The New York herald., 1876-01-26
DEATH OF GLADIATEUR.
LONDON, Jan. 25, 1870.
The famous racehorse Gladateur is dead.
HISTORY OF THE HORSE.

HISTORY OF IAE HOhSE
Count Lagrange sole proprietor OF the largs
breeding establishment at Daugu in Normandy,
France had the honor OF breeding this wonderful
horse and owning him during the whole OF his racing
career He was foaled in 1852 and was by Monarque,
ouLof Miss Gladiator she by Gladiator out OF TaraiL
He won all the great three yearod Of 1866 In
England and also the grand Prix dc Paris HIS hrst
appearance on the British turf in the Two Thou
sand Guineas which he captured there being eighteen
starters out OF eighty-eight subscribers. He them
added TO his already great reputation by winning the
Derby, beating twenty eight Others the total number
OF subscribers being 249 Christmas Carol second
ana Ethan third. When the telegram announcing Iha
ct ahal Gladateur had won the Derby reached Daugu
e mayor o the village sent band Of music round ho
and the people assembled in the park ofha
. lne country residence OF Count Lagrange, to
Isyoe IA lhe news Hogsheads Of wine and barrels Of
cder were carted into the park Bullocks aud sheep
were roasted whole, and there eating and drinking
singing ana dancing, until the old people had TO ~
taken back to their homes in wheelbarrows. and tha
young men and women followed in track that was
pretty correctly Indicated by The letter : Thcu
Gladiateur won the Drawing Room STAKES for three-l
-olds at Goodwood, over the Craven conrsa m n
had Ihirty-eght subscribers and nut tbree
Longdoun being forty lengths behind the winner AMI
The Princess OF Wales third he then walked over for th
second year OF the Fourteenth Bentnck Memorial Graft
wicke Stakes course which was followed py his vctorH
in the st. Leger Stakes at Doncaster. Fourteen ram
out of 243 subscribers Mr. J. Grahams Rcgalia W =
second and Lord Stamfords Archimedes third Prcl
TO the the owner OF Regalia objected Ia,
Gadateur the score OF age and requested 10 havy
his mouth examined The usual certificate having been
produced when this horse ran for the Derby tho
stewards refused entertain the objection unless
Mr. Graham could writing his grounds for sup
posing that the horse not OF the right age. THIS
he failed TO do and though the objection was repeated
after the race the stewards still declined 10 interfere
and ordered the stakes TO be paid over TO Count La
grange Even TO this day this attempted disquahca-
ton OF Glad Nteur is disagreeable "reminiscences in
English turf circles, bat none now attempt to.
say the horse not OF the proper age Tho
winning OF the great events OF the year-tho
Two Thousand Guineas, Derby and ST. Leger-
by the same horse had before occurred, ana
great interest to be centred in Gadateur He
then carried OF the Doncaster Stakes last mile and
half Leger course there being bat three starters
out OF seventy three subscribers The Newmarket
Derby last mile and half OF the Beacon course also
fell to him, beating Longdoun forty lengths. his last
a three-year old the Cambrdgeshire Stakes,
in which he was beaten and not placed carrying l3S
pounds including twelve pounds extra In his four
year-od form he walked over in the Derby Trial
Stakes at the Newmarket Craven meeting. last milo
and half OF the Beacon course; also walked over tor
the Claret Stakes meeting the course being from
the Dtch-in 2 miles l05 yards, and as hnal per-
formance the turf the gold cup at Ascot about
two and half miles. lie was then retired TO tho
stud at Middle Park, Ethan, Kent Gladateur was
bay horse sixteen hands high owned at the time Of
his death by Captain Ray, of the Brick House Dunmow.
His progeny have never distinguished themselves on
the turf