused S3oooo for Asteroid, he must have found Asteroid the better of the two. But, as already stated, Norfolk had defeated Kentucky, which Asteroid had not done. Some claimed that Kentucky "could not have been himself" when Norfolk beat him; but he won a race two days later, and never lost a race afterward-all of which makes Norfolk rather the choice. Asteroid was a bay by Lexington from Nebula by Glencoe; granddam Blue Bonnet by imported Hedgeford, was bred by Mr. R A. Alexander at Woodburn in Kentucky. He did not start until, as a three-year-old, he won at mile heats at St. Louis, beating Tipperary and Scotland, and followed it by beating Load- stone at Lexington. He started five times at three, winning all. At four years old he started seven times. He won mile heats best three in five at St. Louis; at Louisville he twice defeated Loadstone at 2 and 3 mile heats. At Cincinnati spring meeting he defeated Red Oak at two miles and, in the autumn, he beat Leatherlungs at four miles. Two of his later races were walkovers. He so completely outclassed his contemporaries that owners would not start their horses against him. 69 The Triumvirate Asteroid, Kentucky, and Norfolk Asteroid, I86i RI4CING IN NfME RICA A Bugle-Call With the exception of Tipperary and Loadstone, the horses Asteroid de- to Asteroid feated were not of high class, but such was their faith in his powers that the Kentuckians began bantering for a match with the Eastern champion, Ken- tucky, whose owner, Mr. John Hunter of Westchester, N. Y., replied, offering to match Kentucky against Asteroid for any sum they might name. A great correspondence arose, and for months it raged in print. The adherents of As- teroid named Lexington or Louisville, Mr. Hunter named Saratoga or Paterson, as the trial ground. Finally Mr. Hunter issued a challenge offering to match Kentucky against any horse in America for from Sio,ooo to S25,ooo a side. "Asteroid never was beaten," was the slogan of the Western men; "he is the champion-the leading horse of America." "He leads Kentucky alphabetically-in no other respect," was Mr. Hunter's reply. Reply to the Mr. Hunter's challenge was, of course, understood to be aimed at Asteroid, Cballenge and Mr. Alexander in reply wrote to Mr. Hunter, saying: "I have always been opposed to encouraging big matches. It partakes more of gambling than I like; secondly, it not infrequently creates ill feeling, as men are more often carried away by their sympathies in match races than in others, and more money is won and lost. But, as your proposition is considered as a direct challenge to run Kentucky against Asteroid, I beg to say that I will run Asteroid against Ken- tucky two races: Sio,ooo a side, one of 3-mile heats, the other, 4-mile heats, at Cincinnati and Louisville." After further correspondence, Mr. Alexander agreed to run one race in New York, the other in Kentucky. Asteroid Nothing came of it, however, and it appeared for a time as if the meeting of Comes East the champions would never take place. But the opening of Jerome Park in x866 to Meet and its promised revival of racing under the patronage of the first gentlemen Kentucky of the land changed Mr. Alexander's attitude and, pining for new worlds to conquer, he brought Asteroid to New York to meet Kentucky for the Inaugura- tion Stakes, 4-mile heats to be run on the opening day. Once more the racing world was aroused as it had not been since the Lxington-Lecomte races in 1855. A titanic struggle between the acknowledged champions of the East and the West aroused racing men like a trumpet-call to arms. But once more fate intervened. Asteroid came to Jerome Park and began his preparation, but the Sunday before the race he was given his trial and pulled up lame. Asteroid as Asteroid retired to the stud, joining his sire at Woodburn, where Planet and a Sire Australian were also in residence. He left the race-course an undefeated horse, with all the prestige that entails. The best of Woodburn's dams visited him, and of his first lot of foals Stockwood was the best, he running second to Harry Bassett for the Belmont Stakes of '71. Of all Asteroid's get, Ballankeel was probably the best. Meteor faded early, so did Artist and Astral. Creedmoor 70 a I-- '' z LL This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED "(CE-HORSES was a good one, possibly firstclass. In short, Asteroid was hardly a success as a sire. He was a "ridgling," he never exhibited but one testicle and, as might be expected, was an uncertain foal-getter, finally becoming impotent, and died in November, i886. He had been useless for some years, but Mr. Alexander retained him from pure sentiment. Kentucky was bred by Mr. John M. Clay and was the only one of "the great triumvirate" to race as a two-year-old. Mr. Clay brought him to the Paterson, N. J., autumn meeting of i863, where he won a mile sweepstakes, beating Minnie Minor (afterward dam of Wanda) and Eagle. Mr. John F. Purdy bought him for 6,ooo with Arcola thrown in, and the colts passed into the stable of Mr. John Hunter, who liked his breeding, for besides being by Lexington his dam was "the mother of the Gracchi"-the celebrated Magnolia (by Glencoe), the dam of Daniel Boone, Victory, Gilroy, Madeline, Skedaddle, etc. Magnolia was a daughter of imported Myrtle by Mameluke, the Epsom Derby winner of i827. In appearance Kentucky differed from Asteroid, who was a brown bay, shorter in the leg and more heavily topped, while Kentucky was a bright bay with a narrow stripe down his face and off fore pastern white. Kentucky was more rangy. Like Asteroid, he had a head of the Glencoe type, with tapering muzzle and rather convex profile; high at the withers and rather straight from the croup to the root of the tail, which was set on rather high. Asteroid stood 15.2, marked with a star and both hind pasterns white, and a tick of white on the near fore heel. He had a broad back, close coupling, with great development of the hips and quarters. Kentucky was never beaten after the Jersey Derby of '64. He won twenty- one races, including the Sequel at Paterson, Travers and Sequel Stakes at Sara- toga, and the St. Leger at Paterson. He won the Saratoga Cups of '65 and '66, the Inauguration Stakes at Jerome Park, i866, and the Grand National Handicap (i24 pounds), beating Aldebaran, Onward, Fleetwing, and Julius. He also defeated such horses as Tipperary, Baltimore, Beacon, Delaware, and Captain Moore. He was purchased by Mr. Jerome for 540,000, but in i867 Messrs. Hunter and Travers repurchased him. He made his first season in i867 and was nomi- nated for the sweepstakes for that year. But he was so completely "in a class by himself" that Mr. Jerome did not start him, feeling that it would spoil sport to do so. It was then proposed to race him against Lexigton's record for 4 miles, 7.194. The race was run at Jerome Park, October I7, I867; Kentucky, with i20 pounds, ridden by Chas. Littlefield, finished in 7.3IY4. He had undertaken an impossible task. The shape, the soil, and the condition of the Jerome Park course were not conducive to fast-time records. Some idea of Kentucky's prestige 71 Kentucky, i86i Descriptions of Kentucky and Asteroid Twice Winner of the Saratoga Cup Kentucky's Race Against Time RI(ACING IN efMERICA4 may be learned when it is told that at the Narragansett Park meeting of i868 the conditions of the sweepstakes read "Kentucky to carry Io pounds extra in all races"-a condition quite exceptional in the history of modern racing. Tbe Saratoga Before the race for the Travers of '64 Kentucky had shown a slight lame- Cup Race ness. For the second Saratoga Cup (i866) the betting was very heavy. Beacon had been highly tried and the Western division poured their money on Cap- tain Moore's horse. It was a fine race, and no horse had that year hung to Ken- tucky as long as Beacon did. Still Kentucky won. "He beat me," said John Ford, who rode Beacon, "but Littlefield had to spur him to make him do it." Mr. Minor, Kentucky's trainer, denied this, and escorted Mr. Hunter, Mr. Travers, and Mr. Foster to Kentucky's box and stripped him. There was no sign of spurring. Sale of Kentucky's last appearance at a race-course was at the sale of the Annies- Kentucky wood Stable-a confederacy composed of Mr. Belnont, Mr. Hunter, and Mr. Travers-at the Jerome Park October meeting of i868. It was only a fortnight after the sale of the Fairfield Stud (John Jackson's) in England when Blair Athol was sold to Mr. Blenkiron for 5,ooo guineas; and horsemen asked each other would the champion racer of America bring as long a price as had the champion of England. Every turfman of note was present. There was a buzz of excitement when Kentucky was led into the ring and gazed around at his ad- mirers for the last time. As he was stripped he raised his head and sniffed the air as if he remembered the familiar scene of his exploits. Doctor Under- wood, the auctioneer, spoke of his career, but there was a hesitation in the bid- ding. Five thousand was the first bid, then seven thousand. There was a pause. Then there was some conference and the bidding between Mr. Hunter and Mr. Purdy became exciting. Mr. Hunter's last bid was 14,5oo and it looked as if the orange jacket would reclaim him, but Mr. Purdy bid 15,ooo, the ham- mer fell, and it was announced that Mr. Purdy had acted for Mr. Belmont. Kentucky in Kentucky entered the Nursery Stud at Babylon, L I., the spring of i869. the Stud He was the first stallion to reign at Mr. Belmont's, where Kingfisher, The Ill Used, Count d'Orsay, and Fiddlestick reigned in later years. His first colts (from Mr. Jerome's mares) appeared in 1870, and among them Idaho and Lord Byron were winners. As a sire he did not attain to the high rank he had as a performer, but the same could be said of all the sons of Lexington. Count d'Orsay, Countess, Bertram, Carita, Silk Stocking, Medora were good per- formers, but Woodbine was probably the best, although she was described in the "nominations to stakes" as by Censor or Kentucky. Kentucky died in April, 187;. Norfolk, Norfolk, like Asteroid, was never beaten. He did not start until three, winning i86i at St. Louis, where he defeated Tipperary. Mr. Alexander then brought him 72 a 0 0 z This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RJCE-HORSES East, and at Paterson, N. J.,' he won the Jersey Derby, beating Tipperary, Eagle, and Kentucky in a field of eleven. It was then Mr. Alexander sold him to Mr. Theodore Winters of California for I5,00I. In I856 Mr. Alexander had gone to England for a stallion. He purchased Scythian, but, meeting Mr. Ten Broeck, he succeeded in purchasing Lexington for Si5,ooo. On his return to America people told him he had "paid too much for an untried stallion," where- upon he made a bet that he would sell a colt by Lexington for more than be had paid for him. The extra dollar in Norfolk's price made him win his bet. Mr. Winters took Norfolk to California, where, as a four-year-old, he defeated Lodi at 2-mile heats, and again at 3-mile heats in 5.27,V2-5.29Y2-the best time on record for heats. This closed his career, a career short but brilliant. Norfolk was by Lexington from Novice by Glencoe; granddam. Chloe Anderson by Rudolph. He had no less than six crosses of Diomed. In color a dark bay, with a snip over his nose and both hind pasterns white. He had a masculine head, a convex profile-"an eagle beak" they used to call it. He had a pricked ear, very full throttle, like a game-cock-a stout neck, higher at the withers and deeper in the barrel than Kentucky, and very deep back ribs. He cut away beyond the croup and was somewhat "goose-rumped." His quarters were not very broad and he appeared light in the stifle. His flag was set on lower than Kentucky's. As a sire Norfolk's chances were quite limited, being located in Yolo County, Cal., where mares were few indeed. Notwithstanding this, he quite outbred all other sons of Lexington. Mated with the old mare Marian (by Malcolm, son of Bonnie Scotland) he sired Duke of Norfolk, Duchess of Norfolk, Prince of Norfolk, King of Norfolk, Queen of Norfolk, Emperor of Norfolk, The Czar, El Rio Rey, and Reydel Rey-winners of sixty-three races, of which Emperor of Norfolk won twenty-one and was one of the best of his year. The Czar and El Rio Rey were never beaten. Among Norfolk's winners were Flood, Ralston, Maid of the Mist, etc. His son, Emperor of Norfolk, sired the fast colt Ameri- cus, which, taken to England, was quite successful as a sire of sprinters. Nor- folk died November 25, 1890. That "the Lexington triumvirate" were superior racers is demonstrated by the collateral form of those they defeated. Tipperary, a brown son of Ringgold and Roxana by Chesterfield (son of Priam), had the misfortune to have been foaled the same year as Asteroid, Kentucky, and Norfolk, and he became prac- tically their "trial horse." Norfolk defeated him for the Jersey Derby, Aster- oid defeated him at St. Louis, while Kentucky defeated him for the Travers and Sequel at Saratoga. But Tipperary defeated all other horses and showed his merit as a sire through his son Calvin, winner of the Belmont Stakes of i875, and Aaron Pennington, a very fine race-horse. 73 Description of Norfolk Norfolk as a Sire Tipperary the " Trial Horse" RvJCING IN ecrMERICA Rbvnodine, As there were great men in Greece besides Agamemnon, so there were other Aldebaran, good race-horses in the "sixties" besides the great trio of Lexington's sons. and Rhynodine, son of Wagner and Ann Watson, was slow to mature, but as a four- Ileenving year-old, wearing the "green and gold" of Mr. McGrath, he defeated Beacon, Thunder, and Bayflower. Loadstone, by Lexington from old Blue Bonnet, was also backward as a colt. Up to his fifth year he had won only once, but at six he "found himself" at Jerome Park, where he beat Delaware and Fleetwing at three miles, and ended his career by winning the first race for the Westchester Cup. Aldebaran was one of the great campaigners; Lodi alone could beat him at three, and at four it took Kentucky alone to head him. Fleetwing, by Bal- rownie from old Rhoda by Glencoe, was intended for a first-class one, but, like many Balrownies, he inherited the shelly feet of Queen Mary's son. Despite this, he trained on until his ninth year. idlewild, Idlewild was perhaps the best race-mare of her period. She won seventeen 1857 races, including the 4-mile race at the Centerville track (near the site of the present Aqueduct course) in 1863, when she defeated Jerome Edgar and Dan- gerous in 7.26y4-the best time ever made by a mare up to that date. She had only one eye and was inclined to bear out, and it required expert riders like Tom Patton or the celebrated "Abe" to handle her. In the stud she foaled to Australian the magnificent colt Wildidle and the filly Fanchon. Her sister Aero- lite quite outbred her, however, for, while she never raced, she became the dam of Spendthrift, Mozart, Rutherford, Fellowcraft, and many winners. The Motber Maiden, by Lexington from Kitty Clark by Glencoe, won at two and three, of Parole and attained the distinction of winning the Travers at Saratoga. As a brood- mare she achieved a national reputation as the dam of Parole, the most re- nowned gelding in the history of American racing. She also bred James A. Mr. P. Lorillard gave Sio,ooo for her after Parole had defeated Isonomy in Eng- land, and for him she bred Paw Paw, Pappoose, and Parthenia. She also bred Powhatan, a full brother to Parole, who failed as a race-horse but sired several good performers. Rutbless, Rutbkss was far and away the greatest filly of the "sixties." Bred by Mr. Fran- i864 cis Morris at Westchester, N. Y., by imported Eclipse from imported Barbarity by Simoon, she was a bay, very tall and well developed. At two and three she started eleven times and had the honor of winning the inaugural of both the Nursery and Belmont Stakes (i866 and 1867). She also won the Travers and Sequel at Saratoga, beating Virgil and Delaware. She struck herself the spring she was four and could not be trained. Mated with her old stable mate, Mon- day, she produced a fine colt in Battle-Axe, winner of the Kentucky Stakes at Saratoga, 1873; but Mr. Morris was fond of experiments. In 1874 he bred Ruthless to her sire Eclipse. The result was a deformed colt, his fore legs being 74 CELEBRATED R"4CE-HORSES bent almost double and quite 'useless for racing. The great mare came to an untimely end in November, 1876, when a vagrant gunner shot her by accident while she was in her paddock. She lingered five weeks, but all efforts to save her were fruitless. Relentless, full sister to Ruthless, won the Saratoga Stakes of '67, beating General Duke, who won the Belmont the following year. Then came Remorse- less, another sister to Ruthless, a chestnut with white face and legs. She was the champion two-year-old of i869, winning five races-the Flash, Saratoga, Nursery, and Annual. The triumphs of Ruthless, Relentless, and Remorseless led to their being known as "the Barbarous Battalion," suggested by the name of their dam Barbarity, and they certainly made the "scarlet" jacket of Mr. Morris a terror to trainers during i867, i868, and i869. It is curious that the old mare Barbarity's colts were all failures, although she had several, including Barbarian and Devastation. Her fillies were all famous, her later one, Regard- less, foaled in x871, winning the Flash at two and the Alabama at three; while still another daughter, Merciless, was a winner. Virgil was a colt of great beauty, but not up to great things over a mile. His fine speed and his glossy black coat impressed Mr. Milton H. Sanford, who purchased him of Mr. Alexander, and he won six out of eight races at three, but Ruthless and Monday always held him safe over a distance. He went amiss as a three-year-old and was not raced until six, and then ran hurdle-roces. At seven he was broken to harness, and Colonel Simmons of New Orleans drove him before a buggy. He was, in i872, left at Mr. Sanford's farm. It happened that all Mr. Sanford's stallions were sons of Lexington, and his mares nearly all daughters of the same horse. Thus Virgil was used as a makeshift, and Mr. Sanford soon after gave him to Mr. B. G. Bruce. The latter had no use for a stallion and advertised him for sale, cheap, in the autumn of I874. But from the mares bred to Virgil in i872 came Vagrant, Virginius, and Vigil. Vagrant was the crack of 1875, and in 1876 won the Kentucky Derby and was sold to Mr. Wm. Astor for 20,000, while Vigil in i876 won the Dixie and Breckenridge at Baltimore. Mr. Sanford hastened to repurchase the cast-off Virgil, and a few years later he sired the renowned Hindoo and became canonized. Virgil was a beautiful animal, and we can recall nothing more impressive than when on that June day in i870 he ran third to Oysterman over hurdles at Jerome Park, his coal-black coat gleaming like a piece of satin. Virgil was what the color faddists would call a "pure dominant"-he never sired a chestnut, his foals were either brown, black, or bay. His son Virginius was a black, Vigil a bay. His son Hin- doo, the greatest race-horse of his era, was a brown bay, but his other famous son,, the unbeaten Tremont, resembled him most, being a black with the pricked ear of the family. 75 "Tbe Barba- rousBattalion" Virgil, 1864 Sons of Virgil R\,JCING IN t.MERICA Muggins, Muggins, the Saratoga Cup winner of i867, was "a chance horse." His sire, 1863 Jack Malone, while in training as a four-year-old, broke loose from his stable one night in the spring of 1862 and, finding his way to the paddocks, courted the mare Fanny McAllister (by Omera, son of Glencoe). The result of this stolen union was Muggins, one of the best racers of his era. In addition to the Sara- toga Cup, for which he defeated Onward and Delaware, he won the Invitation Stakes at Nashville and every race for which he started in 1867. It was his racing exploits that brought his sire, Jack Malone, into notice, and while that horse sired many fine performers while in residence at the Belle Meade Stud, he never had another of the class of Muggins. Tbe Bat leaf Beacon, who cut a prominent figure in the racing of i866 and i867, was a bay Family son of Lexington and Bayleaf by imported Yorkshire, granddam the imported mare Maria Black by Filho dan Puta and, therefore, full brother of Bayflower, Bayonet, Bayswater, and Preakness. He won many races in the West and de- feated Onward in 3-mile heats at Saratoga, but Kentucky beat him after a hard race for the Saratoga Cup. His brother, Bayswater, was an elegant brown, whose chief distinction was winning the first race ever run at Jerome Park (i866). Their sister, Bayflower, a noted stayer, beat Rhynodine at 3-mile heats and became the dam of Ivyleaf, who, in turn, foaled Bramble. The family was noted for stoutness, but, except in the case of Bayswater, was somewhat coarse. Bayonet, Bayonet was one of four splendid colts which McConnell and Thompson i865 of Chillicothe, O., brought to the races in i868. Bayonet ran unplaced for the Belmont Stakes to his stable mate, General Duke, but won all his other races that year. At four he came to Saratoga with a great reputation, and his race for the Saratoga Cup was the sensation of the year. He was meeting his former stable companion, Vauxhall, Plantagenet, and others. The betting was heavy, Vauxhall was the choice, but Bayonet won. It was so evident that John Ford, the jockey, had pulled Vauxhall that the stewards, Governor Bowie, Sen- ator Thos. F. Bayard, and Mr. C. W. Wooley, declared the bets off and ruled Ford off for fraud. Bayonet was a capital racer, but Vauxhall was the better of the two. The fact that McConnell and Thompson sold General Duke and Bayonet and retained Vauxhall demonstrated the stable's estimate. Vauxball, Vauxball, foaled in I865 by Lexington from Verona by imported Yorkshire, 186, was a large, whole-colored light bay with black points, his legs black far above the knees and hocks. He was plain about the head but had good length and deep back ribs and, while his quarters looked light, a glance from behind him told another story. He did not start at two, but at three won two races the same day, and at four won several races, including the Prospect Park Cup. He should have won the Saratoga Cup, but Ford, his jockey, pulled him and was ruled off for fraud. Two days after Vauxhall won at three miles, beating Abdel Kader and 76 CELEBRATED Rt4CE-HORSES a large field in 5.30. He broke down three days later in the 4-mile race won by Abdel Kader. Mr. Lewis G. Morris offered 12,000 for him, but Mr. Cla- baugh secured him. In the stud in Maryland he was quite a success, as he sired Cloverbrook, winner of the Belmont Stakes of '77, Catoctin, Oden, Viator, and other good ones. Vauxhall died in 1890 at the age of twenty-five. General Duke, named for General Basil Duke, of Kentucky, was a chestnut son of Lexington-Lilla by imported Yorkshire, very blood-like, but a mile was his best distance. At two he showed high form at Saratoga, and at three en- rolled his name in fame's list by winning the Belmont Stakes (i868). At four he became the property of Mr. John O'Donnell and raced with great success. At five he was renamed Judge Curtis and was the first horse to run a mile in 1.43, which he did at Saratoga in 1870. He went to the stud in Canada, where he sired many winners, but later was taken to Monmouth, Ill. That a horse can attain to high rank as a racer after serious injury is rare, but Major Doswell of Virginia proved a case in Abdel Kader, a dark bay horse, by imported Australian from Rescue by Berthune; granddarn Alice Carucal, the dam of Lexington. As a colt he became cast in his box and knocked down his hip. Thus he was not trained until the autumn he was three years old. At four Vauxhall beat him at 3 miles at Saratoga; but he won at 4 miles in 7.31 i. Abdel Kader was a fine race-horse, and as a sire his In Memoriam is his son Al- gerine, winner of the Belmont Stakes of '76, a son of old Nina, the dam of Planet. Algerine's daughter, Margarine, foaled Rhoda B., and the latter, sent to England, foaled Orby, winner of the Epsom Derby of '07, and sire of Grand Parade, Diadem, Orpheus, etc. Planet and Albine were the best horse and mare in training in i861, when Albine defeated Planet at Charleston, 4-mile heats. In i863 Albine was bred to Planet, and the chestnut General Yorke was the result. From such a union great things were expected, but General Yorke, while a fast horse, was a savage and a stall-walker. Jockeys feared him, stable-boys would not go near him nor sleep on the same floor. He won the Rhode Island Cup, 2Y2 miles, at Providence, R. I., in I868, and at Jerome Park in 1869 he won the 2 miles, beating Aldebaran, Climax, Julius, etc., and 3 miles, beating Flora Mclvor, The Banshee, and Fleet- wing; but he seemed to prefer savaging boys to racing. Nemesis, a black filly by Eclipse, from Echo by Lexington, cut quite a figure in the racing of i868 and i869, but her best race was second, for the Grand Na- tional Handicap of '69, to La Polka, with Legatee, General Duke, General Yorke, and Metarie behind her. What her owner, Mr. John Hunter, said after the race would scarcely bear repeating. La Polka had not won a race that year; yet she was-backed to win a fortune. In the stud Nemesis foaled Rhadamanthus, the champion sprinter. Nemesis could stay as well as sprint, and her daughter, 77 General Duke, 1865 Abdel Kader, i865 General Yorke, the Savage Nemesis, 1865 7J(ACING 1 N.4ME RICA O'Fallon's Lot Plantagenet- The Banshee Narragansett, i 866 Retribution, became the dam of Requital, who won the Futurity and Reali- zation. Mr. O'Fallon of St. Louis had a strong stable in Plantagenet, The Banshee, Athlone, Alta Vela, etc. Plantagenet, a son of Planet and Rosa Bonheur, was about his best, but The Banshee, "a brown bay mare with a rat tail," was a real good one before she became blind. She was foal of i865 by Lexington from Bal- loon, "one of the Maria West family," and won the Travers Stakes at Saratoga in i868. But her greatest feat was winning the Westchester Cup of '69, at Jerome Park, over a muddy track from a field composed of Pleasureville, General Duke, Abdel Kader, and Local-a feat we had occasion to recall when, fifteen years later, we viewed her in a paddock at Mr. Lorillard's Rancocas farm when she turned her sightless eyes toward us and pricked her ear, as she had that day when the roar of the grand stand greeted her Cup victory. Narragansett was one of the unbeaten, like Asteroid, Norfolk, Sensation, and Tremont. A beautiful brown, he was bred by Mr. F. Morris at Westchester, N. Y., a son of imported Eclipse from Jessie Dixon by Arlington (son of Bos- ton). He never met a horse that could extend him. At Providence in x868 he made an example of Cottrill, and as a three-year-old, at Saratoga in x869, he ran away from his fields in the Excelsior and Sequel, in the latter pulling up and whinnying as he returned to scale. How good he was could never be determined. In his trial as a four-year-old, at Jerome Park, a day or two before he was to start for the Westchester Cup, he stepped on a stone, pulled up lame, and never started again. As a sire he had little chance in Maryland, but he sired a good colt in Budha. Vespucius, "A horse of great capacity, but a rogue-an arrant rogue," was Mr. Withers's i866 comment, speaking of Vespucius, a chestnut by Planet from Old Columbia by Glencoe, and no one could contradict him. He lost several races; when leading his field he would bolt to the outside. He did that after he had won the first heat for the Jerome Stakes of '69, which Gleneig won; but he won the Annual a few days later and turned the tables on Glenelg. Gleneig, Glenelg was subject to colic, which often caused him to forfeit engagements. i866 He was a bay without a mark, imported in utero and foaled on Mr. R. W. Cam- eron's estate at Clifton, Staten Island, N. Y. His sire, Citadel, son of Stock- well, was more conspicuous in the show ring than on the race-course; his dam, Babta, was by Kingston from Alice Lowe by Defense. In November, i867, Mr. Cameron held a sale and Mr. Belmont sent Jacob Pincus to Clifton with a long "limit" on "the big bay yearling out of the Kingston mare." Pincus secured him at 2,ooo, but he was "a wild cuss"-so they said at the Nursery, and, be- sides, was "so big and raw" that nothing was done with him as a two-year-old. He could have won the Belmont Stakes, but Mr. Belmont elected to win with 78 CELEBRATED R"4CE-HORSES Fenian, and Glenelg's jockey hacd to almost pull his head off to let Fenian finish first. Glenelg won the Travers and Jerome, but Vespucius beat him for the An- nual. For the Westchester Cup of '70 Glenelg, ridden by Gilpatrick, ran a bad race. "Why didn't you make your run sooner" asked Mr. Belmont. "You'll have to ask the horse, sir, " replied Gil, pointing to Glenelg's heaving flanks. On the evening of his next race he had one of his attacks of colic and they thought he would die, but he came round and beat his old opponent Vespucius. He beat Maggie B. B., at Saratoga, but his temper became bad and he held his field an hour at the post. Matt Byrnes, who rode him, persuaded Pincus to give him a leading-rope before he would break. Helnbold had beaten him every time they met that year; but for the Maturity Stakes, 3-miles, at Jerome Park, he beat Helmbold soundly. At Baltimore he "crowned the edifice" of his career by winning the Bowie Stakes, 4-mile heats, from Niagara, Abdel Kader, Plantagenet, Nannie Douglas, and Carrie Atherton. Glenelg retired for the season, acclaimed "the best racer in training." As a five-year-old, in 1871, Glenelg started in but one race-the Westchester Cup, at Jerome Park. He was the favorite, but Hayward brought Preakness through with a "Chifney rush" and beat him. Joe Palmer was blamed for Glenelg's defeat and the horse came back to scale a trifle lame, while Palmer had to stand, whip in hand, leaning against the rails while Mr. Belmont post- poned giving his views to a gentleman on Senator Sumner's removal from the Committee on Foreign Relations and left the stand to give Palmer "a piece of his mind." Glenelg was sent home, and when the bell rang for the Saratoga Cup race it was not he, but Kingfisher, that carried the "maroon-and-red" jacket to the post to meet Longfellow. The next winter, Glenelg and Kingfisher, two " magnificent cripples," were sent to Saratoga to ramble in the snow, in the belief that the climate would restore them; but while Kingfisher returned, Tony Taylor could only "report progress" with Glenelg, and the first good gallop the next spring settled him. Mr. Belmont already had Kentucky, and as he had only a limited number of mares he had no use for two stallions. Mr. M. H. Sanford had always been a keen admirer of Glenelg and gave Mr. Belmont Sio,ooo for him, with the mares Finesse and Uhicca thrown in. At the Preakness Stud he had the best daughters of Lexington and Australian, and as a sire was an immediate success. The first of his get started in 1876. From that year to i888 he had 428 starters, winning 997 races of the value of 843,223. He led the winning sires four consecutive seasons (i884, 1885, i886, i888), something no horse had done since Lexing- ton's days. Among his children were Monitor, Idalia, Aella, Ferida, Firenzi, Louisette, General Philips (Postguard), Dry Monopole, etc. 79 Glenelg Wins the Botvie Stakes Race for tbe Westcbester Cup Glenelg in the Stud (CIACING IN d1MERICA Description of GleneIg Herzog, 1 866 A Rare-Bred One Glenelg was a whole-colored blood bay, standing i6 hands and girthed 76 inches, with great muscular power. He had a handsome head, was rather short- necked, and trained rather light in the flank; but he had fine quarters and gas- kins, and if he had any defect it was that he was slightly cow-hocked. He had a very thick tail, "banged" rather short, and while racing he cocked it high- a peculiarity his daughter, Bertha, the steeplechase mare, inherited. Gleneig died October 23, 1897, in his thirty-second year. The soundness of his get was such that "the Glenelgs for soundness" became a proverb. While Glenelg was clearly the best three-year-old of i869 in the East, Herzog was even more than that in the West. Herzog, like many of the Vandals, was slow to mature and did not start until three, when he lost but one race. Old turfmen still affirm he was "the best race-horse of his era." He won the Cum- berland at Nashville, a sweepstakes at Louisville, and, beating a field of seven at Cincinnati, he won mile heats in i.45-i.43Y2-the best time on record to that date. He won the Phcenix and the Produce Stakes, 2-mile heats, beating Exchange and Versailles. He then won mile heats at Cincinnati in Septem- ber, but contracted a cold and should not have been started. He grew worse, but he was given a gallop for the race of 2-mile heats for which he was en- gaged. When the bell rang Herzog did not respond. Pneumonia developed, and he died the day the race was run. "The best three-year-old since Norfolk" was the Western men's estimate of Herzog. The only colt that ever defeated him was Versailles, but he always defeated Versailles after that. The meeting of the two Vandal colts at the old Buckeye course at Cincinnati was the event of the year. Versailles won the first heat, but Herzog won the other two. It was then that one of his admirers celebrated Herzog's triumph with the following lines: The bugle brought the coursers up O'er Buckeye's springy clay, Their silken coats made mirrors for Dame Fashion's bright array; The dark-skinned youth of Afric wound The reins their wrists around; The lithe forms 'neath them restless were To gain the starting bound. They went like arrows from the bow; Like drops from old Niagara's flow; Like Nature's flash, that men doth tame; Or like the breath of hurricane. But no fleet forms o'er Buckeye wrung The wreath from Vandal's short-eared son. Herzog was a bay by Vandal (son of Glencoe) from Dixie by imported Sover- eign; 2d dam imported Vamp by Langar; 3d dam Wire, a full sister to Whale- 8o CELEBRA TED RiCE-HORSES bone. Thus he was nearer in point of propinquity than any living horse to old Penelope, the greatest mare in the Stud-Book. He was described in appearance as "a rather plain colt" but his appearance was marred by his ears having been bitten off by frost; hence he became popularly known as "The Crop-Eared Flier." The four-year-old James A. Connolly was clearly the best of the alI-aged class of '68. He was of the Vandal-Margrave cross, the most fashionable of that period, next to the Lexington-Glencoe; and, like many of the Vandals, did not start until three, when he was only fair. But at four "he was a whale," as his old trainer, Eph Snedeker, expressed it. He was a horse of fair size, rather high on the leg, and, while described as a chestnut, he looked like a black, ex- cept under strong sunlight-the same peculiar color of Helmbold, Waverly, and, later, of Dominco. He won eight races that season, including 3 and 4 mile dashes, beating Pat Malloy and Plantagenet, the Stewards' Cup, at Jerome Park, and the 4-mile Post Stakes, and retired the champion. He wintered at Mobile, but the following spring he reared in play and, falling backward, broke his back. Eph Snedeker said he was "the best horse I ever trained, and you know I trained Bramble, Eole, Vigil, and Girofle." Great things were expected of Pat Malloy, owing to his ultrafashionable breed- ing. He was by Lexington from Gloriana by American Eclipse; granddam the famous Trifle, who ran the five heats of 4 miles with Black Maria. He was a yellowish bay, not handsome, but sturdy. As a three-year-old he started thir- teen times (mostly heats) and won seven. It was a severe campaign for three- year-olds, and after James A. Connolly beat him at Saratoga he seemed so stale that he was taken South with the idea of resting him until the following spring. But he improved so fast they began preparing him for the winter meeting at New Orleans. He was given a trial and, when passing the stand, he was seen to falter and pulled up lame. His exercise boy said he had "hit something hard." Going to the spot, they found a piece of board with the mark of a horse's plate on it. His leg began to swell and he could not be trained until eighteen months later. At five he ran creditably and then made several seasons in Missouri. Woodburn then claimed him to stand beside his sire Lexington. As a sire he did very well, and his progeny were fast and stout, among them being Ozark, Bob Miles, Volusia, Reveller, etc. Pat Malloy died at Woodburn, November 3, 18go. Several important importations were made during the decade. Eclipse, a bay by Orlando, from Gaze by Bay Middleton, was imported by Mr. Francis Morris. He had won the Clearwell Stakes at two and ran a dead heat and di- vided with Beadsman, the Derby winner, at three. He had also won the Ascot Biennial, beating the winners of the Two Thousand (Fitz Roland) and St. Leger (Sunbeam). He stood at Mr. Morris's place, in Westchester County, N. Y., 8i "Tbe Crop- Eared Flier" James A. Connolly, 1 864, by Vandal Pat Malloy, 1 865 A Curious Accident Morris's Eclipse DICING IN ,AMERICA and was a great success, among his progeny being Alarm, Narragansett, Fannie Ludlow, Nemesis, Ruthless, Relentless, Remorseless, Merciless, Regardless, Midday, Ecliptic, Catesby (sire of Crickmore), etc. The line of Eclipse became the most fashionable in America, as he sired Alarm, who, in turn, sired Himyar, who sired Domino, from whom came Commando and the great tribe of Colin, Superman, Peter Pan, Pennant, etc. Leamington, In i865 Mr. R. W. Cameron imported the English horse Leamington, brown, 1853 foaled, 1853, by Faugh a Ballagh dam by Pantaloon. Twice winner of the Chester Cup and once of the Goodwood Stakes, he was a desirable acquisition to the stud. He had stood at Rawciffe with Newminster, but had not realized expectations. He was shown at the Paterson races in September of i865, having just landed, and was sent to Kentucky to make the season of I866. He served ten mares only, but was an instant success, among his foals of i867 being Enquirer, Long- fellow, Lynchburg, and Lyttleton. In 1867 he returned East and stood at Mr. Cameron's, then he stood at Paterson, N. J., and in i87i at Mr. Hunter's, near Westchester. His success was immense, and in i872 Mr. Aristides Welch pur- chased him for the Erdenheim Stud, near Philadelphia, where he died in I878. He was the first horse to dispute Lexington's supremacy and was four seasons the leader of the winning sires (i875, I877, i879, i88i). Among his best were Iroquois, Harold, Spinaway, Sensation, Aristides, Parole, Olitipa, Susquehanna, Onondaga, Eolus, Reform, and Ferncliffe. 82 CELEBRATED RACE-HORSES "From Dardanus, great Erichthonius springs, The richest, once, of Asia's wealthy kings: Three thousand mares his spacious pastures bred, Three thousand foals beside their mothers fed. Boreas, enamoured of the sprightly train, Concealed his godhead in a flowing mane, With voice dissembled to his loves he neighed And coursed the dappled beauties o'er the mead; Hence sprung twelve others of unrivalled kind, Swift as their mother mares, and father wind." -THE ILIAD. THE "CRACKS" OF THE "SEVENTIES" I1870-I 88o T HE season of 1870 was remarkable for the quality of its three-year-olds- "the best crop since 1864, when Asteroid, Kentucky, and Norfolk ap- peared," was the general verdict. In the two-year-old class it was not so strong, as Harry Bassett was very much superior to all others. But the three- year-olds formed a constellation of stars. There were Enquirer, Kingfisher, Long- fellow, Lynchburg, Foster, Hamburg, Remorseless, Kildare, Preakness, Tele- gram, Maggie B. B., and Ecliptic. In the all-aged class Helmbold and Glenelg were the dominant factors-Helmbold in the spring, Glenelg in the autumn. During the spring and summer of 1870 HeImbold was unbeatable. As a three- year-old, the year before, he had raced as Dublin and won the last seven-all in the West. Then Mr. W. R. Babcock of Rhode Island bought him and renamed him after the well-known New York chemist. He began his four-year-old career by making a show of Glenelg, Vespucius, and Abdel Kader for the Westchester Cup, at Jerome Park, and created such a panic that he had a walkover for most of his races afterward. Mr. Belmont was adding to his stable and asked Bab- cock to price him. "Thirty thousand," said Babcock. "There must be plenty of money in the West." observed the financier. "There's a scarcity of horses in the East when it comes to beating this horse," was Babcock's brave reply. At Saratoga he met the great three-year-old Hamburg (son of Lexington), a colt so highly tried that, despite Helmbold's prestige, he was backed for thou- sands of dollars; but Helmbold beat him and Glenelg easily. At 4 miles in the mud, at Saratoga, he defeated Longfellow in 1871, but he was not what he had been the year before. He was a son of Australian from Rescue by Berthune, his granddam Alice Carneal, the dam of Lexington. While the three-year-olds of i870 were a very high class, Enquirer must be conceded the palm, otherwise the records speak in vain. His form as a two- year-old had rather foreshadowed this, but at three he won every race for which he started. He won the Phoenix, at Lexington, mile heats, and distanced Long- fellow. At Long Branch he beat Maggie B. B. for the Continental; and for the Robins Stakes, 2-mile heats, he beat Kingfisher. At Saratoga, for the first Kenner Stakes, 2 miles, he beat Hamburg, Telegram, and Remorseless. He struck him- self soon after and made the season of i87i at the Bosque Bonita Stud of his owner, General Buford.. He was trained two years later, but without success. 85 " Crack " Tbree- Year- Olds of 1 870 Helmbold, i 866 Enquirer, 1 867 (ACING IN dAMERICA Enquirer was a dark bay with a star and left hind leg white half-way to the hock; his flanks and quarters were marked with white spots, caused by his having tackled a nest of wild bees and was terribly stung. He stood i6.i girthed, 73 inches, his arm at the swell measured 22 inches, from point of shoulder to but- tock, 69 inches. In training he looked leggy, but in those days horses were trained down very "fine." Enquirer as Enquirer's colts appeared in i874, and for twenty years they were almost a Sire as famous as he had been the short season he raced. Searcher was his first, fol- lowed by McWhirter. Then came his greatest son in Falsetto, also Blue Eyes and Inspector B. In 1879 Colonel Buford sold him to the Belle Meade Stud in Ten- nessee for Sio,ooo. Enquirer's dam, Lida, was a daughter of Lexington and Lize by American Eclipse from Gabriella by Sir Archy. Neither his dam nor granddam was trained, but Gabriella was a famous race-mare and the dam of Geo. Martin. Enquirer died September 13, i895, at the ripe age of twenty-eight. Longfellow, Beyond question the most celebrated horse of the decade was Longfellow, 1867 for no horse of his day was a greater object of public notice. His entire career was sensational; extravagant stories of his prowess were frequent, and people seemed to regard him as a superhorse. He was bred by Mr. John Harper at the Nantura Stud, in Kentucky, and was so enormous in size and so unfinished that no attempt was made to train him until three. Even then, in his first race, En- quirer distanced him. But with the autumn he was a different horse, and won five straight races. Coming East in i871 as a four-year-old, he met Preakness and HelmboId at Long Branch, N. J., for the Monmouth Cup, 2Y2 miles. With the tap of the drum he was off, and won with little effort. At Saratoga, for the cup, Kingfisher alone came out to oppose him. It was a great race. Mr. Chas. Wheatly, who started them often, spoke of it. "As long as I live," said he, "I shall never forget it. When the flag fell Kingfisher shot away. As he did so the big brown horse wheeled and gathered himself for a spring. He seemed to rise to an awful height, then he sprang forward, and in a twinkling he was in front." His stride was enormous-some said 26 feet. The first mile was run in i.40, and it broke Kingfisher's heart. Mr. Harper was anxious to return home, Four Miles but he was persuaded to remain for the 4-mile race. Before the day came a heavy in the Mud storm came. Kingfisher was "scratched," and Heimbold was the only competitor Longfellow had. John McClelland knew he had a good "mud horse" in Helm- bold and, making all the pace, never allowed Longfellow to get his breath, and beat him badly. Longfellow The following year (1872) Harry Bassett was champion of the East, and his and Harr party, the McDaniel Confederacy, bantered Mr. Harper for a match. He de- Bassett d clined, but said he would be at Monmouth Park in July and, if Bassett's party wished to race against Longfellow for the cup, he would be prepared to meet 86 z 0 '-I This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RVCE-HORSES them. It is doubtful if any other race during the century attracted greater at- tention. Throughout the winter and spring it was the topic of discussion, and as the day drew near the interest became intense. Longfellow came East in great state, a special car bore the device "Longfellow on his way to Long Branch to meet his friend Harry Bassett." The cup day was one of the warmest of the season. Thirty thousand people gathered to witness it. The accommodations were very bad, people rode on the tops of cars, and such was the crush it was strange there were so few accidents. The horses ran a mile and a quarter. Then Harry Bassett sulked, and Longfellow drew away and won his second Monmouth Cup. A fortnight later the pair met for the Saratoga Cup. Bassett went off with the lead, and the 2 miles were run in 3.30. Then Longfellow seemed to change his legs, and fall back, as his colored jockey rose in his stirrups and began flog- ging. Longfellow answered gamely, but Bassett won by a length. Longfellow pulled up lame, he had lost half of one of his front plates. It closed his career and he entered the stud in 1873. Longfellow was a brown with a blaze covering his nose, his left hind pastern white, and he had a white circle around the coronet of his right hind foot. He stood nearly 17 hands high, with a large head, wide between the eyes, and a Roman nose. He had injured his neck, catching it in a fence as a colt, and it gave it a peculiar twist. He was high at the withers, rather long in the back, had promi- nent shoulder-blades and, while deep in girth, was rather light in his back ribs. When extended his stride was enormous. He was sired by Leamington in his first season here, his dam being Nantura, a superior race-mare, by Brawner's Eclipse, son of American Eclipse; his granddam, Quiz by Bertrand, son of Sir Archy. Through his fourth dam he traced to Blue Beard, and there has always been an uncertainty as to which Blue Beard, as there are several in the Stud-Book. Long- fellow was the product of a complete outcross. His dam traced eight times to Diomed, but in six generations there cannot be found a common ancestor between the pedigrees of his sire and dam. As a sire Longfellow attained to great fame. He never had but one chestnut foal (Landseer), and in 1891 he led the winning sires with 54 starters, winning 143 races and 189,331 in stake money. Among the best of his get were Free- land, Leonatus, Thora, Longstreet, Poet Scout, Jils Johnson. Longfellow died November 5, 1893, at the age of twenty-six. Kingfisber came to Jerome Park in the spring of 1870 and, winning the Belmont Stakes from Foster and a good field, impressed the horsemen most favorably. At Saratoga he was named as a starter for the Travers Stakes, and Mr. Bel- mont, who was anxious to have a starter for the big three-year-old events, was already in treaty for him with Mr. Swigert. Ed. Brown ("Brown Dick") had ridden him for the Belmont, but he could not do the weight. 87 The Cup Races of 1872 Description of Longfellow Kingfisber, 1867 R-ACING IN d4ME RICA4 "Who rides 'the Fisher' to-morrow" was asked the night before the race. "Oh, some colored boy from Long Island," replied Mr. Swigert. But when the bell rang Miller appeared and "Belmont's bought him" was the word that ran from lip to lip, as Miller was at that time Mr. Belmont's fa- vorite jockey. Kingfisher won, beating Telegram, Foster, Chillicothe, and others, and then it was formally announced that Kingfisher would exchange the "blue with white sleeves" of Stockwood for the "maroon and red" of the Nursery. He never lost but once that season, when Enquirer defeated him at 2-mile heats for the Robins Stakes, at Monmouth Park, and even then he won the first heat. Then he was rested until October and won the Jerome Stakes, ridden by Matt Byrnes, who at that time weighed go pounds. A Filly- As a four-year-old he did not start until he met Longfellow, for the Saratoga Breeder Cup, a desperate race, the mile in 1.40, and, while he ran a game race, King- fisher was beaten. For the 3-mile race soon after, Longfellow "scratched" and Kingfisher walked over. He did not start again that year and, as a five-year-old, Alarm beat him twice; but he beat Fadladeen and then retired. Kingfisher was a bay, with star and narrow stripe in his face. He was a horse of good finish, but rather heavy in the shoulders. He had a peculiarity of puffing through his nostrils while at exercise, which at first caused people to think him a "roarer." As a sire he was very successful with regard to fillies, Magnetism, Duchess, Rica, Oriole, Filette, Lady Rosebery being among his daughters, but he had a great son in Prince Royal and good ones in Turenne and Turco. Kingfisher died July i, I89o, aged twenty-three. Harry Bassett, Unless it be Longfellow, no race-horse of his era attained the celebrity of i868 Harny Bassett. He was purchased as a yearling at the Woodburn sale of 1869 by Colonel McDaniel for 325, and finished third in his first race at Saratoga in 1870. He won the Kentucky Nursery and Supper Stakes, and was the winter favorite in the betting on the Belmont Stakes. A field of capital three-year-olds started for the Belmont that year (1871), including Monarchist, Tubman, Stock- wood, Wanderer, By the Sea, and Mary Clark, but Bassett won. After that it was a triumphal procession-the Jersey Derby, Travers, Kenner, Jerome, Reunion, and finally the Bowie Stakes, 4-mile heats, all fell before him, and Bassett retired an unbeaten three-year-old. Cballenge to So great was Harry Bassett's prestige that, despairing of beating him with a Sterling native colt, the late Mr. M. H. Sanford sent Mr. B. G. Bruce to England to buy a horse to beat him. But Favonius, the Derby winner, belonged to Baron Roths- child, Mortemer to Mr. Lefevre, Sterling to Mr. Gretton-all men of wealth and who would not sell. Then Colonel McDaniel challenged Sterling, offering to match Harry Bassett for 5o,ooo a side; but while there was a lot of news- paper talk, nothing came of it. 88 I I W I _ giklS:0 g _ g:S0 9 r CZ - gf J This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED R"CE-HORSES All eyes were turned to Longfellow as the only possible contender with Bassett, whose party offered to match him. Longfellow's owner, Mr. Harper, said he was opposed to matches, but would bring his horse East to race for the Monmouth Cup, which he had won the previous year. The race attracted more attention than any race during the century. It was run before a vast assemblage, and Bas- sett sulked, leaving Longfellow to win. Two weeks later, for the Saratoga Cup, Bassett defeated Longfellow. Not content with beating Longfellow, Colonel McDaniel raced Bassett in all sorts of races, and in the autumn he was evidently stale, and one of the shrewdest trainers remarked: "He's not what he was-the first time he meets a good horse he'll be beaten." The words were prophetic- a few days later Bassett was beaten by Monarchist for the Maturity Stakes. Bassett never recovered the form that marked his early career. He was a horse of amazing beauty, a bright chestnut with a stripe in his face, and both hind legs white. He was a son of Lexington; his dam, Canary Bird, was worth- less as a racer, but she was well bred, being by Albion from Penola by Ainderby. Eph Snedeker, who remembered her in training, described her as "a plain little thing, so nervous she beat herself before she ran her race." Mr. J. B. Pryor, who trained Lexington, was disappointed when he saw Bassett. " I don't like his eye," he said; "he has a pig's eye small." In action Bassett exemplified the poetry of motion-smooth, elastic, without apparent effort. As a sire he had one good colt in George McCullough, and died in November, 1878. When Preakness made his appearance at Baltimore for the Dinner Party Stakes of '70, people asked if Mr. Sanford "expected to beat Foster with a cart- horse." The track was fetlock-deep in mud and "the cart-horse" not only seemed at home in it but beat his field handily. It was his first race, as he had never started a two, and the race was late in October. An enormous colt he was, but people who called him "a cart-horse" did not know that the family of his dam, Bayleaf, were generally inclined to race best in flesh. But when the following spring he came out and won the Westchester Cup from Glenelg and Heimbold, he had fined down considerably. He soon after went amiss, as the horses of that family did when drawn fine, and only recovered in the autumn to win the Ma- turity Stakes at 3 miles. In 1872 he did little, having sustained an injury to his loin; but in 1873 and 1874 he began to play a prominent part in racing, carrying the highest weights. In x875, when eight years old, he seemed better than ever before, winning the Baltimore Cup with 13I pounds, and was third to Wildidle for the Fordham Handicap, at Jerome Park, conceding 27 pounds to the winner. The culmination of the career of Preakness in America was his dead heat with Springbok for the Saratoga Cup of '75. The field was perhaps the highest in point of quality that ever started for that historic event, Grinstead, Olitipa, Aaron Penington, Wildidle, and Rutherford finishing behind the dead-heaters. 