The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-04
Scenes and Incidents on the Way and
on the Course.
THREE CAPITAL RACES.
Milesian Wins the Hurdle Race, Preakness
the Mile Dash, and Mate the
Ocean Hotel Stakes.

mouth Park Association and was RECALLED by q
good days sport and favored with splendid racing
weather. This time the arrangements of the New
Jersey Southern Railroad Company were all that
could be desired and there was consequently none
Of that intolerable discomfort which marked the
July meeting and made 80 many thousands Of peO-
pie forsweanMonmouthP Park forever or until the "a
ciities for reaching the were better At forty
ave minutes past six yesterday morning the Ply.
mouth Rock took down a considerable number Of
spectators to the races, who availed themselves of
that opportunity of enjoying few hours at Long
Branch prior to starting for the Park. The Jesse
HOyt took down several hundreds at forty minutes
past nine O'Clock, and the Thomas Collyer, good,
fast boat carried down an additional quota at
eleven O'Clock. All these cargoes OF sporting
spirits were borne through rapidly and comfort
ably, and reached the course in ample time to wit
ness the races.
The day was particularly fine for racing, though
the early portent OF the morning was anything but
suspicious dark, humid atmosphere stretched
down to the horizon in every direction. BY nine
o'clock q long, heavy bank OF rain cloud
doomed up threatenngly from the southwest and
beyond question deferred hundreds from venturing
out for days pleasure The most reputable
weatherwise people snuffed rain in the air, and
even the barometers, whose sole mission 1t ID TO
herald the coming rainfall, lowered their sensitive
fingers to the water level. The most directly vsi-
bic consequence OF oil these omens and prognosti-
cations was that there was paucity OF ladies
among the passengers on the boats, and had not
Long Branch come to the rescue with few hundreds
Of lie surf-washed beauties the grand stand would
have been devoid Of the Chief the only attraction
pf all grand stands-the precocious glove-betting
eisterhood. BY ten O'Clock, however,
THE CLOUDS WERE RIFTED
b the zenith; half an hour later the sun burst
through the misty veil that had BODIED 80 much of
evil and the plucky, umbrella-armed, equine-lovng
element that had dared to Ego to the races any
h0w,n pumcd themselves with the reflection that
none but the brave deserve the fair" whether the
measure of fairness be filed by women or weather.
During the day there prevailed q light white haze
In the atmosphere, which was aternated at inter-
vals with pillows OF cumulous clouds that
looked a. though they might have been the
DOrerunners Of the rain gods dark-crested
reserves; but these only served to temper
me heat Of the SUMS rays, and really made the
races more enjoyable than any flaring midsummer
sun in cloudless sky could have DONE The trip
Down the bay and into the Horseshoe was pc
:uliary pleasant and invigOrating, and the waters
we're absolutely without a ripple. Arrived at the
sandy Hook pier the trains were in waiting to re-
ceive their freights Of pleasureseekers and in ten
minu ties were whirling along over the low, sandy
and reed patches that crown the hummocks and fill
the hollows of this seasnatcbed peninsula. Far or
to the left cleaned the white sails of ships the
smooth though ever-sweing Atlantic, and to the
right were the pale, green waters Of Raritan Bay,
the surf on either hand swelling up and chatting the
shores within q hundred feet of the car Wheels.
Beabright and Monmouth Beach are mere
RECOLLECTIoNs OF THE FLIGHT,
for the train swings past them without even check
Ing speed, and in half an hour Long Branch is
reached. The train halts for few minutes at the
rustic station to drop few passengers and pick up
. few more. The ladies on the piazzas and
perticos of the hotels and villas wave their hand
kerchefs and again the trailing sweep out
around the curve and rush for four miles through
pleasant fields and woods; and the sand and brush
wood of the first few miles OF the route are forgot
Park rise into view Twenty-Five feet from the rail-
way track is the entrance to the park, and within
n aese s hnste nrs the eei anaa
pedestrians in all parts Of the field as
the signal reaches their ears which tells that the
phaet0ns, landaus and buggies are clustering
around the platform in rear OF the grand stand,
great watering place, for It must be understood
that Long Branch contributes most OF the beauty
and fashion which make the grand stand itself
40 thing of beauty and these people 90 not mean
70 patronize the railroad when they can reach the
Park by four mile drive smooth roads, through
green fields and among outrageous trees. And
as Long Branch draws the wealth. beauty and
fashion OF every section Of the Union, 1t is but to be
expected that much OF it necessarily graces Mon
mouth Park, and 1t does. The ladies alight from
their carriages, pick up two or three armiuls OF
trailing skirts and ascend the starways leading to
the stand.
ON THE LAWN
In front everything Is animation and business To
the right DOC" Underwood puts up pools on the
coming race, and bids up till he has slapped his
DOWN the choice and ' asks The bidder to
name 1t for the money. He cajoes the crowd OF
betting men earuy sh every 0ne 81 ,nem
whether he will stand ''raise' Of 500 more or
not At his back sits Jimmy" McGowan rakng in
the currency and paying 1t out again, and all the
time feeling the pulse of the betters and of the
stock and blood they bet on with sense as deli
cate as the needle of compass and face
as imperturbable as the visage of the Egyptian
sphinx. Fortunes come and fortunes go through
ms anu n another i an sp q the left OF
the stand, opposite the quarter stretch, the
machinery of the Paris system OF mutual pools is
In operation, with a group OF betting men taking
"nyers," and a second group quizzing the system,
and inquiring chow the neoo thing works.
In the weighing ROOM an apartment in the lower
story of the Judges stand, the jockeys are being
weighed. What queer.looking chaps these thewy,
sonas ioSkg }ockeys hev 10 be
rase Of men DISTINCT from others OF their kind--even
IRON racing men,
was not hlled by any means yesterday-!or 1t
taxes o tremendous crowd 10 ill t-but there
WAS very select attendance and many beautiful
women and handsome men graced the occasion.
And these beautiful women, that is those among
them VINO go to admire the beautiful horses, be-
come II possible, more fascinating themselves at
times in the progress of u race Comparatively few
ladies' Know anything about running qualities
but they talk the little ''horse- talk they
do know-whch OF course pleases the
men-and admire the glossy hides slen-
der limbs and graceful sweep OF the racers
and II the horse has pretty, romantic namc--like
"LongfeIiow," or "Lochien or ''Fadladeen,u per-
haps--they would Ike him to win. They will sit
quietly in their seats until the banketed animals
are brought out on the quarter stretch to be sad
died then they ore all quiz" and puzzle the men
frequently by asking the names Of horses when the
gentlemen Themselves don't know their names and
dislike TO reveal the fact that they are not walking
turf registers.
ONE OF THE STRIKING SCENES
OF any race course Is at the moment when all the
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