The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-08-17

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The worst Time ON Record!
ED. BANNER:.
Permit me to present you with the SUBJ
joined account of the great race of last week,
which came off at the Yozoo course. between a
couple Of anags,n lof purely foreign abstract)
owned and entered BY the Jackson Jockey Club,
against Young America, o. Y azoo. = Entered at
Deasonville, on five appointed heats against
time.
One of the Club Horses, apparently the old
est, seemed to have been an sold stager, about
sixteen hands high, slightly crest-fallen, some
what hog-backed,' with severe RIGHTEOUSNESS
of the knee joints; occasioned doubtless by long
service and hard strains in trying to pull on the
coach of State, long owned bv 1r1cksterS, Cau-
Gus, &c.,, with some marks of the collar upon his
neck and several supposabe signs OF the lash, and
affected by something like SPAWN or 'ringbone'
at the time of the race, seemingly CRASHED in
] the bargain
| Tue other was coltish-looking, unbridlewisa,
two-year-oll, long ietlocks and peculiarly formed
head, Indicating, by visible protuherance Of the
Iprobosa organization, Uranium somewhat af
i iected by disease, commonly denomnated by
modern farriers, as the sbig head which, if my
| Diagnosis of the issue is correct, promises
rapid development, unless checked; his body pre-
sented somewhat of thesymmetry of racer but
the awful brusing which the air received by the
fore-legs of the lttlecolty and the imminent dang
er to which his 'hiId-egs exposed thu bystand-
ers, strongly attested the fact tLat he, when led
tout, had rather cut up fourishes around the
standing point, than hazard his wonted reputa-
Of horce hiUI,- tome fati
Of his admirers upon his real merits as 1urfer.'
But Young America was there, standing upon
the track, as sits swan upon the smoothly
moving bosom of the waters-Y oung Americal
that modern Peytona of the Southern turf; CON-
bining in his symmetrical compositions the beau
tifully adjusted proportions OF the most elegant
" formed and Thoroughbred racer; together, with
1.-THE grace, ease and movement of the rein deer,
added to becoming calmness, significant of a
fore-knowedge Of the laurels, fthere are laures
: in vanquishing such a foe) that would perch up
! on his brow, already wreathed with dazzling in-
scriptions rejecting the appreciation OF those who
on former occasions had trusted abidingly to the
Developments Of his yet untold proves.
Well, the hour arrived, and the order of the
I day being pre-arranged, by mutual consent,
Dung America was first turned upon the track,
and moved off with dignity becoming his wide
spreading reputation amidst tie deafning shouts
of his friends, and with an easy press of canvass
made the last quarterpost inside of one hour and
five minutes, yielding the track to others coming
: from distance. Next, after much rubbing and
d currying, that old aforesaid Fogy hor e.. came
limping out, evedencing by his gait and would
be erect carriage, the peculiar workings of NAL
adv, most ungraceful in its effects, ordinarily
known as, the sstring-halt,' and showing by the
; peculiar manner in which he moved this affected
: part, that the track was rather heavy or that
there was shoe loose.
He was turned upon the track without rider,
It and made off at a. toerable gait assimilatipp
n more the zig-zag movements of a COW in a trot
n than the clock-work action Of turf-horse. Thl
:, first quarter was made in ordinary timeH but
wood intePvenes to shut out fromyiew the aggin.
It speed of the venerable old Steed art mad witt
n3excitement, be assumed a fearful shape: all wer
!. warm with burning desire to see the alternatet
form of the old Rosenante turn downs upon th
y home stretch, but they waited in vain, nor wa
IS their suspense relieved until spectator, station
= ed upon the baek-stretch,' came carousing acros
the wood, and detailed the startling intelligence
to the wondering crowd, that, the spirit that wa
= in him had tagged that o sudden enlargement
ID the sspavin-bone had stifled the action Of tn
IA tan-board OFFENDER Of thopld Fogy's machinery
and that he, writhing in shame and disgQ1 Ia
.felced The track, and was seeking at "a cas-
e pace, the Augean stables Of his masters the Gu
in at jackson. Yours, &c.
is AarRev Samuel Bard. one Of the knti-A
merican candidates ID Lou|I sne said in
speech, a
4 Some had sd Till lie Democratic party v,
s. dead This 4 not 80. !. II was Ike old brasl
the more i was rubbed the brighter It became.
~ d bon which ifll Creole - MARIE.