The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-03-31
Bits of Turf History.
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From The Nelc York Sun
The greatest winning 3 year-old was
Hanover, by Hindoo He won twenty
races and SS9,S27.
The highest price ever paid for thor
oughbred horse in America was $4,000,
by Leonard Jerome, for Kentucky by Lex
ington.
The greatest winning year-old was
fremont, foaled 1884, by Virgil, dam Ann
Fief, by Alarm. He won thirteen races
and s4O,085 in money.
The largest thoroughbred breeding es-
tablishment in America is the Belle Meade
stock farm, Sumner county, Tenn, which
contains 1000 acres.
The richest stake ever won in America
was the Peyton stake, run at Nashville in
1843, which was worth S41 900 net to the
winner. Distance, four mile heats.
Lucky Baldwin will have a stable of
about twenty-eight horses of all ages in the
east this year. Some of his 2-year-olds
are reported to be very promising.
In 1886 the stable of the Dwyer Broth
ers won S20S, ,549.1 in purses and stakes,
more money than was ever won by any
single racing establishment in America.
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.
Isaac Murphy has ridden three of the
four winners of the great American Derby,
run at Washington park, Chicago, which
is better record than any other western
jockey.
The greatest winning 2-year-old FLY was
Wanda, chestnut mare, foaled 1882 by i'm
ported Mortemer, dam Minnie Nina, by
Lexington. She won eight races and $780,
345.
Ripple horse that in 1881 was one of
the best performers in the Dwyer Bros,
stables, sold at the Woodburn sale of year
lings in 1879 for $50, at which sale the
great Foxhall only brought $780,
The greatest notable sale of thorough
breds ever had in this country was that of
P. Lorillard in 1886, at which twenty-seven
head sold for $149,050, the highest price
being $4,000, the lowest $500.
In his famous cup race with Kingfsher
at Saratoga, in 1871, Longfellow ran the
first three-quarters of the two miles in LIZ,
rate of speed that was never equalled for
that distance in the history of the Ameri
can turf.
Miss Woodford, br M, foalded 1880,
by imported Billet, dam Fancy Jane, by
Neil Robinson, won more money than any
animal that ever ran on the American turf,
winning in FIVE years forty-eight races,
worth s11S,97O.
Joe Blackburn (full brother to the fa-
nous Luke Blackburn was the highest
priced yearling ever sold in America at
auction, the Dwyer Brothers paying 81 500
for him at the Belle Meade sale in 1881.
As race horse he was worthless.
The highest priced thoroughbred ever
sold at public auction was Dew Drop, now
dead; foaled 1883, by Falsetto, dam Ex-
plosion, by imported Hampton Court.
She brought $4,000 at Lorillard's sale in
1886, the purchasers being the Dwyer
Brothers.
Stuyvesant, b. h., foa!ded 1884, by i'm
ported Glengarry, dam imported Dublin
Belle, by Knight Of St. Patrick, is the only
horse that ever Won ssilss.faeas .ills faeasip ip LAO hk
having accomplished that feat at >sheeps-
head Bay, Sept. I, 1877, carrying 111s
pounds.
The highest priced stallion ever sold as
auction was Iroquois, the only Americas
horse that ever won the English Derby.
He was by imported bennington, dam
Maggie B, B., by imported Australia, and
was sold to Gen. W. H. jackson, of Nash
vile, Tenn, at Lorillard's sale of 1886,
for $4,000.