Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-07
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NIGHT DISPATCHES.
SPECIAL TO H EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
THE LOUISVILLE RACES.
WARM DISCUSSION ON THE RELATIVE
MERITS OF THE RACERS.
THE MARE GAINING FRIENDS.
THE SUN wILTED THE SPEED OUT
OF HER.


CHICAGO, July D.
A Times Louisville special says The
race between Ten Brock and Mollie Nc
earthly continues to be the universal sub
ject Of conversation here, and warm dis
c~ussions upon the relative merits Of the
race have been the order of the day. Not
outstanding the fact that the mare was
distanced in the first heat, she has more
friends to-day that she had yesterday.
LOUISVILLE, July g..
If the race was to be run over, the odds
would be less, and the number Of her
hackers greater, though those who argue
for her have the worst of it at the outset,
because Of the fact that the horse did beat
her yet they present good reasons for the
result in the double effect of the oven
like temperature, and the heaviness of
the track, both Of which operated against
her and in the horses favor, and in the
belief that he was acclimated and she was
not, and the heat simply doubled her up
before the distance was covered. She was
accustomed to q cool, bracing atmosphere,
and the sweltering sun of Louisville just
wilted the speed out Of her. Her staying
qualities are admitted, and after yes
terday's performance was over, most
OF Ten Broeck's friends concede that
she can out-foot him for two miles. 1t
is certainly true that she set her pace at a
rate that did not tax her powers too full,
and kept it up for two miles and more,
and that 1t was SO rapid that it took urging
to bring the horse up to it. Her stride
was certainly q combination Of grace and
power, and until the heat fairly boiled her
brown. kept a rate that put Ten Brock to
his ] est. The way in which the horses
went around the track failed to furnish
any confirmation Of General Buford's
theory, that it was a ~hippodrome, and little
credence is given to it. The general belief
il that, in the language of Frank Harper,
ut was a race from eend TO eend.'' 1t was
evident that neither horse could do more
under the u II. Notwithstanding the
comparative slowness Of the time
neither side cared to take the chances
of q second heat, and each was put
on the track for the purpose of distancing
the other il possible. The mares training
did not contemplate four miles at her top
speed, and the riders instructions were to
set her pace fast for three miles, in the be-
lief that she could hold it that distance, of
which her trainer was in some doubt I'M
der the circumstances, and the horse would
be done up, and she could conn in at her
leisure That his fears were well ground
ed, the result showed. The instructions to
Ten Brooks rider we're to ride the horse
right through, and distance the mare il
possible. 1t looked very shaky fer the
horse the first AZ miles. but when he came
in at the end Of the third mile five lengths
ahead, and the mare laboring,
Harper saw his opportunity. and
stepping out from tho weighing
stand. he yelled to Walker sto ride for
your life" and he did. At the close Of the
race Mr.. Winters offered to renew the
match for q future date. The challenge
was not accepted. Mr.. Harper says he will
run the horse no more as a racer. He
has acquired all the reputation it is pos
sible to obtain, and any further matches
would only expose him to the chance of
losing some of it, to tie detriment of his
value as q stallion. Miss Mollie McCar-
thy. the dashing California blonde, after
whom the little brown mare Is named,
came all the way from San Francisco to
see her namesake run, and attracted much
attention at the grand stand. Her disap-
pointment at the result was very keen, for
she Is proud Of the fleet Westerner that has
so often borne her colors to the fore.
The 1ribune's Louisville correspondent
says: While Mollie Mccarthy grew Instant
~ better, when the race was over, Ten