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VOL.  XXXIV. 
WHOLE  N 
IV.  No.  a.  I 
So.  1380.  f 
NEW  YORK  CITY,  JULY  8,  1876. 
IMllL’E  Siac  CENTS. 
8‘^.05  PER  YEAR. 
[Kntercd  iiccordinK  to  Act  of  Con^resit.  tn  the  year  187t!.  by  tho  Rural  Piibllatiintf  Ooinpany,  tn  the  offlco  of  Uie  Lihrarlen  of  OontiroSH  hi  WiishlriKton.i 
®ljf  Ijorscntaii.' 
KIS-BER,  THE  WINNER  OF  THE  DERBY. 
Raciku  in  England  ia  almost  as  uncertain  a 
game  as  similar  sports  in  this  countiy.  However 
much  sporting  men  gness  or  even  bet  upon  tlieir 
favorite  “  nags.”  they  are  frequently  diMafipoint- 
ed.  as  thorc  is  always  a  chance  of  some  new  and 
comparatively  unknown  horse  comlug  in  at  the  ' 
eleventh  lionr  to  carry  off  the  highest  of  English 
laurels.  This  scoma  to  have  been  the  case  the  i 
present  year,  for  the  old  favorites,  which  wore  i 
backed  by  the  supposed-to-be-knowing  ones,  | 
found  a  successful  competitor  in  a  Hungarian  I 
colt  which  received  his  name  only  a  few  days  be¬ 
fore  the  race.  Kis-Bor  (signifying  “  the  homo 
farm,”)  is  one  of  throe  imperial  stud  farms  of 
Austro-Hungary,  of  which  the  other  two  are 
Babolna  and  Mezoliegyos,  situated  on  the  rich 
black  soils  of  the  groat  Alfokl  or  Tiefeland  of 
Lower  Hungary. 
F,acli  of  these  esttites  are  under  the  care  of  n 
Colonel  or  Major  of  the  zViistriaii  army  and  all 
the  work  done  by  soldiers.  The  homo  farm  or 
KLs-Ikir  (ptonouncod  Kislibere)  is  in  charge  of 
Colonel  ZoEST  assisted  by  an  English  gi'oom, 
and  to  the  latter  our  English  cousins  may  bo  in-  j 
debted  for  the  loss  of  their  lamcls,  although 
they  have  the  satisfactiou  of  knowing  that  this 
now  famous  winner  is  the  son  of  Buccaneo, 
horse  well  known  to  the  English  pubUc,  hence  he 
is  really  more  English  than  Austrian  after  all. 
But  the  owners  of  Kis-Bor  were  not  content 
with  his  great  achievements  in  England,  but 
crossed  the  Channel  and  outorud  bun  for  the 
Grand  l^’ize  of  Paris,  115.000  francs,  which  he 
carried  off  much  to  the  disgust  of  the  Froncli 
turfmen,  judging  from  the  comments  and  growls 
appearing  in  the  press.  Kis-Bor  is  doscribod  as 
a  superb  animal,  dark  bay  with  elegant  limbs, 
small  foot  with  a  single  white  spot  on  his  back, 
fie  has  that  calm  aristocratic  look  belonging  to 
I’acers,  and  pronounced  by  his  admirers  the  great¬ 
est  horse  now  living. 
The  Frenchmen,  however,  are  now  urging  a 
quibble  in  regard  to  bets  made  and  lost  against 
Kisber,  for  it  seems  ho  was  entered  for  the  race 
as  an  English  horse,  but  it  leaked  out  that  ho 
came  from  Hungary,  althongli  of  direct  English 
blood ;  thoroforo,  losers  have  a  chance  of  getting 
rid  of  paying  the  lost  stakes.  They  say  tliat 
since  ICisber  is  an  Austrian  horse,  those  who 
backed  the  French  horse  against  him  are  not 
obliged  to  pay,  as  i.  was  not  an  English  horse 
that  won.  T.  is  is  but  one  of  the  various  ways 
wiiicli  turfmen  have  of  doing  things  to  please 
tlieinselves. 
Tlio  most  that  our  readers  can  take  any  inter¬ 
est  in,  Is  the  name  and  history  of  sncli  a  niagnifi- 
oent  specimen  of  the  noble  race  as  sliown  in 
Kisber.  For  the  spirited  portrait  of  this  now 
noted  anhnal,  we  are  indebted  to  the  Illustrated 
Sporting  New-Yorker,  which  is  one  of  our  most 
enterprising,  as  well  as  handsome,  sporting 
journals,  and  really  worthy  of  liberal  patronage. 
