New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-15

may lunch before no climbs TO the roof lunch Is
of the solemnties Of the day. After up
some people eat there and, they packed into
carriages whence they could neither see they
had apparently other way of passing the time than
IN unpacking. emptying, and repacking hampers.
In the dining OF the Grand Stand you have your
choice between lunchng sandwiches at pence and
dinners at six shngs piece The principal difference
between the two is in the walters At six pence the
sandwich is handed to you counter by heavy
man in a morning frock At six shillings you get the
sandwich in its elementary form Of beef and bread
served by man in dresscoat and white cravat, who
may be either country parson waiter or possibly
billiard marker from Regentst There is bottled beer
double the London price, and aerated liquid in wired
bottles sold for the price of Roederer and MORE which
the man in white cravat with engaging candor calls
"sham. Some hundreds of people are unching in one
way or the other; other hundreds looking uneasy on
and finally deciding do to make for the roof while
there is yet time
IL is from the roof that first clearly how the
attendance has fallen of. No doubt the weather has
something to do with it, gray sky and threatening
clouds have kept plenty OF prudent persons away and
FOR those who are here have dued the bancy OF the
scene At its best it is lovely landscape to-day
there are only moments of struggling sunshine TO light
up the valleys and bring out the tender green hues that
fringe the downs. The mass of foliage that lies
right imPenetrabe; let the burst upon it and its
used TO be covered with carriages there is room
I9r twice as many as are scattered about. Spite
TUNES of Summer. but like the trees and the grass
they look iahed and poor The course that have
ack Win people three hours before the is only half
mle1 Even the betting ring looks empty Such car
RACES as there were lacked splendor and the fine ap
pOtment which used TO be The Engshmans pride TO
show on Derby day. In the private stands there were
some familiar and famous faces The Prince Of Wales,
me frlnce OF Teck and the King of the Begans
there much more important person than either was
Mr. Gladstone, who made it is said his first appearance
on any race-cOuTse His going down was announced
with curious flourish in one of the morning papers,
which has before covered eminent Of simple
"A ion tl1t
would be ridiculous in court journal. Lord Gran
stand may be most of tho faces of called NOBLE
whose names stand high in the pcerage and the turf and
nowhere else. But begin 10 believe that the aceconrse
is doomed that the turf has seen its most splendid days.
and that decent respect for the opinion of mankind will
yet do for gambling horses what it did in the first half
of this century in England for gambling with cards
make it as disreputable is immoral Then suppose
the men who cant live without the excitement of fash
ionable rascaity will invent and popularze some other
means of going to the devil at railroad pace.
Ihere was race before the Derby but never MIND
that Nobody pays much attention to IL except the ring
II II Is your FIRST race IS worth looking at for You may
see shining horses and siken jackets IN any Other pace
as well as in the Derby. don't wonder that men and
are epd dSG6 OF hide t e s
need wonder at the thrill Ofexpectation which begins
There are men who have waited year for it; who
began to think about 1t, and speculate on
race was over There are men whose lives
and fortunes depend the next half hour; who will be
lose, and whose only will be wreched lodging
on the hillside ut Bouogne for the rest of their miser
whom the event means comfort pcnury credit for the
future or hopeless obscurt the imperial prize OF the
turf which to them is than the great prizes of poll
tics or lettersf they win They are mad and foolish II
filling that vast crowd which nobody can wholly resist.
hate the whole business to which these men have de-
voted Themselves but when the decisive moment comes
the OdiOus and base side of it is fOrgotten-Oy for the
moment.
The bell rings for clearing the coursc-rngs steadily
and almost senly for many long minutes; tolls for this
OF hell il tolls for another service in villages
far away when the broad green circle is clear the
horses out for their walk past the stand followed by
the cauter and then by the slow procession from the
slowly through the to point where the white
rails mark the beginning OF the course: There is one
false start, which true one succeeds with niue dcay
The swayng line of scarlet and yellow and white that
ing mass and fourteen horses ana rdcs went nady ~
the hill together. There is no real race III
slow, which means that a race of a mile
and half takes few seconds longer than has some
SonGe8aS into the two minutes and threcdnartci
which those superb creaturesI mean the horses, not
their ridersspend In covering the Derby course Hun
tngton If possible less than do about the result
but he Gonfesses atr ~ s UT9 me n me eu III Inc "nt
toward faster than the horses that Macgegor
Fordham' who lost the Derby on Lady Elizabeth and
don't know how many horses beside, is riding the
favOrite Furnishing meTcilcssly with lash and spurs an
exhausted, painting, reeking hOpecssy beaten horse,
rolling all the cOursea that is left of the magn-
cent animal which three minutes ago was the pride
of his owner and the trusted favOrite the turf
pose FOrdham doing what racing man would call
his duty. There will day when the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty 10 Animals will he strong
enough do is duty also, and force an unwilling mdgls
Iate to apply the penalty which the law lnhcs on
man who fortunes his horse MacgregOr was beaten
quarter of mile from home Two horses almost IN
heard Of, Palmerston and Muster, struggled between
them for the prize which MacgegOr had lost but Just al
the distance Kiugcraft, till then kept i'll mana by MS
rider came with tremendous rush. cutting down every
thing before him. passing Palmerston ana Muster ana
winning finally in canter. 1t all passes IKE naSl
The race lost and apparently won and then lost AGAIN
and then finally by Kingcraft all III perhaps hteeh
seconds. -,
Everybody has good word for Lord Falmouth, the
owner of Kingcraft, and will add nine II is agreed
thai he is an owner of horses without being bet
ting man; that his horses for the honor OF We
tory: that lose to win money; ana thht
he wins this merely the Derby stakes (wOrth from
six To seven thousand pOunds), plus only few sOVe
sions gained i'm bets. / am very willing and happy Ia
believe all that. And since II Is contrary 10 the Gus
tom Of the Turf 10 be remarkable THINK no criticism
than to praise Lord Falmouth because lie does OteI-
wise. " W. %