The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-08-12

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BuFPAIO, August TO-
The following is an average of the poo
selling for to.morrow's races In the e2:4(
race, Judge Fullerton 800; Brigham $7t
and the field $95. In the $1,000 race thl
pools arc selling, with Goldsmith Maid
out, American Girl 500 and Lucy $85.
A match has been made for s., 500 for a
trial between Tommy Jefferson and
Wilkes for Saturday.
The Sixth Annual meeting ut the Buc
Ial0 Driving Park closed to-day, Gold.
smith Maid making the fastest time on
record, in three straight heats, by Onc.
quarter second. Over twenty thousand
persons were on the ground. While n
majority of the crowd were drawn in
anticipation Of the close contest between
Goldsmith Maid, Lucy and American
Girl, and were amply repaid in the result,
yet, contrary to all expectation, the two
forty race proved equally interesting and
exciting, Judge Bingham, aComparGtively
new horse, making asplGndid record, win.
ming the race In loEltEH.S, making the
first quarter in thirEon6 seconds and the
half in one hundred and six. Immedi.
ately alter winning tho race, the owner of
Judge Bingham was sent for and the
horse was bought by George Hall for three
thousand dollars, for Jay Gould. The
purchaser says that ten thousand dollars
won't buy him to-day. Judge Bingham
Is bay stallion eight years old, by liam.
blcloniOn Out Of Lady Sand(Orl.
The first race called was 94O Thir.
teen horses entered; Gstarted. Denmark,
Logan Hunter Long Branch, Sentinel,
Ed, Higgins, and Clara u. Rowan Over
threC.q quarters oi an hour was lost In scOr.
ing, before the horses got u good send oil,
Judge Fullerton took the lead, and kept Il
round the track, in the first heat hard
pressed by Brigham. The three following
heats were won by Brigham. The race
was highly interesting, and intensely cX.
citing, Alter leaving the halGmle pole
on the last heat, Brigham broke, Fullerton
shooting 90 lengths ahead, but Brigham
overlook Fullerton at the three.quarter
post, and came in halfa length ahead.
Summary purse, No. 4, $4,000, horses
never trotted better than $40; $4,000,
81 900, 800, $780, Judge Brigham9 9, /,
|, Il Judge Fullerton /, 9, 2, 2; j. II,
Burke B., ,, 3, 3; Ashland Pct 0, a; DIR.
Frank Hobart H. distanced Vosburg &,
distancCd. Time 2:259, 2;22, 1924, 2:20t.
ThogrCat race today was trottcd alter.
natGly with the 2:40 race. In the three
heats Goldsmith Maid trotted without a
skip or break until the last heat, when
she was crowded from the beginning 10
the end by Lucy, who Tapped her through.
out, but ail0r ore Of the most closely con.
tested heats ever witnessed here, she only |
made two quick breaks, one At the start |
md one on the home stretch. On coming
to start on the second heat Goldsmith |
broke and the mare started to run, when
Budd Doble, her driver, performed the
astonishing feat Of selling the back strap,
astride the mares back, sei2ing
he check rein and bringing her to
'tand still before she had gone many
engths beyond the Judges stand.
This incident won additional hOnors for
Doble and his thorough bred animal. A
summary purse, No o, $4,000 for all
lorscs, $4,000, 81, 5000, $500 Gid $4,000
additional to the horse making the fastest
line, providing hc beats Dexter's time
'17t. Goldsmith Maid, !, I, I; Lucy
!, ,2t2; American Girl 3, 3,3-time 2lOi,
a19t, 2:10.