The New York herald., 1874-08-05
SARATOGA RACES.
Last Day of the First Sum-
mer Meeting.
A Large and Fashionable Attend
anoe at the Course.
THREE CAPITAL RAACES
ur Cameron's bennington Colt tAe Winner, Of
the Selling Race, vandalits <of tho So.
quel Stakes and spr' AZ box Of
the Three Mile lash.
sAR AIoeA, AngustSA 1874.

the Three Mile lash.
SARATOGA, Augusta ls74
To-day, the closing day was the greaI day of the
season. Pr-akness ara Sprngook met These
,wO horses engage ar attention. Springook mas
power; Preakness b Sauty. Besides the nght was
between the two great st9biesof Mcdaniel and
sanford. Wnen such men meet their horses are
typical of them They buy, breed or the BEST.
on NcDaniels sIde Is the intelligence and cunning
Of a trader in t0ews and sinews; on sanfords side
ie more rdeal intelligence, equally attentive,
working ouAgreAler results than mere victory. 1t
b the battle Of the winners.
There sere three TO day. The first was a
great neao for America small or England, where
tneystart fifty horses OF a day; the second race
was a petty field; the third was magnificent
trial OF the highest speed and character between
tw0 giants OF the turf, and Preakness, who was
bnt sore and indifferent climbed up into
the confidence OF people again, until he may
be said TO have recovered his rank the turf and
still to be powerful competitor OF the mighty
Sprngbok.
Yet the pools were more than to . on Spring
box He won scarcely by a head. and 1t is
the opinion OF thousands that had the race been
Tor twenty yards more the victor OF the season
would have been pulled down, robbed OF his fame
and put on the list OF castaways.
Racing Is a great business; the men in it are the
champion students OF associated mankind. The
great bay horse which Sanford matched against
AeDaniels Sprlngbok challenges tire admiration
OF men by his gallant bearing. perfect anatomy,
and also by the behavior ne shows wnen hard
run. To-day they ran three miles
-Four miles, cries the world of watchers. ''If
6pringbok is the best horse let them go lourmile
heats.n
ha frav tOni iS dam in fouy-
mDe match between these powerful animals.
Opinion hazards 1t that Preakness can win
The horse which ran with them to-day, Fellow
craft showed speed without bottom. The favor
ttes ran fast the last half mile and fought
together ike gladiators up The finish, where
some thought Preakness had really won.
Look at some OF these horsemen. There is N. II.
sanford, one OF the most remarkable men on the
turG He was cotton spinner. His business sent
him 70 the South, where he absorbed sporting
pI0clivtles, and it is said, also made important
invention in manufactures. he resolved, some
Sime ago, to so deliberately into the business OF
breeding thoroughbred horses, and brought to it
AL the caution, attention and enterprise which a
man would devote TO sewing machines or Besse-
mer steel works. He is both respected and feare
On the turf. If he is aware that lie has produced
something fine he is close and wary about betray-
ing the knowledge OF II, and then he suddenly
hacks his horse with sums OF money which IN the
return yield the highest mercantile PROFITS.
Regard next Mr.. J. W. Hunt Reynolds, tall,
gentlemanly appearing young married man. VINO
inherited conslderable IN Kentucky and by his wife
added to his store until now, 1t Is said he has
income OF $40 900 year. He has a fine breeding
farm near Lexipgton, takes the turf with Old
head and that inevitably chvalric something in the
Kentucky bearing and STYLE OF thought
Next see the TWO stablemen in Joint partner
ship-Aunter and Travers. Travers is a Marylsnder,
of the dark, grim type OF an old proprietor OF
colonial times with blush gray eyes, a long nose
xnd straight advanced chin, straight figure
cool indeed cold, expression. He is verv tall and
sinewy; broad. but not stout. Transplsnted from
llantership TO Wall street, ne has been IN his day
Arity is TO stutter. Unsparing. long headed,
turing IKE gray-eyed man OF destiny he
has MADE a fortune, and Is enjoying 1t
after his own lashion-a villa at Newport town
house, Wall street office and great stable, in
conjunction with Hunter, VINO Is a smaller man OF
inherited fortune, with an immemorial family
passion for the turf These men, being family
friends, resolved during the war, to bring up the
American turf and ne beforehand with It's advan-
tages They and John Morrssey possess nearly
the whole OF the saratoga Course, and Travers as
President Travers and partner of Leonard
Jerome, brought the latter INTO the turf and
Jerome PARK was begun.
Belmont is perfect type OF the perfectly rich
man. he is IN general quiet, manly, speaking
He belongs think, 10 the class OF men who raise
honor-that most definite and indefinite Of vir-
tues-to be religion 1t is better religion than some
we get nowadays He born IN Europe and
sent here 10 undertake exchanges, and Tor a time
ne led society life, drlving, dancing, wining.
&c., as bachelor At ball he passed q
word with an equally high strung man, and was
shot, tanning him for life He is therefore lame
man, and his small BODY oldish face, yet
without the cool fire of spirit and fortune IN
IT, and settled expression, give him no
great air TIL long observed His countenance
grows with study; there is something OF the
ter man in 1t; ms eyes and the slow, imperial
1ng OF the head show nature trained strong, pro-
fcleDt and with more self-respect than sefshness.
He ~ al or with the head of bankers In The New
World, house too strong TO speculate, too
tive 10 appear on the street, and, If Hebrews
house, IL rises IN time and character above the
gold which built It,
Marrying the daughter OF Commodore Matthew
Perry OF Newport, and very proud Of his wife and
children Beimont, with the aspiring spirit OF the
Rothschlds, sought public career. and the demo-
cratic party made him Chairman OF Its National
committee, the highest party ONCE a man
have. lie behaved in THIS place without noise, with
bberalty equal to the honor, and with principles
better than his party. He believed in gentlemen
Tor Governors and Presidents, and meant by gen
flemen more than honest experienced
chastened statesman Of gradual growth. The
theory sometimes widely advocated in this coun-
try, tnat state may cheat Its creditors or play
praDks with its currency, or taIDper with morals
reputation property was repulSye to TINS man
He has never imputed such insinuattJns 10 Ameri-
cans, of whom he mas avowed that he Is one IN
heart tie and hope.
But after the war. when Pendletonism and
other Revolutionary schemes got within his party.
He took IN MS head not desiring ne abused be-
yOnd the needs OF utility. ana, gracefully retiring
AT Baltimore, made the tuTl his more absorbing
.out-oi door study. The English Rothschllds
set the example, and he has the largest stable
this country. He Is the President or the Amerl-
can Jockey Club, the controlling influence ia turl
matters and his horses appear al all the great races
with promptltude, yet indinerenty rewarded by
their success.
But now the starter, Billy Connor is plying his
Gag, aud We must stop 10 see the race.
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