448 The American Thoroughbred 



Congress Hall Stakes, five-eighths mile, handily, 

 by a length, beating Archduke, 119 pounds, 

 Harvey, 119, Aratoma, 107, Laudeman, 102, and 

 two others; time, i.oi^. His next and last race 

 at Saratoga, in the Grand Union Hotel Stakes, 

 three-quarters mile, was one of the many evi- 

 dences of the glorious uncertainty of racing. 

 Archduke, 117 pounds, Hamburg, 129, and 

 Harvey, 1 1 7, made up the field, and they fin- 

 ished in the order named. Archduke doing the 

 son of Hanover by a head, with Harvey fifteen 

 lengths in the rear; time, 1.15. 

 X At Brighton Beach, Hamburg, 127 pounds, 

 won the Rising Generation Stakes, three-quarters 

 mile, by three lengths, beating Central Trust, 

 122 pounds. Bowling .Brook, 125, Blarneystone, 

 122, Julius Caesar, iii, and Blissful, 107; time, 

 I.I 5. Four days afterward, with 132 pounds, he 

 won the Electric Handicap, three-quarters mile, 

 by a half-length, beating Handball, 120 pounds, 

 Frohman, 118, First Fruit, S^, and Don't Care, 

 105. 



At Sheepshead Bay, in the fall, Hamburg 

 began by essaying the difficult task of trying to 

 give, according to the weigh t-for-age scale, 10 

 pounds to Requital (winner of the Futurity, Real- 



