Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-09
H AMERICAN TURF.
RevIsw 0f tbe aaoIna sesson Of Iaes.
Prospects Of the Turf in l870---The New
Race Courses at Long Branch and
Baltimore - The Fashionable
Sires Of the Day.
LON the New York TImea.

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From the New York Times.
A retrospective view Of the racing
season of the year Just closed, and Z
dispassiOnate observation Of the most
prominent events which have distiu.
guished it, may not be without inter.
est to the turfman at the present time.
the running of the past season exer.
cising no little influence on that OF
the coming year. In the Northern
States the turf has attained a higher
degree OF popularity than it ever be-
lore enjoyed, and il is patrOniZed and
supported by men Of the highest So
cial position, intellect and wealth. In
the South, the injury which five years
OF civil war inflicted on the interests
OF the turf, Is being steadily and rap
idly repaired, and most of the popu-
lar racing meetings south of Mason
ana Dlxon's line are again held, and
before long we shall see the Southern
turf as prosperous as it was before the
war. The number Of thorOughbred5
now running on the American turf is
far greater than mt any previous pc
ROD, ana we may with safety say that
they are fa%rsuperiOr in quality. Com
pared with former years, the amount
OF public money now given to be run
Tor at the different race meetings is
UNNECESSARILY greater, and owners of
racing stock have chance O~fsecuring
a remuneratiVe return for the capital
invested in their stables in the purses
and stakes they may win, in addition
to the pleasure they derive from the
indulgence OF their tastes in ''the
sport of Kings" At the Jerome
Park Spring and Fall Meetings, we
lind the American jockey Club giving
in added money over $22,0 900 to be run
for, while Saratoga, at its Summer
Meeting, contributes more than
$4,000 TO promote the enjoyment Of
the visitors. At the approaching
Spring Meeting Of the Buckeye Club,
OF Cincinnati, the princely amount of
$4,000 is given for ten races, and even
this large sum viii be increased at the
Fall Meeting. And here we may OBJ
serve that a broader spirit Of Hberality
pervadeS the Western and Southern
turf associations than the similar rae
ing associations of Saratoga and Je-
rome Park, the former not charging
81 NkAGAAANG6C " AnNA4lo III UIAA2ECa
while the latter muict the owners Of
horses who contribute to the sport and
success of their meetings, of five per
cent. of the whole amount of the
purses entered for. 1t is to be hoped
that this petty tax, which realizes
only an insignificant amount in the
aggregate, utterly unworthy the at
tention of the rich associations above
named, will soon be abolished,
The racing season of 1869 COM
menced with the Magnolia Jockey
Club meeting at Mobile on March 23d.
The star OF Capt. MOOre's stable was
in the ascendant, for he won both the
mile-heat races for tWO-year ODDS with
COHriU, a magnificent looking and
speedy son of Daniel Boone both the
three-year old stakes, mile heats and
two mile heats, with BdyORet: the
twO-mile heat purse with PriUQteer, a
walk over, and the three-miIe heat
a C with the same horse; and two
other races with the "gallant gray"
NOHe2CQU Jackson. Another daughter
of Daniel Boone, named Jennie C., won
the sweepstakes for all ages after a
capital race of six heats. The Me-
taire Jockey Club, at New Orleans,
commenced their meeting on April
I'd, and it was one of remarkable
6rilliance. Capt. Moore was again
successful with COtJjH, who beat Mr..
O'FallOn's flying FLY ALtu VeL0 in the
twO-year race, a dash of mile, with
such ease as stamped him one of the
best colts CT his year. The racefOr the
great Metaire Stake, tWo-mile heats,
$1,000 each, play or pay, with $1,000
added, was productive of unusual in
terest. In the first heat B1yOaet came
home a.length ahead, but a frivolous
objection that he had sWerved against
GitrQY was entertained by the Judges,
and they, allowing their Judgment to
be swayed by personal prejudice and
popular clamOr, distanced Bdyoaet
apd gave the heat to GtrOy. The
next two heats and race were won by
P}dHtagdRet, who beat GikrQy with
great ease. Locust P0sk,a son of Young
IeibOlgHe, won the mile-heat race for
three-year Olds from 0RSheeand Prirq-
teer Won the four-mile heat race. The
mile heats for two year Olds produced
a splendid contest between COttYiU and
4HG Vet1, the former winning in two
heats in the fast time of 1:45f, 1:46E, [
with ninety pounds up. Transit won
the twOsmile hurdle race, over eight
hurdles, in 3:52f, the fastest time on
record for such a race. BGnShes beat
GIrOy and Gen. EiUeH in a tWO-miIe
dash, and BdyOHet, who had been un-
Justly deprived o. the hOnOTs Of vic
tory in the MetaiTie Stake race, beat
PlGHtdgGHet and Locust Post, with per-
feet ease in the three-mile heat race;
time, 5:31, 5:33. The Memphis Meet
ing commenced April Goth, but the
only events worth noting were the
double victories of Ontario, a daugh-
ter OF imported Bonnie Scotland, and
Little hack, by imported Eclipse,
who has redeemed the stock of the
from the imputatiOn of being
1On-stayers, for no distance seems too
lar for him. The Nashville Meeting
commenced May 18th. Riot, the first
the famous RbiR0dype's stock that
has been out, winning his maiden
race of mile heats in excellent time.
The Cumberland Stake No. / intro
iuced us to Hsrz0gand Versailles, two
promising three-year Olds by RaHddi;
inc former commenced that brilliant
career which vas only interrupted by
his death six months later, by win
ming the race in two heats in I:464,
:46f, which IS very fast time on
he Nashville Course. The week after,
HerzOg came out at the Louisville
meeting, and won the mile-heat race
or t~hree-year Odds; CrOSStdndand On
laFiO being respectively successful in
he tWO-mile heat and mile heat races.
a week later, HerzOg met
with his first and only defeat in the
Phoenix Stake at Lexington, KY,
where he was beaten by Pompey
in l:47-l:44t. Grassland pur-
,ued his victorious career here by
winning two races at tWO-mile heats 4
and three-mile heats in good company,
and E.cch0I1ge gave evidence of that
merit which his subsequent
confirmed, by winning the
Green Stakes for three-year ODDS in four
heats, in I:4S-I:444-l:46-l:j0. But
he most interesting event Of the meet
ng was the meeting OF FaaQGES two
-enOWned sons, POHlpey Payne and
VerSaiUeS with Dublin, (since re-
named Hetm60td), in the Citizens
two mile heats, for three-year
lids. Pompey PANE was the fav0rite
It two to one, and after he won the
irst heat in 3;39f, much longer odds
we're laid ON him. Dublin won the
ecOnd heat in 3:484, and Versailles the
bird and fourth heats and the race,
being second in both. 1t was