New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-04
argrArR1z JocKgr cLUB RACES
FOURTH DAY.

FOURTH DAY.
Yesterday was a bright and pleasantly warm
day. favorable to racing, but was too windy for
its dryness, the consequence being an afiction OF
dust which distressed the entire city and suburbs
We never saw dnstier day. The Metairie track,
too, was dusty, in common with all other travelled
roads.
The dust, however, did not prevent the usual
rush of the population to the Metairie. Gentle,
men in buggies generally wore busters; the ladies
and their attendant gentlemen shut themselves up
in carriages; great crowds turned up their noses
at the dust, and ripped ahead without caring for
it, whilst other crowds avoided the dust pretty
well by taking the cars and the big omnibuses,
and by driving out the new Canal street smell
road, which is too new to be dusty for some time.
The scene at the race-course was as multitude
nous and as gay and fashionable as on any previous
day; the ladies being present again in great num-
Der, and adding to their stand all the sweetness
and loveliness Of parterre of flowers.
This days sport appeared to be pretty well de-
fined beforehand. The race was for Club purse
of $1,000 at three mile heats. There were four
entries, ts-wit: Mr.. Doswells Fanny Wash
ington, Gen. Wells Uncle Jeff Mr.. Kenner's La
Vari6e, and Col. Bngamin's GodiUG. The betting
in pools the night before showed Fanny to be the
favorite, almost even against the field; Uncle JEFF
ranking next, and as high as the remaining two
put together; La Variete ranking third and Godiva
last. On the quarter stretch, yesterday, Fanny
rose to the dignity of being backed even against
the field, with odds on her beating any named one
or two out of the other three. The opinion of
Fanny seemed to be almost unanimous, for the
offers of her hackers not very quickly bitten at
that we could discover. There was much betting
among the friends of the other three horses.
The race was well contested, and was remarka-
BILE for slow heat and very fast heat. We give
the particulars
FIRST HEAT.-The animals, when stripped, look
ed almost "sweet enough to eat; I" all being in tip
top condition. A good start was made, all four
going off nearly in bunch. The spread out
showed Fanny in the lead, with JEFF second, Co.
diva third and Variete last. They strung it in this
position all through the mile, getting rather close
at the half-nile, and making a short chain of four
links in the last turn. As Fanny kept the lead all
through the other two miles, winning the heat, we
need only describe the passages at arms between
her followers. In the first quarter of the second
mile, Variete took the third place from Godiva, but
did not leave her to speak of; all three kept close
up to Fanny down the back stretch, and came near
punching at the half mile and after that, whilst
JEFF kept bravey after his fair leader, Varete and
Godiva kept side by side for distance as close
to jeff as he was to Fanny. Coming home, Godiya
left Varete and got by the side of Jeff These tyn
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chased Fanny hotly home and into the third mile,
safete bringing up ele rear wong 70 1ne quarter
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and whilst Fanny plioted as usual, these three
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