The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-08-08
RESULT or rae RACES.
rrahsmitted over the Ciothes-Lins Telegraph
FrxpasssLY ron TIE NoNpARErL.

$500
The Bugle having failed to give correct
account Of the summer races, over the Pot
tawatssmis race course, as promised b the
daily Of Monday morning, il becomes the
duty of the Secretary Of the Jockey Club 70
favor the public with . history of those
races, that all persons may have an oppor-
tunity Of judging correctly in the future
what horses it will be safe to bet on.
Early in the day q large concourse Of pso-
ple had assembled on the ground, anxiousiy
awaiting the hour to arrive when the word
"start', should be given. Twelve tracks
had been prepared, each about nine hun
dred yards long, and at the appointed hour
. horse for each track entered the ring.
John SHERMAN and PLArsEs rodethe Pre-
E,un,or to the field, back to back, JoHS RI
ding before. BALDWIN having become dis
rusted with some of the arrangements, re-
solved to take no interest in the races
JAMES had been on the ground from a little
after sunrise in the morning, clearing out
and preparing the track for Pre- Emptor,
and it is said he spent nearly FIVE hundred
dollars before nine o'clock in the morning,
preparing the way for clear sreep. The
horses being ready, the wordwas given, and
all twelve started at once; down the course
they went roaring through the wind s'like
hun
Roam bounded of with the agility and speed
of an Antelope, and was quickly far ahead
of his competitor. j
The Pre- Enptor made remarkably good
speed considering the load under when ne
travelled. When about two-thirds OF the
way through, LARlxER finding the 'ruppsr
was hurting him exceedingly, jumped on
behind, which threw the horse of his bal
ance, and caused him to turn complete
summerset right in the track, throwing his
other three riders head foremost about nj
teen feet from the track, into an immense
euandary of amazement. The horse
quickly gathered himself and bounded on,
making much better time at the outcome
than at the start.
Roam came out about two hundred yards
ahead. But from an accurate caloulation
of the time made by Pre- Emptor, on the
last three hundred yards, it was found that
had he have run the whole race without
rider, the Roam would only have beaten him
about one hundred yards. JAMES, BABBIrr
and TEST were left sticking in the qsanddry
until they were relieved BY the kind efforts
of a benevolent african who happened to
be standing near by.
About six O'Clock in the evening, LARI-
xER and the other three were carried to their
respective abodes, where every attention
was paid them by their friends and physi-
clans that was necessary, and at the pen
ming of this article, they are all reported
convalescent, though seriously injured about
their faces, as from some cause there is
very evident elongation Of that part OF
their physical and corporal systems
The owners of Roam took the purse Of
four hundred dollars, not intendingto claim
any more, as the owners of Pre-. En,ptor
would have done had he have won the race.
The other purses were severally won by
the Trusty Black, Fairfield Bill, the Mos
queto Farmer and Bandy Shanks. The
Roam will not be put upon the turffor two
years-his owners intending to use him in
making Typographical and financial exami-
nations of the Swamp Lands and other
property of the County. ,
SECRETARY OF THE JocKEr CUM s