The morning call., 1895-01-20
THE TURF.
American Horses That Will Race for English
Sovereigns.

Sovereigns.
The DIVER and Croker combination stable OF
running horses sailed for England from New
York on the 18th inst, on board the steamship
Mississippi. Everything that human skill
could conceive was done to prevent injury TO
the animals. The value OF the consignment
was placed at 100000, a sum which would be
doubled in the event OF the two-year-old diYi-
sion developing some individuals of excep-
tional merit Among the noted equines the
Mississippi has carried is Ormonde and the
costly English-bred brood mares which w. OBJ.
Macdonough purchased in England as fitting
consorts for so great horse.
The string of tWenty-one now about to land
on British soil does not include Prince George
and Armitage. After the horses land at Royal
Albert dock, London, they VIII be transferred
to Tom Browns training quarters In New
market, which are at ''the top of the town"
and only a few hundred yards from where
Foxhall finished in his memorable victory in
the Cambridgeshire, nearly fifteen years ago.
The only one of the horses the Dwyer-Croker
combination is to send to England that has
any really important engagements, is the two
year-old Montauk, by Strathmore-Spinaway,
he being engaged in the several two-year-old
stakes to be run late in the season of 1895, and
in four of the biggest three-year -Old events of
1896, the Two Thousand Guineas, the EPSON
Derby, the Champion Stakes and the New
market Stakes Dobbins is in the Ascot Gold
Cup, and several OF the two-year-olds are in
minor stakes.
The Dwyer-Croker invasion of the English
racing field is the sixth attempt of Americans.
with American horses, to beard the British lion
in his den. In the preceding expeditions to
England the only notably successful results
achieved were in 1881, known to English rae
ing men as the American year, when Mr. Pierre
LOrillard with IrOquOlS and FOXhall, won the
cream of the big events. including the Derby
and st. Leger, and CeSarewitch and Cambridge
shire handicaps in England and the Grand
Prize of Paris in France
The pioneer American turfman in England
was Richard Tenbroeck, the owner of the great
racehorse and sire, Lexington. Mr.. Tenbroeck
racng, but the turf in this country had run
down badly i'll 1856, and the fourishing con-
dition of racing in England led him to make
his venture TO England that year. He took
picked lot of horses, the best of them being
Starke, Pryor and Pryoress, and i'll 1857 he had
the satisfaction of seeing an American bred
horse win Tor the first time on the British isl
and-Pryoress at Newmarket, winning the
Cesarewitch handicap, after dead heat with
FL Hakim and Queen Bess. Pryoress was
then 4 years old and CARRYING, ninety
eight pounds, Charley Littlefeld riding
her in the dead heat, and George Ford,
ham, ''the Demon" in the run-of The
betting against Pryoress before the race was
80 to l. In the run-oH she started at 2 to and
won handily by a length and a half over a.
course of two miles, two furlongs and twenty
eight yards in distance. The next year Pryor
Brewer for second place. Tenbroeck won
number of other races and was so fortunate in
his venture that he returned to England with
another lot of American horses few years
later and again won a fair share OF races The
next American to race American horses in Eng
land was Milton H. Sanford, who sent stable
over late in the seventies and made compar-
alive failure of his expedition, though the
Yankee horses won frequently after they passed
out of his hands.
Following the Sanford experiment came
0rYl1 ord and
in England during period OF three years
leading gradually up to the trlumphs OF the
American year. Mr.. Lorillard's best repre-
sentative before the appearance OF lroquols
was the great gelding Parole, by Lexington
Maiden. Paroles first success was in April,
1879, when he won the Newmarket handicap,
Isonomy and tour Others He followed that
victory by winning at EPSON the City and
Suburban, the last mile and quarter OF the
Derby course, and the Great Metropolitan
handicap, Fred Archer riding IN the last two
In 1880 Mr.. Keene sent the famous SPEND
thrift to England, but ne went wrong IN tram
ing, and Parole continued the best American
representative until the next year, when lro-
quois and Foxhall startled the Enghshmen by
winning nearly evefytnIhg oney s1aateo LOT ion.
year-old, but was at his best in 1881, as three
year-old. His first start was for the Two Thou
sand Guineas, for which Peregrlne peat nm
rather easily, Peregrine then being made
6 to favorite for the Derby, in which 1roquois
turned the tables by beating him out a
half length in fight home Only once after
that was Iroquois, beaten as 3-year-old, ne
the Champion Stakes Foxhalps first victory
was in the Grand Prize of Paris, after which he
was rushed back to England and ran unplaced
in the Ascot Gold Cup. His next success was
in the Grand Duke Michael Stakes and then he
won the Cesarewtch, putting that event to the
credit of an American horse Tor the second
time. In the City and Suburban he ran second
to Ben dor, the Derby winner of 1880, beaten
a length and a half, with twenty-five Others
behind him.
horses in the American year follow:
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