450 The American Thoroughbred 



Sweet, 109, Firearm, 120, Archduke, 124, Hand- 

 ball, 117, L'Alouette (whose next race it was after 

 winning the Futurity), 120, Bowling Brook, 115, 

 Blueaway, 115, George Keene, iii, and four 

 others. 



At Brooklyn, Hamburg, 127 pounds, won the 

 Prospect Stakes, three-quarters of a mile, by two 

 lengths, beating Handball, 122 pounds. Archduke, 

 115, Previous, 122, Bowling Brook, 122, Blueaway, 

 115; and two days afterward wound up his two- 

 year-old career by beating Handball, Easter Gift, 

 and Previous, at even weights, easily, by one and 

 a half lengths, earning ^39,950 during the season. 



Hamburg began his three-year-old career in- 

 auspiciously with a defeat, the only one en- 

 countered by him during the season. In racing 

 parlance, " he wanted a race in him " to get him 

 thoroughly fit. He had done enough work to 

 get most horses fit, and many animals would have 

 been overdone had they gone through the same 

 ordeal. His constitution, however, was so robust 

 and his recuperative powers so great that a good 

 ordinary strong preparation was play for him. 



The Belmont Stakes, one mile and three- 

 eighths, track heavy, was the race in which he 

 met his Waterloo. He had beaten his opponents 



