New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-03
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troitlng match is almost an impossibiy The oatsid.
public who go in good faith to see trials Of speed ana
venture their money fayorite horses are systemA
eay deceived and cheated and the nobest borses ara
useo ior such practices almost freely as the poorest
inee seems 70 be certain rng or CLIQUE of sharp
ers VINO CONTROL races as they please and knowing tha
END from the beginning, reap enormous profits from tina
Ignorance Of outsiders. In fact the Comparative ,e,
Of competing horses has little to do with the re AZ
the race, that we feel like prefacing each account with
apology for noticing the match ct all Its not
pleasant thing TO know that the speed of noble hor.a
like Ethan Allen tempered with and made the means
for eectng wholesale fraud for one is thus necessarily
forced TO believe that fair in this country in
possible.
We ask any fair man Of the 5000 who saw bis race
with Flora on the 18th, whether it was not q most
gigantic unprineipled swinde, arranged beforehand
to take an mmense amount Of money out Of the poc-
cts of an unsuspcious public And we Should like 10
know if the rot on Centerville Course yesterday be-
tween Lancet and Rockingham, not the came
thing on smaller scale Let us see how the business
is managed: prominent gambler or horse-jockey
backs Ethan against Flora, let suppose. He knows
that in private trials the horse has shown rate Of
speed previously unbeard of and he s fully warranted
in backing him to-day to any amount at whatever
enormous odds the oyer.conident friends Of Flora will
give The horses trot, and Ethan wins the race.
Another match is made giving the mare
the advantage Of going to harness instead Of TO
wagon. The hacker Of the horse ha8 all
the more reason to back him again, for his merits
have been triumphantly demonstrated in public
But be comes to the ground, and ostenaiiousy hins
that bis horse cannot do much to-day, the result is
certain, and be won't bet cent on it, because there
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market becomes unsteady the horse is backed at odds
against the mare and when the current has set in with
sufficient strength our willy operator sets bis aids and
agents to work aud they take, osensby for themselves,
but really for him. all the bets that the public will make
suitable understanding is had with the driver, and
just when victory seems most certain the horse
away or is held in hand, and loses the race This tho
public believe, was the game that was played on
Fashion Track the 25th and the utmost oissatisfac
ton prevails on all Sides Mclaughlin and the Ethsa
Allen party are denounced in very violent terms, aud
one bloody fight between Alderman Genet aud James
Bevins has already taken place. To show in what
light the real turf authorities, the sporting papers, re-
gard it, we make the following extract from the last
number Of P0rier's Spirit Of tie Times.
FLORA Temple AND ETHAN ALIEs.rburtday next IL tue
day named for smother test Of speed between these celebrities
driver the late has been deposed and Horace
louder than words that the expressed fesi-
ings ofhe public have nos oeen entirely
the match is for 500 which snoun ~e must Win az cam
dor pronounce very small STAKE for The PREF on snd
maintenance 81 such valuable snd expensive hors md after
what has occurred late tie 18th u few Of hose who St
tend the coming race win be dposed % k TIER money on
any idea superiority that they may entertain with regard "a
e y & t@e5s n ~ our oPo5 & 81 ss
ured handsome stake for the winning horse and ample re-
LEI ~ e ~ S B u hor,e sftr es xiiTds Of The
lar
that confidence win be restored aud hai thouAnds w
20 70 ZEE heartily SICK Of the horse shows si Of
late have been much The fashion The Propetou Of our
eou'e5 owe ms 20 '5s pubic sso pea y % ss y s nss
70 handle and dive for the poh O. sseesoh Of t1 patron, %
excitement oecasoned BY 5-a died away We niotssd
that he prounen: drivers AID trainer lsss sa5seSs. az.
effort 70 nd themselves o. the suspicion ibas MAS csst
ne were sd for shs sake of the uf the initiative
aken hoped that meeting would be called largely ct
tended and every present who claim 70 honesty snd
fair play We requested to suggest tina, meeting %
held az an early di cs1g ~ -eose nee Ioy ,Si ,
petition for the purpose was dan up ana some sso. @sSs 70
sfminaei unnecessarily snd that the matter lac most reform
has been sbandored We hope there vi" pc no &c
revive the idea but we DO not Leta'e % say 'h. We
mo- s W ,ss "a s,.fsij We 40 ot ore
epd 70 dictate we only advise rusius Ia, the
eneey m oyeriookins the tran spsent deeds past
If the third race between Flora and Ethan is not
more fairly conducted than the second the horses may
AS we'll be withdrawn from the track, for the public
will not put mp with any more such cheating.
We thought it best thus to preface account Of
Yesterday trottng because we consider it Of
piece with the other, only differing in degree. There
were not more than one hundred and fifty persons on
the ground, and these were mostly the regular
habtrues, who make part of their livelihood by
tempting the csprces Of Fortune in the way Of bets Of
the horses it is only necessary to say that Lancet
newfoundland horse partly of Black Hawk stock, and
Rockingham anunknownfrom Connecticut, where beis
said to have been the property Of farmer from hs
foaIhood TO his eighth year. The horses had troed
match to the saddle week ago, in which Rockingham
had beaten Lancet easily in the best time Of the sort
on record-2:2lI r. is about nine years old, gray o1
the color usually called lea-btten rough looking
brute when stripped but that gets up veil IN haf'
mess, making fine show, and going with steadyf
pretty stroke whsn fairly at work. Lancet has very
fair forehand, but real goOse-rump aud standing
sort of gait that makes much inferior show to that Oh
the gray. The betting WAS so skfully arranged be-
fore the race by few 10 make the gray the faYorita
at the enormous odds Of TO /, aud although Lancet
won the first heat the market was kept against hin
until everything was right" and the +" ring" made
their little investments against the gray.
The fret heat was made in 1882, Lancet breaking
very badly at the turn, and Rockingham going uP.
also Just at the second distance pole. The second
heat was done in "a, the trot being close Qua
throughout and the gray breaking again 81 almost the
same place as before In the third, lancet was very
Eighty, making his usual break before reaching tina
turn but making 30 much worse than before as 10 let
Rockingham open gap Of ten lengths before reaching
the quarter. This ms uriYer Oiu not seem tVuyt 20
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