The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-07-12
The Great Louisville Race.
Ten Broeck Distances the California Mar

Ten Broeck Distances the California Mare IN
the FIRST Heat.
LOUISVILLE, July AT 10 o clock this mo, n =
ing the streets were well nigh impossible, the
buildings were handsomely decorated, and un-
parallelel interest was felt in the great esent of
the day.
When the drum tapped for tho great four mile
race to-day Ten Brock and Mollie Mccarthy
went by the string like twin bullets. Ten Brock
had the outside of the track, and the mare
being on the inside, ran to the front from the
start. At the first quarter they were side by
side and going gallanty on to victory. The half
mile did not change the position, and as they
moved onward the thirty thousand spectators
were held in perfect silence. Between the half
and thrce-quarters the mare got her nose ahead
and n great cheer went up, and then rs they
came past the string and she again appeared in
the front another cheer was heard. The mare
was moving easy, but Ten Brock was being
driven hard.
ing with such ease, and Ten Brock labored so
hard, that the kentuckians wavcred by thous-
ands, and the certainty Of Californa's winning
produced a dead silence. At the half post in
the second mile Walker urged Ten Brock quite
hard, and lawson permitted him to come up
side by side Kentucky YELL which was
heard for miles, rent the air. So they ran past
the three quarters, and coming into the stretch
Mollic Mccarthy brushed ahead again, passing
the grand stand half length in the lead.
''Shc will win sure was heard in oil direc-
lions, and more confident grew the cry as her
easy movement continued, the horse still tiriy-
ing. She passed the quarter in tac third mile
still leading, but the horse hung on to her close,
and made apace so murderous that many knew
his cotton would have an effect ultimately. At
the threc-eighth pole of the third mile McCar
thy let up in her running, Ten Brock taking
the track and assing her at the very moment
his friends were giving him up. lie increased
rapidly the distance separating them. The
mares break down was heard the field over, but
she ran on. Walker pulling the horse slightly
was ahead on the third mile ten lengths, and
he increased it all the time although her
defeat was now certain, few fesiiiiled how far
and easy Ten Brock would Hin. lie little more
than galloped tho remaining mile, the Queen of
of the CALIFORNIA; being at the threcq quarter
polo when the great "kentuctky crack" distan-
ced her. The time l9S, as follows: First
mile, l-493 scconAmilc- -a.l2i third SSile,
5.53 fourtlf-mtic,'S .193-morc than q minute
slower than his best record Both horses were
well used up, the heat being intense. There
was no heavy betting, the Californans and East
crn people who backed tho mare being content
with smstrinScsmans of three to five. Thirty
thousand people or more were present.
RELIEF AT LAST From Cholera -Infantum
and Summer complaints. DR.. MorrETr's
TEETHINA (7eeihing Po,cders) Regulates the Bow
els and makes Tcething easy, Heals Eruptions
and Sores, Removes and Prevents the formation
of Worms in Children No Mother should be
without it. A. IRWIN s. CO., and all Druggists
keep it.
May II. 2S 2w
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