New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-21
NUMBER 145.
The Goodwood Gun.

We extract the following interesting article from
the New York Herald, Of the 18th. The full report
of the race will probably be received here in few
days:
AS we anticipated, We have received intelligence
OF the result Of this by the Canada, from Liver
pool to Boston via Halifax. As we have already an
nounced, the American horses were beaten, running
in the positions Of fifth and sixth in field of four,
teen starters comprising of the best horses in
the world These positions in the race, among SO
large number Of competitors, show after all not
Sely honerent running on the part Of horses
The following meagre particulars Of the race we
gather from the Liverpool papers. None of the ac-
co counts at hand give the time Of any Of the horses
The French horse Monarque won the race. The Eng
llsh horse Rlseber is placed second, and Fisherman
third. Gunboat slipped and fell and Kestrel and
Gemmadivergy also fell heavily. Monarque won BY
a head, and Riseber beat Fisherman by about three
lengths. Anton was placed fourth, and was three
lengths behind Fisherman. The American horses
Prior and Prioress were placed fifth and sixth, and
the English horse Melissa seventh. All the others
pulled up. ..
The finish is said to be the most exciting affair
ever witnessed. The English papers remark, but
without assigning any reason that the American
horses would have figured more prominently had they
been ridden by English jockeys.
GoOdWood races were established by the Duke of
Richmond in 1905, but the cup did not form an item
in the list of stakes which for until the year
lsl2 The meeting was at first regarded more as a
private reunion Of the sporting nobility and gentle
of the county {sussex) than public race meet.
ing as the greater part of the visitors parook of the
lavish hospitalities of the Duke of Richmond at his
princely seat Goodwood House. The race course was
then, and still continues to be, in the noble Park,
whence the name Of the meeting Under the man
agement of the late Lord George Bentick Ito whom
the Duke delegated it the meeting attained an un-
paraleled degree OF popularity in very short time,
and up to the time OF his DEATH notwithstanding his
retirement from the turf he regular attendant
on its yearly celebration Some of its most valuable
stakes, indeed, were established in memory Of and
called after him" The Bentick Memorial Produce
for admission to the betting ring and grand stand the
public having free into the Park to witness the
races (only we'll known pickpockets and other disre
putable characters being rgidly excluded) yet the
meeting is sefsnpporting, and annually gives away
stakes and prizes upwards of thirty thousand dol
lars. The rich prizes that constantly offered fo
public competition induces the owners and trainers
race horses to enter them for the various stakes
thus the best blood in the country is brought together
to contend for the supremacy of the turf and
the attendance of thousands of admirers of this truly
national sport from every part of the kingdom Thus
| the Goodwood races rank only second to the EPSON
Derby and Doncaster St. Leger gatherings in impor
tance while it possesses charms and attractions, ar
sing from the beautiful and picturesque locality where
it is rum peculiarly its own. But it is with the
| Cup race we are more Immediately interested, we
may state that it is piece of plate-value 81 500
by subscription of $l25 each, with the surplus, i
any, in specie 1t is weight for age race, but Eng
lish horses have certain accumuative penalties fol
winning in the way of extra weight as well as allow
ances for being defeated, giving the all the ap
pearance of handicup from the differences in the
weights carried by horses Of the same age. In the
case of American foreign bred horses, the allow
ance made is fourteen pounds, without any reference
| to age.
We append list of the winners of this cup since the
commencement, and it is singular coincidence that
twenty-three years ago it was won by Glencoe, tht
sire of Pryor and Prioress, who now represent the
American thoroughbreds in the contest for the SAINT
prize: