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"f * RACING OF A GOOD AMERICAN COLT RECENTLY TAKEN TO ENGLAND 4, 4. When recently Mr. Louis Winans gave Samuel C. Hildreth a big price for Dalmatian it led to the inference timt he is not dissatisfied with his experience with his other American thoroughbred, Sir Martin. Through the course of a number of years it has been the custom of Mr. Winans to purchase costly specimens of the American trotter, and their victories have made them well known throughout Kurope. That he has now turned his attention to our thoroughbreds is gratifying. To a man of his temperament and great wealth prices are of small consideration. Had Sir Martin not met that unfortunate accident in the Derby of last year and Instead proved a Derby winner for Mr. Winans in his first year of trying for the honors of that greatest of all races, there is no telling to what lengths it might bare led him in the way of gathering a great stable in England, with American-bred horses a prominent feature. In buying Dalmatian he has acquired our beat three-year-old and a good horse. Cup and handicap racing are necessarily all that he can be destined for and it is quite probable that if all goes well with him he will be found essaying the capture of the Cold Cup at Ascot next June, a difficult task and one in which Sir Martin came to grief this year. Last year Dalmatian was considered a useful two-year-old, hut by no means to be classed with Waldo. Sweep. Ocean Pound and Rocky OBrien. However, lie won the Great Trial Stakes. Surf Stakes and the first part of the Double Brest in a year when their values were hardly a tithe of what they iiad been two years previously. There was. moreover, that in his racing which suggested steady improvement as the months passed and by the end of the racing of 1!MH the handicappers were rating hfhi well up among the heavyweights, he carrying 124 pounds in the Great Eastern Handicap ai Sheepshead Day. September 13, and running third to Livonia, 07, and Fauntleroy. 110. The unplaced division of this race was made up of Joe Morris. 112 pounds; Jacquelina, 105; Scarpia. 107: Incas Chief, 108; Chickasaw. 115: Hampton Court. 102: Kverett, 02, and Clurryola, 115. This was Dalmatians last race as a two-year-old and an excellent performance. Dalmatians early racing this year was not suggestive of Superiority among those of his age. he winning but once in his first five races. But he was ripening and. after four reverses, never again knew defeat. His first start of the year was for a 00 purse at Aqueduct, May 5. The distance was six and a half furlongs and he was second to Maskette in 1:18 and beaten a neck. "Slie carried 122 pounds to his 106 and Rocky OBrien witli 107 was third a half length back. His next race was for the Carlton Stakes, one mile, at Gravesend. June S. Sweep, with 120 iHiunds up. was a ! to 10 favorite and won by three-quarters of ■ length from The Turk, carrying the same weight. Dalmatian had up 122 and was third five lengths behind The Turk. The mile was run in 1 :." !» /-, and Sager. Starbottle and Prince Imperial were unplaced. Six days later he started in the Brooklyn Derby at a mile and a quarter, with Sweep. Prince Imperial and Starbottle for opponents. Sweep was a 7 to 10 favorite, but Dalmatian won in 2:U7. with Prince Imperial second and Sweep third. Sweep carried 120 pounds, the others 122. This was reversing things with a vengeance. His next start was in the Swift Stakes at Sheepshead Bay. June 20. At the end of a swiftly -run seven furlongs Ocean Bound. 125 pounds, was first: Fauntleroy. 