New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-18
THE TURF.
TRoTTING ON TIE FASHION COURSE.

TROTTING ON TIE FASHION COURSE.
Yesterday the trot for purse OF $500 given by
the Association came off on the Fashion Course, III
the presence OF a very limited number Of spectators.
1t had been generally imagined that the interest of
the trotting turf was becoming revivfed under the
protecting auspices of the Fashion Pleasure Ground
Association, and that Long Island would witness a
revival of tro,tng equal if not superior to any wit
messed at any previous period The proceedings this
season were of q character to confirm such impres-
sions on the part OF toe public the trots previous
" the great handicap swindle on Thursday last, had
teen conducted in fair, straightforward, honorable
manner. But the proceedings on that day, under
the auspices Of the Association, or rather Of the
CLIQUE of six individuals who lease the track aud
represent the Association have destroyed all public
confidence in the honesty Of the management. The
Judges appointed by the Association on that day dee
cned either through ignorance or intention, TO ell
force rule Of the Association, which had for its
object the protection of the public, and thus Endorsed
one of the most barofaced robberes upon the commu
nifty ever pe1petfated since Sam Mclaughlin, John
Mosrissey g. Co.. carried into execution their great
swindle with Ethan Allen and Flora Temple last
year.
Native American, I'd. Eddy, Sunnyside, and Prin-
cess the two latter only came to the post the latter
being driven by Hiram Woodruff, and alo had the
the advantage of the POLE In the first heat, Pincess
broke after getting the lead and Pfer took the pole
but bis mare casting shoe just before reaching the
quarter pole, and breaking badly in consequence,
caused Princess to resume the lead. She kept it all
the way round, Sunnysde, owing to her having
east a second shoe the third quarter, breaking up
and pacing nearly all the way home. 1t was gene
rally believed that SunnyEde would DO distanced
owing 10 her having paced, instead of trot,ed the
greater portion OF the last half mile. The judges
however, after lengthy consultation, decided that
Princess won the heat in 2:36i.
This decision was productive Of great dissatisfac-
ton TO the friends Of Princess, who contended that
by the regular rules of rotiDg horse breaking and
pacing such distance as Sunnysidc Lad done, ought
to have been dstsnccd. The judges, however, who
were MessIs. II. J. Cotton, Sheppard Knapp and j.
Hall, decided Otherwise, believing that the double
accident of Sunnysde in casting her shoes and thus
exciting her TO pacing, ought to DO taken into con-
hideraiion. In Tie three next heats Snnnyside was
The winner, thus deciding the race in her favor.
The number Of spectators was 20 limited that the
proprietor of the track must have suffered consdera-
bly, Indeed, this trot, coupled with the affair Of
the handicap day, viii assuredly have the eaec, OF
preventing any but the regular habitues Of the track
from attending and the remainder Of the trots on the
: advertised programme may be fairly BET down as
stale fat, and Improbable" alike 10 the Assoca
ton and the public Weregret that atrottng season,
commenced SO auspicious,y, should have terminated
20 disastrously.