New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-16

The Patterson Derby.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RACE.

From the New York Tribune, June6.l
Now the bugle brays vigorously, and into the |
track come through the wickets all manner of
nags with profuson of Jockeys little and big, in
light colors whose whips hang in reserve, switch
ing butlittfe and whose skull caps give them the
semblance of armed knights cut down to the half
shell, The gr0oms are quite busy with walking
these nags to and fro, as if they wanted them by
much pacing to come to the true contemplatye
spirit and understand directly that they were to
acquire resoluteness and discretion. They carry
up the saddles to the judges stand to be weighed,
and very trfing saddles they are, about large
enough to give perch to Barbary monkey, while
the judges and the jockeys look grave as autumn,
as if riding three-year olds were indeed
the s,rnnlllnl bonunG of life. As for the nags
themselves they are to the fully developed
horse very much what puppies which subslst on
new milk, and fall over carpet tacks, are to the
fully developed dogs. They are hollow-fanked
and seem sliced across the rump, and there is
magnificent fallingin about them which, with
older beasts, would indicate shoepegs in the oats,
They have got speed, no doubt, but the perspect
i've is that of toWel-racks and clotheshorses. and
they seem to look through inordnately great eyes,
though, when you leave out their upper bodies
and glance at their Keen, 1.-THE limbs, you see rea
son for speed. limbs that bend like rattan, yet
camped with knees of brass, and shod with feet
that have the perch of the deer's lifting and falling
like your dancing masters, as If they could
walk on paper, yet stave in the very crust of the
earth.
Again the bugle blows; again; and the horses
are ranging themselves against the hait-mlle post
| lar across the JraCR WINNER luey are IOlOWeu ny
anxious opera glasses, while the cries ring out
| successfully:
/" hundred to forty on Aexander's stable y
"Twenty to fifty UIrca wins it !"
| " Ten to fifty on Lagwing"
"Eyen that Lapwing comes in third! -
| It is far around the track, yet we can see the
cluster of gay caps and Jackets and the oft excur-
sions to and fro with the nags, that they may be
| induced to keep well together, so as to make a
staunch start. The beautiful and favOrite sorTels
of Alexander, with Merrill the most admired, obey
ing their Jockeys SO dutfully stand to the bit like
ardor christianzed while Ulrica's light bay looks
black across the distance, and Remorse, belying
his name, is frolicsome and full of fire.
Covering, as they do, only point in the eye
one hardly feels what energies this gay and NOV
ing glimpse contains of things for moment only
subject, which shall directly fash into action, and
make the separate winkfulls of the witness tire
mendous with motion. Among them all the ebony
face of Malones rests stolidy oblivious of regard
only of the nag Merrill that he strides. As thi
! and these dumped with slow undulations to
: gether, moving against the dark green foliage
make the eyes painful to note them, there is all
= once q great bound and absence; three abreast
and three others in long following trail and tire
again in separate series further behind, the
clear the half.me pole like a fortuity of shadows
and come like silent phaRtoms round the turn
every rider with hollow neck and head thrus
d darkIinrly forward, and eyes yet invisible, bu
It whose balls we feel to be rolled up in poise
q approximations, and knees turned tightly In an
J. spurs hinged on eyelashes. In and out, closin
e up and receding, blood and pluck and lash an
s. silence driving every strainlng thing, they sWeel
d down the homestretch in the splendid exultatio
$, of release heap of plumages and hoofs, till,
they nearer, fercer come, we hear the Ion
y seconds of simultaneous reVerberation, and Sc
~ the white eyeballs of men and steeds, TILL the
fling themselves across the judges stand like
confused and rapid kaleidoscope-color, and Life