New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-23
annsON RIVER TOWNS.
RACING AT BRIGHTON BEACH.
A REMARKABLE MEETING-FoUR INTERESTING AND
EXCITING RACES.

A REMARKABLE MEETING-FoUR INTERESTING AND
EXCITING RACES.
The last day of the fourth meeting at the
Brighton Beach Fair Grounds was a remarkable QUE
Tho attendance was only fair but the oetuhB ~ lne
poo-box was almost angry in It's ferceness Inc Drs'
race resulted ia dead heats the first ana second at
empts the third and deciding heat beugrnn after dark
In the second race the favOrtc beaten, the thrd
race was declared OF for " fraud" and Jockey was
expelled from the track while it took three wei con
tested heats to decide who was the victor In the mic
and repeat hurdle after two horses had fallen
In the rst race one MILE handicap for all ages, for
purse of $3.50. $50 to second, Babc0cks mare janet
Murray brought I'm the pools than her two fvald
Bricess Dairy Maid and Gafncy's Lucky Hit. speci-
men pool selling-Janct Murray 1920. Lucky HIT ana
Dairy Maid S1sj. At the first attempt the three horses
were sent off on an ourageousy bad start, it being
Lucky Hits luck TO be gazing pensively over the
railing at patch OF grass when the nag fell.
His Jockey Immediately gave him his head' 20
that at the quarter pole he had gained the six lengths
lost Mt the stand and passed the other two The cort
probably cost him the race for coming home he Wearcd
and Janet and Dairy Maid raced in like team the
former just keeping her nosTils ahead OF her Compel
ior to the string although the judges decided 1t dead
heat In the fast 146 The second trial made
after all other had been run aud resulted III AS
pretty dead heat ever run on race track the
horses waiting each other to the half ana coming IN
from there under whip and spur Ike double team
Time 1906. IL tleu atttr O'CLOCK, anu inc
decided to run II on aer a twenty minutes resi-,
effected, and hen Janet ana Dairy MAID
vanished in the gloom at the quarter they were tOgtel
They cOuid be seen flying along the like one
shadow, and when they appeared on the hnme-stTetcn
they appeared yOked Coming in, however, Janet
outran the Maid and won most remarkable race III the
excellent time OF l:46
the purse Of 1900, $50 10 second. which Albert
the avorte selling S110 TO SGi for shylock $50 for
Dalgasan, So Tor Sunlight, $40 for Kingston, aud SD
for Little Mac, Nirginius ana carver, u IN the held
Which was reduced TO two by the withdrawal of Vlr-
grand stand the horses we're running well together with
Daigasan leading At the quarter he had increased mis-
lead TO two lengths with the fayorte second and the
rest strung out in line sunlight and Kingston then
took ND running and by the time the Ieequarters
the home-stretch Sunlight OutfOOted Kingston, winning
by three lengths IN 2;l42 Albert I two lengh be
and Carver jr follow insas named Mutual pool tick
cts paid $40.
day Willie d. sold the favOrite in the third
day one mile and five furong.. for purse Of $3.50 $50
MIA $500; and Bayard. $3.50 Tie event justified the
Judgment OF the pOoO0x the merits Of the horses.
Cagula the best of the start from the threefuong
pDc which ne maintained until passing the stand
Inc first time But Willie ID. then oyerhaulng HIM
At the half Willie ID. was eight lengths ahead,
aud came in under strong pull the winner by three
third, having had business in the race from the
dropping of the dag such was the Appearance Of the
race natteutiyc Observers bat trouble enSucd In the
Judges stand resulting in the announcement that all
bets on the declared OF as 1t had been las
The reasons for this decision were that CaIigudh had
been pulled by his Jockey on tue last mile along the
blcstretch the turn, and up the hOmestrcch he had
never been struck by whip or spur there being not
mark OF either him, and had evidently been fraudu
lcnty kept from winning the The Judges had no
evidence connect the horses owner. H. j. Wogdford.
with the fraud, but they expelled his jockey Reed from
the track. The judges were told that the pools
had been paid, 10 which they replied: I'VE
can't helpi That IL the booksellers lookout. The
race was fraud" No pools, however had been paid,
aud the mutual pools redeemed their tickets making
money by the transaction, for many who had bought
tickets Cdieula and Bayard had torn them up and
thrown the pieces away,
The last event If the day and meeting was handicap
hurdle race four hurdles mile heats for purse Of
$780, SO second Six Jockeys appeared on the backs
OF six jumpers Before the these sold m the pcol,
Katie p. 5000: IOitercr and KelSo, $40 each; Bay
Rum ~ 50 ; and Cripple and Dandy-a queer couple
so. After an start the four first named made
fue race from falling OF the flag TO the flush,
the fayorte winning by neck from kelso, with Bay
third and L0terer fourth, all tapping Time l:45.
Cripple approached the hurdles slowly II nc had
been on crutches, stumbling at three and falling
tie fourth. Dandy, as becoming his name, made
desperate effort, but came ~ grct at the fourth hurdle,
where he Joined by Cripple, and the two went
TO their stables, having failed even TO scratch
Jockey In the second heat. after an exciting race the
four IN in the following order kelso, Bay Rum,
Katie =. and LOiteTer all whipping aud all tapping.
kcsO winning by neck. Time, l:5J. I'm running oil,
KrsO who was the flyOHte IN the pools AT $3.50 to
500 won the race by half length in 2:0l. The next
days racing Will be on Monday.