89 Harry Bassett and Longfellow Harry Bassett and Monarcbist Preakness, 1867, Wins the Dinner Party Stakes Wins tbe Westcbester Cup The Dead Heat witb Springbok JACING IN d MERICAC Foster, 1867 4-Mile Heats at San Francisco A Forlorn Hope Training Anxieties The same autumn Mr. Sanford sent Preakness and his entire stable to England. The old horse, however, was not what he had been. The Duke of Hamilton purchased him for the stud, where he sired Fiddler, the horse which defeated Foxhall for the Alexandra Plate. Preakness was a bay, son of Lexington and Bayleaf by Yorkshire, therefore full brother to Bayonet and Beacon, but taller and more massive. Foster was the most richly coated horse ever seen-a beautiful golden chest- nut. He was one of eight yearlings Mr. Daniel Swigert purchased at Woodburn in i868, and later sold him to Captain T. G. Moore. A son of Lexington from Verona by Yorkshire, granddam imported Britannia, sister to Muley Moloch, he was somewhat of a freak as to his golden color, for his dam, a black mare, had never foaled any color but bay or brown. He was a full brother to Vauxhall, but more refined in appearance. He was second to Kingfisher for the Belmont Stakes of '70, and struck to him for the Travers. The same autumn the Lam- bard Stakes was run at Jerome Park, Mr. C. A. Lambard donating 3,ooo, and Foster won. He became a hot favorite for the Dinner Party Stakes at the Balti- more inaugural meeting, where he met the "unknown quantity" in Preakness, who won. As a four-year-old Foster won eight out of eleven races, beating Salina (Salvator's dam) at 4-mile heats. After that he had trouble with his feet, and could only race at rare intervals. "A period of four years is supposed to elapse," as they say in the playbills. In California, 4-mile heat races for large purses had grown in fashion and at- tracted the crack horses of the East. Wildidle, Springbok, Joe Daniels, Katie Pease, True Blue, Rutherford, and Grinstead had gone across the mountains in search of California's gold. In the winter of 1876 a purse of 30,000 was offered for a race of 4-mile heats, and Captain Moore and Mr. Littell pinned their faith on Wildidle, whom they had taken to California the previous winter, and de- feated Grinstead. But Wildidle broke down. Captain Moore was stranded, with two jockeys, thousands of miles from home. The prospect was unpleasant, but he resolved upon a bold experiment. Away off to the North, in one of the fertile valleys of Oregon, was the old horse Foster, in whom Captain Moore still retained an interest. He was past his prime as a racer, but he proposed sending for him, and did so as a forlorn hope. One evening when the boat came in Captain Moore, Brown, and Billy Lakeland were on the wharf and learned that Foster was aboard. It was a mo- ment of intense anxiety, and when he was led ashore Lakeland exclaimed: "Here he comes ! A poor man's friend in a strange country I" He was taken to Sacramento and his preparation begun. He made no reduction in flesh, and his twelve quarts were cut down to nine. His work was increased to 3-mile gallops, then 2 miles and repeat. Horsemen around Sacramento shook their heads and 90 CELEBRATED RJGCE-HORSES declared Lucky Baldwin would "surely win with Rutherford," as "no horse could stand the work Foster was getting." But the glorious old horse improved, his muscles hardened and his beautiful golden coat glistened in the sunlight. Captain Moore gained confidence and Lakeland had 500 in cash and two gold watches that he insisted should be bet for him. Ten days before the race Foster became cunning and stopped at the stand. Lakeland was told to pull up at some other point and hit him if he stopped at the stand. When the whip was raised the horse saw it and bolted, as his brother Vauxhall used to do, and "blinkers" were put on him. Then he pulled up lame in the near fore foot and "His Last his shoes were pulled off. "He's taken his last gallop," said Lakeland, as he dis- Gallop" mounted. Bar-plates were put on him and the trip to San Francisco begun. How he defeated Rutherford in two heats and distanced Hock Hocking, Katie Foster Wins Pease, Revenue, Jr., Golden Gate, Chance, etc., is a matter of history. "Here's to Lexington's gamest and best of his breed; From fetlock to forehead, true son of his sire; Fit to race for a crown at a Kingdom's last need. Compact of the whirlwind and heavens own fire. Then up with the "dark blue," and hip, hip, hurrah I For speed and for courage was e'er such a horse I Three cheers and three more for the gallant young bay I Three cheers for Monarchist, lord of the course I" -CAPTAIN CONNOR. Mr. Milton H. Sanford always maintained that had Monarcbist raced as Monarcbist, a two-year-old he would have proved the greatest racer of his generation. He i868 began his career at three, unplaced to Harry Bassett for the Belmont Stakes of '7i and second to Bassett for the Jersey Derby and Jerome Stakes; but he won the Annual Stakes and Grand National Handicap. As a four-year-old he won all his races except when he tried to concede Fanchon i6 pounds. Then came the Maturity Stakes, 3 miles, at Jerome Park, for which he met Harry Bassett. Of course, Bassett, as the conqueror of Longfellow and champion of the turf, was the favorite, while it was 6 to i against Monarchist, whom Bassett had always beaten. "Shall we wait, as usual" asked Chas. Littlefield, Monarchist's trainer, as he saddled his horse. "No," answered Mr. Sanford, "we have always waited on Bassett, and he Riding to has always beaten us. I want you, William (turning to Hayward), to go out and Orders make pace from the start. Race Bassett off his legs-if you can." Hayward sent Monarchist off like a quarter-horse, Bassett stuck to him until the last mile, when the shout "Bassett's beaten I" rang out. And so it proved. Seven days later they met at 4 miles. Bassett was again favorite. The public 91 Ri4CING 1N c/MERICA refused to believe the form true; but Monarchist had the race at his mercy be- fore they had gone a mile. Horse 11 nims Monarchist resembled his sire, Lexington, more than any son of that horse. A rich dark bay, 15.2Y2, with a large star and snip on his nose, both fore and left hind pasterns white. Not as large a horse as Bassett, he girthed 76 inches, his arm at the swell measured 19Y2 inches, and from hip to hock he measured 40 inches. He was very highly finished, and his action, while not as perfect as that of Harry Bassett, was so regular that he never rocked. Among his peculiarities was the dislike he took to a Jockey dressed in racing colors. Hayward, his old pilot, and one of the most patient of men, tried to coax him into letting him mount, but Monarchist would not have it, and Hayward was compelled to put a coat over his "dark-blue" Jacket before the horse would allow him to reach the saddle. He was a son of Lexington-Mildred by Glencoe-Mildred, a daugh- ter of old Levity by Trustee. AMa eie B. B., Maggie B. B. was bred by Mr. James B. Clay, Jr., of Kentucky, and her name 8(6- grew out of a romance. It was no secret that Mr. Clay aspired to the hand of Miss Maggie B. Beck, a daughter of Mr. James B. Beck, United States Senator from Kentucky. The lady was one of the most beautiful and accomplished of that brilliant coterie that shone at the gay federal capital during the late "sixties." But the waters of true love seldom run smoothly. Senator Beck did not look kindly upon the match. It was broken off, and the lady married the relation of a well-known banker of Washington. Her Name- But the myrtle soon replaced the orange-blossom, and the grass has grown "Thu rdw over the grave where the young bride is buried. While Mr. Clay smarted with Hans a the "pangs of despised love," he did nothing rash, but, in true cavalier spirit, he Tole" named his filly Maggie B. B., after the girl he had loved and lost. As a two-year-old Maggie B. B. won two out of four races. She defeated En- AMaggie B. B. quirer, Hamburg, Lynchburg, and Lyttleton-the cream of the West, and was as a Racer sold to Mr. Mark A. Littell, of Fordham, N. Y., who gave her to Captain Moore to handle. At three she won the Sequel Stakes at Saratoga, was second to Glenelg for the Excelsior, and to Enquirer for the Continental Stakes at Long Branch. As a brood-mare she is famous as the dam of Iroquois, winner of the Derby, in England; but his brother Harold was quite as good. Both were by Leamington, while to Alarm she produced Panique, winner of the Belmont of '85. While at the Erdenheim Stud, near Philadelphia, she also produced Pera, Jaconet, and Francesca by Leamington, and Red and Blue by Alarm, from which mares have come Whisk Broom II, Blue Girl, Sallie McClelland, Belvidere, Sir Dixon, etc. As a Maggie B. B. was not a tall mare, but very stout-bodied, on short legs, marked Brood-Mare with a stripe and right hind coronet white. She was by Australian from Made- 92 CELEBRATED AJACE-HORSES line by Boston, granddam Magnolia (dam of Kentucky, Gilroy, Daniel Boone, and Skedaddle) by Glencoe, her third dam, imported Myrtle by Mameluke (Derby 1827) from Bobadilla, winner of the Ascot Gold Cup, i828. She produced many foals, seldom missing a year; but she missed the year before she produced Iroquois. Her descendants are often like herself, namely, a kind which mature early and make great two-year-olds but do not "train on." Racing people recall Eolus as a sire rather than a race-horse. Yet, while he did not figure in the "first flight," he won eight out of seventeen races in the three seasons he started. He was bred by Major Thos. W. Doswell in Virginia, and was a son of Leamington from the celebrated race-mare Fanny Washington by Revenue. Mr. John Harbeck of New York bought him and placed him in Snedeker's hands. After he retired from racing no one knew where he was until the late Major R. J. Hancock, who had always admired him, traced him to the farm of a Mr. Cranor in Cecil County, Md., where he had been broken to harness and was drawing a road-wagon. Major Hancock gave the stallion Scathlock and 1,ooo for Eolus, and he began life at the Ellerslie Stud in Virginia. He had but a few mares, but from War Song he sired Eole, St. Saviour, Eolist, and Eon; and from other mares he sired Eolian, Eurus, Morello, Knight of Ellerslie, and Russell. Considering his limited chances, Eolus was the most successful sire of his day. Joe Daniels, son of Australian and Dolly Carter by Glencoe, was quite the best three-year-old of 1872. As a two-year-old he was put into a selling race so cheaply that Colonel McDaniel had to pay handsomely to keep him. James Rowe rode him at 98 pounds that year. He won the Nursery at two, beating Alarm. At three he won the Belmont and upset the "sure thing" it was thought to be for Cape Race. He also won the Jerome, Travers, Annual, and Kenner. He trained at four and five, and went to California in i874 to start for the 4-mile heat race at San Francisco, but he broke down and Katie Pease won. Katie Pease was the best of the fillies by Planet. Colonel McDaniel bought her dam, Minnie Mansfield, with Hubbard at her foot and in foal with Katie, for 325, and it was one of the best bargains he ever made. Katie won the Ladies' Stakes and fifteen other races, including the purse of 25,000 in gold, at San Francisco 4-mile heats, in which she defeated Thad Stevens, Joe Daniels, Hock Hocking, Alpha, etc., in 7.43Y4-7.3634. Hubbard, the chestnut son of Planet and Minnie Mansfield, was another of the great stable of Colonel McDaniel in 1872. He was rather a handsome colt and a capital racer, but Joe Daniels was the better of the two, Hubbard being often used as Joe's pace-maker. But at the Baltimore autumn meeting Hubbard had his inning, and won the Dixie Stakes, worth 13,800. Frank McCabe rode him, and, as an example of the compensation of jockeys in those days, it might 93 Eolus, i868 Rescued from Obscurily Joe Daniels, 1869 Katie Pease, 1 870 Hubbard, i 86o A Fee for Riding a Winner JACING IN dAMERICA be stated that Colonel McDaniel rewarded Frank's successful ride by bestow- ing upon him the munificent sum of two dollars! Frank tells the story often, and adds: "What made it worse was that I slept in the stable-loft that night, and a nigger groom stole it." lVanderer, Wanderer was intended for a great race-horse, but, sad to say, he was "tempera- 1868 mental," restless, and a notorious "stall-walker," spending whole hours during the night tramping and wearing himself out. He was one of those three-year- olds that each season Mr. Swigert used to bring East to start for the Belmont, in which race Wanderer made his first appearance. He improved with age and at four and five was at his best. He was a winner of both the Westchester and Monmouth Cups, and was a good second to Fellowcraft when the latter beat Lexington's time at 4 miles, doing it in 7.I9'2. As a sire, Wanderer was moder- ately successful, but his nervous temperament no doubt affected the stamina of his stock. Alarm, Alarm was the champion miler of his day, but a mile was his limit in "good 869 company." His stable soon discovered that and acted accordingly. At two he won a match 5,ooo a side from Inverary but she beat him later at Jerome Park for A Cbampion Dessert Stakes, i mile, after a desperate finish. At three years old Alarm won Miler every race for which he started. Twice he defeated Kingfisher, and Tubman, Midday, Fadladeen, Platina, and Alroy all saw his heels. A special race at a mile was arranged at Saratoga for the purpose of bringing Alarm, Tom Bowling, and Kingfisher together. Mr. Minor, his trainer, began preparing Alarm for the race, but in his trial over the Centerville, L. I., course the colt pulled up lame, and the next year (1874) found him established at Mr. Grinstead's in Kentucky. The Founder Alarm gave "hostages to fortune" by siring Himyar and Danger the first of a Family year he was in the stud, and thus founded the great winning line of Himyar, Domino, Commando, Peter Pan, Cap and Bells, Transvaal, Pennant, Tryster, Boniface, Superman, Colin, Prudery, and Bunting. Mr. John Hunter bred Alarm in i869 at his Annieswood farm, Westchester, N. Y. He was first called Flash, and was by Mr. Francis Morris's stallion imported Eclipse from the imported mare Maud (by Stockwell), a fine mare which Mr. Hunter lost in 1873 by slip- ping from a car when she was being shipped to Erdenheim to be bred to Leam- ington. Alarm's Sweet A bright bay, with a star, right hind leg and left fore leg white, with a circle Disposition of white around the coronet of the left fore foot, were Alarm's marks. He stood i5.3Y2 and was a horse of enormous substance. He girthed 75 inches, his arm at the swell i9 inches. His neck was short like Ormonde's and grew to be posi- tively massive later in life. From the day he was foaled he was noted for his mild disposition. Andrew Mahoney and Ed. France were the first boys who rode him after he had been broken, and both worshipped him. Frank and Billy 94 CELEBRATED R"CE-HORSES Grey, the stable jockeys, fairly fought to ride him, and Mr. Minor always had a kind word for "the fat fellow." We need the presence of Mr. Price McGrath, with his red necktie and white Tom Bowling, hat, to tell us of Tom Bowling, the hero of i873-"the greatest race-horse, sir, 1870 that ever looked through a bridle." He was a black-brown by Lexington from Lucy Fowler by imported Albion. It had been McGrath's intention to call him Dauphin, "for," said he, "he's the son of a King-a King among horses and his sire's successor as America's greatest race-horse." But the French cut up so badly both in and after the Franco-Prussian War, he named him Tom Bowling. When ex-Vice-President John C. Breckenridge saw him he told McGrath the colt would do for a quarter or half a mile, but never would stay a mile. "If that's the case I'd better call him Breckenridge," returned McGrath, "for you beat Bob Letcher for Congress-that's one quarter; then you beat Leslie Combes -that's another quarter; you won the Vice-Presidency-that's three quarters. But when you ran for President you couldn't stay the distance." Tom Bowling was the most blood-like and beautiful of all the Lexingtons. His Beyond his maternal granddam, his pedigree was in doubt, but no horse ever Tantrums looked the thoroughbred more than he. He won three races at two and became very wild and intractable. He was quite the despair of poor old Ansel, his col- ored trainer, when he came to Jerome Park, where he would spend a half-hour rearing and plunging before he would consent to gallop. In his race for the Jer- sey Derby, at Monmouth, he got away so fast that no other horse had a chance, and it provoked a bitter feeling. He won the Travers, Jerome, Annual, and Dixie; but Lizzie Lucas beat him for the Ocean Stakes, at Monmouth. At four he won the Monmouth Cup and other events. In the stud his wild spirits did not forsake him. In fact, he became somewhat savage. One of his curious traits was watch- Becomes a ing for rats. He would stand for hours watching, and when a rat appeared, he Savage would pounce upon it and tramp it to death. His chief stud triumph was as the sire of General Monroe, winner of the first race for the Suburban, 1884. Many turfmen held Tom Bowling not only as the best son of Lexington but the best race-horse of his generation. Springbok, Colonel McDaniel, and Jimmy Rowe formed a frequent group Springbok, at Jerome Park during the morning gallops, when the irate old Colonel had fre- 1870 quent recourse to his big stick, for Springbok was a fractious colt, and when Rowe or McCabe tried to mount him it meant a scene. Mr. Swigert brought Springbok to Jerome Park as a two-year-old, and, after winning a race with him, sold him to Colonel McDaniel for 2,ooo and a contingency. At three he fol- lowed in the footsteps of Harry Bassett and Joe Daniels by winning the third consecutive Belmont Stakes for the "blue, red sash" of McDaniel. He was sec- ond to The III Used for the Kenner and to Tom Bowling for the Jerome, but 95 q1;JCING IN d4ME RI CA Rowe always thought he should have won that day. At four years old he won nine consecutive races, including the Saratoga Cup. Dead Heat As a five-year-old, in 1875, Springbok seemed to have improved with age. for flue Cup He won eight races and ran the memorable dead heat with Preakness for the Saratoga Cup, beating a field of unusual excellence. He was a magnificent speci- "He men of the thoroughbred, and in stud form recalled to many Stockwell's picture Resemblles by Harry Hall. Beautifully turned, powerfully built, he was one of the most Siockicll" impressive of horses. He stood i6 hands, a bright chestnut, with a star and stripe covering his left nostril, left fore and both hind legs white half-way to his hocks. He was by Australian from Hester by Lexington, and in the stud sired some good performers, among them Ascalon, Markland, Clipsetta, Bondholder, etc. His Higb Springbok was at times enough to try the patience of a saint. In vain old Spirits Colonel McDaniel roared at him and used his big stick. It was not until George Barbee rode him, and he tried to rear, that Barbee gave him a stroke of the whip that made him realize he had a master. Barbee was, for his size, a man of great strength, and when he used his whip a horse never forgot it-Sachem in the match with Onondaga in i88i, for example. 11 W'oCldinC, Woodbine was "the filly of her year" (1872), a daughter of Censor or Kentucky 86X) from Fleur des Champs by Newminster, and was the first high-class filly the elder Mr. Belmont bred. The Alabama Hunter and Monmouth Oaks Stakes all fell to her share, and in the stud she soon made a name for herself as the dam of Lizzie Lucas, Forester, who won the Belmont Stakes of '82. Lizzie Lucas, one of the best X870 fillies of 1873, was an iron-gray when in training, but when we last saw her at Rancocas, in i886, she was a beautiful lily-white mare. A daughter of Australian from Eagless by Glencoe, she won the Chesapeake, Hunter, Oaks, and Ocean Stakes, in the latter defeating Tom Bowling. In the stud she was the dam of Chimera, Cyclops, and Cerise, the dam of Morello. Salina, Salina was one of "the stable full of fillies" Colonel Abe Buford brought East (868 inf 1871 with Hollywood, Nellie Grey, and Malita. She was a rare type, the beau-ideal of a race-mare, and won nine out of fourteen races that season, in- cluding the Monmouth Oaks, the Robins, and Continental Stakes. She was a daughter of Lexington-Lightsome by Glencoe, marked with a star and right The Darn of hind pastern white. In the stud she added to her fame by foaling the celebrated Salrator colt Salvator by Prince Charlie. Mr. Haggin acquired her, and Salina sleeps in the old paddock she and Florida (Ferenzi's dam) occupied together during their sojourn at Rancho del Paso. 11 i/id(lc, Wildidle was a son of Australian, but horsemen looking him over often re- I-( marked: "He looks more like a Lexington." His dam was by Lexington-none other than the famous old one-eyed mare Idlewild. Wildidle won the Nursery Stakes of '72 in a canter and was a strong winter favorite in the books for the 96 CELEBRA TED 7(CE-HORSES Belmont. Indeed, it was considered a "gift" to him, but a week before the race he went lame, and could not be raced until he was four. It was not until he was a five-year-old that he recovered his form. Then they tried to keep the fact a secret. He was trained at Pryor's track, at Holmdel, N. J., but somebody must have "touted" him from the hill a quarter of a mile away, using a field-glass, for the very evening after his trial he was backed in New York to win the Ford- ham Handicap. He won it, and also the Jockey Club Handicap. Mr. Littell sent him to California, where he won the Wise Plate, 4 miles in 7.25YX, beating Grin- stead, but broke down soon after. "Who the deuce is The Ill Used" was the query when the newspaper bulle- tins in New York announced his victory for the Sequel Stakes at Saratoga. The elder Belmont was not inapt in choosing names for his colts, and The Ill Used certainly deserved his name. In his only start at two, the Nursery, he was knocked down at the start, while the next spring in the race for the Belmont Stakes he was cut down by his stable companion, Count d'Orsay. He won the Sequel, beating Fellowcraft and four others, and then captured the Kenner, beating a splendid field-Strachino, Springbok, Waverley, Whisper, and Catesby included. Mr. Weatherby bought him for Mr. Belmont at the Middle Park sale in England in 1871 for 520 guineas. He was of the most illustrious lineage, being by Blair Athol's brother Breadalbane from Ellermire by Chanticleer; granddarn Ellerdale by Lauercost. As a sire he made his mark with His Highness, Fides, and several other noted ones. A more gawky, angular colt than Catesby when he won the Saratoga Stakes at two, beating Springbok and all the "cracks," it would have been difficult to find. He did not shine at three, but at four he won the Maturity, 3 miles, beating Wildidle, and was a real stayer. Bred by Governor Bowie, in Maryland, by im- ported Eclipse from Katie by Two Bits, he had a real old, hard-bottomed Ameri- can pedigree. He stood i6 hands and had a wonderful stride. As a sire he early became noted through his son Crickmore, the gelding which defeated Hindoo and was a really first-class racer. His dam, Katie, narrowly escaped life as a work- horse on a farm. When Bowie and Hall divided their horses Katie fell to Mr. Frank Hall, who disposed of her to a friend, who tried her and returned her as "no good." Governor Bowie wanted another brood-mare and gave Mr. Hall a yoke of oxen in exchange for her. It was four years since he had seen her, and when she arrived she was such a weedy-looking thing he had her broken to harness. When hitched to a farm wagon she broke three wagon tongues and sev- eral sets of harness, and, despairing of her in that capacity, Governor Bowie sent her and Silver Star to Mr. Morris's at Westchester, N. Y., to be bred to Eclipse. Two colts were the result. As yearlings they were turned out into a corn-field of ioo acres. Neighbors remonstrated with Governor Bowie for "wasting a thou- 97 Touting His Trial The Ill Used, 1870 I-Iis Illustrious Ancestry Catesby, 1870 A Yoke of Oxen for a Mare RGCING IN d ME RICA A Good sand barrels of the finest corn in Maryland on a pair of overgrown colts," but Sportsman the Governor replied that he "hoped to raise a colt worth more than all the corn in Prince George County." And he did, for when Catesby won the Saratoga Stakes he refused an offer of So,ooo. Fellouwcraft, "He resembles a buck red deer, more especially with that black stripe down 1870 his back," was the description given Feflowc-raft by a gentleman one morning at Jerome Park, and it was not amiss. He had a beautiful deer-like head, and his body was faultless in outline. There was a grace and litheness to him that recalled a deer. Mr. Littell purchased him at the Woodburn sale of yearlings and he won only once out of five starts at two years old. At three he was only mod- erate, but at four he awoke and made a sensation by beating the 4-mile time of Lexington at Saratoga, doing it in 7.19y4, beating Wanderer and Katie Pease. By Australian from Acrolite (sister to Idlewild) by Lexington he was a full brother to Spendthrift, Mozart, and other winners. Evidently staying was his forte, and yet, such are the vagaries of breeding, he never sired a stayer, Blue Lodge and Knight Templar being the best of his get. Waverley, For beauty Waverley had few equals. Mr. Grinstead sent him and the gray 1870 Crockford to Jerome Park, in 1873, to win the Belmont and the Weatherby Stakes, but both failed. Waverley ran second to Tom Bowling for the Travers and unplaced for the Kenner, and his old trainer Mr. Tisdale shook his head sadly. "A glorious horse, sir; yes, sir. He hasn't done well out here, sir; but wait until he gets back in his own country," he observed. True, Waverley did win races when he returned to Kentucky, but he soon after broke down and joined Gilroy and Alarm at Walnut Hill. He began famously as a sire of Wallenstien, Mistake, Duke of Montrose, and Sir Hugh, but died of colic in 1878. He was a rich brown, with a crooked roan stripe. His head was as clean-cut as a cameo, and he stood high on the leg. Waverley was by Australian from imported Cicily Jopson by Weatherbit, and he promised very great things as a sire. Saxon, The leading three-year-olds of 1874 were Acrobat, Attila, Saxon, Reform, and 1871 Vandalite. Saxon, who had the distinction of introducing Mr. Pierre Lorillard's cherry jacket, was an imported colt, bred in England by Sir Joseph Hawley. He was by Beadsman from imported Girasol, and "came out" with his dam. He won at two, but his racing fame rests upon his sensational winning of the Belmont Stakes. He won by a head after an electric rush at the finish, ridden by George Barbee. Many people said "it was Barbee more than the horse" that won. He was a pretty good colt, however, as he ran second for the Jersey Derby, and in the stud sired Hiawasse, and Gerald, the colt Mr. Lorillard sent to Eng- land. Reform, The lop-eared Reform has some claim to fame besides being the sire of Re- 1871 dare and grandsire of Ben Brush. He was bred by Mr. Cameron on Staten Isl- 98 CELEBRATED 'I(4CE-HORSES and, N. Y., and was a brown, with a blaze face, by Leamington from imported Stolen Kisses by Knight of Kars. Anthony Taylor, the quaint Yorkshireman, trained him and came in for no end of chaff about his ears when on the training ground. "Where did you get the mule" was often the query referring to Re- form's lop ears. "Ne'er moind 'is ears, lads-e'll prick when e' lands t' tin," Mr. Taylor would reply. Sure enough he did, and was so good a racer that he was selected by Mr. Welch to succeed his sire at Erdenheim, where the foals of i879 were described as "by Leamington or Reform." Vandalite, the heroine of 1874, was not a showy filly, a brown with a large head Vandalite, and that heavy forehead so peculiar to many of the Vandals. She was ragged- 1871 hipped, but had great length, and cut away behind the croup. Bred by General Harding, at Belle Meade in Tennessee, she was by Vandal from Vesperlight by Childe Harold, and raced in the colors of A. B. Lewis. She was a very hardy filly, beginning her season in February and raced until November, winning the Sequel at Saratoga, beating Grinstead; the Annual, beating Rutherford; while at Baltimore she won both the Dixie and Breckenridge Stakes, and in the stud foaled to Saxon's cover the noted filly Hiawasse. Acrobat and Attila ran a dead heat for the Travers Stakes of '74 and were, Attila, probably, the best of the year. Attila, a brown by Australian from Ultima by 1871 Lexington, won all his races. It was a strong field that finished behind him in the Travers. There was Steel Eyes, Reform, Brigand, Aaron Pennington, Grin- stead, and Stampede. There was a furious finish between four of them. The Dead Heat judges announced a dead heat between Attila and Acrobat, and there was an for tbe uproar, as many thought Steel Eyes had won. Acrobat and Attila had finished Travers on the outside rail, while Brigand and Steel Eyes had finished together on the Stakes inside. Sparling was blamed for Acrobat's failure to win, and Hayward was sub- stituted; but in the run-off, Attila, in Mr. P. Lorillard's colors, won the race. It was a Pyrrhic victory, as Attila pulled up lame soon after and never started again. Acrobat lost the Travers in the run-off after the dead heat with Attila, but he Acrobat, had already won the Robins Stakes at Monmouth, ran second for the Kenner, 1871 and won the Jerome, beating Madge, Bannerette, Brigand, Grinstead, and Pennington, and on the last day of the Jerome Park autumn meeting had a chance to show that Mr. Swigert was not wrong in saying when he sold him to Mr. K. W. Sears of Boston: "I believe this is the fastest colt in America." It was over a 24-mile course with Wildidle and Whisper. His jockey pulled him up at the stand, believing it was a i Y-mile race. The other horses were half a fur- A Great long ahead when Acrobat started in pursuit, but, racing with lion-hearted cour- Finisb age, he caught and passed them, winning in 4.33Y4. The next year he defeated Rutherford, and in 1876 won the Centennial Stakes, 4-mile heats. Acrobat was 99 RCING IN ed MERICIAC A False Trial Arisildes antd Callbin, 1 872 A ristidLs Defeats Ten Broeck a chestnut by Lexington from Sallie Lewis by Glencoe, and was a colt of the highest class; but he was always handicapped by shelly feet and their soles, that made him hard to train. His early death was generally lamented, as his breeding, tracing through the Maid of the Oaks family, was very desirable. The death of Mr. A. J. Minor, who trained Mr. John Hunter's horses, occurring in the winter of 1875, caused Mr. Hunter to sell, and the fillies Sultana and Olitipa went to the elder Mr. Belmont for Sio,ooo. The previous year Olitipa as a two- year-old had won the Nursery and the Flash, the latter in 474,- the best on rec- ord to date. At three she won the Ladies', Maryland, Alabama, and Hunter Stakes. She was a white-legged chestnut, bred at Mr. Hunter's place in West- chester, N. Y., and was by Leamington-Oliata by Lexington. Her trainer, Mr. Minor, while one of the most genial of men, was not unlearned in the art of keep- ing stable secrets. At Saratoga in 1874 he gave Olitipa, Rhadamanthus, King Bolt, and Australind a trial in full view of the public. Every one expected Olitipa would finish first, as she had just won the Flash Stakes in record time. But no I Rhadamanthus finished first. Mr. Belmont, on the strength of what his trainer saw, purchased Rhadamanthus for S7,ooo. "Rhad" was a flier, but Ohitipa could always outrun him. Mr. Minor had juggled the weights; no one but he knew that Olitipa had 12 pounds the worst of it, and Mr. Hunter won a big bet soon after, when Olitipa beat Rhadamanthus for the Nursery. In i87I Mr. Cameron sent Leamington to make the season at Mr. Hunter's at Westchester, N. Y., and mares from all over the country were sent to him. It was there he sired Rhadamanthus, Olitipa, James A., Hyder Ali, Lelaps, Megara, Bob Wooley, Katie Pearce, and last, not least, Aristides. It was Aris- tides who won the first Kentucky Derby (i875), and, coming East, won the Withers. He could, and should, have won the Belmont, also, but Lewis nearly pulled his head off to allow Bob Swim to win with Calvin, and the crowd shouted: "Let go that horse's head I" But Mr. McGrath had backed Calvin in the winter books to win 3o,ooo, and, of course, preferred to win with him. Calvin was a brown by Tipperary from Lucy Fowler and won the Jersey Derby also. He had fine action, loping along like an old dog-fox before a pack of hounds; but he was not the equal of Aristides and was cut down in a race due to the foul riding of his jockey. Aristides improved with age, winning the Jerome Stakes. Tom Ochiltree beat him for the Dixie; but he beat Ochiltree for the Breckenridge. As a four-year- old Aristides started twice. He defeated Ten Broeck at Lexington, 24 miles in 3.453, and then beat Bazar, 2Y miles in 4.27X2. At the time he seemed to be the best horse in training. He was a chestnut by Leamington from Sarong by Lexington. Not a large horse, he was exquisitely moulded and was one of the best of that great stable that raced under the "green and gold" of Mr. McGrath. 100 lt- oo ai u LIq z F- This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED 9J(ACE-HORSES Ten Broeck was a sensational horse from first to last. He did not start until Ten Broeck, three and won five out of eight starts. At four he won all his races except when 1872 he met Aristides, and ended by beating Fellowcraft's time for 4 miles, doing it in 7.1534. At five he won nine out of ten races, and so completely outclassed horses racing in the West that owners would not start them against him, and he ran special races against time, doing a mile in I .394, 2 miles in 3.27X2, and 3 miles in 5.3434. In the East, Parole and Tom Ochiltree had shown the highest form and an Parole effort was made to bring Ten Broeck East to race with them. Baltimore offered Defeats Ten to add Si,ooo to a sweepstakes of 5oo each, 234 miles, and Mr. Harper was per- Brotck suaded to bring Ten Broeck to Pimlico. The race was run October 24, i877, and aroused public interest as no race had done since the meeting of Longfellow and Harry Bassett in 1872. Ten Broeck was an overwhelming favorite and led for two miles when Parole shot to the front and won by five lengths in 4.3734. The Western men could not believe their eyes. They concluded he could not be him- self, and pointed to his scouring as evidence. Yet he came out three days later and won the Bowie Stakes, 4-mile heats. Mr. P. Lorillard offered to start Parole against him November 6, at Jerome Park. Both horses were brought North, but in his work Ten Broeck did not please Mr. Harper, and Parole walked over. As a six-year-old Ten Broeck started twice and won. He was matched to race the California mare Mollie McCarthy 4-mile heats at Louisville, and after he had distanced her in the first heat retired to the stud, where he had some success. He was a bay, with a star and some white around his hind feet. He was the beau- ideal of a race-horse in appearance, but probably was overrated, for when fit and well Aristides always beat him. He was by the English horse Phlxton (son of King Tom), and his dam, Fannie Holton, was from Nantura, Longfellow's dam. It is one of the curiosities of breeding that two of the leading three-year-oIds King of x875, King Alfonso and Ten Broeck, should have been sons of so obscure Alfonso, a sire as Phwton, an imported son of King Tom-Merry Sunshine by Storm, 1872 who, while a beautifully topped horse, had such infirm limbs as rendered him useless for racing. King Alfonso was bred by Mr. Warren Viley, in Kentucky, from the mare Capitola by Vandal, and was a bay with a star, plain about the head, but full-bodied, standing i6 hands. He did not start until three and won the Kentucky St. Leger, Tobacco, and Galt House Stakes at Louisville, and Hotel Stakes at Nashville. He defeated Ten Broeck, Voltigeur, and all the colts of the West. At four, while running a trial, he struck himself, and entered the Woodburn Stud in April, 1876. Late in the season as it was, he sired Fonso, winner of the Kentucky Derby of '8o, and Grenada, winner of the Belmont and Preakness of the same year. In his second season (i877) he sired the cele- I0I RJCING IN L4MERICA brated Foxhall, winner in Europe of the Grand Prix de Paris and Cambridge- shire. Later he sired Quito, Lizzie Dwyer, Don Fulano, Telemachus, etc. Tom For size, bone, and coarseness, Tom Ochiltree surpassed all contemporaries. Ocbiltree, Advocates of inbreeding loved to point to this, as he had nine crosses of Diomed. 1872 Mr. John F. Chamberlain purchased him as a yearling, and owing to his size and backwardness he did not start until three and won the Preakness, Annual, and Dixie Stakes. At four he won eight races out of ten, including the Baltimore, Saratoga, and Monmouth Cups, and the Centennial Cup at Jerome Park. At five he won nine out of fourteen, including the Baltimore and Westchester Cups; but Parole beat him for the Saratoga Cup and the Special at Baltimore. He was a bay, with a small star, a son of Lexington from Katona by Voucher. As he grew older he became more fine; but he was always a monster of size, some idea of which may be had when it is stated he stood 16.2YX, girthed 76 inches; his arm at the swell measured 23 inches; below the knee he measured lo inches; his gaskin x8 inches; his shoulder-blade 29 inches; and from hip to hock 43 inches. Sultana, "If you are racing forfun, you must stick to the Levity family," was a favorite 1873 pun of Harry Stull, the artist. He might, with more propriety, have added, if you are racing for profit; as no racing family has equalled that, tracing to the old mare Levity by imported Trustee, and of which Sultana was a shining light. Mr. Belmont profited handsomely through his purchase of Mr. Hunter's horses; and particularly through Sultana, a bay filly by Lexington from Mildred by Glencoe; granddam, old Levity. She was a full sister to Monarchist and, like him, was not large, but rather more plain. She was "the filly of her year," winning the Ladies', Maryland, Travers, Hunter, and Annual of '76-I6,950 in value. As a brood-mare she did not breed as successfully as most of the Levity strain; but one of her daughters foaled Norman who won the Two Thousand Guineas in England for the present Mr. Belmont. To write of the career of the renowned gelding Parole it would cover ten con- secutive seasons of racing (i875-1884), during which he started in I37 races, winning 59 and 82,909.25. During this time he defeated Tom Ochiltree, Ten Broeck, Monitor, Ferida, Eole, and every noted horse of the period; while in England he defeated Isonomy and won the City and Suburban, Great Metro- politan, and Epsom Gold Cup, and became known as "the hero of two conti- nents." Parole, Parole was bred by Mr. Aristides Welch, at Erdenheim Stud, near Philadelphia, 1873 and was the champion two-year-old of i875, winning the July, August, Saratoga, and Kentucky Stakes. At three he was sent West for the Kentucky Derby, but change of water caused scouring, and he was beaten. He won the Excelsior, Sequel, and All-Aged Stakes; and at four he won eight out of twelve starts, in- 102 x - 00 Li o ;_ This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RJCE-HORSES cluding the Saratoga Cup, Summer Handicap, Maturity Stakes (3 miles), and the Special at Baltimore, beating Ten Broeck and Tom Ochiltree. The race at Baltimore was a reversal of form, as a fortnight previous Tom Parole and Ochiltree had beaten Parole, but Parole had, in the interval, been treated for Ten Broeck cracked heels, and the ground that day was damp and, therefore, suited him. After Ten Broeck's owner declined another race, Mr. Lorillard issued a chal- lenge to race Parole against any horse in America. At five Parole won the Bal- timore, Saratoga, and Monmouth Cups of '78, and in October was shipped to England with Duke of Magenta. Mr. Lorillard had no great expectations of Parole's Parole in England. He was six years old and past his best years; but it was Career in thought he would be useful as a trial horse for Duke of Magenta. The latter England contracted influenza and could not be trained. To Parole fell the brunt of the campaign and he began the season of i879 by defeating the renowned Isonomy for the Newmarket Handicap, April i6. On April 22 he won the City and Subur- ban with i i6 pounds; and the following day the Great Metropolitan, 234 miles, with 124 pounds. On May 7 he was fourth for the Chester Cup with I24 pounds; and the following day won the Great Cheshire Stakes with I34 pounds, while on May 30 he won the Epsom Gold Cup. In the spring, i88o, Parole finished first for the Liverpool Cup with 13I pounds, His Return but was disqualified for a "cross." He ran second for the Epsom Gold Cup, and to America the following autumn was shipped home. Parole landed in New York late in September, and on October 2 started and won a mile race at Jerome Park, and won every race for which he started after landing-four in all; ocean voyages made no difference to him. In i88i, when eight years old, he ran twenty-four races, winning twelve, among them the Westchester Cup and Manhattan Handi- cap. At nine years old he won eight out of twenty-one. Parole was a brown, by Leamington from Maiden by Lexington, granddam by Glencoe. He was lengthy and narrow and stood 15.3, with a lean, "varminty" head, light neck (he was a gelding), long, oblique shoulders, was high at the with- ers, very deep in the brisket but light in his back ribs. He had big quarters compared with his otherwise light make-up, but excellent feet and legs. He had a very long light stride, and, like all long-striding horses, he was not a quick starter; his long stride made it difficult for him to force pace from the start. He won his races by lying away and coming with a burst of speed at the finish. No horse of his time could live his pace in a finish. Major Doswell's dream that old Nina (the dam of Planet) would go to Leam- Algerine, ington and foal a brown colt did not materialize, as she was never sent-"too I873 old to make the journey," he said. But her foal of I873, the bay colt Algerine, by Abdel Kader, was "a thing of beauty," if he failed to be "a joy forever." He was the most blood-like colt imaginable when he started for the Withers I03 RACING IN eMERICA and Fiddlestick beat him, but for the Belmont Stakes he turned the tables on FiddIestick, whose Fillagree blood could not stay the route with the blood of old Nina, despite Bill Hayward's heroic finish. Algerine did not start again until the Dixie, and was unplaced. At four he won 2-mile heats, but trained off. Aside from his beauty he was "born in the purple," as his dam was the best race-mare of her day, a daughter of Boston and the dam of Planet, and through his sire, Abdel Kader, he brought a cross of Lexington's dam, Alice Carneal. His Algerine survives in pedigrees through his daughter Margarine, dam of Rhoda Descendants B., who, taken to England, foaled the Derby winner of i9o7-Orby, the sire of in England the Derby winner of 1919, Grand Parade, also Diadem, Orpheus, Diadumenos, Flying Orb, etc. Vagrant, Vagrant was much the best of the Western two-year-olds of i875. Out of six 1873 races he lost only one, when Creedmoor beat him, and at three his career was quite as brilliant. Mr. Swigert sold him to Mr. Wm. Astor of New York, and in the "white, red star and cap" of Mr. Astor he won the Phoenix and the Ken- tucky Derby. For the Clark Stakes at Louisville, Creedmoor beat him, but at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia he won the Exposition Stakes. Then he went amiss, and did not start until five years old, when his old speed seemed to have declined. He was a bay gelding by Virgil from Lazy by imported Scythian. Mr. Astor paid S20,000 for him, a good price in those days. Crce'dmoor, Creedmoor was so fine a performer that many thought his sire, Asteroid, would 1873 prove a success after all. As 'a three-year-old he won the Cumberland Stakes at Nashville, was second to Vagrant for the Kentucky Derby, won the Clark Stakes, beating Vagrant, and the Kentucky St. Leger. He was a chestnut by Asteroid from imported Target by Rifleman and a capital colt, especially over a distance of ground, but died very early. Ba den Baden, Mr. William Astor, nothing daunted by the collapse of his Kentucky Derby 1874 winner of i876 (Vagrant), purchased the following year the winner of i877, after he had won the Derby in Mr. Swigert's "blue, white sash and cap." This was Baden Baden, full brother to Helmbold by Australian-Lavender by Wagner. He was rather finely drawn when Mr. Astor brought him to New York to start for the Belmont Stakes, and he could only finish third to Cloverbrook. After a short rest he won the Jersey Derby and the Travers Stakes, and was admittedly the best colt of the year. The race for the Kenner was his undoing. The start was most unfortunate, Baden Baden being left at the post. A hundred yards ahead His Heroic were his field, when his jockey, Tom Sayres, got him in motion. It looked hope- Finisb less, but a quarter of a mile from the finish he actually had taken the lead, amid wild cheering from the stand. Suddenly he stopped; he had broken his pastern joint and was ruined. He was retired, but as a sire he got little of note. 104 CELEBRATED "SCE-HORSES One of the most popular victories for the Belmont Stakes was that of Clover- brook in 1877, for he was the entry of Mr. E. A. Clabaugh of Baltimore, one of the highest type of turfmen, whose winners were all "home-bred." Cloverbrook was a chestnut, with a blaze face and four white legs, by Vauxhall from Mau- dina by Australian; granddam, Maud (Alarm's dam). He had won the Preakness, and was unplaced for the Withers. For the Belmont a large field started, the favorite, owing to great trials in private, being Rifle, a full brother to Creed- moor. The going was very muddy; Cloverbrook seemed to revel in it, winning by two lengths. Mr. P. Lorillard was disappointed with Basil's race and offered a match, S5,ooo a side at iY4 miles, Basil vs. Cloverbrook, and Basil won by ten lengths. For the Jersey Derby, Baden Baden beat them both. Cloverbrook raced with success until six. He had a trick of bolting, as his sire, Vauxhall, had before him, and was a great one in heavy ground. Duke of Magenta was "cobby" as a two-year-old in i877 and lost his first race, but he won the Flash, Grinstead, Nursery, and Central Stakes. At three, he had lengthened and spread into a powerful colt and won eleven out of twelve starts, including the Withers, Belmont, Travers, Kenner, and Dixie. His only defeat was for the Jersey Derby, finishing third to Spartan. It was too bad to be true. People wondered, but they did not know what had happened. A day or two before the race the Duke and Danger had a strong gallop. The weather was very warm, and as they appeared to feel the heat, a stable attendant threw a pailful of cold water over each of them. The next day both colts were feverish and discharged from the nostrils. Little was thought of it, but both were beaten for their races. Three weeks later Duke of Magenta appeared at Saratoga for the Travers Stakes. The public, ignorant of the true state of things at Monmouth, made Spartan the favorite; but the Duke won easily. At the close of the season Mr. P. Loriliard purchased him from his brother, Mr. George Lorillard, and sent him along with Parole to England. On the voyage he took influenza, turned "roarer," and was sent home. He and Uncas appeared at Jerome Park during the October meeting of I 879-" just to show themselves"-and the crowd cheered them for old times' sake, which the Duke acknowledged by performing a pas seul. He never raced again and in the stud sired some fair performers, among them Young Duke. Duke of Magenta was a light bay, standing i6 hands. He had a fine head, rather a bullocky neck, short back, deep ribs, but rather heavy shoulders. His quarters were heavy and he had rather a short, snappy stride, but his action was good. He was marked with a narrow stripe in his face, both hind legs white half-way to the hocks. He was a son of Lexington from Magenta by imported Yorkshire; granddam, Miriam by imported Glencoe, third dam, Minerva Anderson 105 Cloterbrook, 1874 The Belmont Running Reversed Duke of Magenta, 1875 His Defeat for tie Derby Explained Description RJCING IN c4MERICA Bra nhble, 1875 Description of Brainble ilinyar, 1 875 Ills Defeat for the Derby by imported Luzborough; then a mare by Sir Charles. Mr. Chas. Wheatly, and others who knew the family, always contended that Minerva Anderson was by a quarter-horse called Big Printer, of unknown pedigree. However, Duke of Magenta was the best race-horse of his day. Many considered him the best of all Lexington's sons. Bramble would have taken rank as one of America's greatest race-horses had Duke of Magenta never lived-the Duke was a lion in his path. When they met as two-year-olds, Bramble won. He never did it again. Duke of Magenta beat him four times the year they were three-year-olds (1878); but when the next year had rolled around, the Duke was at Newmarket and Bramble swept the board. Five cup-races-the Baltimore, Westchester, Monmouth, Saratoga, and Brighton-were all fish for his net. He won fifteen out of twenty races at four years old. At three he had won twelve. At five he won the Nashville Cen- tennial, and at six he started once and broke down. A rather plain bay, Bramble was marked with a star in his forehead and stood 15.2. He was a son of Bonnie Scotland from Ivy Leaf by Australian. His dam was never trained, but her dam, Bayflower, was a fine race-mare, and full sister to Bayonet, Preakness, Beacon, etc. All members of this family were noted for fine constitutions, and, united with Bonnie Scotland, it is not strange that Bramble should have made a name for that quality. He entered the stud at Belle Meade, in Tennessee, where he was foaled. Subsequently, General Jackson sold him to Eugene Leigh, as he preferred Luke Blackburn, who never sired but one high- class racer (Proctor Knott). Bramble sired Cifford, Ben Brush, and many ex- cellent performers. Himyar was probably the greatest favorite for the Kentucky Derby that ever went down in defeat; and his defeat caused a panic in every city throughout the country where there was betting on the event. As a two-year-old be had been declared "a phenomenon," for at Lexington he had defeated his field by twenty engtbs. At three he had won the Belle Meade and Phonix, "pulled double"; and for the Derby he sold favorite over the field in auction pools. It was a good field; Leveller, Day Star, Solicitor, McHenry, etc., were in it. Himyar started badly. He was last to get away, but made up his ground and finished second to Day Star. Backers were dumb with astonishment; they were badly hit. There were all sorts of rumors-one being that there was a combina- tion to beat him. Besides his bad start, it was alleged that when he began over- hauling his field, one by one, some of the jockeys were heard to cry, "Here he comes I Stop him! " and that they did all they could to impede him. Bob Swim was riding Leveller, and Swim's reputation as a foul rider was well known. There had been more money bet on Himyar than any horse for years, and the temp- tation to "stop" so great a favorite lent color to the charges. io6 CELEBRA TED ICE-HORSES Himyar's after-career as a three-year-old showed that the Kentucky Derby His was not his true form, and as a four-year-old he won all his races. There was Breeding always a doubt as to his stamina; but he raced until six and was the best race- horse on the Western circuit. Major Thomas never brought him East. He was a son of Alarm, from the old white-faced mare Hira (who raced in the East in i869) by Lexington; granddam, the famous mare Hegira (by imported Ambas- sador), who, in 1850, made the record for 2-mile heats at New Orleans; third dam, Flight, another great race-mare, by imported Leviathan. In color Himyar was a bay with a star and hind pasterns white. He is de- Himyar as scribed as light in the flank but powerfully muscled in the quarters. The fact a Sire that he never raced in the East renders it difficult to gauge his merit. While doubts existed as to his stamina, there is no question that his speed was mar- vellous. He was a fearfully nervous horse; he fretted and worried so much as to often lose condition, and made him a hard one to train. As a sire he was a tremendous success. In 1893 he led the "Winning Sires" with 37 winners of 138 races and 259,252-then the greatest sum of money ever won by the prog- eny of an American stallion in a single season. He was second in i894, seventh in i895, fourth in i897, fifth in i898. He sired Domino, the fastest miler of his period, and established a line through Commando, Peter Pan, Colin, Super- man, Pennant, and Transvaal that was the most popular of the age. He also sired Correction, the best sprinter of her day, from whom descended Yankee and Naturalist. Glenmore and Checkmate were the great campaigners of their period. They Glenmore, were both sons of Glen Athol (son of Blair Athol), a horse imported by Mr. i875 Cameron, but unable to race, owing to defective limbs. Glenmore was a copper- colored chestnut from Lotta by Hunter's Glencoe. Mr. Swigert bought him as a yearling for I75, and while he never raced at two, he won thirty-nine out of eighty-two races, beating all the best horses of the day. He was not large, but heavily muscled-so heavy that in his race with Ferida, 4-mile heats, he became muscle-bound. Most of his races were over a distance, many of them at 4-mile heats. Cbeckmate was a brown gelding and a hard puller; yet Jim McLaughlin rode Cbeckmate, him at exercise with nothing but a halter. I875 "You'll get that boy killed some day," said Johnny Hyland; "it's risky; it makes me nervous." "Jimmy is a strong boy," was all Rowe would reply. Checkmate came to hand slowly. He was four years old before he won a race. Then he ran ninety-one races, and won forty-one, including the Saratoga Cup, Grand Prize Excelsior, Brewers' Cup, Dixiana, and Merchants' Stakes, in the latter beating Hindoo. He trained until eight years old. Unlike his kinsman, 107 RJCING IN z4MERICA Glenmore, speed rather than stamina was his strong point, but he c6uld stay well enough for all practical purposes. His dam, Full Cry, was a daughter of Vandal, and he is the rather rare case of a brown horse both of whose parents were chestnuts. Monitor, Monitor, like Parole, Roamer, Checkmate, and others, proved the superiority 18-6 of geldings as campaigners. He was a bald-faced chestnut, with white legs, by Glenelg from Minx, a sister to Monarchist. As a colt he was very fractious, and ran away at Jerome Park, injuring himself so much they had to retire him for the season. Then he was gelded, and it made a great change, as he behaved and won seven times as a three-year-old, while at four he became one of the giants, winning the Bowie 4-mile heats; and at five he won the Baltimore and Mon- mouth Cups. He "trained on" for years, and was Mr. Geo. Lorillard's most useful racer. He quite divided with Parole the affections of the crowd, who learned to look with confidence for "Old Baldy's" white face at the finish. Spendthrift, To Spendtbrift belonged the honor of introducing the spotted jacket of Mr. i86 Jas. R. Keene, which he made famous, and to which Domino, Foxhall, Com- mando, Colin, Sysonby, and Peter Pan contributed additional fame. To Spend- thrift also belongs the credit of establishing a line of racers in Hastings, Fair Play, and Man o' War. Spendthrift, as a two-year-old, in 1878, won all his races -five. They were all run in the West. In the East the extraordinary success of Mr. George Lorillard's two-year-olds was such that the cry went up that "George Lorillard will break up racing." All eyes turned toward Spendthrift as the only colt likely to turn the Lorillard flank in the races for the great stakes of the following year. Several gentlemen were appealed to and asked to "help give George Lorillard some opposition." Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt was indifferent; Mr. James Gordon Bennett said he would give Sio,ooo. Finally Mr. Jerome per- suaded Mr. Keene to make an offer, and Mr. C. W. Bathgate was sent to Ken- tucky, with the result that Mr. Swigert sold Spendthrift-"i5,000 with con- tingencies," it was said, was the price. MIr. Keene's Spendthrift was brought East New Year's week of 1879, and given Colonel First Thomas Puryear to train at Rutherford, N. J.-the old Valley Brook farm, Race-Horse where Balrownie had held court in earlier days. He became the winter favorite for the Withers and Belmont, and should have won both; but in his race for the Suconfldfor Withers he was pulled double to allow his stable mate, Dan Sparling, win, Mr. tbe Keene having, during the winter, backed the latter at long odds. There was Wi bers considerable ill feeling over it, as there had been no "declaration to win." In fact, there was no provision in the Rules of Racing for a declaration, and the in- cident led to one being incorporated in the rules the following year. A few days later Spendthrift won the Belmont Stakes by six lengths. Then came the first race for the Lorillard Stakes. The start saw the field io8 so I,- 00 F- z w A , This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RGCE-HORSES away with Spendthrift standing at the post, having been badly kicked by Mag- Wins the netism. The public groaned, as the case looked hopeless, but Evans, his jockey, Belmont and started the forlorn hope, and then followed one of the most exciting contests Lorillard ever run on an American race-course. The field was fifty yards ahead, but before they had gone a mile he had gradually crept up within striking distance. Then he closed with them and began passing them as, one by one, they fell away, reminding one of the description of Lord Clifden's St. Leger, or of Sir Francis Doyle's description of Mameluke's finish for the St. Leger of '27 (with some alteration): "Now fitfully by gusts is heard 'He's sixth'-' he's fifth'-' he's fourth'-' he's third.' And on, like an arrowy meteor flame The stride of the (Belmont) winner came." In the last quarter Harold held the lead; Hughes was urging the golden- haired beauty, and the shrill cry of Fisher on Monitor, "Go on, Hughes ! He's catching you 1" rang out above the clatter of feet and the roar of the stand. Harold was staggering, and Spendthrift, racing like a dead-game colt, caught him, and won by a length. Spendthrift won the Jersey Derby and Champion Stakes, beating Bramble; Defeats but Falsetto beat him for both the Travers and Kenner. Spendthrift had be- Bramble gun to have trouble with his feet, and was quite sore. He had always beaten Monitor, but for the Jerome Stakes Monitor beat him, and he ran no more. In March, i88o, he was sent to England with Foxhall and the Keene colts; but there he contracted a cold, and his wind became affected. He started for the Cam- In England bridgeshire, but was not placed. He was brought home in i88i and started in two races that October, but his wind being touched, he could do little good and retired to the stud in I882. Here he made a decided impression, Kingston, Spendtbrift Bankrupt, Lamplighter, Hastings, and Lazzarone being among his best. King- as a Sire ston led the Winning Sires in i9oo and r9Io; Hastings led in 1902 and i908; while Hasting's son, Fair Play, led in 1920 through his son, Man o' War. Spendthrift was a chestnut, with a diamond-shaped star and both hind pas- terns white. He had a beautiful, clean-cut head, deep neck, short back, and his shoulders were a trifle heavy. He also had very thin-soled feet, and hard ground gave him trouble. He was a fine-tempered horse and easy to ride. He was by Australian; his dam, Aerolite (by Lexington), never raced, but she was a sister to Idlewild, a great race-mare. Aerolite, mated with Australian, besides foaling Spendthrift, foaled Mozart, Fellowcraft, Miser, Jersey Belle, and Rutherford. She also foaled a colt called Lamplighter, belonging to Mr. Astor, that was very highly tried, but died before he could be raced. Mozart was a blind horse, but he had won races. 