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HAD STAMINA AS WELL AS SPEED. Wheeler Handicap Demonstrated Algols Ability to Go a Long Distance. Algol, a bay horse by Top Gallant Equality, will be rememlered by Chicago race-goers as a thoroughbred of high class and speed. It was the general opinion that Algol was a sprinter and could not maintain bis speed for over a mile. . He belied this when, as a four-year-old In J SOS, he won the rich Wheeler Handicap at Washington Park, running the one and a quarter miles in 2:04, equalling the American record set by David Tenny one week before at the same course. Starting in the colors of C. Weatherford, Algol made his first appearance as a two-year-old at .Memphis in the Gaston Hotel Stakes, in which he finished second to Boanerges. In his next start he turned the tables on Boanerges by winning the liramble Stakes at Montgomery Park easily. Goshen ran second and Boanerges finished third." He won two races at the St. Louis Fair Grounds spring meeting, one a purse race and the other the two-year-old Champion Stakes. In the latter he defeated among others the good racers Typhoon II., Ornament, Goshen and Buckvidere. Algol did not start again until the fall meeting at the Fair J rounds, when he finished unplaced in a field of fast sprinters. After suffering another defeat he won a six furlongs dash from May Thompson, Nicholas and others. In his last four starts of the year he was returned a winner. First came a purse race at the Fair Grounds at five and one-half furlongs; next the Ozark Stakes, in which he carried top weight, 12:! pounds and won easily; another purse and the Chrysanthemum Stakes were next in order pf victories. This wound up his two-year-old form. W. W. Darden raced Algol as a three-year-old in ISO". His first start of the year was in the Country Club Handicap at Memphis, In which he showed his heels to Gath and four others. After showing the way for over six furlongs, Algol succumbed -to- Buckvidere and Typhoon II. in the Tennessee Derby, they being his only opponents. He was beaten in his next race by that good mare Linda, in the Mississippi Handicap. Then being sent up to Detroit, he suffered defeat by Belle Bramble, Judge Wardell and The Elector in a six furlongs race. One more race fell to his credit as a three-year-old, this one a purse at Oakley, where the six and a half furlongs were run in 1:203, a fast race in those days. He started twice more during the year, both races being at the Harlem track. In the first he finished" unplaced, and in the next was second to that fast mare, Charm, being beaten a half length in 1:00 for the five furlongs. In 180S J. W. Schorr acquired this fast son of Top Gallant and it was during this season he ran many remarkable races. After annexing two purses at Memphis, he was taken east and started in the Metropolitan Handicap at Morris Park, but failed to finish among the first three. The Toboggan Handicap was the occasion of his next defeat, after taking a purse race. Algol was shipped west again aud captured his next two essays at the St. Louis Fair Grounds. Algol next made his appearance on the now dismantled Washington Park track. In his first three attempts at this magnificent course, he finished second to such speedy ones as Benbadad, Hurly Burly and Hindoonet. Then came a victory over the fast and much-abused Traverser at three-quarters of a mile in 1:13. Satsuma took his measure in a purse race next, but in the fiercest kind of a drive, the son of Top Gallant being beaten by a nose. Behind him were such good ones as the Chicago idol, Imp, and that marvelously speedy sprinter, Abuse. The Wheeler Handicap was the next success of Algol, which he won by six lengths, leading from start to finish. Goodrich, the holder of the American record for one and one-half miles for several years, finished second in this race, while Pink Coat, the American Derby winner of that year, was in third place. Algol was, again taken east to try conclusions with the cracks of the metropolitan district. After two unsuccessful attempts he won a purse race. The Omnium Handicap fell to his credit next, in which he carried 12G pounds and ran the mile and an eighth in 1:541 from a high-class field. The Oriental Handicap at Gravesend was his next stake engagement. In tills he defeated the crack racers, Dr. Catlett, Sir Walter, Buela and The Friar. Carrying the top Impost, 132 pounds, he finished fifth in the Manhattan Handicap won by Sanders. His last start of the year was in an overnight handicap in which he was defeated by Peep oDay and War-renton in a race over the Withers Mile. Algol began his five-year-old year by starting in the Country Club Handicap at Memphis, and meeting defeat at the hands of Cherry Leaf, a good old campaigner. The east was invaded again with this good breadwinner. At his first asking he captured a purse at the .Morris Park spring meeting from a good field by three lengths. He could do no better than sixth in the Brooklyn Handicap, but came back in Its next start and finished first in a mile and an eighth race run in 1:51 J. , He started his six-year-old career by running second to Highland Lad in a three-quarters dash at Memphis. His next two starts were at the St. Louis Fair Grounds, where he finished third to Found and Sam Phillips in a race of a mile and a sixteenth, and won a seven-eighths mile dash from Ida Ledford, Terra Incognita and others. At the same track he ran third to Sam Phillips and La Josephine one mile on a heavy track in 1:45; won at three-quarters of a mile and finished second to Continued on second page. HAD STAMINA AS WELL AS SPEED. Continued from first page. Tulla Fonso in a seven-eighths mile dash, carrying 119 pounds to the latters 99. This was the end of the racing career of Algol, when he "was ordered to the stud, where he has sired the good racers Lad of Langden, Pleasant View Belle and others. Below will be found a table of the performances of Algol, with the amount won: Algol, ch. h, 1894, by Top Gallant Equtlity. Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. 1S9C 2 15 7 4 1 3 ,730 1S97 3 S 2 2 1 3 1,000 1S9S 4 25 11 5 2 7 11,520 1S99 5 6 3 1 0 2 1.CC0 1900 0 C 2 2 2 0 S05 Totals ...5 CO 25 14 C 15 2,775
