CHAPTER VIII 



FROM THE 2.1 3^ OF RARUS TO THE 2.O3J OF THE 



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RARUS succeeded Goldsmith Maid to the crown. 

 He was a bay gelding, foaled in 1867; bred by 

 R. B. Conklin, of Greenport, Long Island ; by 

 Conklin's Abdallah, a horse of unknown blood, 

 dam Nancy Awful by Telegraph, son of Smith 

 Burr's Napoleon ; second dam Lady Hunter by 

 Vermont Black Hawk. He trotted in 2.42^ to 

 saddle as a four-year-old, and in 1874 was fairly 

 launched on his turf career. In 1875 he beat such 

 horses as Molly Morris, Belle Brasfield, Adelaide, 

 and Kansas Chief, and in 1876 beat Smuggler, 

 Judge Fullerton, Great Eastern, and other good 

 horses. In 1878 Hopeful was his fastest rival. 

 At Buffalo, August 3, 1878, he started against 

 time, and he was at the half-mile pole in 1.05^ 

 and finished the mile in 2.13^. From an account 

 that I wrote at the time I take the following: 

 " The horse and driver received a perfect ovation 

 when they returned to weigh, and it was with 



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