109 RJ&CING IN c4ME RICA _ A curious feature of Spendthrift's career in the stud was that while he was a chestnut and the son of one, his best colts, Kingston, Lamplighter, and Hast- ings, were all browns; and another peculiarity was that all three were from imported mares-Kingston's dam by Victorious; Lamplighter's by Speculem; and Hastings's by Tomahawk or Blue Ruin. Sensation, Years ago, in the railway-station at Oakdale, Long Island, there was a rough 1877 drawing of a horse's head, and underneath some "mute inglorious Milton" had scribbled, with lead-pencil, the following lines: "It's of a famous race horse The story I will tell; And when I tell you who he is, You'll surely know him well. He's known to you, he's known to me; He's known throughout the nation; Wherever racing men you see- His name-it is Sensation." Sensation's It was at Oakdale where Mr. Geo. L Lorillard's training stable was located Trial and where Sensation spent his coltish days, and the above lines were probably the humble tribute of some employee of the stable to testify his admiration for the unbeaten champion of the "blue-and-orange" jacket. However that may be, Sensation was a marked colt from the day he was broken to halter. His fame for speed long preceded him, for, during the autumn meetings of 1878, while only a yearling, his name was on every lip-"the big brown colt with a crooked blaze." He had been named after the celebrated pointer dog whose head so long ornamented the catalogue of the Westminster Club's show. He had beaten his fields so easily that Mr. Walden, his trainer, remarked: "Either this colt is a world-beater or our yearlings are no good. I thought Harold's trial last year was a good one, but this one's is pounds better." Tried with Monitor, a two-year- old, at evens, the young one won pulled up. Wins the Curiously enough, Sensation made his first appearance as a racer the very Jurenile day of Harold's unfortunate race for the Withers. It was the Juvenile, at Jerome Park. His fame was so great that crowds gathered around him as Walden sad- dled him. He won handily enough. Eight times that season he started, and never failed to "bring home the bacon "-the Juvenile, July, August, Criterion, Flash, Saratoga, Nursery, and Central Stakes all fell to him; and he retired to winter quarters as great a favorite as Harold had been the year before. An Unbeaten But when the season of i88o came, Grenada, instead of Sensation, brought Colt the "blue and orange" to the post. While at work at Mr. Lorillard's track, on Long Island, he had picked up a stone, and it lamed him slightly. In favoring the foot he threw the strain on the other leg, and it gave way. Finding he could not be trained, he was used as a sire, and Triton, Electric, and Loantaka (Sub- 110 CELEBRA TED R"4CE-HORSES urban, i89i) were among his first. Later Mr. P. Lorillard purchased him of his brother's estate, and in i8&g he was second of the Winning Sires in England (through his son, Democrat, who won the Champagne, Middle Park, and Dew- hurst Plate), his get winning twenty races, worth 20,038. Sensation was a rich brown, with purple lustre. He had a crooked blaze ex- Description tending over his left nostril, and a band of white around the coronet of his left fore foot. His conformation was faultless, and his action the poetry of motion. He never seemed to be doing his best. He was naturally indolent; Ferncliffe closed with him for the Nursery, the only time another horse ever got near him, and Hughes said it was only his indolence that rendered that possible. "I'd only to cluck to 'im," said Hughes, "an' 'e came away like a steam-engine." He was Higb bred by Mr. Welch, at Erdenheim, near Philadelphia, and sold to Mr. Geo. Breeding Lorillard as a yearling. By Leamington from Susan Beane by Lexington; his granddam was Sallie Lewis by Glencoe, tracing to Motto by imported Bare- "The foot. Mr. Bathgate, who remembered the colts of the St. Leger winner of 1823, Barefoot when he stood in Westchester, often remarked that Sensation had "the Barefoot Action" action," which was smooth and without apparent effort. Unlike most of Mr. Geo. Lorillard's racers, Ferida was not brilliant at two; Ferida, but at three she won eight out of fourteen starts, and swept all the races for 1876 fillies that year (1879). As a four-year-old she won six races, including the Great Long Island Stakes, 4-mile heats, defeating Glenmore. At five, she won nine races, defeating her old rival, Glenmore, and walked over for the Bowie Stakes. She was a small mare, but a great stayer, defeating all the best horses of her time over a distance. She was by Glenelg from La Henderson, and may be said to have been the best mare of the era. Barrett was a big, coarse colt by Bonnie Scotland-Sue Walton, bred at Belle Barrett, Meade and raced in Mr. P. Lorillard's colors. He gained a great reputation by 1878 defeating Spinaway when she tried to concede him 9 pounds, and Mr. Loril- lard sent him to England, backing him heavily to win the Derby of '81; but Pincus found him utterly unable to stay more than a mile; "and," said he, "if we had left him at home, we would have won a ton of money on Iroquois." Barrett was sent home, and became a famous sprinter. At a mile Girofie beat him, at Sheepshead Bay, in one of the heaviest-betting races ever run there. Barrett had size, bone, and muscle, but was too big for a stayer. It was said in Kentucky that the year Falsetto won at Saratoga, the corn at Falsetto, Mr. Reynolds's Fleetwood farm nearly all came in red and white kernels-the 1876 racing colors of the stable. It matters not whether nature meant to celebrate the event, or that it was a coincidence, but certainly the "red-and-white" jacket became a terror when borne by the blaze-faced brown. He had won the Phoenix and the Clark, but Lord Murphy had beaten him for the Kentucky Derby. I I I R4CING IN ,AME RICA " U'bat IV1:1 You Lay Him for ibe Trarers" lWins the Trarers and IlKenner A Great Galloper Yet, the day the crowd were madly cheering Spendthrift's great finish for the Lorillard Stakes, at Jerome Park, Mr. Jim Bell, the tailor, called to Cridge, the bookmaker: "What will you lay against him for the Travers" "Evens," an- swered Cridge. "Falsetto'll clip his wings when they meet at Saratoga," said Bell. It was prophetic, for Falsetto beat him two lengths. Then it leaked out that Spendthrift had trouble with his feet. For the Kenner, Falsetto beat Spend- thrift again, and Mr. P. Lorillard bought him for Si8,ooo, and sent him to Eng- land. The English handicapper had evidently read the racing reports, and for the Newmarket Handicap of '8o Falsetto had 129 pounds. He ran a great trial with Parole, but broke down and was sent home, entering the stud at Rancocas in x88i. In his second season he sired the famous filly Dewdrop; but before her merit was demonstrated Mr. Lorillard sold him to the Woodburn Stud for 6,ooo. Falsetto was a brown, standing i6.i, with a blaze covering his nose, and four white legs. He was light in the flanks, and had no great depth of girth; but his action, when extended, was the perfection of animal mechanism. He galloped with his head carried low, with an enormous stride that rendered him conspicu- ous among a hundred horses in the morning gallops. He was by Enquirer from Farfaletta by Australian. He was a delicate horse, and Matt Byrnes said that he was a "poor feeder." I 1 2 CELEBRATED RACE-HORSES "Watching the 'crack' as he strips for the fray In his trainer's corner, the 'quality' bay- Quality all, from the deerlike head That stamps the Venison thoroughbred To the setting-on of the sable flag, Lacking in what for a model nag Only a trifle in size and power; But blossomed there ever a perfect flower" THE "CRACKS" OF THE "EIGHTIES" I88o-i890 H7r 7rAROLD was ruined by Hughes trying to give Spendthrift fifty yards' Harold, start and a beating," said Mr. George Lorillard, in commenting on 1876 the start for the Withers Stakes of '79; and many agreed with him. The season of I878 had closed, with Harold the champion colt of the East-" the coming horse." He had won the Flash, Saratoga, July, and other stakes, and it was to obtain a worthy foeman that Spendthrift was purchased, as otherwise it was feared he would sweep all the stakes. He won the Preakness easily enough, and after his trial with Monitor became known, he went to the post for the Withers, a 40 to ioo favorite, while 3 to I was against Spendthrift. When the flag fell Harold was left standing; Hughes should never have tried Left at the to catch the field, fifty yards ahead; but he did, and not only failed but the colt Post broke a blood-vessel. He recovered enough to lead the field for the Lorillard Stakes until the last furlong, when, in his weakened condition, he faltered and Spendthrift beat him. He was ruined, and won only one race after that. His A Stern stern chase for the Withers started the breaking of blood-vessels and drove him Cbase off the course. Hughes's action in starting him, after being left, was due to the fact that the stable had backed him very heavily, and Hughes himself had put all his earnings on the colt. Harold was an exquisitely beautiful golden chestnut, bred at Erdenheim, in 1876, and by Leamington from Maggie B. B. by Australian, and, therefore, a full brother of Iroquois. It was Volturno that had the honor of calling attention to Billet as a sire. Volturno, Billet came to America in i868, and was located in Illinois. There were few i877 mares there, and several years passed before Sangamona and Kate Claxton, his daughters, appeared. Volturno was his first really high-class one. He won four out of five at two, but at three he won six out of ten; the U. S. Hotel, at Saratoga, and the Dixie, at Baltimore; and at four, the Louisville Cup and many other events. He was bred by Powers and Buckles, of Champaign, IIl. Buckles was quite a character. He came to the Lorillard sale in New York to buy Kantaka. The horse was superbly bred, being by Scottish Chief from Her- mit's dam. This was recited to Buckles, but he hung fire. "Why, he's a half- brother to Hermit, the greatest sire in England," was the remark. "So it be," replied Buckles, "but I don't want all pedigree and no hoss-I want some pedigree and some hoss." Volturno was a son of Sprightly, a full sister to Salina (Salvator's dam) by Lexington; hence one of the "Levity family." " 5 _qCING IN dAMERICAC Girofle, Girofle was one of the best mares of her generation, rather backward for a i877 Leamington, a hard one to beat when she "arrived." As a five-year-old she won ten out of seventeen races, among them the Freehold and Eatontown, at Monmouth; the Grand National, at Jerome Park; Oriole and Pimlico, at Balti- more. In i883, when six, she was leased to Mr. Walton, who took her to Eng- land, where she started for the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire without suc- cess. Mr. Walton claimed she had been poisoned, and Wm. Day, who trained her, refused to train for Mr. Walton. She was brought home in i884, Mr. Walton returning her to Eph Snedeker with the statement that she was "done and too old," but Snedeker won races with her in less than three months after she landed. Grenada, "That was the poorest race for the Belmont I ever saw," observed George i877 Evans, the jockey, the day Grenada won the Belmont of '8o-and he said it without removing his pipe from his mouth. Probably he was thinking of the previous year, when he had ridden Spendthrift to victory. Grenada had been beaten by Ferncliffe for the Withers by a close decision, but he won the Loril- lard, Preakness and Coney Island Derby, Travers and Jerome. He was an angular brown, bred at Woodburn, where King Alfonso sired him and Fonso in his first season. He was a useful colt to Mr. Geo. Lorillard; but when Luke Blackburn met him he had little chance of winning races. Luke Luke Blackburn was the most muscular of race-horses, as Tom Ochiltree was Blackburn, the most heavily boned. Bred by Captain Franklin, at Gallatin, Tenn., he raced 1877 as a two-year-old no less than thirteen times, winning only two. The Dwyer brothers bought him, and the spring he was three they raced him at Lexington. Even then his racing was not of the kind to foreshadow the great career that awaited him, as that season (i88o) he started twenty times and lost only one race, when, at Sheepshead Bay, he fell and did not finish. The rich events of the turf fell to him, one after another: the Tidal, Coney Island Derby, Ocean, Excelsior, Summer Handicap, U. S. Hotel, Grand Union, Kenner, Champion, Challenge, Kentucky, St. Leger, and Stallion Stakes-in all S46,975. Tbe Colt of The Grand Union Prize, at Saratoga, was his most meritorious performance, His Year for at iY4 miles he, a three-year-old, carried i i6 pounds, to I i8 pounds carried by Glenmore, five years old. According to the scale at the time, he had 14 pounds overweight for age, while Glenmore had 6 pounds off. Constructively, Blackburn conceded Glenmore 20 pounds. In the autumn Blackburn was taken to Louisville, and won the Stallion Stakes. The track was very hard, and when he pulled up he was lame. For some time they could not locate it. Then it was found to be in the coffin-joint, from which horses seldom recover. He started only twice the next year (i88i). During the spring rumor was busy with stories that all was not well with him, and when he won a race at Jerome rzz 00 z W This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED RtACE-HORSES Park his condition showed he had not been "sent along" very often. He started for the Coney Island Cup, and, despite rumors, his prestige was so great that he was a favorite. He was full of racing spirit, but the old speed was lacking, and he fell back unplaced, and Glenmore had his revenge for the beating he had received the year before for the Grand Union Prize. It was Luke Blackburn's adieu to the turf. General Jackson purchased him His Last for the Belle Meade Stud. As a sire he began well, as he sired Proctor Knott, Race winner of the first Futurity. He never sired another of high class. Blackburn was a son of Bonnie Scotland from Nevada by Lexington; granddam, Light- some by Glencoe out of Levity by imported Trustee. His dam, Nevada, was a full sister to Salina, the dam of Salvator, and, like Salvator and most of the stallions tracing to Levity, his failure as a sire was as conspicuous as his success as a race-horse. Luke Blackburn was a bright bay with a large star and both hind pasterns Luke white. He stood 15.2, with a handsome head and a muscular neck. The mus- Blackburn's cles of his quarters and stifles were enormous. He had good bone, broad, flat Peculiarities legs, and great power in the loins. But his eye was his remarkable feature; it was so prominent, showing nervous force, and he had a fashion, like Sensation, of rolling it. In action he was like a wild horse, running with his head high in the air, his nostrils flaring, and his eyes ablaze, with McLaughlin sitting far back in the saddle trying to restrain him-indeed, he leaned back so far that he often spurred the colt in the brisket, but unintentionally. McLaughlin said he never rode a horse so hard to control, nor one whose physical power was so great. Once, McLaughlin said, he stepped on a stone, and, flinching from it, he gave such a bound "that fairly lifted me out of the saddle." Such a com- bination of muscular and nervous force has never been seen in any other Ameri- can race-horse. McLaughlin said that after the race in which he beat Glen- more, at Saratoga, he was so distressed trying to hold Blackburn, that, upon dismounting, he could not walk to scale. Spinaway was one of the most remarkable of the two-year-old fillies which Spinaway, have appeared, and her career ended with that year. She was one of the lot 1878 of yearlings which, bred by Mr. Welch, at Erdenheim, were purchased by Messrs. P. and G. Lorillard in I879. In the division Mr. Pierre Lorillard took Iroquois and "Prince George" took Spinaway, a chestnut by Leamington- Megara by imported Eclipse. She won seven out of nine races at two, in the Juvenile running away from a crack field in which were Thora, Barrett, etc., and then won the Foam, Surf, Bouquet, and Chestnut Hill Stakes. Barrett beat her for the August Stakes, but she carried a 12-pound penalty. At three she stepped on a stone, which lodged in her foot. It escaped attention until it lamed her, and it was found she could no longer be trained. In the stud she produced 117 9I(4CING IN ,4MERICA Strideaway by Glenmore and Lazzarone (who defeated Domino for the Subur- ban) by Spendthrift. Hindoo, Hindoo came the year following Luke Blackburn, and it is to this day a source 1878 of contention whether he or Hindoo was the better race-horse. McLaughlin, who rode both, leans to Blackburn; James Rowe, who trained them, has never unqualifiedly committed himself, but has shown a liking for Hindoo; while the Dwyer brothers, under whose "red-blue sash" both raced, never agreed in the matter. Hindoo was bred by Mr. D. Swigert at the Elmendorf Stud, in Ken- tucky, and started as a two-year-old in that gentleman's colors. He was a brown bay with a star and right hind pastern white. By Virgil from Florence by Lex- ington, granddam imported Weatherwitch by Weatherbit, he was quite fashion- ably bred, and won seven races at Western meetings. Then Mr. Swigert brought him to Saratoga, hoping to meet Spinaway. But the great filly remained at Monmouth, and Hindoo was started for the Windsor Hotel Stakes at "odds on"; but he could only run third to Crickmore, and for the Day Boat Line Stakes Thora beat him also. The Dwyer brothers then purchased him and retired him. "Hindoo's The season of i88i became embalmed in racing history as "Hindoo's year." Year" He started twenty times, and won eighteen, the Blue Ribbon at Lexington, the Kentucky Derby and Clark at Louisville, the Tidal and Derby at Sheepshead Bay, the Ocean, Lorillard, Champion, and St. Leger at Monmouth, and the Travers, Sequel, U. S. Hotel, and Kenner at Saratoga. He had beaten the geld- ing Crickmore four times before they met for the September Stakes (handicap) at Sheepshead Bay-the weights were: Hindoo, 123 pounds; Crickmore, iii pounds; Aella, 105 pounds. It was i to 8, Hindoo; 12 to l, Crickmnore, the latter winning by 4 lengths; Hindoo a bad third. Mr. M. F. Dwyer bet 8,ooo on his colt; hence, if Hindoo was "amiss," the stable was unaware of it. Ten days later Hindoo, i10 pounds, Crickmore, io5 pounds, met at Is1 miles; betting i to 2, Hindoo; but Crickmore, at 8 to 5, won again by 4 lengths. Hindoo fol- lowed Crickmore to Baltimore for the Dixie; but on the day of the race he had a plaster on his throat, and Crickmore won. Hindoo's When the season of i882 had rolled round, Hindoo was sent West. Check- Last Race mate beat him for the Dixiana, and he beat Checkmate, Glidelia, and others for the Louisville Cup. He had returned to his form, and was brought East to "crown the edifice" of his career by winning the Coney Island Cup, 2h miles, An Excbange beating Eole and Parole. Then ensued an amusing controversy between the of Dwyer brothers and Mr. Gebhard, the owner of Eole, who was terribly disap- Pleasantries pointed, as he had thought his horse unbeatable. Social feelings entered into the controversy. Mr. Gebhard was aspiring. The Dwyers prided themselves on being no better than their neighbors. ii8 00 V- I z x This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED R"CE-HORSES "If you will come to the Union Club, I will match Eole against Hindoo for 5,000 a side to run the race over," said Mr. Gebhard. "If you will come to our butcher-shop, we will match Hindoo against Eole for So,ooo a side to run the race over," replied Mr. Phil Dwyer. Nothing came of it. But it was Hindoo's last race. He never recovered from Hindoo as it, and the Dwyers would never after start horses over a cup course, and, as they a Sire controlled the best horses, the great cup races were abandoned by the racing clubs. Hindoo was sold to the Runnymede Stud, Paris, Ky., and began as a sire in 1883. He sired Hanover and Jim Gore in his first season, and four years later Sallie McClelland. That was glory enough. He never led the Winning Sires, but he was second to Glenelg in i887. No two horses could have been more unlike each other than Luke Blackburn Luke and Hindoo. Blackburn was a heavily topped colt, muscled like a gladiator, Blackburn with every evidence of a robust constitution. Hindoo was plain, yet racing- and Hindoo like; he had a long, rather weak-looking back, and was leggy. In a race Black- Compared burn was all excitement-every muscle was in play, and every nerve taxed to its utmost tension. The great veins stood out under his skin, looking as if ready to burst. Hindoo was calm and gentle "he did no more than you asked him," McLaughlin would say. Blackburn dashed to the front; at the start, like a mad horse; he never opened his mouth or let the bit loose. Hindoo ran behind his field, or with them, as his rider chose; he never exerted himself until McLaughlin called upon him to do so, and then he always responded with lion-like courage. Blackburn never liked racing in company, and showed it in his last race, the Coney Island Cup, when he was beaten. Hindoo never showed any whims like that; he did not wear himself out, but conserved his energy, and thus had "something left" at the finish; while Blackburn often looked fatigued after pulling up. General Monroe, who had the glory of winning the first Suburban (i884), General was of little value at two years old, starting in ten races without winning. Nor Monroe, was he much better at three, winning only five out of twenty-nine; and at four, 1878 only one out of twenty-three. At five he began to show a little class, and won seven out of twenty-three, including the Fordham Handicap, Saratoga Cup, etc. At six he reached the top of his form. He won nine out of twenty-three. For the Suburban he had 124 pounds, inclusive of a 5-pound penalty for winning the Westchester Handicap. Twenty started. It was 5 to I against General Monroe, who, ridden by Donohue, laid away, and, coming in the last quarter, won by a neck. Following this he won the cup races at Coney Island, Saratoga, and Wash- ington Park, Chicago, and trained on for years until he was killed in an accident at Brighton. The year i878 was a vintage year for the quality of racers foaled; Iroquois, I9 RdCING IN ,MERICA Foxhall, Hindoo, Crickmore, Thora, Saunterer, and Eole. When Eole started for the Belmont Stakes of '8i he "couldn't get out of his own way" was the comment of George Evans, his jockey. "The big brute had speed, but he ran all over the course, and on the club-house turn he actually laid up against Forager, and Bill Hayward asked me 'Is your horse looking for help"' continued Evans. Eole had never raced before, but he finished second. He was a bay, i6.2, bred by Major Hancock in Virginia. During the season he was sold to Mr. Frederick Gebhard, and at four developed into one of the best of the year. Hindoo beat him for the Coney Island Cup, 2Y4 miles, but it drove Hindoo out of racing, and Eole won the Monmouth Cup, Champion Stakes, and Autumn Cup, 3 miles. At five he was the best in training, beating Iroquois, George Kinney, and Miss Woodford. As a six-year-old Eole won the Freehold Stakes. Soon after he was missed from the morning gallops, and it was supposed he was lame. Days passed, and he still failed to appear. Then the truth oozed out that Mr. Gebhard had quietly shipped him to England. There he did no good as a race-horse, but developed temper. He was brought home, and the next season was sent to Mr. Gebhard's ranch in California. He never reached there, being burned to death in a rail- road accident at Port Jervis, N. Y. His leg had troubled him in 1884, before he was shipped abroad, and he had taken salt-water baths in the ocean at Long Branch with beneficial effect. He was a great race-horse; the power of his back and loins was enormous, and, when on a bright, frosty, winter morning, while out for road work, to see him throw up his heels in sheer animal spirits was a sight indeed I Tbora, the brown daughter of Longfellow and Susan Ann by Lexington, was bred by Mr. H. P. McGrath, but raced in the colors of Mr. Chas. Reed. Eleven times she started as a two-year-old, beginning with the Juvenile, for which Spinaway defeated her; but at Saratoga she defeated the renowned Hindoo, and at Baltimore she defeated Crickmore, and thus achieved the unusual honor of beating the two crack colts of the year. True to her Longfellow paternity, she improved as she grew older, and won eleven out of fifteen races at three, making a clean sweep of the filly stakes, and defeated Crickmore for the Relief Stakes at Saratoga, where she also won the Baden Baden, 3 miles, in 5.25Y4-a great feat for a three-year-old filly. At four she won the Washington, Balti- more, Westchester, and Saratoga Cups. Then she lost form. The day she won the Excelsior, Jim Lee, her trainer, told Mr. Reed "she's ready to stop"; but he persisted and paid the penalty. As a five-year-old, in i883, Thora won twice, but broke down in the race for the Louisville Cup. Brophy, her jockey, said she was "only cantering," when a half-mile from the finish he felt her falter suddenly, and he knew the day was I20 Eole, 1 878 AMysterious Trip to England Tbora, 1878 Her Adieu to the Turf CELEBRA TED R"CE-HORSES lost. Mr. Reed asked Lee if it was serious. "Yes," replied Lee, "she's badly broken down-there goes our bread and butter-we'll never get another like her." The injury was in the off fore pastern. Thora was a most blood-like filly, with a finely cut head, light neck, well-laid shoulders; but very light in the back ribs-indeed she was of the greyhound type. In the stud her early foals were failures; but in i889 she produced to the mating with Miser (the blind brother to Spendthrift) the famous filly Yorkville Belle, and later a good colt in Sir Francis, while in i89I she bred the famous Dobbins, who, besides his other exploits, ran a dead-heat with Domino. To win a great race with a "home-bred" colt is the highest ambition of the true turfman, and Governor Oden Bowie of Maryland realized it when Crick- more lowered the colors of Hindoo in i 88o, and repeated it twice in 188i. He cared nothing for winning with "a purchased horse." Crickmore was not only home- bred but the son of a home-bred, Catesby. Crickmore was a gelding, and started four times at two years old, winning the Saratoga and Windsor Hotel Stakes, beating Hindoo and Thora. Thora beat him for the Merchants, but he beat her for the Central, at Baltimore. At three he won the Withers, but Hindoo beat him for the Tidal, and again for the Lorillard, the U. S. Hotel, and Kenner. At Sheepshead Bay Crickmore beat Hindoo for the September Stakes when the latter tried to concede him 12 pounds, and repeated a week later. Both were taken to Baltimore for the Dixie, but Hindoo contracted a bad cold and Crickmore won, beating Eole and Barrett. "Crickmore and Catesby I" was the reigning toast that night, and Baltimore fairly floated on a Niagara of champagne in honor of "a Maryland-bred son of a Maryland-bred sire," and their owner, the State's chief magistrate, Governor Bowie, was in high feather as he stood on the stairs of Barnum's Hotel to receive congratulations; and his look of scorn, when Thora's chance of beating Crickmore was mentioned, was worthy of a Garrick or a Betterton. Somebody spoke of the State election. "Oh, the Democrats will sweep the State; Pinckney Whyte'll win. But con- found your politics I A man who has won the Dixie Stakes with a colt of his own breeding doesn't think of anything else. What is it, Heidseick or Verzenay Here's your health-I know you'll drink mine. Mr. Clabaugh, my regards- we'll show these New York gentlemen that we breed a race-horse once in a while," and the "first gentleman of Maryland" turned to receive congratula- tions. A winter's rest and Crickmore appeared at the Baltimore spring meeting as good as ever. He beat Glenmore for the cup, but soon there was a rumor that all was not well with the gelding, and, after Thora beat him for the Excelsior, at Saratoga, he went from bad to worse. I21 Crickmore, 1878 He Defeats Hindoo Rejoicings in Baltimore RCING IN eAfMERICA Forester, Forester and Runnymede fairly divided the honors in the races for three- 1879 year-olds in 1882. Forester, a chestnut by the Ill Used-Woodbine, was bred by Mr. Belmont at the Nursery on Long Island, but raced in the "blue and gold " of Appleby and Johnson. He was a fair two-year-old, and at three won the Withers and Belmont. Runnymede beat him for the Coney Island Derby and also the Lorillard, after a desperate race, by a head. He was a big, loose-jointed, un- developed colt in appearance, but had a great stride and was, undoubtedly, a colt of considerable class. Runnymede, Runnymede was a "picture horse"-a rich brown, and the most refined colt 1879 Billet ever sired. He had a head like an antelope and a body as lithe and grace- ful as one. Bred by Clay & Woodford, in Kentucky, he took his name from their stock-farm. His dam, Mercedes by Melbourne, Jr., was a great producer. He won twice at two, and then the Dwyers, always on the lookout for "a ready-made horse," bought him. His Kentucky Derby, for which he was beaten by Apollo, His Races could never be explained. In the Clark Stakes he beat Apollo ten lengths. He won ulib the Tidal and Coney Island Derby, and defeated Forester for the Lorillard by Forester a head after fouling the chestnut badly. He never seemed to recover from that severe finish. On the day of the Travers Mr. Dwyer reported the colt as "cough- ing his head off." He was probably a delicate colt and required more delicate handling. As a sire at Mr. Donner's, in Bergen County, N. J., he sired a few fair ones and died early. Iroquois, The fame of Iroquois rests upon his racing in England. His three races in 1878 America upon his return added nothing to his reputation-it was a mistake to have started him. After winning the Derby and St. Leger, in England (x88i), he began breaking blood-vessels, and this prevented his racing at all as a four- year-old. In 1883, at five, he reappeared and ran second to Tristan for the Hard- wick Stakes. Then he won the Stockbridge Cup, a 6-furlong affair; his blood- vessel-breaking rendered it impossible to train him for a long race. He won the Returns to cup, June 21. On the 27th he sailed for home, reaching New York July i i. On America August 25 he started at Monmouth Park and finished third to George Kinney and Eole for the Monmouth Stakes. Three days later he ran unplaced to Eole and George Kinney. He was in no condition to race; being "a good doer," he made flesh, and Byrnes dared not give him hard work, fearful of his breaking blood-vessels, which he did despite the care taken to avoid it. He raced once after that-late in October, when Miss Woodford beat him, and then retired to the stud, at Rancocas. Fred Arcber A year later when Fred Archer, the English jockey who had ridden Iroquois on Iroquois for the Derby and St. Leger, was in New York he said, speaking of Iroquois: "They shouldn't have raced him here. He was in no condition when he left England to race over a mile. He was the most resolute sort of a colt, and ran as 122 a.. 00 0u D in w Sw LE This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RGCE-HORSES though he liked racing." Iroquois was a rich-colored brown with a narrow blaze Description and left fore pastern white, and was by Leamington from Maggie B. B. by of Iroquois Australian; granddam, Madeline by Boston; third dam, Magnolia by Glencoe; and was foaled at the Erdenheim Stud (Mr. A. Welch's), near Philadelphia, March 27, i878, and sold with Mr. Welch's yearlings in May, 1879, to Messrs. P. & G. Lorillard. In the draw he fell to Mr. Pierre Lorillard, and raced in his "cherry and black." He was small and Mr. Lorillard offered him to his brother for 7,ooo, but it was declined. He grew to good size later and was shipped to England that autumn. He had a very high-bred appearance when he had matured. His head was as clean-cut as a cameo, wide between the eyes, small at the muzzle; he had a prominent eye and broad nostrils. His ears were long and slim, and he carried them pricked. He had well-inclined shoulders, was not very high at the withers, and his back "dipped" a trifle; but there was a grand spread of quarters, and, while his cannon-bones were not heavy, his pasterns were long and oblique; his feet of fair size, broad at the heel, and the coronary band perfect. There was a great deal of quality and finish to him-he had the look of "a gentleman," all over. John McClosky, so long stud-groom at Erdenheim, had very pleasant reminis- The Stud- cences of Leamington and his colts. " Iroquois," he said, "was the most arrogant Groom's. youngster we ever had. His brother Harold was bad enough, but Harold only Recollections wanted to be left alone. Iroquois was a real devil. When a yearling, out of pure 'cussedness' he would seize a corn-stalk and go among the yearlings, as if to challenge them to take it, which none of them would do. He always led them Coltisb Days in their gallops in the big paddock, Saunterer and Blazes following him. But of tbe Sensation was a finer mover than Iroquois; he was the best galloper we ever "Cracks" had. He was a ready-made race-horse when he was weaned. He was naturally more sluggish than Iroquois was the year before, but when you got him roused he could gallop clean away from all the others. Harold was not so fine a gal- loper as a yearling, but he was the most beautiful colt we ever had. He was slow and galloped short, but how he improved when he went into trainingl Parole had fine action as a colt. Did you ever notice the long swing of his hind leg " Regarding the popular belief that Leamington was "a man-eater," McClosky McClosky said it was an exaggeration. "He was a horse of great high spirits and liked to Gives show his heels when things did not suit him, but he was not vicious. I have often Leamington laid down in his box, when he would come up and rub his nose all over my face a Cbaracter and lick it with his tongue. Of course he had his likes and dislikes." Onondaga was a full brother to Sensation, who in make-up favored his sire, Onondaga, Leamington, while Onondaga favored the family of his dam, Susan Beane. Mr. 1879 123 (4CIGNG IN eAME RICA Welch, his breeder, sold him with a batch of yearlings to Mr. Leonard W. Jerome. In the spring of i88i the Dwyer brothers purchased him. He won the Juvenile, beating Gerald, but the latter beat him later. Then came the match with Mr. P. Lorillard's Sachem, S5,ooo a side, which he won after a desperate race. He won the July and Kentucky Stakes; then his feet troubled him, as they had several of his dam's family-Acrobat, her brother, for example. In the stud he developed a fierce temper, but he had considerable success with Milton Young's mares. Gerald, Gerald was a brown colt with white face and legs, bred by Mr. P. Lorillard, at 1879 Rancocas, by Saxon from Girl of the Period by Virgil. His dam died after foal- ing him and he was raised by a common mare. He was second for the Juvenile and won the Foam Stakes. Then Mr. Lorillard shipped him to England, where, on September 30, he ran third to Dutch Oven and Nellie for the Rous Memorial, and a week later Gerald ran second to Kermesse for the Middle Park Plate. It was a great performance, as Kermesse was the best two-year-old in England, and Gerald had only been off the ship about six weeks, and Shotover, who won the Derby the next spring, finished behind him. Gerald was prepared for A Fatal the Two Thousand Guineas of '82. Three days before the race he had his Mistake trial. Owing to a misunderstanding, instead of pulling up at the end of the Row- ley Mile, his rider sent him up the hill. A rain had made the ground heavy. Gerald broke a blood-vessel, owing to the work, and that ended him. Rica, Rica, probably the best filly of her year, was a fine, strapping, big one, by King- 1879 fisher from Lady Mentmore, an enormous mare of great beauty by King Tom, which Mr. Belmont obtained from Baron Rothschild. Rica won three times at two, beating a gaudy field for the Breeders Stakes, as it consisted of Runny- mede, Forester, Marsh Redon, Onondaga, etc. Mr. Cassatt purchased her for 7,ooo, but she lost all her races at three, owing to fistulous withers, and could only be saddled with difficulty. She wasted to a shadow, but at four she re- turned to form and won six races. Iliawasse, Hiawasse was a small brown filly, bred by Mr. P. Lorillard, at Rancocas, by 18,9 Saxon from the great race-mare Vandalite. Mr. Lorillard had stood a great deal of chaffing from his brother George, who declared Saxon "wasn't worth his oats." Whereupon Mr. Lorillard offered to match the get of Saxon against any- thing in Mr. George's stable. Mr. George named Memento; Mr. Pierre named Hiawasse, Si,ooo a side, 6 furlongs. Hiawasse won by 4 lengths. At three she won every race for which she started, among them the Ladies', Mermaid, and Oaks, at Monmouth. Freeland, Freeland, who defeated Miss Woodford in three races out of four, in i885, was i 879 probably the best race-horse of his era. Three of the races were won by a head, but in the fourth Freeland won decisively. Freeland was an angular gelding by 124 z z LI 0 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED "(CE-HORSES Longfellow-Belle Knight by Knighthood, bred by Mr. Frank Harper. His dam A Mare's was an old mare which the Shakers in Ohio sent to Mr. Harper's, at Midway, Romance Ky., to be bred to Longfellow. She remained until service and keep amounted to S150, and as they could not raise the money, they tried to sell her to Mr. Harper, who, not knowing her pedigree, declined, but sent them to Lexington to sell her there. A week later they returned, saying none of the breeders would buy her, that their money was spent; they wanted enough to reach home, and if Mr. Harper would give them io and cancel the debt, he might keep the mare. He agreed, and it proved a great bargain, for her foals sold: Freeland, S,ooo; Free Knight, S5,ooo; Freeman, 6,ovoo; Bell Boy, 500; and Mary Corbett, 1,200. Freeland won twenty-six races, beating all the great performers of his day. "The Dwyer dynasty" was never stronger than in 1883, when it had as three- George year-olds George Kinney, Barnes, and Miss Woodford. George Kinney as a year- Kinney, ling had a splint which caused George Rice, the trainer, to decline purchasing 1880 him-an act he always regretted. He was a bay colt, bred by Captain Franklin, in Tennessee, and was by Bonnie Scotland from Kathleen by Lexington, tracing through Miss Obstinate to "the Cub Mare." The Dwyers bought him after Mr. Rice had passed him, and at two he won seven times and was the best of the year. At three he won twelve out of eighteen starts, the Withers, Belmont, Jerome, Lorillard, and all the best stakes, but his Grand National Handicap, 2Y4 miles, in October, was his best, as he took up I 19 pounds, conceding his year and a beating to General Monroe. At four years old he was top weight for the inaugural Suburban (1884), with 132 pounds, but was unplaced. At five he won all his races. McLaughlin, who rode him, considered him the best all-round horse he ever mounted, bar Luke Blackburn. "He was a very strong horse His Jockey's just like Blackburn," observed McLaughlin, "a hard puller, and when he was Estimate roused, you were glad when he stopped." He entered the Hurstbourne Stud, but, like Salvator, Luke Blackburn, Tenny, and so many brilliant performers, he failed to transmit his excellence to his progeny. It would have been difficult to find two brothers more unlike than Barnes and Barnes, Runnymede. The latter was "an elegant gentleman," while Barnes was a great 1880 uncouth colt with a plain head and a mouth resembling that of an alligator. He had great hips and quarters and, despite his looks, was a brilliant racer. Three times he won as a two-year-old, and while George Kinney beat him at Saratoga, the Dwyers were quick to secure him. At three he won the Tidal, Derby, and other races, and at four the Monmouth Cup. Mr. Morris purchased him for stud duty in Texas, where he sired Mars, a horse whose reputation as "a mud runner" became a proverb. Of all the race-mares that have attained celebrity in the past fifty years Miss 125 _ _ CING IN d ME RICA Miss Woodford is entitled to rank first. She was a brown filly, bred by Clay & Wood- Woodford, ford, a daughter of Billet from Fancy Jane by Neil Robinson. Her pedigree on 188o the side of her dam cannot be traced very far, but it has produced some sterling performers. At two she won 5 out of 8 races; at three, 1O out of I2; at four she won all her races-9; at five she won 7 out of I2; at six she won 6 out of 7. In all, she started 48 times and won 37 races, and 118,270. Only twice in her career did she fail to secure a place. In her four races with Freeland she won only once, but she always ran him to a head, except the last time, at Brighton; Rowe, her trainer, saw she was not doing well, and resigned his position rather than start her for the Long Island Stakes, 2-mile heats, the week following. Exchanged Miss Woodford was a large brown mare, very masculine-so much so that for Hindoo any one seeing her at a distance would not believe she was a mare. The Dwyers obtained her the autumn she was a two-year-old (1882) in exchange for Hindoo, who had retired. The conditions of the sale were that Messrs. Clay & Woodford took Hindoo and the fillies Red and Blue and Francesca, valued by the Dwyers at SI5ooo, in exchange for Miss Woodford, the balance in cash. Miss Woodford was valued at 6,ooo, which would mean Clay & Woodford gave 9,ooo. She was taken ill after joining the Dwyer stable, and it was thought she had farcy. Colonel Clay telegraphed that he would take her back and pay 4,ooo. But she As a recovered, and no more was said. When her racing days were at an end Mr. Brood-Mare Haggin purchased her with the idea of mating her with Salvator; but as a brood- mare she never approached her fame as a racer. Her son, George Kessler, was a good colt; her daughter, The Woodford filly, was fair; but it is as a racer she must be remembered. Pontiac and Thackeray both beat her, but she was not a bril- liant miler; her great sweeping stride did not enable her to settle into action quickly. Pizarro, Pizarro was bred in England by Reverend Doctor King. Mr. P. Lorillard 1880 purchased him as a yearling for 420 guineas, and he came to America in November, i 88o, with his sister Agenoria and Mortemer. He was a miserable-looking wean- ling when he landed after fifteen days' voyage; but when, in 1882, he appeared with colors up, he was one of the grandest specimens of the thoroughbred horse imaginable. He was a whole-colored bay by Adventurer from Milliner (by Rataplan), she being a sister to Mandragora and Mineral, the dams, respectively, of Apology, Wenlock, and Kisber. Pizarro had all the exquisite beauty of the Newminsters, a delicately chiselled head, a muscular neck, long shoulders, deep brisket, and open feet. He won the Red Bank, Atlantic, and August Stakes, and the meeting between him and George Kinney was looked forward to during the winter with keen interest. Pizarro's Their meeting for the Withers Stakes was the chief event of the spring of x883, Trial by and the betting was very heavy. "Pizarro's trial in the moonlight" trainers talk Moonlight about till this day. Matt Byrnes thought to have a trial that would escape the I 26 CELEBRATED RJCE-HORSES touts, and had Pizarro out at Jerome Park between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning; but the sound of galloping awoke the sleeping trainers, and they rushed out to see the finish. It was a desperate race for the Withers, but George Kinney won, and Jimmy Rowe, his trainer, could not restrain his feelings, crying out: "And we didn't train in the moonlight either." But Pizarro had his revenge, beating Kinney for the Ocean Stakes, and won ten races that season. He started for the first Suburban (1884), but had become "queer" in his temper and developed a lameness in his shoulder. Light boys could not manage him, and Charlie Sait, the steeplechase jockey, was engaged for his trial. Sait weighed over i6o pounds, and Pizarro broke down. In the stud he sired Pessara, winner of the Metropolitan, and Reckon, one of the best mares of her time. Pizarro died after two seasons in the stud, which was most unfor- tunate, as he was one of the most highly bred horses in the world. During these years there began a great importation of English-bred stallions. The sons of Lexington had failed to reproduce themselves, and the success of Eclipse, Billet, and Leamington turned the thoughts of breeders to imported sires. Mr. Keene had purchased Blue Gown, the Derby winner of x868, but he died on shipboard. The same fate followed Mr. Swigert's importation of King- craft, the Derby winner of i870, but Mr. Swigert then imported the famous Prince Cbarlie by Blair Athol from Eastern Princess by Surplice, who landed here in i884. In 1883 Mr. W. L Scott, of Erie, Pa., imported the St. Leger winner of 1879, Rayon d'Or by Flageolet-Araucaria by Ambrose. In i88o Mr. P. Lorillard had imported the French horse Mortenmer, winner of the Ascot Gold Cup of '7I, by Compeigne-Comtesse, while in 1885 Mr. August Belmont, the elder, imported St. Blaise, winner of the Derby of '83, by Hermit-Fusee by Marsyas. While George Kinney's great form of 1883 rendered it "his year" in the racing- calendar, there might have been a different tale to tell had Leonatus "trained on." Leonatus was a bay, with a stripe and hind pasterns white, by Longfellow from Semper Felix by Phueton, and one of the "Levity family." His spring campaign in the West was one of uninterrupted triumph, winning ten races, including the Kentucky Derby; then he was brought to Monmouth Park to meet the Eastern "cracks." But his severe campaign had begun to tell, and he broke down before he could be brought to the post. He was not over I5.2, but powerfully built and a "good doer." When they wanted to put the floral collar on him after the Kentucky Derby, his trainer said: "Don't let him get near it, for he'll eat it-he eats anything he finds loose." Donohue, who rode him, said: "It was only a big gallop. When I rode Drake Carter at New Orleans in April, he scared me; but he was no such horse as Leonatus. That colt is muscled clear down to his hocks. Mr. Reed thought he had a thorough-pin." 127 The Race for the Withers of 1883 Importation of Englisb Stallions Leonatus, 1880 1(ACING I1NdMERICG Drake Carter, i88o Pontiac, i88i Ducbess and Louiselte, i88i Modesty, 1881 Drake Carter, who finished second to Leonatus for the Kentucky Derby, was an angular bay gelding by Ten Broeck from Platina by Planet, belonging to Green B. Morris. He was a capital race-horse, winning twelve races that season, including the Champion at Chicago, the Omnibus at Monmouth, Sequel and U. S. Hotel Stakes at Saratoga. Mr. P. Lorillard, who in those days generally bought a horse that beat one of his, purchased him after the race for the Omnibus for I7,500 and he proved a useful member of the Rancocas stable for several seasons. Pontiac was imported in utero, his dam, Agenoria, being in foal to Pero Gomez when Mr. Pierre Lorillard imported her along with Mortemer, in i88o. He was a beautiful black colt, and his trial as a yearling was the best of Rancocas. Mr. Lorillard sent him to England as a yearling to be trained by Tom Cannon. He was not a success, and returned to America in 1884 and ran a few races, but showed no form. The following spring (i884), when the weights for the Suburban were an- nounced, Pontiac had 102 pounds, but it attracted no attention and Mr. Loril- lard did not back him in the winter books. With the spring coming on, Pontiac developed great speed at Rancocas. He won the Suburban, pulled double. Un- fortunately for Mr. Lorillard, the law against betting was enforced that day, or, as he said, "I could have won enough to buy another Rancocas." The colt won eight races that year, beating Thackeray and Miss Woodford at Monmouth, and trained on for several years. At six furlongs no horse could defeat him, but he rather outran himself Suburban Day. He finally retired to Mr. Donner's farm at Ramapo, and sired the colt Ramapo, winner of the Metropolitan and Suburban of '94. Mr. Donner had a fine etching made of Pontiac wooing the beautiful Girofle, that did credit to the sportsmanlike spirit of the owner. Between Ducbess and Louisetfe it was a question which was the filly of the year. Duchess certainly was the best in the spring, Louisette in the autumn. Duchess won the Ladies', Mermaid, and Oaks "right off the reel." But later, when Louisette won eleven races, including the September and Hunter Stakes, she defeated Duchess, who, great filly as she had been, was "training off." Louisette was a bay by Glenelg-Stamps by Lexington. She was a handsome filly, the best George Lorillard had after Spinaway's decline. Duchess was a rakish brown, bred by Mr. Belmont at the Nursery on Long Island by King- fisher from Lady Blessington by Eclipse, and raced in Eph Snedeker's colors, but belonged to Mr. Jas. Cushman. She was a thoroughly good race-mare, and in the stud, mated to Bramble, she foaled Clifford, one of the best race-horses of the decade. Modesty, who won the first race for the American Derby at Chicago (X884), was quite the Queen of the Western three-year-olds, winning eight times, the 128 CELEBRATED 7(4CE-HORSES Kentucky Oaks and Sequel at Saratoga among her conquests. She had lost her form when brought East and failed to sustain her Western reputation. But at four she was herself again and won ten out of fifteen races, training into her fourth season. She was a chestnut by War Dance-Ballet, tracing to the Maria West family, so prolific of racers. Bob Miles had a hard campaign as a two-year-old, starting for twenty-seven Bob Miles, races, and became the winter favorite for the Kentucky Derby of '84, for which i88i McLaughlin reduced 17 pounds to ride him. He failed to secure a place, Buchanan winning. He trained at four and five, but never seemed to recover the speed he showed in his coltish days. He was a chestnut by Pat Malloy-Dolly Morgan by Revenue. Size was a conspicuous feature of the Eolus colts, bred by Major Hancock in St. Satiour, Virginia, especially those from the mare War Song. Eole was a very large horse, i88i so was Eolist and St. Saviour, while Eon was positively gigantic. St. Saviour ran his first race at three, for the Emporium at Sheepshead Bay. On the strength of private trials he was favorite, but Rataplan won. St. Saviour won all his other races and broke down early, his legs being unequal to sustaining his heavy top. Mr. Gebhard sent him to California, but he made no name as a sire, oppor- tunities being limited. The last of Maggie B. B.'s foals to distinguish itself was Panique, a chestnut Panique, bred by Mr. Welch at Erdenheim, and a son of Alarm. Beyond winning the i88i Saratoga, he had not shown great form at two, but at three he began the season in a manner that, for a time, his owner, Mr. Kittson, must have thought Maggie B. B. had bred another Iroquois. Panique won the Jerome Park "double event"- the Withers and Belmont, the latter only after a very hard race with Knight of Ellerslie; Commodore Kittson then sold him to the Dwyer brothers for Si4,ooo, but he failed to win another race. He had developed an intestinal disorder and finally went to Captain Stewart's, at Council Bluffs, Ia. Knigbt of Ellerslie, like St. Saviour, had a short and brilliant career at three. Knigbt of He was bred by Major Hancock and was a chestnut by Eolus from Lizzie Hazle- Ellerslie, wood, and began racing in the "all orange" of Major Doswell. At Baltimore he i88 won four races within ten days. At Jerome Park, for the Belmont Stakes of '84, he met a fresh colt in Panique, and after a whipping finish Panique won by a neck. Mr. Appleby bought him, but Rataplan beat him for the Emporium. In the stud he achieved renown as the sire of Henry of Navarre-one of the best race-horses of all times. During the winter of i885 there was a great deal of betting on the Withers Tyrant, and Belmont Stakes; Goano, Richmond, and Brookwood were the idols that men 1882 intrusted with their faith-and their dollars. And yet, far away in California, a party of men had the white-legged Tyrant hidden away as "a real good thing" I29 _CING IN ,4MERRICA -and how closely they kept it I Hardly had spring put forth its blossoms than they tried him with Nellie Peyton, and their hope rose when he beat her. But they were not satisfied-they wanted "a line." Nellie Peyton was sent to the races at Bay District and beat Jim Douglas. That settled it, and the California gold began to dribble Eastward-to Mr. Brewster, at Chicago, with instructions to "take the best odds." The "tip" did not seem to affect Tyrant's price. Then the stable came East. Patsy Duffy, the stable's jockey, stopped over at Chicago, where he told a select few that the colt had been "tried good enough to win a dozen Withers or Belmonts." Still the public stood by its idols. A Clever Bit The stable arrived at Jerome Park, but attracted little attention. Tyrant of Strategy was almost unknown and no one was curious about him. His trainer, Mr. Clay- pole, was an utter stranger and very reserved. As days and weeks followed, the trainers began to notice Tyrant, but they could never get a chance to time him, for when he galloped with the black colt Hidalgo, his trainer always stopped them before they reached the stand. For the Withers, it was good odds against Tyrant, and he won in hand to the amazement of all, and followed it by winning the Belmont. Then the secret leaked out-his trainer had galloped him in his trials, not from the quarter-poles, but from marks on the rails beyond the poles. John Spellman, the jockey, was the only one to discover it and backed the colt. Tyrant won but once after that; he was a chestnut by Great Tom from Mozelle. His action was very deceptive; as John Mackey said: "He seems to be running easily when he's doing his best." VWanda, Mr. Pierre Lorillard always claimed that Katrine was a better filly than 1882 Wanda; but, as John Madden would say, "opinions die, but records live," and the record makes Wanda one of the best fillies in the history of racing. She early gave great promise; the spring she was a two-year-old (i884) she did a furlong in i i seconds. She was one of the first crop by Mortemer that Mr. Lorillard bred at Rancocas, a chestnut with a crooked blaze and a near hind leg white to the hock. As a two-year-oId she won the Surf, Tyro, Central, Flat- bush, Champion Stallion, and Homebred Stakes, and retired the champion of the year. At three she won the Lorillard, Oaks, Mermaid, West End Stakes. A Filhv Beats She proved an exceptional filly in that she defeated the colts of her year. De- the Colts veloping a ringbone drove her off the turf. Wanda was a tall filly and rather "tucked up" in the flanks. Her neck "dipped" as it came out of her shoulders, which did not add to her beauty, but seen in action she was a marvel of airy grace-as her trainer, Matt Byrnes, expressed it: "She runs as if the ground wasn't good enough for her." She was the first racer Mr. Loriulard tried with aluminum plates. They suited her light action, but, tried on a heavy-footed horse like Drake Carter, they were a failure. In the stud Wanda transmitted her excel- lence, for, bred to Hanover, she produced Urania, a fine mare, which, bred to 130 CELEBRA TED 9(ACE-HORSES Meddler, produced Armenia (winner of the Matrons Stakes); and Armenia, taken to France and bred to Rabelais, produced Mr. Duryea's Durbar II, winner of the Epsom Derby of 'I4. Katrine was a chestnut filly by Mortemer from Loulanier by Lever. She was so large she was not raced until three, and on her wonderful trials was made a 2 to I favorite for the Emporium. Nine times she started that year, winning only once. She seemed pursued by ill luck throughout her career, culminating in her being cut down racing for the September stakes at Sheepshead Bay. Matt Byrnes supported Mr. Lorillard in saying she could outrun Wanda. Said Byrnes: "To give you an idea how fast she was-before Pontiac won the Subur- ban we tried her with him at five pounds for the year, and she beat him. We thought there was a mistake, and tried them again, this time at evens, and she beat him again." Exile was like Wanda and Katrine, one of the first lot of the Mortemers, a bay colt from Second Hand (imported) by Stockwell, and was a fine race-horse. He began at two and was a consistent winner up to 1889, when, having been purchased by William Lakeland, he won the Brooklyn Handicap with ii6 pounds, beating Prince Royal, Terra Cotta, etc. He was a horse of great power in his back and quarters, with an excess of animal spirits that often caused him to clear the paddock when he lashed out with both heels. As he grew older he developed a savage disposition, and, located at Mr. Cowdin's, at Mount Kisco, N. Y., he tried to kill his groom, who only saved his life by climbing a tree, upon which Exile tried to follow him, standing on his hind legs and biting the bark. Eventually he became so bad it was found necessary to shoot him. Among the three-year-olds of x885 none attracted greater attention than Bersan, or "The Horned Horse," as he became known. This was owing to his having two well-defined horns, or nubs of horns, in his forehead, such as are often seen in a young bull. They were covered by hair, but perfectly discernible, and Mr. Green Morris came in for much chaffing over his colt's peculiarity. "Did a cow foal him" and "Is he in the Herd-Book" were among the sam- ples. Despite his bovine adornment Bersan was a race-horse of class. He won the Blue Ribbon and Clark Stakes, beating Troubadour and Joe Cotton, the Ken- tucky Derby winner. He also won the Travers and Foxhall Stakes at Saratoga, but when he came to Monmouth Wanda beat him badly, although it is possible he may have trained off a trifle. He was by Ten Broeck from Sallie M., tracing to the family from which Spendthrift, Fellowcraft, and Drake Carter came. When Joe Cotton became favorite in the auction pools the night before the Kentucky Derby (i885), the announcement was greeted with cheers, his owner, Captain Williams, and his namesake both being very popular men with the sporting fraternity. The colt won the Derby, but he was "all out" at the finish, '3' Wanda's Descendants Katrine, 1882 Beating Pontiac in a Trial Exile, I 882 Bersan, 1882 " Tbe Horned Horse" Joe Cotton, I 882 CAGING IN dA MERICA4 as Bersan, "the horned horse," gave him the race of his life. Joe Cotton was a very blood-like colt, a chestnut by King Alfonso-Inverness (imported) by Maca- roni. He won the C. I. J. C. Derby, but Pardee beat him for the Tidal. As a four- year-old he became a hot winter favorite for the Suburban. All winter long the books in New York, Chicago, and Louisville took money by the fistful on his chances, and Captain Williams was reported to have said he feared only Trou- badour. Fooling the In the spring of i886 Joe Cotton was at New Orleans, and a story began to Touts circulate that he had been blistered and that he was "in a bad way" generally. It was, of course, a hoax; but let Captain Williams tell it: "You see," said he, "there were an awful lot of touts around working in the interests of betting houses. The horse couldn't come out to walk, but they were as thick as bees around him, and sending off telegrams. So, says I to myself, I'll give these fel- lows something to talk about. I took some molasses and daubed it all over his leg. Then I put on a bandage. I tried to get it above the joint, but it wouldn't set firm. But it looked for all the world like a blister. It did the work. When the horse came out the touts saw it, and in less than an hour it was telegraphed all over the country that Joe Cotton had been blistered. One fellow had been send- ing money on him to New York, and he came to me and asked if it was so. 