86 The Horse- Breeders' Guide and Sand Booh. 



IROQUOIS, 



(WINNER OF THE CHESTERFIELD STAKES AT NEWARKET AND 

 LEVANT STAKES AT GOODWOOD, 1880 ; THE BURWELL STAKES, 

 DERBY AT EPSOM, PRINCE OF WALES STAKES, DONCASTER ST. 

 LEGER, NEWMARKET DERBY, AND OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS 

 IN ENGLAND,) 



Will be located ujjoji his return from England in the Rancocas Stud, Mr 

 P. Lorillard, proprietor, near Joi^toton, Burlington Co., JV. J., as 

 private stallion. 



Iroquois by imp. Leamington, son of Faugh-a-Ballagh, bred by Mr. A. Welch, 

 Erdenheim Stud, foaled 1878, dam Maggie B. B., dam of Harold, by imp. Australian; 

 2d dam Madeline, by Old Boston, out of Magnolia dam of Kentucky, by imp. Glen- 

 coe. As a two-year-old Iroquois started 13 times, won four races, was second in two and 

 unplaced in six. He made his bow to the public by winning the Newmarket two-year- 

 old Plate 5 furlongs, defeating Herman, Kuhleborn and three others ; his second success 

 was winning the two-year-old stakes at Epsom 5 furlongs, beating Eliacin. At the 

 Newmarket July Meeting ran Hal Gal to a head for the July stakes, 5 furlongs 136 

 yards, having Neophite, Thebais and seven others behind him; same meeting won the 

 Chesterfield Stakes o furlongs, beating Panique, Voluptuary and seven others ; at 

 Goodwood won the Levant Stakes, 5 furlongs, defeating Isola Madre, Canace and 

 three others ; same meeting ran second to Wandering Nun in the Findon Stakes three- 

 quarters of a mile, with Albion, Ishmaeland Worthing behind him ; he was unplaced 

 in his other races. As a three-year-old made his first appearance by running second to 

 Peregrine in the 2000 guineas, having Don Fulano, Camiliard, Scobel and nine others be- 

 hind him; won the Newmarket Stakes, Ditch mile, beating Lennoxlove; Newmarket 

 Second Spring Meeting walked over for the Burwell Stakes, Abingdon mile ; Epsom 

 Summer Meeting won the 102d renewal of the Derby Stakes 1^ miles, defeating 

 Peregrine, Town Moor, Scobel, Geologist, St. Louis, Don Fulano, Tristan and seven 

 others. Ascot won the Prince of Wales Stakes, If miles, defeating Geologist, Great 

 Carle and four others ; same place won the St. James Place Stakes Old mile, beating 

 Leon his only opponent. Doncaster September Meetinigwon the Doncaster St. Leger 

 Stakes,one mile six furlongs, 133 yards,defeating Geologist, Lucy Glitters, Si. Louis,Fal- 

 kirk,Bal Gal and nine others. Newmarket Second October Meeting was third to Bend'Or, 

 and Scobel in Champion Stakes across the flat one mile two furlongs and 73 yards ; 

 Buckhannon, Falkirk, Muriel and Fiddler behind him ; won the Newmarket Derby li 

 miles, beating Ishmael, Lennoxlove and Ld. Clemsford. Thus starting in nine races 

 running second for the 3,000 guineas, third in the Champion Stakes, and winning the 

 Derby and St. Leger, a feat only accomplished nine times in the one hundred and three 

 years it has been run. Surplace in 1848, Flying Dutchman in 1849, Voltigeur in 1850, 

 West Australian 1853, Blair Athol in 1864, Gladiateur in 1865, Lord Lyon in 1866, 

 Silvio in 1877, and Iroquois in 1881 ; not one of all these won so many good races in 

 the same year, 'Iroquois is a brown, 16 hands high with white stripe down the face 

 and white around the coronet of the left fore foot; he has a well placed oblique 

 shoulder, good barrel, fine hip and loin and sound good legs and feet. We shall expect 

 to see him a grand success in the stud. 



