Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-02
IROGUOIs.
Tho Winner Of the Derby.

Iroquois, tho first American horse to
win the Derby, is a brown colt 10y Lean
ingtOn. out of Maggie B. B., she by Aus
tralian, and was bred by Mr.. AristdcS
WEIGH at his Chestnut Hill stock farm,
near Philadelphia. He was sold when a
ycarling to Mr.. Pierre Lorillard, OF New
York, the owner of Parole, who sent him
to England in the fall of 1879. Last year
as a two-ycar old, ho started twelve
times. winning four races and losing
eight, the value of the stakes captured
by him aEountign to .$13,21O. His
first appearance in public on the Eng
lish turf was during the Newmarket Sec
ond spring meeting, when he Won tho tw o
year old plate, five furlongs, in such a
handsome and easy manner it was evident
that his oackers had not made q mistake.
lie next appeared in the WOodcote stakes,
three quarters of a mile, at the Epson
summer meeting, and was not placed. Of
his runnina in this race it was said: Z" The
American-Dred IrOquois showed rare
dash of speed for short distance in near
ing home, but he failed to maintain it. AL
though of great bone, wide hips, with a
deep middle and excellent limbs, he shows u
lack of that fine bloodlike quality usually
associated with the best of English thor
oughbrcds. Yet he is by our own bred
bennington, a horse of more than mid
ding class on the British turf before he
was sent to America At Ascot, in the
New stakes, five furlongs one hundred
and thirty-six yards, Iroquois was again
unplaced. His form at Ascot contrasted
strangely with his running a month later
for the July stakes at Newmarket, when
he was within an ace of upsetting the
plungers who had laid heavy odds on Bal
Gal, nothing finishing within hail of the
peir Not less strange was his miserable
: display at Sandown Park in the great
Kingston two-ycar old plate, when he was
beaten many lengths by Lady Chelms-
ford, a moderate filly to whom he was con-
ceding four pounds only, In the follow
ing week, however, he won the Levant
stakes at Goodwood very easily, notwith-
standing his penalty. On the same day he
was second for the Findon stakes. lie
then fell off again, doing very poorly for
the Champagne stakes at GOodwOod, and
still worse for the Hopeful and Clearwcll
stakes at Newmarket. His two year old
performances were summed up tcrscly by
the London Sportsman, some of them
being characterized as being 'iparticularly
smart, while others were absurllly bad
AS a three -year-old Iroquois, after hav-
ing wintered remarkably we'll, began a
career almost IS sensational in its contrasts
by running second for the Two Thousand
Guineas, the winner on that occasion be-
ing the Duke of Westminster's brown
colt Peregrine, who was the favorite in the
betting for the Derby yesterday, but had
to be content with the second place. It is
worthy to note that the third horse for the
Two Thousand Guineas was Mr.. James r
Keene's chestnut colt Don Fulano, which
was the only American besides Iroquois
that started in the race for the Derby YES
terday. Two days after his performance
in the Two Thousand Guineas, Iroquois de-
feated Lord Falmouth's bay colt Kennox-
love, his solitary competitor, in the race
for the Newmarket stakes, a distance
Of one mile, and on May II, at the New
market second spring meeting, he enioyed
the empty honor of a walk for the Bur
well stakes. Previous to the great con-
test yesterday, therefore, his only sub
stantla! work as three year old has been
IN the Two Thousand Guineas. for wh;cl,
there were fourteen starters. ''