The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-18
Vast Attendance Of Bellies, BeauX, Turf
men, Country Lads and LaSSes.
sARAToGA's GREATEST DAY.
Tammany the Winner Of the Steeple Chase,
A. Keene Richards Bay Filly the
Kentucky Stakes, and Climax
the Selling Race, One and
Three-Quarter Mile.


crush that overlooked the grand stand this morn
ing TO greet the racers Of the day. ltwould seem
that some invisible hand mad scooped up all Sara
toga's coating population and emptied them In
bunch, ana the result a terrific tumult Long be-
fore eleven O'Clock the beauty OF the village and
the neighboring country enthroned In all Its mag
nihcence and womanly grandeur were being
driven In style to the course and these
fair faces were aglow with anticipated pleasure for
n was known TO them all that the race they loved
bes,-the SteepIe Chase-w0uld come on, with many
contestants IL is easy to In place like this,
and under such circumstances, that you meet many
csegsnt ladies, and how tenderiy their admirers
watch over them and all thai, and yet not be con-
sradicted II t were not true the Gospel nut
when the fact 1t Ia pleasant TO chronicle
II; and thus say but few ever saw more fair faces
all types OF faces, faces with mirth bubblng all
over them faces with mischief standing out in bold
characters, and faces, too, full Of thought
and rejection in every feature-women with
scarlet, threaded lips, elegantly rounded lips and
cheeks with mingled ivory and roseate hues-wo-
with roDes the trlumphs Of The nlOdistes' art,
lourneying early to the sports OF the day. In car
riages sandwiched between silken Innings, were the
rougher element In great numbers, the whole caval
rade presenting wonderful sight.
Among those the grand stand groups you
seldom notice here. Back rom the woods they
racing and mayfair risk dollar or two upon the
favontes. There family OF this character
almost at my elbow Just the reporters railing.
A hOmespun farmer, indeed is the head and front
Of the cluster and he has such an innocent
face YOU pause and LOOK at IL for more than mo-
ment. OF the ms and outs OF the turf this man is
Just ignorant babe unborn, but then there g
satisfaction painted all over his features IL is a
fair wager that no happier heart to-day viii look at
xl.. tl,a
thousands here longer remember them end oftener
refer to- them in the long winter evenings TO come
sitting as he and his family VIII, beside the genial
log ire in their country home. With this honest.
faced farmer, beside his wife ana younger children,
n his daughter Just approaching womanhood. She
IL young and fair as the flowers that grow her
native woods, sweet as pleasant dream, and her
teeth are as pure as pearls and her exquisitey
modelled form like the young sapiings that grow
by her father's door.
Father" she says, as her ungloved hands, dell
cate as an Expresses rests upon his brawny snou-
Ger, arn't those jockeys sweet Look at the little
fellows in blue ana white and orange. Father. I
wonder If that splendid King John viii win? Is 1t
cruel to run them so9 Poor fellows Wouldn't
some OF them Jockeys father, be good to ride over
rough roads at night on horseback, out our wayY
They'd always stick. wouldn't theyf And, father,
Oh do just look at tins grand stand Isn't 1t beauti
ful dream and don't all these elegant ladies
look Just ike the hahlias In little garden that
hoe in' Why, Pop, didn't know there were SO many
nne clothes In the world these people must have
great deal Of money. Why, up with us, you know,
Pap we wouldn't see dress like one OF these In
Ami these men splenddiy dressed and how differ.
ont they are from Tom and Dick, In their worn
here tney seem ali to look as If they never worked
and always lived in splendid places with these
fatner This will last lifetime and Tue beauty OF
the backwO0ds wiped tear from her long iashes
and looked out into vacancy In the direction OF the
Bere are also score or more OF school girls ap. |
parenty who are enjoying part OF their vacation IN
How they chatter and look at the jockeys and
laugh at the stable boys, black'as ebony, who are
sfJing the rails OF the quarterstretch Ike nes
on a molasses hogshead, laughing In turn az their
unfortunate friends and yelling at victorious rdersl
While look at all this beauty ard splendor an
old sport at my elbow. standing on the lawn, en-
claims In gusn OF happiness
'Ihis day discounts anything In the history OF
Saratoga IT beats the best OF them, and the scene
Is WONDERFUL
Everything, STR"
Eyes, everything. ! have been here for years.
Seen The best OF them Stood here and admired the
great Kentucky In his noble work that to-day, SIR,
stands at the top sir, and / have thanked God that
many people a mighty multitude, here then, but
this vast gathering land my friend grew eioquenO
SURPRISES awning IN the history OF TINS association
richness anything that has ever occurred here Oh
she running course"
And tnlnk SIR, you should feel gratlfed al being
Able 10 witness such sight"
81 am, sr.n
$50 am /, and won't you join me IN cordial
'pall In honor OF If"
can't JUST now.n
swell, won't lie, the opportunity pass; so by-byn
Iairer and more sparkling field never btheld IN
the pure summer morning than the steeplechdse
grounds clear Nay atmosphere famed the
heated brow the emerald grass sparkled in the
bright sunlight, the white ana red 1ags marking the
WIND, and the faron hill portion OF the Green
Mountain range never looked grander and more
mAgnlhcent Couple this view with the picturesque
INCLUDE In the scene the OF the racers
ana yeu have picture, hurredly ana BREEZY given,
that may suggest ts beauty.
when the Jockeys were mounted 1--WE thousand
voices buzzed with delight, and when the nag fell
fence nve thousand hearts nuttered with excite.
meDt AS the first leap p made the cheers OF APP
against the Tar hills that looking down upon the
multitude IN eternal silence. have never seen Just
~ much enthusiasm over a steeple chase. When
sliessn and King John stumbled and lell, and The
Jockeys An all their sparkling attres were rolled over
fenage IKE December gush Of wind a. bur when
they Knew no bad results had attended the misnaps |
bounds. VV"' Nn'" ho
iammany is the name Of the crazy racer tn2.
went IN the three mile contes,'heli to epi,t ever
te ur as one Of The recent poets mas t and
harness. IL LOBSTER 70 these lightning rteeple
''will Tsmmany win TITS time: can ne como IN
thhe 'front.' once mOrefn shouted The wile OF a nolI
tHcisn, as all enthusiastically shook their handser
tphIefs.
Yes he viii win again; zee him n 10 the front.
~, ha ba ~ cried her uusbard, and wben the crazy
Sscer passed under the wire victor IGnd acc ann
1yeeled the green VI mis- rider and every body seem
SMASHED.
met old Jake SomerindyEe on the course this
mrninR Now, n there IS any one OF the boys u -
ma 10 analyze IL Is Jake. lie dates back more N an
han a century aud to-day has more vim in him tnan
ope-a1 the men just out OF their teens. Jake Is n
pooi seller, anu good one. Fleetwood PARK, That
nss,ns 80 sweetly N the shadow OF norrlsanla is
MI nome MS scene OF operations, and you ask Bon
net, IAN COruandt or TaInan what they would
NE pest 10 hear on the track, and pnkesiratingy,
" u my opinion, they wI tell you yaAes "Bere we
ihere n mol much elegance about SomeriDdyke's
faL but u IS as POSITIVE face can well be Imag
Inca lie II made as nrm as II moulded from iron,
and, u TIE truth we're known, venture his muscles
are ". as knoted az If they belonged TO a black
smith. Ia temper JAKE is pleasan enough and for
CColnesS 10 " unsurpassed lie ha3 a pertipaoious
bach bone and excellent chest and about race
horses KD6 ws thing on two. ] have met I'm MANY
places this lld timer aud ne Is always tue same