204 The Horse-Breeders' Guide and Hand Booh. 



VANDAL. 



Vandal by Glencoe, son of Sultan, bred by Dr. B. W. Dudley, Lexington, Ky., 

 foaled 1850, dam Alaric's dam by imp. Tranby, son of Blaeklock. Vandal was a first- 

 class racehorse, did not start as a two-year old, but came out the spring he was three 

 years old, and was distanced the first heat, in the Association Stake, mile heats, won 

 by Darley (Lexington), in 1 :55|, 1:57, the track was fetlock deep in mud, and the 

 rain pouring down in sheets ; Louisville, Ky., won the Gdt House Stake, mile heats, 

 in 1:51, 1:53, 1:56, track very heavy, beating Ellen Bateman, Madonna, winner of 

 the first heat, distanced in the third, and Campbell's bay colt by Altorf ; same 

 meeting, ran second to Fanny Pern in sweeptalce, mile heats, in 1:52|, 1:53, track 

 heavy ; Garret Davis, Wild Irishman, and Madonna behind him ; Mobile, Ala,, won 

 sweeptake for three-year olds, mile heats, beating Midway in 1 : 56^^, 1 : 57, track heavy ; 

 New Orleans, ran second to Maid of Orleans in Club Purse, 2 miles, in 3: 56, beating 

 Betty King; Lexington, Ky., Spring Meeting, 1854, won Club Purse, 3 mile heats, 

 beating Maiy Taylor, Lewis Wetzel and two others, in 5;42J, 6:36|^ ; Louisville 

 Ky., won Club Purse, 3 miles, in 5:46, beating Mary Taylor ; Lexington, Ky., Pall 

 Meeting, ran third in fist heat for the Club Purse, 4 mile heats, won by Prankfort, in 

 7:41 ; Vandal was withdrawn. The spring of 1855 he came out and easily defeated 

 Prankfort and Henrj' Perritt for the Club Purse, 3 mile heats, in 5:36|, 5:33, an 

 excellent race. This closed his turf career. The first of his get which appeared were 

 Ella D, Mollie Jackson and Jack the Barber, all were creditable performers ; Ella D 

 won at 1, 3 and 8 mile heals; Mollie .Jackson was the best mare of any day, she won 

 4 miles, in 7: 34, and 3 mile heats, in 5:35^, 5:84f, 5:28|, this third heat is the fastest 

 and best third heat ever run Jack the Barber was also a creditable performer, as was 

 also Seven Oaks, which won seven out of eight races. He covered very few mares, and 

 for some five or six years none, and it was not until he passed into the hands of Gen. 

 W. G. Harding, of the Belle Meade Stud, was he regularly used for stud purposes. 

 He sired Versailles, a fine race-horse. Verge, and Capitola, the dam of King Alfonso, 

 ■Coral, the dam of Wanderer and Uncas, Virgil, the sire of Vigil, Vera Cruz and the 

 great Hindoo. In the Belle Moade Stud he made his great reputation ; those by 

 him in this stud were Vicksburg, Vanderbilt, Vassal, Nettie B, Ventilator, sire of 

 Mary Anderson, Vaultress, Vagabond, Valentine, Van Leer, Van Dorn, Vindicator, 

 Vortex, Volcano, Valerian, dam of Boatman ; Voltigeur, winner of the Clark Stake 

 at Louisville, defeating Calvin and ten others ; Vinaigrette, winner of the Kentucky 

 Oaks, Vidette, dam of Camargo, winner of the Pall's City Stake, mile beats, in 1:42|, 

 l:43i, and Vandalite, one of the best race-mares which ever faced the starter, winner 

 of the Dixie Stakes at Baltimore, 2 miles in3:35|, beating Madge, Brigand and 

 twelve others, and taking up the penalty of 5 lbs.; won the Breckenridge Stakes, 2 

 miles in 3:85; the best time in which the two races were ever run ; Newburn, 

 (Council Bluffs), Survivor, Highland Vintage, Grey Steel (Grey Priar), Sallie 

 Gardner, Vocalist, and many others. Vandal was a blood bay, with little or no white, 

 15J hands high, and was the best son of the great Glencoe, and has proved himself a 

 worthy son of a worthy sire. He died at Belle Meade early in the spring of 1872, just 

 as his reputation had been established, and shown to the world that he had not 

 disgraced his high racing lineage, from which the great Lexington had descended. 

 The Glencoe blood has done wonders in England through old Pocahontas, and 

 it should be preserved and perpetuated through his best son and daughters in 

 America. 



