412 The American Tborotigbbred 



Tranby Mare through the sire line of Vandal 

 directly, but his dam, Bourbon Belle by imported 

 Bonnie Scotland, was out of Ella D. by Vandal. 

 So this chestnut colt had two crosses of Vandal 

 close up. 



/ The year 1884 was marked by the happiest 

 event which has ever taken place for the Western 

 turf. It was the season for the inaugural meeting 

 of the now famous Washington Park Jockey 

 Club at Chicago. That organization was built 

 upon the same principles which had made Jerome 

 Park so brilliant a success in 1866, and which 

 had in more recent years given Sheepshead Bay 

 the premier place on the Eastern turf. The men 

 who made up the Washington Park Jockey Club 

 were those gentlemen who were most conspicuous 

 in the social and business life of Chicago. There 

 had been previous racing of high character in the 

 Windy City, but it had taken on more or less of 

 a professional feature. When this social body 

 announced a meeting and constructed a beautiful 

 race-course easily accessible to the city, and built 

 a club-house that was almost a palace, the racing 

 of the West took on an entirely new aspect. 

 General Phil Sheridan was the first president of 

 the club, and on the opening day, June 28, 1884, 



