32 The Horse-Breeders' Guide and Hand Booh. 



DUKE OF MAGENTA, 



(WINNER OF THE WITHERS ANNUAL AND BELMONT STAKES AT 

 JEROME PARK; TRAVERS, SEQUEL, AND KENNER STAKES AT 

 SARATOGA ; PREAKNESS, DIXIE. AND BRECKENRIDGE STAKES AT 

 BALTIMORE, AND OTHER RACES,) 



Will he used as private Stallion in the Hancocas Stud, Mr. P. Lorillard, 

 proprietor, Jobstown, Burlington County, N. J. Surplus sold an- 

 nually. 



Duke of Magenta, by Lexington, son of Boston, bred at the Woodburn Stud, A. J. 

 Alexander, proprietor, foaled 1875, dam Magenta by imp. Yorkshire, out of Miriam 

 by Imp. Glencoe. 



The Duke's pedigree, although not a long or fashionable one, has some strong 

 elements, and the family have been quite famous as racers. Magenta, his dam, pro- 

 duced Larkin and Queen Victoria, by Lexington, the latter the dam of Albert, Blenk- 

 jron, by imp. Bonnie Scotland, Mademoiselle, by Red Eye, the Duke of Magenta, by 

 Lexington, and Duke of Montalban, by King Alfonso. None of them were very noted 

 before the Duke. Miriam, by imp. Glencoe, his grandam, produced Magenta, quite 

 a famous race-mare and winner at all distances from one to four mile heats ; Mamona, 

 by imp. Sovereign, a superior race-mare and winner of the fastest mile run to that 

 date, 1861 — 1 :44|, and since a dam of winners, Merrill and Marion, both by Lexington. 

 Merrill won the Jersey Derby, at Paterson, in 1866, and the Travers Stake, at Sara- 

 toga, the same year. Marion was also a fine race-horse. She produced in succeeding 

 years Grecian Bend, Hollywood, Miranda, and Neecy Hale, all by Lexington. Both 

 Hollywood and Neecy Hale were superior race-mares. Hollywood won both the 

 three-quarter and mile stakes at Lexington, Fall of 1870, then two years old, in 1 :18J 

 and 1 ;45}. She later won at two mile heats in 3 :38i, 3 :40 J. Neecy Hale, three years 

 old, won the sweepstakes. If miles, at Lexington, in 3:07t, beating Creedmoor and 

 others. Duke of Magenta started seven times as a two-year old, lost three, won three 

 and ran a dead heat for the seventh one, carrying 115 lbs. to Spartan's 110. In the 

 three races he lost, he was barely beaten a scant head. He won half a mile in :49i, 

 ran dead heat three-quarters, in 1 :16f , and won the same distance in 1 -ni. The 

 Duke opened his three-year old campaign at Baltimore, May 27, by winning the 

 Preakness Stakes, li miles, in 2:41t, beating Bayard and Albert. His second ap- 

 pearance was in the Withers Stakes, one mile, at Jerome Park, and, notwithstanding 

 the track was very heavy and muddy, he won with 118 lbs. up, in 1 :48. Eight days 

 after he won the Belmont Stakes, 1^ miles, in 2:43^. He next appeared at Long 

 Branch, June 29, and, being out of condition, was beaten for the Jersey -Derby, \\ 

 miles, by both Spartan and Danicheff. 



Traveling to Saratoga on July 30, he won the Travers Stake, 14 miles, in 3 :08, beat- 

 ing Spartan, Bramble and others. This race with the weight, 118 lbs., was about the 

 I)est race of the year at the distance. On the 3d of August, penalized 5 lbs. 123 lbs. 

 up, he won the Sequel Stakes, If miles, in 3 .15, track heavy. On the 13th of the same 

 month he won the Kenner Stakes, 3 miles, in 3:41|. He finished his season at Sara- 

 toga by winning in hollow style the Harding Stakes, 1^ miles, in 2:50 J. He opened 

 the Fall campaign at Jerome Park by winning the Jerome Stakes, If miles, in 3.11^. 

 A few days after he captured the Annual Stakes, two miles, in 3:43, running the first 

 mile in 1 :45. Going to Baltimore, he easily won the Dixie Stakes, 110 lbs. up, in 3 ;41. 

 Three days after he closed his three-year old campaign and turf career by winning 

 the Breckenridge Stakes, 3 miles, with 115 lbs., in 3-43, the first mile being run in 

 l:46i. His gross winnings during the year amounted to $36,550. Thus starting in 

 twelve races, winning eleven, and defeating all the best colts of the year, and striking 

 his colors only once during the season, being then notoriously out of condition. 



Duke of Magenta is a bay, 16i hands, with star and long narrow white stripe down 

 the face over his nose, both hind legs white half way to his hocks, and two black spots 

 on coronet of each hind foot ; he measures 75 inches around the girth. He is much 

 like his famous sire Lexington, but much larger model. His oldest colts are now two 

 years old and resemble the sire very much, and are very promising. Few such race- 

 horses as the Duke ever face the starter in America. He has Diomed blood on 

 both sides. 



