The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-26


From the Mobile Register. 2lth.l
As Privateer promenaded over the track for the
$500 purse, while We were solacing our losses
consequent upon not having bet upon the favor.
ie) with tongue. oysters, ham, cold round OF
beef, turkey. salad. chicken gumbo, sometLng-ac,
lucerne, Tor sauterne. some kind Of food, any
how, and MonoDgahela, we consider il unneces-
sary to notice any but the only race We saw.
which was the only race that was, and that was
the purse given by the Tuscaloosa Association In
compensation for the stake which didn't flor
rather which did fill. but the bottom dropped aud
it ran out. 1t was en- elegant field entirely which
started for the money, and the order OF the start
was as follows: First false start-Transit not
starting at all-next, after all the horses were
brought back, particularly the Revenue steed.
which was under q rider In green jacket. and
consequently went little too far-the whole
field sent off handsomely, the green jacket
10 the lead. having the inside OF the track, with
the outside horse of sl-ard she was
mare named Mary Mcdonald = close
up with him; Transit hanging close on her quar-.
ters-there was two or three against the field
laid on TranssDd Mollie Ingersoll closing the pro-
cession. Not that 1t was much like funeral, all
the horses requiring hard pull to make them OBJ.
serve the prophecies, and by the time they could
understand the suggestion they were ell In q pile
just behind Mary Mcdonald whose nose crossed
the quarter post in % seconds. IL Ia of little
TO tell how they went down the back side of the
course, as Mary was leading all the time, aud the
others close together that nobody but the riders
will undertake TO place the rest and they won't
agree: hut however it was. they made the half
mile IN OF 4, snd kept ruuna Tho turn n ebout tho
same ORDER but just at the head of the home
stretch Nellie Ingersoll took the lead. of which
Transit soon deprived her and came in ahead by q
length, Louis f. Smith, followed by Mary Melon
aid, coming close behind them in 1:52.
Second Hedt.-As q certain distinguished and
since lamented parsonage remarked, nobody was
hurt nevertheless, the Revenue colt, who is about
the prettiest horse ever seen on the track since
his kin of the revenue strain was permitted to
withdraw under plea of bronchitis or something
of the sort, and the remaining horses. after the
statutary time. called up and sent of in good
order the bay FLY In the lead. with Transit close
on her shoulder and Mollie lngersol not half her
length behind. The irst quarter was run slow
20 seconde-Transit and Mollie Ingersoll falling
back together, and there was real difference Of
position down TO the back stretch, where Transit
brushed the FLY twice, but permitted her to pass
the half mile post ahead in 81 seconds After this
they drew closer together, in an effort to decide
to whom the heat ought 10 belong, but gave il up
again. and the rearmOst horses dropped back, but
without breaking the chain, which left no day.
light between the links. SO far much time had
been lost, and the best time of the race was made
on the swing, ss shown by all the horses being
thrown widely TO the outside of the track Transit
(whsn their positions could be fairly deiermined)
being fsrihest out and ahead. This position he
kept and finished the race wiDner by three lengths
over Mollie Ingerso, in the same time as the fret
mile.