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OLD REDSKINS DEATH. t Old Redskin broke down so badly in a race at New Orleans Wednesday that a merciful ballet put an end to his checkered career. Few horses , Tvere better known to frequenters of Chicago Tacetracks. His most signal triumphs were won over the tracks that minister to the entertainment of this big city. Redskin was of disputed paternity. 3y Pon-tiac or Runnymede Girofle is tho way it reads in the Stud Book. Either way the breeding is of the best. Pontiac and Runnymede were both fast and famous racehorses and Girofle was one of the best daughters of Leamington. But Redskin was not a high class racehorse. He was a good one when at his best, but not consistent -enough to be rated as high class. Horses that are justly entitled to that appellation are the few that, having once demonstrated that they can run fast, carry greater weight with ease and stay at high speed farther than the great mass of racehorses, can thereafter be relied upon to run close to their best standard when-over they are started. This was not Redskins character. He started in 1892 when a two-year-old as the property of Gideon and Daly. He ran eight times and won once. Through the next two years he ran as the property of the Ramapo Stable and then passed into the possession of Tully Coulter, who raced him over the local tracks. As a three-year-old he won only once out of sixteen starts, a sweepstakes at Morris Park. The next year he did a little better, winning twice and only running unplaced five times out of fifteen starts. The next year he won three races for Coulter over the New York tracks and -was five times second. It was in 1896 that Redskin was at his best and won quite a measure of horse fame. Coulter brought him west and that year the old horse ran thirty races for him and landed thirteen of them, mostly over the Indiana tracks. He was -very fast that year. He won at seven furlongs in 1 :26i, carrying 114 pounds ; at seven and a half furlongs in 1:341, with 119 up; at a mile and an eighth in 1:531, carrying 116 pounds, and set the record at a mile and a sixteenth, done in 1:45. The merit of this performance is, however, somewhat dimmed by the fact that it was in an owners handicap and that the midget Hothersail rode him, weighing only fifty-eight pounds. Topmast, with 108 up, has recently tied this record and the latters is the best performance. Bad legs prevented the old horse from doing a great deal afterwards, and along with the bad legs grew a bad temper that served to make him an unreliable racer. Still when feeling right he could rnn a good race. He won. five times in 1897 and twice in 1898. In the latter year Coulter sold him for a trifle, feeling that his days of usefulness were past. That he had not entirely forgotten how to win, however, he has shown by winning twice this year at New Orleans at very long odds both times. His racing record was as follows: Yr. Age. Races. 1st. 2d. 3d.Unpl. 1892 2 8 1 2 1 3 1893. 3 16 1 3 2 10 I 1894 4 15 2 2 6 5 i 1895 5 17 3 5 3 6 ! 189G 6 30 13 9 2 6 1897 7 19 5 2 3 9 1898 8 16 2 0 1 13 1899 9 8 2 0 0 6 Totals 8 129 29 23 18 58 i
