Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05

pleased with the colts prowess and fame
OUTSIDE OF the betting end of it. Syson-
py loss Tor the present, at least, is frrep-
arabic. There are men in racing TODAY
that could be better spared than this mar
Vicious noble colt. His dam, Optune. will
be sent to England and bred again to Mel
ton.
The heaviest betting coup Mr. Keene ever
made on the turf was with his great colt
texhall, on the latter's double handIcap
wins In England In 1SS1-the CesarewItch
stakes al Epson and the Cambridpeshire
at Newmarket. Ever since he began life
as schoolmaster in California. and later
got IN his hooks In Consolidated Virginia
ana the other bonanza mines Sysonby's
owner was always great lover of horses.
When his colts Dan Sparkling and Spend-
thrift ran one. two for the Withers Of Is7p
at Jerome Park, and the best colt, SPEND
IhilIt. was eased to let his stable COM
panion win under the rules, some peonle
that oid not know any better Kissed the
jockey of Spendthrift good and plenty This
SO mortified Mr.. Keene that he then and
there declared he would race his horses out
as stable companions from then on
When he purchased Foxhall and Don Fu-
lsno as yeaflings at the WOODBURY. sale of
1879 the two youngsters showed SO well
In their trials that fall that he sent them
across the ocean that winter along with
several others. While neither had been
nominated for the EPSON Derby the Grand
FIX DE Paris, besides the handicap classics
ana two-year-old stakes galore offered ann
pie opportunities for fame and profit: If the
youngsters proved good enough
Placed under the care of the noted En-
glish trainer, Richard Marsh the Keene
colts had time to become acclimated before
being asked any crucial questions as two
year-olds. much the wisest course To mr.
sue with racehorses exported from here To
the damp. heavy atmosphere of the tight
hat ma n
Preakness and other good horses who we're
sent TO England from this country and
raced without proper time to get accu-
mated
FoxhaH came of imported stock on the
paternai side. his sire, King Alfonso, being
by Imported Phaeton, a son of the great
King Tom. But his dam Jamaica, by Lex
ington, gave him the steutest strains of
the best American families. King Alfonso
was also ffrst-class raeehorse himself. de-
feating the great Ten Brock In their three
year-old form and winning stakes at Lex
ington. Louisville and Nashville. So the
Keene colt came naturally by his superla-
tive racing qualities.
In the fall of 1850 the two Keene colts.
Foxhall and Don Fulano. made their turf
debut IN England's classic events for that
age, the Dewhurst plate, July and Cham
payne stakes, Middle Park plate, etc But
they were up against such high rollers as
Bal Gal. Thebais, st. Louis and other two
year-olds. and did not defeat any of these
cracks, but In Foxhall's two starts he
ran forwardly enough to give promise of
great merit with further maturity.
Pierre Lorillards Iroquois, who the next
year won the English Derby. also made his
turf debut that fall having, like Foxhall,
been sent over as yearling with Barrett,
Passaic and other Rancocas colts AS a
two year-old Iroquois won the Chesterfield
stakes and was al once spotted as Derby
possibility. But he and Foxhan never met.
Naturally the doings of these American
youngsters in the Keene and Lorilard sta
bles, coming on top of Paroles sensational
wins the year before 0S79}, drew the at
tention OF the turf world of two hemi-
spheres TO this equine Invasion of England.
Parole had beaten Engiands greatest horse