The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-24
MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB.
Second Day Of the Spring
Meeting at Pimlico.
LARGE ATTENDANCE and EXCITING CONTESTS
mary, Danger, Lady Salyers, Frederick the
Great and Problem the Winners.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD

BALTIMORE Nd, May %, 1873
The second day Of the spring meeting Of the Mary
land Jockey Club ut Fimlico, was a gala occasion.
The weather delightful and the attendance large
The racing as whole good, although bad start
In the most important Of the day occasioned
siderable murmurns: yet had tho start been ever
good the result would doubt have been tho same.
Five events the card, the first being .
race for all ages, one mile, which proved that q
good matured horse beat FIRST class young
ster at the weights Tho second race
was Tor three year-oids and IL In this
race that the starter dropped his flag when
the iavorite half dozen lengths in front OF the
others. The colt that had this advantage was MI. G.
l. Loriiard's Danger by Alarm dam by War Dance
He is very large colt all over, being above sixteen
hands in height and finely and powerfully formed.
He ran the mile in ~ ~ ana there is doubt but
that he could made the distance in 40 mad he
been forced all tho way. he is considered by good
Judges who examined him closely after his wonderful
performance, fastest horse OF his age that ever
the American turf. A mile IN LAZY by q
hree.year-old, moderately good truck,
not fast oncas two days ago. IL VIII be remembered
the postponed account OF It's heaviness
from rain-is tho greateet performance record and
1t Is great PITY that the start u good one
Tor the other horses, that contest between them
could have occurred Mr.. Pierre L0rilIard had good
one IN tho race, and although he was driven hall a
mile after beng lett eighty yards behind start
his jockey had discretion enough to take him hand
when he found he could not overtake the big colt
Danger rno latter colt has many gagem uts, and
The public, during tho coming racing paign, will
have frequent opportunities of seeing what appears
now the fastest tnree-y eaI-uld country Lady
Saiycrs ran good to-day, did also Mr. Aslor's
Frederick the Great Ny winning in LA n and 40
Tue FIRST was "A dash mile, Tor all ages,
TO carry 100 lbs., nIiiss and gccings allowed los
purse $500 OF whon 500 10 The second horse. There
were Six starters or TINS event, comprising Thomas
W. Doswells bay lilly Majesnc, by Lexingt ton. oaIn
ldaiiu, by Gieucig, 3 years old; Lewis 4 siearns,
chestnut hiy Rena by King Lear, dam Mamie Har-
per, 4years gu; ouen bowies chestnut mare Mary,
by Dickens, dam Ny Maryland, years old: j. j.
Bevius' chestnut mare HaiticF, ny bennington, dam
Bonnie Doom, years old, ana II. WaiIcr's chestnut
horse Egypt by Planet, da III Lady Barry, aged Idaa
was the iavorte, Majestic second cnoice, Mary third
IN iavor the others selling Tor small ngures. Hattie
= was nrst away. Rela second, Majestic third Llama
fourth, Mary fifth, Egypt sixth. HATTIE f. showed the
way AROUND the upper turn. Kena second, Majesuc
thrd, Idalia iourtn. Mary hfth, well up and Egypt
SIKH. The horses were very cioae together on lus
backsiretcD, aud AS they passed the hall mile pole
ke1a tLrd, Mary fourth, ldala nitn, Egypt SIKH.
Leaving the haf-mile pole Majestic moved 70 the
Italia the pole, the others being beaLen
A. that point Mary was running ut . high Fate OF
speed AS she cAme into The homesirotcn.
and " was not long before she read, tho
others iailing back. Mary came home a winner Ny
!our lengths, Majestic second, three lengths ahead
Egypt lth and Rena sixth. Timc, /: as
vkRNAL SWEEPSTAKES. su9stfEs#
The second race the VeInai Sweepstakes, for
threeycar-olds that had not won their Iwo-ycar-
Old i0rm oil $25 each, play pay; colts 10
carry loo lbs. lilies and geldinGs OF lbs !;
the club TO add $500, Of winch 800 10
60 10 the second horse; mile For
Tits eight 10 the post out OF twenty
bhree nominations. These wore c. L. Lorllaru's bay
colt Danger, Dv Alarm, dam by War Dance; Pierre
L0riliards bay colt Garrck by Lexington dam lnver.
ness; Albert Hawthorne's bay MY Bromide, by Bonnie
Scotland, dam Arnica, ana The same genlleman's
chestnut colt Hemsman ~ Helmboid, dam Mariposa;
Thomas w. Doswell's chestnut sunlight by Austria.
Ian, dam Eclipllc, and the same gcntIeman,s bay
geiaing Snowaen, by Abd-olkadr, dam Orianna;
Uuen Bowie's chestnut MY Belle, by Dickens, dam
Belle Meade and Lewis Stearns chestnut colt Lin
wood, Wy Alroy, dam Gazette. Danger was the
third IL iavor, with tho others Held. Tho start
was the worst that ever occurred this course,
Danger having SIX lengths the advantage OF all the
olnsrs hen lhsy moved OIL Tnls oil course, threw
the cnances Of the remaining competitors entirely
Danger dashed away rapidly aud around the up
per cigbLy yards anead Of Suowdeu Garrck Bro.
niiac, Llnwood, Belle and the balance. Danger was
eighty yards front OF Garrick at the haii-inle
pole, Bromide third. Beiie lourlh, HeImsman fifth,
around tho lower turn, shutting up some
oil the daylight, but When Barrett has Jockey, saw
that he chance OF overtakiug Danger he took
Garrick IN hand. Danger Game nome a winner Of the
race by seventy or eighty yurus. Garrck second
aLd the others spread out away
some $50 yards away. The time AZ y, which
the most remarkable ever made under sucn circuln-
stances. Danger was an casy pace the last
quarter oil "a iie or more.