Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
HOW LORILLARD WON
FOUR RACES ON PROGRAM

Long Branch for the Dryers and a small
fortune In wagers besides. The next year
| he won two races in one afternoon at
| Brighton Beach, mile and a mile and a
quarter, in the latter at weller weigh hts.
| ridden by Mike Daily now training the Colt
horses at Benning. Later he went to the
stud in Tennessee. where l last saw the
horse.
! Now those venturesome spectators who
had taken 4 to 1 against Lorillard winning
three races that afternoon were in clover
almost. For they had two more chances yet
| to score. While Layer Kelly went TO AL
Smith and offered him 81 900 for his ticket
calling for $500. II Lorillard won TIE
| tire card O. four fat races. but Smith would
! not trade with two races in already.
| The great old gelG.ng Parole. by Leaning
| ton-Maiden, then ten years old. was the
| next RancocaS starter. Six years before the
| old hero had beaten Ten Brock and Ochil-
| tree at Pmlico. and two years after that
! defeated Isonomy. the greatest race horse
| in England. Then he won the Newman l<et
| City and Suburban. Great A"tror.'l'fan,
Goodwood cup at two miles and .ta.t ara
| other races.
And here he was. hollow bacFed. and in
| the Sere and yellow ieaf OF a g,oriuus old
| age, ready to meet younger horses OF speed
| and stamina over the trying route Of a mile
and a quarter Was it any wonder that
] many members of that same Congress
| that in 1877 adjourned to him defeat
| Ten Brock at Baltimore again asse~hl"d
| at Ivy City after the lapse Of years TO do
honor to the grand old veteran?
Pitted against Parole this eventful
day a. Ivy City were w L. Buychs old
campo igner. Colonel Sprague, by Calm
| Pauline Sprague, winner of ten races that
year, and a tough customer Tor ANYBODY y
! horse. Also A. j. CassatJs stout mare.
| Rlca, by Kngfsher. mare that had won
seven races that season, and Odn Bowl" s
long distance horse Compensation by
| Catesb--, who that :ummer had beaten The
Lorillard's Quadruple Success.
| Here was field that Parole at his best
would have had his work cut out to defeat.
| And yet such speed, resolution and vim did
| the time honored old geldng show in his
ante-post gallop that every big bettor at
| Ivy City was willing to lay odds on this
| horse OF century.
Parole was the favorite in the betting at
| 4 to ., with the Cassatt mare Rica second
| choice. Col. Sprague third in favor. At
| post time much money went on Parole
| that most of the layers rubbed him off their
| states a $4,000 stable commission sending
| the odds down to l to =.
Even this short price was a good one
against the conqueror Of Ten Brock and
| Isonomy, after Rica and Col. Spra2ue
| had set fast pace for mile, Jockey
Olney let Parole have his head, and tho
famous brown gelding passed the two pace
makers as though they were tied to "A post,
finishing In > 10 with his ears playing.
Three in succession for the Rancocas
cherry and black landed those fortunate
ones who had laid l to on "A triple sue
cess for the stable. But the most uncer-
tain looking issue of the series was to come,
and even AL Smith, the New York plunger
who had 500 to 5000 on the stables
Quadruple success, was tempted 10 Ii'nSo
part of his wager.
The fourth race at five furlonss brought
out the largest field of the day, eleven
horses, and Lorillard's three-year-old tll!y
Breeze was the choice. The daughter or
Alarm was very speedy miss, and could
go a route well, winning mile ana
furlong race the year before as t"o-Near-
al l,tc Tho IN
races, mostly at distances under mile ana
In the best of company.
Breeze in Canter.
Among Breeze's opponents We're Bureh,
the speedy three-year-old by Enquirer
Brocade, named after his owner, w. Pres
ton Burch; the Dryers Wandering, Davis
and Halls War Eagle, who afterward ran
second in the Suburban, and other last
horses, Burch especially being looked as a
sprinter of the first class, as he had Shown
that spring and summer by successes at
Savannah, Augusta and northern points.
But Pierre Lorillard was already such
large winner on the day, that his commis-
sonerS bought every auction pool sold on
Breeze and in the books hammered her
opening quotations of s to TO half those
figures at post time. He also supported her
in the mutual pools. So also did Book
maker Kelly, who had laid the freak bet
noted above of $1,000 to $40 that the Lori
lard stable would not win four races. lie
backed Breeze enough TO save the S2'VoV
he stood to lose.
Like the other three events the fourth
also recorded triumph for the Rancocas
colors Olney, who had ridden two OF the
previous three winners, got the Lorillara
filly off flying and never let the others gee
to him. She won with something to spare
in lO1 for the five furlongs, Wandering
getting the place from Burch, who got
away slowly.
Pierre Lorillard did not win a very large
could not get as much money on as ar
New York and northern points. Probably
$50 600 represented his winnings, exclusive
of the value of the two purses and two
stake events, Paroles race being also q
stake the Washington handicap.
This was the only time the Rancocas
stable ever won four races in one day. And
memory recalls but one other instance OF
such q sweep on an American race course
at Long Branch, when the horses owned
by the late d. D. Withers won four events
in one afternoon. His colors were all
black" and strange to say an immense
flock of crows flew over the race course be-
fore the first race. Many took the 'hunch'
to their profit.
The other four days of the Ivy City meet
ing of 1888 showed some sensational racing
between the stars of the turf. The Column
bia stakes mile and a half, on the
second day, witnessed the meeting of Miss
Woodford, Drake Carter and Eole, the
great Virginia-bred horse, then owned by
ederick-Gebhard.
Eole was favorite, but Miss WoodfOrd,
ridden by Jockey Mclaughlin, won the
race in 2.36, one of the fastest records at
the distance ever made on a District track.
Drake Carter got the place, and four days
later won the Potomac stakes from the
Dryers great cot, George Kinney, at a
mile and five furlongs. losing Mike Dwyer
a very heavy bet Kinney.
Drake Carter was very useful horse for
Pierre Lorillard and was cheap at $4,000.
the price paid Green Morris for the son of
Ten Brock. Certainly the master of Ram
cooas had no reason to complain of his
treatment by Dame Fortune at the Ivy City
meetings in the early sos. c. c. p.