The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-09
ways rocniis to my mind 1Uplins's

sIways recalls TO my mind KJpi'ns'a
fines
ttThe horsc lie fled like a buck of ton
mt the marc Hike barren doe"
ana tho last eighth OF the mile his other
striking lines.
tsTbc horse he went like wounded
bull,
Y f3uf }ho mare like newrouscd fawr,
But to return 10 my horses. They
were both from dams Of unimpeacliablc
pedigrees out of Alice Car
nrnl who was by sarpedon. by Emilius,
Nv OryI,Ie otc. and Lecontn out OF
ReIl who was by Glencoe. by sultan,
~ solin by Buzzard. by Woodpecker,
by lJerod. etc. Their pedigrces In ex-
tons, would be undressing, but they
traced 10 the best Eastern blood
thronrh tile hest English horses.
THE two rivals were never beaten
urtil they met when Lexington won
Sbe first race and I4econte tho second
Roth made their debuts IN 1853 as
tbree-vrar-old LcSinSton's first start
was Mt Lexington. Ky, May 49, 1883.
under the name of barley given him
from his resemblance to the barley
Arnbian There were twelve starters.
the best In that land of great horses.
In a false start Lexington and Garrett
Davis by Glencoe, broke away and
ran two miles and three-quarters be-
fore they could be taken up, Lexington
leading. Garrett was withdrawn, but
Lexington went Mt once to the post.
and tile word was given, or rather the
drum sounded as it was done In those
DAYS. Lexington distanced all but
three of the colts in this the first heat.
and won the second.
His next start was also at Lexington,
Nv. on May 81. 1853. Lost the first
heat to Midway. by Boston. and won
tho next two and the race. He was
then sold to Captain Villa Wiley, and
Mir. Richard Ten Brock, who changed
his name to Lexington and started him
December 2, 1888. on the Metairie
course then three miles out of New
Orleans. in n match race against Sally
Waters by Glencoe. out of Black Maria,
the sum of $500 being put up on the
mare and s3.5oO on the horse. Lex
ington won. distancing her in the sec
ond heat These three races were. re-
snectively. mile heats, two-mile heats
and three mile heats.
January I. 1854, at the Metairie
course. two-milc heats, he paid forfeit
TO Argent and Hornpipe. and on the
list of that April met Leconte, Arrow
and Highflyer in a four-mile heat race,
md won, Leconte second, the others
tlistanced But on the Sth of the same
month. and at the same place. he mot
I.econte and Reubc in n four-mlle heat
race for the Jockey Club purse Of $4,000
and lost, Leconte winning in 1895 and
7.SS ST. and in the autumn OF the
same year paid forfeit at Long Island
not being in the North at the time Of
tile race.
This time of 1926 beat Fashions, of
.7:32 12, which had stood from May
10, 1912. TO that day. Mr.. Ten Broeck
then offered to bet $4,000 that Lex
ington could beat Leconte's time, and
$500 more that he would beat Leconte
himself
Two sporting gentlemen from Vir-
Einia-Colonel Calvin Green and Cap
tain John BelcheT--accepted the def,
as the term goes now, and on April 2,
1855, Lexington. with 1913 pounds up.
won in 7:l9 "a, which stood as the
record until 1874, when Fellowcraft,
los pounds up, beat it one-quarter OF
Il second, which could easily be ac-
counted for by the improved watches
courses. trainers and iockies of 1874,
SO that we might say 1t stood until
1876, when it was beaten by Ten
Brock in 7:15 1-2, in match agains,
time. This record OF Ten Broeck's
stood until 1897. when California
mare, Lucretia Borgia by name, witt
eightyfve pounds up, did the trick /,
T;l1. This mare. who was not con
sidered great in any way. was pre-
pared for and run in this race to decid
the muoI-mooted question of whethc
the modern race-horse has deteriornre,