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SOME GOOD RACERS OF PAST YEARS. j Review of the Careers of Horses Well Known to Chicagoaris. In the year 1SS0 three two-year-olds of great merit made their debut in California. Their names wore Flambeau, Racine and Guido. Of -the three Flambeau was probably best, and Racine held Guido safe, although Guido defeated him in their first race. This was in the Debut Stakes at San Jose, won by Pliny, with Guido second and Racine third. Rut Racine was not ripe then. Three days later he defeated Guido and Pliny in the .Motor Stakes, Guido being second and Pliny third. Two days afterward he asain defeated Guido in the Lick House Stakes. All of these races were at San Jose. At San Francisco it was Racine first and Guido second in the California Stakes and again in the So So Stakes. But Guido was a smasher as a race horse, and .the next year when a three-year-old earned the dis- ! Unction or winning more races than any other horse iu tl-e United States These races were mainly in California, the northwest and Texas, but late in , the year he made his appearance at the Nashville Tenn. November meeting, and won tvo races there. The next year he was. introduced to patrons of racing at St. Louis and Chicago, and it was no; long until Giiido and his owner, W. II. Rabb, were prominent figures in the racing of the middle west. At Washington Park. July 11, 1S!H. with 117 pounds up, -and Overton riding, he defeated Allan Itane. Rraiiilolette, Juguitha, Prettiwit and Contender in a race at mile heats, in which he madq a record that stands to this day, the first mile being Min in l:41i, and the second in 1:41. That year he competed with Hie best horses in the west and held his own nobly with such horses as Aloha. Nero, Prince Fortiinatus, Kenwood, Ormic, Bankrupt, Big Three, Ernes Race, Rival. Kingman, Ed Leonard and dihers well known to patrons of the track at that time. Guido was even better in 1S!2. right, at the trip of I be western .handicap horses and a stake winner, although P.abb did iiot enter him in any fixed ovent.s. He defeated Verge dOr, Gayoso, Aloha. Conic to Taw. Oregon Eclipse, Highland and four more for the Memorial Handicap at St. Louis and at the same place won the Cyclone Stakes from Oregon Eclipse, .Aloha. Bolivar Buckner and three others. But most of .his races were for overnight handicaps and condition purses over the St. Louis and Chicago tracks. With a lesser measure of success he raced fairly well in ISO.-! and 1S!4. but was not able to win a rare in lSi Here is his .record: Guido, ch. h, 1887, by Double Cross Aurora. Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Uiip. Won. 1SS! 2 11 2 4 1 4? 1,050 1S!0 3 31 22 4 2 3 !,7!5 JSiU 4 35 11 13 4 7 S.055 1SU2 .......... .5 35 13 3. li 13 S.030 ISO.. C, 23 - 4 3 3 13 1,705 ISO! 7 2fi li 4 1 15 2.6S5 1S!5 S 10 0 2 3 5 350 Totals 7 171 5S 33 20 50 "3,550 Few people conversant with Chicago racing of the Worlds Fair year have forgotten Maid Marian. She was a great favorite locally and one of the stars that gave Chris Smith his brief high tide or prosperity. Her speed was or the highest order, and when the occasion arrived she demonstrated that she could stay far as well as run fast. In the years that came after her track career she had a half-brother gifted with the same great speed. This was Allan-a-Dale. Maid Marian first raced for Leu Christy, then for T. C. McDowell, from whom she passed to Smith, and thereafter raced as tbe property of the Kendall Stable. Her twelve races won when a two-year-old at Chicago, St. Paul and Nashville were all purses. Maid Marian was a high-class three-year-old. She won the Milldale Stakes at Latonia from The Sculptor, Gascon, Alary, Linger and Quiver, and the Merchants Stakes from Yo Tamhien, Newton and Miss Dixie. At Washington Park she won four purse races, in which she defeated among others Ida Pickwick, Diablo, Buck McCann, Santa Anna and Guido, all crackorjacks. She ran third to Helen Nichols -and-Dare Vela for the Queen Isabella Stakes, and was second to Morello in the most sensational Wheeler Handicap ever run. At Hawthorne she won the Illinois Stakes from nawthorue, MoreHo and Ingomar. In one of her- races at Washington Park she defeated the Brooklyn Handicap winner, Diablo, at a mile and twenty yards in 1:40, and now shares with Macy and Six Shooter the honor of holding the record at that distance. Out of eighteen races that year she won eleven and was but twice unplaced, i Slie was a good race .mare in 1S94, and won at St. Louis. Washington Park, "Saratoga, Jerome Park and Nashville, but all of Eer winning races were for purses. In 1803 she. won eight races, out of thirteen starts, all overnight handicaps and condition purses, She was killed by an accident that fall, and her achievements were as follows: Maid Marian, ch. m. 1890, by Great Tom Sudie McNalry. Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. I 18!2 2 20 12 5 3 0 $ 5,875 1S03 3 18 11 2 3 2 13,375 ; 1SU4 ,. 4 31 15 5 C 5 8,270 , 1S5 5 13 S 3 O 2 3,355 , Totals .....4 S2 45 15 12 9 0,SS5 t i Celebration won no great fame as a racer, yet ; there was a time when he frequently had the sup- port of Chicago patrons of racing. That was in ; 1004, when ho won some excellent races over local , tracks. Infirm legs relegated him- to the division - of humble selling platers, but nature meant him - to be a good race horse and when just right, he r was capable of running a fast race In good com-s pany. Some question as to his career having arisen a his, record, is presented here: 1 Celebration, ch. s, 1000, by Clear the Way Jubi- latlcn. It Year. Age. Sts.- 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. 1002 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 1003 3 2 0 O 0 2 .... 10M 4 32 7 i 3 10 52.8S0 p 6 100."5 - - -. 24 3 5 .1 14 1.3S5 10G 0 33 3 0 IS 1,490 1907 ,. 7 C 0 0 0 0 .... Totals .... 0 9S 13 IS 10 57 3,755
