New-York tribune., 1885-07-08
VhyD1 ~ THE LoRiLL4RD.

Yesterday at Monmouth Park was a time OF
great qualification for the bcst-knOwn and most
influential OF American owners of racing stock
Pierre Lorillard's r-famed iilly Wanda won
the rich Lorlllard Stakes to which the million
aire pillar of the turf has been giving 1000 Of
added money for many years. Season after
season his munifcent gift tor the encourage
ment of racing and the improvement of the turf
has gone 10 other owners The Dwycrs have
taken it repeatedly, but they have never been
stimulated by their success to initiate Mr.
Lorillard's ibcrality. Yesterday Mr.. Lorilard
won the prize with illy OF his own breeding
and training, the daughter of Mortcmcr, the re-
nowned French stallion who was imported to
head the Rancocas stud.
This victory naturally gave Mr.. Lorillard
genuine delight. 1t was one OF the richest
prizes in the history of the American turf-no
less than $4,000. Bat it was not the sum at
stake 50 much rs the fact that the daughter OF
the sire chosen by him IN Europe. the iilly
reared and trained on his own farm, brought up
under his own eye and ridden by his own
Jockey, had won the LDrillard, which gratliied
the owner Of RancOcas. l. is doubtful il the
triumph of Iroquois at Epsom when for the first
and last time an American racer carried OIL the
blue ribbon of the turf, pleased him so much,
for Iroquois was bred at Chestnut Hill by
Arstides WEIGH and was bought when
yearling by Mr.. Lorilard. TO win the choicest
honors with animals of ones own breeding and
rcaring-that is the ambition of the true turf
man.
Wanda's victory PIT the daughter of Nlortemcr
and Minnie Minor at the head of American
tkroo -,r.nr-niIu Snn ma thu In. af them.
and she overcame them in her own imperial
way. Stately she is, ~ well rs swift, model
of majesty and power 80 far as thoroughbred
can be- When she has been defeated this year
her failures have been due to sickness. except
when she met Miss WoodfoId. The latter is
still Queen of the Turf, but Wanda may fairly
be considered the Crown Princess 1t is not
often that the best of the three year olds Is a
fly. The colts generally carry OIL the honors.
But Blink Bonny, Cruciix, Alice Haw-
thornc and many more fillies in Eng
land have shown that the weaker sex on the
turf rs elsewhere may sometimes distance the
stronger and starner, and Thora, Miss Woodford
and Wanda have taught American turfmen
some lessons.
IL is gratifying to all who wish to see the
American turf kept clean and honorable that
the greatest prize of the year went to an
esteemed and honored owner, a man who is not
connected in any way with bookmaking. Too
many owners in America are bOokmakers or are
concerned in some way in the making of books,
ard the proic icssional gamblers who are simply
an excrcsccnce and an evil have come to look
upon themselves rs an indispensable and
estimablc part of the prosperity of the turf.
The scandals and mischcfs that are caused by
the owning and running of racc-horses by
bookmakcrs are endless. .hey will sap the
strength of racing in the United States if they
are not abolished. A modest stiffness and
humility should characterize the daily walk and
talk of these fellows, who are merely tolerated,
not welcomed, on our race-courses. The public
rightly rcJoces in their reverscs and greves
over their triumphs. 1t was balm to the
wounded hearts of stanch old turfmen when
they saw that not one bookmaker's horse ran In
the Lorillard yesterday. The absence of their
animals from ell the great stakes would be well
come.