The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-30
eIT6 or TURF HISTORY.

The greatest Winning S-year-old was Han
over, by Hindoo. He won twenty races and
ee9, SCI
The highcs: price ever paid for thorough
bred horse in America was $4,000, by
Leonard jerome, for Kentucky, by LexiDg-
%.
Tho greatest winning 2-year-old was Ire
mont, ioalcd 1884, by Virgil, dam Ann F.ef,
by Alarm. Re won thirteen races end 60
O.5 il money.
The largest thoroughbred breeding estab-
lishment il Arlarica is tho Bello Meade
stock farm, Sumner county, Tenn, which
contains 400 ceres.
The richest stake ever won IN America was
tho Peyton stake, run Gt Nashville in 1913,
which Was worth 81, go net 70 the winner.
Distance, four mile heats.
Lucky Baldwin will have G stable Of abou.
twen.y-elgbt horses OF all ages In the east
next year So-io OF his 2-year-oles are
reported to be very promising.
In 1875 tho stable Of tho Dwyor Brothers
won SOS, ji0.lG IN purses and stakes, moro
money than w9s over won by any single rae
ing establishment n America
The Kentucky bred horse Abbotsford,
formerly Mistake, is TIE only horse In tho
history Of tho world that has won races n
England, Franco and America.
Isaac Murphy has ridden three OF the four
winners OF the great American Derby, run at
Washington park, Chicago, which is q better
record than any ether western Jockey.
The greatest Winning 2-year-old FLY was
Wanda. chestnut marc foalcd 1852 by i'm
ported Mortenler, dam Minnie Nina, by Lex
ington. She won eight races and 1858
Ripple, horse that in 1851 was one OF the
best performers in tho Dwyer Br2s. stables,
sold at tho Woodburn sale Of yearlings in
1870 for $50, at which salo the great Foxhall
only brought $3.50.
Tho greatest notable sale Of thoroughbreds
ever had in this country was that Of r
Lorillard in 1888, at which twenty-seven head
sold for sl4o,050. the highest price being
S20, 900, the lowest $500
In bis famous cup race with Kingfsher a
Saratoga, IN lS7l, Longfellow ran the 1rst
three-ouarter5 OF the two miles n LIE, rate
Of speed that was never e9ualed for that dis
taucc in tho history OF the American turf.
Mioi Woodford, br u, foaled 1850, by I'm
ported Billet, dam Fancy Jane, by Neil Rob
lnsop, won moro money than any animal
that over ran on the American turf, winning
in five years forty-eight races, worth slls,S7o.
Joe Blackburn full brother to the famous
Luke Blackburn was the highest priced
yeariing over sold in America at acution
tho Dwyer B.othcra paying 81. 500 for him at
tho Belle Meade sale il 1851. AS o racS
Lorse he was worthless
Tho highest priced thoroughbred ever sold
at public auction was Dew Drop, low dead
foaled 1855, by Falsstto, dam Explosion, b;
imported Hampton Court. She brought
$4,000 at Lori!,ard's salo in 1856, tho pur
chasers being tho Dwyer Brothera
Stuyvesant, b. h., foaled 1854, by importet
Glengarry, dam imported Dublin Bello, BY
knight OF ST. Patrick, ia the only horse thai
syer won milo rlce in 40, he having &C
cornplishel that feat az Sheepshead Bay Sept
z, 1877, carrying III l-a pounds,
The highest priced stallion ever sold q
auction was Iroquois, the only American
horse that ever won tho English Derby. III
was by imported bennington, dam Maggi,
B. B., by imported Australia, and was sos
TO Gen. W. II. Js>ksou, Of Nashville, Tenn.
at Lorillards saA If 1885, for Ss0O0o-Nev
York Sun.