The New York herald., 1876-02-22

celebrities Of the turf She ran four times two
ana sIs o F
oped finely ran nine timea winning four races but was
EVIDENT she had attained her best racing form. Al
starters. i In :49k, l5O& I:sox. Al Monmouth she
aIso s<AA Al mile heais seven starters, In As 40
and al the sSas @saa 40k cruz lagSs for a|l ages
PARK she captured the Ladies' Stake one mile and ave
urongs seven starters. in 2:5Sk. In 1874 as four
year-oId Katie Pease won for herself imperishabie
honors. She engaged N hteen races won nine
and in two Instances assigned the duty OF taking
up the running Tor her stable companion Springbok
enabling him to win both times She ran at all dis
tances from mile to four mile heats her best per-
formance for the year being her for the Buffalo
Cup, two and half miles, which she captured in the
remarkable time Of y, the fastest record She
did nothing Of consequence hast season
POSTER
Foster, chestnut about ls hands, bred by Mr.
J. Alexander OF WoodburD, KY, ana foaled In 1857
He Is by Lexington, out OF Venrona by imported York
shire granddam imported Britannia, by Muley out OF
Moloch sire OF Alice Hawthorn and was dam OF veri-
her, voucher, Vandvke and numerous other great
racers The colt was sold as yearng 10 Mr.. d. Swi-
CERT and purchased OF him by Captain Moore hts pres
ent owner Foster first in the Belmont Stakes OF
1870 when not IN good condition, and second TO
Kinghsher. In the Travers Stakes at Sara
toga he was left at the post but Notwithstanding fin
ished third He the Lombard Stakes, two
miles, jerome Park fall meeting. last year, beating
Hamburg, Finesse, Remorseless and others. He was
thrd in the Dinner Stakes at Baltimore. by
Preakness, Ecliptic being second and behind him
last, bat coming again, finished the two miles as
noted In 1871, four -year-old, he beat John
Mcdonald mile heats, at Mobile the first being run in
146z. Al New Orleans he won the BinRaman Stakes
two miles beating Defender, Annette, Ida Grisson,
John Mcdonald and Kathleen. Same place, he beat
Molhe James and Donovan, dash OF two miles The
Citizens stake, two-mie heats, at Nashville, fell to
him, beating Sentinel, Hetaa and Helmet; also walked
over for the snree,Ie race same place Here he met
two miles in 1888. Morgan Scout and Petuna
were behind him At Memphis he won the
ing excellent fields There only second of differ
IN the fastest and slowest of these Eve heats At
Lexington Ky.. he ran second 70 Morgan Scout one
and half miles, IN 3:09k there being four others be-
kind him; and az Crab Orchard KY, won mile heats,
beating Rlla jackson and two others In the fall OF
that year he beaten al New Orleans by Monarch
st heats Of two miles, but behind him Sentinel
and Fireban few days after he beat the stable COM
panion Of Mouarchst the race being four mile heats
the style of contest that OF to-day Sentinel
and Salna his competitors the former being dis
tanced the rst heat and the latter the secondtime,
T53, sos The character Of this performance will be
better understood when, the same day, good a
Madame Dudley, with an allowance OF weight,
sns % track being heavy In is7a Foster was
again beaten by Monarchist one mile and o
bali, when lame. He recovered, and was
against Harry Bassett Longellow or any other horse
but again falling lame this programme, of course was
abandoned and it was then believed that he had the
ringbone This not the case however and he again
recovered In the spring of 1873 he was at Col VIM
H Johnson's, Madison, Tenn, where he got lot of
them out of thoroughbred mares In the fall Of
this year Judge Bingham OF Washington Territory
took great fancy to the horse and bought halt interest
In him when he sent TO the Pacific coast where he
has been standing at the stud and running little
races In Oregon. Nevada and washington Territory
Fosters own brother, Vauxha, is already valuable
stallion, and his son Viator was one OF last years
best three-year oidA
GOLDEN GATE
Golden Gate, bay mare, years old, by imp. Leam-
1gsSn out o. Sapnha & BY imp & Eclipse Is IS the % sseonS %
2fafou leila vuhn bain rad IN kaan liz
t9ining stable did not care TO have any OF his own
horses In training and offered her for sale for few
hundred dollars. gentleman bought her for sad
die horse for lady, but proving unmanageable she
was sent TO the suction mart, when Colonel Mcdaniel
bought her for $50 he TOOK her to Saratoga and her
maiden In selling purse when she was
granted IL lbs from her weight the valuation being
81 o00 She carried II Ibs the distance y miles,
and she won capital race. beating eight competitors
in 2:O9k This equivalent 70 q mile in l3 6-l0
1t on the 29th OF July the same day which
Preakness ana Springbok made their memorable dead
heat with Grinsead close up, two and quarter miles,
in 3:56k and the Flash Stakes won by Faithless
49 seconds, showing that the day and course
both good and everything right for fast time. Four
days after she in handicap, dash of mile,
when she carried "a lbs Countess won with her
weight pp Inspiration aS being second second Golden Gate
il was fine race for her, as she must have run n-
side'ofl:4a Her next the only one she ever
carried more than three-year-ol weight. IL was a
purse for hreeyear-olds; colts 100 bs hies 95 lbs,
with lh penalty for winners This would give her
lO2 lbs Rhadamanthus won, Austrand second
Golden Gate third, The mile and one-eighth taking
2:O4k to accomplish IT. TINS equal to q mile in
1:501< She has and won two races In California
the one the Bay District being the best, when she
run in LAY, 1:44
HOOK ROCKING, CHANCE AND REVENUE,
These the three additional entries and by some
Hook Hooking six years old, Is by Ringmaster tson
Of Ringgold, by Boston and Minnie Mansfield, the dam
OF Katie Pease by imp Glencoeh dam Young
Fashion by imp. Monarch second dam the cello
brated Fashion, conquerer Of Boston and the best
mare Of her day, by imported Trustee He
taken to California by Mr. J. G. Simpson,
and has been moderately successful there. Hook
himself His best performance in mile heat
al Sacramento, Cal, six starters, which he won in
AS l47A, Lac. In the $25, 900 our-mile heat race
at San Francisco he was sixth In the first heat and
distanced the second The postponement has given
this horse opportunity 10 escape from the influence
OF his magn He has been proverbially unlucky.
short time before the 18th Of November he became
and laning himself by the strain Owing TO the short
time since his recovery ho cannot be in very good con-
ditop but his known garneness may pull him through
Revenue Jr., ls an aged horse, by Revenue dam
Mamie Harper by Glencoe He has done nothing
wonderful bat since he for the Wise Plate in San
Francisco, few months since, has improved wonder
fully BE has been backed 70 beat Foster in this race
and as no is about the only horse In the lot who
has not been amiss escaping epzooty, swollen legs
and bowed tendons and as freedom from ailments is
great thing race Of this kind be may justify the
opinion OF those VINO are sanguine OF his chances.
Chance chestnut horse, by Venture, dam by
Annette, by Lexington Is tour years old He is big,
slashing colt with plenty Of speed, and II he can 60
the route be will not discred the land of his nativity
POOL SELLING LAST NIGHT.