Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-31
CARSON CITY JOCKEY CLUB.
Eal Meeting, 1s73-ThfrIl Day.
THURSDAY, October 80.

In writing up yesterdays races We
chronicle fine entertainment and a
success. There were very many more
people on the grounds than on any day
before. The weather was as lovely as
ever; and the races excited an interest
which, at times, bordered on enthusiasm.
The beginning, however, seemed I'M
favorable The horses We're kept off an
hour beyond the time of rule. About
o'clock Cavell and Crosby appeared be-
hind Jim Cook and Oregon Jake in their
fifty-eight pound sulkies. Some four or
five failures were made in trying to get
"A start Cook was wild, aud passing
ahead under the score crowded for tie
inside every time. Jake was the favor
lite. The send off in
THE rIEsT HEAT
placed Jake slightly under a disadvantage
from his opponents crowding trick.
Cook broke up badly in the course,
while Jake kept down handsomely. At
the outcome Cook VAS half length
ahead. From the three-quarter pole
Jake gained rapidly, but was cut off by
Cook driver. The judges decided 10
favor of Jake on the ground of foul
driving. Time-2:39. Charges of in
terest in the race being made, the patrol
judges were changed, and Jim Griffith
and Sprasue Chase were put i'll their
places The second heat was won by
Cook coming ont quite thirty feet
ahead Time-2:4l. On
THE THIRD HEAT
both horses broke frequently, which de-
tracted much from the interest of the
race. Jake had gone SO evenly before |
that it was taken for granted that he was |
now losing bottom. They kept near to-
gether though, and as they were about a
stand of, on breaking up, the heat, on
the whole, was exciting. Cooks heat.
Time-2:3S1..
TIE FOURTH HEAT
was eagerly watched. Before the first
heat Jake had sold for two to Cook
one. Now Cook and he were on a par
in the pools. Cook took TIE lead ana
kept it decidedly, up to the three quarter
stake. On the home stretch Jake
showed little of the smartest trick of
crawling up ever seen on the Carson
track. He spread himself on the last
quarter and cane flying il ahead on his
massive legs like locomotive. His
heat. Time-2:37.
THE FIFTH HEAT
raised the winds of excitement higher
than on any day previous during the
present meeting of the club. Hedging
to get from under pools in Cook, made
The crowd lively. The horse, however.
hat was thus thrown off by his late ad- (
nirers walked away from his competitor i
Who broke repeatedly, and lost SO much
" Incorporation that at the half mile
post he must have been ifty yards be-
ind. 1t was terrible gap: yet Jake
,egan to get at his work better further =
N, and gained little. At the turn. d
However, he was still away il the rear.
even then there were those who know :
lis qualities on tha home stretch SO well i
hat they chung to him still; but the in $
erval was too much for him, and though II
e lessened it very perceptibly he could h
ot make it up, and came ont hind horse I
y several lengths. Jim Cook S heat.
ace, and money--S300. Tnrc-2A1119s
THE RUNNING RACE, .
alf mile hests, came on late, owing to
he length OF time consumed in trotting. :,
.ent and Jordan, two beautiful sorrels G
nd looking almost alike, were entered. L
[r. Hartwcli stool elevated to the ii
ouds on pinnacle of the track fence ~,
the half mile post, and gave signal of Of
lie start to the judges in the stand, by st
toppins a white handkerchief. The d;
rst heat was the prcttiest ever seen
he two nearly equal nags few over the \
ltire distance as if bound together in VI
visible harness. The shout that went Ia
. when they passed under the string ~ Il.
de by side. was like bombshell of to
lmiration exploded in the air. Kent's IN
use may have been a foot and a half tn
rther on than Jordan at the tap Of "a
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