Vagrant is a dark bay gelding, blaze face, four white stockings, and
stands a shade over 15-3/4 hands. He was bred at the Preakness Stud Farm,
the property of M. H. Sanford, Esq., and was purchased as a yearling by T.
J. Nichols, Paris, Ky., for $250. He has a neat head and neck, good
shoulders, excellent middle piece, great length, immense hips and quarters
and tremendous stifles, with sound feet and legs. His action is easy and
graceful, a regular daisy cutter, and from his style and carriage must go
a distance of ground.
Vagrant is by Virgil (son of Vandal and Hymenia by Imp. Yorkshire; 1st
dam Lazy, by Imp. Scythian; 2d dam Lindora, by Lexington; 3d dam Picayune,
by Medoc; 4th dam Sally Howe, by Sir William of Transport; 5th dam Lady
Robin, by Robin Grey; 6th dam by Quicksilver (son of imp. Medley); 7th dam
by Meede's Celer.
He started in his two-year-old form six times, won five, and beaten once.
He won the Alexander Stakes, half mile, at Louisville, Ky., in 50-1/4,
beating Harry Hill, Russ Butler and ten others. Same meeting with 5 lbs.
penalty, ran third to Creedmoor for the Tennessee Stakes, three-quarters
of a mile in 1:22-1/2 track deep in mud. At Lexington, Ky., won
sweepstakes for 2-year-old colts, three-quarters of a mile, beating The
Nipper, Creedmoor, and six others, in 1:18. Same meeting won the
sweepstakes for two-year-old colts and fillies, one mile, beating Clemmie
G., The Nipper, and five others, in 1:45-1/2. At Louisville Fall Meeting,
won the Belle Meade Stakes, three-quarters of a mile, beating Bengal,
Bombay, and nine others, in 1:17-1/4. Same meeting won the Sanford
Stakes, one mile, beating Alborac, Miriam filly, and several others, in
1:46.
At Lexington, Ky., Spring Meeting of 1876, won the Phoenix Hotel Stakes,
1-1/8 miles, by more than a distance, beating Clemmie G., Knapsack, Very
Fine and Yandall, in 1:56-3/4. Besides winning the Kentucky Derby, at
Louisville, in present meeting, he is engaged in the Clark Stakes, two
miles, and same place in fall on the St. Leger, two miles and Galt House
Stakes, two mile heats, the Grand Exposition Stakes, 1-1/2 miles at
Philadelphia, the Breckenridge Stakes, two miles, at Baltimore, and the
Suwanee Stakes, two mile heats, at Nashville Fall Meetings.
The Kentucky Derby, for three-year olds, $50 play or pay, with $1,500
added, second to have $200. One and a half miles, 34 nominations. Value
$3,200.