The New York herald., 1868-06-18
AMERICAN JOCKEY CL6.
Fourth and Last Lay or the
Spring Meeting.
BRILLIANT RUNNING.
A MAGNIFICENT FOUR MILE RACE.
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A MAGNIFICENT FOUR MILE RACE.
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Thousands of Spectators
ON the Grounds.
Aneverfailing subject for discussion is the weather.
Without its changes, without this variable climate
which surrounds and Is Of us to praise OF denounce
verbally otherwise we should De- the wisest OF us
at a loss for something TO speak eioquently on OF
write didactically Therefore do we commence our
relation Of what we saw and experienced yesterday
IN poipp TO- at and returning from the Jerome Park
SprinQ Meeting-the fourth and closing day
by direct reference to the condition OF the at
mosphere. This season the barometer has somehow
put on the appearance, in our eyes, Of pawn
brokers' sign-two to one or, in palmer Ian
guage 1--WE have ined," as a hard shell Bap-
tst exhorter remarked on an occasion, two
days of wet weather to one Of fair. Last
week 1t was three TO one; but this so far we had 1t
alternately. Sunday moist to degree; Monday
was pleasant cool, refreshing and, at the Fordham
race course, exhilirating. Tuesday, and the Hood
gates Of heaven were opered upon us, making the
hard roads beds Of slime, slippery almost as ice,
while the track over which the facers at the Jerome
Park stables ran was inches deep with mud that
was soft, yet Of that nature which made 1t difficult
for the animals move with anything like the speed
expected OF them; while yesterday was q white
day-a day. save that 1t was exceedingly hot that
only given TO the hypercritical would
stop to dissect into hours and minutes
Of heat and cold, cloud and pOssibili-
V. 1t is enough to say of 1t that
although it did not wear very decided expression
OF countenance between eight and eleven O'Clock in
the forenoon after the last named hour caused the
partially unrolled blankets Of Aquarius to be put
one side and then old Sol, with somewhat norid
but smiling face, come to the fore" the manager
OF the theatre to the front of the stage to assure
all who were inclined to patrOnze the liveres or
order their "animiles" and vehicles from their sta
bles and carriage horses for drive to the Jerome
Park Course that they might do so with impunity
and go 1t lively while they were young" Notwith.
standing this assurance OF the life giving god there
were many Thomas Didymusses among the horse
loving fraternity who thought it prudent thing to
take the parachute puviute "a capital word that,
with them.
- ON THE ROAD.
At eleven O'Clock all those ladies who are fond OF
equine sport had their tedious and mysterious toilets
completed, and accompanied by their fathers broth
soan ohn nT n Wehe ready lor the
his arms placed meeky on his fore arms as II he
were in pious mood-the very latest wrinkle In
nunkeydom and highly patr0nized by snobdom)-the
elegant barouche drawn by spanking grays, the dog
cart with chestnuts a-tandem the phaeton har.
messed to snowy bays, or the family carriage, with
high stepping, well fed blacks commenced bowling
along.
THE CARRIAGE ROADS IN THE PARK,
taking, as the drivers preferred, the eastery or
westerly avenues northward.
About midday the roads in the Park were well
filled with every Imaginable class Of conveyance
short Of butchers cart or an apple vender's wagon,
and really splendid sight 1t was 10 those who love
to be among horses and see them move rapidly and
gracefully over the smooth roads, The Park passed
through, Harlem lane, the Eighth avenue and Cen.
these were-from the verantias OF the hotels by the
way, where the athlrst 'drew up" for refreshment-
to be occupied by handsome turnOuts there
are anywhere to be seen In the world Indeed, it
is a question among those who claim to have some
knowledge OF the horse as he Is seen IN the great
Manhattan in size. beauty OF form and elegance of
speed. But look, here are
coming toward u.s. Mr.. Belmont's bays-four finely
matched creatures, attached to his elegant but some
those in the vehicle OF Mr.. Felowes also bays,
which is said passed everything the
sn d Se oesy cns ns
but mas no Of psed os the
In this quartet were but ndiferently matched. The
near horse was dark brown, while his companion
was Of lghtest red and their step was different.
leaders the more glarng. While the four-inh hand OF
MIR. Feiowes entered the grand gateway entrance
the Club House, followed shortly afterwards by those
OF Mr.. Houten.
on the road there were a.tandens, in spans or
sngly, attached TO every form OF carriage whether
built for convenience or show-and there are many
Of the latter kind--"came," Bryant remarks in
be ihrongn all filed with bright ancipaons OF an
uncquaed days sport" nor were they dsap
pointed.
THE BIooMMsDALE ROAD.
There are old fogies among us-there are those
WHO VIII not forget "the days o. aud lany syne,"
when Ia their youth, IN the heyday Of their man.
hood, the PARK was not and nags OF the 240 kind
were considered good to go,n when their wild
oats were being sown,n when Cato's was place OF
resort for horse'talk and juleps and the Blooming
dale road an insitution-and these veterans
would persist IN traversng the old way yesterday on
their tourney TO Westcheser county There were not
many OF them-for the ancient Keyser race OF sports
have either died out or are at home nursing the gou
but these tried TO rejuvenate their looks a. they
pointed out many place where, "in the days when
we went eipsying,n good fellows smiled and many a
dollar was lost and won on an ifnproinptu scrub
race OF some other Lively suggestion wherewth TO
XIII time and change the ownership of state bank
money-greenbacks, OF course had not even been
dreamed OF then nor was the telegraph wire much
OF an institution Those were the halcyon days for
dale road here kneedeep with mud ana there
'dry as brick bat,n yesterday until they
reached kingsbrldge, despising the more exalted
structure at Maconlb's Dam. Thence Climbing
the rather steep hill on the westchester side,
they succeeded in getting into the old road and to
the Park In the good old way, without looking al
the broad carriage ways which were open 10 them
between Fftyninth and 10th streets or the avenues
70 the north thereof Decidedly Bloomingdae road
Ia not what IL II e running TO ruin. Its holes
are rarely repaired and the dust or mud, az
lies ana accumulaies from month TO month and from
season To season. The Park has killed the Blooming
dale road. Cato is dead ana fts giories nave de
parted and thus OF II, as OF so many other good
things may be written, SIC transit gloria nufdt.
JEROME PARK AND COURSE.
The Park per se, was In nne feather yesterday
Thousands Of ladies' and gentlemen were present :
witness the races and TO these may be added, TO d
up the background OF the picture, thousands or car
rages and horses and coachmen and footmen anc
others OF the yellow plushn order or MANHOOD
The Club House was thronged at an early hour b.
those who had the distinguished honor or being &c
mtted, and Its galleries filed with "fair ladie
and brave men, who were each and all o
them prepared TO "bet their pile" as tn
vulgar have a., on their favorites. And, u
make the scene more enchanting, more excitin
tthe widow Cquot did the exhilarating), Tn
''muscianers at regular periods tootedr their mos
charming waltzes thereby ITO the lookers-on) provin
that stTaws show which way the wind blew
oS THE GRAND STAND,