New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-25
THE TURF.
THE GREAT TWENTY MILES AN HOUR
TROT-A FAILURE.
CFNTREVILLE COURSE. L. I-Great Tro

Yesterday the city papers contained the following
advertisement:
CFNTREVILIF COURSE. L. Great Trot-
- SloeI.t tn Cenir,viis CSu-.e The es1 viii lave
s. 9TH Fern Brook st ocock and s)on ~ nc
r1ce is over. JOEL CONkLIS, PfoPrie.or
The cars did start at the time and carried up eleven
caT-loads Half an hour aferward another train
went out and let arotler carload at The Wooihaven
Station, in all not less than 700 people, and that was
not over quarter Of the people present. We made
O partial count and estimated seven hundred wheel
carriages in and around the rsce-course, lining the
fences for quarter Of mile outside beside tie large
Number inside. Tie greatest number were buggies
though there many hackney coaches and several
omnibuses beside few hay-carts and common drays
o1tcmporized into passenger carriages. large NAM
Der also came on foot from the surrounding country
Not les than twenty-five hundred able-bOded men
and BOYS were gathered together at this busy planning
seuson in the very center of farming country to see
WHAT Not the uxuriant beauty Of the growing
crops but TO ruthlcssiy rample them under foot 10
their eager anxiety 10 reach the enclosure where they
might see one of the noblest and best Of oil ANIMALS
that God has given man for bis tortured in the IN
heard-of tax of dragging a four-wheced wagon and
drive1wouty times around that raco-coulse within
one hour crafty tie cupdiiy of cruel owner who
would thus win FIVE thousand dollars.
Andsll this vast crowd had forsaken their business
in city and country and come here to lend their coun
enance 70 this cruel sport, and sport large sums on
tie result -
And what we3 the component parts Of this crowd
small per cent of honest industrious men, aud large
per cen, Of nothing else to do, and wouldn't do
thew lad, men and boy. Thank Heaven, not one
woman.
There were p.ckpockcts. thieves and vagabonis,
and class incon, eiyably worse-the sweatcioh men
and thmble-rggers and vagabond- IN general, an at
least Of the companions of Lewis Baker IN the Bi
Poole tragedy.
This was the crowd that backened the grand stand
md crowded around the course Ike buzzards around
a ru.rid carcass. We iecognized many Of the faces
that adon some Of he most notorious rum-hoe cor
nors in the City where decent woman cannot pass
without insult. Such are Tie patrons" of legal
lied race-couro who cloat the torment inaice FL
upon horse for their amusement or to crafty their
morbid appetite for betting on the result.
II was said that the feat of tro'tng twenty miles in
haness within the hour had never been performed.
This is wrong 1t never has been accomplished be-
fore wagon, but it has been before troiting ~ ky.
Some six or seven years ago Trustee driven
around this or Union Course before sulky, by Cor
neius Bcatan formerly of Cana-t., but now said to
lie a lunatic on Backvc's Island. twenty miles in
les than one hour.
But that was a cruel feot-this was more 80; and
those who would attempt it, abct it, or in any way
couuteuapce il. arc about as much entitled 10 a resi-
d,ncc in the Lunatic Asylum the driver OF oil
Trustee.
Tie following is tie time made by Flora Temple
a. N.lic wa
div and hard. and the weather cool. with smart