Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-12
The Buffalo Races.

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| The Buffalo Races.
BUFFALO, N. Y, August 1.-THE
sixth annual meeting of the Buffalo
Driving Park closed to-day. Gold.
smith Maid made the fastest time on
record, in three straight heats, by one
| quarter of a second. Over twenty
thousand persons were on the ground,
while a majority of the crowd were
drawn in anticipation of a close con-
| test between Goldsmith Maid, Lucy
and American Girl and were amply
| repaid in the result; yet, contrary to
all expectation, the 2.40 race proved
equally interesting and exciting,
/ Judge Brigham, 0nparattively new
/ horse, making a splendid record, win
ming the race in four heats
and making the first quarter in
81 seconds and the halt mile in 106
seconds. Immediately after winning
the race the owner of Judge Brigham
was sent for and the horse was bought
by George G. Hall for $50, 900 for Jay
Gould. The purchaser says that one
hundred thousand dollars will not
! buy him to-day. Judge Brigham is a
bay stallion, eight years old, by Rys-
dicks Hambletonian out of Lady Ian.
| ford. by American Star.
The first race called was for horses
that had never beaten 2 40. Thirteen
horses were entered, but only six
started, Denmark, Logan, Huntress,
Long Branch. Sentinel, Ed. Higgins
and Glare g. being Withdrawn. Over
three, quarters of an hour was lost in
scoring before the horses got a good
send of. Judge Fullerton took the
lead and kept the inside round the
track in the first heat hard pressed by
Brigham. The three following heats
were won.
The Brigham race was highly inrer-
esting, and intensely exciting. After
leaving the half mile post on the last
heat, Brigham broke and Fullerton
shot tw nty lengths ahead, but Brig
ham came down TO a trot and over
took Fullerton at the three. quarter
post and came in half length
ahead.
Summary.-Purse No. 8, 5000 for
horses that had never trOtt'd better
thans2 40; three thousand dollars to
first, one thousand to the second, sew
en- hundred to the third and three
hundred dollars TO the fourth. Judge
Brigham, 2, l, l, 1; Judge Fullerton,
1. 2, 2, 2; J. 81, Burke, 3, 3,
8; Ashland Pet, 6, 4; distanced,
Frank Hobart, 4, distanced; Vosburg,
5, distanced. Time, 2.253, %, 2.224,
2.26.
The great race of the day was trot-
ted alternately with the 2.40 race.
The three heats by Goldsmith Maid
were trotted without skip or break,
uEBtil the last heat, when she was
crowded from beginning to end by
Lucy, who Tapped her through; but
after one of the most closely con-
tested heats ever witnessed, in which
she only made two quick breaks-one
at the start and one on the home
stretch. On coming to the start on
the second heat, the left rein of Gold
smith was broken; she started to run,
when Budd Dable, her driver, per-
formed an astonishing feat by seizing
the back strap and jumping astride of
the mares back, seizing the check
rein and bringing her to stand-still
before she had gone many lengths
beyond the judges stand. This Incl
dent won additional hOnOrs for Dable
and his Thoroughbred animal.
Summary.-Purse No. 8, five thous-
and dollars for all horses-three thous-
and dollars, three thousand dollars,
fifteen hundred dollars, five hundred
dollars and twenty-five hundred dol
lars additional to the horse making
the fastest time, providing it beats
Dexter's time, 2.174. Goldsmith
Maid, l. l, /; Lucy, 2, 2, 2; American
Girl, 3, 3, 8. Time, 2.19f, 2.19l, 2.19.
Charles Bruxton, M. P, of England,
is dead.
The hotels of Boston are over
crowded.
Lydia Thompson has arrived from
England.
Harlan, the great defeated of Ken
tucky left for Missouri "on business"
Mayor Davis, of Cincinnati, is visit
ing the municipal authorities of New
York.
The Masonic meeting at Baltimore,
it is expected, will be grand affair
and fully successful.
Thomas Lampier, a lad of eight
years, was kicked to death by a mule
in Louisville yesterday.
The Tennessee Press Association
will arrive in Cincinnati TO. day, and
viii be the city's guests.
1.-TWO bales of new cotton were re-
ceiVed at Savannah yesterday, classed
as middIing and sold for 90 7-i6e.
Venezuela apologies TO Spain for
the descent upon Cuba OF Quesads,
who fitted out his expedition in Ven-
ezuelA.
A party of six persons at Shrews.
bury, New York, saw 223 shooting
stars yesterday morning in one hour
and thirty-eight minutes.
Dispatches to the French Minister
Of War from General Lallemand, COM
manding In Algeria, report a brilliant
victory over the insurgents at West
Sabel.