'Why, yes,' I said, 'you saw it yourself-but don't say a word about it.' I knew that was the best way to put the story in circulation. Of course that fellow told every one the story as a great secret. That settled it-they 'had it straight' from me. Some of them sold their bets; others hedged. Jim McCullough, that friend of Green Morris, he says to me: 'I never saw a blister draw like that one does on Joe Cotton.' The thing had gone far enough-ceased to be funny-so I called the boys together and told them, and you may believe me they were a mighty crestfallen lot." Volante, The sceptics who claim the thoroughbred horse is useful only for racing-"a i882 sporting horse"-must have had a rude shock when they saw Volante, for a more powerful animal has seldom, if ever, been seen. He had not the height of Tom Ochiltree or Longfellow, but his sturdy build, his enormous bone and muscular development were quite extraordinary. He was a bay, bred by Mr. E. J. Baldwin, in California, and a son of Grinstead from a Glenelg mare. He did not belie his appearance, for he ran eighty-four races, winning thirty-five in- cluding the American Derby at Chicago, beating Troubadour, the Saratoga Cup, Brewers Cup, Champion Stakes, Merchants Stakes, First Special, racing until he was seven, beating Hanover, Elkwood, Eurus, and all the "stars" of his time. Volante's racing-plate measured 41 inches across at the widest point, indicating an unusually large foot. Elkwood, Eurus, and Eolian, chestnut, bay, and brown, were all sons of Eolus, 132 CELEBRATED 4CE-HORSES and played "star" roles in the racing drama of the "eighties." Eurus won the Elkwood, Suburban of '87, and Elkwood won it in i888, while Eolian had, in 1887, won 1883 sixteen races, beating such horses as Hanover, Eurus, and Volante. The three kinsmen cut a wide swath in the principal events, Elkwood probably the great- Eurus and est. He was at least the best stayer. Before the Suburban he had wintered among Eolian the snows at Saratoga, and in the race he was a wild horse, beating Terra Cotta, Firenzi, Eurus, Linden, and others. At Saratoga he defeated Kingston for the Merchants, but he became very savage, and the sight of his jockey, Fitzpatrick, rendered him furious. Stull's portrait of him, with his ears pinned back, is most faithful to life. Eurus, too, was a handsome horse, but he also was savage. He won the Suburban in deep mud and, like Elkwood, at long odds. He died sud- denly, and a post-mortem disclosed a large tumor, which accounted for his be- havior. Eolian was, in appearance, the finest of the three; a rich brown, beauti- fully turned, but he was hardly the stayer the others were. Dry Monopole, who is chiefly remembered as winner of the first Brooklyn Dry Handicap (i887), was a small horse, but very clever on his feet. He was a bay, Monopole, son of Glenelg-Peru, and cut no figure at two. At three he won ten out of twenty- I 883 five races. His Brooklyn Handicap produced the memorable finish in which, through sheer gameness, he beat Hidalgo by a head, the latter beating Bluewing the same distance. He had up only Io6 pounds, receiving 9 pounds from Hidalgo and 6 pounds from Bluewing. His party won handsomely, but nothing like what they would have won had not betting been suppressed that day. Two days later the three-year-old Hanover gave him weight and a beating for the Brookdale. Laggard achieved the greatest triumph of Mr. Withers's career when he won Laggard, the rich Omnibus Stakes at Monmouth (1887), beating Firenzi, Hanover, and 1884 Kingston. Mr. Withers, who always cultivated stoicism, turned pale and trem- bled like a leaf despite all his efforts to look unconcerned. Laggard was a real good one. He won eight races and was the first three-year-old to beat Hanover that year. Hanover was asked to concede him seventeen pounds in the Raritan Stakes, something no horse could do, for Laggard not only beat him six lengths, but for the Palisade Stakes ran Kingston to a head at even weights; won the Delaware, Bridge, and other events with full weights. Mr. Withers bred him at Brookdale, and he was a chestnut by Uncas-imported Dawdle by Saunterer. Inspector B., a bay son of Enquirer from Colossa, was bred at Belle Mead, in Inspector B., Tennessee, and was fair at two; but at three he divided with The Bard the honors 1883 of the year. He defeated The Bard for the Belmont, and then won the Tidal, Lorillard, Travers, Iroquois, and nine races in all. At four he did not start, but reappeared at five and started for a few races. In the stud he sired in Endurance by Right, the champion two-year-old of i9oI, and, probably, one of the best fillies of any year. 133 9(GCING IN d MERICA Troubadour, Troubadour as a two-year-old gave little promise of the leviathan he became 1882 in later years. He started for fourteen races and won seven, but his racing was of the "in-and-out" kind, occasionally brilliant and then bad. At three he started in twenty-one races, winning five. At four years old, in i886, he suddenly blazed forth as a star of the first magnitude, starting three times and winning each time. At Latonia, a fortnight before the Suburban, he won at i34 miles in 2.10, and his stable backed him in the books for the Suburban to win 42,000. Twenty started for the Suburban. Lizzie Dwyer was favorite at 3 to i; Trou- badour, 4 to i. It was one of the heaviest betting races on record. Among the starters in this splendid field were Joe Cotton, Ban Fox, Barnum, Favor, Rich- mond, Savanac, Unrest, Goano, Markland, etc. Troubadour, ridden by Fitz- patrick, took the lead and was never headed, winning, as he liked, by four lengths. His"Elerentb- The day before the Suburban, J. W. Rogers, his trainer, astounded the train- Hour" Trial ers at Sheepshead Bay by sending Troubadour over the Suburban course in for tbe 2.07Y4. Such a trial the very day prior to a great race was quite contrary to the Suburban practice of experienced trainers, and many declared he could not win so soon after the effort. His Trainer Rogers, however, explained after the race how it happened, and he spoke in Explains this wise: "We had a special car, and found there was a tunnel this side of Pitts- Reason for burgh that our car couldn't go through. So I brought Troubadour and Master- tbc Trial piece on alone, leaving the rest of my horses to come by the Erie route. When we reached Sheepshead Bay, Masterpiece burst his foot, and I had no other horse to work with Troubadour. I waited until the last day, and was compelled to work him alone. O'Hara rode; when he had gone half a mile in 49 seconds it frightened me. At a mile I tried to stop him. If I hadn't I don't know how fast he'd have gone. He did it in 2.07Y4. As I had no trial horse I had to depend on the watch. Troubadour liked company, and often he wouldn't run without it. He did in the Suburban because he could hear the others behind him. I know people criticised my working him the day before the race, but sometimes when a horse has had his last work several days before the race he is apt to stiffen up in his muscles when it comes to the day of the race. But when he has it just before the race he comes out all unlimbered and fit to run." He Defeats Troubadour's Suburban was so impressive that the public, always ready to Miss worship a new idol, proclaimed him a wonder. Miss Woodford was looked to as VVoodford his only possible rival. A special race was arranged: Troubadour, ii8 pounds; Miss Woodford, 117 pounds; IY4 miles. It was run a fortnight after the Subur- ban. Troubadour won by a half-length; but was "all out." As a five-year-old Troubadour started six times and won four races. The Bard defeated him for the C. I. J. C. Stakes, io miles. He defeated The Bard for the Ocean Stakes 134 0 ce 3 3 oD This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED R"CE-HORSES and also for the Monmouth Cup, while for the Freehold The Bard beat him badly. Troubadour was bred by Mr. Joseph Swigert, who sold him to Milton Young. Captain S. S. Brown of Pittsburgh purchased him, and in whose "red-blue cap" he won his greatest races. He was a horse of great individuality, a dark bay with a crescent-shaped star, a snip on his nose, and four white feet. He had a plain head, a Roman nose, a ewe neck, splendid shoulders, and he cut away behind the saddle. He was marked with gray hair, especially his hind legs, and was a son of imported Lisbon (by Phaeton) from Glenluine by Glenelg. It was in the spring of i884 Mr. Chas. Reed held a sale of yearlings at Gallatin (Tenn.), and Mr. D. D. Withers found himself hesitating between a colt and filly by Longfellow from Bradamante and Brenna, respectively. He gave Colonel Bruce the commission to buy "whichever one he could." It happened that Colonel Bruce had also a commission from Mr. A. J. Cassatt to buy "both of them," and he compromised by buying the filly for Mr. Withers, and for Mr. Cassatt, the colt, which became known as Tbe Bard. The colt started fourteen times at two years old and won three. At four, like all the Longfellows, he im- proved and won eleven out of seventeen starts. Up to July he had won only three, Inspector B. having beaten him for the Belmont which Mr. Cassatt had so fondly hoped to win. For the Spindrift Stakes, The Bard and Dewdrop ran a dead heat. The Dwyer Bros., owners of Dewdrop, offered to divide, but Mr. Cassatt declined. Then the Dwyers made this proposition: "Call it a division-a dead heat-and you can take the stakes. We don't care to run it off with our filly." "That I cannot do," answered Mr. Cassatt; "the odds were 10 to 7 on Dew- drop, and 2 to i against The Bard. To divide would mean that my friends who had backed The Bard would be losers." "Well, Mr. Woodford, the owner of Barnum, did it the day our mare (Miss Woodford) and Barnum ran a dead heat." "I'm not Mr. Woodford," was the reply; and Dewdrop was withdrawn, while The Bard walked over. The Bard had "found himself"-he won "eight races in a row"-the Omnibus, Choice, September, Jerome, Dixie, Breckenridge, and Potomac. As a four- year-old he was beaten only twice by Troubadour; but he defeated Trouba- dour twice. At five years old he was incontestably the champion, winning seven races out of eight. He won the Brooklyn Handicap with 125 pounds, beating Hanover, 125 pounds, Exile, and Volante in a field of eleven. He won the St. James, the Brooklyn Cup, Coney Island Cup, and Ocean Stakes. His only defeat was by Firenzi for the Freehold, when he was complaining from intestinal trouble an inflammation of the membrane of the bowels. For days he suffered, I35 Tbe Bard, 1883 Dead Heat witb Dewdrop Wins "Eigbt Races in a Row" M;&CING IN d ME RICA4 and John Huggins, his trainer, once announced, "The Bard's dying," but he rallied and went into the stud the following year. Description The Bard was not a handsome horse. He was light in the flank and ran rather light in flesh. He was a long strider, and, while his action was not the most at- tractive, it carried him a pace at which few could live. He had a way of lifting his off hind foot when he walked that looked like string-halt, and ran with his "flag" cocked high in the air. He defeated all the best racers of his time, Han- over, Firenzi, Troubadour, Kingston, Exile, Sir Dixon, etc. As a sire he was only a partial success, his best being Gold Heels, the Suburban winner of 1902. Tremont, "The Black Whirlwind," as Tremont became known, was the quickest starter 1884 ever seen on an American race-course. He was a jet-black colt by Virgil-Ann Fief by Alarm, and was bred by Mr. D. Swigert, in Kentucky. At the sale of yearlings, Dwyer Bros. purchased him for Si,6oo. As a yearling he developed phenomenal speed, doing his trial in 224. All through the winter of i885-I886 he was the talk of the trainers and racing people generally. No such colt had been seen since Sensation's day, and the stakes were voted "a gift to him." He had run away from all the yearlings in the stable, and again in the spring as two- A False year-olds. But late in May the unexpected happened. While being made ready Trial for the race for the Juvenile, he was beaten in a trial gallop. There was a panic in the stable. What did it mean "He couldn't be himself," and McLaughlin, who was at Washington riding races, was telegraphed to "come home immedi- ately." "I'm so glad you've come," exclaimed Frank McCabe, the trainer, when McLaughlin arrived. "What's the trouble" asked McLaughlin. "Trouble, oh, there's been the devil to pay! The black colt-Tremont-he's been beaten. Hanover beat him in their last gallop." "Hanover-that lazy chestnut" inquired McLaughlin. "Yes; that's the queer part of it. He never could gallop with Tremont-some- thing's wrong with the black colt." But when they were tried again, with McLaughlin on Tremont, the black beat the chestnut as handily as ever, and the Dwyers and McCabe breathed easily. What could have been the cause of Tremont's sudden change remained a mystery, and is only fresh proof of the uncertainties of racing. "The Tremont won every race for which he started. He started thirteen times, and Unbeaten no horse ever headed him. His races were all run within the space of eight weeks, Tremont and, although he retired early, the following spring it was found impossible to train him. His fame, therefore, rests upon his career as a two-year-old. He was A Ligbhning so quick on his feet that he won his races in the first furlong, carrying his fields Starter so fast they never fell into their stride. As a sire he was not a success, despite 136 9 0 z This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED 'I(ACE-HORSES his racing merit and his blood-like elegance, in which he differed from his dam, a mare which Henry Miller bought unseen for Mr. Haggin, but sent her back when delivered, telling the negro who brought her that "Your employer has made a mistake; that mare is not a thoroughbred-no thoroughbred ever looked like her." It is not often that an owner can boast of having the best filly for two consecu- Dewdrop, tive years. Mr. Pierre Lorillard had that good fortune, however, with Wanda 1883 and Dewdrop. The latter was bred at Rancocas, and was a brown by Falsetto from Explosion, a mare Mr. Lorillard had picked up at a sale for 250. Dewdrop favored her sire; she had the blaze face, near fore and both hind legs white to the hocks. She had Falsetto's wonderful machine-like action, low-headed and sweeping-quite in contrast to Wanda, who seemed to scarcely touch the ground. Wanda had more speed and was hardy. Dewdrop was rather delicate. It is a fact that delicate horses are, more often than not, better stayers than robust ones, and Dewdrop's was a case in point. Dewdrop as a two-year-old beat a field of twenty for the Great Eastern Wins the Handicap, and followed it with the Nursery and Champagne, beating Inspector Nursery B. in a hand canter, and Mr. Lorillard realized that he had made a mistake selling her sire to Woodburn. The sale of Mr. Lorillard's racing stable, the following winter, brought out a Dewdrop crowd of intending purchasers of Dewdrop. "Here she comes, the pick of the Sells for basket," somebody called as the white face of the Nursery winner appeared in 29,500 the ring. "This, gentlemen, is the best filly of the year, perhaps of any year, I cannot say too much of her," began Colonel Bruce, the auctioneer. Mr. Reed bid Sio,ooo. "I won't take it," replied Colonel Bruce. Mr. Reed bid i5,ooo, Mr. Dwyer i6,ooo, Mr. Reed i9,000. At 24,ooo Mr. Reed stopped. Mr. W. L Scott bid 25,ooo, and at 29,5oo the hammer fell to Dwyer Bros.' bid. In the Dwyer "red and blue," Dewdrop, as a three-year-old, ran twelve races, winning seven. She ran a dead heat for the Spindrift with The Bard, and then won the Oaks, Stockton, Stevens, Palisade, Eatontown, West End, and First Special, and died September iI, ten days after her last race. Hanover was sired by Hindoo in the latter's first season in the stud. But there Hanover, was not the slightest resemblance between sire and son. Mr. Phil Dwyer often 1884 recalled his first sight of Hanover as a yearling: "I was driving with Colonel Clay," he said, "going over his farm at Runnymede to look at his yearlings and, as we came to the paddocks, I noticed a slashing chestnut with white face and legs. "'What is that' I inquired. "'That's a Hindoo,' replied Clay. "'Oh, no-I can't have that 1' I returned. '37 IACING IN ,MERICAq "'I'm not joking,' said Clay, 'it's true, he doesn't look a bit like Hindoo, color, marks, shape, and all that; but he's a son of Hindoo, just the same.' "'Well,' said I, 'whether he is or not, I'll buy him when he's offered for sale,' and I did." A Sluggisb Tremont was so far superior to the balance of the Dwyer lot that he did the Colt bulk of the racing at two, and Hanover was held in reserve. He did not start until summer, and then only three times, and won them all-the Hopeful, July, and Sapling. As a yearling he was sluggish, and he had not changed at two. All his races were won by heads and necks, and McLaughlin had to ride him out to the last stride and use the whip liberally. "You had to ride him every step of the way," said McLaughlin, "or he was so lazy he'd loaf." The "Crack" When Hanover appeared the spring of his three-year-old season (1887) he of the Year was transformed. He was quite a different colt. Instead of needing to be hard ridden, he was all spirit and energy, darting to the front, making pace, and un- willing to allow his fields to approach him. He ran twenty-seven races and won twenty. He ran fourteen before meeting defeat-the Raritan Stakes at Mon- mouth, when he tried to concede i6 pounds to Laggard. The Carlton, Brook- dale, Withers, Belmont, Brooklyn Derby, Swift, Tidal, C. I. J. C. Derby, Em- porium, Spindrift, Lorillard, Stockton, Barnegat, Stevens, Champion, U. S. Hotel, Second Special, Breckenridge, and Dixie were all his. Despite the tremendous campaign of the previous year, Hanover came out as a four-year-old and ran second to The Bard at level weights for the Brooklyn Handicap. He ran and won several races, but fell lame and retired early. At five years old- he was at it again, and won seven races, among them the Coney Island Cup and Stakes, the Express Stakes at Morris Park, etc., but the leg which had failed him the year before had been "nerved," and after a few years in the stud, at McGrathian&-tMilton Young's), it became so bad that it was found necessary to destroy him. His skeleton was articulated and is in the medi- cal museum at Lexington. Hanorer Hanover was a chestnut with a narrow blaze, both fore and off hind legs Leads the white. He had a fine expressive head, rather broad at the muzzle, straight pro- I1inning file, a large eye, a muscular neck, a trifle straight in the shoulder, deep in the Sires girth. His back "dipped" slightly; but he did not cut away behind the croup; he had fine quarters, but was rather light in the thighs. In all, he ran fifty races, winning thirty-two, and Si 18,372. As a sire he soon took a leading position, and led the Winning Sires in 1895, 1896, 1897, and i898. Among the best of his progeny were Hamburg, Ben Holliday, The Commoner, Halma, Yankee, Hand- spring, and Compute. It was thought from the wonderful success he attained as a sire he would insure the permanency of the male line of Glencoe, but Com- pute died early. Halma and Handspring were exported and Hamburg and The 138 z z This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED R"CE-HORSES Commoner alone were left, and, while quite successful, their sons have not "bred on." When Kingston was sold as a yearling at Madison Square Garden, in 1885, David Johnson, the bookmaker, remarked: "That's a good tip-Kalula's been highly tried," for Kingston fell to the bid of Mr. Cushman, whose two-year-old filly, Kalula, was Kingston's half-sister. Kalula had been highly tried, but did not race to the promise of her trials. Kingston raced in the colors of his trainer, E. V. Snedeker, as "the Kapanga colt," until he had won. He began life at two, running second to Hanover for the Sapling Stakes at Monmouth, winning the Camden, and after racing second to Tremont for the Junior Champion he won the Select. At three years old Kingston ran i8 races, winning 13. His old opponent, Hanover, beat him for the Swift and the Tidal; but in July the Dwyer Bros., finding that Hanover was becoming stale and that Kingston was the second best of the year, thought it best "to get him out of Hanover's way" by buying him, which they did for 5'2,5oo. He then began a great career, taking Hanover's place as the champion, winning all his stakes, and as a four-year-old he won IO out of 14 starts. At five years (i889) he won 14 out of i5-a remark- able record; but in i 89o, when six years old, he won every race for which he started-io. He won the Brooklyn First Special three consecutive years-i888, i889, and i89o. He defeated Firenzi, Raceland, Tournament, Tenny, and every horse of note. In i89i he won 15 out of 21 races. He ran until i894, when ten years old, and retired with a record of 138 starts and 89 victories. Kingston was a brown by Spendthrift from Kapanga (imported) by Victori- ous (son of Newminster); his only mark was a slight star. He had a sweet head, showing high breeding, and rather upright shoulders, which were heavy, like his sire's. He stood barely 15.3, but was very well balanced, with excellent feet and legs. When he was sold as a yearling he had a curious indention in his shoulder, which caused bidders to hold off; but it was of no consequence. A mile and a quarter was his limit with first-raters; but he won at one and three-quarters with poorer ones. McLaughlin, who rode him in all his races, while he never swerved from his faith in Luke Blackburn, had always a warm place in his heart for Kingston. "He was the gamest, most honest horse I ever rode," he said. "People talk of Hanover, but if Hanover got his head down he was gone, and all you might do couldn't make him win. But Kingston-no matter what happened -would fight it out while he had a leg under him I" Firenzi succeeded Miss Woodford as queen of the turf. She was a small bay filly by Glenelg from Florida by Virgil, bred by Mr. Swigert, and raced under the "orange-blue sleeves" of Mr. J. B. Haggin. She won the Nursery at two and several other events, and at three she accounted for all the stakes for fillies. '39 Kingston, 1 884 "Get Him Out of Hanover's Way " Description His Jockey's Tribute Firenzi, 1884 RJCING IN cAMERICA She was so good that her stable thought her good enough to tackle the colts, which she did with credit, for, while Hanover beat her for the Champion Stakes, she routed him for the Jerome. At four she won 13 out of 22 races; at five, 12 out of 2I; and at six years old, 7 out of 14 races. The races between Firenzi and Kingston were the reigning features of the all-aged events of i888- 1890. During those years she won the Monmouth Cup (twice), and the Navesink, Harvest, New York, Omnium, Freehold (twice), Champion, Monmouth Handicap, Manhattan, and Long Island. Raceland could beat her over a distance, and she could beat Kingston at a mile and a half; but at anything at one and one-quarter miles, or less, Kingston was just about 3 pounds better than the mare. Raceland, Raceland will always have a position of prominence among America's great 1883 racing geldings. He was a very racy-looking bay by imported Billet from Calomel by imported Canwell, and as a two-year-old raced in the colors of Joseph Ullman of St. Louis, winning 8 out of 12. He came East in the autumn and showed a clean pair of heels to a field of fifteen for the Great Eastern Handicap, winning by ten lengths. Mr. W. B. Jennings, owner of George Oyster, the second horse, objected to l 'ins the Raceland on the ground that he was described in the entry as a son of Caramel Suburban instead of Calomel. The objection was dismissed. Mr. August Belmont purchased Raceland upon his return to racing for 17,5oo, and as a three-year-old he won 7 out of 12 races, and at four won the Suburban. Upon the dispersal of Mr. Belmont's stable, following his death in 1890, the Dwyer brothers bought Raceland and he raced for four seasons under their colors with great success. Raceland during his racing career started for 130 races and won 70; his winnings amounted to 1i6,391. As a yearling at Mr. Catesby Woodford's, his breeder, he had two blood spavins, and buyers fought shy of him, but they never seemed to affect his speed. Sir Dixon, "He's the star of the sale" was the verdict of the horsemen who gathered at i885 the sale of the Runnymede Stud yearlings of i886. They were speaking of the brown colt by Billet from the sister to Iroquois-Jaconet by Leamington, after- ward known as Sir Dixon. The sons of Leamington were in great demand as sires. "But a Leamington mare"-no; they were voted "too finely drawn," "bad milkers," "their foals were delicate." But Jaconet's colt was "a beauty" they all agreed. It was freely stated Captain Brown of Pittsburgh had set his heart on buying him, and with his wealth other owners feared to oppose him. It happened, however, that the day of the sale Captain Brown, always a boon companion, had tarried with a party of friends over their wine, and, not reach- ing the sale in time, the colt was knocked down to Green B. Morris. In the "purple-white cap" of Mr. Morris the colt started seven times as a I40 z N 1. x U. This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED R"4CE-HORSES two-year-old, winning three-the Camden, Select, and Flatbush of '87, beat- ing Emperor of Norfolk, Raceland, and others. The following spring, at Washing- ton, he won the Analostan. Meantime, the Dwyer brothers, always on the look- out for a "ready-made" race-horse, approached Morris with an offer to buy Sir Dixon. "I refused to price him," said Mr. Morris. "Three or four times they came at me and seemed bent on having him. They offered Sio,ooo; then Si5,ooo -that I refused. At last, Mike Dwyer came to me in the paddock and said: 'Green, let me have that colt; you don't bet as heavy as we do, and he's worth more to us than he'll be to you,' and he put a piece of paper in my hand; it was a check for 20,000. I didn't want to sell, but the Dwyers had been good friends to me, and I didn't feel like refusing them. I always regretted selling him, as I knew he wouldn't do for their style of racing. He was a bit delicate, and couldn't stand hard races close together. But he was the best horse I ever had -and you know I've had some good ones." In the Dwyer colors Sir Dixon's three-year-old form was brilliant. He won the Carlton Stakes, beating Raceland; the Withers and the Belmont, for which he beat Prince Royal fifteen lengths; the Lorillard and the Travers. Then he trained off and did not start as a four-year-old. At five he returned and won some good races, but did not last very long. Green Morris made no mistake when he said Sir Dixon would not suit the Dwyers' style of racing. The Dwyers had begun their racing with sons of Bonnie Scotland-a breed as tough as pine-knots. He was a great colt, but his "hard races, close together, " told, as Morris predicted, and he was never the same after he won the Travers. Sir Dixon entered the stud at six (189i), returning to his birthplace, Runnymede. His success was immediate. In his first year he sired Butterflies, winner of the Futurity of '94. He also sired Blue Girl, Audience, Blues, Druid, Kilmarnock, Jack Point, Running Water, Yankee Girl, Agile, and Ahom. In ioi he led the Winning Sires, when his get was 206,926. Sir Dixon died March 23, i909, aged twenty-four years. While romping in his pad- dock he fell, breaking his right hip, and was destroyed. Jaconet, the dam of Sir Dixon, was one of several two-year-old fillies Mr. P. Lorillard sent to Doctor Cattanach, the "vet," to be treated for "big head," a disease accompanied by bony degeneration. Doctor Cattanach cured them, but Mr. Lorillard refused them, and gave Jaconet to the doctor, who traded her for the filly Caller Ou with Mr. Welch, who, in turn, sold her to Clay & Wood- ford. None of her colts seemed to be affected with the trouble from which she had suffered. Prince Royal was the best son of Kingfisher, who was more noted for his fillies than for his colts. Mr. Belmont bred him on Long Island, and he won twice at two. At three he won eleven races, among them the Stockton, Stevens, Jerome, 141 Defeats Raceland His Sale to Dw"er Bros. A Great - Sire A Gift Horse Prince Royal, 1885 _7(CING IN, dMER 1CM Emperor of Norfolk, ,885 Proctor Knott, i886 Fides, 1886 and Arrow. Sir Dixon beat him for the Belmont, but for the Coney Island Derby he reversed it, beating Sir Dixon. He ran but once at four-second to Exile for the Brooklyn Handicap, conceding 4 pounds to the winner. But as a five-year- old in i89o he was a really great horse, winning the Rancho del Paso, Coney Island, Shrewsbury, Midsummer, and Harvest Handicaps. In i8ji he was again second for the Brooklyn Handicap. The decision of the finish for the Withers Stakes was very generally disputed. Prince Royal looked the winner to every- body but the judges, who placed Sir Dixon first. Emperor of Norfolk was probably the best two-year-old of 1887, although many claimed the honor for Raceland. He ran eighteen races as a two-year-old, winning twelve, and did a great deal of travelling by railway besides. At three he won nine out of eleven starts. It was a great field he defeated for the Brooklyn Derby-since called the Dwyer Stakes-as it included Sir Dixon, Prince Royal, and Raceland. Going to Chicago he won the American Derby, and added to it the Drexel and Sheridan Stakes. It was shortly after this he broke down. Emperor of Norfolk was a bay with a star and near hind pastern white. He was bred by Mr. Theo. Winters in California and was a January 12 foal. Mr. Baldwin purchased him as a yearling for 2,5oo. He was a son of the un- beaten Norfolk from Marian by Malcolm (by Bonnie Scotland), and was a colt of great power, joined to very high quality. A handsome head, long, massive neck, great depth, powerful loins and quarters, and broad, flat feet, the walls very low and the heel wide. In the stud he sired Americus, who was only a sprinter and who, in England, made quite a name for the speed of his progeny. Proctor Knott saved Luke Blackburn from going into history as an absolute failure as a sire. He was a chestnut gelding by Luke Blackburn, and bred at Belle Meade, his dam, Tallapoosa, by Great Tom, and belonged to Sam Bryant, an eccentric but very shrewd trainer. He won six out of nine races at two, includ- ing the Kenwood at Chicago and the Junior Champion at Monmouth, when he defeated Salvator and others, while he had also the glory of winning the first Futurity, i888, beating Salvator and a field of fourteen. He was backward at three. They laid 3 to I on him for the Kentucky Derby, when he caught a Tartar in the Montana-bred colt Spokane, who beat him by a neck, and increased it to two lengths for the Clark Stakes; while for the American Derby at Chicago, Spokane made it "three straight," but Proctor beat him for the Sheridan. Then he came to Monmouth to meet his old rival, Salvator, for the Omnibus. Longstreet beat them both, but Proctor Knott beat Salvator for the place. In fact, he beat Salvator every time they met. "As far as she'll go," the trainers said, "nothing is as fast as Fides," a bay filly, bred by Mr. Belmont, by The III Used-Filette by Kingfisher, and winner 142 UN z :U This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RM4CE-HORSES of the Juvenile and Clover Stakes. At three she won four races out of five, in- cluding the Carter Handicap. At four she spread-eagled a field of twenty for the Toboggan with i i6 pounds up, coming down the Eclipse Course at Morris Park like a bird in flight. The career of Fides came to a sudden end shortly after. She was entered for a race at Monmouth Park. The night before the race a heavy rainfall made the track very deep in mud. Fides never could extend herself in mud, but Rowe received a telegram from Mr. Belmont to start her. Against his judgment he started her, and she performed badly. The telegram was a forgery; sent, no doubt, by some one who knew she could not race in heavy ground and laid bets against her. She never started after that. Spokane came out of the Far West-the land of "the tepee and the toma- Spokane, hawk"-and caused a tremendous sensation when he defeated Proctor Knott i886 for the Kentucky Derby of '89. He was a very pretty chestnut, belonging to Montana people, with a star, stripe, and both hind legs white, sired by Hyder Ali, a very large and handsome son of Leamington, who had won the Cham- pagne Stakes of '74 and broken down soon after. It was lo to i against Spokane at Louisville, but he beat Proctor Knott by a neck, and followed by beating him for the Clark and the American Derby -at Chicago. He lost all form after that, but they brought him East notwithstanding, and Tenny ran away from him at Morris Park, as did Exile at Sheepshead Bay. Like many of the sons of Longfellow, Longstreet did little as a two-year-old. Longsireet, He was a sturdy big bay, standing over i6 hands, and built in proportion. As a i886 three-year-old he did better, winning nine out of twenty-three. It was not until the race for the Lorillard Stakes that he showed form, running second to Salva- tor, in whose interest Mr. Haggin also started a colt called Kern, who made the pace, then pulled out, letting Salvator slip into his place while he (Kern) swerved across the field, causing some of the colts to pull up. But for this, the Dwyers thought, their colt (Longstreet) would have won, and did not hesitate to say Kern was put in the race for a purpose. That Longstreet was a coming horse, he soon proved by winning the Omnibus at 5 to i, beating Proctor Knott and Sal- vator. Then the Dwyers said: "I told you so-if that colt Kern hadn't crossed him, he'd have won the Lorillard." At four Longstreet was not at his best, but at five he won sixteen out of eighteen races. He beat Tenny at one and one- quarter at Morris Park. He raced at six, but fell lame. The injury was in the coffin-joint, and he retired to the stud. But, like all horses tracing in the female line to Levity, he made little impression. 143 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RACE-HORSES "Never a motion of hand or heel, Never a touch of the whip or steel; Which shall stagger the first, and reel Beneath the knock-down blow." THE "CRACKS" OF THE "NINETIES" I890-1900 T HE inaugural Metropolitan Handicap at Morris Park, in 1891, was won by Tristan after one of the most severe and punishing races that has ever been seen, and it constitutes his In Memoriam. He won many other races for his owners, Mr. Appleby and Mr. Stuart, but in this race he met the best horses in training at that time. He had 1 14 pounds in the saddle, while Tenny had 129 pounds, and only a neck separated them at the finish. The pace through- out was terrific, the mile being run in 1.37Y4, and Tristan was well up with Claren- don all the way. Tristan was a bay by Glenelg-Traviata by Tom Bowling, a very large handsome horse, and, while hardly "a smasher," to use a trainer's term, he defeated a great many that were. "A Sprinter wins the Suburban-what's racing coming to!" a bookmaker remarked the day Loantaka came with a "Chifney rush" at the finish of the Suburban of 'vi, with a field behind him composed of such good ones as Major Domo, Fitziames, Banquet, Cassius, Tenny, Riley, Tea Tray, etc. "How in the world did you ever do it, Marty" Bergen was asked. "What No pace- look at the time, 2.07," and the wise men of the ring who had laid 30 to I looked unutterable things. The world generally had regarded Loantaka as "a mere sprinter-6 furlongs his best," but they forgot that the year before he had beaten Firenzi, Tristan, and Longstreet at 9 furlongs. He was simply an over- looked horse trained by David McCoun, the oldest American trainer, a brown colt by Sensation from Peggy Dawdle by Saunterer, and bred by Mr. Geo. Lorillard at Long Branch, N. J. Salvator was probably the best-advertised horse that has raced in this country. Certainly no other horse has been more frequently quoted. He made a powerful impression upon the public imagination; and for this there are good reasons. His memorable finish with Proctor Knott for the first Futurity; the fact that he was the undisputed champion of his year at three; that he enrolled his name as a winner of the Suburban at four with top weight, and his equally sensational race against time when he broke the record-a concatenation of highly sensa- tional incidents which impressed the public mind for years after. Salvator was bred by Mr. Swigert, who sold him as a yearling to Mr. J. B. Haggin. As a two-year-old he lost both his first two races, the Junior Champion and Futurity, for which he was beaten a head by Proctor Knott. He won all his 147 Tristan, l 885 Loantaka, i886 Saltator, i 886 Doubts About His Class R"4CING IN MERICA other races, the Flatbush, Maple, Tuckahoe, and Titan, in the last beating Mr. Withers's Cyclone colt; and Mr. Withers declared that "a colt that only beat the Cyclone colt with seven pounds the worst of it cannot be a first rater." During the winter Salvator, while stabled at Monmouth Park, contracted lung fever, and for a time it was feared his wind was affected. However, he ran eight races as a three-year-old and won all but the Omnibus, for which Longstreet and Proctor Knott led him at the finish. The Tidal, Realization, Lorillard, Jersey Handicap (124 pounds), and September were among his conquests. As a four-year-old he never met defeat, and great pains were taken that he should 11 ins the not. Mr. Haggin had set his heart on winning the Suburban for which Salvator Suburban had 127 pounds and won by a neck from Cassius, io7 pounds; Tenny third, with 126 pounds. Tenny's party were dissatisfied with the result of the Suburban; they had lost heavily and bantered for a match, Ss,ooo a side, over the Suburban The Great distance. It was made and run a week after the Suburban. It attracted the Matcb attention of the entire country, and run before a vast assemblage. Isaac Murphy Salrator- rode Salvator, while Garrison was on Tenny. The betting was 5 to 3 on Salvator. Tenny The two horses ran side by side for three furlongs. Then Salvator led by two lengths. Once in the stretch, however, Tenny came very fast and was overhaul- ing Salvator, but the latter "lasted" long enough to win "by a nose," in 2.05. Salrator Both jockeys thought they had won after they had pulled up, and walked their Defeats horses back, chatting as they did so. Teniy "I think I just beat you," said Garrison. "No, I guess my horse won," replied Murphy; and it was not until he saw Salvator's number up that Garrison learned his fate. Salvator walked over for Salrator the cup at Monmouth, and for the Champion Stakes he beat Tenny four lengths. Beats the Salvator had now become the rage. Owners would not start horses against him. Mile Record Accordingly, the race Salvator vs. Time (I.39Y followed over the straight course at Monmouth Park, August 28, I 890, Salvator covering the mile in 1.35,. His Trainer Matt Byrnes, his trainer, has always said the horse could have run it in 1.33 Explains if Isaac Murphy had ridden him, but that great jockey was wearing sackcloth instead of "silk," being under suspension at the time, and Byrnes had to put up Martin Bergen. "I told Marty," said Byrnes, "to do the first half-mile not better than 47 seconds (why, I had warmed him up before the race in 1.50). I stood at the half-mile pole, and he came to me in a shade better than 45 seconds, and 'Marty' was pushing him along; then I yelled to him to steady the horse, and I'm blessed if he didn't go at him harder than ever, and never left him any speed to finish with." After the match with Tenny Mr. Haggin took no chances of having Salvator beaten, as he wished him to go into the stud with prestige undiminished. The dams of most of the great race-horses of the country were brought to mate with 148 I ct U, This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED R"4CE-HORSES him. Great things were expected; but he was an utter failure. The first of his yearlings were sold at Morris Park in i893. They were perfect beauties, and buyers fairly fought for them; but they never repaid the money paid for them. Salvator was a dark chestnut with a blaze and four white legs. He was a son Description of imported Prince Charlie (son of Blair Athol) from Salina by Lexington. He of Salvator was a triumph of breeding, for his sire was winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, 1872, and the fleetest horse, with the possible exception of Macgregor, that Eng- land had known since the days of Bay Middleton. Salina, the dam of Salvator, was one of the best of the racing daughters of Lexington, she was the "crack" three-year-old filly of 1871, and was a granddaughter of Glencoe and of rare old Levity by Trustee. Tenny would have gone down in history as the champion racer of his genera- Tenny, tion had not Salvator been the lion in his path. Tenny's form as a two-year-old i886 hardly foreshadowed great things. He won twice out of seventeen races; but at three he won ten out of eighteen, and they were valuable events. He defeated every colt of class except Salvator. The spring of his four-year-old season (i 89 i) the air was full of rumors about Tenny. It was claimed he was lame behind-in the off leg-and for days he was missed from exercise. A curious degree of mys- tery surrounded him, and it was given out that he would not start for the Brook- lyn Handicap. But when the bell rang he appeared for the race with the top Wins tbe weight of 128 pounds and, going through his field of twenty, won handily by Brooklyn two lengths. Of course some people profited by it, but not the general public, who believed the stories, which had been industriously circulated, that he was lame. His race for the Metropolitan which followed was a gruelling one for which, with I29 pounds, he was beaten a neck by Tristan, 114 pounds. With 128 pounds Tenny was beaten for the Suburban, but he defeated Kingston for the Ocean Stakes, and Longstreet beat him in the match at Morris Park. Tenny's race in the match with Salvator in i890 has already been dealt with in treating of the latter, but it should be stated that Tenny ran on the outside of Salvator in that race and covered more ground thereby. Tenny was a bay, bred by Honorable W. L. Scott at the Algeria Stud, Erie, "Tbe Pa., and was a son of the French horse Rayon d'Or from Belle of Maywood Swayback" by Hunter's Lexington. He was a curiously formed horse, owing to his back being hollow to the point of deformity and which caused him to be generally spoken of as "The Swayback." He was one of the best race-horses that ever faced a starter, but Salvator was always his stumbling-block. For the Realiza- tion, for the Suburban, for the Great Match, for the Champion Stakes-Salvator always beat him. Like Salvator, he was not a success as a sire. I49 PI CING IN d4ME RICA Reckon, Reckon was probably the best mare that had carried the old Barbarity "scar- i886 let" jacket since the days of Ruthless. Wyndham Walden, who trained her for Messrs. J. A. & A. H. Morris, said that "she was capable of anything from 6 furlongs to 4 miles." He was a trainer who did not allow his horses many days of idleness-Reckon, for example. As a two-year-old, she ran twenty- two races, and at three she ran thirty-seven. The Hopeful, Criterion, Colleen, West End, Delaware Handicap, September, and Elms fell to her share. At four, she ran thirty-three races and won nine. She was a handsome chestnut by Pizarro-Perhaps by Australian, and had a peculiar fashion of lashing her tail like a lioness while racing. In the stud she bred to Hanover the colt Com- pute, a splendid racer, but his career was short. Burlington, Burlington, black and blood-like, won the Belmont Stakes of 'go and was a 1887 son of Powhatan (brother to Parole) from imported Invercauld (by St. Albans), a superb race-mare in the sixties, but one that loved to show her heels to the crowd at the start rather than to her field in the race. Her son resembled her in looks but not in disposition, being a very docile, well-mannered colt, which, with his elegance, caused him to be spoken of as "The Gentleman in Black." He belonged to Mr. B. Riley, who trained Mr. Withers's horses, and was a colt of decided class, winning the Criterion and Pelham at two, and at three he won five out of seven, including the Belmont, Trial, Tidal, etc., until he burst his foot and could start no more. His Sale As a three-year-old Mr. Riley sold Burlington to the Hough Bros.-a sale made under unusual conditions. The elder Hough, meeting Riley at Elizabeth races, asked him to price Burlington. Mr. Riley said 7,5oo. Hough said he would "like to see him," and asked if Riley would permit a veterinary examination. Riley agreed, and a few nights later Hough appeared at Mr. Riley's home. "I've come about the colt," he said. "Certainly," answered Riley; "did you bring your veterinary" "Oh, I'm veterinary enough-colt's all right, eh" "Yes; but sit down; we'll see him in the morning," replied Riley, thinking Mr. H. would be his guest for the night, as it was late, and New York forty miles distant. "Morning No; I want to see him to-night. I must get back to town." "But it's dark-you cannot examine a horse in the dark I" exclaimed Riley. "Got a lantern, haven't you" "A lantern" returned Riley aghast; the idea of a man examining a horse by the uncertain light of a lantern was a rude shock to the veteran trainer. An Examina- It was no use remonstrating; Hough had set his heart upon it, so Riley led lion by the way, like Diogenes, lantern in hand, to the stable, where the black winner Lantern-Ligbt of the Criterion nestled snugly in the straw, listening to the November wind 150 CELEBRA TED RJCE-HORSES without, or, perchance, dreaming of last year's contests. Hough walked around him, gave a grunt, then a nod, and then an "He'll do." And thus, like the burial of Sir John Moore, with " The lantern dimly burning, " the future winner of the Belmont and Dwyer Stakes changed hands. But Riley had another shock when, to his amazement, Hough counted out 7,500 in currency. "Why didn't you bring a check It's not safe to carry money around like that," ventured Riley. "Check Oh, no; I pay cash when I buy; that's my way of doing business," replied the erratic Mr. Hough. "And there I was," said Riley, "with a bundle of bank- notes as big as my two fists, and I didn't feel easy until morning, when I got it out of the house to a place of safety." Tournament was one of the largest thoroughbreds in training, and, like most "big 'uns," quite coarse. Naturally, he was slow to "ripen," and out of ten races as a two-year-old the Great Eastern Handicap was his best, beating a field of nineteen, and Midgely had to declare 4Y2 pounds overweight to ride him at 97Y4. At three he started eight times before he won. It became the general be- lief that he was "only a sprinter," but the friends of Senator Hearst, his owner, complained that Matt Allen had not given him work enough, and Allen was ordered to "start him in races and get him fit." Allen, however, liked private trials, and the colt had them. But he improved slowly. He did his trial for the Realization in 2.51 and won it in that time. Hayward was told to "make every pole a winning-post," and the colt came home "solitary and alone," fifty yards ahead of Her Highness, who was second. The race for the Lorillard Stakes came six days later. Tournament should have won it, but, like at the charge of the Light Brigade, "some one had blun- dered." Instead of taking the boat, they took the colt by rail to Monmouth Park. They failed to get a train, and the horses were "held over" all night at Jersey City, missing two days' exercise. To make up for the delay, they galloped him Sunday for the race to be run Tuesday, and, instead of the morning when it was cool, they waited until afternoon. It was the warmest day of the year, 99 degrees, and when Hayward dismounted, his clothes were wet from the horse. He ran a good race for the Lorillard, but he was out of condition, and Torso, the rank outsider, won. Tournament won the Omnibus, Choice, Omnium, Jerome, Hickory, and New Rochelle Stakes and was the "longest money winner" of the year. At the death of Senator Hearst he was sold by auction to Mr. Foxhall P. Keene for 35,5O. He did not race well at four, but at five he did better, although he "cut it" in the Toboggan and was again called "a soft-hearted quitter." He liked to lead, and ridden in front, he won many good races. He was bred in California by Mr. Haggin and was a son of the New Zealand horse Sir Modred from Plaything by Alarm. '5' A Volume of Currency Tournament, 1887 Wins tbe Realization "Alone" "Some One Had Blundered" RCING I1 N,,MERICA Riley, Riley, the Kentucky Derby winner of 1890, was a colt of undeniable class, 1887 but suffered from overracing. He won six out of twelve races at two, and eleven out of twenty-one at three. He added the Clark Stakes to his Derby, but at Latonia, Bill Letcher, in receipt of 9 pounds, beat him. He rather lost form, but recovered toward autumn and won the Pelham Bay Handicap at Morris Park, beating Tournament. At four Mr. Corrigan brought him East and he was beaten for the Brooklyn Handicap, won by Tenny, but he won the Brooklyn Cup, beating Kingston. For the great race for the Metropolitan he was unplaced to Tristan and Tenny, but he had a good season. Riley was a son of Longfellow and Geneva by War Dance. "Tbe Scott Banquet, Torso, and Chaos were a trio, bred and raced by Honorable W. L. Trio," Scott of Erie, Pa., that played a very conspicuous part in racing. Cbaos, a chest- 1887 nut by Rayon d'Or-Lilly R., was the most successful at two and won the Futu- rity of '89, but did not carry out his early promise. Torso, a chestnut by Algerine -Santa Lucia (imported) by Lord Lyon, won the Double Event and Flatbush at two, and the rich Lorillard Stakes at three, But Banquet was the real hero of the triumvirate. He was a bay gelding by Rayon d'Or-Ella T., and during his career in America ran i66 races, of which he won 62 and Si 18,535. His racing extended over a period of nine years and ended in England, where he was taken, in i895, by Messrs. Dwyer & Croker. Montana, "That t'ere old camel," was Green Morris's description of Montana, and it i888 was not undeserved, although Montana was a better horse than he looked. At all events, he beat Mr. Morris's Strathmeath for the Lorillard Stakes, and Mr. Morris's description might have been due to pique. Montana was one of the colts with which the late Mr. Marcus Daly began his racing career. A bay colt bred in California by Mr. J. B. Haggin, he was a son of Ban Fox from imported Queen by Scottish Chief. He won the Carteret Handicap with 30 to i against him. At three he won the Lorillard, but was beaten in all his other races. At four he won the Suburban (1892), due entirely to Garrison's hurricane finish. He might have made a better record at three but for springing a curb after the race for the Lorillard Stakes. fPessara, Pessara, who won the Metropolitan of '92, was a bay by Pizarro from Sister i888 Monica, and ran brilliantly at three. At four he was second for the Brooklyn Handicap and started favorite at 6 to 5 for the Metropolitan. It was before the largest attendance ever seen on a metropolitan race-course. The people in the free field broke onto the course toward the finish, and many of the horses were interfered with. Pessara, ridden by Fred Taral, won by half a length from Loco- hatchee. He was unplaced for the Suburban, but won other races that season. Yorktille Yorkville Belle, the "crack" two and three year old filly of i89i and i892, Belle, i889 might be said to have been a sort of treasure-trove. Colonel Fred McLewee, a 152 9 Li -J -J 0o This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED R"CE-HORSES man who at the time knew little about race-horses, selected her at Mr. Reed's sale of yearlings for the moderate outlay of SI,2oo. He was a partner of Mr. Frank Ehret, who was forming a racing stable at the time, and all he claimed to know about the filly was that "she was a daughter of Thora who defeated Hin- doo, and what more do you want" asked the Colonel. But she was also a daugh- ter of Miser, a full brother to Spendthrift-true, but a most unworthy one- as Hamlet says: "A little more than kin and less than kind." Miser had been thrown in as a makeweight when Mr. Swigert sold Spendthrift to Mr. Keene. He was "blind in one eye and could hardly see with the other," as Spendthrift's trainer, Colonel Puryear, put it. But Colonel McLewee knew nothing of this. As a two-year-old Yorkville Belle ran second for the Futurity. She then Her won six times, the Fashion, the Nursery, Autumn, Prospect, Hollywood, and Winnings Willow-S30,715 in value. At three she won nine out of fifteen, the Ladies', Gazelles, Mermaid, Oaks, West End, Clinton, Hunter, and Omnibus-S47,69o. The only colt capable of beating her was Tammany. In the Omnibus she car- ried 124 pounds. At the close of the season, at Mr. Ehret's sale, she fell to Mr. M. F. Dwyer's bid of S24,ooo. She won six races as a four-year-old. Yorkville Belle takes rank with Ruthless, Miss Woodford, Ferida, Firenzi, Her Class Wanda, and Thora as one of the great mares in that they went out of their class and defeated the colts. Notwithstanding the fact that Colonel McLewee pur- chased her from mere recollection of her dam, Thora, she bore not the slightest likeness of Thora. She favored Miser, her sire, even to the flaxy mane and tail. She had her own little peculiarities. The music of a band quite upset her, as did Her Wbims any loud noise. To the day of his death, Matt Allen, her trainer, maintained she should have won the Futurity instead of running second. Said Allen: "She was leading until they came into the stretch, when the crowd began shouting. She pricked her ears and almost stopped, and before Murphy could get her going again she had lost two lengths. The day she won the Hollywood Handicap at Jerome Park she saw the judges' stand. She had never seen it before, not having been trained there, so nothing must do but she must stop and look at it. Is her sight bad Not a bit of it I Her sire was a blind horse, but she sees too much." Kingman, winner of the Kentucky Derby of 'vi, was about as racing-like Kingman, a colt as ever stripped. A bay by Glengarry (son of Thormanby) from Patricia i888 by Vauxhall, he was very moderate at two, but at three won the Phcenix and and Latonia Derby. The American Derby at Chicago saw his downfall and he trained Russell, off soon after. Russell was one of the best of the J. A. & A. H. Morris two-year- i889 olds of 1891, but very erratic. He won the Great American and many valuable events; and at three won the Carlton and the Brooklyn Derby. Severe cam- paigning made him cunning, and as he grew older he ceased to be dependable. '53 RVICING IN ,AMERICA Polornac, The reputation of having won the richest sweepstakes ever run in America 1888 belongs to Potomac, who, in 1890, won for Mr. Belmont, the elder, the Futurity -value, 67,675. He followed it by winning the Flatbush Stakes, and on the death of Mr. Belmont was sold to Mr. M. F. Dwyer, in whose colors he won four out of six races as a three-year-old. One of these was the Realization, which many thought Montana won, and a photograph taken at the time showed Montana's head in front; but the judges decided Potomac the winner. He raced at four, but not with the best horses, and he was troubled with lameness. Potomac was bred by Mr. Belmont and was by St. Blaise from Susquehanna (sister to Sensa- tion) by Leamington. As a sire his get were soft, and he was himself a soft-look- ing horse. Sallie "If there's anything in breeding, she ought to race. Just think of it-by Hin- AIcClelland, doo from a sister to Iroquois-how can you beat it" Thus spoke Byron Mc- 1888 Clelland when he introduced his filly Sallie McClelland. He certainly gave her every chance to show she could race, starting her nineteen times as a two-year- old. She won seven, including the Eclipse and Spinaway and Great Eastern Handicap, with 121 pounds. Like most fillies that are overmarked at two years old, Sallie's later form was of diminished brilliancy. She won the Alabama at three, but that ended her as a celebrity. Her daughter, Audience, was a fine racing mare, and foaled Whisk Broom, the triple handicap winner of 1913. La Tosca, La Tosca was an exquisitely beautiful filly, the apple of his eye to the late 1888 Mr. Belmont. His death, late in I890, prevented him rejoicing in her later tri- umphs; but as a two-year-old she was always "my beautiful La Tosca." She won four times that year, but the Select at Monmouth was her best, as she de- feated Reckon in receipt of 5 pounds. At Mr. Belmont's sale, Hough Bros. purchased her for S13,000, and she ran sixteen races as a three-year-old. Mr. Pierre Lorillard then purchased her; but she was not seen in 1892, owing to lame- ness; but in i893 she came out at Gravesend and beat His Highness to a stand- still. She started second choice for the Metropolitan Handicap, carrying top weight; but her ailing limb failed her, and she was sold to the Sanfords of Am- sterdam, for whom, mated to Laureate, she bred the flying Chuctanunda and several other good ones. La Tosca was one of the most beautiful mares that ever carried silk, and was strictly first class. She stood i6 hands and was exquisitely proportioned. She was the only filly of her time that could beat Reckon, and was a chestnut by St. Blaise from Toucques by Monarque; granddam, La Toucque by The Baron. Correccionl, Correction, the elder sister of Domino, was for several seasons the sprinter i888 par excellence, and her only rival was Doctor Hasbrouck, the races between them being among the most exciting of the season. In three seasons she ran seventy- one races. She was a bay by Himyar-Mannie Grey-not large, rather plain, 154 CELEBRATED (ACE-HORSES but she had enormous hips and quarters-quite out of proportion to other points of her conformation, and this it was that gave her the marvellous speed she possessed. Green Morris used to say she was "built like a quarter-horse," a strain with which he had been familiar in pioneer days in the West. She was in the Morris stable with Reckon, and could outsprint the latter; but over a mile Reckon was the best. The inaugural meeting at Morris Park (i889) was marked by the appearance El Rio Rev, of El Rio Rey, and he was the sensation of the meeting. His fame had preceded 1887 him. Four times he had started at Western meetings, and each time successfully. He won the Eclipse Stakes from fifteen and the White Plains Handicap, with 126 pounds. He was wretchedly ridden, but won despite it. He was at once hailed as "a phenomenon"-the "best ever seen," as some horse is hailed each year. He had won every race for which he started-seven. Great things were expected of him, but he contracted a cold and turned "roarer," and that checked a career that probably would have been a great one. He was bred in California by Mr. Theo. Winters and was a chestnut with white face and legs by Norfolk, and was the tenth foal of old Marian by Malcolm. The success of El Rio Rey in 1889 encouraged Mr. Winters to send that colt's Rey del Rey, full brother, a bay, called Rey del Rey, to the East in i89o. He stopped at Chi- i888 cago en route and ran third for the Hyde Park Stakes; and upon his arrival at Monmouth was sold to Mr. F. A. Ehret for 20,000, and ran, unplaced, for the Futurity. Unlike his brother, who had won all his races, Rey del Rey lost all his races as a two-year-old. But at three he was a good race-horse, winning the Omnibus, Bowlingbrook, Hackensack, and Mosholu Stakes, for which Isaac Murphy rode him in the "white with red star." The old mare Marian had bred ten consecutive foals by Norfolk, who, in i888, Yo Tambien, had become so infirm with age that Mr. Winters bred her to Joe Hooker, and 1889 the result was Yo Tambien. The filly soon convinced Mr. Winters he had made no mistake, as she began winning as a two-year-old, and eight races fell to her. As a three-year-old she was even better, winning fourteen out of sixteen, includ- ing the Exposition, Hamlin, and Derby at St. Paul, Minn., Great Western, Boulevard, Drexel, Garfield Derby at Chicago, etc. At four she won eleven out of seventeen, beating Lamplighter, at level weights, at Chicago. At five she won ten out of eighteen, among them the Boulevard at Chicago, and at Saratoga she again defeated Lamplighter. She defeated, also, the great Clifford when he seemed to be at his best. While the Joe Hooker cross in nowise affected her racing quality, Yo Tambien was, in appearance, anything but the fine speci- mens Marian foaled to the cover of Norfolk. She was a mealy chestnut with a white stripe, a ewe neck, high withers, but good depth through the heart, and closely coupled. '55 JGCING IN CAMERRICA Locohatchee, Fine taste distinguished Mr. Pierre Lorillard's nomenclature, and, when he 889 purchased the two-year-old Curt Gunn, he at once changed his name to Loco- hatchee, a name reminiscent of his winters in Florida on his house-boat. He ran very successfully in the West, and his owner, Mr. W. H. Landeman, sold him to Mr. Lorillard late in the season. He won five times in Mr. Lorillard's colors at three, including the Hackensack, Raritan, Palisade, and Freehold, and was second for the Metropolitan. He beat Tenny for the Freehold; but Lamplighter beat him for the Champion, which caused Mr. Lorillard to buy Lamplighter; "for," said Mr. Lorillard, "any horse that can beat Locohatchee after what he has shown me, can beat anybody's horse." Locohatchee was a washy-colored chestnut by Onondaga-Sophronia by Ten Broeck; granddam, Lady Stockwell by Knowsley. He had size and finish, but was light in bone and was pigeon-toed, which caused Green Morris one day to call out: "The dancing-master needs you, old fellow-turn your toes out a bit." As a sire at Rancocas he did well, his son Caiman was sent to England and won the Middle Park Plate besides being second to Flying Fox for the Two Thou- sand Guineas. Tanma nj!, Tammany was a chestnut colt by Iroquois-Tullahoma by Great Tom, and i889 it is seldom a colt better represented the blending of blood. He had all the fine quality and refinement of his Leamington sire, joined to the Great Tom color and markings. Old Sam Bryant was always eloquent over "them Tom mares," and, while Great Tom was too near the size of a draft-horse to be a race- horse, his mares were often heavy-bodied and great milkers, and their colts were apt to be well nourished. In the colors of Mr. Marcus Daly, Tammany started six times at two and won twice-the Eclipse and Criterion. At three he was beaten by Charade for the Tidal, but won all his other races-Withers, Realization, Jerome, and Lorillard. After that he was never beaten. He defeated Lamplighter in the sensational match at Guttenberg, and retired; but the death of Mr. Daly deprived him of a chance to win fame. Yet he sired Tokolon, the winner of the Brooklyn Handicap. Aforello, It is among the curious instances attending sales of thoroughbred yearlings 1 890 that Morello, the Futurity winner of 1892, cost only S io. His winnings as a race- horse reached over 8o,ooo. He won fourteen out of seventeen races as a two- year-old, beginning in April and ending in October. He belonged to Mr. Singerly of Philadelphia and was trained by Frank Van Ness. He won the Futurity, beating Lady Violet and a field of fifteen. At three he won ten out of fifteen, and his feats were of the highest order. For the Dearborn Handicap, at Chicago, he carried 128 pounds, conceding 30 pounds to the minimum; in the Wheeler Handicap, I 17 pounds, giving Maid Marian IS pounds, and Yo Tambien with i i8 pounds. Morello was a bay colt, ig6 CELEBRATED 9RjCE-HORSES bred by Mr. Doswell in Virginia, and was by Eolus-Cerise by imported Moc- casin (son of Macaroni); granddam, Lizzie Lucas by Australian. At the sale of Mr. Belmont's yearlings, in the winter of i890, it was announced St. Florian, that St. Florian had won the fastest trial ever run at the Nursery. Messrs. J. 1889 A. & A. H. Morris purchased him, and he became a prominent factor in the great events for two-year-olds in 1891. He was a tall chestnut with a blaze face and white legs, greatly resembling his sire, St. Blaise, his dam being Feu Follet by Kingfisher. He was trained by R. Wyndham Walden, and started twenty- four times at two, and won seven, including the Great American and other rich stakes. He was winning the Double Event, but bolted near the finish, failing over the rails. There was a great deal of trouble over the race, it being claimed that he was crossed and crowded. He had lost the sight of his left eye, and this was given as an explanation. As a three-year-old he was in great form, winning five out of six races. In the Fort Hamilton Handicap he gave Lamplighter 8 pounds and a beating. He gave Locohatchee 2 pounds and beat him for the Bowlingbrook Handicap. But his hard spring campaign caused him to go stale, and he retired early. He was possibly the best son of St. Blaise. "Racing luck" often plays an important part in the career of a race-horse, Lampligbter, and of this Lamplighter was a conspicuous instance. Nature intended him for i889 a great racer, but he was ever a mark for "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" I He lost many races he should have won, until at last he turned sour and sulky. As a two-year-old, in the colors of Captain Brown, and trained by J. W. Rogers, he won six times. He had no engagements in the great events for three-year-olds, the sale of the Spendthrift yearlings having been held after the stakes closed, and Rogers had to repair the breach by entering him in the stakes closing in the spring. Of these he won nine, including the Thistle, Champion, Choice, Bridge, First and Second Special. After the Champion, Mr. P. Lorillard purchased him, and at four years old he won nine out of eighteen starts. He was A Stormy top weight for the Brooklyn Handicap, with I25 pounds, but unplaced, and third Career for the Suburban to Lowlander, to whom he conceded 24 pounds. At Chicago, for the Columbus Handicap, he failed to concede 20 pounds to Rudolph; but he won the Fall Stakes, Labor Day Handicap, and Oriental Handicap, 127 pounds. Then Mr. Walbaum purchased him, and Tammany defeated him at Guttenberg. Tired out as he was, he won the Country Club, with 130 pounds, at Morris Park; and at five won four races; but he had ceased to be the great horse he was at four, and retired. In the stud, at Milton Young's, he did very well, but nothing like so successfully as his half-brothers, Hastings and Kingston. Had Lamplighter been nominated for the great events closing for yearlings, His Wbims he would have been a "heavy-money" winner. That was one piece of bad luck. But he had also the misfortune to collide with horses in races and became ner- 157 7(CING IN cAXME RICA vous, then irritable, and, finally, cunning. Originally he was a thoroughly game colt, but being repeatedly "bumped" and cut off made him wild. He grew to show queer notions; and, if placed on the inside by the rails, would lose all con- trol of himself, as he seemed to fear he would be shut in-as he had often been- while, if a horse crossed him or jostled him, he would refuse to try. "Collateral For the Brooklyn Handicap he was repeatedly "pocketed," but, finally getting FC)rTnm" clear, finished second. Mr. Lorillard's friends urged him to lodge a complaint Overlooked against some of the jockeys. "No," he replied, "I cannot prove anything, al- though my horse was cut off every time he tried to go through. The Stewards saw the race, and they did not disturb the placing." For the Suburban, in which he tried to concede the winner, Lowlander, 24 pounds, the Lorillard stable fell heavily. Yet they had a good "line" on the race, if they had thought it over. For the Brooklyn Handicap, Diabolo had beaten Lamplighter, with a conces- sion of 13 pounds. A week later Lowlander had beaten Diabolo, with a concession of 15 pounds. Again, only three days before the Suburban, Mr. Lorillard's Kilkenny, four years old, had beaten Lowlander, who had tried to concede Kil- kenny il pounds, and Kilkenny had given him about a i-pound beating. As Lamplighter had 129 pounds in the Suburban, and Lowlander 105 pounds, this would mean putting in Kilkenny at 99 pounds, and the stable knew Lamp- lighter could not concede 30 pounds to Kilkenny. Thus, if Lamplighter could not concede 30 pounds to his stable companion, Kilkenny, he could hardly con- cede 24 pounds to Lowlander. A "Hard- Certainly the career of Lamplighter stamped him a "hard-luck horse," to Luck Horse" use a trainer's expression. He was a losing proposition to owners. Mr. Lorillard lost heavily backing him, and Mr. Walbaum often said: "My luck turned from the day I bought that horse-everything went against me." Lamplighter was Description a brown with a blaze, left fore and both hind pasterns white, by Spendthrift from imported Torchlight by Speculem, tracing, in his fourth remove, to Bertha by Rubens. This is one of what the pedigree enthusiasts call "a great sire family" (No. 14 tracing to The Oldfield mare), but Lamplighter seemed none the better for it. His Higbness, The late Honorable August Belmont, the elder, won the Futurity with Poto- 1889 mac and died the same year (i89o). Had he lived the following year he probably would have won it again, as it fell to His Higbness, who was sold with his other yearlings, and purchased by Mr. Gideon, who placed the colt with John Hyland, and at two years old his racing was of a sensational character. He won nine out of twelve races-the Double Event, Great Trial, Select, and Futurity among them. For the Futurity, he carried 130 pounds, and beat a field of 21. Huron finished second, Yorkville Belle third; but Huron was not recognized, as he had been declared, and only allowed to start in obedience to an order of the civil courts. 