The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-27
THE SHERTOOD R4CES.
IrRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,

FROM OUR OWN COREESPoSDbsI.I
BARSwELL, S. c., December %.
The fret race OF the meeting was mile heats;
thirty dollars entrance, club 10 add one hun
dred dollars For this race there We're three
entries, as follows: General Hagood entered
chestnut mare Sundown. FIVE years Old by
Congaree. dam by Red Eagle; Mr. T. H. Wood,
of Augusta, entered bay colt jim Hinton.
four years old, by Rodgers. dam unknown;
Mr. Alfred Aidrch entered buy colt Bill
Storey, FIVE years old, By Congaree, dam,
Julia Cooper.
This was pretty race. The horse who had
come from distance Was the tavorite. at odds
of two to cne against the deli. and Jim Hinton
was offered pretty freely just before the tap of
the drum at odds Of three 10 one, without
takers.
Tue horses came to the stand as follows:
Spndown next the post, Jim Hinton cond,
Bill stoney third, the outside. They got OF
fairy at the first call. Jim Hinton taking the
lnsiGe almost Immediately, and keeping 1t for
one-,hird of the miie, when Bill Stoney chal-
lenged him and passed with ease. keeping the
lead to the end OF the heat. and winning the
same in 2.5t.
At the call o! the judges for the second heat.
jim Hinton and Bill Sloney only came to the
post. They got of even. and ran very prettily
together for i've hundred yards nearly locked.
when Bill Stoney drew out ahead, gradually
widening the gap. until he passed under The
string three lengths In front of the stranger,
winning the heat In 2.2i, and the race.
The next day very pretty race Of dash Of
three quarters ot mile was run. SlO0 en-
trance, making purse OF $500 to the winning
horse. The entries were Bill Sloney and Jim
Hinton. by their respective owners, and
chestnut colt. four years old. by General Ha-
good. The colt was little the favorie in the
pools. The horses came 10 the pest in the Or
der named: Chesnuticolt, first; Jim Hinton,
second; Bill Sloney, at his old stand, on the
outside. They got off at the 1rst attempt ran
about two thirds of the way all together, with
Jim Hinton in the lead. Coming zap the home
stretch, Jim Hinton and BIZ S,oney gradually
drawing away from the colt and passing un-
der the stIiDg c,ose together, with Jim Hinton
in the lead, winning the race in LIS.
In this race Bill Stoney ran under disadvar-
tags difficult 10 overcome. He carried q
rider cut Of Jim Hinton's stable, having lent
his own Jockey 10 the chestnut colt Of General
Hagood with the laudab,e object of contrib
uting to the sport, and confident in his prowess
to rise 10 emergencies. This race seemed TO
be an illustration Of the apothegn, 'The race
Is not always 10 the swift" aud, In the express
sive language OF Bill Stoney's owner, and the
friend oi Bill Nye, They played 1t that day
upon William and ME in way l despse."
The hackers of Bill Stoney offered to run this
race over the next day for five hundred
dollars, or at any time in the future, but on
the morrow they we're grieved 10 learn that
Jim Hinton and party "had folded their tents
like the Arabs and silently stolen away
On the third and last day there were few
scrub races only. We are glad to learn that
the meeting on the Sherwood Track next year
will take place during the county fair in Octo-
Der, as the weather in December Is too cold to
make the attendance large or enthusiastic.
Now AND THEN.