The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-26

mares, and did not start racing until
September 30th OF that year, but be-
tween that date and October 2Sth he
travelled from Petersburg, Va, to
Camden, N. j.. and started in five
races, all at different points, and all
four mile-heats. One he walked for.
three he won. and one, the last. at Cam-
den, he lost to the great mare Fashion
In 7:42. "Boston icing" as his chroni-
acler says, dead amtss. unable TO run
a mile In 2:10," as well he might have
been. after crowding five races (four-
mile-heats) and several hundreds OF
miles on the road into less than a
month. ie
In 1912 he started five times. all
four-mlle heats; won three and lost
two, and in 1S43, the last Of his racing
years, at eleven years old. he started
once and won at three miles. Few.
realize what wonderful task he ac-
complished in his eight racing years.
He started forty-fiye times. won
forty and lost five. Thirty OF these
forty races at four mile heats; five he
walked; nine three-mile heat races. and
walked for only one, and one at two
miles.
His winnings amounted to only ST.
200, an amount, In these days. tre-
quently won In the Futurity in one
race Of six furlongs by two-year-olds.
That Boston would have made even
more brilliant record on the turf
than he did cannot be doubted when
we remember that in his four-year-old
form lie was kept in the stable on
many occasions to give his stable COM
panions, ATLANTA, Lady Clifden, Argyle
and Mary blunt,n fair chance to win
their laurels, and when we remember
that his owners, regarding the best
interest OF tho turf. and at the request
OF proprietors OF courses, failed to en-
ter him for many purses which ne
could have won hands down on the
ground that his entry barred all others
Ono of the Northern tracks went so
far as to propose to exclude him from
drumming.
He raced from Georgia to New York.
not only beating. one after another
every horse within reach, but challcng-
| Ing all others to meet him on their
own grounds When Fashion beat
| him at Camden, In 1871, his owner did
not put up one dollar on him, whereas
no was usually backed at 900 to
| $500 nineteen times over" and after
the race, challenged Fashion to run
1.-THE next spring for $4,000. Ills owner
also offered to run Boston four-mile
heats against any two horses In tho
world" for $4,000. Our ancestors We're,
no doubt, sports OF the first water,
| but tho owners Of Boston must have
/ known that they had a world beater
| to make such an offer as that in those
/ days when money was money, and
4 $4,000 was two or three fortunes. The
| Challenge to Fashion for, $4,000 was
taken up. and In the following spring,
May 10, 1912. at the Long Island Course.
one OF the greatest races ever5run on
1 the American turf was run between
4 these two great horses a spirited
"The Spirit Of the Times" Vol. MI,
p. 1874.
Tho race being sectional one boz
tween tho North and the South. the
lcrowd was ENTHUSIASTICALLY es-
timated at from O.AQo to- 900 "---and
an unruly crowd 1t was, too. When
the railroad had sold tickets for sew
1 eral thousand more places than they
could supply, the crowd "rol lied several
of the cars off the track over the hill
and smashed Others" while ! made
course 1t swarmeds onto the track IN
spite OF the police, until "at length
Yankee Sullivan. Jerolonan Rynas and
several other distinguished members
OF tho fancy" were called on to clear
the track, and Yankee Sullivan had
4 only to let fly with his right or ] e.
rolon,nn give any one Of them a teaser
on his smaller to fix the business
The race itself was despe rately fought
out from post to finish In two heats
first the marc leading and then the
horse, untilSat last the young mare
beat the old horse out in tha then un-
dreamed OF time OF 1882 II for the first
lSheat, and the second In 7:45.t
Boston lost, but was not disgraced
He was Q leven years old ana carried
l26 hounds, while the mare was five
in her prime, and carried Ill pounds
Besides. in the first heat he struck
q post with his hip. severely shocking
/ shinl and cutting a cash seven or eight
inches long here the mare gaining
i three lengths on him. While she only
beat thin Mt the finish by one. Vii.
sI \ Is true tile marc beat any tiWe
Boston had ever mad but he had
EneYer been ridden out In mn " preyio lls
race, Is y lel to speculat n as to what