158 E 13 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RC4GE-HORSES His Highness went into winter quarters with a greater reputation than any colt since Tremont's time. He was weighted I 12 pounds for the Suburban-the highest weight apportioned a three-year-old up to that period-but was heavily backed. He ran unplaced. In fact, the only race he won that season (1892) was an overnight event. He seemed to retain all his speed, but could not carry it over a distance. As a four-year-old he did somewhat better, but he never ap- proached the form that made him the great two-year-old of 1891. He was a bay son of The III Used from the imported mare Princess by King Tom, his dam being one of the finest mares ever imported; in England she had foaled Royal Hampton. His Highness bred rather after his sire. He lacked length, was rotund, short in the leg, and very clever in action. That he failed to stay was not due to his parentage, as The III Used was a glutton over a distance. It might be ex- plained on the Mendelian theory of "alternative heredity," as The Ill Used sire, Breadalbane, was a non-stayer, his dam, Blink Bonny, dying after foaling him, and he was raised by a cart-mare. "Clifford was, I thought, the best race-horse I ever saw, until twenty years later, in France, I saw Sardanapale," was the observation of Eugene Leigh, the trainer. Clifford was a bay by Bramble; his dam the noted brown mare Duchess by Kingfisher, the heroine of i884. He raced but once at two, and won; but at three he won eighteen times, and in the Special at Chicago, with I I 3 pounds, he defeated Yo Tambien, 4 years, ii9 pounds, and Lamplighter, 4 years, II7 pounds. As a four-year-old Clifford won ten out of sixteen, beating Lamp- lighter, Ramapo, Yo Tambien, and all the "cracks." At Saratoga, Domino beat him at a mile, but Clifford beat Henry of Navarre by a nose, giving him io pounds. Out of this grew the great sweepstakes at Morris Park, ifrJ miles, October 6, 1894: Clifford, 4 years, 122 pounds; Henry of Navarre, 3 years, 1 3 pounds; and Domino, 3 years, I I3 pounds. Domino led for 5 furlongs; then Henry of Navarre closed upon him and Clifford joined them, but Henry of Na- varre shook off first Domino and then Clifford, and won by half a length in .52Y4. It was one of the most severe races that has ever taken place. As a five- year-old Clifford won seven out of ten races, including the Omnium, Oriental, Kearney, etc. In the Oriental he defeated Henry of Navarre; but he was in receipt of 7 pounds. Considering the fact that he had become touched in his wind from the effects of a cold, Clifford's racing after his third year was highly creditable, and has often caused Eugene Leigh and John Rogers, both of whom trained him, to ask: "What would he have been had he been a clear-winded horse" They always claimed he would have won the Brooklyn Handicap of '94, anyhow, had he not been left at the post. He began to develop temper, and in the stud, at Mr. Sanford's (Am- sterdam, N. Y.), he became dangerous; in fact, the late Mr. Sanford described 159 Cliffcrd, 1890 A Race of tbe Champions Beats Henry of Navarre A,4CING IN ,4MERRICA him as "a devil." Still, he sired some very creditable racers. Eugene Leigh al- ways claimed he was responsible for the mating of Duchess with Bramble that produced Clifford. General Jackson, impressed with the fame of Iroquois as an English Derby winner, wanted to breed the mare to him. Leigh insisted that Bramble was better suited as a mate for the mare and persuaded Jackson in the matter. Leigh, true to his faith, not only secured Clifford, but later pur- chased Bramble also. Sir Walter, As a campaigner Sir Walter ranks as one of the best campaigners of his era. 1890 That he was an entire horse renders this more remarkable, as geldings are more noted for that quality than are entire horses. He was a bay, bred in California by Mr. Haggin, and a son of imported Midlothian-La Scala by Joe Hooker. Doctor G. L. Knapp purchased him as a yearling, and he ran in the "purple-and-gold blocks" of the Oneck stable. He soon proved to Rollins, his trainer, that he could "gallop a bit," and the stable profited accordingly when at two he won five out of eight races, including first-class events like the Eclipse and Great American. At three he won nine, including the Lorillard, Tidal, Stockton, Stevens, Omnium, and Unionport. At four he won thirteen. Sir Walter raced until eight, and started in eighty-eight races, thirty-three of which he won and Wins tbe 90,000. His greatest race was the Brooklyn Handicap of '96, when, with II 3 Brooklyn pounds, he defeated Clifford, i25, and St. Maxim, Io8. He defeated all the best Handicap horses of his day, and was the most popular horse in training. One of the reasons for this, aside from the old horse's honesty, was the absence of all attempts to be mysterious, by his owner, who used to invite all his friends to see him tried, including the handicapper, who weighted him. Lady Violet, Lady Violet was one of the great fillies that raced in 189i and 1892. Bred by i89o Honorable August Belmont, she raced in the "scarlet, maroon sleeves, black cap" of Major August Belmont; in fact, she may be said to have been the first great racer to carry the colors of the chairman of the Jockey Club. She was a bay, by The Ill Used-Lady Rosebery by Kingfisher, and thus was of the pure "Nursery blood," as Major Belmont would say; as Lady Rosebery was from Lady Blessington, a mare that really founded the Nursery Stud, the elder Bel- mont buying her from Colonel McDaniel in the "sixties." She was a filly of wonderful speed, winning six races as a two-year-old-the Foam, Lassie, Autumn, Belles, Flatbush, and Great Eastern Handicap (125 pounds), and was second for the Futurity and Junior Champion. For a burst of speed it is doubtful if a greater filly was ever seen. For the Junior Champion she was sent away so far behind her field that bookmakers offered 30 to I against her while the race was run, but she outran all except Don Alonzo. Ramapo, Ramapo, the dual winner of the Metropolitan and Suburban of '94, was bred 1890 by Mr. J. 0. Donner, at his farm near Tuxedo, N. Y., and was a son of Runny- I6o I E This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED 9(ACE-HORSES mede or Pontiac from Annie F. He was probably a Pontiac, though a chestnut; for Pontiac, though himself a black, sired many chestnuts. He was not in the first flight as a two-year-old and was late coming to hand at three, when he won the Omnibus, Pelhamn Bay, and other good stakes. Sir Walter beat him in all the earlier stakes, but as the season waned, Ramapo turned the tables on him. At four he was quite at the head of the all-aged division, winning the Metro- politan (I 17 pounds) and the Suburban-six races out of nine. He was not unplaced in any of his races. At five he won three out of five, and for the Long Island Handicap gave Lazzarone, who had won the Suburban a few days previ- ously, 3 pounds and a beating. At Morris Park for a welter race he carried i5o pounds, conceding 52 pounds to Melba. He had an imperfectly formed foot, and it troubled him very often, necessitating his being stopped. He was taken to England in 1896, and raced quite well, although past his prime. In the stud he did fairly well, considering he had little patronage. Boundless, who won his niche in the equine Hall of Fame by capturing the Boundless, American Derby at Chicago in i893, was a very moderate two-year-old, but did 1890 better as a three. Before he came to Chicago he had won but one race, the Little Rock Derby, and it was good odds about him. It was the year of the World's Wins Tbe Fair, and a great field came to the post, attracted by the value of the race, American 49,500. Clifford was there, so was G. W. Johnson, and Mr. Keene had sent St. Derby Leonards, Mr. Dwyer had sent Don Alonzo, and Mr. Gideon had sent Ramapo from the East. It was quite an intersectional race. There was a delay of an hour and a half at the post. A quarter of a mile from the finish St. Leonards looked a winner, but Garrison brought Boundless through with a whirlwind finish and won. Mr. Cushing, the owner of Boundless, followed the Eastern colts to Sheepshead Bay for the Realization; but an outsider, Daily America, won. Boundless was a son of Harry O'Fallon, he by Australian. He was a good colt, but the delay for the Derby, no doubt, affected some of the others more than it did him. That the union of two such renowned performers as Spendthrift and Spin- Lazzarone, away should be productive of a racer of merit was very pleasing to those who had 189I witnessed their triumphs in 1879 and M88o. It was the chestnut colt Lazzarone, winner of the Suburban of '95. Like both his parents, he "came to hand" early, racing in the West as a two-year-old with great success in the colors of Leigh & Rose, starting twelve times, winning eight-the Prairie, Superior, Ontario, and Michigan Stakes at Chicago. At three he won the Distillers at Lexington, Himyar and Derby at Latonia, and, coming East, was sold to Mr. John Beard of New York, who placed him in the hands of Wm. Donohue, the former jockey. Laz arone ran second for the Brooklyn Handicap (with 1 14 pounds) to Horn- I6I And CING IN ,fME RICA Wins the Suburban, 1895 Domino, 1891 Dead Heat witb Dobbins The Suburban of '95 Jockeys' Gossip pipe, i05 pounds, and then ran two very bad races; but he created the surprise of the year, winning the Suburban, with I I5 pounds, beating Sir Walter, Domino, and others. He never ran but once after that, as it was impossible to train him. He was a fine race-horse, but his races at two years old were too close together, and he never quite recovered. Indeed, he was about as hard a subject to prepare for the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicap as trainer ever had. They had to put setons in his shoulders to relieve him from lameness, as he inherited the rather straight and heavy shoulders of his sire, Spendthrift, aside from the hard racing and trials he had run as a two and three year old. That he should have been only beaten a neck for the Brooklyn Handicap and won the sensational Suburban showed what a fine natural race-horse he was, and it is a pity he was lost as a sire, being the son of such race-horses as Spendthrift and Spinaway. After Salvator had retired, no horse became more popular than Domino, who was bred at the Dixiana Stud in Kentucky by Major B. G. Thomas, and was a son of Himyar-Mannie Grey by Enquirer. He was marked with a star, a snip on his nose, and both hind pasterns white. While he was always described as a black, and appeared so to the eye, he was of that peculiar color that, when the light was bright, showed him a chestnut. Domino was trained by Wm. Lakeland, and as a two-year-old was never beaten, winning nine races. He had early shown Lakeland prodigious speed in his trials, and his reputation preceded him when he started. He won the Great American, Eclipse, Great Trial, the Hyde Park at Chicago, the Produce, Futurity, Matron, and the match with Dobbins, io,ooo a side, resulting in a dead heat and a division. Thus, like Sensation in x879 and Tremont in i886, Domino retired unbeaten. He was admittedly the colt of the year. Yet, as early as June, a colt called Hyder- abad appeared and gave Mr. Keene such misgiving as to Domino's ability to beat him that he bought him for 30,000, "just to get him out of Domino's way." As a three-year-old Domino gave his trainer some trouble. He had a foot labelled "queer" and required watching. Out of eight starts he won six- the Withers, The Flying, Ocean Handicap, the match with Clfford, and the Second Special. He was beaten by Henry of Navarre for the Grand Special at Morris Park. As a four-year-old Domino won four out of eight. His stamina had always been doubted by some people, but Mr. Keene scoffed at it and boldly nominated Domino for the Suburban. He went to the post a favorite at 2 to I "on," and ran well for a mile; then Sir Walter passed him, while Hamilton brought Lazzarone up and beat Sir Walter a length. Some years later Taral and Doggett, the riders of Domino and Sir Walter, were discussing the race in the Jockey Club office. "I never saw a horse stop like old Domino did in the race for the Suburban," remarked Taral. i62 0 z LUi z Luj H &. zO S This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED 9(,ACE-HORSES "Nor I," returned Doggett; "I thought you held my horse safe, when, all of a sudden, I saw Domino stop. It looked good as my horse took the lead; but my old fellow was tired, and Lazzarone had too much left." "Well," replied Taral, "when you brought Sir Walter up beside me, old Dom- ino-he lust gave a big grunt 'Wo-osh!' it sounded like, and he was done." Domino did not start as a five-year-old. The autumn he was four (1895), Mr. He Retires Keene said: "He's all right until we ask him to gallop; then he bites and kicks, so we have concluded to retire him. He's done enough; he's won more money than any horse except Isinglass. He has a bad foot and it hurts him." While Domino was probably the fleetest miler that had ever appeared up to that time, and a thoroughly game colt, he was palpably a non-stayer. When he stopped in the Suburban as described by his jockey, Taral, it was not from lack of courage. It was because he had reached the limit of his powers. He managed to stay 9 furlongs, but it was only his courage that enabled him to do so-at lo furlongs he was in great trouble. As a sire Domino's career, while brief, was immediate and immense. No horse Domino in in recent times made so powerful an impression in the great sweepstakes for two tbe Stud and three year olds. As a race-horse he had won nineteen out of twenty-five races and had won more money (193,550) than any American racer. But in his second season in the stud he sired Commando and Cap and Bells, the only American-bred winner of the Epsom Oaks (in Igoo); he was fourth in the list of Winning Sires with only seven starters, winning 65,ooo. He founded a line that in the colt and filly stakes has practically dominated racing, Commando, Peter Pan, Colin, Transvaal, Peter Quince, Pennant, Celt, Bunting, Step Lightly, Boniface, Miss Joy, Luke McLuke, Superman being among his direct descen- dants. Henry of Navarre was Domino's master after they had gone 9 furlongs, Henry of but at a mile Domino's phenomenal speed prevailed. Henry was bred by Mr. Navarre, Lucien 0. Appleby at Shrewsbury, N. J., and was a son of Knight of Ellerslie i891 (by Eolus) from Moss Rose by The Ill Used. During his two-year-old season, and the next year, he raced under the "green and gold" of Byron McClelland; then Mr. August Belmont purchased him. He won six out of ten races at two, but at three he had a brilliant season, the Belmont, Travers, Spindrift, Foxhall, Iroquois, Dolphin, and Bay Stakes among his triumphs. He ran a dead heat with Domino for the Third Special, and won the Grand Sweepstakes at Morris Park, beating Clifford and Domino. As a four-year-old, in i895, he was out ten times and won eight-the Mer- Wins tbe chants at Latonia, the Country Club at Cincinnati, the Special at Sheepshead Suburban Bay, beating Domino, First Special at Gravesend, the Manhattan, and Munici- pal Handicaps at Morris Park. At five he started twice, winning both, one being i63 (ACING IN d4MERICA4 the Suburban, with 129 pounds-the highest weight carried by a Suburban winner up to that time. In all, he started in forty-two races, of which he won twenty-nine, was eight times second and three times third; his winnings 71,015. Defeats The Suburban was Henry of Navarre's last race. He was, practically, a broken- Clifford and down horse when he started, but came away from The Commoner and Clifford Domino in a style that evoked thunders of applause, as many knew his condition and were amazed at his courageous finish. To crown his career with a Suburban was a great feat, but his greatest exploit was his defeat of Clifford and Domino at Morris Park for the Grand Special. It is an axiom with racing men that "a horse has but one run in him." In this race, Henry had two. Domino started off like a deer. No horse was as fast as Domino, but he had his limit. At the end of seven furlongs he stopped and Henry, who had raced with him, came away. The next instant Clifford challenged Henry on his right. Head and head they raced, and stride for stride, but Henry lasted the longest, and thus, after stalling off first Domino and then Clifford, won a great race. Then it was that John W. Rogers, who trained Clifford, said, speaking of Henry: "That is the greatest race-horse we have seen for years. I thought I had a great horse in Clifford-I think so still, but this Henry of Navarre I-he had Domino take him by the "A Ract- head-and there's no faster one-and when he had shaken Domino off, Clifford Horse of tbc came at him; but he shook Clifford off, too. Any horse that can shake off two First llater" such horses as they, in separate attempts, must be a race-horse of the first water." A Mistake The defeat of Henry of Navarre for the Oriental Handicap of '95 at Graves- in Sifnals end was a result alike unexpected and amazing, as he was never better. It was due to a mistake by his trainer, Byron McClelland, who told Henry Griffin, his jockey, to "look for me" when the horses reached the head of the stretch and began the last quarter. His colors and those on Sir Excess were similar. McClel- land, mistaking Sir Excess for Henry, raised his hand to wave him back. Griffin, looking for McClelland, saw the signal and obeyed, and in doing so lost his position and the race. A Real As a race-horse, Henry of Navarre's rank is in the highest class. He defeated Champlion all the best horses of three consecutive years-a very high test. His defeat of Clifford and Domino when, after having raced one to a standstill, he had to fight it out with the other, proved his speed, stamina, and lion-hearted courage. He never "dodged" meeting good horses, as some of our later champions have -he was always ready to defend his title. Yet, he was not an impressive horse; a fair-sized chestnut with a star, a flaxy tail, plain head, great length of bridle, low at the withers, good shoulder, light barrel, light in the loin, but with good arms, great power in his quarters, with straight hind legs. His pasterns were a trifle short, but his action was perfect. As a sire Henry was not a success. Like i64 ro z U. 0 ze iZJ This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED 7"SCE-HORSES Salvator, Tenny, and Requital-all great performers-he failed to transmit his own transcendent racing qualities. Butterflies, the Futurity winner of i894, was curiously named, reminding one of Richelieu's question of "What page in the last court grammar made you a plural" She belonged to Mr. Gideon, to whom such niceties did not appeal, and, being a patron of the drama, named her for a comedy in which Mr. John Drew was playing about that period. She was a dark bay by Sir Dixon-Mer- cedes by Melbourne, Jr. She ran only three races as a two-year-old, but she won them all, the Futurity being the third. It was only a moderate field, and she only won by a neck from Brandywine. As a three-year-old she won the Gazelle Stakes and the Fall Handicap, io9 pounds, when she defeated Domino, I33 pounds, a head separating them. This filly was one of the fleetest bits of horse- flesh that has ever been stripped, but she was none too sound and had to be delicately handled. "If Handspring would eat soft food-mashes I'd be willing to match him against any horse living," said Mr. Phil Dwyer, "but he won't eat anything but grain and, with his brittle feet, that is bad. He has a quarter-crack, and it compels us to stop him in his work." It was even so. Handspring had tremendous speed, but shelly, brittle feet were his bane. He was a bright chestnut with a white face and legs like his sire, Hanover; his dam, My Favorite, by Rayon d'Or; his granddam, Nannie H., by Glen Athol, a mare we recall seeing at Rutherford Park while inspecting Spendthrift in the winter of i879, and remarked her being pigeon-toed and Colonel Puyear stating: " It's hard work racing her, she always has quarter-cracks." Evidently from her Handspring inherited his trouble, for. her sire, Glen Athol, was pigeon-toed and had such bad feet he could not be trained. As a two-year-old Handspring ranked one of the best in a good year. He won seven races, among them the Tremont, Double Event, Great Trial, and Billow. As a three-year-old he won the Withers, Carlton, and Brooklyn Derby (later the Dwyer Stakes). His Withers he only won after a hair-raising finish with Hastings. A few days later they met for the Belmont, and Handspring was asked to concede 3 pounds to Hastings, who won by a head after another very hard-fought finish. Then his feet began to trouble and compelled his being stopped. At four he ran only two races. He showed some of his old form de- feating Requital, but for the Brooklyn Handicap he was so sore he finished un- placed. When Handspring defeated Requital at the Gravesend spring meeting of i895, John Hyland, Requital's trainer, was heard to exclaim: "Good boy I Hast- ings." The meaning was obscure at the time; but ten days after, when Hastings, ii8 pounds, defeated Handspring, 125 pounds, for the Surf Stakes, it "let the cat out of the bag." Hyland subsequently explained "if Handspring had all he 165 Butterflies, 1892 Handspring, 1893 His Races witb Hastings " Good Boy! Hastings" 'J(ACING IN ,ArMERICA could do to beat Requital at even weight, I knew he could never give Hastings 7 pounds." Hastings, Hastings won all his races that spring, and when Gideon & Daly sold their 1893 horses in July, Mr. Belmont purchased him with a view to the Futurity, which was won by his former stable companion, Requital. He went slightly amiss and ran no more at two; but at three he began at Morris Park with those two des- His Races perate races with his old rival, Handspring, who beat him a head for the Withers, witb but he reversed it for the Belmont, when, in receipt of 3 pounds, he beat Handspring Handspring by a head. As a four-year-old Hastings developed into a magnificent horse, but his temper did not improve. He won four races, among them the Kearney Handicap, and retired in i898. His temper became bad, although on the side of his sire he came from a good-tempered family. Leads tbe Hastings was destined to make a great name as a sire. As early as 1902, when Winning only nine years old, he led the "Winning Sires," and repeated it in 1908. He was Sires third in 1907, 1911, and 1912, and second in 191O. During his first thirteen sea- sons his sons and daughters won 927,342. Among the best of them were Gunfire, Fair Play, Glorifier, Priscillian, Tiptoe. Hastings was a brown in color, bred by Doctor Neet in Kentucky, and sired by Spendthrift from imported Cinderella (the dam of Plaudit, Ferrier, Hand- some Glenheim, etc.) by Tomahawk or Blue Ruin. He and Ogden between them, especially through their sons Fair Play and The Finn, have done much to sus- tain the male line of Godolphin. The Finn has already made a name as a sire, while Fair Play, as the sire of Man O' War, is not likely to be forgotten. Ben Brusb, It was in i895 that Eugene Leigh formed a partnership with Ed. Brown, the '893 old trainer, and introduced a new star in the equine constellation in Ben Brusb. The colt began as a two-year-old at Louisville, in May, and carried things by storm at the Western meetings, winning the Cadet at Louisville, Harold at Latonia, Emerald and Diamond at Cincinnati. Then he was brought East. He was disappointing at first. Requital beat him for the Flatbush and One I Love beat him for the Great Eastern Handicap, for which he had 126 pounds top weight. Then it was said, "He's an overrated little goat-Western form's no good," but he soon struck his stride, winning the Holly Handicap, and Mr. M. F. Dwyer bought him for Si8,ooo. He won all his races after that, the Prospect, Nursery, Albany, and Champagne. In a handicap he showed what a good two-year-old could do with older horses by conceding i i pounds actual weight to a four-year-old, which constructively was 39 pounds, accord- ing to scale. Wins the As a three-year-old Ben Brush won the Kentucky and Latonia Derbies and Kentucky the Buckeye Stakes at Cincinnati among other conquests. As a four-year-old Derby he played a conspicuous part in the racing of the year (i897), winning the Sub- i66 z tU, This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED R"CE-HORSES urban, with 123 pounds; the Brighton Handicap, I26 pounds; the Citizens at Wins the Saratoga, beating Clifford at level weights; the Omnium, with 126 pounds, Suburban beating Hastings, 123 pounds, and Clifford, 127 pounds; the First Special, beating Clifford and Requital at level weights; Second Special, beating Ornament. The two-year-old Plaudit, go pounds, beat Ben Brush, I26 pounds, by a head at Gravesend. Ben Brush ran in all forty races, winning twenty-five and.65,495. He was a very As a Sire small bay colt, with a star, by Bramble from Roseville by Reform, and, despite his lack of size, was one of the best racers of his era. As a two-year-old in October it is likely he could have conceded his year and a beating to any three-year-old of that season. As a sire he proved a great success. Broomstick, Delhi, Pebbles, Sweep, Theodore Cook, Vandergrift were among his good ones. In I909 he led the winning sires. When Gideon & Daly held their dispersal sale in 1895, Mr. Gideon bid long Requital, and earnestly to retain Hastings, but Mr. Belmont outbid him. Mr. Gideon I893 seemed perplexed at the result, but he bid and retained Requital. Bystanders said it was "a consolation purchase"; but two months later Requital defeated Hastings and won the Futurity, and then it became a common remark that Mr. Gideon "knew what he was about." Requital was a bay colt, bred by the Estate of the late Mr. D. D. Withers at Brookdale, N. J., and was a son of Eothen, a horse by Hampton, Mr. Withers had imported as a yearling, but, owing to ship-founder, never could be raced. Requital's dam, Retribution, was a superb mare by Reform from the noted black mare Nemesis by imported Eclipse. As a two-year-old Requital began modestly, winning two selling races. At Wins the Saratoga he beat the California "crack," Crescendo; meantime he had been Futurity beaten by Handspring. But he won the Futurity, beating Crescendo, Handspring, Hastings, and all the "cracks," and supplemented it by beating Ben Brush for the Flatbush. To have won the "double event" of the Futurity and Flatbush was a great Wins tbe racing exploit. It rendered Requital "the colt of the year" in racing parlance, Twin City and his owners considered it wisely as "the right time to sell"; and Colonel Handicap W. P. Thompson, a steward of the Jockey Club, who had recently joined the ranks as an owner, purchased him. He passed the winter at his birthplace at Brookdale, and, as a three-year-old, in 1896, had a great year, winning five out of six races. He won the Swift Stakes and then the Realization, beating Peep o' Day, Merry Prince, Hastings, etc. To these he added the Twin City Handicap, in which he carried i i6 pounds and won, hard held, by 2 lengths, beating Dutch Skater, 5 years, 95 pounds; Buck Massie, 4 years, 126 pounds; and Belmar, 4 years, io2 pounds. At that day it was an unusual impost for a three-year-old. i67 RACING IN d ME RICA Requital's best race as a four-year-old was winning the Flight Stakes, X6 mile, when, with 125 pounds, he defeated the two-year-oId Hamburg, io5 pounds, and Flying Dutchman, 125 pounds. Soon after, he was sold and finished the season in the colors of J. J. McCafferty, and retired the next year to the stud. Here, like several other great performers, he failed to make an impression. Students of breeding would probably point to the fact that there has never been a suc- cessful sire tracing in maternal line, as Requital did, to Delancy's Cub Mare. But that was said of the Gallopade family until Domino and Hamburg disposed of it. The family from which Hanover came never produced a successful sire until Hanover's advent. The Friar, Tbe Fnar was imported in utero. The Messrs. Morris shipped several Ameri- 1894 can mares to England to be bred, among them being Lizzie Baker by Long- fellow, and she bred to Friar's Balsam (a son of Hermit) produced The Friar. He had a hard season as a two-year-old, and won six out of twenty races, including the Champagne Stakes. At three he was a splendid race-horse, and but for his nervousness would, it is likely, have taken the highest honors. He started seven times and won three. He defeated Ogden and Voter for the Broad- way Stakes, was badly beaten for the Tidal and Spindrift, but he won the W1ins Realization. Ben Brush beat him for the Brighton Handicap, but for the Cup Brigbton he beat Ben Brush. His "in-and-out" racing made him a very unpopular horse. Cup He also won the Flight Stakes and Twin City Handicap. He was a light chest- nut with white legs, and had a beautiful blood-like head and neck, good shoul- ders, and deep barrel, and altogether a very attractive colt and an undoubted stayer, as many delicate and nervous horses seem to be. He was a perfect type of the Hermits in appearance, but a better stayer. Ogden, Ogden, the Futurity winner of 1896, came near being among the Bitter Root 1894 Mountains of Montana when the saddling-bel rang for the race. It was late one afternoon in early August of that year that we received a telegram from John S. Campbell at Hamilton, Mont., reading: "See if the colt Ogden is entered for any races in the East, and answer." We found he was in the Futurity and other races, and answered to that effect. In less than a week Ogden arrived at Sheeps- head Bay. It seemed they had tried him in a race at Butte, which he won in such style that convinced Campbell he had "a smasher," but he had no record A Futurity of his engagements. At all events, when the bell rang for the Futurity, Ogden Winner was there, and won, beating the favorite, Ornament, two lengths. In the Flat- bush, Ornament beat him, but for the Great Eastern Handicap, Ogden, I25 pounds, won by a neck from Typhoon, i24 pounds, with Voter, Ornament, and a "crack" field toiling behind. 14ins Two Ogden did not perform quite so brilliantly at three, nor was he brilliant at Races in a Day four. At five he ran unplaced for the Brooklyn Handicap, won by Ornament, i68 CELEBRATED qJ(ACE-HORSES and was third for the Suburban, won by Tillo; but he won the Long Island Handicap. In i899 he did not start, having gone to the stud, and for two seasons was absent, but in Ixoi William Lakeland secured him, and although seven years old he won six races out of nine, winning two races in one day- September 2-at Coney Island. Ogden in the stud at Mr. Madden's Hamburg place proved an excellent sire. He was a brown by the St. Leger winner, Kil- warlin, a son of Arbitrator, he by Solon, son of West Australian. Ogden's dam, Oriole, was by Bend Or from Fenella by Cambuscan. Among the best of his get were Sir Martin, Fayette, Flora Fina, Star Jasmine, The Finn, and Yankee Witch. If Voter could have carried his speed beyond a mile he would have vanquished Voter, all competitors. As a two-year-old he won only three out of ten races; his last, i894 the White Plains Handicap, he won hard held. In i897 he won the Metropolitan Handicap at Morris Park, and was the first three-year-old that won that event. He did so well that Mr. Keene sent him to England, where he ran seven races in I898 without winning, and he had become so badly behaved that he was sent home. In i899 Voter reappeared at the New York meetings and iwon five out of six races, but they were all at short distances. In i9oo he demonstrated that while he was the master of all horses at 6 furlongs he could not stay over a mile. He managed to defeat Decanter for the Test Handicap at Brighton, i A Great mile, but it was by a head only, and he would have been beaten in another Sprinter stride. As it was, he ran the 3 furlongs in 35 and the mile in I.38. In i9oi he won the FRight and Coney Island Stakes, but was unable to cover distances. Voter was a chestnut by Friar's Balsam (son of Hermit) from imp. Mavourneen. He was a horse of enormous power. His back was cloven like a ram's, and he had immense propelling power in his quarters, but he ran too fast to stay far. Besides, his temper was so bad he often wore himself out before a race. As a sire he did fairly well, but his sons and daughters did better than he. His daughter, Nightfall, was the dam of Campfire, and his son, Runnymede, sired Morvich, the unbeaten two-year-old of I921. A great race-horse was Ornament. He had a temper that helped none, and Ornament, his behavior at the post made him the dread of starters. He was a light-chest- 1894 nut colt, with blaze and left hind leg white, by Order from Victorine by Onon- daga, and in appearance favored Onondaga, except that he lacked the size. Chas. T. Patterson selected him as a yearling, and as a two-year-old he started twelve times, winning seven, including the Melbourne Stakes at Lexington, the Futurity at Lexington, Double Event (both), and the Flatbush, for which he defeated Ogden, winner of the Futurity, in which Ornament was second. As a three-year-old Ornament ran sixteen times, winning ten. He was beaten for the Kentucky Derby by Typhoon II, finishing second, but won the Clark i69 R.,CING IN e.rMERICA4 Stakes, Latonia Derby, Himyar Stakes, St. Louis Derby, Oakley Derby, De- troit Derby, Fall Handicap, Twin City Handicap, and Brookwood Stakes. His Twin City, with i 8 pounds, was a great performance, conceding weight to all starters; but his Autumn Cup at 2 miles was greater, as he tried to take up I23 pounds and was odds on, a favorite, but Ben Holladay, four years, 114 pounds, won. Wlins tbe When the weights appeared for the spring handicaps Ornament was in the Brooklv n Brooklyn, with 127 pounds, which was the top weight. Handicap "Haven't you rated Ornament rather highly" asked Mr. Phil Dwyer. "Not if he retains his form," replied the handicapper. Delays the Ornament did retain his form, and won in a canter, after an exhibition of Start bad temper at the start. He had passed into the hands of Headley and Norton, and was trained by James Rowe. He now became a prime favorite for the Sub- urban, and delayed the start an hour with his wild antics. When he started he had so exhausted himself that he was at no time near the front, Tiuo winning. For the Brighton Handicap, however, he woml, giving Tiub 2 pounds and a bad beating. Few horses have entered the stud with greater prestige than Ornament. He had shown himself a race-horse among race-horses, and owners of stables were eager to secure his colts and fillies. But he never sired a horse within 20 pounds of himself, and after a time became impotent. Imp), Among the great race-mares of the generation Imp was outranked by none, 1894 but her fame rests not upon her exploits as a filly, but those of her mature years. She had also the distinction, like Miss Woodford and Firenzi, of going out of the races for fillies and mares and meeting the crack horses of the all-aged class, carrying the highest weights and beating them. She was bred by Mr. D. R. Harness of Chillicothe, Ohio, an old turfman, part owner of the famous McCon- nell & Harness stable of 1868-1869, when its "orange-and-black" jacket was famous through Vauxhall, General Duke, and Bayonet. She was trained by Mr. C. E. Brossman, a man of talent and education, who brought her through a campaign that reflected the greatest credit to him. W1'ins the As a two-year-old in 1896 Imp started i i times, winning 4. As a three-year- Suburban old she started in 5o races, winning 14; as a four-year-old, 34 times, winning 19. Her races up to June of i898 had all been in the West; she had beaten nearly everything, and her owner and trainer turned their eyes toward the East as a new field of conquest. She was shipped East, and June 13, at Gravesend, started for her first race, winning pulled double. For the Suburban, won by Tiuo, she was unplaced, and Mr. Brossman took her West. She ran 34 races, winning 19. In i899, as a five-year-old, she started 31 times, winning 13. Mr. Brossman now yearned for another try at the cracks of "the effete East," and Imp began at 170 x0 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RJCE-HORSES Washington, then Morris Park, and finally Brooklyn, where for "the Handi- cap" she was unplaced. Then came the Suburban. Imp, with I14 pounds, was at 7 to I. There was a long delay, and Nash Turner, Imp's jockey, cunningly rested his foot on the inner rail, to relieve Imp of his weight. Bannockburn made a great finish, but Imp always had the race in hand, and won. Of course the handicapper now began raising her weight, but luckily for Imp the weights for the Brighton Handicap had been made in February, and Imp, with i if pounds, won after a thrilling race with Ethelbert. She also won the Islip, Ocean, First and Second Special, and Turf Handicap (I28 pounds). The black mare had now become a great public favorite. Each race she won was the occasion of an ovation, and Mr. Lander's band, by a stroke of genius, played "My Coal-Black Lady"-a popular song of the day. She had in her stable an eccentric negro, who always took his position near the finish, and during her races would shout, "Let her sleep 1-Don't wake her up 1" and when she won, his screams and yells were as appalling as those of a dervish. Crowds learned to gather round him, and he became as great a curiosity as the mare was an idol. The reports of her great racing exploits had not been lost upon her home-folk in the valley of the Scioto, and when in the autumn she returned to Chillicothe, business was suspended; the people turned out to give her a reception such as Caesar or Augustus might have envied. Bands of music led a great procession, with Imp at the head, mounted by Pete Clay in "the victory jacket"-the "orange and black" which Vauxhall, Gen. Duke, Bayonet, and her grandsire, Chillicothe, had carried to the front thirty years before. With the spring of i9oo Imp and Mr. Brossman were found at Washington, ready for another campaign. At Morris Park she was third for the Metropolitan, 127 pounds, and unplaced; for the Brooklyn Handicap, I28 pounds. But she won the Parkway, beating KinIey Mack-there was life in "My Coal-Black Lady" yet. Then she made her third attempt for the Suburban, finishing fourth -31 races, winning 9. In five seasons she ran 171 races, winning 62, and over 70,000. She had several foals; one of them, Deviltree, was a winner. Imp died early in her stud career. She by imp. Wagner (son of Prince Charlie); her dam was one of Mr. Harness's home-breds, Fondling by Fonso; granddam, Kitty Heron by Chillicothe, a son of Lexington, who carried Mr. Harness's colors in i871- During the Saratoga meeting of I898 Matt Allen, the trainer, became im- pressed with the racing of Oots Bros.' colt Banastar, and purchased him for Mr. W. H. Clark, and brought him to New York. After he had won "three straight" races people began to open their eyes to the "newcomer." But when the following spring he won the Brooklyn Handicap (i899) from a field of 171 "My Coal- Black Lady" "Let Her Sleep!" A Triumpbal Procession Banastar, 1895 "CING IN AME RICA Wins the fifteen, and finished "alone," they agreed that a new "speed marvel" had devel- Brooklyn oped, and he went to the post for the Suburban a hot favorite. He had devel- oped a great deal of temper, and at the post acted badly. Danny Maher cut him unmercifully with the whip. It only made him worse, and when the field started he was left at the post, and Imp won. Iins the Banastar's temper became worse, and, as Mr. Clark died soon after, the Metropolitan horse was sold to Mr. Clarence H. Mackay. In i9oi Banastar had accepted I23 pounds for the Metropolitan Handicap. On the day of the race his trainer was opposed to starting, but Mr. Mackay insisted that the horse should start, which he did, and won, beating a field of fifteen, with i5 to i against him. A few days later he won the Toboggan Handicap, with 130 pounds, in a big canter. He then made an essay for his second Brooklyn Handicap, and was favorite, but was kicked at the post, and ran last. Banastar was a very inbred horse, having five crosses of Lexington, and was, when at his best, a great racer; but his bad temper, which was not improved by the severe flogging Maher gave him at the Suburban post, was his great drawback. Boulin, Bowling Brook was Hamburg's evil genius, to the extent of having beaten Brook, him both as a two and three year old-in the Double Event at two, and the 1895 Belmont at three. He was a gigantic bay colt, imported in utero by J. A. & A. H. Morris, foaled in I895 by Ayrshire (the Epsom Derby winner of i888) from the American mare Vacation by Tom Ochiltree. He started eight times at two, and won the Double Event. At three, I898, he began with a sensation, winning the Metropolitan and the Belmont Stakes, beating Previous and Ham- burg with consummate ease. Then he stopped. He was overtopped-his body was too enormously heavy for his legs, and it was found impossible to train him. He was unquestionably a very high-class horse-the best, probably, the Morris stable ever possessed. As a sire he did not flourish in Maryland, his stock being overtopped like himself. Hamburg, Hamburg was only six months old, having just been weaned, when Mr. John i895 E. Madden bought him of Mr. C. J. Enright. The price was Si,2oo, and as he earned 4o,ooo as a two-year-old and was afterward sold for 4o,ooo, Mr. Madden made the best bargain of his career. He was the hardest yearling to break that Madden ever had. He had at that time twelve boys in the stable, all considered good at exercising a horse, but not one of them seemed able to stay on Hamburg's back. Major Thomas, whose stable adjoined Madden's at the Lexington course, had a boy that could ride him, and Madden was com- How He pelied to hire him at a dollar a day until the colt was broken. By that time Lost Ills Hamburg had very little mane left, as, whenever he threw one of the boys, the Mane boy generally took a handful of the mane in his fall. Hamburg was a glutton, both at the feed-box and for work. No matter how 172 UN F: En f, This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED 9(ASCE-HORSES hard he had been galloped, he ate so heartily and the repair of his tissue was so rapid that they soon found he required twice the work of the other horses. As a two-year-old he won twelve out of sixteen races, and was second in three. The Great Trial Double Event, Flash, Congress Hall, Prospect, Rising Gen- eration, Autumn, and Great Eastern Handicap were among his victories. For the Great Eastern he was handicapped to carry 13z pounds, and it was so unusual a weight that several trainers, noted as "scratchers" unless everything was in their favor, besought Madden to "scratch" him. "You're not going to start Hamburg for the Great Eastern" they asked. "Why not" returned Madden. "You'd be taking a chance of his being beaten." "I'm willing to take the chance." "Yes; but if he wins-it's a bad example-the handicapper will go piling on weight on horses until there's no telling where he'll stop." Hamburg won despite the 135 pounds, and after standing over half an hour at the post. It was the best-recorded performance for a two-year-old, and made Hamburg a national figure. The following winter Mr. Madden announced that he had sold Hamburg for 4o,ooo. The name of the buyer was not given, and for several weeks the press and public were occupied in an inquiry of "Who bought Hamburg" Mr. W. L Powers had, as Mr. Marcus Daly's agent, con- ducted the sale, and then it became known that Mr. Daly was the purchaser. Hamburg was at once brought East and placed in the stable of Wm. Lakeland, at Brighton Beach, and made his first appearance as a three-year-old for the historic Belmont Stakes at Morris Park. A rainfall left the ground heavy. Hamburg seemed unable to raise a gallop, and Bowling Brook, who had beaten him the year before, won by 6 lengths; Previous, the second horse, beating Hamburg 3 lengths. If the skies had fallen the Hamburg party could not have been more astounded. Evidently the colt had been short of work, for shortly after he won the Swift Stakes and then the Realization, beating Plaudit. He then won the Brighton Cup, beating his stable mate, Ogden, and Howard Mann, and raced no more. It is seldom so complete a change in the appearance of a horse has been noticed as that in Hamburg from his two to his three year old form. At two Madden kept him light in flesh; at three Lakeland had him as "round as an apple," and paid dearly for it in the race for the Belmont. A hearty feeder like Hamburg would "fill up" in a day unless he was kept at strong worlk Hamburg was a brown, by Hanover from Lady Reel by Fellowcraft; grand- dam, Mannie Grey (Domino's dam) by Enquirer. He stood i6 hands, and was marked with a narrow blaze, and both hind legs white half-way to his hocks. 173 Piling Pelion on Ossa Wins tbe Great Eastern Beaten for tbe Belmont Wins the Realization Description RJCING IN, dMERICA4 He had a concave, or "dished," profile, but a rather broad muzzle, a straight neck, well-laid shoulder, slightly raised withers, a straight back, and a great sweep from the croup to the root of the tail, which was thin-"rat-tailed"- and set low. He had enormous quarters and second thighs; his hocks were set low, and his legs and feet good; he retired sound. He had great depth through the heart and brisket and back ribs. Conformation His conformation was for speed rather than stamina-he was big-bodied, and his legs well under him. He stayed the Ix Realization course, but Plaudit, whom he beat, was at that time a rack of bones from hard racing in the West. Hamburg's action was very peculiar; he skimmed over the ground like a swal- low, scarcely seeming to raise his feet. He looked like no other horse, certainly not like his sire nor his dam-a speedy mare, but a non-stayer. As a sire he began with a rush of success, his daughters, Hamburg Belie and Artful, winning the Futurity of 'o3 and 'o4, while his sons, Inflexible, Dandelion, and Burgo- master, were fine racers. On the death of Mr. Daly he was sold in i9oi to Mr. W. C. Whitney, and ended his days at Brookdale. He left no son to maintai his line, but his daughters are the most successful as brood-mares. Plaudit, Like his sire, Plaudit never made flesh, and being as a two-year-old in the i 895 hands of the colored trainer Ed. Brown, he never had a chance to make it, as Brown was of the old school of trainers who believed in a hard preparation. At two years old, in I897, he started twelve times and won four-Emerald Stakes at Cincinnati; Nursery Handicap, 123 pounds, beating eleven; Champagne. In the White Plains he had 130 pounds, but the mud was very deep and he was Beats beaten. His most noted performance was x I miles for all ages at Brooklyn, Ben Brusb when, with go pounds, he defeated Ben Brush, four years, i26 pounds. He was trained for his later races by Mr. J. E. Madden. At three years old Plaudit ran eight times, winning four-Kentucky Derby and Clark Stakes, Oakley Derby, Buckeye Stakes. For the Realization he was second to Hamburg. Plaudit was a bay bred by Doctor Neet, a son of Hinyar-Cinderella (imp.) by Tomahawk or Blue Ruin. He had a large star in his forehead, the head being of the game "varminty" kind, a long, lean neck, good shoulder, very short back, and cut away very much behind the croup, with tail set low, prominent hip-bone, and he stood high in the leg, with very long pasterns, like an Arab. He looked a rac- ing-machine, as he carried very little flesh, and was a very different horse in appearance from his half-brothers, Hastings and Ferrier. Etbelbert, Etbelert was a fair two-year-old, and won five races out of thirteen. He raced &8) in the colors of Mr. James Galway, and later under the "maroon-and-red hoops" of Hon. Perry Belmont, his best race being the Nursery, for which he beat a field of fifteen. He was a more potent factor as a three-year-old, winning eight out of fourteen races, among which were the Pocantico, Broadway, Spind- 174 I E This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED R94CE-HORSES rift (beating Kinley Mack), the Realization, Peconic, and Dixiana. He seemed to improve with age, and at four won seven races-the Metropolitan Handicap, 126 pounds; Special, beating Jean Beraud; Islip; Brighton Cup; Twin City Handicap, 129 pounds; and Municipal Handicap, iY4 miles, 126 pounds. In i9oi, as a five-year-old, he won the Standard Stakes. He was an 8 to 5 favorite for the Suburban, with i26 pounds, Alcedo winning. Ethelbert won twenty-one out of forty races in all, and 569,ooo. He was a bay by imp. Eothen (by Hamp- ton) from Maori by Poulet. In the stud he began life with a tremendous suc- cess, by siring Fitzherbert and Dalmatian from very inferior mares, and Mr. August Belmont bought him and sent him to France, but he never sired any- thing of merit again except the steeplechase horse Duettiste. As a consequence Ethelbert was spoken of by the pedigree faddists as "a chance horse" and his failure attributed to his being by Eothen, a horse with no record as a race-horse. It is true Eothen did not race-he was foundered as a yearling on shipboard when imported. But he sired two high-class ones in Ethelbert and Requital. Moreover, he traced, in his maternal line, to the same family as Galopin. Eothen's great-granddam., Merope, was granddam of Galopin -the so-called No. 3 family-the "sire family." So much for breeding race- horses on paper. Kinly Mack, the first horse to win both the Brooklyn and Suburban, was a very tall, narrow horse with an enormous stride, belonging to Eastin & Larrabie of Deer Lodge, Mont., and a fair two-year-old, winning four out of eight races at three. But at four he had "grown down," tightened, and was no longer the great loose-jointed creature he was at first. He won the Brooklyn, with 122 pounds, well in hand. Imp beat him for the Parkway, when he tried to give her 3 pounds. For the Suburban, nine started, Kinley Mack with 125 pounds, and at odds of lo to i beat Ethelbert, 130 pounds, by a length. But he was "nowhere" for the Brighton, won by Jack Point. At Saratoga he won the Beverwyck Handicap, with 128 pounds, by a head from Ethelbert, 129 pounds. He won the Autumn Cup, 2 miles, with 128 pounds, and First Special, but Imp beat him for the Second Special after a close finish. Kinley Mack had never been a sound horse, and the wonder was that he ever accomplished what he did. Between him and Ethelbert there was not more than 3 pounds differ- ence, but of the two he was a shade the better. Jean Beraud was a colt that flashed upon the scene of racing in 1898 as a two-year-old and won six races "right off the reel"-the National Stallion, Eclipse, Hudson, Great American, Tremont, and Great Trial. At once he was hailed as "a phenomenon"-the greatest two-year-old that had ever appeared, as has been the case with every successful horse. Mr. John Daly, in whose colors he began, sold him to Mr. Sydney Paget for a large sum. He rather lost form I75 Wins tbe Municipal Kinkey Mack, 1896 Wins tbe Autumn Cup Jean Beraud, 1896 1(ACING IN eMERICA later and was beaten, but in i899 he again came out with flying colors, wmnig the Withers and Belmont Stakes. In i9oo, as a four-year-old, he was beaten by Ethelbert in a special at iX/4, but he beat Imp for the Brookdale Handicap, 127 pounds. He was unplaced for the Suburban. Jean Beraud was a bay by His Highness from Carrie C. by Sensation; granddam, the great mare Ferida by Glenelg. In i9oi Jean Beraud was sent to England with Prince Charles, Kilmarnock, Elizabeth M., Holstein, Luke Ward, and De Lacy. But Jean Beraud became a savage. He tore his clothes with his teeth, bit his chest and flanLs until he was all scars. He would jump at a man, and attacked horses on Newmarket Heath. Huggins, his trainer, turned him out for a month, but he would only rub himself on the fences and squeal with anger. Then Huggins took him up, put breaking tackle on him, and drove him about. It seems that on the voyage to England he became wild, broke down the partitions of his stall, and began fighting with the other horses. No one dared go near him until the negro groom went in and grabbed him. As to De Lacy, he was so highly tried that Mr. Whitney sent him to England in hopes he would get into some of the big handicaps to advantage, as his pub- lic form here had been so ordinary that the stable figured he would not be given more than io5 pounds at the most. Imagine their horror when he was allotted 123 pounds. It seems somebody here had timed his trial before he left, and wrote to a friend in England describing it, and the friend, of course, repeated it, until it became a matter of common knowledge. And thus Mr. Whitney's "good thing" failed to materialize. Kilmarnock was a beautiful brown colt Mr. Madden brought to the races in i899 as a two-year-old. He was slow coming to hand, but won three, finishing by winning the Champagne Stakes, the great autumn test of stayers, being a prototype of the Dewhurst at Newmarket. At three he was beaten for the Met- ropolitan, being sold to the late Hon. W. C. Whitney, who started him for the Withers Stakes. Like many men new to racing, Mr. Whitney was at that stage when everything about it was to him like a child with a new toy-full of that undeveloped mystery that lent it an interest amounting to enthusiasm. The Withers was his first essay at winning one of the classic events, and, unable to expose his interest, he took refuge in the club-house. During the race he could hardly restrain his feelings, darting from window to window to watch the con- test. Kilmarnock won by 2 lengths, beating Mesmerist, Ilderim, David Gar- rick, etc., and Mr. Whitney was the happiest man at Morris Parl. At Graves- end, for the Dwyer Stakes, he took up i26 pounds, but Mr. Keene's Petruchio, with io8 pounds, won by 4 lengths, the difference in weight and a bad start being too great a handicap. 