The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-03
THE RACE FOR THE SARATOGACUP
Description of the Defeat of Lon . fellow
by Harry Bassett.

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by Harry Bassett.
From the New York Herald of "Wednesday.
When Longfellow and Harry Bassett
appeared, they were received with an.
plause from the stand. and as the for
mer galloped up in front of the stand
the cheering was resumed. The as
semblage were very nervous. but there
was no delay in getting the horses
away. They soon moved down to the
quarter pole, and at fine first attempt
were despatched to capital start.
harry Bassett soon took the lead, and
as be came rafting up the homestretch
to the stand he led one length, Long
| fellow three lengths III front of Defend
er- The time of the first quarter of
mile was twenty-five and ahalf seconds.
Going around the upper turn,
Longfellow went up to Bas-
sett's saddle girth, but at the
quarter pole they were nose and tail.
Time of the half-mile, 52i seconds.
Defender at this time was out of the
race and not worthy of further notice.
Go1ng down the back stretch Longfel-
low again went up to Harry's saddle
glrth, but ut the half-mile pole fell back
| again. The three quarters of mile
were run III 1:164. Harry Bassett led
half length around the lower turn
and at the three-quarter pole The
time was 1:453 for the mile. Longfel-
low then ran up to Basset as they came
up the home stretch. aud, passing I'M
der the wire, they were both doing
their best and running at tremendous
rate of speed, head and head. The
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49,, which Is the fastest time
ever made for that distance. They did
not relax i'll their flight around the up
per turn, Longfellow gaining gradually
| until he reached Bassetts shoulders at
the quarter pole, the mile and a half
being run in 2:354. Leaving this point
Longfellow faltered, and he had to be
urged. 1t was here, it is supposed, that
Longfellow's near ankle gave way, but
| still he ran up again without finching,
and was at Harry's saddle girth at the
half-mile. Longfellow ran up closer,
and was at Bassetts shoulder on the
lower turn, and as they passed the
three-quarter pole, finishing the
two miles in $50, the fastest
| two miles ever run. \ bullet
| bred at one Jockey would have hit
the other, SO near together were the
horses. Coming up the home stretch,
the contest was close until near the fur
long pole, where Longfellow began to
succumb, and his Jockey commenced
using the whip. The horse struggled
on, but could not keep with Harry
Bassett, and the latter passed under
the wire winner by a length, making
the two miles aud quarter in the
| fastest time ever recorded, 3:59 De
fender was beaten nearly quarter of
mile
| THE BETTING.
The horses sold in the pools pre-
vious to the races as follows:
Longiellow $500 Go TVS $40 400 GO
Harry Bassett 100 300 go 100 loo 900
Defender. ....... 10 II 20 II n u
THE WINNER.
Harry Bassett is -four years old by
Lexington, dam Canary Bird second
| dam, Panolo by imp. AinderIy; third
dam imp. Sweetbriar by Recovery;
| fourth dam, imp. Primerose by Comus;
fifth dam, Cowslp by CocI1figher
sixth dam, Brown Javelin by Javelin ;
seventh dam, Young Maiden by High
flyer; eighth dam, Maiden hy Match
| GU Ilubu udlll, MI. 1TaIt $ celebrated
mare by Squirt; tenth dam, Lots dam
by Mo9ul eleventh dam, Camilla by
Bay Bolton; twelfth dam, Old Lady,
(Starlings damn by Pullein's chestnut
Arabian; thirteenth dam by Rockwood
| fourteenth, dam by BUSTER. In color
he is darker than was his grandsire
old Boston, though he resembles him
more than any of his descendants He
has two white heels and star, is 49,
hands high, but so symmetrical in bis
build that person would not think
him over 49, hands until standing be-
side him. He has that wonderful
depth of chest which so charac
terized his grandsire, also the same
fiat or slab-sided barrel.
and large hips, with powerful
loins, STILES and thighs, the muscles
being well let into large, strong hooks.
He is closely ribbed up, and, unlike
Boston, is Il handsome horse, beirg
highly finished, with fine head, well
set on pretty tapering neck, aud with
eamecock throttle and jaws wide apart.
He was bred on the Alexander farm at
WOODBURY., Ky, and purchased for
Colonel Mcdaniel for 1915.
| Canned Fruits.