Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-30

quarrel occur there is little danger of their suf-
fering the bitter pang of having the watch re-
turned.
WEIGHING IN.
The Most Sensational Year i'm the His
tory Of the Turf.
SOME OF THE STARTLING EVENTS THAT HAVE
MADE 1T so PUT TO THE sCALEs-THE TIRE
MENDOus RACING BOOM ITSELF, AND THE EX-
CITING PERFORMANCES ON AMERICAN TRACKS
THE ASTOUNDING VICTORIES ABRoAD-C0NvER-
SION OF BRITISH PUBLIC OPINIoN-THE CRITICS
COMPOUNDED AND THE SHINE TAKEN OUT OF
THEM'-FOxHALL THE BEST THREE-YEAR-OLD
IN THE WORLD, IF NOT THE BEST RACER THAT
EVER STOOD ON IRON
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
With the racing at Jerome Park on election
day there may be said to have closed a year I'M
paralleed in the history of the turf, for the
number and Importance Of events decided. the
interest taken in racing matters by the public
and the general boom as regards the noble
sport to which the thoroughbred by his game
ness, endurance and speed contributes. 1t
has been an ann,ts nairabilis, chiefly on
account of the performances of horses bred
in this country, and which, having crossed
the Atlantic, have met and vanquished
the greatest cracks of the world, the
equine pride of England and of France. If. be-
fore the event, any one should have prophesied
that in one year two American horses would
capture the Derby, the blue ribbon of the Eng
fish turf, the st. Leger the white ribbon of the
English turf, the grand prize of Paris. the Care
witch, the Cambridgeshire and the Prince of
Wales stakes at Ascot. these constituting the
chief events contested in England and France.
he would justly have been set down as horse
mad. Yet Iroquos and FoxhaIl did Just this
and 1t alone would mark the wear as an unpa-
rallied one in the history of horse racing. The
Tuesdays races at Jerome closed up the run
ming OF the year appropriately. 1t had been a
season OF extraordinary events. as regards the
quality of the struggles made, and the closing
day was
EXPONENTIAL IN THIS RESPECT.
AS the opening of the season drew near. the
nominations for the fixed events at the various
race courses closed and the list Of subscriptions
came to be published, the size of the racing
Doom Which had come on the country began
dimly to be understood. The nominations for
the fixtures at Saratoga were found to be
nearly one thousand in number or three times
as many as at any previous year Those for
Jerome Park, Monmouth Park, Sheepshead
Bay, Baltimore and Brighton Beach were pro-
portlOnally almost as many and the same was
true OF the associations in the western division.
Inc season opened and very soon took on very
sensational aspect. The whole community
seemed to go crazy over horses and the gambling
mania affected nearly all classes and ragged furi-
ously not only among the regular habtues of
the turf. out among hundreds of thousands who
before this year, had never seen horse race
Women became betters and the pool rooms were
crowded by the hOary headed and the youth
alike Such crowds on the race track were
except in some few and notable occasions, never
seen before The quantity of racing was unpar-
aIeled In the two Saratoga meetings there
were thirty-eight days of almost continuous
racing. At Brighton Beach there were tifty-two.
There We're two formal meetings at Baltimore.
two at jerome Park, two at Monmouth Park
and two at SheeDshead Bay. At Brighton Beach
there was almost no let up from the beginning
to the end. Yet the crowds were constant ard
OF size never seen before. The season was
MARKED BY STARTLING EVENTS.
The great Blackburn, deemed invincible and
backed fora very mint of money, was vanquished
by GlenmOre and amulttude went broke Hin
doc. justly regarded as the greatest three year
Old in the world, started on the career of his
second year and went on from conquering to
conquest until the number of his consecutive
victories amounted to eighteen, and until he too
was regarded as invincible and then he sue
cumbed to his rival, CrickmOre, whom he had
on him in way that broke hearts as well as
bank accounts. The element of the sensational
perVaded every days racing The people went to
the track every day expecting to see something
extraordinary and were generally gratified in
this respect. Warfield wins when not expected
to do so, making great races He fails when
failure Is thought impossible and when the
money that's piled on him as favOrite would nav
Tor a drove of such as ne. In great four mile
heat race Elias Lawrence takes a heat from
an immense crowd and then is distanced and
broken down for good. Finishes are made of
the most exciting character as regards the quail
lty OF the contest and its clOseness. Great fields
OF frst-class ones are unexpectedly beaten by
the rankest of outsiders. All kinds of strange
things occur. The peerless Parole rolls up the
grandest victories and then ANONYMOUSLY fails
Monitor goes off and disappoints everybody and
then unexpectedly wins great races Surprise
breaks his neck. Edelweiss runs brilliant races,
and then is injured and shot on the track Check
mate, with great Jumps Of weight on him. runs
mile and three-quarters second faster than it
was ever run in the world before. ThOra electro
hes the equine universe by running three miles in
5:2oA, the fastest on record, a second faster
than Ten Brock performed the feat. he a wear
older and carrying but five pounds more The
final day, closing the season at Jerome and
winding it up, so to speak. everywhere was of
piece Of the rest. 1t was election day and a
bitter and important political contest was to be
fOggy and too uncomfortable for ANYTHING The
tract was mortar bed. Yet five thousand peO-
pie and over let the
ELECTION GO TO THE DOGS,
and went to Jerome Park. They faced the rain
and the raw east wind. They packed the spe-
cial trains to suffocation. A dense fog enveloped
the scene. At one end of the grand stand the
other could scarcely be seen. When the start
was to be furlong from the judges stand the
starter was invisible, and so were the horses.
and relay of signal makers had to be stationed
along the track from the starters stand to the
timers stand to let the timer know when the
horses were off: The only part of such race
visible was the horses emerging from fog bank
on the left to be swallowed up by the fog bank
on the right, and finally to emerge again at the
finish, or perhaps dimly seen as they passed the
bluff and loop at the club house. Yet five thou
sand people found their intense delight in all
this and endured the buffetings of the elements
to see the outsider Viola vanquish Marathon, |
StartIe startle everybody by his unexpected VIC
tory, and the terrific struggle at the finish as
Eole, son of the god of the winds, prove his
pedigree and his feetness in his triumph over
Blue Lodge in the eleven-furlong race
THE SENSATIONAL CHARACTER
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