The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-06-08

coaches are raised very high IN the middle
capable of seating Is or 90 persons, with :
single seat pinacled behind and elevated 70
the bugler, with four horses attached 3 The
came at full speed with bugle sounding an
band playing, and created the widest enthu
siasra Sharply at 2 O'clock, Col. Clark, presi
dent of the Club, tapped the bell to bring ou
the horses. The first race, a dash of three
quarters of mile for club purse Of. 5000, ha'
eleven entries. After several Intellectual at
tempts to get off, the red flag went down, AM
the horses were off pretty well huddIed, Gen
Mathews, 8 years old, taking the lead at TIL
home stretch closely pursued by Mammonist
ana Duke Of Kent coming out third tim
l1.164 Standing was given to only horses.
Cd race, dash II miles, purse $500, $50t'
second horse, was won by GlindeIin9 Burn
ham second and Caroline B. third; time 2.f44a
Sd was the race of the day, the Kentuck,
Derby, for three-year ODDS, dash II miles ans
GA entries; won by2Apollo, buyers Runny
! mede, the crack horse on the gfoud, second
and Bengal third time S.4O4 ~" b..A .noi
F; 4th was the prettiest race, purse $3.50, nailt
heats; $40 to second three entries, -Bramba
letta, AIiunde and Geo. Hokes-and three runs
Brambaletta run over the course beating botf
runs, rendering third run unnecessary Their
Aliunde and Hokes III the order they were en-.
tered, which closed the races for the day sff
The Kentuckians are large, fine looking men
but we never before heard SO much swearing
in the same length of time, as that day We
cannot, therefore, agree with Gen'l Abe Blu
ford in his lecture on Religion and the turf
that there is nothing Incompatible between
them and nothing demoralizing in the turf.
Nor do we believe that it adds to the morals
and refinement of the Kentucky ladies to bet
on the horse race and to be able to give the
name and pedigree, on both sides of every
horse of any distinction that appears on the
turf, Nor can we claim that our own morals
are improved bit by having attended the
Louisville races, yet we feel little better sat.
isied at having seen it. In talking with one,
gentleman,I asked him the safest horse to-
bet on. He replied, "Runnymede was the
crack horse" But" said I, fare not the
cracked horses oftea beaten % eyes. yery
Often" he said 81 was here once at a race.
soon saw which was the feetest horse. and I
and my partner bought the horse for $4,000
anG won enormously on him, then put the
money in the hands of friends to bet against
the horse, and ordered the jockey to hold him
up and let him be beaten, and in that way they
could make an immense amount of money"
lie said the jockey held him up until he came
to the home stretch, when the id horse run
of and beat the race any how, and literally
broke him up. Wenoticed some of the pref
tiest driving teams on our return to Louisville
| ever saw; all seemed to be trained to drive
so nicely
We quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
and went to see the pool selling that night.
Suppose there could not have been less than
$500 900 changed hands on these races. AS
the races did not begin again until D. M
next day and we wanted to start for Cincin-
natl at 3, we did not go back, but looked
around Louisville that day, and by that time
steamboat riding had become entirely too
slow for US. So We sold out our boat tickets
and took the fast train which landed us in
Cincinnati at 6 Is p. M, in time for the must
cal festival; that is if we did without our sup
per, which we had to do, in order to make the
Festival before the doors were barred against
us, Which was generally done at 7:30.
The musical festival was grand. In the OLD
Industrial Exposition building, at corner of
EOuI fnnnfh and Hin, NIT
and 600 in Chorus-With Maternna, Cary.
Candidus, Henschel, Remments and Sullivan
under the leadership Of Theodore Thomas.
70 render Ruck's Passion music to an audience
OF 10000 people, is by no means small affair.
The music seemed to be perfectly rendered
We noticed that the immense number of yio-
Inns, violincellos and base Yiolins, that the
bows all moved exactly together as if by ma
chinery and sounds were made as If with a sin
gle instruments, SO accurately, were they
made. Materna, Cary and Candidus, with
their respective soprano, alto and tenor voices
seemed to be the leading soloists Materna
has wonderful scope, power and richness of
voice, seems to go up to harmonic E with
ease and trill for second and suppose she can
reach still higher. Gary seems to be very
great favorite in Cincinnati and has very
sweet voice, which was very highly spoken Of
The burden of the evening seemed to fall on
Candidus, and it is wonderful how his voice
stood the long continued strain of the night,
yet it seemed as fresh at the close as when he
began. We cannot say that we were so won
derfully carried away as some Of the audience
seemed to be- An old Dutchman stood lust
behind us while Materna was singing, and
every now and then would say, ooh, dot ish
so grand, grand" We were at a loss to know
why he was so carried away, whether it was
because Materna, like himself, was of German
descent, and then we thought that the
Dutchman might have appreciated her better
than we did
We left Cincinnati early Thursday morn
ing and spent seven hours in Lexington,
which is beautiful city, in the heart of the
great blue grass region-the prettiest country
we ever saw. Henry Clay's residence, Ash
land, is near here. Also his tomb, which is
marked by monument 1870 feet high, with the |
statue OF Clay on top in the act of delivering |
a speech. His sarcophagus and also his
wlfe's can be seen in the vault beneath. On
the street running to Ashland may be seen the
prettlest residences of varied style of archi-c
lecture, sometimes almost shut from the sight
by varied and beautiful foliage. The citizens
claim that Euclid street, Cleveland, is the only
street IN the world prettier than it is, There
had been recent sales of fine stock on some
OF those splendid farms in the vicinity of Lex
lngton; notably the Alexander and Suigert
farms where they furnish booklets, giving
plumber, name and pedigree of each colt sold,
with blanks to be filled up with prices brought.
Some OF them were brought into Lexington
and we went to see them in the stable-a sis