CHAPTER IV 

 RACING, 1878 



Here 's to Lexington's latest — the last of his breed, 

 From forehead to fetlock, true son of his sire; 



Fit to run for a crown, at a kingdom's last need, 

 Compact of the whirlwind, and Heaven's own fire. 



UNCAS, foaled In 1876, was one of the last of the 

 Lexingtons, his dam Coral by Vandal, his 

 grandam the Imported mare Calrngorme by Cother- 

 stone. He was a marked colt from the day of his 

 birth. Mr. Withers made a trip to Kentucky In '77 

 with the express purpose of attending the 

 Lhe ast of ^^j^ ^£ ^j^^ Woodburn yearlings and buy- 

 the Lexingtons . 1 1 1 1 • 1 • • r 1 • 



mg him, as he had a high opinion of his 



elder brother Wanderer. But his driver took the wrong 

 road, and when he arrived the colt had been sold to 

 Mr. Lorlllard for $3100; and when Mr. Brown, the 

 Rancocas trainer, met Barney Riley after the trial of 

 the yearlings he remarked, "Barney, you 've seen some 

 pretty fast colts tried at Rancocas, but they 've just 

 tried one that beat anything ever done there." 



In color Uncas was a bay with a star and right fore- 