1 It;, second, and Dalmatian. ISO, third. Dalmatian was ln-aten live lengths and the time was 1:25%. Two days later he was beaten in the Tidal Stakes, at a mile and a quarter. The starters were The Turk. Dalmatian. Prince Imperial and Grasniere and the finish was in that order. The Turk winning by four lengths in 2:lKl%. witli Dalmatian second ami Prince Imperial third. All three carried 110 pounds and experts now said tiiat The Turk was probably the three-year-old of the year. But Dalmatians time had not arrived, and when five days later the Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes at a mile and a half, came up for decision partisans of The Turk were given a great shock." The starters were Dalmatian and The Turk. 12! ptunMa each: Sager. Martinez and Fauntlerov, 110 each. The Turk went to the post a hot favorite at 11 to 20. but after reserving Dalmatian for a mile and a quarter Shilling sent him to the front with a rush and at the end he was first by live lengths, with Sager second a half length before The Turk. The race was run In 2:.i.i am1, now Dalmatian was called the champion. Thereafter he Justified the appellation. He raced no more until July 13. Then at Kmpire City he won the Seagate Stakes at a mile and an eighth, defeating Fauntleroy and The Turk with ease, ran the distance in 1:53 and carried 120 pounds. At the same track. July 15. he only bad Sager as an opponent and beat him at a mile and a quarter in a canter, covering the distance in ktOSffe. Each carried 120 pound*. So far his races had been against horses of his own age. but in his next si art he was sent against his elders and in the Yonkers Handicap, run July 21. gave much weight and a lieating to fast horses at a mile ami a sixteenth The starters were Dalmatian, .;. 114: Czar. 5. 105: Hack, 5. 100: Hampton Court. :| 102- Far West 8 07-Stanley Fay. 5. 104. and Starbottle, 3. 105. It was easy for him to win bv a length from Czar in l-PiV with I luck a poor third. Next he gave surpassing proof of his great excellence bv winning the Empire City Handicap, at a mile and an eighth, run in such fast time as 1:51. He carried 118 pounds and won bv three lengths. Stanley Fay. 104. finishing second and Ilanhridge. 111. third. Kverett 0:S- Beam-nun 166* Fauntleroy. 103; Hampton Court. 102, and Apache, 98, ran unplaced. Few better races have ever been ran in this country. The next and last home race of this grand young horse was at Saratoga. August ]. This was in the Travels Stakes, the oldest event of the American turf for three-year-olds. The track was slow and mnddv that day and Dalmatian had to carry 120 pounds. But he won as a champion should out bv himself with live lengths to spare, with Rarleythorpe. Ill pounds, second, and Hamilton Court 111 third The other starters were Lovetie. 111 pounds; Chief Kee. 120: Ocean Bound. 121: Cherrvola. 100 and Starbottle 121 The mile and a quarter of the race was run in 2:10. Directly after this race Dalmatian was sold to Mr W mans lor the reported price of 0,000, and is now in Lngland. His record and his pedigree are as follows: hSST Ar n- t 2f- r rr !«• J* U J 2 2 0 V»JX Totills * ]2 « 1 ~5 !R24.500 Lord Clifden 5 Ml ■■balll. Hampton 1 " Tll " I Lad* Lin *don i Kettledrum. I ■ If""" • Haricot. Oxford i lyrdcatcher. o ,. J I Honey Dear. Sultana S ! _ . I Besika J Be»rnm. [ Kthelhert j Merope. t Pent Eire T n,r,.t st- Rris- - - . . J Favorite. °" £ 1 j Printaniere j **««—Ma, Summerside. Maori ] . o King Tom j J/arkaway. to 5 1 Pocahontas. 2 L Queen of m Cyprus. . . — . 2 m V I Cypriana i H « j I Cyprian. J 1 Breadalbane I Stoekwell. 3 * f The III Band I I!lil,k l »my. q «j | Ellermire i Chanticleer. p "3 f MagneMzer. . . . -t 1 BHerdale. I Kingfisher i nfSE*?- , ,. ,. 1 Rlthaiu Lass. . -v _ . a Magnetism , * . . Attraction Balrowiue. *■ Ionis J Maud. Orlando Touchstone. Vulture. f Kclipse 1 | Gaze Bay Mhhlleton. I lone « Flycatcher. Leamington J Fangh-a-Ballagh. j 1 B. of Pantaloon. L Inverary 5 I i ™. TI" K * "f , ,. Kars I Stolen Moitn Kisses Kisses Defamation.
