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

" ON the Ne,o York Sportsm m. i

TIE RACING At BALTIMORE.
IF ON the Ne,o York Sportsmrpl
The fsll m"eti"g OF is., Ba q more will
always De memorable. The great lue and
chi. H. consists in the evidence il furnishes
or ihe absorb ny interest The people take in
the spor's of the turf when the best horses ia
the country meet. IL Is beyond all question
that throughout this vast couutr, the great
topc Of thought aud discu sion on Wedues-
day was Il rsce between Ten Brock, Tom
Ochiltree aud Parole A few thousands wit
nesst the race, but 80 900 OOl NAV be said 10
have waited eagerly for news of the result.
Our report is full and graphic. Ten Brock
was defeated. but by no IN ans dtsgraced
for be beat the horse who was supposed to be
the champion OF this secJIon of the country
by ten lengths, and this seems TO us to show
that the race was II much better one tn an
m ght be imag med from the time. Toe fact
l., that the race Was uneve EN- one. Toe
trst halt mile was very slow, but afterwards
the pace gDt better aud better. until IL be-
came simply terrible, and Parole WAS the
Only one that could stand IT. Oh Tom and
Tn b Deck botn out, and Tom quit the
worst OF the Two. he was beaten ten Iengths,
ard Ten Brock half as mucn IN may nave
been that Ten Brock was little out OF CON
dillon, but there could not have been much
the matter dDlesS Tom Ochiltrre was IA tIy
off, too. Wnrn IA hor,e can bsay ro:n . :hii-
tree ten lie : n II will hardly do 10 say that
h was no IA or Ter. II sil lie more proper
u give P1r0l" and his owner, AMI his very
careful a able Lrainer, the credit To which
uey ar ia tly e4titlat. 1t has long been
the opinion or ne wtsest aut mos ex-
p'l need o. the trai ers and IIrf nrl
= a Parole Wa, iae best horse in this coun-
try for a mile Z. III d half, aud We have heard
o." etntlen'n, whose experience in
America, Eng and a Il France has bee very
ltrse, 2s clare that thought he could ran
i'ur miles y, VIII a. o e when Thoroughly
III Il l. pretty wei EnO VA mat he was
always ab - 20 Outiun everything IN that
a. irOm The tim he was { vo y -ars Old
aid 49, isye h arr thai h. was Onc. trleI
two miles d a mar nigh Ell 'ugh To lat
auybpiy's horse. He Is, however, an un-
ccr'EiH soft OF horse, and it Is very seldom
thai he il At his best. tn only time h. was
ever really ii AT Jerome PARK was In the all
ageh StakeS, "A year ago this fall. He was III
to run for u mans II t that day, ant made A
ludtcr"us spectacle OF three or four fast
horses. Al Saratoga he has ZEN in fine co l.
di,i"n twmor three Tunes, and he likes nat
course. We have often declared to ganiIe-
men in our office that he wa, the ONLY horsa
thai could beat Tom U:aiitree, II being then
supIo--f that Ten Brock would not be
traIued again. But il does not follow that be
VIII beat old Tom next spring. If they are
bon framed again Iude II tie chances are
rather the other way, for he il uDt such
good wear aud tear morse rs Tom Ochiltres,
and is net at his best half as often. We
Imagine hat he IS the cauSe of IN Re iron Die
aut a Xiety to Brown than all the other
horses In mat great stable, aud We firmly
believe thaf, IN SOM peoples hands, ne
would have been simply worthless. Tae
so IS OF bennington have not b zen f)rtultte
horses. Enquirer had fair luck, bat only for
biir sed>oll lJDuSitlitsW III u Win several
severe acciienGs before he retired. ArisJites,
az good a horse as ever was sad tlet a al
oridled, was crippled at what seemed olly
the beginning of glorious career; ami
beat Tom Ochiltree II mile at even weights
appears TO be all gone. We esteem il then
fortunate thing that Pierre Lpriliard bJusht
The weedy little son OF bennington and
Maiden for $50, when Major Baker
sold Mr.. Welch's yetrlings in June.
