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figure for four miles. Fellowcraft was foaled in 

 1870, therefore he was a four-year-old when he 

 accomplished that feat by which he is best 

 remembered. He was a high-class race-horse, 

 although as a two-year-old he won only one race 

 out of five starts. As a three-year-old he had 

 a little worse fortune, starting nine times and 

 winning only once. 



It was not until he began to go over the long 

 distances that are permitted with age that Fellow- 

 craft showed to advantage. At Long Branch, in 

 1874, he won a purse at four miles, running the 

 distance in 7.43. Vandalite, a first-class one, 

 beat him at the same place in a race of two-mile 

 heats. He was one to start against Springbok 

 and Preakness at Saratoga in a dash of three 

 miles, which Springbok won in 5.42J. That was 

 a smashing good contest, in which Fellowcraft 

 was the third horse. He beat Katie Pease, 

 Wanderer, and others at the same place in a dash 

 of a mile and a half, and then Wanderer came 

 back and beat him in a race of two miles and a 

 quarter, the cup distance. 



It was in the four-mile race at Saratoga that he 

 earned his fame and also closed his turf career. 

 It was on the 20th of August, 1874, that he went 



