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. RACING OF THE DEAD PRISCILLIAN. The recent death of Priscillian removed one of the fastest horses that ever trod an American race course. Owing to ailments of one sort and another, he was not raced as a two-year-old, so his first experience in a race was when as a three-year-old ha started at Jamaica May 0, 100S in a dash of three-quarters of a mile for maidens. This he won in 1:13k, with Peter Quince second. In all. he ran in seven races that year and won them all. It is something in the way of a singular coincidence that in 1911 he also started in seven races, all of which he won. Included in his three-year-old triumphs were the Claremont Handicap at Belmont Park, Commonwealth Handicap at Sheepshead Bay and the Occidental Handicap at Gravesend. At Sheepshead Bay June 29, 190S. he won at a mile, pulled up, in l:7i and could undoubtedly have gone a second or more faster that day had he been sent along at top speed from start to finish. So high class was his form that year that he was sent over to England to race in 1909. Ills campaign there was unmarked by success. Probably the climate was unfavorable to him. At any rate, lie did not race in his American form. He was started in the Duke of Cambridge Handicap, Challenge Stakes and Cambridgeshire Handicap at Newmarket, Stewards Cup at Goodwood. Champion Sprint Handicap at Hurst Park and Portland Plate Handicap at Done-aster. In all of these he was unplaced, except in the Challenge Stakes, in which he finished second to Sir Martin, thus being robbed of his only chance to win abroad by another American horse. In all of his races there he carried high weights, ranging from 122 pounds in the Cambridgeshire to 131 in the Champion Sprint Handicap. In view of his uniform non success it was decided to send him back to this country, so in 1910 he reappeared in American racing. Apparently relishing the change, he was a capital race horse in 1910, aud won eight good races, nearly all in fast time. As stated, lie won all of his seven races in 1911. All were for purses except when he won the Wentworth Plate at Hamilton from his stable mate Watervale. and ran three-quarters of a mile in 1:11 with 113 pounds up. Last year he ran iir four races and won three of them. It was expected to race him tills year, but his forelegs had long lieen infirm and it was found to lie impossible to fit him for racing. Priscillian was a great favorite with his owner and beloved of the followers of racing he had served so well in his honorable career. His record was as follows: Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. 1kis :: 7 7 o o o ,S50 moo 4 t; o l o n loo P.I10 r. 13 S 2 .1 2 4.3S0 3911 J 7 7 O 0 0 3,555 1!I12 7 4 .! 0 0 1 1,755 Total ..37 25 3 1 S S,090
