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-fr UNEXAMPLED RECORD OF A SEVEN YEARS OLD HORSE The racing of 1913 was marked by at least one remarkable feature. This was the rare achievement of the seven-year-old gelding, Donald Macdonald. la winning twenty races. It would be difficult to recall such another record by a horse of his age. Quite probably he will make additions to his score-before the year ends, being now at Charleston awaiting the opening of the winter racing there. Last year he seemed about ready for retirement and won but four races in eleven starts. His marvellous rejuvenescence this year is a rich feather in the cap of trainer H. Marshall. Donald Macdonald raced four times when a two-year-old and was unplaced each time. He did better as a three-year-o!d in 19C9 and won seven races out of twenty-two attempts. Most of his winning races then were over California tracks, Phil Chinn having taken biin to the coast the fall previous. His first winning race was at Santa Anita, January 22, when he defeated Josie S., Little Flush and nine other selling platers at seven-eighths of a mile in 1:29 over a sloppy track. In all he won live races, all purses, over the Santa Anita track. His only stake race success was when he won the Minto Stakes at Woodbine Park. Toronto, May 22, and defeated Uncle Toby, Beidmoore and ten more at a mile and a sixteenth in 1:19. His other victory was in a purse race at Saratoga, August 24. in which he led Fort Johnson, The Squire and six others home at a mile in 1:39. As a four-year-old in 1910 he was quite a good racer and won more than half of his races, taking twelve out of twenty-two. He began his campaign that year at Montreal, June 9, by running second to J. H. Houghton at seven-eighths of a mile, then ran unplaced in a dash of a mile and an eighth at Hamilton and at the same place and distance finished second to Albert Star in 1:53 over the turf track. Then he changed tactics and won live races in a row. The first was at Hamilton, June 25, in which, at a mile and a sixteenth, he defeated Robert Copper, Hooray and four others in 1:4S. At Fort Erie, July o, he wun from Great Jubilee, High Gun and seven more at a mile and an eighth in 1:52. At the same track, July 9. he defeated Robert Cooper, Lexington Lady and five others at a mile and three-sixteenths in such fast time as 1:5S. At Windsor, July 25. he won the Windsor Selling Stakes at a mile and a quarter in 2:05, it being his first stake race that year. Later on he won two more, the Canadian Sportsman Handicap at Fort Erie and the Thanksgiving Handicap at Jacksonville, Fla. In consistency his racing of that year was akin to that attending his career this year, he being unplaced but three times in his twenty-two starts. In eacli of the two succeeding years he started in eleven races and won four. His first start in 1911 was at Jacksonville, February 11, and was a success, he defeating The Nigger, T. M. Green, Via Octavia and some other fast ones at seven-e!ghths of a mile in 1:20. February 22 he won the Washington Handicap from Bob R.. ill; Aylmcr, 110; Conso!c, 117: Wing Ting, 9C. and Effendi. 109, at a mile and an eighth and carried bis 125 pounds to victory in 1:53, quite a high-class performance. At the same track, March IV, he won the Ocala Handicap, carrying the same weight and running its mile and an eighth in 1:53. Star Charter, 100, was second: Effendi, 109, third, and Jack Deninan, 85 unplaced. In the big lace of the Jacksonville meeting, the Florida Sjiecial Handicap of ,000. at a mile and a quarter, he was riven the top weight of 13D pounds and finished fourth to Aylmer, 107; Countless, 125, and The Nigger 10. !, but was only beaten a length and but for being in a pocket would probably have won. The race was run in 2:05. He became lame then and has been more or less plagued with this infirmity ever since. His four winning races of 1912 