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• JAMES R. KEENES TRIUMPHS ABROAD. An English Account of the Exploits of His Many Horses Raced in England. Intelligence of the death of James It. Keetie was received abroad with general regie and the newspapers of England gave much pace to details of hi- remarkable career as a financier and a sportsman. Among others, London HnertMMU dealt in terestlnglj with his racing operations in England, and in the following article gave some particulars well worthy of reproduction here. Englands money terms being tendered Into American: "He lir-t became prominent in the States as an owner of race horses in ]s7 i through one of the best animals ever seen on the American turf. This was Spendthrift, best known here as the sire of King stou. which in tutu begot that brilliant race horse Kings Courier and other notable animals. Spendthrift Was by the Imported horse Australian I son of West Australian ami Emilia out of Aerolite, by Lexington out of IToriuc. by Glencoe. As a tnrse-year-old he won five races out of eigilt, including the Belmont and the Lorillard Stakes and other hading events, while in the •Withers. his first attempt in the Keene colors, he was Sacrificed to his stable companion, Dan Sparling. In D Mi Spendthrift wa- shipped to England, accompanied, among others, by Don Fulaiio and loxhall. The latter was purchased by Mr. Keene as a yearling and named loxhall. after his sou. He was by King Alfonso-Jamaica, one of the numerous successful broodmares sired by the famous stallion Lexington. Spendthrift never won here, going- amiss and being sent back to the Slims, and the Keene spota Were hist sported in 1SN» by a trio of juveniles in Don Fulano, loxhall, and Bookmaker, who were trained by the late R. G. Sherrard. Among them they won live races, and iu the spring of 1881 loxhall ran second to the mighty Bend Or for the City and Suburban, the Derby winner of the previous year giving him thirty-four pounds aud a healing, with a big field behind the pair. It is interesting to recall that Bend Or started at 100 to s and the American colt at ."-J to 1. The magnitude of the performance of Bend Or in giving away such lumps of weight was shown in the summer by the victory of loxhall in the Grand Prise of Paris, which he secured by a head from M. Li levrcs good colt Tristan and a number of others. Don Kulauo made lii tir-t appearance that season in the Two Thousand Guineas, and right well the d»--piseii outsider lhe started at 100 to 1 against ran. finishing third to Peregrine and his compatriot, Mi. Lorillards Iroquois, the latter only beating him by a bend in their places. Don Fulano was a difficult horse to train, and for the Derby, in Which Iroquois tinned the tables ou his Guineas conqueror, Mr. Keencs colt was unplaced. Harking back to Fj:.-hall. he and the rest of the string were later transferred to the charge of William Day, under whose can- lie brought off the big double of the two chief handicaps of the autumn campaign at Newmarket, and in the following season he won the coveted Gold Cup at Ascot, for which Tristan was struck out on the day of the race. This eft him with onlv the Duke of Beauforts pair. Ietronel and Faugh a Bal lag.li. to beat, and he had Ietronel stone eld - I n after coming into the straight. So long a lead, bow-ever had little Martin the present Tilshead trainer l taken on Faugh a Ballagh. which was making running for Ietronel. that it seemed impossible for him to he caught. Caleb htm, however, he did. Tom Cannon timing his finish to a niceiv. Other winners about that time were Golden Gate, Marshal Mac-donald. Blue Grass. Potest, and Bolero, and from 1880 to ls.s:; Mr. Keenes horses won nearly 890,000 in slakes, apart from the valuable Grand Prize of Paris. "From IKS4 to IsOO Mr. Keene ran nothing in this country, bur In 1S07 he invaded our shores a second time and was represented until 1904, after which came a second Interval until iu 1968 he once more sent some homes over here and continued to race here until lhe Close of last year. The second invasion was under the guidance of Jacob Pinciis, who in lhe previous campaign had trained Iroquois. Mistake. Wallenstem. Aranaa, etc.. fot the rival American owner, Mr. Lorillard. and in 1S07 minor siic-ceeses were scored by the aid of St. Cloud and ottibble. St. Cloud was a three-year-old of risen, by Candlemas out of Belle of Haywood, and after winning a welter in the First July Week he ran third for the St. I.eger to Galteo Mori- and Chelandry iu a slowly-run race. Very slow the pact was. for the time was 3:31%, which eompsres ill with Swyn-ford8 3:04. The came the memorable Cambridge shin-, for which four horses finished with heads be tween them, and although Sloan claimed to have won on Si. Cloud by the length of a walking stick." the judges verdict placed him only strand, a head liehind Comfrey. 100 pounde, which carried Kempton Cannon and wa- giving St. Cloud a couple of pounds. To show how greatly superior the Leger winner really was to St. Cloud, it may be added that Galtee More, which ran in the Cambridgeshire, bad 133 pounds on his back, or thirty-four pound- more than the colt, which in the Si. Leger, had run him to less than a length. Morever. Galtee More was with the leaders lill the final rise out of the dip settled him under his welter burden. St. Cloud won a giwxl race in 1896, and in 1900 the string, now in the care of Sam Darling at Beckhnmpton, was strongly reinforced, with Disguise. Virginia Barle and Banning Stream the star performers. "Disguise made-his debut in the Rothschild Welter at Kempton on the Raster Monday of 1998, and won in such fine style from Foreett. Hulcot. etc., that long odds were laid on Mm for the .May Plate at Cheater, in which he readily accounted for Lady Min. but though he was hacked for the Derby. Starting third favorite at S to 1. he VM lieaten into third place by Diamond Jubilee and Simon Dale. Disguise hail severe!] • annulled the unlucky Forfarshire at Tattcnham Corner, ami the mishap may have done himself no good, for in the autumn be Won the Jockey Club Slakes at Newmarket, for which Forfarshire was third beaten by two lengths anil Diamond Jubilee unplaced. Forfarshire, however, wa- penalised and was giving the winner six pounds, anil Diamond Jubilee was trying to concede him no loss than twelve pounds. Running Stream will be remembered as the two-year-old by Domino out of Dancing Water, which defeated the champion sprinter Pager by a head for the July Cup. the loser, then a six year old. trying to give away the huge amount of fifty-eight penman. Winners in 1901 and 1902 were Kearsarge. Chaoornac. Virginia Barle and Running Stream, ami in 1903 the chief winners were Lnnchs Shire, Siirbiton and Sweeper, the lotai for that season being well over 2,500. Iu i:x« Wedding Bells. Esperanto. Wamba. Selectman. Ballot and Coronel won races of close upon 820,000; and in 1910 his horses were transferred from Beckhnmpton to J. Butters at Newmarket, and. SSShsted by ■i fresh draft from the States, which included such speedy animals as Runnymede and Outram, a win-i ning total of 8,07-" was scored in 1911, Last year hi- only winner was Castleton, which earned winning brackets on lour occasions and was sold last month for :J,K0i guineas. Hiinnymede. Outram and others had previously been disposed of. "Mr. Keenes son. Foxhall I. Keene, was associated with his father in partnership in some of the stables liost horses, and Mr. Keene. Sr.. was the breeder of Cap and Bells, which won the Oak- of 1!i01. at her first and only appearance on a race course in this country, beating Sabrimtta. Minnie Dee I lhe property of R. Canker and a whole fleet of others. Cap and Bells, however, belonged to loxhall Keene. as also did the gelding Sinopi. by Mar-eton out of Simonetla. when as a five-year-old. he won four races in succession, inclusive of the Ascot Stake-. Salisbury Cup ami the Royal Borough Handicap at Windsor.-
