2 2 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE 



Correas of the Argentine, South America. Ormonde sold for 

 $1 50,000, and Cyellene, another Enghsh Thoroughbred, recently 

 sold for $ 1 50,000. Among other high prices at which. Thorough- 

 breds have changed hands are the following : Rock Sand, $ 1 2 5,000 ; 

 Water Cress, $71,000; Hamburg, $60,000; Nasturtium, $50,000; 

 Norfolk, $40,000 ; Kentucky, $40,000 ; Iroquois, $34,000 ; Rayon 

 d'Or, $33,000; Bonnie Scotland, $30,000 ; and Luke Blackburn, 

 $20,000. 



The speed record of the Thoroughbred is faster than that of 

 any other horse. Races with this breed are run under the saddle, 

 with jockeys up. A light, skillful jockey is needed in the saddle.. 



Fig. 7. Lamplighter, a prominent Thorouglrbred sire and racer owned by Milton 

 Young, Lexington, Kentucky. One of the leading sires of 1904 and 1905 

 prize winners. From photograph by author 



A very satisfactory jockey weight is no to 115 pounds, but 

 many great races have been won with weight up to 125 pounds. 

 The fastest record by a Thoroughbred is that of 1.35^ by 

 Salvator on a straightaway track of one mile, in 1890, at Mon- 

 mouth Park, New Jersey. On the Harlem standard track, in 

 1903, Dick Wells ran a mile in 1.37S. Only a few days before 

 Alan-a-Dale had passed around the Washington Park track, 

 making the mile in 1.37^. In 1855 Lexington ran four miles 

 in 7. 19I, winning $20,000 in a race against time. In 1876 Ten 

 Broeck, in a race against time, lowered the four-mile record to 

 7.1 5|. This same year he made a mile in 1.39!, which was the 