176 Sent to England and Turns Savage A "Good Thing" Tbat We'nt Wrong Kilmarnock, 1897 Wins tbe Witbers Stakes CELEBRATED R"CE-HORSES Mr. Whitney, having planned an "invasion" of England with some of his horses, sent Kilmarnock over the sea. He ran eight races and won two-the- Alexandra Plate, 3 miles, at Ascot, and the Counseil Municipal Handicap at Paris, iq miles, with 128 pounds, beating Jawbite, three years, 123 pounds, La Carmargo, three years, i26 pounds, Codoman, four years, 141 pounds, and others. He was second to Santoi for the Ascot Cup, and third for the Man- chester Cup. Kilmarnock was a very attractive brown, sired by Sir Dixon from Miss Used, by Ill Used; granddam, Madcap by Matador, etc. He showed a great ability for carrying his speed over long courses, but he lacked the early speed that wins races under the modern system. Mr. Whitney gave Mr. Madden S20,000 for him. "That's the price I got for his sire, Sir Dixon," said Green Morris, "and I believe this colt is better than his sire." Thereupon Mr. Whitney took two fifty-cent pieces out of his pocket and handed them to Madden, saying: "Mad- den, take this. I want you to have more for Kilmarnock than Morris got for his sire." And thus Kilmarnock's price was 20,001. The progeny of Hanover were in great demand in i899, when Mr. J. E. Madden brought David Garrick to the races. He was a fine big colt by Hanover from Peg Woffington, and, after he had won the Great Trial Stakes, beating sixteen, Mr. P. Lorillard bought him at a price said to be 25,ooo. But he failed to win again that year. As a three-year-old he ran ten races before winning, and was reckoned a failure; but after he won the Annual Champion Stakes, 2WV miles, beating Ethelbert and four others, Mr. Lorillard said he had "found him- self at last," and sent him to England, accompanied by Danny Maher, the jockey, for the purpose of winning the Ascot Cup. He wintered well, and started for the City and Suburban with 122 pounds, but was unplaced. On May 8, i9oi, he started for the Chester Cup, 24 miles. He was within a pound of being top weight, having 122 pounds to 123 pounds carried by Mazagon. Staying was his forte, and he won easily by 2 lengths. He started for the Epsom Cup, if miles, an odds-on favorite, and ran second. He became very savage, and could not be trained, and was brought back to America. Mr. Wm. Hendrie of Hamil- ton, Ont., purchased him for stud purposes, but he was not a success. 177 Mr. Wbitney Invades England Description David Garrick, I896 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RACE-HORSES "They stripped him there in the farther stall; A giant in stature above them all. Hard of musdc, of sinew cean, And bright as a star in his mirror sheen. Built like a castle above; below Like tempered steel in the furnace glow Bone and tendon and smew show. True and square and firm on his feet, Better to follow, perhaps, than to meet." -Asmmom. This page in the original text is blank. 0 z 0 (n cJn THE "CRACKS" OF THE CENTURY 19OO-1I910 THE union of Domino with the coarse strain of the Australian horse Commando, Darebin through the latter's daughter, Emma C., produced the best 1898 .L stayer of the Domino male line in Commando, a big dark-bay colt, bred by Mr. Keene in i898. It has long been an axiom of the English breeders that a cross of Melbourne adds constitution to a delicate strain, and it certainly did in this instance. Commando started six times as a two-year-old, and won five the Zephyr, Great Trial, Montauk, Brighton Junior, and Junior Champion. His only defeat was second to Beau Gallant for the Matron Stakes, in which Spencer, his rider, was caught napping. At three years old, in I9o0, Commando started three times, winning two-the Belmont Stakes, beating The Parader and All Green, and the Carlton, beating Blues. He was beaten by The Parader for the Realization, and broke down. As a sire he made an even greater name than he had as a performer; Peter Pan, Transvaal, Colin, Superman, Celt, and Peter Quince were among his children, but he died early, as Domino had before him. Commando was a dark bay, right fore and both hind pasterns white, and the coronet of the left forefoot also white. He was very plain, not to say coarse; he had a coarse head, very long, muscular neck, low at the withers, high at croup, and great depth through heart and flanks. He must have weighed over i,ioo pounds, but was very good-tempered, kind, and intelligent. Rowe, who trained him, said: "He was the best-natured horse I ever handled. He had more sense than any horse, and as a race-horse we never knew how good he was, as nothing could extend him." Cap and Bells had the distinction of being the only American-bred filly to win Cap and the Oaks in England. Bred by Mr. James R. Keene, she raced in America as a Bells, two-year-old, winning the Criterion Stakes at Gravesend and the Spinster 1898 Stakes at Brighton, but was unplaced for the Futurity. In her race for the Spinster she seemed to run faster than any horse we can recall. Indeed, she ran so fast that, before going half the 6-furlong distance, she had a lead of 20 lengths, and then Spencer, her jockey, eased her. The performance was so Wins the startling that Mr. Keene shipped her to England, where in i1oi she won the Epsom Oaks Oaks, at Epsom. She practically repeated her race for the Spinster in America, by io for she beat her field by a greater distance than the Oaks had ever been won Lengtbs i8i RAICING_ IN d MERICA -io lengths-with Sabrinetta and Minnie Dee second and third. It was the only race for which she ran in EnglancL She was returned to America and bred Boots and Saddles and Jest. Cap and Bells was a brown by Domino from imp. Ben My Cree by Galopin; granddam, Ulser Queen by Uncas. Gold Heels, While The Bard was not as successful a sire as Mr. Cassatt had hoped, he 1898 Ieft behind him one colt that saved him from failure as a stud father. This was Gold Heels, a moderately sized bay colt, from the mare Heel and Toe by Glenelg. This sterling little race-horse started twenty-four times at two, winning five, but in nearly every instance he was placed, and he ended by winning the Chappaqua Handicap, beating Chuctanuda. At three he started twelve times and won seven. He had now become the property of "F. C McLewee & Co.," and won the Spindrift, Long Island Handicap, Seagate, Monarch- Oriental Handicap, and Morris Park Weight for Age Stakes. As a four-year-old Gold Heels was quite the champion of the year, starting five times, winning four. He started favorite for the Suburban at 3 to i, and with top weight, 124 pounds, won by a length from a field of nine in 2.04. He won the Advance Stakes, beating Advance Guard and Goldsmith, and Brighton Handicap, 126 pounds, and Brighton Cup, 2Y4 miles, but pulled up lame. Advance "The Iron Horse," as Advance Guard was frequently called, was quite de- Guard, served, for he ran 162 races, winning 48, was 38 times second, and 30 times third. 1897 A very large and powerful son of Great Tom from Nellie Van, he began as a two-year-old and started 29 times, winning 7. At three, 49 races, winning 9. At four, 43 races, winning 12. At five, 41, winning 8. It was as a five-year-old he became a serious contender in the great events, winning the Saratoga Cup, the Champlain Handicap with i29 pounds, the Municipal with i27 pounds, con- ceding 32 pounds to the second horse. Not the quickest of starters, he had a steady, long, raking stride that covered a lot of ground and a degree of endur- ance that enabled him to hold on until he wore down many horses faster than himself. The jockeys all loved to ride him, and among them he was called "Jim Jeifries," after the champion pugilist, because of his size, power, and ability to take punishment. Cbuctanunda, The late General Stephen Sanford was an ideal okl-fashioned sporting gentle- i898 man. He loved to race his horses near his home, that his friends and army of employees could enjoy it; he wanted to run horses of his own breeding and of his "own blood." He would pay any price for a stallion or a mare that he fancied. Accordingly, he bought the beautiful La Tosca, and, in search of a suitable mate, selected the English horse Laureate, a son of Rosicrucian, and Laura, the dam of Petrarch, and Chuctanunda was the result-a beautiful brown colt, and with local pride named after the stream that rushes through his home city of Amsterdam, in the beautiful Mohawk Valley. 182 I 8 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED T(CE-HORSES Chuctanunda ran ten races as a two-year-old, and his battles with Gold Heels A Great formed the principal feature. He won the Woodlawn Handicap at Yonkers, 95 Weigbt- pounds up, beating Gold Heels, io8 pounds. Two days later he won a handicap Carrier with 125 pounds up. He won five times. As a three-year-old he won five times, but at Saratoga, after the race for the Travers Stakes, he contracted a cold, and when he recovered, it was found that his wind was affected. He was reserved for short races in consequence of this, and in these he became quite the champion of his generation. As a four-year-old he won six out of seven races. He won the Delaware Handicap at Saratoga, Ii8 pounds; he won at 7 furlongs with 130 pounds at Morris Park, and with 135 pounds up he won a 6-furlong handicap, conceding 49 pounds to some of his competitors. Yankee, the Futurity winner of igoi, was bred on shares. Messrs. A. H. & Yankee, D. H. Morris sent the famous Correction to be bred to Mr. Milton Young's i8gy equally famous Hanover, and Yankee was the result. When he was offered for sale at Coney Island in igoo with the Hanover yearlings, there was a rush to buy him; such a cross as Hanover with the speediest mare of her time, and she a full sister to Domino, was a bait few could resist, and after a sharp competi- tion he fell to Mr. J. E. Madden for S20,000. The colt was so big he was not hurried, and it was not until August at Saratoga that he started, winning a race of 5 furlongs from a moderate field, and followed it with another "over- night" affair, beating Chilton and six others. The Futurity, however, was the stable's object, and Yankee won it by half a length, beating Lux Casta, Barron, Gunfire, and a field of eighteen. Nastur- tium, the favorite, was as good as left at the start, otherwise thenr might have been a different tale to tell. For the Matron, Yankee started favorite, but Heno won, beating Yankee 2 lengths sixteen starting. For the Champagne Stakes Yankee was second to the great filly Endurance by Right. At three years old Yankee started in only one race, an overnight handicap at Sheepshead Bay, and ran third at Roxane. He broke down early, as might have been expected, as he was an overtopped colt, his body being too great, and heavy for his legs. As a sire he did very well. McChesney was about the most noted race-horse in training in I902 and AMcCbesnme, 1903. Sam Hildreth had him. Then he passed into the hands of Durnell & Herz, i899 and in 1902, as a three-year-old, won twelve out of twenty-one races. Later he became the property of Mr. E. E. Smathers. In 19o3 he won eight out of four- teen races, among them the Harlem National Handicap, 127 pounds, the Western and the Oakwood Handicap, i29 pounds, and was second for the Great West- em with i34 pounds, all at Chicago. He had reached his limit in the West, and was brought East, where, at a mile, Minute Man, two years, 92 pounds, beat him with 122 pounds. However, he won the Twin City Handicap at Sheep.- I83 9T(ACING IN N.MERRICA head Bay, i29 pounds, beating Hermis, i29 pounds, and ten others, the First Special at Gravesend, also Second Special. His party sought a match with the Eastern champion, Waterboy, but it never materialized. McChesney was a great, awkward-looking chestnut by Macduff-Marion Mason, but seen in action he was quite a different horse, his motion being perfect. Nasturtium, Nasturtium, like Yankee, was a great, overtopped colt, only more so. He i899 was "as big as an ox" when he started at Brooklyn, and, after winning, Mr. Aste bought him, and he ran second to Blue Girl for the Great American. He won the Double Event and impressed Rogers, the trainer, through whose Miuence Mr. W. C Whitney bought him, the price reported as 4o,ooo, and he was reserved for the Futurity. His stable considered it a certainty. At Saratoga, Rogers, usually a reticent man, expressed himself boldly to John Madden: "Look here, now," exclaimed Rogers, "I know you expect to win the Futurity with Yankee; but let me tell you, the one that beats that white-faced fellow Left at the (Nasturtium) will get all the money." Nasturtium went to the post favorite Futurity for the Futurity, but was left at the post, and Yankee won. For the Flatbush Post Stakes Nasturtium was an odds-on favorite, and showed what he could have done in the Futurity, had he got away, by winning quite as he liked. Mr. Whitney intended to win the Derby in England with him, but the following year it was found he would not stand training. His enormous body was too great for his legs, and he retired to the stud, but his success was only moderate. As a matter of fact, Mr. Whitney bought him "to get him out of Yankee's way'" and against the advice of his advisers; and when Doctor Shepherd advised not starting him for the Great Trial, as "he had a temperature," they said Mr. Haggin had "got double what he was worth." In England he did so well at first that the stable backed him to win the Derby for a considerable sum. Tbe Parader, Mr. R. T. Wilson had raced several years without finding a high-class colt to 1 898 carry his yellow jacket, until the new century brought him one in The Parader, a bay colt bred in i89 by Longstreet from Pretence by Plenipo. The Parader started six times at two, and won the Spring Stakes at Sheepshead Bay, but he was placed in four races, and showed enough to justify great expectations. As a three-year-old he started nine times, winning five-the Withers, Preakness (at Brooklyn), the Broadway, and the Realization, for which he defeated Com- mando. He was third for the American Derby at Chicago, third for Brooklyn Derby to Bonnibert, second to Commando for the Belmont, unplaced in Sara- toga Handicap, and third for the Travers to Blues. Like his old rival, Com- mando, his sun set with his three-year-old form. Gunfire, Gunfire was one of the many racers bred by Mr. John E. Madden and sold 189( to Honorable W. C Whitney, and was probably the best of Hastings's daugh- ters. Only two winning races out of thirteen starts was her record at two, 184 Le This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED RhACE-HORSES but at three she won five out of nine, and they included the Mermaid and Twin City Handicap. As a four-year-old she won the Metropolitan Handicap, with IO9 pounds, beating a field of fourteen, and the distinction of being the only mare that ever won that event. She followed it with running second, with i i I pounds, to Irish Lad, three years, 103 pounds, and possibly she would have won but for interference early in the race. Even as a five-year-old she held her form and rounded out a great career by winning the great long-distance race of the year, the Municipal Handicap, with I 13 pounds, conceding i8 pounds to the second horse. She was a brown by Hastings from imp. Royal Gun by Springfield. Like most of Hastingss children, wet or dry track made little dif- ference to her, and she was as game a mare as ever wore iron, as her Brooklyn Handicap finish with Irish Lad proved. If ability to concede great weight and a beating to contemporaries is the true measure of pre-eminence, Endurance by Rigbt was the greatest two-year-old filly that has appeared within the past fifty years. Before she came to Saratoga in igoi she had started at Western meetings in nine races, winning eight, in- cluding the Clipsetta at Latonia, Lassie, Petite, and Lakeside at Chicago. Her fame had preceded her, and in her Saratoga race the handicapper allotted her 122 pounds, and she won by 2 lengths, conceding 24 pounds to some of the field of nine. "How did the race look at the beginning of the last quarter" the patrol judge, Mr. Hall, was asked. "The winner was breezing, the others were being hard ridden," was his reply. Honorable W. C. Whitney at that time was in the humor to buy every good horse he saw, as beginners usually are, and added Endurance by Right to his stable. For the Flatbush he elected to win with Nasturtium, and Endurance by Right was third. But she was never after headed in a race, winning seven in succession. For the Great Eastern Handicap, with 126 pounds, she won easily from a field of twelve; she won the Willow for fillies, and the Holly Handicap with 130 pounds, racing clear away from a field of thirteen, conceding 32 pounds to the minimum. She then defeated Heno for the Third Special, and for the Champagne she beat Yankee and Caughnawaga. For the White Plains Handicap she was allotted 132 pounds-the highest weight the handicapper ever allotted a two-year-old filly. She could not be trained at three, and in the stud foaled a very useful filly in Stamina, but died early. Her name was sug- gested by her breeding, as she traced the family of the great English stayer, Musket. She was a bay by Inspector B. (he by Enquirer) from the imported mare Early Morn by Silvester (by St. Albans); granddam, Late Nights by Cremorne; third dam, Small Arms by Lacydes; fourth dam, a daughter of Brown Bess (granddam of Musket). 185 Wins tbe Metropolitan Wins the Municipal Endurance by Rigbt, 1899 9(ACING IN dMMERICA Caugbna- The death of Laureate, after the brilliant form of his son, Chuctanunda, was u'aga, a great loss to General Sanford, but he bred "the beautiful La Tosca" to C(if- 1899 ford, and the result was a gigantic chestnut colt of great power and bulk, which he named Caugbnawaga. It was doubtful policy to run so big a colt at two years old, but Caughnawaga ran fifteen races, winning one. People called him "the big bull," and said he "couldn't get out of his own way," and while he started eleven times at three, he only won the September Stakes at Sheepshead Bay, which, being io miles, he found to his liking. But the big bull's day was com- ing. At four, out of thirteen starts he won six races, including the Occidental; while in 1904, as a five-year-old, he won four out of nine races, including the Twin City Handicap, 125 pounds, beating Dainty, ioi pounds; Gunfire, ii9 pounds; McClesney, 127 pounds; and others. Caughnawaga's greatest exploit was reserved for 1905, when, six years old, he won the Saratoga Handicap by 3 lengths with il9 pounds up, beating Water Light, io8 pounds; Beldame, 120 pounds; Tanya, log pounds; Ort Wills, 126 pounds; Lord of the Vale, 113 pounds; Alan a Dale, 113 pounds; and Mollie Brant, 114 pounds. Mr. Sanford had declared to win with Mollie Brant, but the track was deep in mud, and the powerful Caughnawaga ran through it without trouble. The "big bull" won, they said, because of the heavy track; but when he won the Saratoga Cup, beat- ing Beldame in dry going, they admitted "he could run some." Waterboy, If any one asked A. J. Joyner, the trainer, which was the best horse he ever I899 trained, the chances are he would answer "Watcrboy," adding, "and you know I've had some good ones, Ethelbert and Whisk Broom, for example." Water- boy was a big, loose-jointed brown colt by Watercress from Zealandia, foaled in 1899. Mr. Haggin sent him on from California to Charles Littlefield, Jr., to train in the autumn of Igoo. He was very tall and grew to 17 hands, with a plain head, a neck that Joyner described as being "put on upside down." He was like an overgrown boy, lazy, slow, and awkward. He started once at two years and was unplaced. Upon the death of Littlefield, the colt passed to Joyner. As a three-year-old he started in three races, winning an overnight race at Morris Park, but dislocated his hip-bone. He was put in slings for nearly three months, and lost so much flesh he was like a skeleton. However, he rounded and seemed sound when he was returned to training. The next year (1903) he was in the Suburban, and when the weights appeared he was in at 112 pounds. The stable thought, despite his injury, he might have a chance, and as he was loo to i in the winter betting, they backed him. But he did not start, owing to rain and heavy ground. There was a renewal of the Suburban a few days later, and Waterboy won, beating Irish Lad. He followed it by win- ning the Brighton Handicap with 124 pounds and the Saratoga Handicap with 127 pounds. He was badly beaten for the Saratoga Cup by Africander and i86 (n This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED Rd4CE-HORSES Heno; and Joyner, his trainer, cannot to this day account for it, as "he worked well both before and after the race," and for his next race, the Century, Shields, the trainer of Hermis, warned Joyner that Hermis was "good and sure to beat you. George Odom, the jockey, who had ridden Waterboy in all his races, was under contract to ride for Mr. Thomas, who claimed him to ride Hermis, and Joyner selected Frank O'Neil, whom he instructed to "let Herrmis go on, but lay within a length of him until the last 3 furlongs," then to make his run. O'Neil rode to orders, and Waterboy beat his field to a standstill, Heno, The Picket, Hermis, and the rest dead beaten. Waterboy won only once at five, when, with I26 pounds, he defeated Rose- tint, io6 pounds, and Broomstick, i x5 pounds. He never was quite as good as he was at four, when he seemed quite the best horse in training. He was a gigantic brown, quite 17 hands, loose-jointed, angular, and common-looking- as English trainers say: "A rum 'un to look at, but a good 'un to go." In the stud he had fair success; one of his most prominent was Mr. Knapp's Sprite; and, curiously enough, while she bred after Waterboy in great size, unlike him, she was purely a sprinter. "The little red horse," as Henris was so commonly called, as a two-year-old gave little promise of the fame that awaited his career as a mature racer. He started thirteen times, winning four. Mr. Ziegler brought him East as a three- year-old in x902 and he ran fourteen races, winning ten; his last nine races, when he became the property of Mr. L V. Bell, being without defeat. It was at Saratoga he began to "find himself," winning the Travers, Saranac, First Special, Oceanview Handicap, i26 pounds, Jerome Handicap, Ia6 pounds, and Mamaroneck Handicap, I26 pounds. As a four-year-old Hermis rose to the front rank, winning nine races. Irish Lad beat him for the Saratoga Champion Stakes, but three days later he defeated Irish Lad. He won the Ocean Stakes, Brighton Cup, and Edgemere. At Morris Park, in a handicap, he won with as high as i34 pounds. Hermis at five years old was signalized by his victory for the Suburban with 127 pounds, beating a very select field-The Picket, i24 pounds, Irish Lad, 127 pounds, Proper, ii0 pounds, and two others. He also won the Brockdale and the Test Handicap, beating Beldame. Hermis trained in 1905 as a six-year-old, but started for only three races, winning an overnight and the Islip Handicap, iX4 miles, at Brighton, with 132 pounds; Butling, the second horse, a three-year-old, Io2 pounds, and went amiss shortly after. As a sire he had little chance, and was shipped to France soon after. Hermis was a deep-red chestnut with both hind pasterns white. He was barely 15.3, but very sturdy in build. He had a handsome head, a deep, muscu- lar neck, good shoulders, deep in girth and full in the flanks, very closely 187 O'Neil Rides to Orders and Wins Hermis, I900 Description ,"CING IN N.4ME RICA coupled, with enormous power in the quarters and gaskins. He cut away behind the croup, but had great length from the point of the hip to root of the taiL His forearms were very large, and his legs and feet capital. He was very quick at the post, "getting his legs," as it is called, instantly. He was very highly bred, being a son of Hermence from Katy of the West by Spendthrift; granddam, Perdita by imp. Prince Charlie. Irisb Lad, Isb Lad was often called "a commonlooking brute," and in truth he was a 1900 coarse horse-he lacked finish. Despite this, he left a name behind him that did much to remove the prejudice. His sire, Candlemass, had been imported, follow- ing the wonderful success of St. Blaise as a sire in this country, Candlemass being a full brother to the Derby winner. Irish Lad's dam, Arrowgrass, was by Bramble, traced back to an old Tennessee racing family of renown-the Black Sophia. It was the indefatigable Mr. J. E. Madden who brought Irish Lad out, and at two he showed great form for so big and coarse a colt, starting ten times, winning seven, the Great Trial and Saratoga Special among them. As a three- year-old Irish Lad won three out of six races. He won the Saratoga Champion, beating Hermis and Heno, but Hermis beat him three days later, with jockeys reversed. He won the Brooklyn Handicap, with io3 pounds, beating Gunfire, Heno, and others, and the Broadway Stakes. As a four-year-old he won only two races out of six starts. These were the Metropolitan of i904 and the Ad- vance. He was second for the Brooklyn Handicap, with 125 pounds, to The Picket, I 19 pounds; third, with 127 pounds, to Hermis for the Suburban He was third, with 132 pounds, to Ort Wills, three years, Ixto pounds, for the Common- wealth, and second, with 127 pounds, to Broomstick, three years, 104 pounds, for the Brighton Handicap. He started but once at five and was beaten. Mr. Duryea took him to France, where he became quite a successful sire. Africander, Africander was about as perfect an ideal of a race-horse as has ever been seen. 1900 Not that he was beautiful, but he was so beautifully balanced; not too large nor yet small, not heavy or at all light, and that he was a rare good race-horse no one will deny; nor will they that if he had not fallen lame he would have made a great name. As it was, when a three-year-old he won the Belmont Stakes when completely out of condition and won the Suburban-the first three- year-old that ever did so. WVins the As a two-year-old Africander, racing in the colors of Mr. Julius Fleischman, Belmon started nineteen times and won five races. His second, for the Great Eastern Stakes Handicap, impressed some, as he was coming stronger at the finish than the winner-a good sign in a two-year-old as bearing on his ability at three to stay a distance. In 1903, as a three-year-old, he ran fourteen races and won eight and placed in four. He had shown symptoms of lameness, and they went very I88 as This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED (CE-HORSES slow with him, losing both his first two races through lack of condition. They had determined not to start him for the Belmont Stakes, but hearing that Irish Lad would not start, he was shipped to Morris Park at the eleventh hour, and, while far from ready, won the thirty-seventh renewal of the Belmont by 2 lengths from Whorler. For a handicap at Brooklyn he conceded 34 pounds and a beating to one of his field. Then came the Suburban. He was in with i io Wins tbe pounds, but no two-year-old had ever won the Suburban, and it was 15 to I Suburban against him. On a muddy track he won by a head from Herbert and a field of fifteen. He certainly did "bore" Herbert at the finish, and an objection was lodged, but dismissed. He then won the Advance Stakes, beating Irish Lad at Wins tbe even weights, and the Realization, beating Golden Maxim, Savable, Shorthose, Realization etc. For the Saratoga Handicap he had i i9 pounds and was beaten; but he won the Saratoga Cup, iY4 miles, beating Heno and Waterboy. As a four-year-old Africander ran twenty-five times, winning six races. His beginning foreshadowed great things. He conceded 36 pounds in one race, but was unplaced for the Brooklyn Handicap. He was none too sound, having run a great many races with high weights, and began to lose form. He was one of the best horses of an era of good ones. It is a good horse that can win the Bel- mont, Realization, Suburban, and Saratoga Cup as a three-year-old. He was a bay by Star Ruby (son of Hampton) from Afric Queen by Darebin. Tbe Picket lost every race for which he started as a two-year-old, and natu- Tbe Picket, rally created a sensation when he, as a three-year-old, won the American Derby I900 at Chicago-won it under a pulL Then he created another sensation when, com- ing East, he won the September Stakes at Sheepshead Bay, beating Africander, the Saratoga Cup winner. The next year, as a four-year-oKl, he returned East Wins and created the greatest sensation of all by winning the Brooklyn Handicap Brooklyn from one of the greatest fields that had started for that event-Irish Lad, 125 Handicap pounds, Proper, i o pounds, Hermis, 127 pounds, Highball, to5 pounds, Euge- nia Burch, i io pounds, Shorthose, i i8 pounds, Africander, i26 pounds, Mc- Chesney, i29 pounds. The Picket carried ii9 pounds. With i24 pounds The Picket then ran second for the Suburban, won by Hermis, 127 pounds; Irish Lad third, 127 pounds. He made his third Eastern trip in 1905, ran once and broke down. He was evidently a high-class horse, a bay by Falsetto from Vol- tario by Volante. His sire was twenty-four years old when he got The Picket; when he got Dewdrop he was only six; age had not impaired his powers, despite the fact that it was known that he was so delicate that during the breeding season he went off his feed. "When a filly can beat the colts, or a mare can beat the horses, depend upon Beldame, it she's a good one," was the remark of the late Mr. J. B. Pryor, who trained idoI Lexington and many of the greatest horses during his sixty years' experience. 189 'I(ACING IN cfMERICA, Beldame did it, and thus her name will go down in racing history with Ruthless, Yorkville Belle, Miss Woodford, and Regret. Bekdame was a chestnut filly, bred by Mr. August Belmont in i1oi. Her sire, Octagon, was an excellent racer, who twice won the Toboggan. Her dam was the imported Bella Donna by Hermit, which was a granddaughter of old Queen Mary, and Mr. Withers pronounced her "the finest brood-mare I ever saw; she has the power of a cart-mare with all the quality of a thoroughbred." Wins the As a two-year-old Beldame was leased to Mr. Bennington and started seven Suburban times, winning three-the Vernal, Great Filly, and a handicap. At three she won eleven out of thirteen races: the Carter Handicap, io3 pounds, beating sixteen, the Ladies', Gazelle, Mermaid, Alabama, Saratoga Cup (beating Africander, The Picket, and others), Dolphin, September, First Special, and Second Special. At four Beldame started ten times, winning twice, the Standard Stakes and the Suburban, when in Mr. Belmont's colors she carried 123 pounds, starting favor- ite at 3 to I; she took the lead at the end of a mile and won; Proper, five years, second, with jo9 pounds; the field of eleven included Delhi, i26 pounds. Description Beldame was a chestnut with a star in her forehead, near fore and both hind fetlocks white, the near one half-way to the hock She had a broad forehead and tapered at the muzzle, a nicey laid shoulder, a straight back, tail set on low, fair depth of barrel, full flanks, fine quarters, and good legs; but her hocks were rather far behind her, and such conformation is a great tax on the back. Her fore legs were good, but her pasterns were rather short. Withal she was a capital race-mare, quite the best of her time, and one of the best ever bred at the Nursery. She may not have had the burst of speed Lady Violet had, but she could carry her speed farther. As a brood-mare she failed to make her mark. Broomstick, Broomstick, while a very small colt, was not as closely knit as his sire nor as 9go] heavy; but he was a thoroughly game little colt-a bay by Ben Brush from imported Elf by Galliard -and raced in the "red, blue cap" of Captain S. S. Brown of Pittsburgh. In his nine starts as a two-year-old he won three-the time-honored Juvenile, at Morris Park, and Expectation, at Brooklyn, and Great American. In his fifteen starts at three years he won six, his greatest tri- umph being the Brighton Handicap, IX3 miles. It was a "crack" field: Water- boy, at 129 pounds, was favorite at 9 to 5; Ort Wells, the "crack" three-year- old, 1o8 pounds, was at I I to 5; Irish Lad, four years, 127 pounds, was at 3 to I; Highball, I'5 pounds, 20 to i. Broomstick had 104 pounds, was at 6 to i. It was a tremendous finish between Irish Lad and Broomstick, but in the last strides Irish Lad broke down, swerved from distress, and Broomstick won by a head in 2.04. Waterboy beat Broomstick subsequently, conceding ii pounds, and Ort Wells beat him for the Brighton Derby. But "the little horse" won the Travers and the Flying Handicap, beating Lady Amelia. 190 a d U E m 8 co114 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED R"CE-HORSES Broomstick as a four-year-old started fifteen times, winning five. With i 9 pounds he cut no figure for the Brooklyn Handicap. "Little," they called him, but he won with 133 pounds, and carried high weights throughout the year. As a sire Broomstick became one of the most successful of recent times. Mr. A Sire of H. P. Whitney purchased him and brought him to the Brookdale farm in New Many Jersey, where King Ernest, Stonehenge, Uncas, Hamburg, and Meddler had Winners stood, and by degrees Broomstick's name became sounded through the land. Among the best of his children might be named Whisk Broom II, Meridian, Buckhorn, Wildair, Nancy Lee, Leochares, Crocus, Tippity Witchet, Cudgel, Rickety, Escoba, Regret, Thunderer. Broomstick's get had the early maturity and the early speed so much in de- mand with later-day turfmen. They were not stayers in the true sense of the term. As a rule they liked a mile, and some of them could win at io furlongs, but seldom farther. In 1913, 1914, and 1915 Broomstick led the winning sires. Oiseau was a handy little colt which Mr. J. G. Greener brought from Tennes- Oiseau, see in 1904. He was a son of Ornus (by Bend Or) from Kitty Gunn, and turned 1902 out a terror, winning eight races for two-year-olds. In the Holly and Prospect Handicaps he won with 126 pounds and 132 pounds, and then won the Cham- pagne Stakes. Mr. J. B. Brady gave a long price for him, and at three he won the Swift Stakes in such style that they looked for him to take the measure of Sysonby, especially after he won the Spindrift with i24 pounds. They were sadly amiss, for after Sysonby was left standing at the post for the start for the Great Republic, at Saratoga, he overtook Oiseau before they had gone a quar- ter of a mile, and won by 3 length. Running Water, a bay daughter of Sir Dixon and Breakwater by Hindoo, Running raced in the blue jacket of Mr. Woodford Clay, in i9o5, as a two-year-old, win- Water, ning four races, among them the Great Filly Stakes. The Newcastle Stable '903 (composed of Mr. Andrew Miller and Mr. Frank Bishop) purchased her, and at three she had a great year, winning the Alabama and seven other events. Mr. Herman Duryea purchased her at four, and she started sixteen times, but won only two, having turned sour and stubborn. Her race for the Merchants' and Citizens' Handicap was so good they expected she had changed, but she be- came worse, and was taken to France by Mr. Duryea. Delhi was described as a son of Ben Brush, but nine men out of ten would Delbi, have declared he was a son of Kingston. In fact, the late Mr. John Hunter '90' remarked, after looking him over: "Well, if he isn't by Kingston, his dam must have been thinking of him." No colt since Domino had shown such a turn of speed. As a two-year-old, in 1903, he was slow, winning but one race out of five, but it was the rich Hopeful Stakes. At three he won six out of ten-the Withers, the Belmont, Saratoga Derby, and the Great Republic. As a four- 19' RtICING IN cAMERICA Wins tbe year-old Delhi ran five times and won the Brooklyn Handicap with 124 pounds, Brooklyn beating ten, including Broomstick, 119 pounds, and Proper, io8 pounds. Delhi Handicap showed marvellous speed in the race, leading all the way, but tired at the finish, conceding 28 pounds to Ostrich Delhi was a heavy money-winner-Si15,640. He was a handsome brown horse by Ben Brush from Veva by Mortemer; granddam, Lizzie Lucas by Australian. As a sire he did quite well. Dominant was the best of his get, a great two-year-old, but turned rogue as he grew older. Delhi was a brown, marked with a star in his forehead. He had a very hand- some head, pricked ear, large nostrils, strong, deep neck, a trifle heavy in shoul- ders, rather deep brisket, very large arms, good length and depth of barrel, tall set low, big quarters, and his hocks rather far away from him. Hamburg There have been few fillies of greater speed than Hamburg Belle. She was not Belle, a stayer, m the full sense of the term, but she had a turn of speed with which 1901 few could live, even at a mile. She began as a two-year-old in 1903, early in April, and ran seven times, winning five-Criterion, Rosebud, and the Futurity, Wins tbe 114 pounds, beating Leonidus, 123 pounds, Broomstick, 127 pounds, Delhi, 127 Futurity pounds-eighteen starters. Leonidus was considered a great colt, but the filly outran him. As a three-year-old she won the Brighton Oaks, Fall Stakes, Flight, and Hunter Stakes-four victories out of nine starts. In 1905, as -a four-year- old, out of nine races she won five-Coney Island Stakes, for which she con- ceded Roseben 4 pounds, actual weight, and a beating, Equality Stakes and Flight Stakes. As a five-year-old, in i9o6, she started four times, winning two races the Equality Stakes and the Brighton Mile, beating Whimsical-a great filly that year. Going to the post, William, Whimsical's jockey, remarked: "Do you expect that mare to win at a mile" "You'll be in a place to see her do it," responded Miller, on Hamburg Belle. Joyner was encouraged to start her for the Brighton Handicap, with 124 pounds, but the distance was beyond her limit. The Fall Handicap was her last race. She had i29 pounds, and Roseben, with i32 pounds, won it. Description Hamburg Belle was a yellow chestnut with flaxy mane and tail and marked with a star and near hind fetlock white. She was neither tall nor heavy, but very blood-like, lithe, and graceful, and her action so light that, as her owner expressed it, "it wouldn't break an egg." She had a peculiarly shaped head, prominent forehead, and her nose slightly Roman or convex-rarely seen in the feminine equine-her nostrils were not large, but she had great depth of jowl Her neck was very light, but sank imperceptibly into her shoulders, which were beauti- fully laid. She was low at the withers, and had a long back, good but not heavy quarters, light in the arms and gaskins, and her feet rather small-her whole tout ensemble conveying an impression of airy grace. She was by Hamburg from 192 - -J on -3 0 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RMCE-HORSES the imported mare Isiac by Rosebery; granddam, Isis, the daughter of two Derby winners-Bend Or and Shotover. When Artful won the Futurity of 'o4, following Hamburg Belle's victory Artful, of 19o3,.horsemen asked themselves if a Hamburg dynasty was about to over- 1902 whelm racing. Artful, owing to the death of her owner, Honorable W. C Whit- ney, raced that year, as did all the Whitney horses, in the "green with white hoops" of Mr. H. B. Duryea, and did not start until August io at Saratoga. She ran second to Dreamer, her stable companion, for whom a declaration had been made. A few days later Artful again ran second to her stable-mate, Prin- cess Rupert. Her next race was the Futurity. Of course Sysonby was the favor- Wins tbe ite at 5 to 3 on, while Artful and Tanya were at 2 to i. The two races at Sara- Futurity toga had deceived no one; all knew Artful could have won this but for the dec- laration. It was a great field of winners: Sysonby, Tradition, Tanya, Oiseau, Agile, Glorifier, etc. Artful won by 3 lengths, Tradition beating Sysonby by a neck. Artful then won the Great Filly Stakes, and finally closed, winning the White Plains Handicap at Morris Park, coming down the Eclipse Course in x.o8-the best 6 furlongs on record. She carried 130 pounds, which made it a great performance, and Mr. Frank Hitchcock, who ran second with Dande- lion, ioo pounds, put his hands behind his back and, walking away, remarked: "I thought I had a good chance at the weights, but my colt can't run as fast as that." Artful as a three-year-old (I9o5) ran only three times, and won each time. Wins the Two of them were sprints, but the third was more portentous-the Brighton Brigbton Handicap, 103 pounds, at IX miles-and against competition of the most for- Handicap midable character: Beldame, 125 pounds, Ort Wells, 125 pounds, Delhi. i26 pounds-winners of the Realization, Suburban, Belmont, and Brooklyn. Ort Wells, fresh from a triumphal career at Sheepshead Bay, was the favorite. As to Artful, she was dismised as "a mere sprinter," and it was agreed that "if she can last the route she'll win, but it's long odds she can't." But she did, win- ning by 2 lengths, Ort Wells second, Beldame third. And thus Artful retired in a blaze of glory. She had won the Futurity, she had defeated Sysonby, to do which all others had failed. Artful was a brown, with a blaze face, bred by Mr. Whitney at Brookdale, N. J., and was by Ham- burg from Martha II by imported Dandie Dimmont (son of Silvio by Blair Athol); second dam, Louise V by Rayon d'Or. As a campaigner Dandelion was quite the best son of Hamburg. His dam, Dandelion, Pansy, was by St. Blaise, and he had quite the Hermit characteristics. Dande- 1902 lion raced in Mr. F. R. Hitchcock's green jacket, and as a two-year-old started twenty times, winning five, among them the Remsen Handicap and the Conso- lation at Washington. He was second to Artful for the White Plains Handicap '93 "(CING IN z.4MERIC-A in the fastest 6 furlongs on record, I.o8, but Artful gave him 30 pounds. At three he started eleven times, winning twice, the Travers Stakes at Saratoga and the Saranac Handicap. As a four-year-old he became an important factor in the racing drama. Starting fourteen times, he won six races, among them the Invincible Handicap at Brighton, the Saratoga Handicap, Delaware Handi- cap, Champlain Handicap (i26 pounds), etc. Second in Dandelion was known as "the hard-luck horse" that season (o06), as he ran His Races second for the Metropolitan, Brooklyn, and Suburban, recalling the lines of the satirist Perseus: "Vertentum sese frustra sectabere canthum Cum rota posteior curras et in axe segundo," and which has been so admirably translated by Mr. Dryden to read: "Thou, liRe the hindmost chariot wheds, are curst Still to be near, but ne'er to be the first" A Case of "AMisde- scription- Alobaw k, 1903 Mollic Brant, 1900 The Suburban of 'o6 really should have been Dandelion's, as Go Between was falsely described in his entry as a gelding. Mr. Hitchcock objected, but the stewards of the meeting decided against him. He then appealed to the stewards of the Jockey Club, who reversed the decision of the stewards of the meeting and declared Go Between was not a qualified starter, suspended his owner, and revoked the license of his trainer. Mobawk was perhaps the best two-year-old the late General Sanford ever bred at his farm at Amsterdam, N. Y., and he was the best two-year-old of 1905, bar Burgomaster. He started four times and won, among other races, the Saratoga Special, beating Voorhees, Tangle, Accountant, and a field of nine; then he won the rich Hopeful Stakes with 130 pounds, beating Athlete, Jug- gler, Oyama, Pegasus, etc., and it looked dollars to doughnuts on him for the Futurity. But on the eve of the race he struck himself, and could not start. The winner turned up in Ormondale. He was trained at three, but it was a difficult matter, and beyond running second for the Travers he did little good for him- self. He was a son of Rockton and "the beautiful La Tosca," but more dainty than her other foals-Chuctanunda and Caughnawaga. Very different was Mollie Brant, the little chestnut mare General Sanford bred in i9oo by Clifford from imported Ballyroe, who won twice as a two-year-old, including the Adi- rondack Handicap. At three she won the Saranac Handicap and Hunter Stakes. At four she won four races, beating the great sprinter Reliable-the Delaware Handicap, Merchants' and Citizens' Handicap, the Champlain. At five years old she won the Delaware Handicap the second time, beating, among others, Beldame and Roseben. She had the Bonnie Scotland toughness joined to that '94 rn-4 I.S This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED I(ACE-HORSES of the unbeaten Barcaldine, and became such a favorite from her sterling hon- esty and courage that the sturdy yeomen of the Mohawk Valley never failed to come m hundreds to see her race and never failed to cheer her to the echo. The brothers Dick Wells and Ort Wells cut a great figure in racing, while their brother Dick Finnell sustained the fame of the family by his success in the stud. The trio were sons of King Eric (the Withers winner of 189o) from Tea's Over by Hanover. The elder brother, Dick, foaled in igoo, and raced by Mr. Respess, was a splendid, big, masculine colt, and won six out of ten starts at two years old. He was so much the best in the West that Mr. Respess brought him East for the White Plains Handicap, for which he was beaten a head for second place. He won eleven times as a three-year-old, and was the king-pin of the West, making the fastest mile up to that date-i.37.I, with iog pounds, at Chicago. His brother Ort Wells came near making a clean sweep of all the stakes in the East in 19o4, winning the Tidal, Commonwealth, and Realiza- tion, all at one meeting, and then beat Irish Lad and The Picket at Brighton. Both Dick and Ort Wells were bay, but their brother Dick Finnell was a black; his career as a racer was cut short by injuries he received in a race, but he became a highly successful sire, while Dick Wells sired the great gelding Billy Kelly. Between the three brothers the male line of King Tom, which had become extinct in England, revived in America, and seems secure with the firm of "Dick Wells and Brothers." Frank Gill was imported in utero, his dam, Ravello, coming to America in foal to Collar. The mare was sent to the care of Mr. Sanford C. Lyne in Ken- tucky, where she seems to have impressed Mr. Lyne with the importance of his charge, for as the time for her foaling drew near he became greatly exercised over it. "I couldn't sleep that night," said Mr. Lyne, "and it was probably dur- ing the early morning hours that I finally fell into a doze, and dreamed-I dreamed that the pigs on my place had got loose and, the foal having been born, the pigs had eaten itI I awoke in a cold perspiration; I couldn't realize that it was a dream, but slipped on my clothes and rushed out. It was between four and five o'clock in the morning, and the day just breaking. I expected to see some remains of the pigs' slaughter, but there was the mare and the foal, safe and sound. I never forgot it, and when he won the big stakes at Sheeps- head Bay I had a nice juicy bet on him. "A fine big, lusty chestnut colt he grew to be," continued Mr. Lyne, and he described Frank Gill to a dot. The colt raced in the colors of Mr. John McGinnis, and started nineteen times as a two-year-old, winning four, and toward autumn he improved and won the Lynbrook and Remsen handicaps. At three he had a strong campaign of nineteen races, and won five. In the Equality Stakes he defeated Roseben and Chas. Edward. He also won the Coney Island Jockey 195 Dick Wells, Ort 1Wells, and Dick Finnell A Great Trio Frank Gill, 1904 Mr. Lyne's Dream A Fine Race-Horse 9(ACING IN d ME RICA Club Stakes, i Y miles, beating Montgomery, Salvidere, Peter Pan, and eight others; value, 19,725. He also won the Withers, beating Peter Pan, the Travers at Saratoga, and the Hmdoo at Gravesend. He died early and was a real loss, for he was a great colt in an era of particularly good horses. Moreover, his blood was valuable; his sire a son of St. Simon from a sister to Ormonde (Orna- ment, dam of Sceptre); while his dam, Ravello, was afterward bred to Broom- stick and taken to France, where she foaled Sweeper, winner of the Two Thou- sand Guineas at Newmarket. The death of Mr. Marcus Daly in 19io was followed by the sale of his breed- ing stock, and among the mares offered at the sale was an imported mare, Op- time, in foal to Melton, which Mr. James R. Keene purchased; and her colt, foaled in 1902, was named after Sysonby Hall in Leicestershire, where Mr. F. P. Keene had often hunted. Sysonby ran six times as a two-year-old in i9o4, beginning with a race for maidens at Brighton. He won the Brighton Junior, Flash, Saratoga Special, Junior Champion. He was one of the greatest favorites that ever started for the Futurity, but could only finish third to Artful and Tradition. His party were dissatisfied with Redfern's handling of the colt, but Artful's subsequent racing left no doubt that she was a great filly, and it was no disgrace to be beaten by her. Sysonby's three-year-old career began with a sensation when he ran a dead heat with the four-year-old Race King for the Metropolitan. Sysonby had io7 pounds, Race King 97 pounds-a year and Io pounds. Sysonby failed to con- cede. The race was divided. No horse ever beat Sysonby after that. He won the Tidal and seven other races-Commonwealth Handicap, Realization, Iroquois, Brighton Derby, Great Republic, Century, and Annual Champion. His race for the Commonwealth was a good test, as he, a three-year-old with iiI pounds, conceded weight to the entire field. But the Great Republic Stakes at Saratoga really awakened horsemen to a realization that a horse had appeared such as had seldom been seen. When the horses started, Sysonby was left standing at the post. A groan went up from the crowd. Nicol, his jockey, sent him off with the field nearly a half-furlong ahead. "He'll never catch them," everybody agreed, but, overhauling them at every stride, he was with them at the end of the first quarter of a mile. The next instant he was in the lead. People shook their heads. "The effort was too great; he'll stop," they said. But no; he drew away; Oiseau and Broomstick were racing for their very lives, but the great powerful strides of Sysonby kept him in the lead, and he won, amid a scene such as has seldom been witnessed at the historic ground where Kentucky, Harry Bassett, Longfellow, Kingfisher, Hindoo, Hanover, and Henry of Na- varre had won their great triumphs. The Annual Champion Stakes proved a fitting finale to the career of Sysonby. 196 Sysonby, 1902 Dead Heat for the Metropolitan Wins tbe Common- wealtb Race for the Great Republic 0: F- This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED R"4CE-HORSES It was at the old Cup distance-in these later days an unusual distance-2W miles; hence, a test of the stamina of horses. Again, as in the Republic, his opponents were Oiseau and Broomstick. He had no such mishap at the start, no sten chase, as in the Republic, but away with his field, raced them to a standstill with a stride as regular and seemingly as powerful as the piston-rod of a locomotive, and retired to winter quarters hailed as "the horse of the cen- tury." When the weights for the Suburban of 1906 appeared Sysonby had the post of honor, with 131 pounds. But when the springtime came and the horses began galloping, Sysonby did not appear. Then came a rumor that he was unwell; later it was learned he was "in a bad way," and, finally, that he was doomed. He died June I7, 1906, from septic poisoning. For nearly three months he suf- fered agonies from a malignant eruption of the skin, which enveloped him from head to heels, baffling all medical skill. The autopsy disclosed an enlarged and diseased liver and the smaller intestines terribly inflamed. His courage never deserted him, and he dropped dead after walking around his box. His remains were exhumed after burial, and his skeleton prepared and placed in the Museum of Natural History in New York City. Sysonby was a February foal. He was a light bay, sprinkled throughout his coat with gray hairs. He was marked with a star in his forehead and his left hind pastern white. He had a large head, heavy forehead; his profile slightly dished (concave); nose rather Roman; very deep jowls, and wide between the jaw-plates. His neck was massive, perhaps short, but very muscular; his shoul- ders heavy but well laid. He was not a showy horse; indeed, he might be called plain, but there was an appearance of power about him-his massive body, his great head, and sturdy limbs. In action his exhibition of power was striking. He galloped with an enormous stride, with which no horse could contend. Indeed, the power of his heart and lungs must have been enormous, as the post-mortem afterward proved, while his muscles must have been unusual to sustain his pace. One peculiarity of Sysonby was in walking. The average race-horse rarely does more than slightly overstep the print of his forefoot. Sysonby cleared it, showing the wonderful leverage of his hind leg, which in galloping must have given him enormous propulsion. It is impossible to compare horses of different periods, but among those with which he raced Sysonby appeared a superhorse, and in view of what he should have been to the perpetuation of the thorough- bred we can well say with Macbeth: "He should have died hereafter." Tanya was one of the best fillies the late Honorable W. C. Whitney ever bred, and yet death prevented his ever seeing her with "colors up." She was of distinguished lineage, being by Meddler from Handspun by Hanover; grand- 197 Wins the Annual Cbampion Top Weigbt for tbe Suburban His Untimely Deatb Description Tanya, 1902 RACING IN ,(MERICA dam, the famous Spinaway by Leamington. She started six times at two years old, and won five-NationaI Stallion Stakes at Morris Park, the Spinaway, the Hopeful at Saratoga, and was fourth for the Futurity to her stable companion, Artful. As a three-year-old, in i905, she started four times and won one race- the Belmont Stakes-beating a moderate field. She could not compare with Artful for a burst of speed, but she could carry her speed. She did not start at four, but raced at five without success. Tan glc, Tangle, the full sister to Tanya, raced in Mr. F. R. Hitchcock's colors, and 1903 started seven times at two years old, in i905, winning twice the Adirondack Handicap at Saratoga, the principal event; but she was third to Mohawk II for the Saratoga Special, second to Whimsical, third for the Autumn Maiden. At three she won one race out of five-the Great Republic Stakes at Saratoga, the great event of the year-beating Gallavant, Whimsical, Go Between, and Mohawk. She was second to Dandelion, her stable mate, for the Saratoga Han- dicap, third for the September, third for the First Special, and second for the Second Special. Tangle was a thoroughly good filly, and in the stud foaled Sandy Hook, a colt that performed with great credit in France. Burgomaster, That a race-horse can be too big and heavy, Burgomaster might be cited as 1903 proof. He was the best two-year-old of his year (i9o5), winning four out of seven races-the Great American, Flash, U. S. Hotel, Great Eastern Handicap, 130 pounds, and Matron. At three years old he started only twice-the Carlton and Belmont Stakes-both of which he won. He was a dark-bay colt, by Ham- burg from Hurley Burley by Riley, and was one of the best Mr. Whitney ever bred. He broke down after winning the Belmont, his legs being unable to sus- tain his enormous carcass, as he weighed over 1,300 pounds. In the stud he was a fair success, but ultimately he was sold to go to South America. Accountant, The breaking down of Burgomaster left a clear field for Accountant, a brown I903 colt by Filligrane from the celebrated mare Reckon by Pizarro. He was a fair colt, but not in Burgomaster's class; yet with Burgomaster out of the way he won nine out of twelve races, and such valuable ones as the Withers, Tidal, Realization, Brighton Derby, Saratoga Derby, and Annual Champion. As a two-year-old Burgomaster had given him 12 pounds and a beating in the Great Eastern Handicap. Accountant did not start at four. Ormonda lI, When the late Mr. Macdonough sought the renowned Ormonde in South 1903 America and brought him to California, he probably thought he would outdo all records in the breeding of race-horses. However, while it was a sad disap- pointment, Ormonde got a colt in Ormondale that made some amends. He was a bay, bred by Mr. Macdonough in 1903, by Ormonde from imported Santa Bella by St. Serf, and in i9o5 started for three races. He was third to Accountant for the Montauk, third to Burgomaster for the U. S. Hotel Stakes, and won the 198 Cj A- This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED (,1CE-HORSES Futurity, beating a field of shxteen afte a close finish by half a length. As a three-year-old he won the Broadway Stak, t4 miles, beating Whimsical and Flip Flap; but for the Standard Whimsical beat him, and it was thought Or- monde's sn lacked stamina1 He won no more, but ran placed in his races. He was a handsome co, and in the stud he sred Onnoodale, Neddam, and the beautiful Purche, the bet three-year-old of I9I9. One of the stanch horses of all times was Jack Atkin-a brow colt by Sam from El Salado, foded in i904. He ran nine times at two and won four; at three he ran twenty-nine races and w ten. As a four-year-old he became a figure in the "classic" races, and the Metropolitan Handicap with I28 pounds. Speed was his forte rather than stamina, and hi weight-carrying ability was a byword among trainer He raced on until he was an aged horse; and even when fortune forsook his owner, Mr. Schrieber, he clung to his horse, whose death followed his own by a few months. In igog he won at Empire City a 6-furlong race with I40 pounds up, conceding 47 pounds to the second horse. During his career he ran 136 races. Of these he won g6 and w 31 times second. "I had two horses that year that required as different training as any two horses I ever knew," said John E. Madden. "I am speaking of Sabidere and King James. Salvidere was fast and could stay, but he was delicate; King James was a perfect bull. Salvidere needed little work-just breezing or he'd run light in flesh; King James-you almost had to muwder him with work, for he'd fill up in a day if he didn't have hard gallopn Salvidere, a chestnut gelding, was by Belvide from Sallie of Navarre, and raced in the colors of Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. He started seven times at two and won five-Montauk, Brighton Jr., Winged Foot Handicap (i26 pounds, conceding 29 pounds to the second horse), Saratoga Special, beating McCrtm, Peter Pan, Ballot, etc., Ad ck Handicap (128 pounds), and Junior ChampimL At three years old he started ten tmes and w three-the Annual Champion Cup Preliminary, beatng Bal- lot, and Brighton Cup. Kmig James was a bay colt by Plaudit from Unsightly by Pursebearer. He was so robust that he did not start until late a a two-year-old, and ran ten races, winning one-the Tremont. As a three-year-old he started for sirteen races. Among those he won was the Annual Champion. He ran second for the Dwyer, Crotona, Century, Travr ealization, and Suburban; he ran third for the Belmont, Wither, Empire City Handicap, Advance, and Jockey Club Stakes He trained on to his five-year-old form, but his action was anything but the best. Yet he was a prommet actor and an important factor in all the great events. Had he possessed better action in his gallop he would prob- ably have been a greater raceorse, a his great constitution and courage were such as none among his c t a possessed. In the stud at Mr. Oxnard's 199 Jack Atkin, 1904 Salvidere, 1904 King James, 1905 His Fine Constitution R"4CING IN, d MERICA he sired some excellent performers, among the best being Mr. Butler's Spur, one of the best three-year-olds of 1916. Peter Pan, Of all the colts of the Domino-Commando line, Peter Pan was the stoutest, 1904 a big burly bay with every evidence of constitution, and to that he added a degree of courage that carried him through when the pace was fiercest. He was a very highly bred colt, being by Commando from imported Cinderella by Hermit; second dam, Mazurka by See Saw; third dam, Mabille-a full sister to the celebrated Cremorne, winner of the Epsom Derby of '72-by Parmesan. Wins tbe He won ten races, including the Surf, Flash, and Hopeful at two, and at three Belmont the Belmont, Standard, Advance Stakes, Brooklyn Derby, and Brighton Han- Stakes dicap. The Brighton, iY miles, stamped him a great race-horse. Fourteen started: Peter Pan, three years, had 115 pounds; McCarter, three years, ioi pounds; Montgomery, 3 years, i09 pounds; Nealon, four years (the Suburban winner), 121 pounds. Peter Pan was jostled and a half-mile from the finish was next to last of the fourteen, but, picking up his horses one by one, he came through them like a swift yacht going through a lot of fishing-smacks, and won on the post by a neck in 2.03. As a sire he was an immediate success. As a six-year-old he sired Pennant, the Futurity winner of 1913. He sired Tryster and Prudery, the best two-year-old colt and filly of 1920, also Black Tony, Vex- atious, Panoply, Peter Piper, Puss in Boots, etc. Peter Pan was a bay with a narrow blaze in his face and off hind pastern white. His head was broad between the eyes, deep in the jowl and square at muzzle. He had a stout neck, beautifully laid shoulder, deep brisket, girth, and flanks; the barrel being very full, the ribs arching; quarters massive, tail set low, great power in second thighs; his arms at the swell were very thick and his legs and feet excellent. Superman, One of the features of the spring meetings of I907 was the crowds that used 1904 to adjourn to the paddock to "look at Keene's colts." It is seldom a stable has a trio of three-year-olds such as Mr. Keene had that year-Peter Pan, Ballot, and Superman. The trio used to be exhibited with pride by Rowe between the races, and of the three Superman was not the least admired, a chestnut with blaze face and white legs, by Commando-Anomaly by Bend Or, with his coat Wins ibe plentifully sprinkled with gray hairs. He is chiefly remembered as the winner of Brooklyn the Brooklyn Handicap. Mr. Keene was not one of those owners who "dodge" Handicap a race against good company and look only for "soft" places. He did not con- fine his three-year-olds to races of their own class, but threw down the gantlet to all ages. He reaped the reward by winning more all-aged events with three- year-olds than any other owner, and the Brooklyn Handicap was one in which he was very fortunate, having won it with Hornpipe, Conroy, Delhi, Celt, and Superman. 