New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-09
JOHN PAUL AT SARATOGA.
HORSES AND RACES.

FRoM AN occAsIoSAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrBUNEl
SARATOGA, Aug. 1.-The weather has been
very warm for few days back and crowds OF guests
have poured in filing the hotels Even the Yonkers
people, who cleared cut when the Thermometer FELL 10
Summer heat" are returning. At time since 1
have been here have found o7ercOat necessary But
you must understand that Yonkers friends are so
accustomed to broing their sidehs that they oe-
come as disconsoate when they get from them as
we may imagine 81. Lawrence have been without his
gridron, after he got used to It, There story told
OF Yonkers man who died and went-well, where any
one deserves to go who takes his earthly dwelling at
fonkers when he could just well reside at Rverdae
as the Master OF Ceremonies very justly remarked on
looking over the register The warmest corner, In the
sunny angle Of the Pit, assigned 70 this Yonkers
man, but he very began to complain OF the cold,
and asked permission send for his overcoat. Per-
mission was granted for they knew he must be miscr
able So ia little be wondered at that the Yonkers
delegation didn't like the COOL bracng weather that we
had through the greater part OF last month.
In early youth it the hight OF my ambition TO be
stage-dnver. Later life, when troubles multiplied
upon me and my consistent and edifyng life made me
many enemies the Omnibusdrver became the object OF
my special envy. He Ia perched so sereney on his
elevated box. On Summer days. when the sunshine is
little too severe TO be pleasant he can obtain an enor
nous umbrella OF manufacturer anxious to adyer
tise his goods, by simply depostng dollar which dol
lar Ia returned TO him he brings back the umbrella
have never been able TO borrow umbrella on these
terms. And then II he enemy attempting to
cross the street be can pick him up his pole and
carry him block or two; II he mpaes him it does MT
matter much-omnibus drivers never hanged,
neither do they marry Nor is it necessary
that he wait for his enemy to attempt 10
cross the street. he can 20 for him on the
sidewalk, spear him q balcony, Lift him from
q thrdsory window, II he choose. His horses aid
him willingly. When you see an omnibus horse fix his
eye on You, beware you a gone There is no
escape from his dabocal Intentions and II you par
tiouar about little things and want your name spelled
right the cOfn-plae the engraver at Talk
OF blackhorse cavalry I would sooner face a whole
brigade OF them than stand the charge OF single omn
bus horse Of any color whatever. Think what the six
Hundred would have done at Balaklava had they been
mounted on six hundred omnibuses drawn by twelve
hundred walleyed horses II ever charge Of this
kind occurs let be its Tennyson. But just now my
ambition is to be the jockey OF the winning horse to
ride past the Grand Stand in streaked and specked
raiment. my head between the horses
and everybody applauding, ladies and all
How sweet the looks that ladies' bend
On whom their fevers fall
when you win feverish-colored gloves for them.
Negotiations are going with purpose, and hope
soon to be a Jockey and with the jockeys stand-the
grandest stand OF all. to my thinking. At present my
weight rather heavy but Pm drinking Hathorn water,
and shall either be losing ghost or winning jockey in
the end.
had a few words with Travers yesterday. Very
little was said on either side, but good while
about it, The fact of it is, never talk with Mr.
Travers without suffering He leads or and OF course
must either trump follow suit. And never occurs
to me 10 trump This makes him think that can't talk
any better than he can; and he probably thought he
was getting good joke me when he suggested that
when the Travers Stakes" were run for again. to have
John Paul" start the horses would make 1t all right
and even The way OF 1t Ia thus; Mr.. Trayers talks
bet and I'm "A better; this puts in the comparative,
but I'm positive about the fact, having incidentally
mentioned two winning horses small amounts last
race day.
But II they will make starter" and don't get
all the horses OF sooner than they sent in the first
race yesterday it will only be because two or three Of
them stay at post Instructed not TO go unless they got
the best OF start probably several OF the jockeys
held back and Ockeyed In a that deserved signal
punishmentthat s. the signal should have been gwen
20 co. leaving them the privilege OF starting at their
LEISURE minnie W." made think that the rest OF
her name should be "Ont." Notwithstanding that she
was the favore. from having accidentally houndered
in first through the mud and water Of the
other day and was heavily backed in conse-
quence that no demonstration on her part was
necessary kept backing herself about as though ma
tre had forgotten inform her which end OF horse
or aly" these horse sharps up here Like Sanford
point the finger Of scorn you you call mare horse
or aly mare-which end Of horse, say nature in
tanded shoud 20 foremost There, that's wrong after
oil Int let n COL And IL really seemed that Sunrise
would have to have her name changed to SUNSET before
sbe got through with it, Perhaps she wished 70 Vlnu-
cate the name OF her dam, Ultima" However, she got
the race And a piece OF information dawned upon me
then mot bad that dawned" IN connection with sun
risen which never SO much as beamed on me
before and I'll let it bulge upon you. Both
q. s,,-,se, and Minnie W" were down IN
the programme by Planet" but out OF diherens dans
And happened to speak Of them as sisters" No.
said one OF your experts IN supercIious tones mean
balrssters" went on, meekly but firmly Not Dit
IT, with the air OF one who had owned more horses
than ever saw "horses out OF the same dam by the
came re are brother or sister; horses out OF the same
d,p nv different sres are hsbrother or halt-sisser
borses ont of different dams by the same sire are no rea
ton az all" That this way OF reckoning Is sheer non
sense is the severes thing will say about IT, Accord
ing 10 such style OF keeping books the Test horse In the
world ia deprived OF the proud privilege not to say the
hilarious happiness, OF having first cousin, leaving
o,bern.law entirely out in the cold. What American
ot,en would submit to this without struggle for itt
NoV 70 90 ON with the races-and TO get away rom
them as soon as possible for facts stubborn things
and hate facts and horses too stubborn to start are
not facts don't know what IL Tor are) In the next
. for which there we're seven entries, Boss Tweed"
reared and prouetted and chasseed about the track
as though he guess he's q hel imagined Providence,
70 say nothing OF the balance OF Rhode Island intended
that horse should walk two legs instead OF on four
leaving his fore legs entirely out OF considera-
tiou. in fact and giving some individual with
aspraons toward puns but bad idea OF pronnn-
citation, opportunity to congratulate Boss Tweeds"
owner upon having rare horse" But nobody bet on
on the Boss"-perhaps because Of an apprehension
that the Committee OF Seventy would arrest him before
he got half way round the track. And True Blue ran
the race in SSH the best two-me time record. by
two seconds, 3:3A having stood the front formerly
made by Lytteton at Lexington, KY on the 2dof May,
17l True Blue being by Lexington makes it all in the
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