Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-04

Shocking Cruelty to Horsrs--A Hundred
Mile Race nt Albuny--Onc Hofse Killed,
thc other Ruined, md no Money Won or
Lost.
One Of the most cruel pieces Of ''sport'' on rec
ord YVES enacted at Albany on Monday by Andrew
A. Dalton Of this city and Samuel II. Taylor of
New York, who drove tlfeit Horses against each
other, a distance Of one hundred miles, %eoni,nu-
ousiy, on II bet Of $3.50 n side.
Both horses had been In n course OF disciplinary
training for some weeks, and the excitement was
intense among the crowd Of sporting gentlemen
who congregated from all quarters to see so unusu-
al a contest. The horses were on thecliosen ground,
at Albany, Mt half-past four O'Clock on Monday
morning, surrounded by their party friends, and at
8 O'Clock, at the word 'go,' they started off at full
speed, their owners holding the reins. The hun
dred mile pole was located ut Whitcsboro, n village
four miles north Of Utica, and the road lay along
the Mohawk river, muddy, with the usual spring
uprising, and particularly hard for such n trial.
They passed Fonda, AZ miles, Mt 9;15 O'Clock, Dal.
ton ahead; the speed thus far was some 10 miles
per hour. At Little Falls, 10 miles, Dalton was
two seconds ahead, but his horse looked bad and
it was thought would give out; time thus far, also
about 10 miles per hour. AT lllion, S25 miles, had
been passed in eight hours and ten minutes, and
the horses were close together; but at Frankfort,
81 miles, the Dalton horse gave out, md the other
proceeded for the remaining distance on o walk,
and carefully blanketed.
A traveller who arrived in town on Tuesday
evening from Utica, says both horses gave out to-
gether at Frankfort, and that one was stabbed
while the other having been stimulated with spirits
and carefully rubbed down and blanketed, was
kept in the road while his friends pushed the sulky
behind him. The traveller reported that the horse
was pushed for nine miles, while his competitor
remained in the barn and that after two hours
had passed, the second or Dalton horse was again
started off, and nearly overlook the other before it
reached Whitcsboro, being beaten only by three
seconds.
By some mistake our informant received the i'm
preston that the Dalton horse was pushed along
and won the race, but the telegraph report says
the Taylor horse reached the pole first, and conse-
auently must have been the one helped by human
hackers. The horses arrived at Whitesboro at half
past Eve O'Clock in the afternoon, having thus
made the distance in twelve hours and q half.
1t is reported that the Taylor horse is already
dead, and that the Dalton horse is but little better
certainly ruined; and to cap the whole infamous
TAYLOR will be contested, and that the whole thing
will probably be declared by the judges o drawn
game. BY this means two foolish and wicked men
will have ruined two good horses, without any sub
%stantive gain to either party. The Dalton horse is
said to have been a splendid young mare, purchas-
cd at Albany four months since, by MIR Dalton, for
this race. What Mr. d. has made by the transac-
ton, in money, is without doubt q blank; what he
has lost in character, it would be difficult to deter
mine.
SO great was the collection Of interested parties
in Albany that nine carloads Of people were taken
up to Utica, on Monday, to learn the earliest intel
ligence of the progress and result of the race.
We hope the laws of New York will authorize
the arrest and punishment Of the parties to this
enormous cruelty. Such an abuse Of the powers
Of this noble animal should be a state prison Of
fence.-Spring. Rep.