"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



easily as he did the Prince of Wales Stakes — I should 

 say, with at least lo lbs. in hand." 



After the St. Leger, it is said Mr. Pincus indulged 



Iroquois, and October 12 he started for the Champion 



Stakes, i^ miles. Bend Or, winner of the Derby of 



1880, was favorite at 6 to 4 on, while it was 



wed mg Q to 4 against Iroquois. Bend Or won by 

 three parts of a length, Scobell second, 

 Iroquois third, with Buchanan, Falkirk, Muriel and 

 Fiddler unplaced. Iroquois had always beaten Scobell 

 and could not have been at his best. At all events, Mr. 

 Griswold states in his admirable "Sports on Land and 

 Water," that Mr. Puryear "told Mr. Pincus after the 

 race that the colt was short of work, and if he wanted to 

 win the Newmarket Derby the following day, he had 

 better give him a sweating gallop at once. He was 

 blanketed and sent for a spin behind the stand, much to 

 the horror of the talent." It must have benefited him, 

 as the next day he won the Newmarket Derby, i J/> 

 miles, with Webb in the saddle, beating Ishmael, Len- 

 noxlove and Lord Chelmsford. Charles Wood had 

 ridden him in the Champion Stakes the previous day. 

 Iroquois retired winner of seven of the nine races for 

 which he started, one second and one third, having won 

 $84,618. 



Iroquois was a rich-colored brown with a narrow 

 blaze and left fore pastern white, a son of Leamington 

 from Maggie B. B. by Australian grandam Madeline 



