The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-07-29
The Great Race ut Saratoga.
Saratoga, duly 14) Correspondence New
York Herald.

tx n Vie Oh HORSE
iesh, Longfellow, out of his stable, and
walked him around in front of the
grand stand, and in a moment was sur
rounded by scores, who praised and
cheered his magnificent appearance.
Then followed Belmont's I<ingtiSher,
with an ace of spades Ethiopian on his
back, and the rivals We're together for
an instant. Now there came II lull in
the babbling half of the immense crowd |
and the faint murmur of many voices |
died away over the fields in whisper,
which struck the opposite buildings,
and rippled the foliage like an April
gush of wind. There was Il short quiet,
however, while many Il LongfellOW
mans heart ftuttered in his bosom, and
every LOngfeliow girl blushed to the
temples. The white and red flags of
the inner field waved softly in the
south breeze waiting across it. Hush
The bugle calls the jockeys to mount,
and Robby Swim, in his orange and
red, leaps on the noble Longfellow's
back; and Billy Palmer, in maroon and
red, did likewise to I<ingfsher. They
gallop up and down II moment and
proceed to the head of the stretch pre-
paratory to taking positions for the
start, and then are hailed with loud
acclaim. There is another short wait,
flag in the hands of genial Whcatly
ready to drop in the horses faces. /
know what excitement there is, for fair
ones and their rougher companions arc
murmuring aloud: ttLongfcliow ~
"Longfellow ;" go, Longfellow 20
never knew such enthusiasm as was
displayed by the friends of orange and
red. 'By jimminy tricket - cried a
pious man, tsthey are Off! They are Off
rs sure as you livc!'' And Off they had
gone, like an arrow from Il bow, or the
whiz of q rifle bullet.
Now, knglishcr, good animal, strain
your sinews, for this may be the hard
est race ever known for you and Long
= fellow; do your best, for thousands of
bright eyes are bcaming on you and
thousands of soft cheeks are glowing
With pIcasurable pride as your hooEs
strike the ground. Yes, there she is,
OH one of the upper seats, more rosy
than II pink-tipped shell, my Tamma-
ny beauty of yesterday, taking all
: hearts by her delicious smiles and the
tiny hands at Lon"fellow. She is hap
Ply to-day, as her E,voritc viii win.
tLongfellow's aheah!'' eI4ongfrl-
lows aheldv' cry y thousand throats,
and sure enough the noble brown is
ahead ut the end of the first quarter;
and away he FORCES, his limbs working
like the piston rods of an engine, and
the ground seems toquiver as he strikes
it. "Do you see that noble, splendid
stride?" ssOh, what II nice stride -
cries Ansetf, the coIored trainer of Cen
erai Buford, to me, rs they pass by the
stand for the first time. "Iiow much's
that miie?" "Why, t:io, say the
Judges eGrt.tt--." uIio!'' long
fellow now begins to show his speed
and the jockey his skill in the way he
pulls ahead of kingiisher, who never
ceases his work. But, alas ! for him,
LongfelloW is going over the ground
many more feet every lick than he, and
it's only child's play. "Brlvo! bravo!
Bobby SWIM" shouts Il massive X en-
tuckian, and half Il dozen men of like
ilk embrace each other in the Widest
frenzy, while the girls wave their hand
kcrchiefs and actually cry aloud.
ooh oh! oh! this is the biggest
thing / ever saw shouts another strap
ping, big-framed Southerncr Sixteen
more friends ofthc orange and red now
embrace, and even pound each other
in sheer joy. t'Say, Palmer, why the
devil don't you hit him up? Hit him
upH' cry the sullen Kingiisl1er men.
stNcver mind" says a Longfellow
man. "Old Harper is doing all the
nILIInS up Today. css, from CenH
to eend, shouts another. And it looks !
like it. The homc-strctch has been |!
reached and the battle is almost lost !
and won now. The friends of Long
fellow are uproarous, and shout and !
caper and offer one hundred to ten, one
hundred to eight, and feel chagrincd
that they cannot get another cent on
the race. A few seconds more clapsc
and the heads of the horses are at the
nearest distance stand. + can Just sec
the jockey of Kingfishcr, and he looks
as if he wanted to die on that animals
back. 1t is no use to whip him, to cut
him, Palmer; you arc beaten badly;
Bobby Swim has you in his foiis, and
LongfellOw goes along as easily us if
the victory was already won, and the
cheers ofhis sympathizers drown every
other noise.
The horses pass the judges stand like
the bolt of a q cannon ball, Longfcllow
leading with case five lengths, and the
grand stand RACES and boils and surgcs
to and fro like a convulsed sea.
Longfellow's victory over kinriishcr
stamps him the fastest horse that !,
America ever produced, and if he is
now retired from the race course he will ;
be a fortune for his owner for stud pur-
poses. Tho time made, however, in
Urls racc-f:02I-is not as fast as that
made by Kentucky on this course some
years since by Il second and Il half, but c
thefe Is no doubt that had Lonw(rIIoyv {
peen pressed the last mile ofthc race he f
cOnld have beaten Keuttrky,S Tim, +,