38 The Iforse-JBreeders* Guide and Hand Book. 



ENQUIRER, 



(WINNER OF THE PHCENIX HOTEL AND CITIZEN STAKES AT LEXING- 

 TON ; CONTINENTAL HOTEL AND ROBINS STAKES AT LONG 

 BRANCH, AND THE KENNER STAKES AT SARATOGA ALL IN 1870,) 



Will stand for mares the Season of 1883, at the Belle Mcade Stud, Gen. 

 ~W. G. Harding, Proprietor, near Nashville, Tenn. Season full Oc- 

 tober 1st, 1882. Application to Gen. W.H.Jackson, lock box 383, 

 Nashville, Tenn. Yearling sales annually about May 1st. 



ENQUIRER, by imp Leamington, son of Faugh-a-Ballagh, bred by H. F. Vissman, 

 Louisville, Kentucky ; dam Lida, by Lexington, son of Boston, 2d dam Lize, by 

 Am. Eclip c e, out of Gabriella, dam of George, Marlin. by Garrison's Zfnganee, son of 

 Sir Archy. As a race-horse Enquirer ranks as the best son of Leamington both as 

 race-horse and sire : he started three times as a two-yi ar old in 1869 ; was unplaced in 

 sweepstake at Cincinnati (one mile) won by Hamburg, in 1:45 ; ran unplaced in Wil- 

 lard Hotel Stakes at Louisville (one mile) in 1 :48, won by his stable companion, 

 Lynchburg. Won George Elliot Stake for two-year olds at Memphis (one mile), 

 beating Hamburg, Lynchburg, Mundane, and Kildare, in 1 :48. In 1870, when three 

 years old. ran six races and won them all. Lexington won the Phoenix Hotel Stakes 

 (mile heats) in 1 :44f , 1 :44, beating Catina and distancing Longfellow ill the second 

 heat ; same place won Citizens' Stake (two-mile heats) in 3:35f, 3:441, beating Lyttle- 

 ton ; the first mile in the first heat was rim in 1:431. Cincinnati won sweepstake for 

 three-year olds (two-mile heats) in 3:50, 3:391, beating Conductor and Rest'ess. Long 

 Branch won the Continental Hotel. Stakes (mile heats) in 1 :47. 1 :49, 1 :51, beating 

 Lynchburg (who won the first heat and broke his shoulder at the start of the second), 

 Maggie B. B., dam of Iroquois, Haric, Susan Ann. dam of Thora, &c. Same place 

 won the Bobbins' Stake (two mile heats), beating Kingfisher, who won the first heat, 

 and the Major, in 3:561, 3:54, 4:00 ; track muddy. Saratoga won the Kenner Stakes 

 (two miles), in 3:48, beating Hamburg, Telegram and Remorseless ; value $10,250, 

 the most valuable Kenner ever run. Value of winnings at three years old, $20,800 ; 

 his leg gave way in his four-year old form, and he was put into the stud, but trained 

 again at seven years old, when he started in one race (two miles) but was unplaced. 

 The family from which he descends is a good racing one. His dam, Lida, and gran- 

 dam, Lize, were not trained. Eclipse, the sire of his grandam, was the race-horse of 

 his day ; he beat all the best horses of his time, and won the great sectional match, 

 the North against the South, run over the Union Course, L. I., May 27, 1823, for 

 $20,000 a side, Eclipse beating Henry, who won the first heat, in 7:371, 7:49, 8:24. 

 Gabrielle, his great grandam, was by the renowned Sir Archy ; was a fine race-mare, 

 and dam of the noted Geo. Martin, which beat Reel and Hannah Harris (four-mile 

 heats) in 7;33, 7:43. Enquirer has not had a fair chance in the stud ; he was virtually 

 retired for several years, there being five living foals reported by him in 1878, four in 

 1879, and three in 1880. Yet he has always held a high position as a winning sire. 

 Amongst the best of his get, all winners, are Leander (Searcher), mile in l:41f ; 

 McWhirter, 2 miles, 3:301 ; the fastest race was run by a three-year old, Lizzie 

 Whipps (two mile heats), in 3:36^, 3:39 ; Harkaway (mile heats) in 1:43, 1:42$ (two 

 mile heats), in 3:39, 3:35^ ; Solicitor, two miles in 3:34^ ; Bill Bruce, three-quarters of 

 mile in 1:151, mile heats 1 :43f, 1 :44, 2 miles in 3:361 ; McHenry, Blue Eyes, 2i 

 miles in 1:55 , and 2 miles in 3:58 ; Goodnight, seven -eighth of mile in 1 :28f , 

 mile 1:421, and 1 miles, 120 Ibs., in 1:551 ; Getaway, 1J miles in 2:07, fastest on 

 record 2-mile heats in 3 :36i, 3:351; Falsetto, H miles in 2:08, 2 miles in 3:351 with 

 118 Ibs. : Pinafore, one mile five hundred yards in 2:11. Other reputable winners in 

 good time are Fortuna, Asrot, Enlight. Mannie Grey, Yelton, Clandeboy, Fairy 

 Queen, Lizzie D, Enterprise, Miss Ella,"Enquiress, Caligula, Clarissima, Ed. Turner, 

 Carrie M, Bailey (now Revenge), Response, Bosque Belle, Gen. Jackson, Rambeau, 

 Mascotte. He had but four or five representatives on the turf in 1882, and they 

 won a fair share of the races in about the fastest time. Enquirer is a dark bay 

 with an irregular-shaped star in his forehead and a narrow streak of grey hair 

 running down his face and left hind leg, white above the pastern and three white 

 splotches in left flank. He has a neat head and ear, good width of jaw, well-set 

 neck, running into an oblique, strong, broad shoulder ; good depth of girth, well- 

 shaped, round barrel, though rather light near the standing ribs ; good, strong 

 hips, though inclined to be angular ; good length from point of hip to whirlbone, 

 and thence to stifle ; good hocks, good sound legs and feet, with the exception of 



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