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Iroquois. A remarkable horse, descended from the best 

 and most successful racing families in England and America. 

 Foaled in 1878. By imported Leamington, son of Faugh-a- 

 Ballagh ; dam, Maggie B. B., the dam of Harold, by imported 

 Australian ; second dam, Madeline, by Old Boston, out of Mag- 

 nolia, dam of Kentucky by imported Glencoe. His color is 

 brown, stands 16 hands, with white stripe in the face, white on 

 the left fore foot ; he has a well placed, oblique shoulder, good 

 barrel, fine hip and loin, and sound, good legs and feet. He 

 has been a fine success in the stud. As a two-year-old he won 

 the Chesterfield stakes at Newmarket, and Levant stakes at 

 Goodwood, England ; as a three-year-old he won the Burwell 

 stakes, Derby at Epsom, Prince of Wales stakes, Doncaster, 

 St. Leger, Newmarket Derby, and other important events in 

 England, winning, in nine races, the sum of £16,805. 



Irreg'ular Race. The trotting rules provide that any 

 public race at a less distance than one mile, and exceeding 

 half a mile, is an irregular race, and time made in any such 

 race is a bar. 



Isabel. A family of celebrated pure cream-colored 

 horses in Hessenhausen, near Hanover, Germany, from which 

 the famous cream-colored horses used by Queen Victoria on 

 state occasions are obtained. 



Isabella; Isabelle; Isabelline. A name applied to 

 a horse of a pale brown, or buff color, similar to that of a hare. 

 The origin of the color is given by two French writers, Bouillet 

 and Littr6, but better by Isaac DTsraeli, in his Curiosities of 

 Literature. At the beginning of the seventeenth century 

 Ostend was being besieged by the Austrians. Isabella, 

 daughter of Philip II, and wife of the Archduke Albert, Gov- 

 ernor of the Netherlands, vowed not to change her body linen 

 till Ostend was taken. The siege, unluckily for her comfort, 

 lasted three years — 1601-1604 — but the fair princess kept her 

 oath ; and the supposed color of the Archduchess's linen gave 

 rise to a fashionable color called risabeau, or the Isabella — a 

 kind of whitish-yellow-dingy. 



