The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-13
THE RACING.

The track quite heavy from the rain Of the day
and night before and doubt and anxiety were con-
Ipicuous on the countenances OF tho owners of the
horses engaged in tho various Three events
the card-the first the Kenner Stakes. two
miles, for threcyear-olds, dash of a mile and half
with 100 lbs up, and selling race the distance milo
and quarter.
The Kenner Stakes closed with fty-two nominations
ak Of which TO the post the value Of the stakes
being s. 600 Tho starters J. A. Grnsteads chest
nut colt St Martin by imported Phaeton dam Tokay;
John o'Donnell's chestnut colt Miner by bennington
dam by Lexington; D. McDaniel's chestnut colt Willie
Burke, by haywood, dam Ka,inka; Thomas Purycar
Co.'s bay colt Warwick, by bennington, dam Minnie
Minor; j. NJ. Harnoys brown colt Ozark by Pat Malloy
fam Sunny South, and H. p McGraths bay colt Chesa-
peake by Lexington, dam Roxana With the exccp-
hon OF St Martin NIL tho colts have appeared in public
and have established the character Of being horses
and the exceptional one certainly today having gone
through tho ordeal must also be considered first class
one his defeat being attributed TO being cut down In
the race Miner has four times this season pre-
vious TO this race and although he never was winner
no each time reached place His FIRST appear
Rnco was at Jerome Park, Juno 8, where ho
ran for a purse for all ages q milo and thrco-
quarters, and second TO sprngbok beating Big Fell
low Big Sandy md Donnybrook. His next appearance
and Aristdcs and at tho meeting he was second
TO Matte A. in purse for three. year that had
race; ono mile. Ills next wns at this
place. In tho Travers Stakes, when he finished second
to D'Artagnan. Miner is capital racing colt He ran
grand this occasion and mado dead heat with
Ozark The owners consulted while and decided to d-
vide the stakes, which the best thing they could
have done Willie Burke has been the turf nearly
two seasons having last year ivc in his two
ycar-od form, in OF which no successful TIe
made his fret appearance In the Juvenile
Flakes NJ the Jerome spring meeting, and
1Hne In ninth, the race being won by T. Puryear's
Chestnut colt AIcco Willie Burke made his second APP
pearanco at tho Same place in half-mc for two
year-ods, where no beat Calvin and nine others. At
Saratoga In tho Flash Stakes no beaten by Oitipa
Willie scinG second, and beating Austrand Calvin, Vic
lorious, Bay1nlnstcr Ravenna and Caroline He
Tie saratoga Stakes at the meeting, beating King
Bolt lhzLie r. Risk, james A. Australnd Maador and
peake anil James A., finished his racing rs a two year
old Willie Burke has not shown OIL 20
mach advantage this year bis first race
being in the Belmont Stakes whore ho finished
twelfth He nfterwnrd In n free handicap and was
second to Survivor and again in the Consolation purse
dash OF threc-quartcrs of mile when ho was bcntcn
by Countess, Bob woollcy ard Dublin He did NOT
up TO tho expectations Of his trainer Yesterday as
he nth at tho finish and rather bad ono nt that
Warwick made his first appearance jerome Park this
ycar lie has run four before the present ono in
neither ol which has he reached u place lie was
nnh in tho WIthors Stakes, seventh I'm Tho
Belmont and WIS Knocked down by General
Park, and reached fourth place In tho Travcrs Stakes
this place two weeks ago lie cut out tho work in this
race ana led, with momcntary exception, for n mile
and seven eghths. when Ozark and Miner lone each