198 The Horse-Breeders* Guide and Hand Book. 



LEAMINGTON (Imp.) Continued. 



Norton, Reform, a promising stallion and good race-horse, Hyder Ali, James A, 

 Radamanthus, Olitipa, Golden Gate, Janet Norton, Bob Woolley, Katie Pearce, Aris- 

 tides, a first-class race-horse and sire of Henlopen, Pera, Hattie F, Fugitive, Parole, 

 who not only defeated the best in America, but went to England and defeated good 

 horses on their own chosen ground, Harold, Idler, Loiterer, Perfection, Ferncliff, Lu- 

 cifer, Susquehanna, Verdict, Pique, Maritana, Annie Augusta, Faithless, Spinaway, 

 Girofle, Spark, Gossip, Rosalie, Democrat, Outcast, Sioux, Blazes, Sunbeam, Kate 

 Clark, Pawnee, Bounce. Onondaga, Girofla, Wynndotte, Francesca, Iroquois, who 

 crossed the Atlantic and placed the great events, the Derby and St. Leger, to the 

 credit of America, the unbeaten and unfortunate Sensation, and many others, all win- 

 ners. He was exiled and condemned in the land of his birth, but was appreciated 

 and will be remembered in the land of his adoption. His sons are proving successful 

 stallions and his daughters producing winners. Leamington was a brown, 16 hands- 

 high, with a beautiful head and neck, good shoulders, great depth of chest, good 

 back, great length, but light, body and flank, good length of hip, and as fine hind legs 

 and hock as were ever placed under a horse. He died the property of Mr. A. Welch, 

 in the Erdenheim Stud, Chestnut Hill, Pa., Monday, May 6th, 1878. Let his blood be 

 preserved by crossing some son of Lexington with his daughters from Lexington 

 mares. 



LEXINGTON, 



(WINNER OF THE ASSOCIATION AND CITIZENS' STAKES AT LEXING- 

 TON, KY., IN 1853, AND THE GREAT STATE STAKE OF NEW 

 ORLEANS, 1854.) 



LEXINGTON by Boston, brod by Dr. E. Warfield, The Meadows near Lexington, Ky., 

 foaled 1850, dam Alice Carneal, dain of Waxy, Umpire, Release, etc., by imp. Sarpe- 

 don, son of Emilius. Lexington, during his turf career, met with only one defeat. He 

 made his debut at Lexington, Ky., Spring meeting, of 1853, in the Association Stake 

 for three-year olds ; mile heats, 20 subscribers, J2 starters. The track was almost 

 knee deep in mud, and raining. In a false start, Lexington, then called Darley by 

 Dr. Warfield, from his resemblance to the Darley Arabian, ran away, in company 

 with Madonna and Garret Davis, and ran two miles and three quarters before they 

 could be stopped. Garret Davis was then withdrawn, and Lexington was led to the 

 post at once and the word given. He distanced all but three of the colts the first heat, 

 including Vandal, Blonde, Hebron and Big Boston. Vandal, Blonde and Hebron were 

 all famous on the turf. Wild Irishman was second in both heats, Fanny Fern fourth 

 and third, and Madonna third and distanced. The time of the race was 1 :55|, 1 :57. 

 The same week he won the Citizens' Stakes, two-mile heats, beating Midway, who 

 won the first heat, Garret Davis, who was third, and distanced Margaret West, Heb- 

 ron, Blonde nnd Eva ; time 3:42, 3:4H, 3:49. Darley was then sold to Captain Willa 

 Viley and Richard Ten Broeck, and his name was changed to Lexington. He was 

 then matched against Sally Waters, three-mile heats, the owners of the mare 

 betting $5,000 against $3,500 on the horse. The race was run at New Orleans, over 

 theMetairie Course, Dec. 2, 1853, the track being deep in mud. Lexington won in 

 6:23, 6:24|, distancing the mare in the second heat. His next appearance was for 

 the great State Stake, $5,000 each, play or pay, four-mile heats; Kentucky entered 

 Lexington; Alabama, Highlander; Louisiana, Arrow, and Mississippi Lecompte. 

 Lexington won in 8:08, 8:04, track muddy, distancing Arrow in the first heat, and 

 Highlander in the second. Highlander was the favoiite. A week after he met Le- 

 compte and Rheube for the Jockey Club Purse, four-mile heats. In this he was de- 

 feated, in 7:26, 7:38|, the best race to that day ever run in America. It was and is- 

 still claimed that his defeat was caused by his jockey, Henry Meichon, pulling him 

 up at the end of the third mile, in second heat, thinking the race was ended. Richard 

 Ten Broeck, who had now become the sole owner of Lexington, feeling that his horse 

 could beat the best time made, 7:26, challenged Lecompte, or any other horse, to run 

 Lexington four-mile heats for $25,000, or run him against the time, 7:26. The latter 

 proposition was accepted, and the race was run over the Metallic Course, New Or- 

 leans, April 2, 1855. Lexington won in 7:19f, running first mile in 1:47; second, 

 1:52^; third, 1:51; fourth, 1 :48|; thus beating the best time on record 6 seconds. 

 On the 14th of April he met his great rival, Lecompte, for the Jockey Club Purse, 

 $1,000, and an inside stake of $2,500, each four-mile heats. Lexington won the first 

 heat in 7:23|, and Lecompte was withdrawn. This ended the turf career of Lexing- 

 ton. In 1856, while in England, Mr. R. A. Alexander purchased Lexington from Mr. 

 Ten Broeck, paying $7,500 cash and $7,500 more upon his return home to America, 



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