368 The American Tborougbbred 



set down the fastest time at that distance up to 

 that date. That closed his career on the turf. 



This much is given of Alarm to show the dif- 

 ference between the type of horse that was racing 

 in Lexington's day and the type that had already 

 begun to be prominent as early as 187 1. There 

 were still horses capable of going a distance and 

 raced at those distances for years after this, but 

 Alarm was the first of the sprinting kind of which 

 Voter was the last distinguished representative 

 which we had on the American turf. The four- 

 miler died hard. 



Ten Broeck won the four-mile heat race in 

 1876 at Baltimore, called the Bowie Stakes, 

 and that gave him the first of his real fame. 

 He was by the English horse Phaeton out of 

 Fanny Holton by Lexington out of Nantura, 

 who was the dam of Longfellow. "Uncle" John 

 Harper, the man who brought Longfellow North 

 to beat Harry Bassett, also bred Ten Broeck. 

 Ten Broeck was saved until he was a three-year- 

 old, and then he began a career that made him 

 look like a champion. There were a great many 

 good horses out in his day, but Ten Broeck kept 

 pace with the very best of them. He was not 

 trained as carefully as he might have been, and 



