i66 THE BLUE RIBBON GF THE TURF. 



As has been already told, Iroquois ran in the Two 

 Thousand Guineas, gaining second honours in the 

 race, a position that, considering the sickness the 

 animal had encountered, his trainer, perhaps, scarcely 

 expected he would gain. Pincus, as soon as the 

 Guineas had been decided, commenced to give Iroquois 

 his Derby preparation. He was laughed at. No 

 person had ever before seen a horse trained for the 

 great Epsom struggle in the same fashion ; touts and 

 newspaper oracles were amazed at the style adopted 

 by the American trainer; they at once predicted 

 failure. But Jacob carried on in his own way ; 

 criticism had no effect upon him ; he saw that day by 

 day the horse was ripening for the great effort which 

 he would be required to make, although he was not 

 over- sanguine of success. Pincus, however, soon 

 became aware that if he was to win the Derby for Mr. 

 Lorillard, it would not be by means of Barrett, who 

 was never able to beat Iroquois in any trial that took 

 place. Still, the public tvould back that horse ; piles 

 of money came from America, and from places nearer 

 the scene of action, all of it for Barrett, much to the 

 gain of the bookmakers. It is to the credit of 

 Mr. Matthew Dawson, of Newmarket, and shows his 

 discrimination, that he discovered in Iroquois, at an 

 early period of his career, the makings of a Dei by 

 victor ; and in spite of the gabblings of profes- 

 sional and other touts, backed the horse to win him 

 some money. The trainer's best reward was in seeing 

 his horse win the great race. But Iroquois was called 

 upon to perform a feat which no Derby winner had 

 ever succeeded in accomplishing, and that was to win 



