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SOME ELDERLY IRON HORSES British Veterans Which Raced and Won in Old Age Submit Most Famous of Recent Ones. Submit, as a three-year-old, won the Cesare-witcli of 1909, and has been successful quite recently in a race under National Hunt rules. Other ancients are. still engaged in the winter game, but let us look into the records of some more or less patriarchal horses which have performed "on the flat." In 1744 Partner, by Old Partner, as a fourteen-ycar-old, ran in three races and won two of them, and two years later Black Chance, by Huttons Bay Barb, also a fourteen-year-old, repeated the same performance. Then the famous Gimcraek Lady Sarah Banburys "sweetest little horse that ever was" as an eleven-year-old, won a race over the Newmarket Bound Course, which was then three miles and sis furlongs, beating eight others, among which wore Belario. Teetotum ani the five-year-old Sportsman. Then Trenthams, as a ten-year-old, Avon a sweepstakes at the Newmarket Second Spring Meeting, starting at 3 to 1, witli 128 pounds up, and on the following day won the Jockey Club Plate. Both races were over the Beacon Course, which was then four miles one furlong and 138 yards in length. In bis six seasons on the turf he won 42,250 and two Jockey Club Plates. Passing over Mother Brown, which ran as a twelve-year-old and then had six foals among which was Jerry Sneak, which was foaled when she was twenty-five, and which in his turn won two races out of ten attempts over four miles when he yas thirteen years of age, one comes on to Lalage. by Hero, which won four times out of six outings in his twelfth year. Then Exciseman, by Sweetbriar, in 1793, at the age of twelve, won seven races out of twelve over courses varying from five furlongs to four miles. Gohanna, which was beaten half a length by Waxy for the 1793 Derby, won a race over two and a half miles at Lewes when he was ten, and when sent to the stud sired, among others. Election, which, on his first appearance in public, won the 1807 Derby from a field of twelve. Then there is an interval of a year or two until Marksman, by Paynator, is found winning the Yeomans Plate at Ashford, with over 140 pounds -up, over two and a half miles three heats, at the age of eighteen years. His last race was at Hastings, where, in the Town Plate, he was second to Honeysuckle, to which he gave fifteen years and twenty-eight pounds in weight. Dr. Syntax, another son of Paynator, won three races at twelve years old and took the cup at Preston In seven successive years. Euphrates, by Quiz, won the Gold Cup at Ludlow, the cup at Wolverhampton and a Kings Plate at Lichfield in his fourteenth year; and Prosody, after winning races in her eleventh year, was bred in the same year and had six foals, several of which won good races. Another useful sort of 111:1 re was Cathcriua, which ran as a two-year-old unsuccessfully, but won every season afterward until, at the age of eleven, she started for twenty-eight races and won twelve, among them being three wins in one day. As each race was run in heats, this took some doing, and it is surprising that after all she had. when sent to the stud, nine good foals. Next one comes to Isaac, by Figaro, this horse ran as a three-year-old without success, but then started a winning sequence for Mr. Darling; grandfather of Mr. Sam Darling, and each year won races. In his ninth he took eighteen out of twenty-three, and at the Worcester meeting in 1839 secured the Worcestershire Stakes and the City Members Plate on the first day and the Gold Cup on the second day. In his eleventh year he started five times and won twice, the last time being in a sweepstakes at Leicester. After this his attentions were devoted to hurdle and hunter races, and his last was run when he was fifteen years old. In all he ran 111 times and won fifty-four times. Beeswing is, of course, in a rather different class, and in her last season on the course when she was nine years of age she won four races, among which were the Gold Cup at Ascot, the Gold Cup at Newcastle and the Doncaster Cup, in which she beat Charles XII. and Attila. To Touchstone she foaled Newniinster, from which have descended Hermit, Shotover, St. Blaise, Lord Clifdeu, Wheel of Fortune, Throstle, Ladas and others. Inheritress, by The Addler, won the Liverpool Cup with 115 pounds in the saddle as a seven-year-old and went on winning until, as a ten-year-old, she took a handicap at Wolverhampton over a mile and a half with 103 pounds. Radulplius, as a fourteen-year-old, ran twelve times and won four times. Sprint racing has spoiled our staying blood. Jive us back some of the distance races of old! Adair Dighton in Bailya Magazine.
