The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-24
HORSE RACING TN AMERICA
By FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

+ night in the seventies. John was away
, from his home and escaped. Frank Har
| per, like his uuclcs, never married. ~
| lived for many wears alone IN the old
/ house about which so many tragic mem
ories clung. The Harper farm was the
home of tho mighty Ten Brock, and
the invincible gfellow-two heroes
of the turf whose names will not perish
as long as the love of the sport lives
in the breasts of Americans. Over the
grave Of L,ongfellow is n handsome
stone, bearing the legend: "llere lies
/ the King of the Turf-Seventeen Starts
Fourteen tirsts. This stone and that
/ over the grave Of Ten Broeck are in
/ front of the old Harper residence, In
/ side the house the walls are hung with
! oil portraits of the great Harper horses,
and among these old man Harper
/ dreamed away the declining years OF
/ his life. These arc only two of the
| three e-hundred odd stock farms which
/ have made the name of Kentucky fam
/ Gus.
In passing, it is interesting to note
| that fhe blue grass region of kentuc-
! XIV and Tennessee was the first national
| park and game and forest reserve IN
| America. 1t was set apart, before the
white man had come with profanlng
foot and conqucring firearms, by the
! great lrOQuolS lflDcS OF luuldnS' tH1 pi"
| Nations. They forbade. any settlement
or agriculture in all that great region
and it became known as the hunting
! grounds The Iroquois on the north,
| the Cherokces on the cast, and the Chlc-
kasaws on the west were bound BY
treaty To keep these hunting grounds
neutral territory. There was .perpet,,
ual truce that the arrow might be sped
| only when aimed at the game and fowl
/ - +b, ,,-i11p The stone nlDnu
ments, put up by the lroquois to mark
the boundaries OF this first national
park. arc still to be traced, and few
of them are still standing.
The Pacific coast has contributed
much to the American turf. Racing be,
gan In California, almost rs soon as gold
| digging, and has been kept mp ever
since. There the old fashioned long
races continued years after they were
! abandoned in the East. About thirty
wears ago the famous Lucky Baldwin
! started the Santa Anita ranch. Leland
| Stanford founded Palo Alto at the same
| time. Then came the names of Haggin
and Keene, still inseparable from the
went to California as a poor boy, ana
! set up in life with FoXhall Daingerheld,
n poor boy from Virginia, as his part
! ner. Daingerfield had rich brother,
| q Judge of the court. and in time pret'
/ ty Miss Daingerfeld from Virginia
came to California 10 visit. Her rlch
! and powerful brother soon saw that
! Keene was paying court 10 ms sls1er'
! He was made furious by the presump-
! ton of the impecunious youth, and for
! bade Keene to come TO the house. But the
J Younger Daineerfield was on keene 8
side, and he actually helped his Sis"
ter to elopc with her poverty. stricken
! lover. This is the story they tell IN the
West. and everybody knows that
| Keene's son is Foxhall Kcene, and that
! IL was Keene's horse, Foxhall. who won
! 1852 900 on European courses. making
| the best record ever made by an Amerl,
can horse abroad. Foxhall Daingerheld
afterward became Il major IN the Con
| federnte army, and great race morse
has been called "Major Dalngerheld. Z"
In Tennessee the Belle Meade stock
farm near Nashville was one of the
greatest of horse breeding establish
ments for many years. 1t was under
the ownership Of Gen. w, IT, Harding
and Gen. w II, Jackson. In the Belle
! Meade stud died the mighty Iroquois,
winner of the English derby and sec
oud only TO Foxhall in his performances
abroad Also Enquirer, prince OF the
turf, 10 whom a handsome marble mon
ument was erected by John R. Mclean
of the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Jack
SON place. by reason of death, became
the property of little baby, and there
was no one to GO on with the farm:
There had been financial reverses, and
so Belle Meade's fine stock was sold,
its 800 deer were liberated, and it will
soon be cut into town lots.
The American and English racehorses
are identical The breeders Of all coun-
tries who desire TO improve their stock
have used the American and English
thoroughbreds, and have added greatly
to the vaIue of their horses by this in
fusion of ariStocratic equine blood