The New York herald., 1922-03-05
7w0 Daughters of Glencoe
HQtMOLded 7u1HiStOry
Reel in America and Pocahontas in England Left
Descendants That Are Almost as Prominent in
Racing To-day Eighty Years Ago.

ished with flanks unscarred by spur or
whip" Thinking the three ycar-old had.
run herself ont i'm winning the fastest
heat on record for one or her age the
friends of Lud4 " piled up the bales
of cotton and hog IDS Of sugar on her
before the second heat, but Reel won as
before, in Z :43, with the favorite dead
beat and pulled up inside the distance.
This great race gave Reel a national
reputation and stirred her overzealous
Louisiana admirers to challenge Boston.
then at the height OF his fame as the best
four mile heat runner the American turf
had seen. Fashions hackers were the first
To put up their money for 4 race With
"Old Whitenose,' however. and the
Jersey mare, not Reel, gave him his
Waterloo at the Union Course ON Long
Island the next year--iSi Si.--for $40, 600
stakes.
.JnvincibIe" Miss Footc Beaten.
Scarcely second in interest TO this race
was the meeting between the unbeaten
Reel and the ''invinc.ble" Miss Footc.
as the New Orleans papers proclaimed
the latter mare after she had won ninc
consecutive races OF heats in campaign
perhaps unexampled on the Western
turf The two crack mares came to-
gether on the Metairic Course on Decem-
ber 81, fSf2, at four mile heats. with
Reel so lame after winning the first heat
in 7:51 that her Long Island trainer,
John Armstrong, vas ready TO draw her.
Once more, however. she surprised
everybody by coming through to victory
In smashing style. though II was said
that she had to run the last heat with
out plates.
one more victory on the same ground
in the spring OF her four-year-old form
and then the great mare that by conn
mon consent had come TO be regarded as
the champion of the Southwest met her
first and last defeat. IL was at the Lou
isiana course. on March 20, 1S43. When
she hobbled off the track after the first
heat. never TO start again the break
down was not in the off foreleg she had
broken in colthood. but in the near fore
leg In this race she met the sensational
horse George Martin. by Garrison's
Zinganee, as well as Hannah Harris, the
sister OF John Bascomb. So confident
were the planters from the Red River
country. where she was owned, that
they wagercd 100 bales to 20 and 5
hogsheads to / on che daughter Of Glen
coe against the field. while the New Or
fcans Picdyunc said OF her:
cor Reel we need not say word.
There is not a man in the Southern
country who would not bet his next crop
that Reel. all right. can beat anythinS
that ever wore hair"
HobbIed on the Track.
Martin set u terrific pace. but Reel got
up to him in the stretch and appeared TO
he going by when she faltercd and broke
down. very much as Isongfellow did ~
Saratoga In his great race with Harry
Bassett, but not until she had forced
the winner ont in 30, then within half
a second OF Fashions unedualled record
Mt four miles. "RecI was with difficulty
lel OFF che course" the Spirit said
Jack, n negro slave owned by Gen.
Wells rode the great mare In all but
one OF her winning races, which were as
follows
Opelousas, La, November IL, 1Sfl-Stakes
$3.50: two-mile heats. beating Earl or Mar
grave. Time 4:0i. 1905.
3. fstt-Purse $500: two-mlle heats, beat
Ing Sarah Morton (won first heap Mary
Walton. Stage Driver. Rory oMoore. Time.
opelousas. La. November n. 1sie-Purse;
thrpe-mile heats; W. o.
New Orleans fAIctairie courscl. December II.
1s+2-Pursn 81 .0C0; four-mile heats, beating
Luda. John n. Grymcs. Time, I;io, I:t5.
New Orleans Chfetaire coursel, December ~.
ls42-pmse 500; four-mile heats, beating
Miss Fcotc. Time. 1854. 1865.
New Orleans (Metairie coursel, March is.
fsl5-Ptrse 81 900; four-mile heats. beating
Kate Aubrey. Sarah Morton. Time. I.1i's.
1:ff.
Immediately after this race Reel was
bred 10 imported Leviathan. then the
most popular sire In the country, and
in 1874 she produced her first foal
Before she died she produced thirteen
colt and FLIES, eight Of which inner
tied the color of their dam. only three
OF the lot we're fillles and Of these
Prioress and Ann Dunn died without
producing foal. while the two daugh-
ters Of Fanny Wells closed the history
OF Reels family IN the female line
without produce. according 10 Bruce's
American stud Book. Her grcatson
Lecomte died In England, leaving only
a few foas one Of which produced
Lizzie G.. the second dam Of Domino
and tho third dam Of Hamburg. a list
of Reefs foals follow
ts4i--Ch. G. Lincoln. hy T,rvlathan.
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