Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-08
THE RACING SEASON OE 1884.

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The racing season of 1869 commenced
with the Magnolia JockeSaClub meeting at
Mobile on March 90. The star of CAPTAIN
| Moore stable was il the ascendant. for he
| won both the mile heat races for two-year
olds with Cottrill, magnificent looking
| and speedy sen Of Daniel Boone: both the
three-year old stakes, mile heats and two
mile heats, with Bayonet; the two-mile
| heat purse with Privateer, walk over, and
| the three-nnhe heat race with the same
| horse; and two other races with the ''gal-
| liant gray" Stonewall jackson. Another
| daughter of Daniel Boone, named Jennie
G., won the sweepstakes for all ages after
capital race of six heats. The Metairie
Jockey Club, at New Orleans, commenced
their meeting on April 3, and it was one of
remarkable brilliance. Captain Moore was
again successful with Cottrill, who beat
Mr.. OFallon's flying FLY Alta Vela in the
two-year race, dash of a mile, with such
ease as stamped him one of the best colts
OF his year. The race for the great
Metairie Stake, two-mile heats
81 900 each, play or pay, with
$1,000 added, was productive of IN
usual interest. In the first heat Bayonet
came home length ahead, but frivolous
! objection that he had swerved against Gil
roy was entertained by the judges, and
they, allowing their judgment to beswayed
by personal prejudice and popular clamor,
dlstanced BayOnet and gave the heat to
Gilroy. The next two heats and race were
won by Plantagenet, who beat Gilroy with
great ease. Locust Post, a son of Young
Melbourne, won the mile-heat race for
three-year ODDS from Banshee, and Priva-
teer won the four-mile heat race. The
mile heat race for two-year Olds produced
a splendid contest between Cottrill and AL
ia Vela, the former winning in two heats
IN the fast time of 1:454, 1:4GI. with nine
ty pounds up. Transit won the two-mile
hurdle race, over eight hurdles, in 1921,
the fastest time on record for such a race
Banshee beat Gilroy, and General Ewell in
two-mlle dash, and Bayonet, who had
been unjustly deprived of the hOnors of
victory in the Metairie Stake race, beat
Plantagenet and Locust Post with perfect
! ease in the three-mile heat race
| time, 5:3l, 5:33. The Memphis Meeting
commenced April 90, but the only events
worth noting were the double victories of
Ontario, daughter of imported Bonnie
Scotland, and of Little Mack, by imported
| Eclipse, who has redeemed the stock Of the
latter from the imputation of being non
stayers, for no distance seems too tar for
him. The Nashville Meeting commenced
on May l. Riot, the first Of the famous
RhinOdynes stock that has been out win
| ming his maiden race of mile heats in ey-
cellent time. The Cumberland Stake No.
| l, introduced us to Herzog and Versailles
two promising three-yeaT olds, by Yandal
the former commenced that brilliant ca
reer which was only interrupted by his
| death six months later, by winning the
race In two heats in 1:465, 1:46!, which is
very fast time on the Nashville Course.
The week after, Herzog came out
| at the Louisville Meeting, and
| won the mile heat race Tor three-vesr
olds; Grassland and Ontario being respec-
| lively successful in the twO-mile heat and
mile heat races. Exactly a week later
| Herzog met with his first and only defeat
| IN the Phoenix Stake at Lexington, Ky,
where he was beaten by Pompev PAYNE
in 1:47, 1.44t. Grassland pursued his
victorious career here by winning two
| races at two-mle heats and three-mile
heats IN good company, and Exchange
| gave evidence of that racing merit which
subsequent running confirmed, by win
ming the Green Stakes for three-year olds
in four heats, in LIS, 1:f4S, 1:46, 15O. But
the most interesting event of the meeting
was the meeting of Vandal's two renowned
sons, Pompey Payne and Versailles with
Dublin, (since renamed Helmbold, in the
! Citizens Stakes, two mile heats, for three
year Odds Pompey Payne was the favo-
rite at two to one, and after he won the
first heat in $780,, much longer odds were
laid on him. Dublin, won the second
heat in 3:4S4, and Versailles the third and
fourth heats and the race, Dublin being
second in both. 1t was shortly after this
race that both Pompey Payne and Dublin
became the property of Mr.. W Il Bah
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