The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-10
FLEETWOOD PARK.

The First Team Race Of the Sess0n-
Bessie b. and Yellowstone the Win
ncrs OF $500 Purse and stake.
! The first team race OF the season was decided q
| Fleetwood Park yesterday afternoon, the condt
tons of the contest being mile heats best threesin
| nve, for purse and stake OF $780, There we1e
| four entries for the event-Dantel Pnfer's brown
stallion Harry Bassett and black mare Betsy King
John Murpny's bay mare Lady Trembil and sorrel
geldlng Sorrei Jake, Peter Manee's bay mare
Bessie B. and dun gelding Yellowstone and NJ.
McNamara's soRrei geiuing sorrel Dan and sorrel
gelding Sinner. or these Pliers team was drawn.
owing to the black mare going lame on Friday. The
attendance. though not large, made up very re-
spectacle gathering all Of whom were pleased with
the afternoons sport The track was in excellent
shape. In the pools before the start Manee's team
was the favortte, on an average. $40 10 $26 over
the neld and Johnson for while had his hands
full to accommodate the many buyers Mucn to
the disappointment OF Peters friends Murphy's
team won the first heat, when. jumping 1T the con-
clusi0n that Bessie B. ana mate had been over
Trembill and Sorrel Jake becoming the favoriIes
two to one. Nance was not discouraged. however.
win It. Earring ana sScs proved the
case, as ne beat his opponents In the subsequent
heats IN capital style
then Lady TremDill and mate, and Bessie B. and
mate outside. They were sent away to fair start
the lead at the word. Rounding the first turn
Mcnamara put on more steam and, In doing so,
broke the gelding SINNER. when Murphy's Lady
Trembil and mate went to the front, and, passing
the quarter IN forty-tw0 seconds, he was half
length ahead OF Nance, who was four IN advance
OfMcNamara. They remained In these positions
! to the hali-mile pole, IN :2l when Lady Trembl
and mate continued to open the daylight, and they
Bessie B. and Yellowstone, when the latter went
into the air, and as they swung into the home
almost an equal distance ahead OF Sorrel Dan and
| Sinner. From this point Nance gave up trying
for the heat; which Murphy discovering ne took
| Lady Trembill and mate in hand and logged over
the score nve lengths in front, Bessie b. and
mate two lengths IN advance Of Sorrel Dan anu
Second HsaI-Lady Trembin and mate were the
favorites two to pne over the field. At the second
rounding the turn Murphy sent his team to the
| front and passed the quarter pole hall length in
front 81 Bessie B. and mate IN iorty,two and half
the rear. Down the back-stretch Murphy and
Nance had Y nip and tuck for some distance, but
her COMPANION se fsl jake ssaiy and
the air, BY which pleasant occupation the team
fell to the rear. Going by the half mile, In
mate second lengths in advance
Lady Trembi and mate. These positions were
unaltered along the Point Of Rocks and also at the
work, Murphy made another attempt to get some
where near the leaders, but 1t was unavailing,
easy winners by SIX lengths, McNamara's team
| second eight lengths in ADVANCE OF Lady Trembili
and Sorrel Jake. Time, 1853.
! $32 to $40, which Manee's team sold for on an
average. The third trial they got away on even
terms, but McNamaras team at once left their
feet ana at the quarter pole, In forty seconds,
Bessie B. and mate were one length in front Of
Lady TremDi ana mate who were eight lengths
in advance OF Sorrel Dan and mate Nance kept
on In his slashing way ana passed the nan mile 10
1:20H, half length in front, the others as before
named. He maintained this advantage along the
heels, but his pets could not stick, and leaving
! their feet Peter swung into the homestretch ten
as he pleased, Lady lrembill and mate second,
seventy yards behind, with sorrel Dan and mate
just inside the distance nag Time, $3.50
when Manee's team took j "ny,n but they were
soon again at work and at the quarter pole, In
forty-one seconds were Jour lengths ahead, NC.
Murphy's Trembill and Sorrcl Jake, the latter fol-
lowing Manee's example OF going into the arr Al
| the half-mile Nance mad increased mis- advantage
10 eight lengths, the others as before. 1t was nc
trouble now for Manee's Bessie and mate, al
they came along and won the heat and race by
eighty yards, McNamara's Sorrel Dan and mat
second three lengths in 'front.' of Murpny's Ladl
Tremblll and mate, who crossed the score on I
break. Time, 2;So s,
FLEETWOOD PARK, MoRRIsANrA, N. T., MAY 9
1s74-Purse and stake OF $500, for teams, mile
heats, best three In i've. Judges James Il. Dater
| AIeck Patterson and Lee DevOe.
Peter Manee's b. m. Bessie b. and d. g.
Jonn n'i Hurphy's b. m. Lady Trembili ana
NJ. McNamara's 8. &. sorrei Dan and 5. g.
Daniel Pieiier's br. s. Harry Bassett and
Blk. m Betsy King. observation-disclosures. Or.
Quarter. HaI Nile.
Second heat. AK l:al.s 2:5a