National Republican., 1881-10-31
THE RUNNING RACES,
The Horses Tint VIII Appear at the Fair
Grounds This week.

Tomorrow the fall meeting of the Ma
tional Association commences. hundred horses
are at the grounds to do battle for their owners.
The clans have gathered from fur and near to
fight this last battle Of the year. The contests of
Long Branch, Jerome Park, Saratoga and Pimlico,
ever memorable in the equine history Of the sea-
| son, will be again renewed upon neutral field,
where all the surroundings are favorable for the
grnndest performance of them ALL The mngnif-
cent track Of the association Is IN the most per-
feet order, and is pronounced by all the horsemen
as superior to any they have seen this year, and
II the weather Is but propitious the meeting must
| prove n grand success. There arc sixteen races
on the card, four for each day, and Major ]. d.
Ferguson, OF the Maryland Jockey Club Chan
whom none better, as secretary Of this meeting
has so arranged them as to bring out the full
powers of nll the horses engaged. On the first
day, in the
NOVELTY HANDICAP STAKES,
n dash Of one and one eighth miles, there are
twelve entrles-Thora, Eole, Valparaiso, Ohio Boy,
| Jake White Colonel Sprague, Fair Count, Ventril-
oquist Checkmatc, Oden, Ida Stanhope, and
Pride, with probably eleven to start. This is n
grand field Of horses, and he must a be moro than
Vennor who guesses the winner Besides this race
there are three others, dash of one mile for two
year. .olds, in which there will probably be Bride
| cake, Little Buttercup, Bob Riddle. Sweet Home,
| Eunice, Marchioness, and others; and Buttercup,
who won the first heat of the three. quarter mile
race at Pimllco, will be much fincied for this
f es and mares % Of a all S ages I viii bring out big
field of the reserves, and we may look for clink-
ing race in this, ending with a steeplechase of
| The second day opens with dash Of one mile for
all ages of fhorses that have not won since october
aud It will be a race, as old man Harper was wont
to say, from eend to eend." Then comes the
great
WASHINGTON STAKES,
| nna md half fnr th hrne .nldq n this
race there will bo Hermit, Eole, Greenland, Aolla,
Glenidle. Fellowplay, Compensation Rob Roy,
John Hamilton Traveller, Enniskilen, Ida, stan
| hope, and Mary Waren-eighteen in all, with
probably fourteen starters. on this day there will
| and closing with two. mile heat race. The third
day. will open with selling race, one and
half miles and then will follow
| THE LAFAYETTE STAKES,
| In which we have Falco Mandamus, Night Cap
| Vampire, Volusia, Sara. Bernhardt, Lettina,
DroghedG, Alta b., frankie b., and Nimrod-all
will come a race Of mile hests, and tho day viii
| close with steeplechase over regular course.
For the last day there viii! be three quarter mile
post and then the crowning glory Of all, the
YORKTOWN CENTENNIAL HANDICAP,
for three miles. It Is a pity The foreign guests
tbe best ITO oftbe % YORKTOWN festiyites Tere W 10 the
| front for this rich prize comes Lorillard with
Monitor and Aella; Walter Dun brings a re.
| Bowie inscribes his banner with Oriole; Acker-
man & Co. add a SAVIOR OF old ocean with Surge /;
| T. B. Davis, genial bachelor that he is gives his
| heart and trusts his fortunes to Ella Warfeld,
while the veteran Glenmore, bears the colors Of
Mr.. Jennings and his halfbrother Checkmate
| does battle for Major Williams and Kentucky ;
| Fair Count makes second bow for Mr.. Petengill
and Ventrloquist bears the fortunes Of Babcock
| 4 Co.; w. s. Cree sends in his early love in Mary
Anderson, and Lawrence Hart plays pair with
| little Harry and Mntzer; g. B. Bryson gives q
| gem of the Emerald Isle N Irish King j. N.
| Ackerman looks for an oiice with Ohio Boy md
j. W. Loud makes second venture with Ida
| Stanhope-a muchly mixed crowd. Oh, that some
there viii be
| THE coSsoLArToSPURsE
at mile heats for the beaten ones, and as q fitting
| finale climax steepleChase. This Is incOmpara-
ever gathered in Washington before. let octogena
rians say whit they list, or indulge in their rem.
| iniScenses of the days when Old Hickory and
Harry of the West went out to see the flyers ana
Randolph INDUCED his cynicisms. They nor their
| descendants have never seen aught like this be-
fore. A look about the hotels shows large influx
of strangers from almost every city in the Union,
and the tnlk;is decidedly hOrsey The arrange.
ments for reaching the grounds are perfect the
trains running at TO- AMI 1850 a. m. u m, 1880,
| /, 1880 $50 and $3.50 o'clock y. M, with round. trip
tickets at ten cents. The cost of admission to the
grounds and grand stand is placed at
| the extremely low figure of 81, and the
management have taken every prccautlon to pre-
| Taken all in all, 1t could be no better, and much
credit Is due them for the skill and energy dis
played In this matter, and 1t may safely be pre-
dicted that our citizens will show their apprecla-
ton of the efforts made to please them II is un.
derstood that II this meeting is q success hnan-
cially, and there seems to be no reason why 1t
| should not be, 1t will become one of the per-
manent events to be looked forward to at each re.