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Title: The American thoroughbred
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Trevathan, Charles E Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Subjects: Horses Horse racing CHR 1905 PRO Pearson, Leonard (bookplate) (donor) (Fairman Rogers copy)
Publisher: New York : The Macmillian company
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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won a dash of one mile, beating a field of fifteen, as follows: Gray Planet, Lotta Moon, Audubon, Stanford, Keene Richards, Storm, Chief Engineer, Boz, Carolina, Resolute, Rosebud, Frank, O'Neil, First Chance,and Jury, in 144 1/2. This exhibition of speed revived the hopes of the McDaniel confederacy, for the great horse seemed to be himself again.How uncertain are calculations upon the future!This was a striking repetition of this fact, fortwo days after, October 22, he ran his last race.He started in a contest of two miles and a half,and was cut down by Balankeel, and unplaced inthe race. The wound he received, which in all probability deprived him of a brilliant victory,was on the hind leg just below the hock, andit was so severe that he carried the evidenceof it to the day of his death. His winnings forthe year were ^350, and he won during hisremarkable turf existence the handsome sum of He now retired and went into the stud at Stony Brook. There his success was whollyinadequate to his merit.
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IMAGE: FASHION (page 168) CHAPTER XIX TURF AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA The next events which attracted national attention after these contests between Long-fellow and Harry Bassett were the four-mile races of California. The early pioneers, goingout to that new country and travelling across the plains, took with them some of the best stock that had been bred in America. Just asit took a man of unusual quality to stand thepainand the trials attendant upon such a long and arduous trip. The majority of the early movers to California were Southernerss and distresses of the overland journey, soit required a horse of unusual stamina andcor rage to face the fatigue , and when they startedon the dim trail from Saint Joe, Missouri, it wasthe habit of each Southern man to have forhimself as a mount the best horse available.It occurred, then, that many thoroughbreds weretaken across the plains to the Pacific coast in 349 35^ The American Thoroughbred those early days of the settlement of that country, and almost at the birth of C

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