New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-25
The Agricultural Races.

We have had, closely following each
| other, the Metairie races and the Louisiana
Jockey Club races. Now has commenced
the agricultural races at the Fair Grounds.
The first days races yesterday were quite
| lively, and our readers will observe by the
| entries for to-day that the second days
sport will also be attractive.
While we regret that the displays OF
goods in the mechanical, agricultural and
other departments of the present State
fair are insufficient to attract the multi
| tudes to the Fair Grounds, we must com
| pliment the fair association for the good
taste they exhibit in providing such races
as will promote desire to increase the
value of that noble animal, the horse, and
that useful quadruped, the mule.
Our mechanics and manufacturers should
make an effort to promote the domestic arts
among our own people by rivaling each
other IN their displays at the sixth grand
State Fair. Instead of exhibiting the man
ufactures of the North and West let them
make a show with our own home and
Southern manufactures. Our carpenters,
our machinists, our foundrymen, our me-
chanics and manufacturers of every class,
should unite on this common ground, and
by generous rivalry show what the South
can do. We have the men, the brains and
the capital to fashion from iron and wood
and gold and silver and brass, as well as
| from raw cotton and other materials, arti
| cles and fabrics that will help to make us
| a great and prosperous people.
Our jewellers should take pride in dis
| playing the work of their own employees
our painters and photographers should ex
hibit their own works of art, and our pro-
ducers should display what the soil OF
| Louisiana can yield. Let it be the resolve
| of all that Louisiana shall awake from its
lethargic slumber and take front rank in
| productions and manufactures. This done,
horse races and creased pigs will become
| secondary in interest at Louisiana State
fairs. We can if we will not only make the
annual State fairs of Louisiana immensely
attractive, but we can make Louisiana a
State great in wealth, great in manufac-
lures, and great in commercial prosperity.
there be a large attendance at the State
fair, so that the object may be greeted in
the exhibition of all our ind lstries and
products.
Subioined is report of the races yester-
day at the Fair Grounds:
Running Race.-Mile heats. The horses
to be Handicapped according to the
races at the Metairie Club and Louis
lana Jockey Club spring meeting. Premium
$3.50: $500 to the first horse $50 to the
second horse, and the third horse to save
his entrance.
Charles Chase enters Oh. h. Sir Rufus, by
! Lexington, dam Liz. Mardis, four years old,
| Sc pounds. ColOrs-Red jacket, red and grey
Tom Clark enters oh. h. Village Black
smith, by Vandal, dam by Wagner, 10s
pounds. Colors-black jacket white cap.
C. H. Slocomb enters CHI. h. Won Moltke,
by War dance, dam Blonde, five years old,
lO5 pounds. Colors-Red jacket, white
sleeves, white and red cap.
| Geosre w. Leonard enters ch. b. John
Mcdonald, by Brown Dick. dam Lady
Settle, five years old, l04 pounds. Colors-
| Blue and orange.
| This was an exciting race. Blacksmith
was in the rear at the start, but slowly
| gained upon and passed one after another,
taking the lead at the half mile stake and
holding his own to the winning post, which
he passed some three or four lengths ahead.
| Time-l:5l12.
The second heat was won by John
| Mcdonald in Isl. Blacksmith, most
| strangely in the rear of all. Notwithstand-
| ing this fact, the betting was in favor. Of the
| latter by odds.
The third heat was won in splendid style
| by Blacksmith in LAG, Won Moltke and Sir
Rufus retiring. The horses ranked in the
| following order Village Blacksmith, II
| /. John Mcdonald, 3-l-2; Sir Rufus, Q
2; Won Moltke, 4-3.
Second Race-Trotting mile heats; for
| all horses that have never beat three min
| utes premium $3.50; 500 to the first horse,
| $50 to the second horse, and the third horse
to save his entrance. L. Glenn enters G. g.
DIR. Smythe, Thomas P. Roach enters b. G.
-. w. B. Leonard enters b. m. Frances,
and Robert johnson enters CHI. G. -.
This was also very interesting race. In
| the first heat the gray gelding led. hound
| the turn the gray and chestnut broke,
when the bay mare and bay gelding that
| had been behind at the start came up. AT
the half-mile stake the horses were all to-
| gether, on passing which the bay mare
| Frances took the lead and kept it to the
winning post, the chestnut coming. IN
| good second, bay getting o bad third, and
| the gray running in to save his distance.
The latter passed ahead of the bay gelding,
but was counted fourth in the race.
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