Identifier: sportonlandwater01gris (find matches)
Title: Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Griswold, F. Gray (Frank Gray), 1854-1937
Subjects: Horses Fox hunting Fishing Horse racing
Publisher: (Norwood, Mass.) : Privately printed (The Plimpton Press)
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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had raced there. In1859, Prioress was the heroine of a dead 68 SPORT ON LAND AND WATER heat with two other animals, El Hakimand Queen Bess, for the Cesarewiteh,which she won in the deciding heat; andin 1858 she won the Great Yorkshire Handi-cap at Doncaster. In 1859, Starke wonthe Goodwood Stakes, and in 1861 theGoodwood Cup and the Brighton Stakes.In the same year Optimist won the AscotStakes. Umpire won the Nursery Stakesat Goodwood, and was close up in thebetting with Wizard and Thormanby forthe Derby of 1860. Mr. Lorillards greatest hope of successon the English turf was the Duke of Ma-genta, purchased from his brother at whatwas then considered a great price. Thehorse did not leave with the other horses,but was shipped alone later in the season.He had a very rough trip, — the hatcheswere battened down for days, and the airbecame very bad. He arrived in a shock-ing condition, thoroughly poisoned, andaflBicted by a series of abscesses, one ofwhich destroyed his wind. He had been
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HOW THE DERBY WAS WON 69 insured for $25,000 against accident, yetit needed a lawsuit for Mr. Lorillard torecover the money. Parole, who was afive-year-old in 1878, had been shipped toEngland to lead the Duke of Magenta inhis work. It was supposed that his bestdays were over, and there was little thoughtof winning races with him. On the con-trary, he ran very well indeed. He wonthe Newmarket Handicap, carrying 116pounds, beating the great Isonomy, thena four-year-old, with 124 pounds up, andfollowed this by winning the City andSuburban, the Great Metropolitan, theGreat Cheshire Handicap, and the EpsomGold Cup. The following year he won theLiverpool Cup, but was disqualified on theground of a cross. After that he was soharshly handicapped that he could not win,and was sent back to America to win manyraces on his native heath. Falsetto wassent to England in 1879, having been thebest three-year-old of his year in America,but broke down after running a wonderful 70 SPORT ON LAND AND WATER

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