10 HISTORYOFTHE 



mantown eleventh. The quarter 26, half 51, three-quarters 

 l:\7j4, mile 1:45, mile and a quarter 2:1124, mile and a haif 

 2:3Sy 4 . 



DESCRIPTION AND PEDIGREE 



Vagrant is a dark bay gelding, blaze face, four white stock- 

 ings, and stands a shade over 15^4 hands. He was bred at the 

 Preakness Stud Farm, the property of M. H. Sanford, Esq., 

 and was purchased as a yearling by T. J. Nichols, Paris, Ky., 

 for $250. He has a neat head and neck, good shoulders, excel- 

 lent middle piece, great length, immense hips and quarters and 

 tremendous stifles, with sound feet and legs. His action is easy 

 and graceful, a regular daisy cutter, and from his style and car- 

 riage must go a distance of ground. 



Vagrant is by Virgil (son of Vandal and Hymenia by Imp. 

 Yorkshire; 1st dam Lazy, by Imp. Scythian; 2d dam Lindora, 

 by Lexington ; 3d dam Picayune, by Medoc ; 4th dam Sally 

 Howe, by Sir William of Transport ; 5th dam Lady Robin, by 

 Robin Grey; 6th dam by Quicksilver (son of imp. Medley) ; 7th 

 dam by Meede's Celer. 



He started in his two-year-old form six times, won five, and 

 beaten once. He won the Alexander Stakes, half mile, at Louis- 

 ville, Ky., in 50^, beating Harry Hill, Russ Butler and ten 

 others. Same meeting with 5 lbs. penalty, ran third to Creedmoor 

 for the Tennessee Stakes, three-quarters of a mile in 1 \22y 2 

 track deep in mud. At Lexington, Ky., won sweepstakes for 2- 

 year-old colts, three-quarters of a mile, beating The Nipper, Creed- 

 moor, and six others, in 1 :18. Same meeting won the sweepstakes 

 for two-year-old colts and fillies, one mile, beating Clemmie G., 

 The Nipper, and five others, in 1 :45y 2 . At Louisville Fall Meet- 

 ing, won the Belle Meade Stakes, three-quarters of a mile, beating 

 Bengal, Bombay, and nine others, in 1 :\7%. Same meeting won 



