The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-30


enormous and unnatural breakfasts-when the
gentlemen had smoked their Havanas (no COM
mon segars smoked here, that are acknowledged
30 10 pe) when the fair had each and every one
"aue her toilet, constant stream of vehicles OF
all descriptions poured on in continuous current
ace'trackwards. Handsome ladies in handsc me
equipages; fashionable gentlemen in neat little
turn-outs some driving tandem, some driving sim
gle and some double; sporting men in sporting
wagons, sporting diamond pins; professional and
amateur gamblers in di' to and sporting ditto
the hoi pottot-so-caled in Greek-in English. bv
the less elegant and lees euphonious but not less
expressive, appellaton Of "tag-rag and bob-tail.
in all sorts of buggies, carriages, and break
downs, drawn by all sorts Of horses, some of them
also Of the broken-down species.
And they all go to the track, and away to the
track go we also. We pay one dollar for ad-
mittance to the track, and grumble mentally at
the price, as we call to mind the time when we
were wont to pay but ten cents to see races in
Charleston quite as good if not much superior.
Next we invest twenty-five cents more and take
seat in the grand stand.
The grand stand can accommodate about four
thousand persons. We find it, to use news
paper parlance, "flled to its utmost capacity
the pretty and handsomely dressed water drinkers
being here in grand display.
printed bill informs us that the first race is to
be the Travers' stake of $50 each play or pay;
that forty-one horses have concluded to pay and
that five only intend to play at the game of
single dash OF mile and three-quarters. The
purse amounts to the comfortable little sum of
$2o5O, and $1,000 more has been added.
The trumpet sounds the call and the noble
steeds appear, their souls (and their soles) in
arms and eager for the fray, or rather for the
race. We forget the war and imagine ourselves
transported TO the old Charleston Jockey Club
Stand, when we see the little ebony colored riders
trot themselves out and trot out the horses
We remember that they are now freed.boys and
perceive our error. The trumpet again (not the
fife, as in Oharleston) sounds the call, the boys
are mounted, and the following steeds stand con-
fessed: MerT7l, Baystoater, Ulrica, Tom Wool
folk and Billy COnnor. At the tap Of the drum
the five are of, and away like quarter of score
Of arrows sped each from trus'y bow. Ton, has
the track and leads. Billy comes next, he being
hard pressed by Ul-ica, whilst Merra and Bays-
'oater lag behind as though in particular haste
to show themselves. On approaching the stand
at the end Of the first three-quarters, Merr-l
came frat, Baystoater next, Bly ten lengths be-
hind, with Ulricd and Tom close at hand At the
half mile all went to work in good earnest, and it
| is hard to tell how the race is going. Here they
| come down the last quarter stretch, Merrill lead
ing, Utrtca next and little too late the other
three extremely late In they come-the flag is
| lowered, and Mer7I is the winner. Time (yery
bad) $40. The following is the result:
TnAvHns' STAKES Fon THREE xBAn oLDA
Jno Hunters b. f. Ulrica, by Lexington. ......: .
R. r. Alssander,s b; Ss e Bayswaser By Le1inston.
| Belrs oh. Q. Tom voolfolk, by Lexington. s
| The second race was two mile heats, with four
entries On,oard, Julius, Mu Creek and Knight
hood. The first heat was fat and uninteresting,
being won with apparent ease by On,oard.
| The second heat, however, was exciting in the
extreme. On passing the stand at the end of the
first three-quarters, Julius, who, for quarter of
a mile, had been running neck and neck alongside
Of the favorite, got the extreme end Of his nose
under the string fret, and onward they fly On
,oard and julius, whilst pretty ladies frantcally
wave their linen canbrics, and loud and hoarse
men grow louder and hoarser as they cheer and
shout like madmen. No one cares to look at
Rni9hthood or MIL Creek, all are intent in gazing
upon the favorite and his game antagonist. Away
they go, neck and neck, faster and faster till
they pass the three. quarter pole, when On,oard
true to his name, goes onward, still making a
perceptible gap between Julius and himself
Here they come on the last quarter-''get out OF
| tne way Ine HAL VIII the Wnlto nat, turn
him out'-"sit down in front""a hundred to fifty
on On,0ard-"Ave to two on On,odrd"-'now
he's coming"-"let him out, little nigger"-"the
baby's born aud is boy"-"three cheers for On
,oard'-and the flag falls, Onuard winning the
heat and race. The following is the summary:
| TWO MILE HEATS.
Thomas Buford's ch. h. Onward. 4 years old. by
| hluBBoiu. l l
| d. MoDaniels b. h. Julius, years old, by Lex
| y
T. W. Wedon's b. h. Knivhthood years old,
by Knight Of st. George. ................... 2
]. 3: Watson's b. m. Ail Ureek, aged - years,
by imp. Sovereign. n.........................1 DIR.
Time-3A8H, 3:A9X.
The time in this race, as in the first one, was
by no means good, and had it not been for the
exciting and close brush between OnDard and
Julius, the entire affair would have been what IL
called Ga bad success." In my next will give
your readers an account Of the hurdle race, to
take place to-day. MOULTRIE.