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TURF, TEN YEARS' RECORD OF THE. 



Vanderbilt for Maud S., when her record was 

 2.09f, was not considered too great. 



Banning. While trotting is distinctively an 

 American sport, the breeding and training of 

 runners has not been neglected in the United 

 States during the past ten years. Indeed, the 

 achievements of our thoroughbreds, both at 

 home and in Europe, have been almost as re- 

 markable as those of our trotters. And this is 

 not surprising. They have been bred from the 

 best English stock, and our soil and climate 

 have been proved to be equally favorable to im- 

 provement of the breed. Early in the decade 

 Ten Broeck scored a series of most brilliant 

 performances, beating all previous records of 

 running one mile, two miles, and four miles. 

 This horse was of the purest blood, being by 

 imported Phaeton (son of King Tom, who was 

 by the great Irish race-horse Harkaway, dam 

 Pocahontas, the dam of Stockwell, Rataplan, 

 etc., by Glencoe), dam Fanny Holton (Lyttle- 

 ton's dam), by Lexington. He was bred by 

 the late John Harper, near Midway, Ky., and 

 in 1876 stsirted eight times, winning seven 

 times, and coming in second once. The horses 

 that he ran against were the best in the coun- 

 try. His greatest performance of the year was 

 at Louisville, Ky., where, in a four-mile race 

 against time, he scored in 7.15|, the fastest pre- 

 vious time being that of Fellowcraft, 7.19f. 

 The same season and the next Ten Broeck ran 

 a mile at Louisville, Ky., in 1.39, two miles 

 in 3.27, and three miles in 5.26J, the time in 

 neither case having been equaled before. Ten 

 Broeck died in Midway, Ky., June 28, 1887. 

 Some of the greatest triumphs of American run- 

 ning-horses have been won on the English turf. 

 In 1877 Mr. H. M. Sanford crossed the Atlan- 

 tic with American horses. Brown Prince (by 

 Lexington out of imported Britannia IV by 

 the Flying Dutchman) won his first race at the 

 Newmarket Craven meeting as a three-year- 

 old, beating four at even weights; but his best 

 record was made in the two thousand guineas 

 stakes, where he ran second to Chamant, beat- 

 ing Silvio, and showing sufficient form to call 

 public attention to his chances for the Derby. 

 This race was the best comparison of high-class 

 horses of the two countries that had then oc- 

 curred ; for, though Brown Prince never after 

 showed form, he was a good representative 

 American horse in that day, and he met horses 

 of equally good rating in England. In 1879 

 Mr. Pierre Lorillard's venture was more suc- 

 cessful. His six-year-old gelding, Parole (by 

 imported Leamington, dam Maiden by Lexing- 

 ton, grand-dam by imported Glencoe), won 

 four handicaps and one weight-for-weight race 

 (the Epsom cup) out of seven starts. His op- 

 ponents do not seem to have been of the high- 

 est class, but from favorable weights at, first, 

 he was compelled to take up the top weight in 

 the Ascot stakes in which he was defeated, 

 possibly owing to the heaviness of the course, 

 which made the extra weight tell doubly against 

 his chances. His two-year-old sister, Papoose, 



also won her maiden race, a sweepstakes, at 

 Newmarket. In 1881 Mr. Lorillard's Iroquois 

 eclipsed the performances of all previous Amer- 

 ican horses in England. This horse was a 

 sturdy American colt, bright brown in color, 

 and standing \5\ hands high. He was not ele- 

 gant in appearance nor symmetrical in shape 

 as some racers are, but he had all the qualities 

 that mark a high-bred race-horse. His sire 

 WHS Leamington, the famous sire of Parole, 

 Harold, Sensation, and other noted horses, and 

 his dam the American mare Maggie B. B. He 

 was bred by Mr. Aristides Welch, at Chestnut 

 Hill farm, near Philadelphia, and was sold to 

 Mr. Lorillard, when a yearling, for $7,000. He 

 was sent to England in 1879, and in 1880 started 

 in twelve races, winning four. In 1881 he un- 

 fortunately missed the two thousand guineas 

 stake, but won the Derby by half a length (the 

 first time an American horse ever did it, and 

 the third instance only in which it was won by 

 horses of foreign birth), and the St. Leger, over 

 a longer course, by a length. In both races 

 he was ridden by the famous jockey, Fred. 

 Archer. Between the two great events he won 

 the Prince of Wales's stakes at Ascot, giving 

 nine pounds. The success of Iroquois, aside 

 from his admitted high qualities, was to be at- 

 tributed in no small degree to his American 

 trainer, Pincas, who, as a well-informed sport- 

 ing correspondent wrote at the time, u took a 

 lame horse from the hands of his predecessor 

 and won the great event of the year." How 

 great a horse Iroquois was is proved by the 

 fact that since the establishment of the two 

 races, only nine double victories had been 

 gained. The effect of this unexpected victory 

 upon the English people was thus told by a 

 veteran correspondent : " Nothing we could 

 have done not the victory of the America, 

 nor winning the international rifle match no, 

 nor the sewing machine, nor the telegraph, nor 

 the telephone, nor any exploit in all our long 

 list, has ever brought us that kind of renown 

 that goes with the Derby." The same year 

 (1881) Mr. Keen's Foxhall won the Grand 

 Prix de Paris. This was a bay colt with black 

 points, and the near hind pastern white. He 

 had a clean head, light neck, a back a trifle 

 long, but a good barrel, and shoulders of 

 admirable power. He was bred by Mr. A. 

 J. Alexander at Woodbnrn Farm, Ky., and 

 was bought by Mr. Keen's agent in 1879 for 

 $050. His sire was King Alphonso, son of the 

 imported Phaeton. King Alphonso's dam was 

 Capitola, a daughter of Vandal. Foxhall's 

 dam was Jamaica, a daughter of Lexington 

 by Fanny Ludlow. He won his first race at 

 Newmarket in 1880. Foxhall was the first 

 American colt that ever ran in France, and 

 his finish for the Grand Prix was magnificent. 

 Fred. Archer was riding the French colt Tris- 

 tan, and as they came along the home-stretch, 

 rode his very best, and lifted his horse almost 

 even with Foxhall. A shout of " Tristan ! 

 Tristan ! " was rending the air from thousands 



