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IRON DUKES RACING CHARGER Copenhagen Carried Hero of Waterloo When Not in Track Contests It is rjnite probable that if the British Army of Occupation makes a lengthy stay on the Rhine there will be a call for smart geldings to win regi mental races got up in the sporting spirit that Is carried everywhere by IJritish troops The Duke of AVellington during the Peninsular war used to encourage these contests It was for the purpose of taking part in them that the dukes future charger Copenhagen was sent out to Portugal by his breeder General Grosvenor some time in 181 Copenhagen was by Meteor son of Eclipse dam Lady Catherine by John Hull by Fortitude Xsin tippe by Eclipse whose dam was a mare by the Rutland Arabian her dam a hunting mare Foaled in 1808 as a threeyearold he ran eight time At the Newmarket Craven meeting lie finished third to the I uke of Rutlands Sorcery winner of th Oaks in a sweepstakes over the Abingdon mile and at the same meeting won a match and was beaten in another anotherThe The Duke of Rutlands Mounts defeated him in a third match run during the first spring meeting but at Huntingdon in August he won a swcejwtake run over two miles In this race there was a selling clause stating that the winner was to be sold for 300 guineas and Cressidii which was a sister to Eleanor winner of the Oaks was third thirdAt At the same meeting Copenhagen which had not been claimed ran third to an unnamed horse of Lord Suffields for the Gold Cup and at the Tar porley Hunt in November be finished second to Mr Prices Flodoardo by AVaxy for the Oatlands Stakes At Chester in the following May Copenhagen ran three times and finished third in a Maiden Plate which however was open to previous winners of a sweepstakes and third in the Gold Cup Itoth races were run in heats the dis ¬ tance being twice round for the Maiden Plate and three CupThe times round for the Cup The day following the Cupwcputest in which Copenhagen had run over nine miles he finished fourth in a handicap sweeps hikes run in a single heat over two miles and with one exception was isked to give weight to all starters It will there lore be gathered that the Iron Dukes AVaterloo charger was no slouch and had it been that the fate of the United Kingdom defended on the result of a match between the Duke of Copenhagen and Napoleonlm his 1arb Mareugo the issue would not for one moment have been in doubt doubtProbably Probably Captain ISyerly had ah eye on sporting issues when he took the celebrated Turkish horse bearing his name over to Ireland as his charger in King William IIIs campaign in 1G90
