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| LITIPA, is by Leamington out of Oliata. She 

 was bred at Chestnut Hill by Mr. A. Welch, 

 and was sold to Messrs. Hunter & Travers when 

 a yearling. Her first appearance was at Sara- 

 toga, in 1874, when she won the Flash Stakes, for two-year- 

 olds, half a mile, in 47f s., beating Willie Burke, Australind, 

 Calvin, Victorious, Bayminster, Ravenna, and Caroline, 

 thus early stamping herself as a flyer of no common ability. 

 She did not again run till fall meeting at Jerome Park, 

 when she won the Nursery Stakes, one mile, in 1:46, defeat- 

 ing Mr. M'Grath's Chesapeake, Rhadamanthus, Bayminster, 

 James A., Leader, Athlete, and Australind. These were 

 her only performances that year. During the winter of 

 1874 her owners, Messrs. Hunter & Travers, sold her to 

 Mr. August Belmont, and in 1875 she made her first ap- 

 pearance under his colors at the Jerome Park Spring 

 Meeting, in the Maryland Stakes, for three-year-old fillies, 

 a mile, which she won in 1:49, beating Ascension, Springlet, 

 Finework, Vinaigrette, and Mattie A. At the same meet- 

 ing, in the Ladies' Stakes, for three-year-old fillies, one mile 

 and a half, she justified her backers' confidence by running 

 away from all her competitors in 2:42|. Mattie A., 

 Invoice, Misdeal, Lizzie R., and Scramble were the beaten 

 ones. At Saratoga, in the famous "sweepstakes for all 

 ages," she was unable to get better than the third to 

 Grinstead, who, however, made the distance, one and a 

 quarter miles, in the fastest time on record, 2:08J, which 

 was only eclipsed at Lexington the other day by Chas. 

 Gorham, he beating Grinstead's time by a quarter of a 

 second. Three days after Grinstead's victory, Olitipa won 

 in a canter the Alabama Stakes, for three-year-old fillies, a 

 mile and an eighth, in 2:00j, and Invoice, a filly by a 

 Asteroid out of a planet mare, and Australind were the 

 three beaten ones. Two days after this she started against 

 Springbok, Preakness, Grinstead, Aaron Pennington, Ruth- 

 erfurd, and Wildiddle (a strong field) for the Saratoga Cup, 

 which resulted in the famous dead heat between the two 

 first-named. The distance was two miles and a quarter, 



and the time 3:56}. The owners of the dead-heaters 

 divided the stakes. Olitipa's last appearance in 1875 was 

 at the Jerome Park Fall Meeting, in the Hunter Stakes, for 

 three-year-old fillies. Her only competitors were Mattie A. 

 and Gillyflower, and these she had no difficulty in beating 

 in 3:14 (one and three-quarter miles). Her total winnings 

 in 1875, then, amounted to the round sum of $10,600, 

 which was a fine showing for so few races. In 1876, at 

 Jerome Park Spring Meeting, her first race was for a purse 

 for all ages, which she won in 3:1 2i (one mile and three- 

 quarters), beating easily Kildare and Stampede. She next 

 came out for the Centennial Stakes, for all ages, two miles 

 and three-quarters, in which Tom Ochiltree and Acrobat 

 both beat her. Time, 5:09}. In our account of that race 

 we threw out the impression that neither of the horses was 

 up to the mark. This was afterwards more than verified 

 in her case by the fact that she never again ran, though 

 speculation was rife at one time with regard to the appear- 

 ances of the same trio in the Monmouth Cup. These 

 expectations were not justified, as Olitipa did not run again, 

 and uow is broken down from the same complaint which 

 last year caused trouble. This mare's performances have 

 all been first-class, and we shall watch with interest her 

 debut as a matron at the stud. Olitipa will be bred to The 

 Ill-Used. She is a mare of great size and high quality. 

 Her frame is truly grand in its racing-like proportions. The 

 long angles behind from hip to whirlbone, and thence to 

 the stifle, and thence to the point of the hock, are fully dis- 

 played. Her fine bloodlike head and neck and superb 

 gamecock throttle are followed by a splendid shoulder. 

 Olitipa is a great strider, and with all her exceedingly 

 fine qualities she has an even temper. She never made 

 the slightest trouble at the starting-post, and, commonly 

 lying behind for about seven-eighths of her races, 

 found no trouble whatever in winning when her jockey 

 intimated his opinion that it was time she should say 

 good-bye to her companions and lead the van. Sports- 

 man. 



