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HANOVER PUT TO DEATH. Hanover is dead. He was chloroformed yesterday and put to death to save him from suffering. He was nerved in 1888 and after many years the benumbed foot lost vitality and was about to drop off. There was no escape from it, so in mercy he was passed over to the company of his mighty line of ancestors. Hanover was the son of a magnificent racehorse and was himself a magnificent racehorse. As a two-year-old he started three times and won three times, the Hopeful, July and Sapling Stakes at Monmouth Park. His stable companion, the invincible Tremont, was sweeping everything before him that year, soDwyer Bros. saved Hanover. That was in 1886. The next year as a three-year-old Hanover won fourteen straight races before he first met defeat. He ran twenty-seven times that year and won twenty races, including the Carlton Stakes and Brookdaie Handicap at Brooklyn, Withers and Belmont at Jerome, the Brooklyn Derby, the Swift, Tidal, Coney Island Derby, Emporium and Spendrift Stakes at Sheepshead Bay, Stockton, Barnegat, Stevens and Champion Stakes at Monmouth Park, United States Hotel Stakes at Saratoga, Brockenridge and Dixie Stakes at Baltimore, and went into winter quarters with the well earned reputation of being one of the greatest horses of modern times. His first defeat was in the Baritan Stakes at Monmouth Park, when D. D. Withers Laggard caused a profound sensation by overcoming ths great son of Hindoo. Laggard carried 111 pounds, Hanover 128. As a four-year-old Hanover did but little on account of a bad foot, but having in the mean-timejbeen nerved he came out in his five-year-old form and won nine races out of seventeen starts, including the Coney Island Cnp, for which he defeated Firenzi, and the Coney Island Stakes, in which he lowered the colors of Kingston and Badge. The California Stakes and Merchant Stakes at Saratoga and Express Stakes at Morris Park were among his other victories that year. He was then sold to Col. Milton Young and retired to the stud at Mc-Grathiana. There ho woa fresh fame and for a number of years in succession has been the uncontested premier sire of America. His loss is a great one to the breeding interests of this country, bat his great son Hamburg may carry on the illustrious line that runs Glencoe, Vandal, Virgil, Hindoo, Hanover. .
