The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-17
cup DAY" At ASCOT.
Graphic Picture Of the Heath on
the Day for Ladies.
THE BRILLIANT ASSEMBLAGE
A Feast of Color in the Royal
Enclosure.
THE PRINCE and PRINCESS OF WALES.
Some Marvellous Toilets-The Pre-
vailing Shades.
A PARK OF F0UR-IN-HANDS.
Lunching on the Drags-The Drive
Home by Windsor
THE PRINCE and PRINCESS OF WALES.
Some Marvellous Toilets-The Pre-
vailing Shades.
PARK OF F0UR-IN-HANDS.
Lunching on the Drags-The Drive
Home by Windsor
[DY CABLE TO THE HERALD

LONDON, June 16 1877.
In racing sense there is, perhaps, no
meeting in the world which attracts such
universal attention as that on Ascot Heath,
horses that contend there in almost every
race. On Thursday, the 'Gold Cup Day."
all the cracks were on the scene of battle,
and the applause of the thousands, from
prince and peer to commoner, as the win
ming horses passed the judicial chair demon
strated to unprejudiced eyes to what great
extent racing is national sport with the
English people. The rain of Monday was
welcome to the trainers, as it rendered the
royal heath the perfection of going.
THE RACING PART OF IT.
The first race was called Immediately
after the State procession of the Prince of
Wales arrived. The ST. James Palace
Stakes brought only four performers to the
post, although there were sixteen sub
scribers; but the clever struggle which
these made caused all regrets to cease about
larger field, and when the telegraph
board announced that the handsome brown
colt Covenanter had won, the colors of Mr..
Bird, his owner, were greeted with hearty
cheers.
The Fourteenth New Biennial Stakes, the
next event of importance, had even a less
number of contestants than the st. James
Palace Stakes, but the gallant race that they
made was we'll worth long journey to wit
ness. The steep ascent of the course caused
Mr.. Mackenzie's chestnut colt Rob Roy,
who finished third in the Derby, to sue
cumb, when the green and gold braid Of the
Houldsworth family on the bay colt Spring
field dashed home tho winner-a we'll
deserved victory for liberal racing gen.
tieman.
The New Stakes, an event which generally
shows some two-year-olds that subsequently
make bright mark in racing history,
brought out eleven. Lord Rosebery's mag
nifcent brown filly Bellicent won the race
handsomely, Mr. Gerard's Palm Leaf being
second, while Pole Star and Hawthorn ran
dead heat for third place honors.
The Gold Cup, the great event of the
& he g.
the year, then demanded attention. AS tho
runners gathered at the post the enthusiasm
Of the vast concourse in every portion of the
heath rose to fever heat. Each Of the sew
eral performers had their many hackers, but
Petrarch, the colt that Lord Dupplin in
March last paid the enormous sum OF
$50, 900 in gold for, headed the speculators'
list, and after fine race finished in front of
Ill his competitors.
THE FEAST OF FAIR WOMEN.
For the last fortnight the modistes of Paris
and London have been fashioning the dain-
tiest costumes which have excited comment
on Ascot Heath Thursday Of Ascot week
is, as the world knows, or should know,
Ladies' Day, and in finer sense than the
Oaks day ut EPSON which this year was
spoiled by the rain. At Ascot the fair sex
shone in all its glory, natural and artificial,
and, regarding the collective fcmininity
with solemn eye, the philosophic confessed
that worth makes the woman, and the
want of him the dowdy."
THE RESPECTABLE DISTANCE.
Ascot is just far enough from London to
make it difficult for the million who give
EPSON Downs its acres of jovial and bois-
ferrous humanity but not too far to draw a
crowd Of fashionable and respectable
people, who make q mighty concourse by
themselves of the best and loveliest of the
English capital.
THE WAY or THE MAJORITY.
run OF twenty-six miles by the South
western Railroad brings one to the Heath,
and hence the majority 90 by train, many of
them sending their carriages ahead to meet
them at the station, whence they drive
across and take up position along the course
opposite the stand.
THE "swELL" WAY.
The aristocratic minority, however, have
way Of their own, and naturally q more
mscnifcent way. This is to start from their
ralatial homes in the West End of London
On drags with postillions in brilliant liveries