The daily gazette., 1880-03-06
A Wonderful Mare,

teu WIN Mr. roster In the editing oil
The Sportsman, and now an invalid In
New Orleans, has occupied the leisure
hours enforced by bis illness In collat-
Ing for that paper a.most elaborate arti-
Gle, giving the history and performances
OF the extraordinary Hungarian mare
Kinesem, the winner Of fifty-fJur races
without single defeat, achieving b, /
victories In England, France, Germany
and Austria. After winning the Good
wood Cup in England in 184S, her own
er refused au offer of $50, 900 for her,
and hallenged any horse In the world
for two'mile race at Newmarket for
$25,OO0 side, but no English turfman
was found bold enough 70 accept. We
eondense the following interesting facts
from the article in question
From the earliest period Of racing bis
tory no animal that ever trod the turf
has achieved such record as the Hun
garian mare KiLcsem, whose racing car
eer up TO the time Of writing (January,
lSSO) has not been dimmed with q sin
gle defeat, KiLcsenl Is q chestnut, now
0 years OLD, and was sired by Cambu uscan
out Of Water Nymph, by Cotswold,
grandam Mermaid, by Melbourne. The
writer Of this article was introduced TO
Mr.. Hesp at Frankfort last August, the
day previous to Kincsein's fiftieth VIC
tory, and was taken TO the mares stable,
where she was enjoying her evening
feed. Having seen racehorses In all
quarters OF the globe, including Gladia-
tuer, Blair Athol, Lord Clifton, Longfel-
low, Harry Bassett, Monarchist, Duke
Of Magenta, Wheel Of Fortune, and
many other higb-class race-horses, the
wriier thought he had some idea as to
what race nag should be like, but he
can safely assert that this mare out
shines them all.
As she stood in the box. munching her
corn, a first glance made her out to be
long, low mare, standing about 10 3, but
on going up to her withers he found she
was 16 hands inch, and made in pro-
portion. With long. lean head, wide
throttle, and powerful neck, well set on
10 sloping shouliers, no fault could b.
found with ber forehead. Her depth
through the glrth Is immense, and her
back Is a. level as q billiard table. " hep
one attempts TO despribe her quarters.
however, " needs the pen OF "The
DRUID The muscular power Of her.
thighs and Rask ms is Immense, aud the
couplings are In proportion, showing
clearly where she gets that propellnR
pow,r that has borne her owser's oolors
first past the 10 Tin fifi -rour constc GU
tive races. In her race on the follow
ing day she went to the front directly
the flag felt, and stayed there, galluping
home four lensths ahead In the sasiestof
canser. Her action when extended L.
simply psriection,' and her stride i'm
mense, the way she tucks her bind legs
nm h.ar Ia. n 80 tav.a
temper, too, is perfect, but having been
pampered since she was a baby, the
mare has naturally few wbims and pc
culiarities. She is very particular abeut
The water she drinks, and Mr.. Hesp
says he has 70 take tue greatest care
about this. pa the rare DnsannRs In Ger,
n.aDy and Austria are so far apart that
they are constantly moving Into fresh
climates. H., r.tZ .,siD9. ..-tfsaN p
On one occasion she fatly refused to
d ins the water brought to her, and
cart was sent some miles to q neiR Rhbor-
ing town Co fetch her some Of q di ffereDt
kind, which she was Rraciously pleased
TO approve Of. Mr.. Htsp alwayA takes
his own hay and oats with him when he
leaves home, in 3ase Of beingsunable TO.
find ,proveBder to suit her iadyship. Her
total score to 'iate Is; .-....-.,..lJ
Attwo years old 10 races
At buIoDV OAan OAa Al iobON
AT four years old = Is rares
At five years old ~ races
Making In all -r OIL races
Such o record as this Is not only uD-
paralleled In the history OF the world,
but simply wonderful, from the fact Of
her having won some of her races under
peculiarly disadvantageous circum-
stances. In the Two year old race she
won at Hamburg she was standing still
when the flag fell, and lost fifty yards
start, but this did not help her opponents
at all. And what 10 more remarkable
she won sery race but two In canter,
no matter what horses were opposed 10
her. The two races at Baden were tn.
only ones where she was really at beI
top speed, for there IL little doabt she
would have woD her race at Goodwood
much easier, but for her jockey losing
his head when Pageant went up TO the
mare in the straight. Cold weather or
heat, hard tracks or mud, all come alike
TO her, and, 1t Is safe to say, that In this
age of wonders there Is no work of ma
ture. more wonderful than this queen Of
equine animals, rightly named Klnc-
SENS, which, literally interpreted,
means DARLING" and is pronounced as
Ii spelt "Keenchem'" ia. ,ta .lt..IId