The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-25
THE SPRINGFIELD RACES.
Three Finely Contested Contests-Ciose Of
the Seasons Sport.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, August r. 1871.
The fall meeting OF the Springfield Club was con.
Guided today thus closing one Of the most success
full series OF races eyer troted in the country and
the Club has made some money, which they will
probably expend in still further improving the track
and grounds. The attendance numbered fully three
thousand people, and the track little heavy in
consequence Of q copious fall Of rain during last
night.
THE UNFINISHED RACE OF YESTERDAY.
The race for horses that never beat 1850 was left
undecid ed when the sports closed Wednesday night
and was the first on the programme to-day. Car.
penter's Hartford Belle had one heat Dongrey's
Ida Plcton two heats and Maine and Estelle one
In the nth heat St Elmo went or and opened such
lead that 1t looked though ne had 1t all his own
way. but at the upper turn he broke and Belle won
in 2:a5, Jack Poor second, Ida Picron third, St.
The sixth heat was won by St. Elmo, in 2se,
Belle second, Picton third; but Belle brought the
first money home IN the seventh heat, In 1904,
Plcton second, st. Elmo third.
THE FIRST RACE.
horses that never beat ass Tor s7oS and this had
the largest number OF entrles-viz., twenty-and OF
Philips ne s. blk
Little Frank, @. N. Woodwards Oh. g. Com. Nut.
s m HanTess Ro o. E.
sons br. N. Little Emily, William Sherman's b. g.
KsTrsgut Blk blk Re Bran m
the iSs heat osar LED out Sss9n rona
rear or nearly so, Farragut taking the nrst place;
the others strung out one after the other. At the
the 'front.', and won by couple OF lengths in 2:36k
Belle OF Watertown second, Kenney third, Farragut
Newton e9n Gar nnsn Frank tsnss s xnoSet
In the second heat Belle of WATERFOWL went to
the front, and was not headed during the entire
mile, winning easily In 2:32k, HuDtress second,
Emily third. Newton fourth, Kenney nftn, Farragut
sixth, Platter seventh, Mutt and Frank distanced.,
The third heat was won BY Hqntress Platter sec
Kenney nfth, Emily distanced and Farragut drawn.
The fourth heat was won by Huntress, Belle Of
Kenney distanced. Time, 2:31k. Huntress, there.
fore, won nrst money, Belle second and Platter
third.
THE CLOSING CONTEST.
the second and concluding race Of the meeting
better snsn and among the cessn s me men
this was the great event Of the day. The entries
were twelve IN number and Of these those starting
hams b. g. Shepard Knapp, jr, J. L. bOty's br. IN.
Lady augusta, n GarIolls :. 3. Ben starr Ior1erly
Captain e .0B BoS sss Foam n0a and
owners did not want to beat 2:3o and they were
Captain Gill went to the front, followed BY Au-
gusta closely that she took the pole away from
him before the quarter reached, Starr going 10
the second place, where he kept Augusta, winning
by two lengths In 232H.
Tom Keller forced the pace as soon as the horses
were given their word for the second heat; but
Lady Augusta was equal to the occasion, and led an
open length all round TO the head Of the stretch,
where Starr went to The second place and finished
hardly length IN the rear Of Augusta In 2:3Ox,
Keeler third, Dreadnaught fourth, Knapp dis.
tanced
In the third heat Kecler took lead at the start,
Augusta second Starr third Keller breaking at the
lower turn, but not leaving his place, Starr also
acting so badly as 10 send him to the rear On the
homestretch Augusta and Keller both broke Keller
leading over the score and getting the heat in
2:3lH, Augusta second, Dreadnaught third, starr
fourth.
The betting men still stuck to Augusta, and she
was second at the quarter In the fourth and last
heat, Keller leading on the back side. He broke
badly and Augusta went TO the 'front.' where she re-
NAMED, winning by a couple OF lengths In 2:32I.
Keeler second, Dreadnaught third Starr fourth
This ended the sport and the people made haste to
catch the trains Doth east and west