. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 314 <EJj£ §vttb&e emit Qpovizinmu [Apbil 30, 1898. THE AMERICAN CHAMPION EACERS, SOME OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS, AND THEIR DESCENT,TRACED IN THE FEMALE LINK. As we have in this country do such turf classics as the Epsom Derby, The Oaks, the or 2,000 Guineas, or the Doncaeter St. Leger, the oldeBt stake now being run for in this conntry, the Travers, at Saratoga, being instituted in 1S64, we will take the recognized champions of America from 1800 to date and trace them to the farthest source the Btad book compiler carries them, or to the L'(ap
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 314 <EJj£ §vttb&e emit Qpovizinmu [Apbil 30, 1898. THE AMERICAN CHAMPION EACERS, SOME OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS, AND THEIR DESCENT,TRACED IN THE FEMALE LINK. As we have in this country do such turf classics as the Epsom Derby, The Oaks, the or 2,000 Guineas, or the Doncaeter St. Leger, the oldeBt stake now being run for in this conntry, the Travers, at Saratoga, being instituted in 1S64, we will take the recognized champions of America from 1800 to date and trace them to the farthest source the Btad book compiler carries them, or to the L'(ap ; We believe that in this way we can get a better idea of the worth of the various racing families of this country than by any other method,and, after all, championship form is better than the win of a Derby, Oaks or St. Leger, when that victory might have been in the nature of a fluke and subsequently the animal proved of no account. But a real champion racer is a different proposition. That is, to oar minds, a galloper which has shown the ability to go a long journey, at least a St. Leger distance as a three-year-old, a Cup distance as a four-year-old or upward, to carry its entitled weight for age bnd to defeat the best that could be pitted against it in a majority of cases. While Sensation, Tremont, French Park and El Rio Rev were unHcfeated racers, they only ran as two-year-olds, and could scarcely be put down as real cham- pions, for it is not known whether or not thev would have liked a Derby or a Cup route had they not been retired when they were. His Highness aod Domino, too, were great two year-olds and hard to beat up to a mile as three-year-olds, but they cannot be put down in the championship table that follows, for the rea3on that they did not like a long journey. The undefeated American racers were American Eclipse, Ball's Florizel (sire of the dam of BostoD), imp. Monarch, Norfolk, Asteroid, Sensation, Tremont, Frecch Park and El Rio Rey. Lexington wa3 practi
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