Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-04-20
HORSES THAT NAM. FORTUNES
4 he List Of 2lI Racers who have Won
more than ei ,OUO Zach

Tie il; Of tiQtting horses who have won
purses or stakes Il ,gicsating II, least 510,O
comprises 22l names of horses that have
performed from the days of DutcImln and
Lady Suffolk, who began their victorious
careers in ls,S, down to the Clingstouc, T. H.
win Thornc, Santa Claus etc, Of the present
day.
The palm as campaignCr must he award
ed to Goldsmith Maid. From 1876 to 1871
this marvellous little mare had III victories,
and the 81 of Flora Temple are the nearest
approach to her IN this respect. The number
OF heats she tro,ted in 2;30 or better was
322. The actual net gains aside from cXpen-
scs that shc'las brought to her owner, foot
up S2iU 80 No horse Of any age or country
ever won SO much money as the little inbred
Abdcllah mare, who is now mcckly perform
ng the duties of Il matron at Fashion Stud
| Farm. Her long career was in flush times :
$4,000 purses were not inticqucnl and scv-
clal people whom she ha3 enriched have
cause to bless the day when 1t was decided
that she was too i'll tempered for pl0ughing
aud had byt,er be trained for the track.
There are but three others whose Winnings
reach treble figures in the thousands, viz (:
American Girl, Slls, 100; Rarus, slli.950,
and Judge Fullerton, Sl02, OBS. Dexter,
Flora Temple, Hopeful and Lady Thorn do
not fall far short Of 100000. The greatest
winner on the running turf 10 this country
was llindno and his net earnings amounted
| less than go, 900.
1t has also been shown in several cases that
| n lrDtter can bear active campaigning for ten
or twelve or even grUa' or number of years
yet we find that lOi, nearly nc.half, Of the
$40, 900 horsts were not successful in races
for period greater than five years. AS a
rule we think the old time tlottcr stayed
| longer at the front than those OF the past two
| decades, but that fact may be attributable to
| there having been less competition and they
| were not 50 soon outcassed A striking eX-
| ccptiOn 10 this is fund In the veteran Tom
| Keller Under the name of Cayuel Chief
| ne won his first race in 1861, at the Clyde,
| New York, and his thirty-scvcnth was won
| in Maine, in 1882. This is period OF 1G
years and none Of tue intervening calender
divisions has failed to see him Ut the front
| one or more times, except 1868 and 1881,
| lie is ii marvel of wear Old Lady Suffolk
| is only one st ason behind him and She won
| great number of races, Is being credited to
her-more than twice keelcrs quota.
Chicago, alias llardbcard alias jim R5olcy,
outranks even Tom kecler having Won his
| first race in 1859 aud his last in 1876, no less
than IS seasons of hard campaigning. We
| believe he is still alive in California. An
interesting "reminiscences of him was recently
| published and If we are not mistaken he won
a scrub race last year.
Other notable casters" are, Brother Jon
athan, Byron Confidence, Cozettc, Derby,
Ethan Align, Flora Temple, George Wilkes,
Goldsmith Maid, llolsuuri lluntress, John
H., John Stuart, Lady Frani,iin, Lady Mos
COW, Lady Star Pilot Temple, Silas Rich
I ~. Ill