The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-09

world powerfully. One was that line
which began in this country with
Glencoe and descended from him
through Vandal, Virgil, Hindoo, Hano-
yer, and Hamburg.
The other began with the imported
horse Eclipse, and comes to this day
through Alarm, Hinyar, Domino, and
Commanche in direct succession. In
the meantime, 20 years from the time
Lexington would have been the unan-
imous choice of American experts
when asked to name the best Ameri
can racer, his influence, exerted
through his remarkable sons and
daughters, was so potent that he still
remained on his pedestal But the
passage of another 20 years, bringing
the query down to 1894, had relegated
Lexington to the list of forgotten
ones, and now a repetition of the
query would have led to surpris
ng discord of claims, in which the
part:sans of Falsetto, Hindoo, Han
over, Domino, Luke Blackburn, Saliva
tor, Kingston, Emperor of Norfolk,
and Henry of Navarro would have
loudly voiced the claims of their IA
vorites, and in every case with sub
stantial grounds for their preferences.
Then, to come closer still, right
down to our own times, in fact, such
examples of the most glorious quail
ties of the PAGER as Ethelbert, Kinley
Mack, Clifford, Africander, Hermis,
Hamburg, Burgomaster, McChesney,
Ballot. Sysonby, Morello, Broomstick,
Irish Lad, Peter Pan, and many an
other whose f1eetness and undying
courage served to electrify and eurdp-
ture lnadly cheering thousands in
the course of modern racing.
Merits of HindOO and Colin.
To sift the merits or these mag
niicent creatures and finally select
the one best of all is SO obviously
matter of extreme difficulty that any
conclusion reached may justly be OBJ
jected to. Yet there is one in the
line of Glencoe and another in the
line of Eclipse that seem a step in
advance of their competitors, and if
opinion gives to one of this pair
slight advantage over the other it
must be largely on the theory that
continued scientific breeding by saga
cious men must inevitably tell its
tale in rendering the best of today in
some measure better than the best
Of preceding days. The two horses
referred TO are Hindoo and Colin.
Hindoo was a bay son of Virgil and
Florence, the latter being a daughter
of Lexington. He was foaled in 1878,
and in his racing career started 35
times, won 80 races, was second in
three, and third in two, thus never
being unplaced. AS a two-year- old
in 1880 he won seven stake races in
succession for his then owner, Dan
lei Swigert, the Colt and Filly stakes,
at Lexington; Alexander Stakes and
Tennessee Stakes at Louisville; Juv-
emile Stakes and JOCKEY Club Stakes,
at st. Louis, and the Criterion Stakes
and fremont Hotel Stakes, at the old
West Side track, Chicago. He was
then let up in training and his fame
had become such that Dwyer Brothers
sent an agent West and bought him
for $4,000, a great price, indeed
at that time. He was taken East and
hurriedly put in training again. AL |
though not fit, Hindoo started twice
at Saratoga and ran third to Crick- /
more and Thora in the Windsor Hotel
Stakes, at Saratoga, and second to
Thora, a superb filly, in the Day Boat
Line Stakes at the same track
Perceiving that they were making
again. and that wisdom was richly
rewarded the next year. Then as a
-hree-year-o he won Is consecutive
races before again meeting defeat.
Colin Gratest of All.
But the great blazing star, the one
Incompatible that must be awarded
preference over even the mighty Hin
loo, is that representative of the
Eclipse line which was but recently
he wonder of New York racing, the
lnbeaten and invincible Colin
In every respect he was a superla-
lively great racehorse. 1t was his
good fortune to come into action in
/ time when his chief opponents were
llso grand race horses. That is the