The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-10-09
ASIim Attendance, but Plenty
of Sport.
FIVE FIN e r A O e s
The FavOritcs All Sue
ceSsfu1.
10 Daniels Wins the Annual Sweepstakes, Wizard
tho Two-Year Old Purse, Tubman the Grand
National Handicap Sweepstakes, Sue Ry.
der the Mile and Three-Quarter Dash,
and Ortolan the Dash Of Mile.

"The two first and the two last beat the third
right along here" was piece Of wisdom which the
HERALD impersonality heard yesterday but the APP
plicatlon of which he did not completely arrive at
for some time. At length the oracle explained
as follows
"You see there are five days racing In Jerome
Park and this is the middle day. 1t Is in fact, the
third day. and therefore the attendance is SLIM"
The HERALD's impersonality ran his optic along
the Grand stand. 1t was all but desolate. He cast
1t in the direction Of the club piazza which boosted
but little OF its femininity; and then allowed that
eye OF his to range along the armament There
were plentiful white clouds and q great gray mass
here and there, and the blue sky showed Its
sapphire deep and Unreasonable between
WHY WAS 1T DIscOURAGIEG
70 the sweet ladies who should have come out there
to taste the loneliness Of the scene the inspiration
of the movements AS one drove thlther 1t was
continuous mingling OF light and shadow, such as
old painters of the Rembrandt school would love to
depict. Why did the ladies not turn out to catch
the beauties of that Autumn mornings 1t rained,
to be sure, on Monday night, and those who did not
know enough believed it would make the track too
heavy for running This was mistake. So 1t was,
however, that the carriage containing the HERALD's
tmpersonality had only
COUPLE OF RACE-BoUND VEHICLES
for company in the lovely drive to the Park. These
were a study in themselves. They were both road
wagons-one new, light and drawn with an easy
motion by pair Of spanking chestnuts; the other
was old. heavy and dragged jingling by pair OF
horses, consisting Of tall black horse and a
compact little gray Behind the first was
o sedate old gentleman, with stf stand
up collar, shining black hat and
pair OF straightcut white side-whiskers. Beside
him sat a prim young lady in quiet habiliments,
with pair of lunettes on her nose and a scarlet
feather in dark green hat. The other wagon con.
tanned man in white overcoat and battered
ing band The hat was iauntily hung on the side
OF his head, which was adorned with greasy crop
q hooked nose and pair OF dark, iurtive eyes
His companion was a fellow In dirty drab, with
Tuning side q e HERALD
personality looked like severe responsibility in
race with loose disreputablcness, and the imper
sonality lay back and laughed IN the depths OF his
cynic soul
As THE CAD RAN AHEAD OF THE SWELL,
and then again when the swell ran away from
the cad. 1t was so like life. The attendance on
the course was very slim, and but for the glory Of
the day the staring benches OF the Grand Stand
would have depressed one. AS it was they seemed
to say when looked te at Here we are the solid old
day, for there IS nobody, ALMOST moi, Nobody
lmpersonaty actually went up and sat on one Of
them to prevent the braggart bench from upbraid-
many ladies present Excitement was not want
Ing nevertheless The annual sweepstakes car
ried In 1t Is true, the fav0rite, ridden by Jimmy
Roe; but 1t showed little Frank McCabe running
Blashing
RACE WITH HIS STABLE MATE
on Hubbard. Then the $500 purse pretty
dash, In which that trim boy Patsy Mclaughlin
French descent) rode neatly as in riding
school, Lfttclls brown colt Wizard to victory. The
Grand National Handicap sweepstakes was treat
to the lovers OF good riding Preakness was beaten
to be sure, by the iavorite, which was ridden by
Jimmy Roe, but the way Billy Haywood worked up
the Lexington colt at the finish was pleasure TO
behold.
s'Why," said an enthusiastic lady, who had rid
den to hounds hundred times the other side OF the
Atlantic, should like to ride across country be-
side him, although he Is jockey" The HERALD
impersonality thinks that the American Jockey
CLUB is doing good work In bringing out the riding
horses oil the United States; but he thinks that
THE TRAINED, RELIABLE JOCKEY
should stand In their estimation more above the
stable hand than he does. Their names should, at
least, appear on the cards. so that merit could be
recognized and credit given where due. How
often the winning Of race is the work and the
hard work OF jockey Is well known to all
who know anything Of the turf The fourth
race was a fine one and attracted great attention,
and the mile dash, which finished the programme,
brought the favorite once more to the front, but
was good race for all that. 1t did not take long
to depete the of It's spectators and the road
home was perhaps more enlivening than the scenes
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