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RACING Or THE CHAMPION FOUR-YEAR-OLD OF THE PRESENT YEAR H : S. C. HILDRETHS B. C, 4, KING JAMES, BY PLAUDIT UNSIGHTLY. King James contrived to win but one race when a two-year-old, but it was a good one and his fortunes as a race horse have mended since- then until now only Celt has any pretension to disputing his supremacy as a four-year-old. He is a Hiniyar horse in his paternal and maternal lines of descent, a very fast one, a great weight carrier and a stayer to which no route has any terrors. His solitary win when a two-year-old was In the valuable -Trenton ti in which he won 3,250 Tor his owner. As a three-year-old his only victory in a stake race was when he won the rich Annual Champion, his other three successes being in purses at Belmont Park; Saratoga and Santa Anita. Hut so Industriously raced was he and of such bulldog courage and persistence was he that he Was always poking his head in among the leaders, no matter how good they ware, and to such purpose that he was second or third In such great races as the First Special. Century Slakes, Empire City Handicap, Travers Stakes, Lawrence Realization, Advance Stakes, Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes. Suburban Handicap, Brooklyn Derby. Belmont Stakes, Withers Stakes, and Crotona Handicap, the result being that he won in second and third money alone more than many good race horses of the year amassed in any jvay. This vear he has been a champion. Indeed, and but once beaten. This was when Big Chief defeated lilni in a inlle purse race at Santa Aulta last January in 1:37. This race put Big Chief on the shelf, but King James was made of sterner stuff and throve famously afterwards, winning in successon a purse, the Bums Handicap. California Handicap, Speed Handicap, Metropolitan Handicap. Toronto Cup aud Brooklyn Handicap. Long distance racing lias, been his specialty, but in illustration of bis versatility he took up 142 nounds and won the Speed Handicap of three-quarters of a mile at Santa Anita iu 1:11. He is ein-nlintically a high-class race horse and his record aud pedigree are as follows: Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Unp. Won. i!BS ::::::::::::::::::::::::: J8 - I t i 1000 4 J "J- 0 JU 35.1S5 Totals a" 12 9 0 7 .2S2 , i., ,, Orlando. . J Eclipse ;azo. - f A,arm K 1 Stockwell. c Hiuiyar....... J Maud . ComitsorAlbemarlc ,1 r t . . Boston. . Lexington Alice Carneal. 1 lllra . Ambassador. ... Hegira - Flight. r Tlaudit ,,t J , ... Harkaway. i t K Tow " Iocahontas. Tomahawk or i J Sweetmeat. . I - Blue Ruin Mincemeat Hybla Cinderella..... J S - Weatherbit. f g g Brown Bread Brown Agnes. S L-Ma"U:l .. DIrdcatcher. a . Tartlet , .Mare by Don John ? , . , . , Touchstone. r gS , , c. ... , ,. 3 Lord or the Isles. Fair Helen. 3 r Scottish Chief.... i The Little Known. 2. . Miss Ann Bay Missy. r Tursebearer. ..J ,, - I The Baron. I Stockwell i Tocahontas. Thrift i-uriii i I . Moss Trooper. I UnSight.y J "raSL,y ?"fn MarJ- i I Eclipse. Alarm -j .Maud. f Uimyar iLoxington. I mrj 1 Hegira. I Hira Villa.... J ., , 1 Blair Athol. Glua Atho1 j f "j Greta. 1 Tolinia.. ., Hunters Lexiugtoi I Maggie Morgan... - SaUlc .Morgan.
