3-070-822 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Iroquois, the winner of the Derby, 1881. 'Iroquois, who has at length succeeded in winning their first Derby for the Americans, is the property of Mr. P. Lorillard, one of the largest owners of racehorses on the other side of the Atlantic...Iroquois, who is rather on the small side, standing a shade und 15 hands 3 inches, is a brown colt with a narrow blaze on the face and a little white on the near fore heel...Perhaps his strongest point is his shoulders, which are unusually deep and well placed...This year he has been out three times, running second for the Two Thousand Guineas, cutting down Lennoxlove for the Newmarket Stakes, and walking over for the Burwell Stakes. While admitting that Iroquois met a moderate field in the Derby, we do not at all wish to deprive him of any of the credit of his victory, as he must be one of the hardiest and soundest horses ever foaled, and might have been "made to order" for the peculiar Epsom course. He has many valuable engagements, including one in the St. Leger, in which race we hope to see him play the third and deciding game of the rubber with Peregrine'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.