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5 I , 1 - . ! J STAR OF THE WORLDS FAIR YEAR. Rudolphs Great Racing in the Columbus and Other Handicaps. Fonso sired many capital racers in his long career in the stud, but it Is questionable if any was better than Rudolph. This good horse held his own worthily against the best of his time, both east and west, and had "the distinction of winning the richest handicap ever given by the Washington Park Club. This was when lie won the 0,000 Columbus Handicap at the Worlds Fair meeting of 1S93. It was a great year in Chicago racing, and the clans of horsedom gathered here from far and near. The Columbus was at a mile and three sixteenths, and was contested by a grand Held, the starters being Rudolph, with 107 pounds up; Yo Tambien, IIS; Ray S., 110; London, 101; Illume, 0i; Diablo, 110; Lamplighter, 120; Morcllo, 113; Michael, 110; Poet Scout, 115; Highland, 10S; Huron, 111; Ida Pickwick, US; Wildwood, 10S; Maid Marian, 105, and Santa Anna. 10S. It was a noble field, with every starter a stake winner and a racer of high renown. As befittel the occasion, it was a tremendous contest, and at the finish Rudolph, was first by a neck, in front of Yo Tambien, with Ray S. third, and the others closely bundled and close up. Morello was the favorite at 2 to 1, but reared up and fell while at the post, and was so shaken up and bruised as to be temporarily incapacitated. Lamplighter was second choice, at 5 to 1, and Rudolph was at 15 to 1. The race was run in 1:5!. As a two-year-old Rudolph was the property of B. J. Treacy, and was not raced much, starting in four races and winning one. This was a purse at Latonia, in which he won from Carroll Reid, Colonel Wheatley and four more at a half mile in 50. He was bought by Hankins and Johnson, and as a three year-old, late in 1S91, after he had won four races for Treacy, including the Cincinnati Hotel Handicap at Latonia and the St. Legcr at Louisville. In the Cincinnati Hotel Handicap he defeated the noted marc, Marion C, then in fine form and a 0 to 5 favorite. The other starters were Business, Eli, Ethel and Princess Limo. In the St. Leger he was only opposed by Tarquin, and was an easy winner. He was not campaigned extensively in 1S92, but won two races at Garileld Park and one at Nashville for his new owners. It was different in 1S!3, when Tie started in twenty races and won fourteen of them. In the course of his racing that year Rudolph won the Kentucky Handicap at Louisville, a sweep stakes at Hawthorne, The Great Western Hand! cap and Columbus Handicap at Washington Park, Woodlawn Stakes at Gravescnd, Manhattan Haniti cap and Fordham Handicap at Morris Park, and seven overnight purses. In the Great Western at Washington Park he carried 10S pounds and defeated Ray S., Yo Tambien, and six other good ones at a mile and a half in 2:34. In the Wood-lawn Stakes, with 110 up, he beat Banquet, 110, Strathnieath, 114, and three more at a mile and three-sixteenths in 2:01. In the Manhattan Handicap, carrying 120 pounds, he won from Banquet, 121, Terrifier, 90, Picknicker, 103, Aloha, 109. and one more at a mile and a quarter in 2:07, and in the Fordham Handicap had up 124 pounds, and beat Sir Walter, 10S, Picknicker, 95, and Kildoer, 95, at a. mile and five-sixteenths in 2:14j. In these races he met and vanquished the best in the land and thoroughly demonstrated himself to be a high class race horse That was Rudolphs last good year. He developed lameness, and won but two more races, although assiduous efforts were made to bring him out lit to race for several years subsequently. His two successful races in 1S94 were for purses at Wash ington Park, and his complete record vas as follows : Rudolph, ch. g. 1888, by Fonso Eva S. Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. AVon. JS90 2 4 1 1 2 455 lgill 3 20 f. 4 3 -S 4.045 1592 4 S 3 4 O 1 3.1 S5 1593 r. 20 14 0 2 4 39,715 1594 0 15 2 5 3 f 2,770 1595 7 Did not race. 1S90 S 2 O 1 0 1 75 1897 9 21 0 "4 3 14 475 1S98 10- 1 0 0 0 1 Totals ....Ji Ml 25 8 J2 . 30
