Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16
SUCCESSOR TO
EMPEROR is
NOTFOUND
BALDWIN'S GREAT HORSE IS
AT REST
MONUMENT WILL BE ERECTED
TO HIS MEMORY
rief-Stricken Throng Attends Buria
of Derby Winner, Considered
Grandest Thoroughbred
FoaIed in California

<STUyHE Emperor is deadn' But there
were no answering echoes of
Il Long live the Emperor at Ar
cadia yesterday when the news went
through the town that Emperor of Nor
folk was dead. No worthy successor
to the greatest race horse ever bred in
California could be found in all the
broad acres of Lucky Baldwin's domain,
and the title rests with the son of Nor
folk beneath the soil of the grassy field.
that has been his home for twenty-five
years
Emperor of Norfolk died at twenty
minutes to eight o'clock yesterday morn
ing, and his passing away was the cause
of real grief. For months it has been
known that the wonderful thoroughbred
would not be spared to his well-earned
retirement for long, and when the stable
attaches announced that the end was
near everyone on the Santa Anita was
at the stall door for last look at the
beloved animal.
Eyes Are Moist
There were real men in the gathering,
and they were not ashamed to let others
see the moistened eyes which were
turned toward where lay the once pow
erful frame of the horse Wonderfully
gentle for stallion, Emperor of Nor
folk was caressed and fondled by all
about the ranch, and when his end was
announced genuine sorrow, as for hu-
man being, overwhelmed those about him.
Immediately after his death, the EN-
peror was laid away fer his last rest.
A flower bordered plot, surrounded by
rocks and trees to give it the form OF
a heart. is where a monument, a tribute
from Lucky Baldwin and his ranch at
taches to their love for the horse, will
be erected.
No ordinary burial was good enough
for Emperor of Norfolk, and he was laid
away with all the care loving hands
could command. A pine box, made 10
accommodate his vast bulk, was built
around the animals form, and he was
laid away where the surrounding earth
could not touch him. Flowers were
strewn on the mound, and Santa Anita
was in general mourning for the entire
day.
Bred Near Sacramento
the greatest horse ever bred in CaliIor-
MIA. and counted his victories by the
score. His two years of active racing
marked him as a truly CLASSY amman,
and more than one purse came to MS
owner through his wonderful gameness
and speed.
The horse was bred by Theodore Win
tersl of Nevada at his stock farm near
Sacramento, California. Lucky BALDWIN,
looking around for a successor to Grin
stead purchased the Emperor as
vearling and brought him to Santa Anita,
where he received his early training.
Hell sbe greater than Grinstead, SAID
Baldwin, and he went to work deVeloplns
the Emperor until 1887 when, as two
vear-old the animal was taken east to
meet the pick of the metropolitan tracks.
Victory after victory, and also an oc-
casional defeat, came Emperor or NOR
folls,s way. The Hyde Park stakes at
Washington park, Chicago, were ms py
right of conquest, and after the New
York tracks opened he was taken on TO
saratoga. There the Kentucky stakes, in
those DAYS considered one of the big
events of the summer season, fell to
the Emperor, and Baldwin brought him
back to California for the winter.
Won American Derby
Successful as was his two-year-old
form Emperor of Norfolk achieved his
greatest fame the following season The
American derby, in which the cracks of
the country were entered, claimed Bald
wins attention, and he centered his
hopes on Emperor of Norfolk.
And the horse was equal to the oc-
casion. Despite the contempt in which
the talent held him-for fifty to one was
short price against the Baldwin entry
Emperor of Norfolk, in a grueling race
that tested the heart of every horse in
If. proved far better than was expected.
winning the event and enriching his
owner by thousands Of dollars.
The Drexel stakes; run over the same
course was his next conquest and Bald
win again went east, this time to try
for the Brooklyn derby at Gravesend.
First money was easy for the big bay,
and he returned to California hailed as
one of the greatest horses of the age.
emperor of Norfolk was retired to the
stud when four years old, and until five
wears ago was considered one of the best
sires in the west. Old age interfered
at this time, and since then the animal
has led a life of ease, receiving all the
attention his great record called for.
In point of breeding Emperor of Nor
folk could hold his own with any horse
ever foaled in California. Sired by the
Great Norfolk, and out of the wonderful
Marion, he ran back on his paternal side
to Boston, and was considered the pest
great-grandson of this noted sire. Lexing-
ton, the son of Boston, was the getter of
Norfolk, and in direct line Emperor of
Norfolk's blood tracked back to what is
hailed as one of the greatest stations
America ever knew.
Colts Achieved Fame
Two of Emperor of Norfolk's sons have
achieved fame which in a measure ap-
proached that of their sire. Cruzados.
which many turfmen hail as the greatest
five-furlong horse in the country, is by
the Emperor, and Americus, now in the
stud in England, and well up the list Of
winning sires in that country, is also
by the dead horse. Americus was pur-
chased from Lucky Baldwin several
wears ago, and was raced in America un-
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