The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-17
NEW YORK HERALD WEDNESDAY SUPPLEMENT-

see race between Abdel Koree, Monarchist and
contest This race to-day will be an easy triumph
for Longfeow, and the nag Defender VIII make"
At this time old Colonel David Mcdaniel with his
slow, dragging walk; white hair large red nose
around r% him niA were the members Of the MCDANIEL
Confederacy," Bassett, Brewster, Hubbard, Joe
more or less in Harry Bassett That good steed
might say, 'They have parted my vesture among
nSne SoasR at
Saratoga and putup comfortable stables ana iodg
s a
without strict education, but OF far higher intel-
gence than John Harper and Is better trainer
sporting journal, "has been too sanguine. He
thought he had a wOrld-beater In Bassett, and re-
his horse was strained at Baltimore In the fourme
heats and that fOur-mile heats kill threeyear-od-
than before. It is work-patient, skiful work
which conquers other things being nearly the
at Trn
The prophets were destined to come to grief on
this day. although possibly their ultimate w }aSg
one hour and a quarter Harry Bassett, riding neck
and neck with Longfellow, passed the two mile and
and, had his hackers shown faith, they might have
won scores of thousands OF dollars.
WEIGHING THE TWO RIDERS.
The scene. under the judges stand at the
70 S q ae was stsree and
sstin g' about TT twenty little nrchins white
and black, carrying saddles and bags OF weights
skull caps OF light coors, each the livery Of some
celebrated stable, waited their turn to mount the
There, successively, the little heirs Of danger and
poverty STOOD, engineers Of these vital locomotives
and the avoirdupois weight Of each-hls only bio.
graphy Of human consequence-was recorded In a
book none speaking to MN s any word OF en-
the shoeblacE class with his attention transferred
ing native faculties and confidence for either, as
his lot may be. The TWO most marked urchins
and the negro boy VINO rides Longfellow
Young Roe is a lean, sharp-chinned, largeeared
eye
from thinness Of the blood-and prettily booted on
the whole, fine, wiry specimen OF me lighting n
He is the very apple Of McDaniels eye
The negro who rides LongfelIow has light mu.
skin and face With Dagng
negro eyes He said nothing. like the, boy
s hs s Sssa w ns aSo1e aa@ years
ace. Some Of these little whitrets weigh no mole
sveny Rn Ssd 9 by es tot Tss
self to his ears lin blankets and walked tin that
q toaRR TssH y
mother cat. Upon each OF these little fellows hum
| dreds or thousands Of wagered dollars depended
dozen still hitler whites negroes who peeped in
| admiringly at the gorgeous vestments and burned
to ride and reign r }ke c these n.cr
| Just before one O'Clock the sky to the north was
full of gold and leaden clouds, lying on the angular
breeze blew the whole length OF the main stand,
but on the well narrowed track the sun was hot,
homestretch carried umbrellas to be comfortable.
| "lts noble day to get speed from horse" was
the general exclamation
minute or two later large horse, swaddled in
coarse, worn gray and blue blankets, appeared on
the track, moving suggishly, and there was great
All knew his quiet movement, his white hinder
feet his white nose and that unsuspecting, docile
c cons Of it, Stripped in few minutes
hs was mounted submssively by the aforesaid
negro, clad in dirty yellow jacket s,, and
no man miner. Next common looking sorrel
stood on the track, exciting no curosty-De,
by the cleanly Roe aforesaid, the changcful chest
nut Bassett, swinging his head and neck and look
ing ugly, like fair-haired woman under family dis
cipline.
they think thsgg have shor T. thee Of strength
Their thrones thou shalt toppic at length,
| And the kings of the earth shall beware.
Nobody noticed any difference between these
cept that Longielow has the most method, regu:
larity Of speed length and beauty Of body and md
| might say that they ran this race like
| Goethe and Schiller, the poets-the one quail
| fed by broad powers, natural and acquired,
the other with the fond spirit Of one more de-
sirous and less confident. They had to start q
quarter Of q mile up the track They passed the
stand with Bassett leading length both Jockeys
! quiet, and Longfell0w galloping as steadily
as the hand of clock, his brilliant brownish-black
color giving him fine relief to the reddish
tint OF his junior. They passed up by the half-me
pole with LOngfellOw apparently half a length
behind; so close were both, indeed, that we could
only distinguish them by the black jockey pulling
back and the white jockey on Bassett sitting
straight. They kept the same Interchangeable place
| till they returned down the quarter stretch, and
then the first articuate sounds escaped the people.
"See how Bassett holds his Own!"
1.-THE black boy will let LongfellOw out In the last
| half mile.n
Still like parts of the same machine, the fierce
| contention grew. Nothing could be distinguished
from nothing; 1t was only travelled horses shadow
against the eye.
-"Bassett winsp' said reporter, who had been
steadily looking through a glass "LOngfellow
can't catch him. Bassett wins! Yes! He will win
He does wn!"
BY this time nothing was to be seen but the run
down the hOmestretch. There was = long belief that
the black horse would pass. His rider climbed UP in
the stirrups and logged him. He never WINGED but
did his noblest, methOdical gallant and Intellectual
before. The shout from the stand was that OF dis
tress rather than of joy, as Basset passed the pole
| and the white Jockey turned malicOusly round and
grnned in the negro riders face, even under the
line which was the boundary of victory.
Description Is inadequate. few caps were In
the air. The great mass were in that state de-
scrbed by Sarey Camp when she said she was
! 'cOnfuged.r