382 The American Tborougbhred 



the quarter of one of his fore feet badly and was 

 stopped in his work. 



At four years old started in two races. Jerome 

 Park, won Club Purse, one mile, in 1.45, beating 

 Topsy and Potomac. Was unplaced in Coney 

 Island Cup, won by Glenmore in 3.58J. This 

 closed his racing career. 



Almost contemporaneous with Luke Black- 

 burn, but doing his racing entirely in England, 

 was Iroquois. He was a brown horse, foaled 

 almost in sight of Philadelphia, at the Erden- 

 heim Stud. Imported Leamington was then 

 standing at Erdenheim, and Iroquois was the 

 result of a union between Leamington and 

 Maggie B. B. Maggie B. B. was also the dam 

 of Harold, a first-class horse. She was by im- 

 ported Australian and her dam was Madeline, a 

 daughter of old Boston. Again that Diomed 

 line which has been so strong in America! 



Iroquois was sent abroad as a youngster; and 

 he made them sit up and notice on the other side, 

 just as they had sat up and noticed when Rich- 

 ard Ten Broeck made his famous invasion with 

 Prior, Prioress, and others, and just as Parole, 

 but a few years before, had compelled their 

 attention. Iroquois's racing over there was a 



