The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-16
NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY JULY 49, l872-rRIPLE SHEET

ninety seven, and he'll get the fesn or nin sure as
you're born"
"Hows'' said a novice, in great wonder.
tropical hermitl"
"'Pon my wordir said the novice, "a have new
respect for Jockeys. But how about darky jockeys.
BIO LEXINGTON AND UNCLE ANsELL.
"Well, come over here to McGrath's stable.
greatest hemp merchants In the West. DO you see
that old gray woolled negro man In the stalls aged
trainer and rider OF old Lexington, the father OF
Harry Bassett and about 1900 other prime colts In
this country Brigham Young was nowhere to
him. That grand Old horse, the Eneas OF our turf
and stock, now pair OF dozen years OF age and
still creature OF revenue, knows Old Ansell as
ships captain knows his pilot"
Directly Ansell came out with a currycOmb-a
gravity, intermixed with that eye OF subservlent,
among fine stock. He might have been a good old
Methodist slave, with his calling and election sure,
except for that listening look which seemed to In
dicate that he heard a bet taken or bid offered
for some nag he had fostered.
"Ahl" said the communicative turfman, "what
professor OF obstetrics and groomsman ut espou-
sails among the racing kingdom has Uncle Ansell
been II horses could rise up and call him blessed
there'd be loud neigh In Paradisel"
THE DARBY AND THE HORSE
'Tt's queer" said another turlman, joining In,
what Initiative people these Niger Jockeys are:
has the South Carolina stud and has the greatest
coop OF gamecocks in this country. Now, you see,
these little chaps, but they think they belong to
him as much as ever; 1t Is a mere difference Of
wages not OF consclousness See that boy fast
asleep in the stall where Frank Hampton stands
asleep right at the stations heels, where II you
were to venture you would probable be trodden
to death The same tail keeps vd the o ss
poke that Niger up with stick. and he'd
rather lie there than on spring bed. Now look at
apiece, playing pennies the sill OF that stall
for they're nll gamblers and II they can't get pen
MES MES to n match they'll match match, marbles ,r You see
and nibbling at that little niggers sleeveY Now
the horse reaches over and pulls the boys cap OF,
playing like dog, while the boy, without looking
back, will give the horse push with his head or
elbow. You wouldn't like TO do that with such a
'Iguess mott" exclaimed the novice, nervous at
the suggestion,
"when these English youngsters came out to
this country, full OF STYLE" resumed turfman No. l.,
ne caps, white neckties, all starch and show, the
Niger Jockeys were a good deal distressed. In a
white tie and II he couldn't get a white bow he'd
stuff white handkerchief up there and come the
next nearest to IT.
HOW LoNGFELLow TOOK HIS NAME.
At this point we started back to take second
look At the famous Longielow, passing on the way
all McGrath's negroes wearing green skull caps, and
kitchens for cooking built under the piney woods
where the negro men mixed the gravey and sighed
for the 'possum on the old plantation. Long I'M
were scattered over the knobs and hOll0ws, and
well water was at hand In this pleasant place,
which stands outside the race track. Our sporting
friend knows every horse rs he goes past whether
blanketed from ears to hams or half hidden behind
a stall, and we, the novice, wonderingly hear him
cry at the sight OF an exposed snin:
rs that Ogalah's colts''
ayes, str."
How'd he come by that white blaze on the fet-
lOckY'
.'poN' KNOW, SIR"
Then, running back through DAMS ante-dams,
blaze would be brought back to the due origin OF
It, Here passes DR.. Weldon, the scholastic turf
man, OF whom the story is told that Old John Har-
per applied to him for vocabulary after having
exhausted all the ELS, as Eclipse, Extraditon, &C.,
for John Harper IS an admirer of ALTERATION.
there are the s In the Is You have some ,u s
perb names. This colt, for example, being large
and strong, you might call for the poet Longfeow.
great Scotch law authority, Lyttleton-'Coke on
Lyttleton.' Ahem Yes, call him Lyttleton."
Sn Of ssd %
people his famous racer, saying, " This one Is Long
fellow; you see he's long and big; tother one Is
Little 'un. We named 'em to distinguish lem
apart" And, in fact the horses name Is now
spelled Littleton, instead OF Lyttleton.
PEOPLE OF THE PERIOD.
DR.. Weldon sautes us with the courtesy OF the
top of the morning and says ALI, gentlemen,
this is the most exhilarating track in the United
States. Think OF 1t: 400 feet higher than New York
city, in view OF the mountains; pure water, the
pney wood for disinfectant; the lOamy soil tC
! pass away the moisture.
owner Of Harry Bassett and Joe Daniels, and the
head of what is called 1.-THE Mcdaniel coHfederacy'
OF stock breeders from New Jersey late of Virginia
drive by In buggy with his gallant little jockey
Roe, boy no bigger than the average shoeblack.
"How Mcdaniel keeps ~ that boy" said one.
He's little wajf, a discovery from somewhere,
but he's little giant to pull, and full ofjudgment."
BAssETT AND LoNGPELlOw COMPARED.
Harry Bassett here observed undergoing
grooming-a bright chestnut colt with white feet
and OF long, nimble model ana vicious style OF
kicking, paving and biting. No older than the
todding baby that Is just able to lisp this superb
creation has made fame wide as the continent
for the like Of which in mems affections and praises
many men in the highest walks OF art and afIalrs
might give lifetime toll.
Here is Longfeow's stable, known by the bacl
| spaniel dog which lies chained at the door, snap
ping at those who approach too near. A rope keeps
Off all sorts of people, as the horse is too valuabl,
20 risk the possibility that any scoundrel OF the
turf might MAIN or poison him. Within we see
superb and shining creature OF black, so powerful
in the shoulders. hams and neck as to inspire
sense of tear, mixed with an admiration like that
we feel inspecting beasts at menagerie The King
OF the running turf was leisurey munchng, paying
more attention to anything human than If he
were the original and first created father Of
waiting for his mate on the uninhabited
plains. A bachelor an eremite to this day, the
spendor OF his spirit and feet bid fair to keep him
benedict these many years II is general opinion
that he beat Basset, all things being equal. day
after day. but he has more Emphatic tempera-
ment. and is subject to aZiness With his soul ex-
banded 70 the possibilities OF that noble body he is
VIZ fi' - VI THE he SECOND aS DAYS MEETING
And now, on this fair Monday morning let us LOOK
around us at the scene upon the race track before
our sporting editor crowds us away Tor the graver
matter OF the second days racing at Saratoga.
Here is stand so long aud so broad that TO pick
out any friend in 1t Is about as impossible as
to discover certain face in mass
meeting. A constabulary, directed by Mr..
Morrissey who has jurisdiction within one mile OF
the track is distributed at all points OF this stand.
and fully onehaif the many thousand people here
are ladies' and children-Orderly, seated still, fan
ming themselves, conversing or looking down upon
the quarter-stretch, whence comes the somewhat
commercial voice OF DR.. Underwood selling pools.
''They ought to sell their pools in the village"
says captious somebody land not bother children
and women with their buying and betting.
'.Ol" says the optimistic next man, you cant't
hear IL without an efortl"
"Still,n persists No. /, otis coarse infringement
upon the social privileges of the place. We come
here to see horses exercise, not to see gamesters
auctioneer. Next they'll have their funnel and ball
wagons and the menagerie of the Bots de Boulogne
ont here. Protest in time; that's my idea. To