Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-02

around the proper course. His
time was 2:23a; and without urg-
ing him to a second mile, Peralto
mounted another which was held
in waiting and continued. This
one he drove twice around, and
until toward the close he continued
to drive most of the animals twice
around at a stretch.
The first ten miles were made in
"a minutes A. seconds, not includ-
ing changes, and the rider was well
ahead of time. The spectators
were increasing steadily. Every
half hour, as the time went on and
the trains came in, the people could
be seen footing it across the fields
like vast focks of black birds. 1t
was about lunch time during the
first ten miles, and at the grand
stand and in the clubhouse the
rider was neglected for a space in
the interest of beef and beer and
hard-boiled eggs. With the begin
ming of the eleventh mile, however,
interest was fairly awakened. Pc
ratio had mounted a vicious-look-
ing little sorrel, which nearly con-
quered an entrance into the stables,
but which once rightly directed,
went off like a stone from a sling.
A bay followed him, leading off in
a kindlier fashion, and making
2:173 and 2:331, and another bay,
moving straight as a die, passed un-
der the line on the nineteenth mile
in 2:148, Peralto lashing her like
mad and the people cheering her
wildly. She ran on in the TWEEN
tieth mile, too, making it in $3.50,
and the second ten miles were thus
finished in 24:444.
The next ten miles we're not
done quite SO well. At the close Of
the twenty-forth mile Petralto was
nearly half a minute in remounting
owing to the wildness Of the horse
and the chances Of keeping up un.
der difficulties which seemed always
to multiply, began to look very
slim. The ten miles were made il
24334, not counting the changes
The thirty-ffty mile devolved upoI
a very vicious beast. At the pricl
of the spur he started off like
shot, but it was soon evident tina
his only object in running was t,
get back as speedily as possible t,
the stables whence he came. Thi
he was not able to do thanks to tn
howling blacks and his master
spurs combined, but the negroe
once passed, and the bit a trifie re
laxed, the brute ascended a sharI
hill Just beyond the stables wit
the suddenness of a balloon. II
went first across a moat with
single bound and then in an instan
had his unintimidated rider in
! maze of underbrush and sapling;
For moment they were lost t
. sight, and it was half suspecte
that the beast had leaped the fenc
: of the park, but shortly out the
: came again, and under savage blow
? of whip and spur the animal aime
! himself at last rightly and came i
2 in S:424.
e From this point on the mustang
!. acted with unvarying and alarmin
s badness. The time figures rosC
s and the expectation Of seeing al
n other mile made in 2:124, whic
t was the time of the twenty-thir
; mile, was abandoned. But throug
G all the wild eccentricities of h.
>. horses the rider sat unmoved.
e was evident that no horse could di
e lodge him, except by rubbing hi
# off, and even that had been trie,
e with such facilities as offered then
+ selves, in vain. At the close of Il
fftieth mile Peralto rested fol
d minutes, during which he WI
II sponged and rubbed with towel
, Pools at this stage were sellin
n against him; he was ten secon'
i behind time.
|, On the seyenty-sixth mile, Il
$ mustang under saddle managed
k reach the stable spite of everythin
,e He actually went under the fenc
" which broke against the body
c. the rider, and entered the stab
u rear first. The mile was made
,e 9:45 At 6 o'clock, Peralto W
id eight seconds only ahead Of tim
1t The crowd was immense, as W
rs the excitement. The rider took
fresh horse at nearly every mil
De effecting the change always IN
Of few seconds. On the 147th mile
h. fresh mustang charged over one
1e the negroes and trampled on hi
b. preparatory to continuing on +
Nv course. The horse made the mi
IN in 2:33t, and the negro got up
ne some surprise, and shook his han
re kerchief as an intimation that
he was unhurt. All the betting W
es with the rider now. He chang
u with every mile, and rode hGl
I'd after horse without accident L
IN 154th mile he completed in 2;Sl
It. and the 155th in 1925, with o
off minute and a half to spare out
de a ride of seven hours.
&C.