Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — THE LATE DAN MACE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LATE DAN MACE.

The Career of a Celebrated Horseman.

Dan Mace, the most celebrated jockey America has ever produced, whose death occurred, in New York not long ago, was born at Cambridge, Mass., in 1834. Among the most noted horses he handled in his early days were Kate Miller, Mary Taylor, Touch-Me-Not, Old. Bones, a pacer; Duchess, Meddlesome, Tom Hyer, Dentist, Lady Westley, Albany Girl, Fashion, Little Romp, Tobey, Saltpetre, Soulouque, Providence Boy, North Star, Cyclops, Lady Boyle, Bay Star, Farmer Boy, Pilot, Chicago Jack, Tom Benton, Euclid’, Lady Sherman, Lady Litchfield, Black Dave, a pacer, and a running horse called Gray Eagle. He drove Ethan Allen in 1858. Among the horses handled by Mace from 1863 to 1870 were Prince, John Morgan, Sorrel Dan, Pocahontas, Shark, Rhode Island, Kittie, Wink, Quaker, Fearnaught, Gejoeral Butler, Commodore Vanderbilt, Young Woeful, Billy Barr and Gray Mack. All of the horses acquitted themselves with credit under his able management.