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AN EQUINE CELEBRITY OF THE HOUR HOURMain Main Features of the Career of Speedy Jack Atkin and His Rich Pedigree Barney Sciireiber has owned and raced many good horses but Jack Atkin has excelled all of the others in the important matter of moneyearning and if all goes well with him seems likely to continue his course in that agreeable respect Down east there is a disposition to consider him a sprinter only but it is probable that before the racing of this year is over he will dispel that illusion A horse that carried 125 pounds and ran a mile and an eighth in l5j as Jack Atkin did when he won the Hex Handicap at the New Orleans Fair Grounds track hardly sprinterJack deserves to be called purely a sprinter Jack Atkius first race was at Oakland February 1OR It was a halfmile dash Tawasentha won and he was unplaced lie raced no more in Cali ¬ fornia and next appeared in public at Memphis where he twice ran unplaced in purses then changed his system and won his first race This was a halfmile dash run April 25 in which he defeated Hereafter Klacklnck and eight more youngsters in 501 His next start was in the Nursery Stakes at Louisville May 12 which he won from Altnda Vic ¬ toria K Charlie Gilbert Get Aboard Alytli Piiren Arnold and Prince Ahmed running four and a half furlongs in 55J and winning from AHuda by a half length Taken to Buffalo lie was beaten in a purse by Ethon at twelve pounds difference in favor of Ethon won a purse from The Abbot and Percentage then carrying 122 pounds to Ethons 112 defeated the latter bv a head In the Iroipiois Stakes at live furlongs ii 100 The Abbot was third and Orphan Lad Cave AdMim Gromoboi Nellie Haciue and Wing Ting ran unplaced It was a highclass race for Ethon was a truly good colt He ran no more as a twoyearold twoyearoldLast Last year Jack Atkin ran second in his first three races which were run at Kclmont Park Oraciilum and Saracinesca defeating him in purses and Suffrage in the Crotona Handicap Then he won a purse at Gravesend ran third to Charles Edward and Oraculum in another and going hack to Bel moiit Park won the Clarcmont Handicap In this with 111 pounds up he defeated diaries Edward lli Suffrage 127 Okenite 100 Ben Ban First Premium 120 Zienap 7 and Race King 100 and ran six and a half furlongs straight In 118 Then he ran third to Montgomery and Go Between in the Jockey Club WeiglitforAge Bace and unplaced in the Westminster Handicap won by Flip Flap lie then ran in four races at Saratoga and was second In each Do Muud Bat Masterson Fleming and Danoscara being the horses that de ¬ feated him To all but Do Mund he was giving much weight Do Mund beat him by a length at threequarters in 111 each carrying 122 pounds Taken back to New York City tracks he won purses at Shccpshcad Kay Gravesend Brighton Beach and Aqueduct and then went south for a winter cam ¬ paign over tlie New Orleans tracks There he earned the reputation of being the best horse seen since the days of McChesney and gave some quite remarkable displays of extreme speed and weight carrying power but suffered defeat from Pinkola and Cliapultepec His notable career there and his triumphs in the Carter Kings Comity and Metro ¬ politan Handicaps are of too recent memory to need description here In brief his record is as follows Year Sts 1st 2d 3d d Unp Won Wono t 2 o 5870 2 11 10 4 4 12410 14 10 10 29tilO Totals r rJack Jack Atkins pedigree is wortli study On his sires side It traces to the best in England and is strong in Galopin blood while on his dams side it goes back to Lexington through several lines His nearbv ancestral lines are as follows St Simon Galopin I St Angela AngelaJ J Thormanby Woodbine Barcaldine j Solon Ballyroe BallyroeJ Satchel J Galopin Quiver Norfolk Lexington Novice i L Marion Malcolm MalcolmI I M Mitchell 03 H Hrinsteid j Gilroy j SJg tJ6Rn Blossom J Virgil Blunder
