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FROM ECLIPSE STAKES TO MILK WAGON. From wlnnlnp tin? Eclipse Slakes of 0,001 at Jlorrls Fark to drawing a milk wagon in the streets of Rpllevillo, Out., covers the viccissitudes of fortune in the caw of lie thoroughbred horse. Irritable. harlrs Wilmol, of Fort Hope, has one of Irrilables progeny that he declares lo be one of the best show animals he has ever seen. Irritable is now in his sixteenth vear. and in 1000 he won the Eclipse from a field that included All Green, Handwork, Irinee Charles and Bedeck, all useful enough horses, though none of them is remembered today. Irritable did not run as a threc-year-ohl, but won Ihree short races at four years. .He is au entire son of Iroquois the only American horse to win the Derby, and the Great Tom mare, Toribera. Francis Nelsou in Toronto Globe.
