Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-05-22
The Great Match iOn
Beateah.

ga Beaten.
The great contest between Fashion and Pey
tona created ali unprecedented excitement, aud
at least one hundred thousand persons assem-
bled ont the ground to witness the performance.
The N. Y. Tribune says:---"The gathering
on the Course was much larger than we have
ever seen there, and according TO the best es-
Inmates, reached 100000 persons. The stands
were all crowded to The utmost extent; the track
was so much encountered that a strong police
force could scarcely keep it free for The running
horses, and the field was full of carriages and
omnibusses filled with passengers. In the
members stand were about sixty ladies', be-
longing to the first families of the city
The Course was not in good order being ve-
ry dry and in some parts felock deep with sand
and dust. This was more unfavorable to Fash
ion than 10 Peylona, The latter being The strong
esl horse.
The excitement was great when the horses
appeared al The tap of the drum, and betting be-
came still more favorable to The Southern horse
when she was stripped. The North had been
backing Fashion heaily, but there was now a
disposition 10 hedge and odds could be had on
Peytona. Both horses appeared 10 be perfect
Iy right although Peylona had rather the mos,
lively and gamey look Both horses have been
described in several of the city papers, and we
think it useless 10 repea, the descriptions.
The horses got off we'll together al he irs
start, Peylona having the inside, which she
kept. as well as The lead, and won The first heat
by three lengths, amid the shouts of the excl
ted crowd. The betting was now 100 to so,
and even occasionally larger odds on the South
ern horse, and few takers.
When the horses came up for the second
heat, they did no, appear TO have cooled off
well, Fashion being apparently mos, distressed
After one false start they wen, off at sashing
pace Fashion getting the inside. During the
frs, three miles the horses ran together with
scarcely percepiible difference between them,
and the interest of the race became intense
When they passed the judges stand ON the
fourth mile Pey,ona was scarcely the breadth
of an ear behind. Both Jockeys were plying
spurs and crowding the horses TO their utmost
speed. On the last quarter Peytona made a
brush and ii was evident that her stride was
doing The business. Coming down The straight
turn 10 the Judges stand she gained slightly at
every jump and came in Fashion under whip
and spur winning the heat and race by half
length The shout that rent The welkin was
the signal for the transfer of a, least one hun
dred thousand dollars from the pockets of the
North to the pockets of the South
The time, il will be seen, was not very good,
the first heat being Ia seconds longer than
Fashions frs, heat with Boston The first
heat was run in 7 3S 2, and the second in Z
As
Peytona has now won for her owners S62,-
600 in purses in six years, never having been
beaten. She has probably won much more for
them, in side bets. Having conquered the VIC
tor of wenly-,hree fields, she may be consd-
cred the paramount, horse on the Turf in this
country. 1eN