200 z I z 0 U This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RJCE-HORSES He began well as a two-year-old, winning the Expectation Stakes, and at three ran seven times and won only one race besides the Brooldyn; but he was second for the Paumonok, and to his mate, Peter Pan, for the Belmont. He was a colt of great substance on short legs, and had every evidence of a great constitution. Voter served many years in the stud, but BaLot was by long odds the best of Ballot, his children. As a winner of important stakes he stood very high. The Double 1904 Event, Neptune, Matron, Iroquois, Invincible, Great Republic, Century, First and Second Specials, Edgemere, Standard Advance (twice), Equality, and Sub- urban all fell to his share. He trained on into his six-year-old form. As a four- year-old he won the Suburban, with I27 pounds, beating King James, three years, 98 pounds, and Fair Play, three years, iii pounds, in 19o8. In igog he raced in England, where he won the Select Stakes and returned to America to start for the Suburban of 'io, for which he had 129 pounds and ran third to Olambala, four years, 115 pounds. Ballot, a chestnut, foaled, 1904, by Voter (son of Friar's Balsam by Hermit) from Cerito by Lowland Chief, granddam, Merry Dance by Doncaster, was marked by a left hind leg white. As a sire he got more useful horses than any horse of his time, but he never sired one as good as himself. Among his get were Midway, Buford, Star Voter, Midway, Breeze, Valor, Ticket, Lord Brighton. In 19i8 he was second in the list of winning sires. Ballot's winnings on the race-course reached 154,545. He started thirty-seven times, winning twenty races, was five times second and six times third. Fair Play was not a large horse, but "plenty big enough," as his trainer, Mr. Fair Play, Joyner, used to say. He was a very stylish colt, and when he appeared in Eng- 1905 land the English trainers said he reminded them of Hermit, the Derby winner of 1867. A bright chestnut with a narrow blaze, he was a son of Hastings and Fairy Gold (by Bend Or), a mare which was the bulwark of Mr. Belmont's stud, as she foaled Friar Rock and Flittergold, besides Fair Play. As a two- year-old Fair Play started for ten races, winning the Montauk Stakes and the Flash. As a three-year-old he won the Dwyer Stakes, Realization, Jockey Club Stakes, First Special, Municipal Handicap (127 pounds), Jerome Handicap, 125 pounds. He was sent to England in the autumn of i9o8. Shortly before going Raced in abroad Fair Play had begun to show temper in his races. In England, during England I9o9, he became worse. He started in six races, and was unplaced in each, such as the Kempton Jubilee Handicap, Manchester Cup, and Goodwood Cup, but it was found he would not try, and he was sent home and entered the stud. Fair Play as a sire was a success from the outset, as were his sire, grandsire, and great-grandsire, Hastings, Spendthrift, and Australian. Man o' War, Mad Hatter, Stromboli, Trial by Jury, and Sporting Blood were among his best. 201 RMJCING IN , MERICA Colin, 1905 An Undefeated Race-Horse Celt, I 905 "'ins the Brooklyn Handicap The career of Colin as a two-year-old, 197, was highly sensational. He had an enlarged joint, and it was very noticeable, but at Belmont Park he won an overnight race and then the National Stallion Stakes. At Coney Island he won the Great Trial, at Brighton the Brighton Junior. His fame was so great already that for the Saratoga Special only Uncle opposed him, and Colin won. To this he added the Grand Union, Futurity, Flatbush, Brighton Produce Stakes, Matron, and Champagne; thus he made a clean sweep, never losing a race. As a three-year-old he won the Withers, beating Fair Play and King James, and for the Belmont Stakes he had the first hard race of his career; Fair Play fought it out with him to a finish. He then won the Tidal. He was shipped to England as a four-year-old, but could not be trained, and after serving two seasons in the stud was returned to America. Colin was never beaten, starting for fifteen races, his winnings amounting to i80,912. He was a brown colt with a stripe, right fore and both hind pasterns white, a son of Commando (son of Domino) from the imported mare Pasto- rella by Springfield; second dam, Griselda by Strathconan; third dam, Persever- ance by Voltigeur; fourth dam, Spinster by Flatcatcher. He had a handsome head, a pricked ear, very blood-like neck, good depth through forehand, and fair development of thighs and quarters. It was the misfortune of Celt to have been foaled the same year as his stable companion, Colin, who dominated the two-year-old racing to a degree that needed no assistance. Accordingly, Celt was not called upon until late in the season. He started twice, winning the Junior Champion Stakes, beating Uncle, Meelick, and Firestone. As Uncle had proved the best of the year after Coln, CeIt thereafter took that honor. His other race was second to Colin for the Flatbush Stakes. As a three-year-old Celt won the Brooklyn Handicap, when, with io6 pounds, he defeated Fair Play, 99 pounds, King James, 98 pounds, Montgomery, 120 pounds, and others. He also won the Weight for Age Stakes, beating Jack Atkin and Dorante. Celt's Brooklyn Handicap was a great race. He had to beat first King James and then Fair Play. As he conceded Fair Play 7 pounds and a beat- ing, and as Fair Play had run Colin to a head for the Belmont, it would make Celt better than Cohn. As a four-year-old Celt started twice, winning once, but King James defeated him. Celt was a chestnut with right fore pastern white. He was not of a hard color, but he had size and length, with great power in his quarters. As a sire he did very well, among his get being Dunboyne, the Futurity winner, Ten Lac, Co- quette, Touch Me Not, Crank. Celt was a son of Commando from imported Maid of Erin by Amphion; second dam, Mavourneen by Barcaldine; third dam, Gaydene by Albert Victor, and in 1921 he led the winning sires. In 9 ii the 202 A This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED Rt1CE-HORSES late Major Hancock wrote to the handicapper of the Jockey Club to find him a stallion, saying he had the lease of Celt but expected Mr. Keene would want him for his own use. The handicapper wrote back: "You have a good horse in Celt. If you had seen him win the Brooklyn Handicap, stalling off first King James and then Fair Play, you would agree with me. If I had him I would build a stone wall around him before I'd let him go." Maskette was a filly of great size and substance-a characteristic of the get Maskette, of Disguise, and which is rather a detriment to pretensions to racing over a dis- 1906 tance; but for races under a mile it is an advantage, as it means power to aid in propulsion. Maskette was a brown by Disguise from Biturica by Hamburg. She started six times as a two-year-old and won five, and was second once to Sir Martin for the Flatbush Stakes, carrying 2 pounds more than the winner. She won the Spinaway, Great Filly Stakes, Matron, and Futurity; in the latter Sir Martin carried 9 pounds more than she. In 0gog Maskette won the Alabama (124 pounds), Ladies' Handicap (121 pounds), Gazelle (121 pounds), Pierre- pont (i24 pounds), the Mermaid; she was also second for the Aqueduct Handi- cap. In igo8 Mr. J. E. Madden brought two very fine two-year-olds to the races- Sir Martin, Sir Martin by Ogden-Lady Sterling by Hanover; the other, Fayette by Ogden- 1906 Saratoga Belle by Henry of Navarre. Both were chestnuts and extremely well developed. Sir Martin proved the best colt of the year. He won the Great America (Fayette second), National Stallion Stakes, and Flatbush, for which he defeated Maskette, the Futurity winner, when in receipt of 5 pounds, Sara- toga Special, Double Event, and Great Trial; in most cases Fayette ran second. Sir Martin was also second to Maskette for the Futurity, when he carried 127 pounds to her i i8 pounds. Mr. Madden sent him to England. He started for the Derby at Epsom, and was leading a furlong from the finish when he felt Minoru winning. Sir Martin won the Wednesday Weller Handicap, also the Challenge Stakes and the Durham Stakes, and was third for the Cambridge- shire, with i i6 pounds, the winner, Christmas Daisy, a four-year-old, carrying only loo pounds. In 19i9 the fame of his half-brother, Sir Barton, caused Mr. Madden to bring him back to America. While Olambala was not famous as a juvenile, he made ample amends later and Olambala, quite dominated the all-aged class, particularly in races over a good distance. 1906 His breeder, Mr. J. G. Greener of Tennessee, thought enough of him as a three-year-old to bring him to Sheepshead Bay for the Realization, and he ran second to Fitzherbert. Olambala had won the Latonia Derby before comig East, and this, with his good race for the Realization, determined Mr. R T. Wilson to purchase him at Saratoga. Later he foreshadowed his prestige as a stayer by winning the Municipal. But as a four-year-old, in ig9o, Olambala 203 W,(A4CING IN ,(MERIC became a star performer. He won the Suburban, II5 pounds, the Brighton Handicap, II9 pounds, Commonwealth, 122 pounds, Champlain, 130 pounds, Saratoga Handicap, i28 pounds, and was second for the Brooklyn Handicap, Saratoga Cup, and Earl Gray Cup at Toronto. In 1912 Olambala raced principally in Canada, but with unfortunate results, being usually second, and his race with Star Charter for the Toronto Cup was one of the most desperate iminable. In the stud he proved quite successful. In his first season he sired Campfire, winner of the Futurity, Hopeful, Saratoga Special, and Sanford Memorial. He also sired in Hannibal one of the best colts of I919, and Pillory, the Belmont winner. Olambala was a chestnut, with near hind pastern white. He had a slightly "dished" face, square muzzle, long but muscular neck, good shoulders, long in the barrel but rather light in the flank, a drooping quarter, and stood well, with his legs well away from him. He was the type of a stayer-long-muscled and angular. While he was one of the best stayers of his generation, his colts have been inclined to speed as well as stamina. His granddam, Madame Dudley by Lexington, was a non-stayer, but a mare of great speed and good in heavy ground. Olambala was by Ornus (son of Bend Or) from Blue and White by Vir- gil; granddam, Madame Dudley by Lexington from imported Britannia IV by Flying Dutchman-a speed family all through, and Olambala's stamina illustrates the perversity of breeding. "A sterling little race-horse, the best of his year, but then it was a rather bad year," is the way one of our most expert racing men summed up the merits of Sweep. He was bred by Mr. James R. Keene, and was the last of that great array of winners that Mr. Keene brought out between i904 and 1909-Sysonby, Delhi, Colin, Celt, Maskette, Peter Pan, Ballot, etc. As a two-year-old, in igog, he won the National Stallion Stakes, Futurity, and several other events. At three he won the Belmont Stakes, Carlton, and Realization, and was third for the Brooklyn Derby of ig9o. He was a son of Ben Brush from Pink Domino by Domino; granddam, Belle Rose by Beaudesert, and traced to Honeysuckle, sister to Newminster. He was a small horse, and resembled his sire, save that he was hardly as rotund and robust. As a sire he became a great success and led the Winning Sires of America in 1918. Among his children, Eternal, Leonardo, The Porter, Penrose, Regalo, Sweep On were about the best. Sweep and his half-brother, Broomstick, have kept alive the male line of Bonnie Scotland, than which none were more hardy. Of all Queen Mary's family Bonnie Scotland had the best constitution, and his immediate descendants dis- played it. But a majority of them were non-stayers. This may have been due to the fact that they inherited his conformation. He was very broad or wide across the chest, and that conformation is a great drawback to a horse's capacity 204 Wins the Suburban A Contradiction in Breeding Sweep, 1907 His Stud Success a. I z r- w LzJ C;' This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED 9I(ACE-HORSES to stay over a considerable distance. Of course the various crosses which have intervened since Bonnie Scotland's day have modified the conformation of his descendants, but while the cross of Bonnie Scotland is valuable for speed and constitution, it has seldom been contributory to stamina. The seasons of x9o8 and 9gog were marked by the appearance of two colts Fitzberbert, by a practically untried sire-Fitzherbert and Dalmatian, sons of Ethelbert. 1906 The form of Fitzherbert was good at two, but at three it was of unusual merit. He won the Suburban, the Realization, and all the leading events, and at four added the Brooklyn Handicap to his conquests, with 130 pounds up; and so great was the impression he had made that Mr. August Belmont purchased him of his brother, Honorable Perry Belmont, and sent him to-France as a stallion. He was a bay from the mare Morganatic by Emperor. When he had established his reputation as a great race-horse, there was a headlong rush on the part of breeders to find his dam, but she had disappeared. All efforts to locate her were of no avail. She had probably been condemned and sold for common use. Dal- Dalmatian, matian was a brown from Ionis by Magnetizer, and, like Fitzherbert's dam, was 1907 quite unknown. Dalmatian was a game and successful colt-one of the kind that would fight out a finish to the last stride. He won the Travers, Coney Island, Dwyer, and Empire City Handicap, and was sold to go to England, where he won the Manchester November Handicap and many races, and was second for the Alexandra Plate. Novelty, the Futurity winner of 1g9o, had a busy season immediately preced- Novelty, ing his great race, as during the Saratoga meeting, at which the Futurity was 1908 run that year, he had started six times. In all, his record for the season was sixteen races, of which he won eleven, and on only one occasion was he un- placed. He began in a modest way at Belmont Park, and ran in overnight sweepstakes until Saratoga, where he won the United States Hotel Stakes, Saratoga Special (in the Special beating Textile), the Hopeful, the Rensselaer Handicap, and the Futurity. For the Rensselaer Handicap he carried 135 pounds, conceding 9 pounds to Naushon, the second horse, and the same to Textile, who finished third, thirteen starters. He had 127 pounds for the Futurity, and, ridden out, beat Bashti a length. He was taken to France, and after a few years' sojourn there was purchased and brought to Brazil, where he became a popular sire. Novelty was a bay, bred by Mr. J. R. Keene, by Kingston-Curiosity, a daught2!r of Pink Domino by Domino, and thus Pink Domino's grandson was the champion two-year-old, and her own son, Sweep, was the crack three-year- old of the year. It is stated that Novelty's dam, Curiosity, was ridden by a French officer during the war, i91i4-i98. In the autumn of 1914 Mr. Emil Herz left England, in consequence of the 205 9;JCING IN 4MERICA4 Sbort Grass, outbreak of the war with Germany, and brought Short Grass to America. The 1908 horse had raced with considerable success in Ireland and England, among his successes being the Kilbride, Scurry. Stewards Handicaps in Ireland, and the Redcar, October, Riddlesdown Handicaps in England, as well as the London Cup. Short Grass began his career in America in Kentucky, and raced all the autumn of 1914 with some success. In the spring of 1915 Mr. Herz brought him East, and he began a career of campaigning that, while some geldings have equalled it, no entire horse has. He started twenty-seven times in 1915, winning seven. He raced through 1916 and then retired to the stud a sound horse, as his famous ancestor, Stockwell, had done. During his career he won twenty-three races, including such important events as the Empire City Handicap, Brook- dale Handicap, Queen's County Handicap, Bowie Handicap, and Dixie Handi- cap. He was also second for the Suburban. Short Grass was a bay, bred in Ireland in 19o8, and was a son of Laveno (he by Bend Or), his dam, Outburst by Enthusiast; granddam, Sunburst by Hackler, a son of Petrarch. He was a strapping, fine, big horse, with an enormous stride. This, like all long-striding horses, made him slow at starting, but when fully extended he usually wore his horses down. His evident constitution and his high speed when he had fairly reached his stride made him a formidable race- horse in any company. Meridian, Meridian was an excellent colt as a two-year-old, but when he was sold with 1908 others of Mr. Harrison's horses it was rumored that he had shown lameness, and bidders fought shy of him, except Mr. R. F. Carman, an expert horseman, who not only brought him through his three-year-old form but raced him until he was eight years oqId. His greatest feat was winning the Kentucky Derby of 'i i, beating Governor Grey and an excellent field. The same year he won the Frontier Handicap at Windsor, i X6 pounds, and the National Handicap at Hamilton, Canada. As a five-year-old, in 1913, he won the rich Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica, 120 pounds, beating Cock o' the Walk and Lahore. The same year he ran third in both the Metropolitan and Suburban to Whisk Broom. He was a handsome bay horse, by Broomstick from Sue Smith, and Mr. Carman reserved him for the stud at his farm near Washington, D. C. Tbe Manager, One of the most blood-like horses was The Manager, which Mr. Thos. C. 1909 McDowell raced in the lean years of 1911 and 1912, when racing was suspended in many States. He was a chestnut by Voter from Bracegirdle by Fonso; grand- dam, Peg Woffington, and as a two-year-old won the Harold Stakes at Latonia and Breeders' Stakes at Lexington. At three he won the Canadian Derby, the Baltimore Handicap, Washington Handicap, and ran third for the National Handicap at Laurel, Md., with 127 pounds. The four-year-olds placed first and second carried 1o8 pounds and 94 pounds respectively. It was one of the best 206 CELEBRA TED R"CE-HORSES performances by a three-year-old on record, for not only was the weight he car- ried very high and his concessions great, but he started from the outside rail in a big field, had the worst of the start, and not only had to run around his field but was interfered with. He was at once one of the most beautiful and finest- tempered colts ever saddled, his mild temper being the reverse of his sire's. In his first year at the stud he scored a great success. In Rockview Mr. Belmont had a colt that would have been conspicuous in Rockriew, any year. His two-year-old racing was confined to Canada and Maryland, but ig9o at three he won the Withers (1913) and should have won the Belmont notwith- standing that year it was a handicap and he had 128 pounds up. But he was badly handled and ran second. This he proved by winning the Dwyer Stakes, when he conceded Prince Eugene 22 pounds, while in the Belmont he had con- ceded Prince Eugene only 19 pounds. He won the Travers, also, and probably would have won the Saranac, but was given too strong a gallop just prior to it. At four he was third for the Metropolitan Handicap, 127 pounds, but won the Toboggan with 126 pounds. He was third for the Brooklyn Handicap with 128 pounds. At five out of ten starts he won only one race. His temper had become rather bad, and for some races he was almost left at the post. In 1913 Mr. James Butler of New York, in order to assist in the revival of Pebbles, racing after the two years' suspension, purchased the entire crop of yearlings 1912 bred by the late Mr. James R. Keene. It included the beautiful filly Comely, also Capra, Marion H., High Noon, Last Coin, Gnat, Catalina, and Pebbles. All were highly successful, but Pebbles attained the highest honors. He was a brown by Ben Brush from Running Stream by Domino; granddam, Dancing Water by Isonomy. As a two-year-old Pebbles won five out of ten starts, including the Eastview, Whirl, Matron, and Annapolis Handicap, 125 pounds. He was second to Regret for the Saratoga Special, and third to Regret for the Hopeful. He was lucky, perhaps, to win the Eastview, as Phosphor was interfered with, but Pebbles was so evidently high class that in I9i5 Mr. Butler sent him to Ken- tucky to start for the Derby. There he met Regret and, as usual, she beat him. The three Eastern horses, Regret, Pebbles, and Sharpshooter, finished first, second, and third. But the hurried training for a race so early in the year left its mark on all three, as they were never as good again. Regret was touched in the wind, Pebbles lost his speed and turned sour, while Sharpshooter became worth- less. Pebbles ran five races that season after returning East, and won only one. He was rather badly behaved at the post as a two-year-old, but he became worse at three and retired, going into the stud at Mr. Butler's Eastview Farm, near Tarrytown, N. Y. Trojan won the Futurity of '14, but never won afterward. It was odds of Trojan, 20 to i against him, as he had started previously for the Hopeful and performed 1912 207 i 'RACING IN fMERICA only moderately. The Futurity was run at Saratoga that year (19i4), and a heavy rain-storm had left the track very heavy and slippery. Thirteen started, and with slipping and sliding in the deep going most of the best horses soon fell behind. The Finn, probably the best of the lot, swerved to the rail. Kas- kaskia was crowded and Trial by Jury did not get through in time. Trojan, a chestnut colt of enormous size and muscle, alone seemed able to gallop in the heavy ground, and, taking the lead, won easily, with Kaskaskia and Harry, Jr., second and third. Trojan could not be trained, owing to lameness, until 1920-SiX years later. He had been in the stud and his colts were racing the same season, but he could not win, although he showed some speed. 208 CELEBRATED RACE-HORSES "Look how the field, which rushed away As full of spirit as the day; So close compacted for a while Is lengthening into a single file. Now, inch by inch, it breaks, and wide And spreading gap, the line dHide; Care sits on every lp and brow- 'Who leads' 'Who fails' 'How goes it now' Look to yon turn I Already there Gleams the 'silk' of the bold bay mare, And, through that which was but a gap, Creeps up that terrible 'white cap.' Thus through the reeling field he flew, And near, and yet more nearer drew, Another bound-one more-ts done I Right up to her the horse has run." -Dowy. This page in the original text is blank. a. z w z THE "CRACKS" OF THE CENTURY 1910-1921I R OAMafRs career on the turf was one of the most remarkable. He raced, Roamer, /9t it is true, at a time (1913-1920) when racing had hardly recovered 1911 If w from the suspension of its activities in I909, 1910, i9ii, and 1912, and the class of horses he met may not have been as high as it had been, but he made a mark that stands out in bold relief. Roamer was an accident of breeding. His dam was a blind mare, and Mr. Clay, his breeder, hesitated to send her to Star Shoot, who was also blind. Knight Errant, a horse which had been em- ployed as a "teaser," was used, and Roamer was the result. As a two-year-old Mr. Woodford Clay brought him East and sold him to Mr. Andrew Miller, in whose "cardinal, white sash, black cap" he ran. He raced for seven seasons, starting ninety-eight times, and was first in thirty-nine races, winning over 98,ooo in stakes and purses. He won the Saratoga Handicap three times, 1915, 1917, 1918, the Saratoga Cup of 'i5, Saratoga Special, '13, Municipal Handicap, 1914, Travers Stakes, 1914, Yonkers Handicap, i196, Aqueduct Handicap, 1917, Carter Handicap, 1914, Merchants' and Citizens' Handicap, 19i5, National Handicap, i915. Roamer was a gelding, and had he lived it was Mr. Miller's intention to give him to Mrs. Wadsworth, but by a strange coincidence he was destroyed because of a broken leg on New Year's Day, i92o, or two days after the death of his owner. On August 21, 1918, at Saratoga, Roamer, seven years old, with 11o pounds, Beats tbe ran an exhibition mile against time, and finished in i.344, the best mile on Mile Record record. Unlike all other children of the inbred Ultimus, Luke McLuke's reputation Luke was not made as a two-year-old, and simply from the fact that he did not race McLuke, at that age. He burst upon the scene at three, winning the Kentucky Handicap, '9' I iX miles, in 2.024, beating Rudolfo and eight others. Mr. Schorr shipped him East at once for the Belmont Stakes, and he made good, winning in great style. He had beaten a moderate field, but his victory for the Carlton Stakes left no doubt as to his class, as he carried i26 pounds, beating Stromboli, 113 pounds. Unfortunately, he went amiss shortly after and retired, ending a brief career of five races, and Mr. J. 0. Keene secured him as a stallion. Luke McLuke was a brown by UItimus from Midge by Trenton; granddam, Sandfly (dam of Out of Reach) by Isonomy, and traced in maternal line to Martha Lynn, the dam of Voltigeur. 21I 9(CING IN efME RICA Stromboli, There was never a great deal of difference in actual weight between Roamer 1911 and Stromboli, and it was this pair that kept the handicap races of i9i4-i9i9 in special favor. He was not as good at two years old as Roamer, but won four out of ten races. At three he ran nineteen races and won eleven, including the Saranac, Baltimore, and Jerome Handicaps. As a four-year-old he started sev- enteen times, winning ten, including the Metropolitan Handicap, i i8 pounds, Suburban, I22 pounds, Kings County Handicap, i24 pounds, the Old Bay Autumn, and Bowie. In 1916, now five years old, Stromboli started twelve times, winning three-the Saratoga Cup, iY4 miles, beating Ed. Crump, Friar Rock, Short Grass, Chicle, The Fmin, Regret, and Trial by Jury; the Belmont Park Autumn Handicap, I22 pounds; and the Municipal Handicap, beating Roamer half a length in receipt of X pound. Stromboli raced as a six-year-old in 1917, six races, but the light of other days had faded. He had run fifty-eight races against the best horses of five seasons and carrying very high weights in hard-fought races. He won only two-the Kings County Handicap, i24 pounds, beating The Finn, i28 pounds, and five others; and the Schuylerville Handicap, i24 pounds, beating Capra, io6 pounds, and eight others. In 1918 he won twice, and gradually lost form. He reappeared in 1921, and won, but could not stay as he used in the old days, when he dis- puted the great events with Roamer. Cock of It might be said that the season of 1913 was not a good one in respect of class tbe Walk, after the resumption of racing, but Cock o' tde Walk was quite the hero of the 19go three-year-old division. He won, in all, seven races, and these included the Sara- toga Handicap, io7 pounds, Champlain Handicap, I14 pounds, Huron Handi- cap, 123 pounds, the Royal Blue and Chesterbrook Handicaps. He was not trained at four, but at five an attempt was made to race him that was hardly a success. He was a chestnut, son of Peep o' Day from Ellangowan, and raced in the colors of Mr. Frederick Johnson. Flying Fairy, While Cock o' the Walk dominated the colts of 1913, certainly Flying Fairy 1910 did the fillies. She was a brown, bred by Colonel E. B. Cassatt at Berwyn, Pa., and raced in his tricolored jacket, and was a daughter of imported Aeronaut from Millie A. Flying Fairy won ten races that season, was three times second and six times third. Among her conquests was the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. At four she won the Ladies' Handicap, with top weight, i26 pounds; the Brook- dale, beating Borrow and Meridian; and the Bowie Stakes. She "trained on" into her five-year-old season. Pennant, Pennant was one of the first of the get of Peter Pan, and, although he had 1911 shown lameness in his work at Saratoga, he was touted as "a rare good thing" for the Futurity. He won the race, as he had all his races, three in number. He was a big, handsome chestnut from the imported mare Royal Rose by Royal 2I2 0 z iy 5w 0 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED RjCE-HORSES Hampton, and at three great things were expected of him. But he started for only one race, winning it, and fearing he would break down he was stopped, and did not again appear until 19I6, when, as a five-year-old, he started four times. He was second to Friar Rock for the Brooklyn Handicap, he carrying 123 pounds to the colt's io8 pounds. He won the Delaware Handicap, 127 pounds, beating Stromboli, i25 pounds. The Finn beat him for the Champlain, when he carried 130 pounds. Then they said "his leg troubled him," and he retired. He came out in 1917 a better horse than ever, and won the Philadelphia Handicap, z28 pounds, the Susquehanna, and the Pimlico, with 132 pounds. Then the old trouble-his weak tendon-returned, and he raced no more. He had previous to 1917 always appeared too gross and heavy, probably because his trainer feared the effect upon his leg if he worked him too hard. As a sire Pennant immediately, in the words of Lord Bacon, "gave hostages to fortune" when his son Bunting won the Futurity of '21. Dominant was another of that galaxy of stars that made "Whitney's two- Dominant, year-old lot" so formidable in i9i5. He was a brown by Delhi from Dominoes 19I3 by Domino; granddam, Editha by Master Kildare. He was a most potent factor in the races for two-year-olds at Saratoga that season, winning the Saratoga Special, U. S. Hotel, and Hopeful Stakes, in the latter carrying 130 pounds. His preparation for the Kentucky Derby of 'i6 was similar in its effect to that of Thunderer, as he never realized the brilliant promise of his earlier racing. He was given a long rest with Thunderer, and was trained as a five-year-old, but while his speed was as great as ever, he would refuse to finish out his races, stopping to a walk in the home-stretch, and was relegated to the stud with Thunderer, Chicle, Pennant, and others of the great stable of i9i5. Aside from being a full brother to the peerless Regret, the great speed and Tbunderer, grand proportions of Tbunderer made him a marked colt from the time he was 1913 broken to saddle. He quite realized expectations, winning the Futurity of 'I5, beating fifteen, including Bromo, Spur, and others. Only three races he ran, but he was hailed the colt of the season. As a three-year-old he ran unplaced in George Smith's Kentucky Derby, but won at Aqueduct in July. During his four-year-old year he was amiss and did not race, but in i9i8, as a five-year-old, he came out for the Kings County Handicap, with i24 pounds, took the lead, looked a certain winner a furlong from the finish, when he broke down and never raced again. Thunderer was a chestnut, bred by Mr. Whitney at Brook- dale, N. J., and was by Broomstick from Jersey Lightning by Hamburg; grand- dam, Daisy F. by Riley; third dam, Modesty, the winner of the American Derby at Chicago, i884. He was a very large colt of great power. His heavy top ren- dered him difficult to prepare and keep him in racing form. Like many of Mr. H. P. Whitney's winners, Chicle was the produce of one 213 RJING I N.4ME RICA of those Hamburg mares which have played so conspicuous a part in breeding champions of the "blue-and-brown" jacket-Lady Hamburg, by Hamburg; Lady Frivoles, by St. Simon. She was one of the mares Mr. Whitney sent to England, where she was bred to Spearmint, and Chicle was the result. As a two-year-old he was true to his Spearmint paternity, rather backward, but at the close of the season he won the Champagne Stakes, 7 furlongs, and thus early marked himself a stayer. At three he electrified the public by winning the Dwyer Stakes, beating Star Hawk, Friar Rock, Spur, and others. He was a big brown, very heavy and powerfully built; indeed, too heavy, for his legs refused to sustain his enormous carcass, and he retired early. Old Rosebud, like Roamer and Stromboli, was one of those remarkable geld- ings whose successful racing and great campaigning qualities have awakened horsemen to the fact that, as a purely racing proposition, a gelding has a great advantage over an entire horse, and that the old English idea of a concession of weight to geldings is an anachronism. He was one of the first of the get of Uncle, and his racing gave that sire a wonderful prestige for a time. He began racing as a two-year-old as early as February (1913), at Juarez, Mexico. As usual, little attention was paid to a "winter crack," but, coming north, he proved equal to the best, winning the richest stakes, such as the Flash and U. S. Hotel at Saratoga. At three he won the Kentucky Derby. In the race for the Withers he fell lame and was stopped. In the winter of 1915, at Juarez, he fell lame for the third time in his career, after a year of persistent effort on the part of Mr. Frank Weir, his trainer, and the advice of the best veterinarians. Blistering, firing, and rest were tried to no purpose. In the summer of i915, at Latonia, Mr. Weir left the old horse with his foreman, to exercise him to a cart, and thus keep the weight off his leg. It had no effect. At this time Mr. Wade McLemore of Albany, Texas, offered to take the old horse to run on his farm. The offer was accepted. A small paddock was selected. It had a smooth-wire fence. As soon as Old Rosebud was turned out he started to run and play, but soon landed against the wire fence, which rebounded and tossed him back. The old fellow arose to his feet, took a good look at the fence, sniffed at the posts, and always avoided it thereafter. A year he spent at rest in this manner, and in 1917, after an absence of two years, he reappeared at the races "and soon there was a tale to tell," for rest, old nature's remedy, had worked a cure, and he ran twenty races, winning fifteen, among them the Clark Handicap, Latonia Inaugural, Queens County Handicap, Carter Handicap, and Delaware Handi- cap, with 132 pounds. He trained on, year after year, meeting and beating the best. Even in 1921, when ten years old, he was a winner, but he had lost some of the dash that had rendered him a terror to trainers. It was a great satisfaction to Mr. R. T. Wilson when his stallion Olambala 214 Cbicle, 1913 Old Rosebud, 1911 Wins the Kentucky DerbTy Nature's Cure a.. w 0 z - z z z a.. This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED 9t4CE-HORSES sired Campfire his first season in the stud. Campfire was not only winner of the Hopeful and Futurity, but he was on public form, the best two-year-old of that season (1916). He began winning an "overnight" at Belmont Park in June, and then was second for the Keene Memorial to Ivory Black, beating Omar Khayyam among others. At Jamaica he was second to Arnold, and at Aque- duct he won the Great American Stakes, x I2 pounds, beating Ivory Black, 127 pounds, Hourless, 127 pounds; nine starting. At Saratoga he started favorite for the U. S. Hotel Stakes, but was left at the post. He won the Saratoga Spe- cial, beating Tom McTaggert, Hourless, and others. He also won the Sanford Memorial. For the Hopeful he had a hard race, but won, beating Omar Khay- yam, to whom he gave 20 pounds. The Futurity was Campfire's last race. He took the lead and never was headed; the field was not a strong one. Campfire wintered well, and Mr. Wilson and Tom Healy no doubt dreamed during the cold months of a great campaign of success for their colt. TVHnioU of goky tired the dhng sight," but Campfire's three-year-old campaign, which began brilliantly enough, was of short duration. He started only four times and won only the first-the Tobog- gan Handicap-6 furlongs straightaway at Belmont ParLk Campfire, three years, II pounds, and favorite, won after a tremendous finish from Stromboli, six years, 133 pounds; nine starters-it was a thrilling race. For the Withers Stakes he was favorite and was prominent for 6 furlongs, then fell back, and finished fourth to Hourless. For the Prospect Handicap, I mile, he met Omar Khayyam and Naturalist. Omar Khayyam had top weight, i26 pounds, Camp- fire i24 pounds. The public thought the handicap was wrong, and made Camp- fire favorite. The handicap was right, for, while Campfire again led for 6 furlongs (as he had in the Withers), he then collapsed, Omar Khayyam winning by a length. It now began to appear that staying was not Campfire's forte. To deter- mine it he was started for the Saratoga Handicap, iX4 miles, with io5 pounds, but he showed neither speed nor stamina, and was retired. Campfire had a great stayer for a sire in Olambala, but his dam, Noonday, was a daughter of Voter, and it may have been that he "bred back" to his grandsire, who was a marvel of speed, but a non-stayer. Yet, as we have already noted in the case of Olambala, the latter, while a grand stayer, came from a sprinting family. Hourless was foaled at the Southcourt Stud in England, where his dam came from France in foal to NegofoL He was brought to America as a year- ling, and made his first appearance as a two-year-old at Belmont Park for the Juvenile, May 27, i916, winning by a length from Ivory Black; nine started. He 215 Campfire, 1914 A Succession of Triumpbs Tbe Turn of tbe Tide Hourless, 1914 R(ACING IN eMERICA was unplaced to Campfire for the Great American Stakes and was third to Ticket for the Tremont Stakes; third to Campfire for the Saratoga Special. He won the Grand Union, beating Rickety, Omar Khayyam, and five others. He finished first for the Nursery, but was disqualified for foul riding. He won the Eastern Shore Handicap, 127 pounds, from a field of twelve, and the Annapolis Stakes at Laurel, beating eight. Wins tbe In 1917 Hourless was out seven times, winning five-the Withers, beating Witbers and Rickety, Skeptic, Campfire, and Ballad; the Belmont, beating Skeptic and Won- Belmont derful; Southampton Handicap, 130 pounds, beating Corn Tassel, 120 pounds, and three others; Amityville Handicap, 130 pounds, beating Walnut Hall, 113 pounds, and Queen of Water, i02 pounds; and the McLean Memorial, i Defeated by miles, beating Omar Khayyam a length, at even weights. He was unplaced for Omar the Brooklyn Derby to Omar Khayyam, to whom he conceded 3 pounds, and Kbayyam was beaten a nose by Omar Khayyam at even weights for the Realization. His defeat for the Brooklyn Derby was attributed to the very heavy ground. Hour- less was not good in heavy going. His stride was too long, and caused him to slip. His defeat for the Realization was only by the smallest margin. Butwell, his jockey, rode a bad race, pulling out in the stretch, allowing Omar to take the inside position, and losing his whip when he needed it. The race for the McLean Memorial at Laurel in October attracted a great assemblage from all Hourless over the country. Just before going to scale Frank Robinson was substituted Defeats for Butwell. Haynes, on Omar Khayyam, made the pace, Hourless lying within Omar a length of him until the last quarter, when Robinson gave Hourless his head, Kbayyam and he shot to the front, winning by a length. Description In the spring of 1918 Houriess was top weight for the great handicaps, but before racing began he went amiss, and made a short season in the stud at the Nursery. His first colts appeared in 1921; among them Missionary was a win- ner, as was Lucky Hour, and their class so high as to promise a successful career for their sire. Hourless was a black by the French sire Negofol (winner of the French Derby) from Hour Glass by Rocksand. He was a colt of impressive beauty and commanding size. He had a fine head, a sharp muzzle, a rather short but muscular neck, deep barrel, great power in the hips and quarters. The great length of his stride would not permit him to excel in deep, muddy going, as, like all long-striding horses, he slipped, and that generally causes a horse to shorten his stride from a fear of falling, and in doing this loses his natural advantage. Borrow, The success of the repatriated Whisk Broom II in 1913 encouraged Mr. i908 Whitney to send to England for the return of Borrow, who had been abroad since ig9o, when he won the Middle Park Plate, the most famous of the English races for two-year-olds. Accordingly, toward the close of 1913 Borrow landed in 2i6 0.1 0, This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA4TED RACE-HORSES New York, and in 1914 began racing in his native land. He was six years old, but he was a gelding, and it was thought that with his fine speed he would be useful. He made his bow for the Metropolitan with 125 pounds, but, being backward, was unplaced. He soon showed there was plenty left in him, as he Wins tbe ran second to Roamer for the Carter Handicap, and then won the Yonkers and Saratoga Saratoga Handicaps, the latter with 123 pounds. In i9i5 he started eight times Handicap and won four, including the Kentucky Handicap at Louisville, i26 pounds, the Ferry at Windsor, the Dominion at Fort Erie, and Municipal at Belmont Park. In i916 he was a frequent winner, but his greatest triumph was in 1917, at the Wins the advanced age of nine, when he won the Brooklyn Handicap, beating his stable Brooklyn companion, the famous filly Regret. It was one of the strongest fields in the Handicap history of that event, Borrow, with I17 pounds, beating Regret, I22 pounds, Old Rosebud, 120 pounds, with Chile, ii8 pounds, Roamer, 128 pounds, Boots, 127 pounds, Clernatis, Stromboli, Omar Khayyam, and Old Koenig. Robinson rushed Regret into the lead, but at the finish Knapp, on Borrow, stole up on the inside and won by a head. The old horse continued to race until eleven years old. He was a son of Hamburg from the speedy mare Forget. Regret took rank among the really great race-mares of America. Like Ruth- Regret, less, Miss Woodford, Beklame, etc., she went out of her class, raced with the 1912 colts, and defeated them. She was bred by Mr. H. P. Whitney at the Brookdale Stud, near Red Bank, N. J., in I913; in color a bright chestnut, marked with an irregular blaze in her face, running down to her nostrils, and was a daughter of Broomstick-Jersey Lightning by Hamburg, and tracing to the Maria West female line. She was highly tried as a yearling, and reserved for the Saratoga meeting of i9i4, when, as a two-year-old, she won the Special with 1 i9 pounds, beating Pebbles, 122 pounds, after a hard race-eight starters. She won the Sanford Memorial, i27 pounds: Solly second, eight starters. Finally, she won Wins the the Hopeful Stakes, 127 pounds, by a head; Andrew M., ii0 pounds, second; Hopeful Pebbles, 130 pounds, third; eleven started. She ran no more that year. In 1915 Stakes she was sent to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. It was early in May, a bad time for a filly to beat colts. No filly had ever won the race, but her superiority Wins the the year before was so apparent that she started favorite. Pebbles, the "crack" Kentucky colt of the East, was also sent "over the mountains," and so was Sharpshooter. Derby The race was confined entirely to the three Eastern horses, Regret winning by 2 lengths, Pebbles second, Sharpshooter third. At Saratoga, in August, Regret Wins the won the Saranac Handicap, i mile, 123 pounds, beating Trial by Jury, 114 Saranac pounds, The Finn, i26 pounds, and six others. Thus she started but twice at Handicap three years old. While on her trip West she had contracted a cold and her wind became affected. She did not turn "roarer," but there was a slight respiratory trouble. 217 'RJICING IN e.,fMERICA Beaten on In i916 Regret, as a four-year-old, did not start until August. It was for the the Post Saratoga Handicap with 123 pounds. She was favorite, and led under a pull for half the distance and then fell back beaten, Stromboli winning. At the same meeting she won a mile race and retired for the season. In 1917 the mare was again trained, and started in four races, winning all except the race for the Brooklyn Handicap, when she ran second, with 122 pounds, to her stable com- panion, Borrow, 1 17 pounds, who beat her by a head in the last stride, Knapp, on Borrow, "riding him out," notwithstanding Mr. Whitney's desire to win with Regret, and, as he said afterward, "I could have cried, I was so disap- pointed." Jobren, Among the mares Mr. H. P. Whitney sent to England to be bred was Mineola 1915 by Meddler, who in 1915 foaled a bay colt by Spearmint, the Derby and Grand Prix de Paris winner of 19o6. The colt was brought across the Atlantic as a yearling, and he was such a clumsy, loose-jointed, undeveloped creature that the stable never had any idea of his racing. A German saloon-keeper on Long Island named Johren was noted for the oddities of his physical make-up, and the colt was named Jobren, more as a joke than anything else. No attempt was made to race him at two years old. "He could neither gallop, canter, nor walk," according to Rowe, his trainer. At three years old he began in April and ran nine races before he won one-a sweepstakes at Jamaica, May 21. It encouraged Rowe to start him for the Withers Stakes, but he got off badly and was unplaced. Wins the A week later, at Belmont Park, he won a sweepstakes in such style Rowe started Suburban him for the Suburban, odds of io to i against him. But he took the lead with 110 pounds, and galloped his field to a standstill, beating Hollister, Battle, Wins the Cudgel, Hendrie, and Spur. The "ugly duckling" had now become a swan. He Belmont won the Belmont Stakes, beating the favorite War Cloud and others, and was shipped to Latonia, where he won the Derby, beating Exterminator and others, but War Cloud beat him for the Dwyer Stakes. His race for the Travers was a head finish for which Sunbriar beat him, but he conceded Sunbriar 6 pounds. Mr. Whitney offered to match him against Sunbriar, but it was declined. He won the Huron Handicap and the Saratoga Cup, beating Roamer. Johren's last race was the Realization, which he won, pulled double, from Whippoorwill. He was lame at the time, and all efforts to train him again failed. Johren was a great colt, despite his plain appearance. He resembled Spearmint and could run in any kind of going, and as a stayer he was probably the best horse of his era. Omar In the summer of i915 Mr. Frederick Johnson of New York sent his trainer, Khqayam, the late Chas. T. Patterson, to England to purchase yearlings at the Doncaster 1914 sales. Mr. Patterson selected some six or seven, among which was a chestnut colt by Marco from Lisma by Persimmon, since known as Omar Khayyam. The colt started five times at two years old, in 1916, winning only one race-a race 2i8 0. oz N 0 1-: LU LU This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA4TED 9(ACE-HORSES for maidens at Saratoga-but he showed his quality running second to Camp- fire for the Hopeful, but Campfire had 130 pounds up to his iio pounds. He also ran unplaced to Hourless for the Grand Union. A great many thought he should have won the Hopeful, with 20 pounds best of the weights, but he was the last to leave the post in a field of twelve, and just failed to beat Campfire on the post. Omar Khayyam wintered in the South, with a view to being ready for the Kentucky Derby in May. He started thirteen times at three years old, winning nine Kentucky Derby, Brooklyn Derby, Kenner, Travers, Saratoga Cup, Realization, Havre de Grace Handicap, Pimlico Handicap. His race with Hour- less for the Realization was one of the most remarkable in that only the judges could separate them at the finish. For the McLean Memorial he was beaten by Hourless, but only after a very hard race. Bar HourIess, and Omar was "the colt of the year." As a race-horse he was one of the best that has ever been im- ported, rather dainty and highly organized, but of class undeniable and in quality an Adonis among race-horses. After winning the Kentucky Derby the colt was brought East, and, to settle a partnership, was sold at Belmont Park to Mr. Wilfred Viau of Montreal, who placed him in the hands of Mr. R F. Carman to train. He was a beautiful golden chestnut with a stripe in his face, "not a large colt, but large enough," as his trainer was wont to say. He was extremely blood-like, with a sweet head, some- what feminine in type, a light neck, good shoulders and middle piece. Light or heavy ground were alike to him, and in his races in Mr. Carman's care he always wore half-plates. He never seemed to recover from the race with Hour- less at Laurel, and was finally retired. Charley Patterson, who selected him in England, fairly doted on him. "When I tried him," said Patterson, "he fright- ened me-he ran so fast. I tried him a second time to see if it was right. It was; and I think he is the fastest horse I ever handled-and you know I had Orna- ment." If speed is a heritage, Naturalist came naturally by his. His dam, Nature, was a daughter of the unbeaten Meddler, from Correction, who was not only the fleetest mare of her time, but a sister of the flying Domino. Mr. Widener bred Naturalist in France, where Nature was mated with the St. Simon horse Rabelais, winner of the Goodwood Cup, and Naturalist, foaled in 1914, was the result. Naturalist in 1917 started twelve times and won three races. In I918, as a four-year-old, out of seventeen starts he won nine. He first made his racing ability known winning the Toboggan, beating Motor Cop, Old Koenig, Lucullite, Papp, Roamer, etc., among others, the Manhattan, October, Kingsbridge, Pelham Handicaps. In 19i9, out of fifteen he won eight, including the California (14o pounds), Excelsior, Long Beach, Carter, Handspring, Mechanicsville, BoI- 219 Wins Kentucky Derby His Races witb Hourless "A Picture Horse" Naturalist, 1914 RJ.dCING IN eArMERICA. ton, Autumn (140 pounds). In 1920 he started eighteen times, winning six, in- cluding the Empire City Handicap, Lake George Handicap, etc.; his best distance was about 7 furlongs, but his winning the Empire City at 9 furlongs showed he can go farther when at himself. He carried the highest weights of any horse of his time, but his temper, more than weight, accounted for his defeats. He was so bad as a colt they gelded him. Even then he would stop in a race and refuse to run a yard. In his exercise he would often refuse to move, and Tom Welch, his trainer, was compelled to have stable boys stationed at various points to shout at him. In a large field he ran best, as he liked company, but with only one or two horses he was always liable to sulk. Wbisk Broom II was bred by Mr. H. P. Whitney, who sent the colt to Eng- land as a yearling, to be trained by A. J. Joyner. He ran five races in i909, win- ning the Prince of Wales Plate at York, and ran Lemberg to a neck for the Mid- dle Park Plate and was beaten by him for the Dewhurst Plate. At three he ran third for the Two Thousand, won the Trial at Ascot, second for the Craven, and won the Select at Newmarket, beating Dean Swift. As a four-year-old he won twice, and at five he won the Victoria Cup. He had proved one of the fleet- est horses in England up to a mile, and had been very heavily handicapped, but he could not seem to prevail at longer distances. In the spring of 1913 racing was resumed in New York, after an interval of two seasons, and Mr. Whitney, thinking horses would be scarce, and wishing to help matters, cabled Joyner to send Whisk Broom home. Joyner was disap- pointed. "I had him in fine condition," said Joyner, "and had expected to win the Jubilee Handicap with him at Kempton when Mr. Whitney sent word for me to send him on at once." Reluctantly Joyner shipped the horse. It was early in May when Whisk Broom landed in New York and was hurried over to Brookdale to join Rowe's horses in training, but on May 30, or less than three weeks from the day he landed, he won the Metropolitan at Belmont Park, with top weight, i26 pounds. He was very fractious at the post, but won easily. For the Brooklyn Handicap he had i30 pounds, and won, conceding 24 pounds to the second horse. It was now evident that he was superior by many pounds to any horse in training. He had won two of the most important races of the year when scarce three weeks off shipboard. For the Suburban he was weighted 139 pounds-the highest weight ever carried in this country in any of the great handicaps; but while this time he had to be ridden out, he won, conceding 27 pounds to Lahore and 20 pounds to Meridian, and received such an ovation as no winner has ever received in the history of the race. At Saratoga he struck himself, and was retired. Whisk Broom was a chestnut by Broomstick from Audience by Sir Dixon. Spur inherited the great constitution of his sire, King James, otherwise he 220 Wbisk Broom II, 1907 Wins the Metropolitan Wins the Brooklyn Handicap Wins the Suburban witb 139 Pou n (Is '- :m 0j This page in the original text is blank. _____ CELEBRATED R"CE-HORSES would not have come out unscathed from the hard campaign he had as a three- Spur, year-old. Like most horses of that type, he matured slowly, and it was not until 1913 late in the year that he showed any form as a two-year-old. At three he started twenty-one times, winning eight, but he was eight times second, four times third, and only once unplaced. He won the Withers Stakes, beating Churchill and Friar Rock. He won the Southampton Handicap with 125 pounds; Knick- erbocker Handicap, 123 pounds; Midsummer Handicap, 128 pounds; the Trav- ers Stakes, beating Star Hawk, to whom he conceded 13 pounds; Huron Hand- icap, 130 pounds, conceding 21 pounds to Franklin; Jerome Handicap, 130 pounds. He carried heavy weights in all his races. As a four-year-old Spur raced twelve times, winning three, and at five he started ten times and won twice. He won the Yonkers Handicap twice (in 1917 and 1918). Spur retired in 1919 to the Eastview Farm near Tarrytown, N. Y., where Mr. Butler used him as a sire. He was a bay by King James from Auntie Mun, and was bred by Mr. Oxnard in Virginia. When Billy Kelly stood under the shade of a tree in the Saratoga paddock, Billy Kelly, being saddled for the Flash Stakes, the remark was made that "he doesn't 1916 measure more around than a polo pony," while some one declared he "looked more like a lean mule than a thoroughbred horse." There was a great deal of truth in these observations, but in the race he won so decisively as to set all doubts of his ability at rest, and Commander Ross soon added him to his "black- and-orange" brigade. Seventeen times Billy Kelly faced the post as a two-year- old, and fourteen times he led at the finish. His Sanford Memorial, with 130 pounds, and his Grab Bag Handicap, with 135 pounds, revived memories of Hamburg and Endurance by Right. But the wiseacres declared while "he would do" as a two-year-old, "there wasn't enough of him to go on at three." But he won eight out of nineteen starts, and was five times second, carrying weights which would have crushed larger horses. His Toboggan Handicap, with ii6 pounds, won by a head from Lucullite, caused cheers that might have been heard at Sandy Hook. As a four-year-old, in i12o, he started twelve times and won six, and was never unplaced, despite the fact that he carried tremendous weights. Billy Kelly is a contradiction of all accepted ideas of a weight-carrier. He is one of the lightest horses in tranmg, he has no apparent power, but car- ries weight better than any horse, bar Naturalist, that has appeared of late. He is a son of Dick Wells and comes from an old American racing family. While sprinting was his forte, he could stay a reasonable distance. Dunboyne, the Futurity winner of 1918, early foreshadowed his career by Dunbove, running second to The Wanderer at Jamaica, in May, and when he beat a field i916 of highly tried maidens at Belmont Park, the touts never after allowed his move- ments to escape them. But when in June he won the Great American Stakes, 221 R!ACING IN efMERICA beating Eternal and a crack field, he was hailed as "the next Futurity winner." But going to Saratoga, he "caught a Tartar" in Billy Kelly, who beat him for the U. S. Hotel Stakes. For the Grand Union, too, he could only finish fourth, but he had 130 pounds up. For the Futurity, Purchase was the favorite, but swerved; Dunboyne was off like a shot when the barrier rose, and, never headed, won with i27 pounds, with Sir Barton and Purchase in the places. Dunboyne was not a success as a three-year-old. In his first race in May he threw his jockey; for the Preakness he was as good as left at the post and was unplaced. Then he developed a bad quarter crack, and Hogan, his trainer, stopped him. In the autumn they got him to a race, but he was not in condi- tion and was beaten off. As a four-year-old he showed a flash of the old fire by winning the Paumonock Handicap in great style, and again at Saratoga he showed form, but it was fitfuL His staying a distance is doubtful, but of his great speed there is no doubt. In 1921 Hildreth took him and won some fine races, showing the horse had not lost his form entirely. Sir Barton, It is seldom that the leading three-year-old starts the season as a maiden. 1916 This, however, was the case of Sir Barton, who ran six times at two years old, unplaced in five, and finished by running second for the Futurity. Some may claim he is not entitled to be called champion, but if the number of stakes won is the qualification, he has a good claim to the championship of i9x9. He ran thirteen races and won eight-the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Withers, Bel- mont, Potomac Handicap, Maryland Handicap, Pimlico Special, and Pimlico Serial. Purchase defeated him for the Dwyer Stakes, with considerable differ- ence in weight, but Sir Barton was sore at the time, as indeed he was for the Withers and Belmont. On the other hand, Purchase beat him so badly as to make the latter appear the best. As a four-year-old Sir Barton started twelve times and won five, including the Rennert, Dominion, Saratoga, and Mer- chants' Handicaps. In the race at Windsor, Ont., at weight for age, Man o' War defeated him easily. Sir Barton is a chestnut bred by Mr. J. E. Madden, and is by Star Shoot from Lady Sterling (Sir Martin's dam) by Hanover; granddam, Aquilla by Sterling. He is marked with a blaze, and is not a large horse, but of the blocky type and very robust. His trainer said, "You have to half kill him with work to keep him fit," and as he has had sore feet, it must have been a difficult matter to prepare him. Tbe Finn, It was in the spring of 1914 that Mr. Madden asked the question: 1Q12 "Which of the two-year-olds seen this season is the best" Some named Hauberk, others The Masquerader, but Madden answered his own question. "That black colt that I sold Mr. Hallenbeck-The Finn-he's the best- that's my opinion." 