were in purses at Laurel and Jamestown and his days of usefulness on the track seemed to be drawing to a close. But he came out a new horse this year and at Charleston, January 29, began the most glorious campaign of his career. Tills was in a purse race :it a mile and a sixteenth, in which he easily defeated Pard-ner, Irish Kid and three more in 1:48. February 5 he won the Columbia Stakes easily from Font, Jac-quelina. Effendi and Leamencc. He was then beaten in the St. Valentines Day Stakes, but came back and won the Spartanburg Stakesand two purses before journeying northward from Charleston to Havre de .race. At the latter place he won two purses and the Newark Selling Stakes. Carrying 117 pounds he defeated Blackford, 111: Royal Meteor, 111, and three, more over a heavy track in 1:48 at a mile and .seventy yards. At the Pimlieo spring .meeting .he.woii .-two purse races and. vyas beaten jn. anotherby.Blaek- ttTd. Ar"Belrmnrf Park he"was beaten font -.times "before winning, "running second to KverSttTonce. second to Lysander twice and third ro Lysander and Ela Bryson. Then, on June 13. he won from" Kormak. Daln-gerfield and two others at a mile aud an eighth in 1:53. and on June 19 from Jim Caffrey, Judge Walser i.ud four more at a mile and a quarter in 2:0$. Perthshire then defeated him at a mile In l:3S. in the Harlem Stakes, carrying 105 pounds to his 113. This took place July 5. Five days later he carried the f-aino weight and won at a mile in 1:38, with Cadeau second. July 15 he won the Garden City Stakes at a miJe and a sixteenth in 1:4ft and defeated Oakhurst, Perthshire and Strenuous. July 20. "With 107 pounds mi. he won the Long Beach Handicap at a mile and an eighth in 1:52 from Lahore. 118: G. M. Miller, 105. and Guy Fisher. IOC. Altogether his Belmont Park record was quite satisfactory. At the Havre de Grace fall meeting he was in good form and won a purse and two stake races, the Oakington Selling Stakes at a mile and a sixteenth in 1:47 and the Cecil Selling Stakes at a mile and seventy yards in 1:43. At Laurel last month he won a purse and the Anne Arundel Stakes, rnnniug a mile and an eighth in 1:52 in he latter event. In the valuable Washington Handicap at a mile and an eighth Lahore gave him eight pounds and a nose beating, but such good horses as Ten Point. G. M. Miller, Barnegat, Tartar, Lochiel. All Gold and Flamma finished behind the pair. Dcnald Macdonald would have won but for being forced extremely wide on the last turn by Ten Pcnt. Then he was given a well-earned respite from racing until the meeting which begins at Charleston next Monday affords opportunity for a new campaign. Following are record and pedigree of this distinguished veteran of the race track: Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Unp. Won. VMS 2 4 0 0 0 4 . 1909 3 22 7 0 5 4 $ 4.420 1910 4 12 5 2 r, 8,000 1111 H 11 4 0 2 5 2,925 1912 C 11 4 3 O 4 1.620 1913 7 34 20 9 3 2 14,07a Totals 0 104 - 47 23 12 22 1,035 : " Lord Clifden...... I Newminster. f Hampton. J I The Slave. ; r s.ar Ruby.... J - Ily Iarigden.... gettlrun.. Bend Or J Doncaster : - t . . , . Ornament. 3 Rouge Rose. , f Sombrero. J . L-Hy Agnes J Macaroni. . l Polly Agnes. S Traducer J The Libel. . . "Sir Mpdred. 1 ! Arethusa. " 8 , l:La Toquera... " : Ma"a -J Cambuscan. js I " Dulcibella. s 7 " I , , Spendthrift Australian. p Touche Pas .. J j Aerolite. r I . My Nannie O i The Palmer. g . j . Jennie Jones. 5? . V- . f Vedette j Voltigeur. 3 jS f Galopin Mrs. Ridgway. g, rDonovan.i....-! Fly in? Duchess. .. J The Fly. Dutchman ou j . Merope. . , " " " I Mowerina: Scottisa Chief.... J Lord of the Isles. " w T Mary Ann. LBerrIedale...-.J- " Stockings j Stockwell. w ." I Go Ahead. Doncaster j Stockwell. : C Bend Or. J Marigold. " : r-mTnilr J Bowse Rose j Thormanhy. . calmness..... -I . - Ellen Home. I Galopin Atalanta. ......... -5 V,efU n , f Feronia j Thormanby. Woodbine.
