The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-09

In stamina and endurance since short
races have superseded long oner. she
seems to have decided that question
once for all. and. incidentally. that II
is pace, not distance that Kills.
Ten Brock also held the record for
lone mile and five furlongs unt:l Ben
4 dor beat It IN 1882, and TIE record OF
one mile In 1899 "a; also the two nile
record of 3:27 1-2
After Lexington's race against time
he won his owners second bet of $4,000
by beating Ieconte at tho Metairie
course OH April 24th in a four mile
heat race, Which ended his career on
| the turf. and Mr.. Ten Broecls retired
him to the farm OF w. r. Harper. in
| Woodford county. KY. from which he
Alexander and Mr.. Nelson Dudley, OF
Kentucky. for $4,000. n sum which
at least two of his SONS brought before
his death. Norfolk brought $15,001 and
Duke of Magenta 100000.
| Tho turf career of Lexington was
short but brilliant. IIo started six
times. won five and paid forfeit twice.
winning In all $4,000.
Leconte's performances were even
| more brilliant. He won his first five
starts. and then. on tho LIST of April
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four-mile heats: but saven days later
turned the tables on Lexington and
beat him in 7:2e and 7:1s "a. thereby
boating Fashions time of 1889 12.
Next he won at Natchez, 18th of No
vember, 1854. Three days after this
he walked over the association four
milo heat race, and on December 9Th
won the Jockey Club purse at the
Metairic course, two-mIle heats; then
won at Natcl,ez, four-mile heats, in
1865 1-2: was then beaten by Arrow,
by Boston. threc-mile heats. at New
Orleans; then walked for tho Jockey
Club four-mle heats; was beaten at
the Pharsalia course March IS, 1866.
by Prior, by Glencoe, In 7:44. and again
on April 18th was beaten by Prior.
After this race he was purchased by
Mr.. Ten Broeck for $4,000, and sent
to Kentucky for the stud, but only
remained there until the 18th OF July
1856, when, with Prior and Prioress
half-sisters to Leconte, he was shipped
to England. where he only started once,
and that was for the Warwick Cup
OF 1867. He ran third to Fisherman
and Oakball, and died in England of
collie 18th October, 1857
He won eleven out Of fifteen starts,
which is better record than Lex
ington's, and yet Lexington has left
behind him national reputation. while
Lecontc Is known only In Mississippi
H. there.
The secret lies In tho fact that d
horse. to be truly great must not only
win races, but produce winners, and In
this line Lexington was easily first.
Els sons and daughters won at all dis
tances. but his chiefest glory comes
| from the produce OF his daughters. A
few OF his progeny are Norfolk, AS
terotd, Idlewild, dam of Wildidle: Ken
lucky, who at Jerome Park, October 6,
1856, won the great four-mile heat race
against twenty-eight other starters, in
1855; Optimist, who made reputation
| in England and France; Maiden, dam
of Parole, who cleaned up the English
men; Harry Bassett, who beat Long
| fellow; Nevada, dam of Luke Black
burn, who. In the year 1880 started
twenty -four times and lost only twice,
and In one of these he fell; Fanny Hol-
ton, dam OF Ten Brock, who held the
best records at one mile, one mile and
five furlongs, two miles and four miles;
Annie Bush. the dam OF great Bush
whacker; Florence. dam of Hindoo. the
sire of Hanover, and host of others
His daughters made the regulations
of most of the stations in the country
the best. While the most distinguished
of Leconte's sons We're Umpire. out of
Alice Carneal. and Sherrod. out of
Picayune. and nobody ever heard of
them, still there Is no telling what his
career as a. sire might have been had
, he lived He died at seven years old,
r while Lexington lived to be twenty
! five, and died in WOODBURY. Stud, 1875.
The three races-thea first between
Leconte and Lexington; second, Lex
ington against Leconte's time, and
third, Lexington Nagainst Leconte-.
created the greatest interest and ex-
element in Ned Orleans. Thousands
of dollars were bet on them, and tens
OF thousands of people witnessed them.
The descriptions of these races in the
of the Times are most graphic and in
tcnsely interesting. Surely those old
gentlemen loved sport for sports sake.
and the newspapers gave as much
space to describing the races as q mod
ern journal would to Presidents
message.
The writer takes this opportunity of
correcting mistake made In his story
on Boston, In which he located his
birthplace at Hickory Hill. whereas the
horse was foaled on the place now
owned by Judge r. A. Wickham, called
"Woodside," which Is part OF the old
Tuckahoe place bought by Mr.. John
Wickham from the Randolphs.
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