The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-09
ST. LOUIS RACES.
ST.. LOUIS CROWDED WITH PEOPLE
TO WITNESS THE RACES.
The Race Course of the st. Louis Jockey
Cuba Celebrated Race Horse
Fatally injured.

Nothing Is talked Of or thought Of In st
! Louis this week but
THE RACES.
For more than decade we were without 8
jockey club or trottiDR association, or even 9
| track, and now we have all three combined
The aII-absorbing topic among the people Is
| racing, horse racing. 1t is almost another
fair week. The hotels are full. Every pas
Scnger train that arrives at the Union depot
Is n long one and every car Ia crowded. The
| new Corners are for the most part residents
of the country towns around for distance 81
eighty or q hundred miles from the city, but
there nrc also hundreds, yes,
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM KENTUCKY AND
TENNESSEE,
and Arkansas and Texas, and Mississippi
and Louisiana. The list Of visiting turrmcn
included II. Price McGrath, Of Lexington
Midway, Ky; Col. Rufus II. Hunt, Of New Or
leans; Col. W. II. johnson. Of Nashville; M
Lewis Clark, president Of the Louisville
Jockey Club; J. Hunt Reynolds, Of Lexng-
ton; George CadwalIader, Of Kentucky;
James Pickett, Of louisiana Gen. james f.
Robertson, Jr., Of Kentucky, s. II. Jones, of
llllHJl5 III. NI'o'S, III IIDtllHlhIbs NTEIl ~
Buford, Of Kentucky; Col. Spencer, Of Tcxas
Lawrence Hart, of Louisiana; Phil. G. Cocks,
Of YaZOO City, Miss; Frank Lilly, Of Shrcve-
port, La; Vim. MuIkey and Henry Avis,
Kansas City. The Cincinnati CDmmcrcim is
represented by Edw. Miller, the Krni,,rhv
Lire Stock RcGord by y. G. Bruce, the Tuoy
FicH and FHrm by r. J.. Kay. and the Spirit
Of the Times by Mr. Hubbard,
THE GROUNDS or THE ST. LOUIS JOCKEY CLUB
nre conceded by all nonresident turHmcn to
be as fine rs any In the country. They are
located between Page Avenue and the St.
Charles rock road, and are about five miles
from the Courthouse The grand stand Is on
the north side Of the grounds, and commands
u splendid view Of the entire track, and also
OF the western suburbs Of the city and the
whole suburban country to the south Of the
grounds as far as tho high ridge occupied by
the Female Hospital, Insane Asylum and
POOr-hOuse. Three railrOads run between
this ridge and the grounds, and the intnrlyinR
district looks from the stand like a big farm
patched with meadows and wheat and corn
fields, and dotted with handsome Villas and
groves Of trees. A prettier picture can hardly
be seen from the grand stand Of any race
course In the country Some fears were ut
first entertained about the track, but am
happy to be able to state that the fears were
entirely grOundleBg. The time made on it the
first day Of the races showed that it has no
superior anywhere rs running track. In
conversation with a gentleman Yesterday
Gen. Buford said, THE elevation Of
TILE GRAND STAND
Is magnificent. The spectator has n better
show for his money than on any course | ever
saw But they mustn't let horses trOt on this
track. They We got u splendid race track and
for GODS sake don't let them take the life out
Of the soil by putting trotterB on it. They
can't make n trOtting track and running
track out Of the same track. ! fought that
idea ut Lexington and throughout Kentucky,
and they've all come to my opinion. In New
Orleans they won't let trOtter come near
their track"
That Gen BufOrd8 wishes in regard to
letting trotterS on the track are not to be
graufied this year, Is evidenced by tn" an
nOunCemcnt Of the tTpttng nesting for the
last week Of the present month What will
be done afterwards is left to the future to de-
eide The only objection find to the grounds
IS their location, or rather their distance from
the heart Of the city. The narrow gauge
railroad runs within two or three hundred
yards of the entrance at the southwest cor
nor Of the grounds, but the entrance is fully
half a mile from the grand stand. One Of the
street car IinnS-thC Franklin Avenue road
has an extension track to the main entrance,
but 1t is single track and altogether made
quate for the demands made on it for passpn-
ger travel at time like the present. The
cars are crowded, and taking ladies out to
see the races under such conditions is, Of
course, out Of the question. For people who
J
can afford to hire them, there il
no such obstacle in the way, but the
masses OF the people, those living in the city
and those coming from country towns, either
cannot afford, or else they are unwilling to
pay out 81 or S. extra for an afternoons en-
jOymcnt at race course. And the races are
dependent upon this class for SUCCESS. With.
out the patronage Of the people, such eX-
pensiVe sources Of amusement cannot last
long. This objection may be removed, how
nIynT hyyn nIf Il 7 E.JIT,
part. Four years ago there was but one
street railroad running to the Fair Grounds,
and that Il single track extension with double
fare, and now four lines run from the bust
ness part OF the city TO the gates Of the Fair
Grounds, and the through fare on all the
roads Is but five cents. With the same facil-
tiles for reaching the Jockey Clubs track,
see no reason why their races should not be-
come as popular as the annual fair and cx-
position at the Fair Grounds.
THE ATTENDANCE
the first three days Of this weeks races has
been very good, though hardly, | believe, I'D
to expectations. The attendance to-day was
larger than that OF either Of the two previous
days, but numbered less than twenty thou
sand persons, perhaps not more than fifteen
THE WEATHER
has been exceptionally fine, and everything
seems TO have been favorable for the races
There have been some dsappOintment8, Of
course, but none that we cannot get over and
that cannot be forgotten if the races close as
they were commenced and have been cOntn- /
ued. The SaddeSt disappointment, perhaps, !
IS the absence Of Ten Brock. Of course, we
are somewhat inCensed here at the way the
Louisville people managed to prevent Ten
Brock from running at our races and every
body is ready to swear that 1t was done
merely because they were afraid he would be
beaten here. There is talk now that Himyar
will be run against time as a three year old /
before the close Of the week, and every St.
LOuisan hopes that the match will be made
and that Himyar will knock the bottom out
II Ten BrOecks record. His first mile /
n the January stakes last Tuesday was made .
N :42R, the best time ever made by a three /
year old with 1O5 pounds weight. Himyar
was the only favorite that came out a winner .
hat day. In the hurdle race, Risk, whose
record at the last New Orleans races was the |
pest ever made had a tumble, owing, it is .
said, to cloud of dust, in trying to clear the !
5hird hurdle in the first heat, and did not run
n the next heat. Joe Rhodes astonished
everybody by the long strides he made and
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