The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-05-24
Bits of Turf History.

The highest priced stallion ever sold at
auction was Iroquois, the only American
horse that ever won the English Derby.
lie was by imported Leamington, dam
Maggie B. b., by imported Australia. and
was sold to Gen. W. III. Jackson, of Nash
vile, Tenn, at Lorillard's sale of, 1886,
for $2O, 900.
Stuyvesant, b, h, foaled 1884, by i'm
ported Glengarry. dam imported Dublin
Belle. by Knight Of st. Patrick. is the
only horse that ever won mile race i'll
] 40 he having accomplished that feat at
Sheepshead Bay, Sept. z, 1887, carrying
1llb pour Dis.
The highest priced thoroughbred ever
sold at public auction was Dew Drop. now
dead, foaIed 1888, by Falsetto, dam Elk
plosion, by imported Hampton Court. She
brought $40 900 at Lorillard's sale in 1886,
the purchasers being the Dryer Brothers
Joe Blackburn. full brother to the ia
nous Luke Blackburn, was the highest
priced yearling ever. sold in America at
auction. the Dryer Brothers paying 81 500
1
AS race horse he was worthless.
Miss Woodford, br. M. foaled $780, ny
imported Billet, dam Fancy Jane. by Neil
Robinson, won more money than any ami
NAL that ever ran on the American turf,
winning in five years forty eight races,
worth $lls,970.
In his famous cuprace with Kinfsher at
Saratoga, in 1871, Longfellow ran the first
three quarters of the two miles in 1:12, a
rate of speed that was never equaled for
that distance in the history of the Ameri-
can turf.
The greatest notable sale of thorough
breds eyer had in this country was that of
P. Lorilard in 1886. at which twenty
seven head sold for $l49,O5 the highest
price being $4,000, the lowest $500.
Ripple, horse that in 1881 was one of
the best performers in the Dryer BrOs'
stables, sold at the Woodburn;sale of year
lings in 1879 for $50, at which sale the
great Foxhall only brought $3.50.
The greatest winning 2-year.Old FLY was
Wanda. chestnut mare. fOaled 1882 by
imported Mortimer, dam Minnie Nina,
by Lexington. She won eight races and
$780, 45.
Issac Murphy has ridden three of the
four winners of the great American Der
by, run at Washington Park. Chicago,
which is better record than any other
western jockey.
The Kentucky bred horse Abbotsford,
formerly Mistake, is the only horse in the
history of the world that has Won races in
England, France and America.
In 1887 the stable of the Dryer Bros.
won $208, $40 10 in purses and stakes. more
money than was ever Won by any single
racing establishment in America.
Lucky Baldwin will have stable of
the east next year. Some of his 2year-
Odds are reported to be very promising.
The richest stake ever won in America
was the Peyton stake, run at Nashville in
1913, which was worth $4l 900 net to the
winner. Distance, four mile heats.
The largest thoroughbred breeding es-
tablishment in America is the Belle Meade
stock farm. Sumner county, Tenn. which
contains 4, 900 acres.
he greatest winning 2 year old was
fremont, foaled 1884. by Virgil. dam Ann
Fef, by Alarm. He won thirteen races
and $40 ,0S5 in money.
The highest price ever paid for thor.
oughbred horse in America was $40 600,
by Leonard Jerome, for Kentucky, by
Lexington.
The greatest winning year old was
Hanover. by Hindoo. He won twenty
races and 500 1927.