Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-11-03

Now, here Is Ten BfOeck, a four mule horse
four miles in public, and yet Aristides hal
him dead beat in two miles by reason of Sc
we're pace. Well, here he is again, dee m 81
almost unbeatable. aud with the fastest re-
cords at all distances, from one nile u fOur,
and Parole beats him In { SO miles anu a hilf,
solely because in one part of the race the
pace was at the rate of I'm. 3is to the mile,
ana The Little joker" was the Olly one that
could endure IL. Now this see as TO US to b =
more reasonable Pxpa la'ion tlan thai
Ten Brock W rs off II he was off, how was
j. that he beat Tom Ochiltree ten lengths
Word came from Baltimore that Tom was
never better than just before the rainStprm,
and 1t will hardly be believed that they were
both of. IL all hinges upon the suppOSition
that IL was bad race because the tune of Ii
was not fast. Now this has but little to do
with 1t. The horses did not go TO make time.
They had a salutary fear OF each other, and
neither of them dared 10 go n way fast al first
This race Will be part of the history OF the
turf, and 1t ought To go into toe annals in
proper shape. The merit of a race and the
quality of q race horse do not depan1 upon
time. II Parole had always been in Ken
lucky, carrying light weights Il nd running
upon the fast track ut Louisville, VIII Il sort
OF u reputation would he have hal by this
time? There have been in England two races
Tor The Ascot cup which are especially
famous. Ia one of them West Australia
peat Kingston by head. Ia the other Tel
dinglon beat StOckwell toy a head, and they
reeied past The post in sore distress. That
race was SIX seconds slower than West Aus
y
counted the best. because the pace was ter
rae in the last three quarters OF a mile of it,
That three quarters OF a mile utterly ex-
hausted those two horses, and they We're a 9
good as have been raised in England. Both
had the WhalebOue blood In the male line as
Parole has, and StOckweil had the blooi of
Web as well as Parole has. There Is every
reason TO believe that these three horses q 1
Wednesday ran a part Of their race a. fast
as any three horses ever ran on such "A
course. We can no. accoul. for two of
them being beaten and sOrely distressed in
any other way. There ara people gOily 40.
bling about To tho effect that Tom OcniiJree
was rot meant u win, and that M q s1rge
LoTiliard sent him III re TO help his brother.
Such men onghi tO be put in the lunatic asy-
lnm. II il We're not that the r driveili Ig folly
Woud eXas perata the very m atmel whit:
its walls. Mr.. George LDriilart's p.id. In
MS morse Is very great, and nothing w0ult
have IL ducei him u have lost this race IL ne
could have won ii. There is no need OF any
explanation touching the result, liz one sim.
pie fact Is odmittsd, that ia, that Parole Is a
good horse, when in condition, for two
miles ard a half, as he is ailO wed To be for n
mile and a half Admit this taad there Is
nothing more reasonably and the whole diff
fculties vanish. Why should he not be n
good two mile and half horse, with 1)5
pounds on him? He beat Tom Ochiltree two
lengths In the SaratOgt cup. with 10 pounds
more weight. The fact Is that Msssrs. Lortl-
lard, Mr.. Webb AM Mr. Browa Oh xhs 10 be
very grateful to Capt Moore AM ths Caa n
piOn of the Light Weights. But for their
ciamOr and lam .ntatton over the weights or
the American JOCKEY Club, Mr.. Harper