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I IAVOLO is a bay gelding, fifteen hands three 

 inches high, with a great deal of strength and 

 propelling power. He was bred by Major 

 Thomas Doswell, of Virginia, and was foaled 

 1870, and got by Jonesboro' out of Ninette, by Kevenue, 

 grandam Nina, by Boston. Nina was out of imported 

 Frolicksome Fannie, by Lottery. Jonesboro' was got by 

 Lexington out of Alice Jones, by Glencoe, grandam Blue 

 Bonnet, by Hedgeford, dam of Lightning, Thunder, Load- 

 stone, Lancaster, Nebula, &c. When Diavolo was young, 

 very little was done with him. He was lame on and off, and 

 had a violent attack of distemper. When he was four years 

 old, Major Doswell sold him to Ayres & Sutcliffe, his pre- 

 sent owners, for $500. He was to retain the privilege of 

 starting the horse twice on the flat, and did start him once, 

 after which he turned him over to the purchasers. George 

 Sutcliffe then undertook to teach him how to jump. At his 

 first lesson he behaved kindly and well, but at the second 

 his conduct was the reverse. He refused his leaps after the 

 first fence, plunged about like a wild horse, and bolted all 

 over the course. His rider was unable to control him at all. 

 He then got lame, and was let-up for three weeks At the 

 end of that Sutcliffe mounted and went at him again. He 

 is a powerful man in the saddle, rides 145 Ibs., and has un- 

 daunted resolution. Somewhat to his surprise, he found 

 Diavolo more tractable. Every three or four days the horse 

 had a slow gallop and a number of leaps. He soon took to 

 the business and appeared to like it. He is now a very fast 

 horse, a great weight-carrier, and a good stayer. But he 

 is a difficult horse to ride, especially at his fences. He has 

 plenty of power to lift his weight, but he goes with his head 

 very low, and unless it is got up at his leaps he never clears 

 the obstacle. He first appeared as a jumper at the Utica 

 Fair, in the fall of last year, where he ran in a hurdle race 

 with his stable-companion, Blind Tom, Lily, and Lobelia. 

 Diavolo, in making the running for Blind Tom, fell at the 

 first hurdle, and the latter won. At the same place he 

 started in a steeplechase, and when leading at the last fence 

 but two, he overjumped, and his rider fell. He next ran 

 at the extra meeting at Jerome Park, in the Handicap 

 Steeplechase, against Trouble, Resolute, Moonstone, Mary 

 Clark, Harry Booth, Impecunious, Vesuvius, Austrine, and 

 Blind Tom. Diavolo ran Trouble to a neck, but he was in 

 receipt of 18 Ibs. Diavolo's first race this year was the 

 Grand National Handicap Steeplechase, at Jerome Park 

 Spring Meeting. He was opposed by Resolute, Daylight, 



Moonstone, Austrine, and Bibakiba. Diavolo won with 

 146 Ibs., Resolute second (150 Ibs.), Daylight third (143 

 Ibs.). His next race was a handicap steeplechase at the 

 same place, in which Deadhead, Resolute, Moonstone, 

 Meteor, Stanford, Daylight, and Coronet also started. 

 Diavolo carried 149 Ibs., and won ; Deadhead (140 Ibs.) 

 second, Resolute (147 Ibs.) third. At Monmouth Park, in 

 a two-mile hurdle race, Diavolo was third to Trouble, at 

 even weights. At the second meeting Diavolo beat Trouble 

 at even weights, over hurdles, and also defeated Deadhead, 

 Risk, and Minnie Mac. At Saratoga, in the Handicap 

 Steeplechase, about three miles, Diavolo, with 155 Ibs., beat 

 Trouble (158 Ibs.), together with Deadhead, Daylight, 

 Stanford, Helen Bennett, and Prodigal Son, all of whom 

 had much lighter weights. In the second Handicap Steeple- 

 chase, Diavolo, with 158 Ibs., ran second to Deadhead (140 

 Ibs.), Stanford (140 Ibs.) third, Daylight (135 Ibs.) not 

 placed. At Jerome Park fall meeting, Diavolo, with 158 

 Ibs., beat Trouble (same weight) second, Deadhead (152 

 Ibs.) third, Coronet, Busy Bee, and Boz not placed. At 

 the same meeting, Trouble (158 Ibs.) beat Diavolo (163 Ibs.) 

 second, Deadhead (149 Ibs.) third. Busy Bee and Coronet 

 also started. At the same meeting Diavolo, with 164 Ibs., 

 bolted, and was not placed to Trouble, who won with 160 

 Ibs. ; Coronet second, and Busy Bee third. At Baltimore, 

 Diavolo won the Grand Steeplechase Post Stakes, with 154 

 Ibs., Coronet (154 Ibs.) second, Deadhead (148 Ibs.) third. 

 At Washington he won a hurdle race, a mile and a half 

 over eight hurdles, beating Busy Bee and Cariboo At the 

 same place, he won a hurdle race of two miles and a half, 

 over fifteen hurdles, beating Busy Bee. At the Jerome 

 Park extra meeting, Diavolo won the Handicap Steeple- 

 chase with 165 Ibs., beating Boz (117 Ibs.), Resolute (138 

 Ibs.), and Osage (140 Ibs ). He was then handicapped 

 with 175 Ibs. in another steeplechase, Resolute 140 Ibs., 

 Osage 136 Ibs., and Boz 118 Ibs. In this effort to give 

 Resolute, a horse of his own age, thirty-five pounds, Diavolo 

 failed through slipping at the water-jump. He went to his 

 stable on three legs, having wrenched the muscles of the 

 hock and thigh. We are glad, however, to be able to 

 state that he is getting better, and that there is great 

 hope of his recovery from that severe and very painful in- 

 jury. It has, as might very naturally have been expected, 

 reduced him somewhat in flesh, and has also tended to 

 bring back a cough to which he has been subject at times 

 ever since last Fall. 