222 t- i: en a This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED JGCE-HORSES At the time The Finn had started in four races, winning the last, but several of those present remarked: "Madden's prejudiced-he bred the colt." "Wait and see," was Madden's rejoinder, and by the time Futurity day had arrived and The Finn was second choice in the betting, there was a better opinion of the black. He was the colt of his year at three, yielding only to Regret in class. He won the Withers, Belmont, Southampton, Huron, Manhattan, Elli- cott City, etc. At four he won the Manhattan, Metropolitan (120 pounds), Chesterbrook, Merchants' (122 pounds), Champlain, and in all nineteen races at two and three years old. As a five-year-old, in 1917, The Finn won only one race, the Long Beach Handicap at Jamaica, in May. He was third for the Suburban, with the top weight, i29 pounds, and unplaced, with 128 pounds, to Roamer for the Excel- sior. He had become very sour and would not try. He was always a hard horse to ride, requiring very hard riding to make him do his best, and few jockeys could do him justice. He was a black by Ogden from Livonia by Star Shoot, not a large horse but very compact. The first of his get appeared in 1921. Six of them won eleven races and 29,ooo, among them being Kai Sang, the second- best colt of the year. Friar Rock was not only the best three-year-old of his year, but he was tried by a test that would indicate that he was above the average three-year-olds. The test was that Mr. Belmont did not reserve him for the colt stakes, but boldly entered the all-aged class-and defeated them. It is the test that con- firmed the title of Hindoo, Luke Blackburn, Henry of Navarre, Sysonby, Pur- chase, and Johren to rank as truly great race-horses. In England a great three- year-old, Derby winner or otherwise, is ranked higher if he passes the test of the Ascot, or other cups, or the great handicaps, as St. Simon did, as Polymelus did, as Fandango, Blue Gown. Bayardo, Buchan, Swynford, Foxhall, and Ison- omy did. Friar Rock won the Belmont, the Brooklyn, and Suburban Handicaps, and the Saratoga Cup, and is the only colt that ever did so. His form at two years old was good. He won five races, including the Adiron- dack Handicap, i i6 pounds, and the Whirl Stakes at Empire City, but his form at three was very high. When he won the Brooklyn Handicap he had io8 pounds, beating the five-year-old Pennant, 123 pounds. For the Suburban he was in light (99 pounds), but he won with plenty to spare. For the Saratoga Cup he beat Roamer and The Finn very easily. Then Mr. Madden bought him and later sold an interest in him to Mr. Rossiter. He went into the stud in 1917, and his colts in i92o showed great capacity for racing, Inchcape especially so. Friar Rock was bred by Mr. Belmont, and was a son of Rocksand and Fairy Gold by Bend Or. He was a chestnut with a large star and black spots over his quarters, which his chestnut progeny inherit. These black spots are traced to 223 A Great Winner Friar Rock, 1913 Wins Brooklyn and Suburban " Tbe Black Spots of Pantaloon" R"CING IN ,L4MERRICA Pantaloon, the most beautiful stallion in England, Friar Rock's dam being by Bend Or, whose dam was Rouge Rose by Thormanby, son of Windhound, he by Pantaloon, who was foaled in I824 and led the Winning Sires in 184i, when his daughter, Ghuznee, won the Oaks, and Satirist won the St. Leger. Fairy Gold While not a large horse, Friar Rock is a finely made one. He has a fine head, broad between the eyes, and while his neck is rather short, he has low withers, good shoulders, full flanks, tail set on rather low, and great propelling power in his quarters, but his hocks are rather away from him. His dam, Fairy Gold, has belied her name. Mr. Belmont paid 17,500 for her, but she is "gold" of anything but mythical value, as she foaled Fair Play, Flittergold, Friar Rock, and Golden View, the dam of Rockview. As old Lady Blessington was the cor- ner-stone of the Nursery Stud in the days of the elder Mr. Belmont, so Fairy Gold was of that of Mr. Belmont the younger. George In 1914 Edward McBride of Baltimore purchased a few yearlings, one of Smitb, which was George Smitb. At the Maryland spring meetings of i9x5 this colt 1913 showed such speed as to attract general attention. There he won three con- secutive races and followed it in Canada, winning at Toronto, Montreal, and Hamilton, until he had seven straight victories to his credit Then he lost form, and was beaten at Saratoga, but at Laurel, after he won the Annapolis Stakes, Wins Mr. John Sanford purchased him. Mr. Sanford does not race his horses often Kentucky and George Smith started only four times at three, the only race he won was Derby the Kentucky Derby, beating Star Hawk and seven others. Bayberry Candle beat him at Lexington. He was second to Dodge for the Latonia Derby and unplaced for the Carter Handicap. In his four-year-old form he won three races. He was unplaced for the Saratoga Handicap. His five-year-old career had four successful races-the Excelsior Handicap, I17 pounds, beating Roamer, 120, Cudgel, 128, and seven others; the Edgemere Handicap, 123 pounds, beating War Cloud, Roamer, and Spur; the Yorktown Handicap at Yonkeers, 127 pounds, beating Star Master, Corn Tassel, War Cloud, Naturalist, etc.; and the Bowie Handicap at Baltimore, 130 pounds, beating Omar Khayyam, i 15 pounds, Ex- terminator, 120 pounds, and ten others. George Smith was a black horse by Out of Reach-Consuelo, and in appearance was very racing-like, full of quality. His chief peculiarity was that he did his best racing in cool weather, spring and autumn, the summer heat seeming to turn him too "fine." Star HIawk, It was in the autumn of 1914 that Mr. A. Kingsley Macomber of California 1913 sent Walter Jennings, his trainer, to England to buy race-horses. The Great War threatened to suspend racing in England, and Mr. Joel sold Jennings his colts and fillies, among which was Star Hawk, a colt which had won two good races in England and ran well up in others. The lot were wintered in the South, and Star Hawk was specially prepared for the Kentucky Derby. But Star Hawk 224 '0 0' z cn This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RjCE-HORSES was under an unlucky spell. He got away at the start so badly he lost all chance, although he made a great finish and was second to George Smith. For the Dwyer Stakes he again got away poorly and again made a great finish, but Chicle, the winner, held him safe. At Saratoga he again had to be content with second place to Spur for the Travers, a head separating them, but Spur conceded Star Hawk 13 pounds. He won at last at Belmont Park, a small handicap. But at Wins tbe last he came to his own, and had his revenge on Spur by winning the Realiza- Realization tion in grand style. At Louisville he won the Cup, 2 miles, but for the Latonia Cup, Pif, Jr., with much the best of weights, won. Star Hawk did not race again. He was a very blood-like son of Sun Star from Sweet Finch, but seemed rather delicate. His head was finely chiselled, with the side-bones of the face very prominent; he had a long neck, good length of barrel, but was rather light in the back ribs. In his first season in the stud (1918) he sired Startle, the best two-year-old of the autumn racing in the West. There was an element of romance in the career of Cudgel. Mr. H. P. Whitney Cudgel, bred him at the Brookdale Stud in New Jersey, but as a yearling he suffered 1914 from a partial paralysis in his hind legs. Mr. Boots of California came to Brookdale "to buy a colt by Broomstick," and was offered Cudgel, but de- clined. An elder brother of the colt had shown similar paralytic symptoms, and Rowe, the trainer, remembering this, had no faith in the colt's future, and told his assistant, Albert Simons, to "sell him if he had an offer." He started for his first race at Empire City as a two-year-old, and ran unplaced to Gloomy Gus, and Simons sold him to Mr. J. F. Schorr for 1,5oo. A few weeks later he ran second at Saratoga, and then won his first race soon after. He ran nine more races for Mr. Schorr, winning four. As a three-year-old Cudgel became one of the finest race-horses in the coun- Wins tbe try. Eighteen times he started, winning nine, including the Independence Handi- Brooklyn cap at Latonia, Douglas Park Inaugural, Carthage Handicap, and was sold to Mr. J. K. L Ross at a price said to be 30,000. In 1918, in Mr. Ross's colors, Cudgel ran seventeen times and won nine, including the Merchants' Handicap, 130 pounds, beating Johren, three years, ioo pounds, and ten others; Kings County Handicap, 130 pounds; Brooklyn Handicap, 129 pounds, beating Roamer, 120 pounds, Geo. Smith, 122 pounds, and five others; Schenectady Handicap, 130 pounds; and Dixie Handicap. In 1919 he started nine times, win- Wins ibe ning five, including the Cecil, 132 pounds; Hudson, 130 pounds; Merchants' and Mercbants' Citizens', 132 pounds, beating Star Master, 122 pounds, Exterminator, 126 pounds, Sunbriar, 132 pounds; and Havre de Grace Handicap, 129 pounds, beating Exterminator, 126 pounds, Sir Barton, three years, 124 pounds, The Porter, i24 pounds, etc. Cudgel was by far the best stayer Broomstick ever sired, yet he won nearly 225 7(ACING IN cZfMERIC Exterminator, 1915 Sunbriar, 1915 all his races by a burst of speed, lying away and outrunning his fields through the last quarter of a mile. He grew to be a big, handsome horse, resembling his dam rather than his sire. He had a very large, intelligent-looking head, very muscular neck, and, while his back was rather too long, no horse carried weight better than he. There was immense propelling power in his quarters, and this perhaps accounted for his speed at the finish of a race, which, the day he won the Merchants' at Saratoga, was almost electrical. He was a dark bay by Broom- stick from the fine race-mare Eugenia Burch by Ben Strome (son of Bend Or); granddam, imported The Humber by Breadknife, a son of Craig Millar, the St. Leger winner. Exterminator deserves a niche in the temple of racing fame with Roamer, Old Rosebud, Stromboli, and the great racing geldings. He ran only four times as a two-year-old, winning two races. At three he emerged a hero by winning the Kentucky Derby, 19i8, and ran fifteen races, winning eight. He soon became famous for his ability to race in heavy going, and as a four-year-old he ran twenty-one races, winning nine, including the Saratoga Cup, for which he beat Purchase in heavy going. It was a proud day for Mr. Kilmer, his owner, who bad only purchased him at three in order to have a starter for the Kentucky Derby after his own colt, Sunbriar, had failed him. Mr. Kilmer had a third triumph when Exterminator won the Autumn Gold Cup at Belmont Park. Exterminator has thrice won the Saratoga Cup. While not having the burst of speed some horses had, he could maintain a rate that enabled him to prevail over faster horses, especially over a distance, while despite his appearance he was a great weight-carrier. He was a son of McGee, an imported horse by The White Knight from Remorse by Hermit. Exterminator's dam was Fair Empress by Jim Gore, a son of Hindoo. In five seasons' racing, 1917-1921, he started in seventy-three races, winning thirty-six, was fifteen times second, thir- teen times third, his winnings reaching 173,ooo. In the summer of 1916 Mr. Elbert Reiff brought to Saratoga for sale a lot of French-bred yearlings, among which was a bay colt called Sunday. He was so far superior to the others that competition for him became keen, and he fell to Mr. W. S. Kilmer's bid of 5,ooo. Mr. Kilmer renamed him Sunbriar, his sire being Sunbridge, while his dam was Sweetbriar by St. Frusquin. Sunbriar had developed a ringbone, but it did not affect his speed, as, in I917 as a two-year- old, he started nine times, winning five-the Great American, the Albany Han- dicap, i i8 pounds, the Saratoga Special, the Grand Union, and Hopeful Stakes, 130 pounds, beating seventeen. He was the colt of the year. As a three-year-old Sunbriar was backward. It was not until the August meeting at Saratoga that he recovered his form, when he ran second to Polymelian at 6 furlongs, and supplemented it by winning the Delaware Handicap, i mile, in 1.364, with 113 226 z LL. This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED I(CE-HORSES pounds. He then met Johren, the Suburban winner, for the Travers Stakes, iS3 Wins be miles; War Cloud and Exterminator also started. It was a desperate race, Sun- Travers briar winning by a head, but Johren was conceding him 6 pounds. In his four-year-old form in 1919 Sunbriar was again backward. He had heavy weights to carry, and was not too well ridden in his early races. He began to show the old fire, running second to Fairy Wand, conceding her 21 pounds for the Delaware Handicap, but he was a great horse for the Champlain Han- dicap, winning with 128 pounds, his stable mate, Exterminator, second. He was unplaced to Cudgel at even weights, 132 pounds, for the Merchants' Handicap, and lost two other races. Lucullite, racing in Mr. Belmont's colors in the spring of 1917, seemed quite Lucullite, the king-pin of the two-year-olds, and yet he won only three races out of eight 1915 that year-the Colorado at Jamaica, the Juvenile at Belmont Park, and the Youthful at Jamaica. He was second for the Keene Memorial, with 127 pounds, and third for the Tremont Stakes. Mr. Belmont had great hopes of him, but for the Hopeful he was kicked by Debadou and the bone of his leg splintered. At one time it was feared he could not be trained again, but he did, and won a race the following year. As a four-year-old, however, he made amends, and became one of the best horses in training. Out of sixteen races he won nine-the Claren- don, Lexington, Bramble, Mt. Vernon, 127 pounds (beating Old Rosebud, 126 pounds, and Sunbriar, 128 pounds), Manhattan, Aqueduct, Edgemere Handi- caps. His best race, however, was second to Billy Kelly for the Toboggan, in which he gave Billy Kelly i i pounds for the year, and ran him to a head after being crowded several times. As a five-year-old Lucullite did not train. He was a nice level-made brown by Trap Rock (brother to Tracery) from Lucky Lass. Trompe Le Mort was one of the tallest and in every respect the largest horse Trompe seen for some time. Mr. J. E. Widener purchased him in France, and he was of Le Mort, French breeding on his dam's side, she being the fine race-mare Marsa by Adam 1915 from Favonia by Masque, and tracing to Madame Eglantine, the dam of The Palmer and Rosicrucian. His sire was English-Verwood, a son of Grey Plume (son of Grey Leg, he by Pepper and Salt by The Rake) and Kildonan by Ladas. He was too big to do much as a two-year-old, but at three he won the Metro- politan Handicap, beating Old Koenig, Omar Khayyam, Roamer, etc., and the Oakhill Handicap at Aqueduct, and was third for the Withers, beating Johren, Sunbriar, Lucullite, War Cloud, and others. He improved with age, as large horses do, and at four won the Searington, Hamburg, and Brookdale Handicap, 121 pounds, conceding 5 pounds to Lanius. In 1920 he entered the Erdenheim Stud, and thus succeeded to the throne of Leamington. Lanius was a chestnut, bred in England, and raced in the colors of Mr. George Lanius, Widener. He was by Llangibby from Southern Belle, and at two started nine 1915 227 RACING IN edMERICA times, winning three, including the Champagne Stakes, 7 furlongs. At three he started four times and won once, beating Flags and Johren. It was as a four- year-old that he showed his best, as he won the Metropolitan Handicap, 115 pounds, beating Flags, i 19 pounds, Star Master, Foreground, Naturalist, Papp, and Routledge. He also won the Empire City Handicap, 1 15 pounds, beating Be Frank, log pounds, Spur, i ii pounds, and others. He was third to Trompe Le Mort for the Brookdale, and second to Naturalist for the Long Beach Handi- cap. An excellent horse when at his best, but, like most of his sire's get, rather a delicate one. Tbe Porter, It was The Porter that may be said to have introduced Sweep to consideration 1915 as a sire, he being by Sweep from Ballet Girl, a bay colt foaled in 19i5 and, rac- ing in the colors of Mr. Samuel Ross of Washington, won three out of five of his races as a two-year-old, not having started until late in the season. As a three- year-old he was purchased by Mr. E. B. McLean of Washington, and ran thir- teen times, winning six. He began in a humble way with selling races, but when he won the Baltimore Handicap, X i6 pounds, beating Cudgel and Omar Khay- yam, it appeared as if a new champion had arrived. In 19i9 he ran twelve times, winning six. He beat Exterminator for the Harford Handicap and Cudgel at Laurel, and closed the season by beating Billy Kelly, Sunbriar, Lucullite, On Watch, and Fairy Wand. One of the peculiar incidents of his career was that in his work, and before a race, he was always accompanied by a very hand- some mule, which led him and which he followed everywhere. The friendship between the pair was quite remarkable, and the mule became quite as clever a galloper as any thoroughbred. Eternal, If Eternal had been a sound horse, it is difficult to say which horse among 1916 his contemporaries could have outrun him. His Hopeful Stakes at two and Brooklyn Handicap at three years old were dazzling exhibitions of speed. Early m his two-year-old season at Saratoga he was lame before a race and Mr. McClelland asked leave to scratch him. "Bring the horse here-let us see him," ordered the stewards. When the colt was brought out there was no sign of lameness. "No," said McClelland, "but he was lame a half-hour ago." Eternal ran-and won. For the Hopeful he won in deep mud. His race for the Brooklyn Handicap showed what a speed marvel he was. He beat Purchase, but the latter was conceding him 12 pounds. He could not be trained as a four- year-old. Kimbal Patterson managed to bring him out at five, and after win- ning a race he broke down completely. Eternal was a finely bred horse, being by Sweep from a mare by Sempronius, his great granddam being the celebrated Reclare by Reform. Purcbase was one of the most exquisitely beautiful of race-horses-the real 228 ECs Ch a: R- z X9 e3 a- This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED AGCE-HORSES Adonis of the race-course, for certainly no horse that has appeared in recent years could compare with his massive beauty. He had "the nobleman look," described by Mr. Pope, the poet, as "the look a nobleman should have, but which many of them have not." Purchase belonged to Mr. George Smith, who named the colt after the old town of Purchase in Westchester County, N. Y., where he had a residence. His merit was known early, but he ran five races as a two-year-old before he won at Saratoga, and then he beat his field so easily that he started an even favorite with Dunboyne for the Futurity. He certainly should have won it but for swerving after the start and losing so much ground he could never recover it, and finished third. At Mr. Smith's retirement Pur- chase became the property of S. C. Hildreth, and, as a three-year-old, in 1919, won nine out of eleven races. His only defeats were the Brooklyn Handicap, when he carried I 17 pounds (the highest weight ever carried by a three-year- old for that race), for which he was second, and the Saratoga Cup by Extermi- nator, in the mud. Purchase won the Stuyvesant Handicap, 124 pounds; Southampton Handicap, 129 pounds, beating Eternal, 125 pounds; Dwyer Stakes, Ii8 pounds, beating Sir Barton, 127 pounds, by 3 lengths; Empire City Derby; Saratoga Handicap, I I8 pounds; Saranac Handicap, 133 pounds; Huron Handicap, 134 pounds; and Jockey Club Stakes. It was confidently expected he would make a clean sweep of the handicaps as a four-year-old, "no matter how they weight him," but his four-year-old season was passed in the stable. He reappeared at five, and won twice, con- ceding enormous differences in weight. George Odom, who trained Purchase as a two-year-old, said there was never so great a colt. "He gave Toto 28 pounds and beat him pulling to him," said Odom, "and you know Toto was a pretty good one, for he won several races that season." To describe Purchase properly would be to exhaust the superlative. A golden chestnut, standing i6.i, with a narrow stripe on his face and both hind legs white half-way to the hocks, he was a March foal by Ormondale (son of Or- monde) from the great race-mare Cherryola (winner of twenty-six races) by imported Tanzmeister; granddam, Last Cherry by Sir Dixon; third dam, Cherry Blossom by Powhatan (brother to Parole); fourth dam, Atalanta (sister to Creedmoor) by Asteroid; fifth dam, Target (imported) by Rifleman; sixth dam, imported Melrose by Melbourne. It would seem as if the best qualities of his illustrious ancestors had presided at his birth and leagued to blend themselves in his personnel He had the size of Melbourne, the power of Stockwell, the beauty of Orlando, the speed of Ormonde and St. Simon, and the indomitable courage of Lexington. Mad Hatter began life modestly, winning only twice at two, but at three he 229 Purcbase, 1916 His Victories An Idle Season His Great Beauty RKJCING IN 4MERICAC improved with each month, and in October of that year (i919) won the Latonia Championship, the most valuable race of the year. It may be said he defeated no colt of class, but his racing at four and five placed him in the front rank. In 1920, as a four-year-old, he w-on nine out of twenty starts. In 1921 he won eight out of twenty starts, during which time he was generally the top weight in handicaps. He wvon the Kings County, 124 pounds, beating Exterminator; the Metropolitan, with 127 pounds; Jockey Club Gold Cup, 2 miles, among others. In some of his races he carried as high as 130 pounds. He was a brown, bred by Mr. Belmont, and, like Man o' War, was of the Fair Play-Rocksand cross. Audacious began life in the stable of Mr. Morton Schwartz. He had bad feet, and it was not until he was three that he developed and won seven races out of thirteen. At four he had a busy season, winning five out of twenty-one races, and then passed into the Foreign Stable trained by McNaughton. Whether due to the fact that he had not been raced severely as a two and three year old, or "Sandy" McNaughton's skill as a trainer, he certainly improved, and, as a five-year-old, in 1921, became one of the brightest "stars" of the all-aged class. He won the Carter Handicap (for the second time) and then immortalized him- self by winning the Suburban, 120 pounds, after a fierce finish with Mad Hat- ter. He was a chestnut by Star Shoot from Bold Girl by Ogden; granddam by Requital; and, barring Sir Barton, was a better stayer than most of the Star Shoots. In the summer of 1917 Mr. WV. R. Coe of New York made one of the most important importations in the purchase of seventeen yearlings by private sale, bred bv the late Sir Mark Sykes at Sledmere. It was only owing to peculiar conditions that such a sale could have been effected, as for years the Sledmere yearlings had brought long prices at the Doncaster sales. But the Great Euro- pean War at that period had prostrated racing in England, and Sir Mark was glad of an offer without the risk of a public sale. The yearlings-five colts and twelve fillies-were from the most fashionable sires-Swynford, Sundridge, Spear- mint, Cicero, Tetrarch, Tredennis, Sunstar, Tracery, Polymelus, Marcovil, St. Amant, etc., from such mares as Veneration, Blue Tit, Stolen Kiss, Queenlet, Honora, etc. Orver Tbere, a bay colt by Spearmint-Summer Girl, was probably the best. In 1918, as a two-year-old, he won three races, and four as a three-year-old, among them the rich Realization Stakes, but was disqualified; and Mr. Coc had the pleasure and the pain of receiving, far off in Wyoming, a telegram from his trainer: "Over There won the Realization," followed an hour later by another reading: "Over There disqualified for foul riding." The colt was naturally a fine race-horse, a dark bay without white, and exquisitely bred, his dam being by 230 -C 7 A (F) /I U- This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED RJACE-HORSES Sundridge; granddam by Persimmon. Herodias, another of the lot, was a gray Herodias, filly by The Tetrarch-Honora by Gallinule, marked with a blaze and left hind 1916 pastern white. She was one of the first of the get of The Tetrarch, and the first to leave England. She raced well, winning once at two, and four times at three. Under Fire, a bay colt by Swynford-Startling by Laveno, won ten races as a three-year-old. Terentia, chestnut filly with a blaze face, promised to be the best. She won four fine races at two, but at three "trained off." She was a daughter of Cicero-Queenlet by Berrill; granddam by Marden. Mr. Coe's best racer, however, was Cleopatra, a chestnut filly bred by Mr. Cleopatra, Hancock and imported in utero, a daughter of Corcyra-Gallice. This filly won 1917 twice at two years old, and had a hard campaign, but she came through it, and at three was the best of her year. She started fifteen times and won six, includ- ing the Alabama, Huron, and Latonia Championships, and was second for the Ladies' and Latonia Oaks. Her winnings in the six races she won amounted to over 46,ooo, and while Karrick, her trainer, "hated to give her up," as he stated, Mr. Coe considered she had done him sufficient service, and had the satisfaction of retiring her sound. The importation of English horses as sires was latterly marked by the ap- Rocksand, pearance of a better class than that brought here during that period between igoo i88o and 1890. In 1906 the death of Sir James Miller enabled Mr. Belmont to purchase the celebrated Rocksand, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and Doncaster St. Leger of '03. He was a brown by Sainfoin (Derby winner of 1890) from Roquebrune by St. Simon, and while at Mr. Belmont's Nursery Stud sired Tracery, as well as Friar Rock, Rockview, and many other high- class horses. He was sold to a syndicate of French and American breeders, and returned to France in 1913. His daughters have proved among the best brood- mares of the period. Meddler, bay, bred by Mr. G. A. Baird in England in 189o, was imported in Meddler, i894 by Mr. Forbes of Boston, Mass., and later purchased by Honorable W. C. I89o Whitney, upon whose death he was sold to Mr. C. H. Mackey, who, after stand- ing him in America for several years, sent him to France in 1914. He died in i9i6. Meddler was never beaten. He won in I892 the British Dominion, Ches- terfield, and many other events. He was one of the most highly bred horses that has crossed the Atlantic, being by St. Gatien, while his dam, Busybody by Petrarch, his granddam, Spinaway by Macaroni, and his great granddam, Queen Bertha by Kingston, all three were winners of the Oaks. Star Sboot, imported in 1902, proved a great success. He was a chestnut foaled Star Sboot, in 1898, and was a son of Isinglass from Astrology by Hermit. As a race-horse 1 898 his two-year-old career constituted all, but it proved him one of the best of his year, as he won the British Dominion Stakes and National Produce Stakes, 231 R\,4GING IN -4MERICA defeating the best. His wind became affected, and rendered it difficult to train him at three years old, and he was sold to America. He was not successful as a sire until he had been here several years. Then he quite made amends, leading the Winning Sires in 191 I, 1912, I916, 1917, and I9I9. Man o' In the spring of 1918 Mr. Belmont offered to sell Mr. Riddle his entire crop IW'ar, 1917 of yearlings, and Mr. Riddle sent his trainers, Louis Feustel and Mike Daly, to look them over. On their return they reported the yearlings as rather under- sized, and Mr. Riddle declined the offer. Later Mr. Belmont concluded to offer the lot for sale by auction at Saratoga, where Mr. Riddle inspected them, and was greatly impressed with Man o' War. "You said the yearlings were undersized," said Mr. Riddle. "Surely this colt is big enough." ir. "But we don't remember seeing that colt when the yearlings were shown us Belmont's in Kentucky," answered the trainers. That gave Mr. Riddle his "tip." Em "Tip" dently Mr. Belmont had been so impressed by the colt that he had not shown him, intending to hold him out of the sale, and Mr. Riddle determined to "buy him at any price." Mr. Belmont has since said he had been tempted to hold the colt out, but thought it would injure the sale of the others, and so let him go. Mr. Riddle knew that Masda, full sister to Man o' War, and first foal of his dam, was very fast. Hildreth, who trained her, had told him she was so fast that when he tried her he couldn't believe the time was correct, and asked two other men to time her. At the sale Mr. Riddle bought Man o' War for S5,ooo, and, turning to Mr. Maddox, who sat beside him, remarked that "from the appearance and breeding of the colt I think he's worth every dollar of the price." In Breaking Then the trouble began. Man o' War was a difficult colt to break. "He Tackle fought like a tiger," said Mr. Riddle; "he screamed with rage, and fought us so hard that it took several days before he could be handled with safety." After he was thoroughly broken he became quite easy to handle, and when it came to galloping they soon found he had a tremendous turn of speed. The spring of i919, when as a two-year-old he went with the stable to Pimlico, he and the entire lot had the influenza. Man o' War had a temperature of io6 degrees, but such was the vigor of his "resisting power" (as the doctors call it) that he threw it off without the aid of medicine. He was a hearty feeder, and ate from twelve to thirteen quarts of oats and all the hay they could give him. They had to put a bit in his mouth while he was feeding, to keep him from eating too fast. Xlins the As a two-year-old Man o' War started for ten races and won nine, including Hopeful and the Keene Memorial, Youthful, Hudson, Tremont, U. S. Hotel, Grand Union, Futurity Hopeful, and Futurity. His only defeat, the Sanford Memorial at Saratoga-by Upset, to whom he conceded i; pounds-was due to a bad ride, his jockey 232 3 a z 0_, Ur a.. This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED 9IZ4CE-HORSES allowing him to become pocketed close to the inside rail, and it was only in the last furlong that he got through and was beaten a half-length. That the form was untrue was shown in the race for the Grand Union, where he conceded Upset 5 pounds and beat him easily, and in both the Hopeful and Futurity he defeated Upset. As a three-year-old Man o' War was out eleven times and won all his races -the Preakness at Baltimore, the Withers and Belmont at Belmont Park, Stuy- vesant Handicap at Jamaica, the Dwyer at Aqueduct, the Miller and Travers at Saratoga, Realization and Jockey Club at Belmont Park, Potomac Handi- cap at Havre de Grace, and the Kenilworth Cup at Windsor. In these races he made five new "best-time" records. For the Withers he ran a mile in I.35fi for the Belmont i 6 in 2.14X; for the Dwyer 1X-6 in i.49; for the Jockey Club iS miles in 2.88,4; for the Realization i34 miles in 2.4(4. As a two-year- old his winnings amounted to 83,325, as a three-year-old 166,140; total, 249,465. In the race for the Stuyvesant Handicap he conceded 32 pounds and a beating to Yellow Hand. The career of a race-horse is often like "The uncertain glory of an April day," but Man o' War's three-year-old season was one of undimmed glory. Indeed, in only one race was he given a semblance of a contest. This was the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct, when he met Mr. Whitney's colt, John P. Grier. The latter was known to be a colt of remarkable speed in private, and he had shown it in pub- lic. He had run second to Man o' War for the Futurity the year before, and his public form before the Dwyer was very high. The race narrowed down to a match between the pair, the prestige of Man o' War was such that the owners of all other colts declined the contest. The race attracted attention throughout the country, and a great crowd gathered to witness it. In the betting Man o' War was the favorite, but Grier was well supported at 5 to 2. Yet there was a feeling of uncertainty about it that would not down, a feeling that possibly the redoubtable Man o' War would at last meet his match. There was a rumor that Rowe had said "Grier would trim Man o' War to-day," and was repeated from lip to lip. Besides, when Mr. Riddle inquired of his trainer how Man o' War was doing, the latter replied that the colt "wasn't screwed up as tight as he might be." As the hour of the race approached, the excitement was at fever-heat; the event, being of sensational interest, had attracted an enormous assemblage, and the grand stand and paddock overflowed until there was only standing- room. At last the two champions appeared, walking slowly to the post together, like the kings, Richard of England and Philip of France, going to the Crusades -bitter rivals, but to whom the restraints of the occasion prevented its expres- sion. Clarence Kummer on Man o' War, in the "black and yellow" of Glen 233 Unbeaten at Tbree Years Old Tbe Great Race for the Duyer Stakes Going to tbe Post RJCING IN ,AMERICA Riddle, Ed. Ambrose on John P. Grier, in the "blue and brown" of Brookdale. The "last words" to the jockeys had been spoken. "How shall I ride," Kummer had asked. "Lay along with Grier all the way, and if you find you can win, don't try to ride him out, but win by a length or two lengths," were Mr. Riddle's orders. "Mr. Feustel tells me Man o' War 'isn't screwed up right tight,' and I don't want more use made of him than is necessary to win." Kummer rode to orders and won, but Grier could not be shaken off. At the end of a mile Man o' War was only a neck in front, and as Grier closed, the cry went up: "Grier wins!" but it was premature. The Whitney colt was not bred for a stayer; the Bonnie Scotland-Domino-Voter combination could not pre- vail with the Spendthrift-Rocksand, and Man o' War came away and won by 2 lengths. The pair met again at Saratoga for the Travers Stakes; Grier ran a worse race than he had for the Dwyer, finishing third, while Upset was second. At the time Man o' War was said by his stable to be "at the top of his form." Still, Grier had given them a shock in his race for the Dwyer, and they took no chances this time. Andy Shuttinger rode Man o' War, and Mr. Riddle told him: "Go away from the rise of the barrier; run away from him," which Shuttinger did, and upon dismounting he remarked: " I let him go into the lead to get the rail, but after that he was under restraint all the way." The race for the Potomac Handicap at Havre de Grace Mr. Riddle always considered Man o' War's greatest race, as he carried 138 pounds to Wildair's io8 pounds. The track was very heavy, and on his way to the course Mr. Riddle met his trainer, Feustcl, who said: "If the colt was mine I wouldn't start; the track is very bad "-but start the colt did. He was held at the barrier by one of the starters' assistants, and when it rose he broke to the right and lost about 3 lengths, but soon overtook his field and won. The race with Sir Barton at Windsor was a farce. Sir Barton was sore and made a sad spectacle, Man o' War winning as he liked. Mr. Riddle said: "We do not know to this day how fast he was, as we were afraid to let him down; knowing his intense speed, we feared he might injure himself." Man o' War was a red chestnut, marked with a star and an indistinct short gray stripe in his forehead. He had a straight profile, large nostrils, stout neck, and was rather broad across the chest-more so than wve like to see. His back was rather longer than the average, and he "cut away" slightly behind the croup. His legs were straight, and his pasterns none too long. His feet were of fair size. He had the size and power of a sprinter, with the conformation of a 234 0. z 0 3z u C-, This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRA TED 9RACE-HORSES stayer. No horse could have made more improvement than he did between his two and three year old form, when he emerged a giant. He was bred by Mr. Belmont, and sired by Fair Play, son of Hastings, he by Spendthrift, he by imported Australian by West Australian, son of Melbourne. Man o' War's dam, Mahubah, is by Rocksand; granddam, Merry Token by Merry Hampton; third dam, Mizpah by Macgregor; fourth dam by Underhand; fifth dam, the Slayer's Daughter by Cain, tracing to The Layton Barb Mare. This branch of the family is not ultra-fashionable. The sires are good, particularly Macgregor, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas of '70, and considered the fleetest horse seen at Newmarket since the days of Bay Middleton; Underhand, too, was three times winner of the Northumberland Plate. The weakest point in the pedigree is Merry Hampton, who was one of the worst horses that ever won the Derby (i887). Man o' War is rather an out-bred horse; it is necessary to go back to the fifth remove in his pedigree to find the name of any one of his ancestors occurring twice. Then it is Galopin, of whom he gets a cross through Fair Play's granddam by Galliard, and the other through Rocksand's dam by St. Simon. Thus Man o' War retired the champion race-horse of his era. He did not enter the great spring events of the all-aged class that brought greater renown to Sysonby and Friar Rock, nor did he remain long enough in training to meet the best horses of different years, as did Hanover, Henry of Navarre, and Cud- gel. Yet he was manifestly a better horse than any he met, and has been pro- claimed "the greatest racer of all times." But we have heard that claimed for every great horse of the past fifty years. There is no method by which race- horses of different periods can be compared. We can only speak of a horse as the best of his period, and such Man o' War gave every evidence of being. "Weave for the mighty chestnut A tributary crown Of autumn flowers, the brightest then When autumn leaves are brown. Hang up his bridle on the wall, His saddle on the tree, Till time shall bring some racing king Worthy to wear as he!" Grey Lag, the hero of the three-year-old season of 1921, for a while puzzled many of the followers of racing as to the meaning of his name. It was explained that it was the common name of the wild-goose of northern Europe (Anser Cinereus) and probably a corruption of "grey leg," as pronounced by the North Briton-some North Britons. To this explanation it is recorded that a race goer replied by applying the vernacular of his kind: "A wild goose, eh Well, that's 235 His Breeding The King of ibe Turf Grey Lag, i9i8 R1,4CING IN cMERICG a bird, and this colt is 'a bird,' all right." He might have added that it was a "wild-goose-chase" to beat him, but that comparison is too ancient to blend with the slang of Broadway. Goes Amiss Grey Lag, like so many other celebrities, was bred by Mr. John E. Madden, and raced as a two-year-old in the colors of Max Hirsch. He was not hurried, and did not start until toward the end of the Saratoga meeting, and that he was not "ready" the odds of 30 to i against him were good evidence. Grey Lag, as a two-year-old, showed high form, though scarcely in the class of Try- ster, Prudery, or Leonardo. One of his best races was at Belmont Park, when he defeated Baby Grand and Star Voter. He never won at two, except when Ensor rode him, and he never won over a muddy track. The Rancocas Stable purchased him and prepared him for the Kentucky Derby of '2I, for which he failed to start, having stepped on a stone, and it lamed him. But he recov- ered quickly and ran fourteen races at three, winning nine, among them the Belmont Stakes. He also won the Dwyer, Empire City Derby, and the Knick- erbocker Handicap, when he carried the extreme weight of I35 pounds, beating Careful, io8 pounds; the Mt. Kisco Stakes and the International Derby in Can- ada, beating Black Servant. The Derby race was a severe one and affected both colts, neither recovering for a long time. Wins Grey Lag's race for the Brooklyn Handicap was possibly the best in his Brooklyn career. Leonardo, had he not fallen lame, might have won, but that does not Handicap diminish the value of Grey Lag's performance. He had iio pounds up, and defeated John P. Grier, the only horse that had ever given Man o' War a hard race. Grey Lag was a chestnut, with a blaze, right fore and both hind pasterns white. He also had a curious patch of white under his barrel. He was a very plain horse, high off the ground, and light in his back ribs. His feet troubled him at times, but while that was a trouble from which the get of Star Shoot often suffered, he was a better stayer than any of them. His dam, Miss Minnie, was a daughter of Meddler from imported Spectrum by Orvieto. Leonardo, Leonardo was unbeaten at two. In his dkbut at Empire City in July he beat 1919 his field by io lengths, and in his second race by 6 lengths. In his third race Shuttinger, his jockey, restrained him to a 3-lengths' lead. Then he showed lameness and stood in a tub for ten days, and, coming from it, won the Hopeful, beating Prudery by a head. The notion prevailed that he was a non-stayer, due to his stopping in the Hopeful, but the public did not know that he had had little or no work between that and his previous race. He wintered South, and m April, at Lexington, Ky., made his first appearance as a three-year-old, win- ning a race for which he ran the mile in 3., and the race (i1,) in 1.42-,. He then ran seven races, winning only one-the Withers Stakes, beating Sport- 236 Ad w U, 5 0 This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED ,(ACE-HORSES ing Blood, Grey Lag, and others, but was only third for the Belmont to Grey Lag. His best race was the one for which he failed to get a place-the Brooklyn Handicap-for which he led until the last furlong, and looked a certain winner, but broke down, and did not race again. Leonardo was a whole-colored brown bay by Sweep from Ethel Pace by Troubadour, and tracing to Maria West. He was a large colt, long in the foreband, with a straight back and his legs well under him. He was one of the speediest horses seen in years, but his under- pinning was not equal to sustaining such speed. His race for the Brooklyn indi- cated that had he been sound no horse could have beaten him. Jobn P. Grier was a horse that will always be remembered for having given Man o' War the only hard race that celebrity had as a three-year-old. He was the best of the Whitney two-year-olds of 1919, and won three out of five starts. He was second to Man o' War for the Futurity, and was good enough to have won a Futurity in almost any other year. But Man o' War was always in his way. For the Dwyer Stakes, at three, he raced Man o' War out to the last ounce, and proved himself a race-horse beyond question. In his race for the Brooklyn Handicap at four years old, in 192i, when Grey Lag just beat him, he had 124 pounds up, and Rowe said: "The other horse was just good enough to beat him and no more." He won the Kings County, and conceded weight to Audacious and Yellow Hand. A son of Whisk Broom II and Wonder by Dis- guise, granddam, Curiosity by Voter, his breeding was not that of a stayer, nor was he a real one, but despite his breeding he never flinched, and was a colt of very high class. Yellow Hand was of slow development. He started eight times as a two-year- old, beaten each time. At three his beginning did not promise much better, for at Jamaica, in the Stuyvesant Handicap, Man o' War gave him 32 pounds, and ran away from him. It was not until late in the season he began to improve, and Mr. Wilson soon began expressing his joy to see "my old selling-plater winning stakes," and sold him to Mr. Stoneham at a good figure. At four he won ten races, including the Saratoga, Scarsdale, Pelham, and Yorktown Handi- caps, the last with 132 pounds, and finished the season one of the best horses in training. Yellow Hand was chestnut, with a blaze and four white legs. He was a very plain, not to say common-looking, horse, but had perfect action. Mr. Wilson bred him, and he was imported in utero, being by Rossendale, a son of St. Frusquin, sent to Australia in i92i, Yellow Hand's dam being Yellow Sea by Martagon. Black Servant was as certainly the best three-year-old in the' West as Grey Lag was in the East in 1921, and their meeting on the "neutral ground" of Canada would indicate there was little to choose between them, as Black Ser- vant made all the pace and was only beaten by "a nose" in a fighting finish. 237 Jobn P. Grier, 1917 Yellow Hand, 1917 Black Servant, 1918 MCING IN, d4MERICA Black Servant started twelve times and won only four. That he should have won the Kentucky Derby, for which he ran second to his stable companion, Behave Yourself, we have never met any one who would deny it. He was second to Sporting Blood for the Latonia Championship, in which he finished ahead of Grey Lag, and for the Twin City Handicap at Latonia he was again second, but conceded i8 pounds to the winner. He was a rather leggy brown colt by Black Toney from imported Padula by Laveno. Morrich, the champion two-year-old of 1921, came with Runstar and other colts Mr. A. B. Sprecles sent East from California under the charge of Carroll, and the opening day of the Eastern racing season at Jamaica won a selling sweepstakes by x; lengths, with betting 50 to X against him. Fred Burlew bought him, and ten days later won a selling race with him. It now dawned upon race- goers that the colt was a race-horse. For him there was no more masquerading in selling races, as he would certainly be bid up or claimed, and Burlew did not care to experience the feelings of the knight "Whose steed in captive stall should pine," and, refusing an offer of S25,000, finally sold half interest to Mr. Block, the financier, and they raced him as the "B & B Stable." He had run six races, but as yet had not run for a great event, when Burlew started him at Saratoga for the U. S. Hotel Stakes. It was claimed he had "never beaten a first-rater," vhich was a fact, but now he met Kai-Sang, Oil Man, Sir Hugh, Pegasus, Lord Baltimore all colts of class, and while, for the first time, he had to be ridden out to beat Kai-Sang, he won by half a length. For the Saratoga Special he beat Kai-Sang 2 lengths. Then came the Hopeful, and heavy storm left the track deep. Twelve started, and again lorvich made all the pace and beat Kai Sang by 2 lengths, both colts 130 pounds; IfWhiskawaa, i i; pounds, third, after a bad start. At Havrc de Grace he won the Eastern Shore, with 130 pounds. Thus far he had not gone more than 6 furlongs, and, as usual, doubts of his stamina were expressed-"He wasn't bred to stay." But for the Pimlico Fututrity, X mile, in November, he waited and won by 2 lengths from Lucky Hour. Morvich was a brown colt by Runnymede (son of Voter and Running Stream by Domino) from Hymir by Dr. Leggo; granddam, Georgia Girl by imported Solitaire. The breeding on his sire's side is one of speed rather than stamina. He was a larger colt when you stood beside him than when viewed at a distance. He stood nearly 15.3, but "cobby" in make-tip, short-legged, and his legs close together, a good head and shoulders, short barrel, well-coupled, with good spread of quarters and gaskins. He was a solid-colored horse, except his right hind heel had a little white with speckles around the coronet. 238 A c V- z This page in the original text is blank. CELEBRATED "(CE-HORSES Thus we have traced the line of racing celebrities from Asteroid, Kentucky, and Norfolk down to the days of Man o' War, Grey Lag, and Morvich. The Lexingtons, the Leamingtons, and the Vandals have come and gone, and were succeeded by the Bonnie Scotlands, the Glenelgs, and the Hanovers. They, in turn, have given way to the Spendthrifts, the Meddlers, and Dominos. The Kingstons and Rocksands have played their parts, and the Broomsticks, Fair Plays, and Star Shoots occupy the stage. Soon enough the get of Man o' War, Purchase, and Cudgel will be sporting "silk," and another generation will, for- getful of all that is past, hail new "horses of the century" as the Belmont and Suburban fields sweep past the post. We have traced, also, the rise of racing from i866 to the present day. Hardly a man among those who initiated the movement is still living, but their places have been well filled. There are more men who can afford to race now racing than at any time in its history, and it is reasonable to expect that they will main- tain the tone and high standard of the sport without the need of any aid, for all experience has shown that external influence or control, while it may con- tribute temporary benefit, ends usually in disaster. The power vested in those in authority is ample to protect the sport, and while its administration remains in the hands of those whose interest in it is greatest, all will be well. 239 This page in the original text is blank. INDEX This page in the original text is blank. INDEX American Jockey Cub Members of Officials of Subscription Roo Applegate, W. E. Aqueduct Racecourse. Barcklie, Archibald Belmont, August, the ekler. Belmont, August Belmont, Hon. Perry Belmont Parkl Billings, C. K. G. Bishop, F. C. Bishop, Ogden Mills Board of Control Bowie, Hon. Oden Bowie, Racing at Bradford, John H. Breaux, C A. Brewster, John E. Brighton Beach Racing Brooklyn Jockey Caub Brooklyn Handicap Bryan, F. J. Bryant, A. J. Buck, H. A. Buckeye Jockey Cub. Bull, Geo. H. Burke, Edward Butler, James Calendar, Racing California, Racing in Camden, Hon. J. N. Canada, Racing m Cassatt, A. J. Cassatt, E. B. Cassidy, Mars Chanler, W. Astor Cark, F. Ambrose Cark, W. H. Cark, M Lewis. Clyde, Thos. Cochran, A. S. Conditions at Close of Civil War Coney Island Jockey Cub Corbett, Matthew IAAZ PA=. 3 Cor Seb C . . . . . 45 _5 Courtney, Tho. . . . . 37 5 Cwdin, John E. . . . . 45 5fi Crickmore, H. G. . . . .25-33 56 37 D . . 45-48 37 AagildAgernon .. " Davis, J.E . . . - 45 45 Do Go. F. . . . . 38 6 Donner, Otto . . . 44 34,35,36, 44 Dwyer, P.. . . . 30, 37, 39, 43 45 Dwyer, M. F. . . . . . 30 . 34 DwyerStakes . 37 45 45 Ear er, A.M. . . . . 36 45 Edwards,.C. . . . . 38 44 EmpircityRacmgAssociation. . 39 t 9- Empre City Derby . . . . 39 54 Empire City Handicap 39 26-44 Engena Wmin. . . . . 29 62 Engeman, Wm., Jr. . . . . 29 59 29 Fair, Chas. L . . . . . 64 30 Fanshaw, W. S.. . 45 . 3 Ferguson J. F.. . . . . 52 52 Fitzgerald, C. J. . . . . 9 63 Fleischman, Julius . . . 57 48 Forbes. H. DeCourcy . . 33 60 Fraser, W. P. . . . . . 6 . 45 Futurity Stakes. . . . . 27 53 3o Galway. James . . . . . 42 Gerry,;R. L 48 Government of Racing 63 Grainger, Chas. F. 56 Gravesend, Racing at 65 Green, J. O. 26-43 Griswold, F. Gray 45 .3S-45 Hanna, Edward 45 Harford Co. A. &B. As'n 45 Harney, J. M. 39 Havre de Grace Racing SS. Hecksher, John G. 5. Hendrie, Wm. 45 Hendrie, Col. Wm. r. . 3 Hitchcock, F. R. 26 Hitchcock, Thos. 38 Holland, D. 243 .45 . 43 . 6 30 . 45 A 27 .45 53 . 6i . 53 . 26 65 65 .22-45 45 37 INDEX blopper, E. C Howland, S. S. Hunt, C B. Hunter, John Hurket, A. Illinois, Racing in Irving, Dr. J. B. Iselin, C Oliver Jamaica, Racing at Jenkins, Spalding L Jerome, Leonard W. Jerome Park Cub House. In ig2i Improvements Inaugural Meeting Morning Gallops. Jockey Cub, The Its Organization Members Officials Powers Johnson, Edgar M. Keene, James R. Keene, Foxhall P. Kentucky Derby Kentucky, Racing in Knapp, Dr. Gideon L Knapp, H. K. Kock, T. H. Labold, A. L Laclede Jockey Cub Latonia Jockey Cub Laurel Park, Racing at Lawrence, J. G. K. Lawrence, Elias. Lexington (Ky.) Racing Loillard, George L Lorillard, Pierre, the elder Lorillard, Pierre, the younge Louisville, Racing at Mackay, Clarence H. Macomber, A. K. Magruder, M. H. Maryland Jockey Cub Maryland State Fair McDowell, Clarence McGibben, T. J. McKinney, Price. 57 Members of the Jockey Cub - . 45 Metropolitan Handicap 6o Metropolitan Jockey Cub , 44 Miller, Andrew T. 45 McLane, Chas. E. McLaughlin, James 39 Missouri, Racing in 6 Monmouth Park Racing - . . 45 Morgan, E. D. Morris, Alfred H. 38 Morris, Francis 4 -4.54 Mors, John A. 6, 26, Morris, Lwis G. 4 Morris Park Racecourse 4 17 Ogden, Lyndiurst 12 O'Fallon, J. J. io O'Hara, Jas. F. 14 Ohio Racingin. 44 Oxnard, H. T. 44 45 Parr, Ral 45 Parsons, Schuyler L 45 Pettngil, C H. 6o Pimlico Racecouse Potter, E C 26,44 Powers, W. L 45 Preaknes Stake 56 Price, C F. 5S Prince George Park 44 Prince Poniatowski 45 Purdy, John F. 33 Queen City Jockey Cub 6o 6i Racing awakens 57 Racing, Jerome Park 53 Sarato 26 43 Monmouth Park 57 Sheepsbead Bay 5 S7 Gravesend 24 Morris Park 43 Belmont Park cr 45 Aqueduct 55 Jamaica Brighton Beach 45 Yonkers 45 Pimlico 45 Havre de Grace . 51 Laurel 53 Bowie 35 Kentucky . . 57 Illinois 45 Ohio. 244 45 33 38 22, 45 53 45 6i 24 . 45 45 9 9,32,43 9 32 65 78 54 6o 45 45 45 35 52 54 '73 52 56 54 64 7 6o 3 10 21 24 26 30 32 34 37 38 29 39 52 53 53 54 55 59 6o INDEX Califoria. Canada .. Caledar Government Realization Stakes Rehberger, Frederick Reilly, Thos. D.. Revival of Racing Reynos W. H. Riddle, Samuel D. Riggs, Wm. P. Robinson, Gen. J. F. Ross, Samuel Rowe, W. I Ruppert, Jacob, Jr. Sanford, Milton H. Sanford, John Saratoga Racing . Schomberg, Victor Schulte, W. F. Sheepshead Bay . Sheridan, Gen. Philip Shevlin, James Simmons, R. W.. Simpson, Joseph C. Smith, Dr. Andrew Smith, E. C. Southern Maryland Association Spreckles, A. B.. Stewart, John, Jr. Street, Wm. N. . Stud Book. . 6i Sturgis, F. K. 63 Subscription Room 65 Suburban, The 4 Thompson, L S. 37 Thompson, W. P. 27 Thompson, W. P., Jr. Travers, W. R. Tuckcer, R 38 Turf and Field Club 45 Underhill, Frank T. 52 58 Vandrbilt, W. K. 45 Vodburgh, Walter S. 45 Walden, Robt. 45 Washington Park Cub Wells, Rolla 7 Wheatly, Cha. 45 Wheeler, James E. 2' Whitney, Hon. W. C. 39 Whitney, E. F. 55 Whitney, H. P. 6 Whitney, Payne. 59 Widener, Geo. D. 37 Widener, Joseph E. 6 2 WilliamsK W.. 63 Wiliams, T. H. 65 Wilson, Richard T. 45 W-mn, Matthew T. 54 W nters, T..o. 63 Withers, David D. 45 Woodward. Wm.. .38 46 Yonkers, Racing at ,.= 4 S4,45 5 . . 27 45 44 . . 45 22 37 . 34 45 26 25,'35, 44, 45 52 59 . 6i 7 45 . S22 45 45 . . 45 . . 45 . S45 35 63 . 22, 45 39, 53, s6 . 63 .8K43 45 . 39 245 INDEX TO HORSES Abdel Kader Accountant Acrobat Advance Guard. Africander. Alanm Aldebaran. Algerine Alta Vela Aristides Artful Asteroid Attila Audacious Baden Baden Balfot Banastar Banquet Barnes Barrett Bayonet Bayswater. Beacon Beldame Ben Brush. Bersan Billy Kelly Black Servant Bob Miles. Borrow Boundless Bowling Brook Bramble Broomstick Burgomaster Burlington. Butterflies. Calvin Campfire Cap and Bells Catesby Caughnawaga Cdt Checkmate 77 Clicle . . . . . . 214 . i98 Chuctanunda . . . . . 182 . Cg eoqp1tra. . . . . . 231 . ,82 Chiford . . . . . . 159 i. 88Cloverbrook . . . . . 105 94. Cock O' theWalk . . . . 212 . 74 Coin . . . . . . 202 . 103 Commnando . . . . . 181 . 78 Correction. . . . . . 154 . OO Creedmoor . . . . .104 . 193 Cxickmore. . . . .12 .69 99 Dalmatian. . . . . . 205 . 230 Dandelion . 1. . . . '93 David Garrick n. . . . 104 DYcffi . . . . . 191 . 201 Dewdrop . . . . 137 . 171 Dick Fmnnd . . . . . 195 5. 152Dick Weles . . . . . 195 . 125_ Dominant . . . . . . 213 ..III lDomino . . . . . . 62 76 Drake Carter . . . . . i28 . 76 Dry MoopOLe . . . . . 133 76DUh b U. . . . . 128 9. i89Duke of Magenta . . . . 105 .. 66 Dunboyne. . . . . .221 . . . 131 22i Eclipse . . . . . 8 . 237 Elkwood . . . . . . 133 129 El Rio Rey . . - 15S . 216 Emperor of Norfolk . . . . 142 i6i Endurance by Pight . . . . 185 . 72 Enquirer . . . 85 ..,o6 Eole. . . . . . .120 Io.9 Eolian . . . . . . 133 . 198 Eolus . . . . . g3 150 Ethelbert . . . . . 174 ..65 Eternal . . . . . 228 Eurus . . . . 133 ioo Exile . . . . . 131 215 Exterminator . . . . 226 .181 97 Fair Play . . . . . . 201 . i86 Falsetto . . . . . . 'II 202 Fellowcraft . . . . 98 152 Ferida . . . . . .. III . 107 Fldes. . . . . . . 142 246 INDEX Firenzi Fitzherbert Fleertwing. Flying Fairy Forester Foster Frank Gill. Freeland Friar Rock General Duke General Monroe. General Yorke George Kinney George Smith Gerald Giroffe Glenedg Glenmore Gold Heels Grenada Grey Lag Gunfire Hamburg Hamburg Belle Handspringg Hanover. Harold Harry Bassett H ating . Helmbold Henry of Navarre Hermis Herodias Herzog Hiawasse His Highness Himyar Hindoo Hourless Hubbard Idlewildd. Imp Inspector B. Irish Lad Iroquois Jack Atkin James A. Connolly Jean Beraud Joe Cotton x39 Joe Daniels 2o5 John P. Gner 74 Johren 212 Judge Curtis 122 go Katie Pease . 195 Katrine 124 Kentucky. 23 Kilmarnock King Alfonso 77 Kingfisher. 119 King James 77 Kingman. 125 Kingston 224 Kiney Mack ,.4 Knight of Elleruile 8 Lady Violet 7 Laggard . 80z Lamplighter 186 Lanius 3S XLaTosca 235 TO 84 Lazarone. Leamington. Ldeonardoo 172 Leonatus 192 1 ; AzecaS i6 65 nta 137 ohatchee 88Lgowel L ngstreet Louisee te. 163 Luke Blackburn. 187 Luke McLuke 231 Mad Hatter '24 Maggie B. B. 158 Maiden 6 Man o'War 118 Masette 215 ,cesney 93 Merciless. Meridian 74 Miss Woodford 170 Modesty. 133 Mohawk 188 Mollie Brant 122 Monarchist Monitor i. g Montana 81 Morello 175 Mortemer 131 Morvich 247 . . 93 . 237 . 18 77 93 . . . 131 . . . 7' 71 . 176 101 87 . '199 '53 1. 39 5 '7 . 129 . 133 '57 . . .227 . 154 . . . i6i .2 123 .236 . 127 .96 . 147 . 86 '43 . 128 227 .2116 . 211 .2 9 . 92 74 . 132 203 183 75 206 i26 194 194 91 Io8 152 127 238 INDEX VA Mugins. . . 76 Roamr Mr. Coe's Importations . . 230 Rockvicw Runnin Water Narragansett . . . 78 Runnymede Nasturtium . . i84 Russell Naturalist. . . . . . 219 Ruthless Nemesis . . . . 77 Norfolk . . . . . 72 St. Florian . Novelty . . . . . . 2o5 St. Savior Salina Ogden .. . . . . 68 Sallie Mcehad Oiseau . . . . . . 191 Salvator Olambala . . . . . . 203 Salvidere Old Rosebud . . . . . 214 Saxon Olitipa . . . . . . 1OO Sensation. Omar Khayyam. . . . . 218 Short Grass Onondaga . . . . . . 123 Sir Barton. Ormondale . . . . i98 Sir Dixon Ornament. . . . . . 69 Sir Martin. Ort Welles. . . . . 9. Sir Walter. Over There . . . . . 230 Spendthrift Spinaway Panique . . . . . . 129 Spokane Parole . . . . . . 102 Springbok Pat Malloy . . . . . 8i Spur . Pebbles . . . . . . zo7 Starhawk Pennant . . . . . . 212 Star Shoot. Pessara . . . . . . 152 Stromboli Peter Pan . . . . . . 200 Sultana Pizarro . . . . . . i26 Sunbriar Plantagenet . . . . 78 Superman Plaudit . . 174 Sweep Pontiac . . . . . . i28 Sysonby Potomac . . . . 1 514 Preakness . . . . . . 89 Tamnany. Prince Charlie. . . . . 127 Tangle Prince Royal . . . . . 14i Tanya Proctor Knott . . . . . i, Ten Broeck Purchase . . . . . . 229 Tenny The Banshee Raceland . . . . . . io The Bard Ramapo . . . . . . i6o The Finn Rayon d'Or . . . . . i27 The Friar Reckon . . . . . . i4o The ill Used Reform . . . . . . 98 The Manager Regardless. . . . . - 7S The Parader Regret . . . . . . 217 The Picket Relentless 7 The Porter Remorseless . . . . 75 Thora Requital . . . . . . z67 Thunderer. Rey del Rey .153 Tipeary Rhynodine . . . . . 74 Tom Bowling Rica. . . . . . . 24 Tom Ochiltree Riley . . . . . . 152 Torso 248 . . . 211 .207 . 191 . 122 S53 74 57 . I29 .96 . .. 154 . '47 . 199 98 110 . . . 206 .22 . I40 203 . i6o . 108 117 143 95 221 224 231 212 . 102 226 . 200 204 i96 197 197 95-101 149 78 135 .222 i68 97 184 . i89 228 20 213 73 95 1o2 152 INDEX . .A Tourmament ..I Volante 132 Tremont 136 Volturno 115 Tristan 147 Voter .69 Trojan 207 Trompe Le Mort. 227 Wanda .3o Troubadour i34 Wanderer 94 Tyrant 129 Waterboy i86 Wavericy 98 Vagrant io. Whisk Broom II. 220 Vandalite 99 Wildidle 96 Vauxhall 76 Woodbine. 96 Vesxp.ius . . . 78 Virgil . 7S Yorkvile Belle .. 5 249

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