, 1873-08-31
A Turn Amongst tho Turfuen---
Thn Stnble-Folks at the
Races.
A Glimpse Of the Racing Century,
Where We Get Our
Blood.
The Great Rncers from Sit Archie Down
-..A Composition OH tho
Horse.

Tho stable-folka hayo NIL come from Saratoga
down to Long Branch, mud thoy do not mnch
fiko tho chnngo. at Saratoga they favo good
catch-ho!d, loamy truck, woll drained, and Tho
rarest mountan-air, with good management,
wcll-behnvetl audiences, mud tho flavor of re-
apcctabty. john MorriHsoy, rough as he ia,
ia good policeman, and his word passed Ia
trusted by Tho vago-poople and by cosmopol-
itandom. at Long Branch, thcro ia NIL ombol-
1ishcd track, extortion, crowd of rowdios and
fashy women, and tho presiding apirits sro tho
Keepers Of Hlin-gau,es, WHO give tho tono to tho
trionnial "moetngs."
STUDIES.
It ls somewhat singular that this kind OF
populacc should want tho Presidential Mansion
pitched amougst them MI summer at public ex~
ponHo. Morals arc no bad hero that gentlemen
arc known to tako their families away from tho
public table after pnrtaking Of q single dinnor,
to protect them from being faced out and put to
tho blush by cyprana opposite. Tho recent
great advertising diagram OF tho Branch in
Ha'pcr's Weekly omitted to donoto, though 1t
skotchei, Chnmberlainc's cottagc,-thrtoen cot
lagos only intervening between it and President
Erant's,
"You'ro tho fellows" eaid lilo older partner,
McGTath, onco to d pair OF correspondents- -
u
coming oyor to SEQ tho games. Flo knows you'd
be q publishing Of him."
This compliment to tho press, as compelling
somo dignity aud obBoryance despite tho society,
leads us to remark that Mr.. Price McGrath is a
fno old holnp-growor in Kentucky, and partner
Of Chamboraino in lis two establishments Ho
will both tako your money, ind furnish you with
aropo to 60 Lang. Ho is, besides, what they call
gentlonau-pAtron Of tho turf, and has 4 stable
OF thoroughbreds. He also coufors tho hon.
ors Of knighthood, and hayo seen Mr.. Cham
borlaino ba!ance tho stirrup-cup number
Of times, ,--generaFy great bowl engraved and
slvered, and covered with figures aud relofs of
bits, brldlcs, hknll-caps, stirrupB, saddles, and
Bwitcll- whips. One Of tlloso "gcntomcn's
cups" is big enough to hold all tic vino,
ote., which the lnrgest stomach can diBgorgo
after paying - bottle for it. People woro
not originally allowed to drink vulgar alcs and
cordalH at Monmouth Park, Vino by tho pint,
or brandy by tho bottle, was tho least " a gon-
tleman" could take. Nowadays thoy hayo MI
American Epson, howevcr,-tho American
Elnotic, shoy might cali it,-and n crowd d trifle
moro respectable than tint usually admitted
pours in free. Tho press il bil!oted to pay tho
tclegraphed advertisements Of this gnming-
houao circus the heads of boys, and women
too, are turned to SEQ 30 much Of our real
gontry,--that il, people who bnck roulette, and
concoct Black Fridnys, and break every conf
nlandment nnblushingly, having full purse to
excuse thonl.
OUT TO THE pAHK QUIETLY.
hnyc Stretched this Long Branch 30 oftcn,--
well called 10, for it iH mainly stretch of frame
houses on, a, grocn bluff, with good afr, fair
roads bad. dirty, aud dangerous surf, aud groat
monotony, relieved only By dissipation, that it
shall not detau mo tLs day. 4 few ffsrlongB'
walk in tho open country will bring mo to the
vauutod Park, mud l can sit down with horsca,
Eco tho littlo negloos gamble with pennies, talk
to tho boy-jockcys, and read my book on lho
turf in America Myself and companion have
1,3oo royal pages Of roading,lnatter between us,
wrote about physical sports and loraemanship
a his life, aud died at last Of crushed aonsibili-
Ties from womans disfavor.
Is THE TURF OF ANT USE
Tens Of thousands Ut your readers mover Baw
4 horac-race. IT. is not my intontion to offend
smell by description of the short aud generally
unsatisfactory pageant, but to help tl4ona out ii,
tho inquiry whether, III all thla expenditure of
money and mixing Of morals, there il auy advan-
tcgo gained. 1s tho stock improved )? Do no
become moro cnamored of healthy exercise, and
country life, md increase our monts! resources,
by all this gallopirg in dirty silk breechos as,l
gay caps? l1ave tito gentry Of tho turf i'll this
country made LII any compensation, intellectual
or material, for tho aggravated lawlcsspesa Of
their business
They have mndo tho gambler d patron, and
prosecuted him to tho public in the light Of a
great lnan and roviver of tho turf. Thoy havo
consigned trottng-matcles to cuunty-faira and
tompc!anco-gatAoling The intiction or tho
oeln1joyn'cnt, whichever it bo, is upon us, and
likely to stay.
This racing-business is not a now thing in
Amciica. 1t begun before tho Revolution, md
Washington hiuhclf WIS q patron of it aud,
from 1916 to lH45, wo lad what we called tho
palmy dayB Of tho American turf, After those
mr. nr,1
local and bpaamodlc, and tue trotting-t1ack
grew into favor, until near the cloae Of llo War,
when people, tired Of tho trclsery Of tho trot,
the selling uut Of matches and tho division of
sonHihilltics discascd BY the War fell into tile
mood for gallopiug aeuadronB again. The rcyi-
vnl of the turf at the Paterson (N. j. pnrk was
Dy o epsnG r Of tho celebrated
1886. Just prior to this, the Saratoga Park wnu
made; and these two l'allH--tho most successful
i'll tho country-haye led 10 Iosoral others,
none Of which MO s;ia 10 bo profitable.
revival of tic turf iH q sweet boon. Bankers,
and Governors, and railroad-mcn, and their
hopeful sons lust coming into their inheritance,
aspire to bo tho patrons ol tic national races,
ar!l tral'ovs. talking learnedly OF horae-pointB.
1t IL tile cheapest way TO become notorious and
tho oaBiest to spend money.
A-GolSH 10 THE 10TToN.
t1e toAh' 70 tHlkso iuEulul UiGfIlGuk O1
national wealth, whether for war or pauco and
WiAover can improve The Mecl III country
like o'lrs may we'll ba excused for nome exuhor-
ancea and incidental OWLS. It is probably tho
curiosity md ted to tho Improvement Of locul
stock, by the exciting reporia wlcI.
hive from timo to timo boon published
OF grent achievements III speed under the o1nula-
ton OF tho raco. Ns racers, our American thor
oughbreds aro not excallcd III tho world; they
garry less weight, but nuke bettor time, tAau tho
Ell Ill any country, owing, perhaps, in somo de-
Erco, to onr country-road systoln, somathing
n'no to our climate, but most 10 the crossing OF
several different brocta and tile admixt,lro Of
tho best English Orlena blood. "The general
horse Of America" noys IN EngIiah authority,
;" Is superior; not In blood or beauty, but docil-
edly itI hardil1ood to do, to endure III powers Of
travel speed, locility, and good temper, to
any other lace Of general horscs IN tho world"
Tho American horBo is IN mixed In Stock and
swell detinol az tyne, az the American, ma
ii ill.,