The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-26
w AVE RLY PARK.
Opening Day Of the Spring Trot-
ting Meeting.
Mark Taylor the Winner of the Members
Purse, Prince the Minute Race, Ed.
White the 2:27 Purse and spotts-
wood the Running Contest.

The Spring trotting meeting OF the Waverly Park
Association opened auspciously yesterday after
noon. The course is situated quite delightfully."-,
eleven miles from New York, on the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad, and Is surrounded with pleasant
rising ground, on which are dense groves that
make grand framework to beautiful picture.
The attendance was Of the most salts factory char
acter, the stand at two O'Clock being filled with
country Beauties whose fair faces, pink tipped
cheeks and eager eyes grew enthusiastic at the
charming landscape and the animated scene
on the track. All along the hills
scores Of carriages were aligned, and on
the field there were many charming equpages,
while wandering to and fro were hundreds OF
genuine sporting gentlemen and scores OF rustics,
who imagine that the race track is place to make
Tools OF themselves, and In this respect they shine
resplendently. This hali-mile track Is peculiarly
laid out, and might, with some little expense, be
made OF much better shape. It'll cup hill and down
hill, with no stretches (" said prominent driver
yesterday, and his opinion was more than once
echoed by owners OF trottng horses the grounds.
There were four events the card for the
amusement OF the two thousand persons present
these being three trotting contests and one run
ming race. The judges OF the day were Messrs j.
G. Littcl, J. Harvey Halsey and John I,rspln, gen.
tlemen fully competent for the positions in which
several instances-ln allowing the drivers more
latitude than the rules admit OF and also in
giving the word ut times when great injustice was
done some of the competing horses. police force
was present which did some little service,
but 1t utterly ignored the reporters stand,
which before the first heat OF the first race was
over was crowded with men who had more
business there than they had up among the judges
1t Is to be hoped that some OF the "colonels"
"maJors' and captains" that found the place
such delightful retreat may give the workingmen
little more room to-day. There were no pools sold
on the track and no spirtuOuS liquors disposed OF
within the enclosure. These innovations were by
order OF the Association. The SPORT which, ali In
all, was quite satisfactory, viii be found In detail
below
THE MEMBERS PURSE.
First on the programme was purse or 5000 for
horses owned by members of the Driving Club,
mile heats, best three In five, to road wagons ;
only members OF the Club allowed to drive. En-
tered for this were j. g. Vanheets bay mare Cash,
Otis Woodruff's sorrel mare Dolly White, Il. Dun
hams sorrel gelding Brandy, 7. p. Shaw's gray
mare Lady Shaw anu Il. A. Wlkinsons chestnut
gelding Mark Taylor. In the little betting OBJ
served Taylor was the favorlte. Alter much diff
culty they were started for the first heat, which
was won by Taylor amid considerable shouting
from the admirers of his owner. Lady Shaw won
the second heat, when her friends vowed she
could not lose but that they were some what mis-
taken was soon demonstrated, as Taylor won the
third and fourth heats and the race.
WAvERLY PARK, WAvERLY N. j., June 25
1S73.-Purse $780, open to horses owned by mem
bers OF the Wavery Park Gentemen's Pleasure
Driving Association; Sl25 to the first $50 to the
second and $25 to the third horse mile heats best
three IN i've, to road wagons.
Il. A. WiiknsOns CHI. <. Mark Taylor. 2 /
p. 7. Shaw's gr. m La Shaw. 2