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OLD DEAN SWIFTS GREAT RECORD. At the recent Goodwood meeting in England, Dean Swift won the Chesterfield Cup and In doing so earned his permanent retirement from the turf to a life of ease on his owners estate. On the day following this achievement, "Hagioscope," in London Sporting Life said of the famous old horse: "Yesterdays Chesterfield Cup was rare old Dean Swifts sixty-second race, and his twelfth success. He is not to run again, and well has he earned his old ago pension. Foaled as long ago as 1001, he is ten years old. No doubt to his being a gelding is mainly due his inordinately lengthy turf career, although, of course, his sound understandings, with sinews of steel, have been contributory factors. The son of Calldwick. out of Pasquil has won in stakes, not counting the sums earned for finishing second and third, the handsome sum of 8,150. If remarkable for its length, his career is even more so by reason that, although he began by winning a Juvenile Selling Plate, he subsequently won races in high-class company, and even increasing age brought with it little disability in his case. Only last autumn, for instance, he was the only one that gave battle to Lemberg in the Champion Stakes, for which he was not unnaturally beaten as a nine-vear-old tackling a three-year-old winner of the Derby was almost bound to le. A year earlier he had a cut at Bayardo in the, same race, and was beaten only a neck in the endeavor to concede six pouuds to that seasons St. Leger winner. "As a juvenile the Dean accounted first for a selling race M. Cannon up and then for a Nursery W. Lane riding. At three .years and four years he failed to earn winning brackets. At five years he won the City and Suburban, and the Trial Stakes at Ascot. In the next year he captured the Dur-dans Handicap Epsom, and repeated his Trial Stakes success. As a seven-year-old he again won the City and Suburban, also the Liverpool Summer Cup. a little? race at Brighton, and the Select Stakes. In the following year he only won one race, but it was a good one, the Coronation Cup at Epsom, and in it ho took his revenge on White Eagle, which had beaten him a few weeks earlier in the City and Suburban. Last year the old Dean was not disgraced, although he did not win. for he was placed second or third in five of his seven races. "Prior to carrying off yesterdays race for the Chesterfield Cup Dean Swift had no fewer than four times gone near to winning it. As a three-year-old he ran third to Union Jack, and three years afterward finished third to Velocity. In 1!W! he failed to beat only Succour, the latter, with an advantage in weight of thirteen pounds, winning by a length and a half. Last year he was again third to Land League and Bachelors Charm; and it is highly satisfactory that the old gelding lias succeeded in getting home at last. "His complete record at present stands: Twelve wins, sixteen seconds, ten thirds and twenty-four times unplaced. It may be added that in addition to twice winning the City and Suburban he was twice second and twice third. As to other races which he never won. he ran second for the Lincolnshire to Ob, second for the Jubilee to Ebor. third for the Royal Hunt Cup to Andover. third for Velocitys Cambridgeshire 1005. fifth for that won bv Polymelus 100, and fourth in Land Leagues year 1007. Trul j. a line record."
