The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-16
THE RACING.

The track resembled quagmire, but yet the
racing was good and gave general satisfaction
Four races came off, all handcaps, the first being a
dash OF one mile and five furlongs, in which there
were six entries and five starters, comprising Mr..
Doswell's bay mare Midday and bay FLY Wine Sap,
Bacon & Hollands brown horse Frank Hampton,
Coffin Lawrence's gray gelding Allagog and
John O'Donnell's gray FLY Mary Louise. Dos
wells entries were great favorites over the
others. Midday won capital race, beating
Mary Louise by length, Frank Hampton third.
The second race was free handicap, like the
preceding one, only the distance was not 80 far by
half mile, this being only mile and an eighth.
For this event there were six starters, comprising
CONN Lawrence's bay colt Lochiel, W. W.
Genn's bay colt Quintard, Joseph Donahue's bay
colt Lord Byron Bacon & Hollands brown horse
Frank Hampton, II. c. Dawson's bay mare Albuera,
and Monson & Gray's bay colt Vim. Quintard had
the call in the betting, Lochlel being second
favorite. The latter won very easy race; Quntard
second, Lord Byron third. Frank Hampton
should not have been started in this race,
as there was not sufficient time to recover
from the effects OF the first one, and he was beaten
badly in consequence. His owners felt confident
that the horse could not win, and why they per-
sisted in furnishing the horse was not fully under
stood by the 'outside barbarians.n
The third race was dash of two miles and an
eighth, which had three starters, viz Joseph
Donahue's chestnut colt Alroy j. w. Hunt Rey-
nolds' chestnut mare Metela, and John H. IIar-
beck, Jr.'s, chestnut colt Edwin. Alroy was an i'm
mense favorite over the field. He won very easy
race taking the lead as the flag dropped and keep
ing 1t to the finish, under pull. Alroy is capital
race horse and there are very few in this country
that can beat him at any distance.
The last event of the day and meeting was handi-
cap steeplc chase. which had eleven entries and
seven starters These were James Thompson's bay
mare LObelia, aged with 14S lbs up: Donahue's
1876 lbs Coffin Il Lawrence's bay gelding Jim lis
dale, aged, l54 lbs. r. Sheas brown colt Astrono-
mer, years old, l47 lbs; John II. Tullys bay geld
brown geldng Mcintosh aged 145 lbs and Will
liam Jennings h-a.xa horse Blind Tom aged,
1866 lbs. Tammany had the call in the bet
ting, Blind Tom being the second choice. Lobelia
won the race by head, alter a neck and neck
struggle with Tammany for over quarter of
mile. Blind Tom threw his rider at the water jump
and was afterwards out OF the race, although the
horse kept up with the others for half mile and
made several beautiful jumps with Them
The following are the details OF the racing =
THE FIRST RACE.
FREE HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of $50 each. If not
receive $50 out OF the stakes; mile and five
furlongs.
Thomas w. boswell entered b. m Midday, by
Eclipse, dam Nnette, years old, 1l3 lbs. 49,. /
John O'Donnel entered gr f. Mary Louise, by
Lightning, dam by Sovereign, years old, 9S
Bacon Holland entered br. h. Frank Hampton,
by Aysgarth dam Charley Ball, years old, 1l3
Thomas W. boswell entered b. T. Wine San. by
Vandyke, dam Nina, years old, 104 lbs. .......
Coffin Lawrence entered z. x. AllagOg, by u
version, dam Bridget years old, 1O4 lbs $3.50.
John ii. Harbeck, Jr., entered CHI. c. Edwin, by
Eugene, dam Cordeiia Reed, years old lO3 lbs dr.