Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-26
LORTLLARD'S PAROLE.
Antecedents of the Victor in IN,
Great Race at Baltimore.

Antecedents Of the Victor in the
Great Race AZ Baltimore.
New York Sportsman
At three years old Parole first ap.
peared in the Kentucky Derby. Ii is
well known that be was not in condition
when he was sent to the West, nor when
be started. Vagrant was first, Creed.
moor second and Harry Hill third. Eight
others started. Parole was brought
back, and he did not run again until the
Saratoga meeting, where he encountered
Tom 0chiltree and Matte A, in the
sweepstakes for all ages, a mile and q
quarter. He carried 30 pounds, Tom
0chiltree lis pounds, and Matte A ll3
pounds, receiving 5 pounds allowance
as a mare in the summer season.
Parole went of very fast outran them
all the way, and beat Tom twelve lengths
in 2:l2a. Matte A was twelve
more behind the big horse. In the
Saratoga cup Tom 0chiltree beat Parole
a length; Tom lis, Parole 81 pounds;
Big Sandy a bad third, Madge behind
him. In the Sequel stakes. a mile and
tbree-quarters, with lis pounds, Parole
won easily in 3;lO3, beating Freebooter,
Warlock and Odd Socks. At Jerome
Park, in the All.aged stakes, a mile and
a half, he carried 80 pounds, and ran
clear away from St. Martin, Warlock,
V~irginius and Rhadamanthus. he won
in a canter by four lengths in 2:38, and
st. Martin and Wsrlock made a dead
heat for the second place. 1t was no.
ticed in this race that he out paced the
fast horses Virginius and Rhsdamsnthus
from the FIRST stride, and this showed
what a clipping race horse he
was at the old weights. At
Baltimore they still prevail. But
going to that place and taking
up one hundred and seven pounds, they
made running with him for the Dixie
stakes, two miles, upon a very heavy
track. he had all his horses beat at a
mile and three-quaTters, but he tired at
last, and Vigil, a horse about twice as
powerful as himself, beat him by FIVE
lengths. Heretog wAs third, and then
followed Algerine, the Sultana and Shir-
ley. In the Breckenridge stakes, two
miles, Vigil carried one hundred and If
teen pounds, including FIVE pounds pen
atty, and beat Parole and Virginius in
3:37f. Parole began his four.year-old
career this season by being second in a
purse Of three quarters Of a mile to ia.
net Norton: four others raa. He then
won the Woodburn stakes, for four.
year olds, beating Ambush, Fiddle
stick and Virginius in 4:374 In the
sweepstakes for all ages, at Sarato-
ga, II miles, he was third to Vera
Cruz and Tom 0chiltree, between whom
there was a head. 1t was after one Of
Paroles delicate, lenten times, when it
is not difficult to beat him with a good
horse. But the race started the secre.
lions aud sharpsned bis appetite so that,
FIVE days a~fterwsrd, he beat Tom in the
cup-a mile farther-by twslengths, and
Vera Cruz was nowhere. In the sum
mer handicap, 8 mile and three-quarters,
Parole carried ll6 pounds, and beat
Vera Cruz, with Sc pounds, BY two
lengths. George Nv. BushWhscker and
Abilene also ran. In this race Parole
gave Vera Cruz % pounds for his year,
and won in 1903, 1t was just about
l:47 to the mile, and Parole won
easily with ll6 pounds. He also
won a purse, a mile and a hall, with
81 pounds, beating Virginius by six
lengths in 1854. Glasgow also started.
At the Jerome Park fall meeting just
concluded Parole beat Algerine and
Ambush, three miles, for the Maturity
stakes, for f~our-year-olds. He won easily
by two lengths 10 5:39. The track was
deep and slow. In the Grand National
handicap, two miles and a quarter, he
was second to Tom 0ehiltree, aud car.
ried lis pounds. In the all aged
stakes, a mile and a half, weight for
age, he was second to Tom again, and
St. Martin, Virginius, Algerine, Idalia,
Msdge and Princeton finished behind