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stringiDg them out in a line at the finish. The time, 2.32f, is the 

 best on record for a mile and a half. Immediately after this race 

 Lamplighter was purchased by Pierre Lorillard for 830,000. 



Tammany, whom many believed to be the best race-horse in 

 America to-day, is a chestnut sun of Iroquois (the horse that Pierre 

 Lorillard won an English Derby with), and is owned by Marcus Daly, 

 the Montana " Copper King." Tammany was not a really remarkable 

 two-year-old, though he won the great Eclipse stake, worth over $24,000, 

 at Morris Park, but his three year-old winning performances stamped 

 him as a very high-class race-horse. These include the Wither stakes 

 at one mile at Morris Park, where he beat among others Yorkville 

 Belle and Mars ; the Realization stakes at II miles at Coney Island, 

 beating The Pepper, Patron, and others, and the Lorillard stakes at 

 If at Monmouth, where he defeated The Pepper, Yorkville Belle, 

 Huron, Azra, Mars, and Shellbark easily in 2.20J, the fastest time on 

 record at the weight and distance. His total winnings in 1892 exceed 

 850,000. Tammany has never met Lamplighter, and should they meet 

 as four-year-olds the result should be a sensational event. 



Banquet, the best horse of the " aged " division in 1892, enjoys that 

 distinction merely because there were no really great " aged " horses 

 on the turf in 1892. Banquet is merely a good second-class race-horse. 

 He is honest, hardy, and game — a great bread-winner, though he 

 never won a really great race. He was bred by the late W. L. Scott, 

 of Erie, Pa., and made dehut on the turf in the white and yellow silk 

 of the dead statesman. He is a full brother to the somewhat noted 

 Tea Tray, being by imported Rayon d'Or out of Ella T. by War 

 Dance, and was a very ordinary two and three-year-old. But in the 

 hands of the Brooklyn plunger, M. F. Dwyer, he has proved a sterling 

 handicap horse, winning this season no less than twelve races. 



Trotting and Pacing Horses. 



In equine history the American can read no more interesting chapter 

 than the story of the evolution of the trotting breed of hoi-ses. The 

 trotter is peculiarly the American horse — the only important variety 

 indigenous to American soil. The breed is much less than a century 

 old, and its progress in speed, in value, and in production during the 

 last thirty years has been marvelous. 



Racing at various gaits became prevalent in " the old Colonial days." 