lsii, for he went into the hantS of
Rrnwn than whnn tbpro ia
man. The last time he saw Parole before toe
allased stakes at jerome Park was alb )ut a
week prior 10 that race. He had been beaten
by Tom Ochiltree in the handicap, aud
Brown knew that he was Off. Tne Baltimore
race was rot then dreamed Of, and he spoke
with reference To the all-ased stakes. Il can
not make ont what tue matter Is with him
He eats his feed and seems TO do we'll, but ne
has not got his speed. 1 would almost give
years wages TO have him just fit for Tn AZ
race. He can beat Old Tom when he is right
But he was not rfght-far from it, and Tom
beat him easily, Mr.. &c ,rge LDrillari WIN
ming - 900 on The race. When this great race
was made it seemed very question .ole
whether Parole wOIid he H., and after he hal
gone to Baltimore We learned from Dr. Cat
Ganach, staunCh friend OF Parole and de
won't worshipeI of the Whaleoone b.ooi
which he inh, rlts, that his heels We're cracked
open. The skill ana Care of Brown, however,
with much good luck, bought him Cd the
post In such coalition that he was able 10
stand the severity OF the pa e wnen 1t be-
came ! % mucn better than either of the biz
horses. Then, again, tney ran IL ia u right.
Barrett had waiting orders, and faithfully
followed them. The horse was beat 81 last
fall al Baltimore solely by making running
with him III the mud, and he can betl nj n
self any lime / mile If his rider Will iet
b M do it o. We1neS tag ne let tue Two big
horses make thu ruluilS, a We along
fair aud easy In tn ir wake, ii ally ciosiag
with hem by slow degre's, aud nursing n :
own speed and row r so tina ia thu ar sis o
Tue race he wa hi. 10 com away with q Wet
sail while they Were iaborin in dis1re -. Ia.
re>r Of the rae haS greatly surprised many
people. We do no believe thai ten men
America besides Mr.. LOrl'a'd, ID pcJor L)r-
lizard aud Brown believed thaJ Parole co III
win. We fie ly confess thai We did not, or
we had no CO. Il tence in his being ia co lii-
ton. Besides, 1t has always seemed very
close thing b. tween him aud Tom Urh .ltres,
and this fall Old Tom seem 81 to b. a. his
best. Then again, the prestige of the Ken
lucky horse was enormO ~, AMI Justly 80, for
here was q racer who had defeated every
thing that had raced against him since the
fall or his third year, with great ease, save
Aristides. With the majority OF the public.
too, the time trials hal great weight. Toe
righteousness OF the time test has beeu
strongly insisted on aud often shown, but,
nevertheless, people can hardly help being
Influenced by It, and the easiest time on
record" is deemed sll-sufficIent. 1t is already
being said that the time OI tnis race al Balt:-
more was poor. How could 1t be fast when
they went away at about a two minute rate?
The race should not be Judged by the time OF
the whole. 1t was not the time of the whole
which cooked the mutton Of the big beaten
horses, but the intensity Of the pace il part
OF ii. You crowd into half a m lie the mus
cular force and nervous energy which might
be distributed over a mile and nalf, and
You stop ninety-nine horses out of hundred.
The old and well-tried axiom is that pace
Kills. and it does not take a great distance OF
ground TO kill in when IL is really severe.
Now, here Is Ten BfOeck, a four mule horse
beyond all question, and has run the fastest
four mile! In public, and yet Aristides hal
him dead beat in two miles by reason of Sc
we're pace. Well, here he is again, deened
almost unbeatable. aud with the fastest re.
cords at all distances, from one nile II four,
and Parole beats h; IN In so miles anu a hair,
solely because in one part of the race the
pace was at the rate Of In. 3iS to the mile.
and the little joker" was the Only one that
could endure it, Now this see rs TO US to be
more reasonable expia la'ion tlan that
Ten Brock WAS 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 superstition
that IL was q bad race because the tune of Ii
was not fast. Now this has but a little TO do