Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-04
THE TURF.
Turf Facts In Fancy Figures-Good Words
for Pacers-High Prices.


for Pacers-High Prices.
The New York Sun has collected some
facts and figures in the history of the
American turf that are well worth remem-
bering. They are as follows:
The richest stake ever won in America
was the Peyton stake, run at Nashville in
1S43, which was worth Sal 900 net to the
winner. Distance, ur-mile heats.
Miss Woodford, Dr. M, foaled 1880, by
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.
Stuyesant, 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 in
1:40 he having accomplished that feat at
Sheepshead Bay September :, 1897 carry
ing llI3 pounds.
Ripple, horse that in 1881 was one of
the best performers in the Dwyer Brothers
stables, sold at the Woodburn sale of YEAR
lings in 1879 for $50, at which sale the
great Foxall only brought $3.50.
In 1886 the stable of the Dryer Broth
ers won sos, $40 Is in purse and stakes,
more money than was ever won by any
single racing establishment in America.
The largest thoroughbred breeding es-
adjustment in America is the Belle Meade
stock farm, Sumner county, Tenn. which
contains 1000 acres.
Isaac Murphy has ridden three of the
four winners of the great American Derby,
run at Washington Park, Chicago, which
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jockey.
The greatest sale of thoroughbreds ever
had in this country was that of 2. Lorillard
in 1856, at which twenty-seven head sold
for Sl49,050, the highest price being S29,-
600, the lowest $500.
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 his famous cup race with Kingfsher
at Saratoga, in 1871, Longfellow ran the
first three-quarters of the two miles in
ZIP, rate ofspeed that was never eaualed
for that distance in the history of the
American turf.
Joe Blackburn full brother to the IA
nous Luke Black burn was the highest
priced yearling ever sold in America at
auction, the Dwyer Brothers paving 81 800
for him at the Belle Meade in 1881. As
race-horse he was worthless
The highest-priced thoroughbred ever
sold at public auction was Dew Drop, now
dead foaled 1888 by Falsetto, dam Explo-
sion, by imported Hampton Court. She
brought $4,000 at Lorillard's sale in 1886
the purchasers being the Dwyer Brothers.
The highest-priced stallion ever sold at
auction was Iroquois the only American
horse that ever won the English Derby.
He was by imported bennington, dam
Maggie B. B., by imported Australia, and
was sold to General w. H. jackson, of
Nashville, Tenn, at Lorillards sale of
1886, for $4,000
The greatest winning 2-year-old was
fremont, foaled 1884 by Virgil, dam Ann
Fief, by Alarm. He won thirteen races
and $40,0S5 in money.
The greatest winning 2-year-old filly
was Wanda, chestnut mare, foaled 1882 by
imported Mortomer, dam Minnie Nina,
by Lexington. She won eight races and
$685..
The greatest winning 3-year-old was
Hanover, by Hindoo. He won twenty
races and S89,S27.
The highest price ever paid for thor
oughbred horse in America was $4,000,
by Leonard Jerome, for Kentucky, by Lex
ington.
GOOD WORDS FOR PAGERS.
We clip the following from the New
York Spirit Of the Times:
In the relation of progress in speed the
PAGER always has and always will keep in
advance of the trotter. From the very be-
ginning this has been so. In 1929 the
PAGER Bowery Boy paced two miles in
5:04E, beating the best trotting record at
the distance by 199 seconds. Ten years
after the fastest record by a horse in har-
ness was 22S, made by the PAGER Drover.
In 1874 Lady Suffolk trotted under saddle
in 2:263, and in the same year the PAGER
Unknown drew a wagon in 2:23 In the
year 1855 the PAGER Pocahontas measured
off a mile in 2;173, and four years after
the famous trotter Flora Temple electri-
fed the racing world of the United States
by trotting a mile in 2:193. Dexter was
the next king of the harness horses with
the record of 2:17{, which the PAGER Yam
kee sam beat two years after. The PAGER
Billy Boyce had previously covered mile
in 2:l4l under saddle, performance which
has never been equaled. Goldsmith Maid
was the next sovereign of trotters with her
record Of pa, succeeded in 1879 by St.
Julien, &l24. The same year st. Julien
made his record in the presence of our
country's most illustrious soldier the blind
veteran Sleepy Tom paced full mile in
2:I2E. The next trotting star of the first
magnitude was Maud s., 2:0S4, but her
record was beaten p seconds the previous
year by the PAGER Johnston. At nearly
all ways of going and at all distances the
PAGER IL credited with the fastest time.
During the year past the fastest mile ever
made by 4-year old in single harness was
PA. by the PAGER Arrow, and the fastest
mile by any stallion in single harness was
2:l3, by the PAGER Brown Hal We do
not make these statements with view OF
unfavorable comparisons, but simply give
facts rs we find them. As driving horse
the PAGER probably will never be as popu-
lar as the trotter, but rs a sp ed harness
horse he is undoubtedly the king. The
80 lists published from year to year,
show that the ratio of performers of ex-
IRENE speed Is greater among the PAGERS
than among the trotters. Out of the 49,
new PAGERS in the lists for 1897, twelve end
ed the campaign with records of 2:20 and
better. Of the old members eleven paced
in 30 and BETTER and of those in the 2:20
list NJ the opening of the season seven re-
duced their records
FOot-HnI Women.
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