394 Tbe American Thoroughbred 



racing seasons. Bramble was second only to 

 Luke Blackburn as a horse to carry weight and 

 go over a distance of ground. Racing from 

 1877 to 1 88 1, he almost literally, from his four- 

 year-old to his six-year-old form, swept all the 

 cup horses before him. He had been successful 

 both as a two-year-old and a three-year-old, but 

 when it came to his four-year-old racing, where 

 the distances were longer and the weights were 

 higher, he became the great stalwart among thor- 

 oughbreds to which his heritage would entitle 

 him. 



He started in his four-year-old form twenty 

 times, won fifteen races, was second in two, third 

 in one, and unplaced but twice. During that 

 time he won races of all characters, but he distin- 

 guished himself by taking the Congress Stakes 

 at Saratoga, the Baltimore Cup, the Monmouth 

 Cup, the Westchester Cup, and the Saratoga 

 Cup. He was peculiarly a horse of gameness 

 and of stamina, and had he lived earlier, in the 

 times of the four-milers, he doubtless would have 

 been a striking character on battle-fields of that 

 kind. Duke of Magenta, Bushwhacker, Day 

 Star, Warfield, Lou, Lanier, Governor Hampton, 

 Monitor, Susquehanna, and in fact every good 



