Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-27
The English Derby.
Described by Young Man From Amer
 lea Who Has Travelled.

Described by Young Man From Amer lea Who Has Travelled.
 From the Boston HerzId-J
 The course is entirely different from any thing we have in America There are not fifty yards of level ground anywhere in the vast enclosure. I should say that run of the whole circuit must be about two miles long. On this side the ground slopes rapidly downward into deep valley, so that the horses run on ground that slants up toward the outside rail From the bottom of the valley the way up on the other side is very steep, and where the track runs along the crest of ridge beyond it must be 4OO or 800 feet higher than it is where we sit Up to- ward the beginning of the homestretch is the place they call Tottenhsm Corner, and all England tells you what a terrible place it is for horse to come around. But that is tef- fy. There are worse turns at Jerome Park and Sheepshead Bay. The only difficulty about this one is that it occurs where the horses are coming down a slight slope. The Derby racers begin part way around the course, as the distance they run Is about a mile and quarter believe. They start on upward slope to the crest of the distant ridge, come down around Tottenham Corner into the stra ght stretch home, and end on down hill part of the track The course is turfed, and not turned up, like those in America. Much of the space down in the valley inside the track and up on the hill be- yond Is taken up with refreshment tents
 Punch and Judy shows those machines that send wooden horses around in circle, par ties of men with blackened faces singing and dancing without time or tune, jugglers, aero bats and surging mass of people. From the grand stand for half mile in each direc- tion, outside the track, there is the same sort of thing, added to a tremendous crush of carriages, from which the horses have been taken and housed for the day. A third of the people present want to sell you something that is of no earthly use, and that you would not be found dead with, and the other two thirds want to steal whatever you may have around your clothes. They are the most &C., complished thieves I ever struck and they will steal anything they can lay hands on, no matter whether it is worth anything or not
 have seen some pretty big and some rather promiscuous crowds in America, but this one certainly captured the prize in all respects.
 There must have been 6OO,O0 to I,0OO, 900 people there Nobody can convey a notion of such crowd with mere figures It was at least ten times large a gathering as ever saw at a race before.
 hr. Tompkins and I struggled up the course to the grand stand enclosure, where we had to pay 8 % each in addition to the Sl0 we had already been made to pay out in entering the course. The space in front of the stand was fenced in, and about half the occupants were bookmakers- Many of them wore white silk beaver hats and ths most out rageous checked =uits of clothes you ever en- countered. Some of them shouted out their o ids in voices that would have made their fortunes before fog horns were invented Others went about quietly booking bets with people they knew. Of to the right of this enclosure was another one, occupied by the TattersalIs bookmakers. TatterssIrs, inno- cent and guileless reader, Is the place where all the high-toned buying and selling of horsefesh in London is done. There the betting men do congregate between times, and offer to let you in" On the course at Epson they have little yard all to them selves, and one must be supplied with spec iai ticket if he wants to get in. Mr. Tom kins booked e5 against e40 on Sachem. e5 against e1e0 on Gerald, and e5 against ESQ on Dutch Oven. He backed the first two be- cause they were Americans, and the latter be- cause he was to be ridden by Archer, the fla nous jockey. Sschem had great faith in myself. I saw him run a magnificent race at Sheepshead Bay last year, when he crowded Onondaga all the way around. And I still think Sachem is the best animal of his years in England. After we had been iostled about for awhile, we went back to the carriage and ate and drank and tried to be merry. The five furlongs race was finally disposed of, and, after the longest hour I ever remember, the Derby was begun. The first we saw of the horses they were scuttling along the top of the distant ridge. Bruce, who was a hot favorite, was in the last batch, and Gerald was close up by the head, cutting out the running So far, SO good This we knew was the Lorillard programme. Sachem, we had information, was heavily backed to win, and he was going along beautifully under a jockey who sat heavily in the saddle and did not help the colt pennyweight. As the an imals came down around the corner the Americans were both going well Bruce's tail went up and his jockey put the whip on freely The favorite was done. Archer vas riding Dutch Oven beautifully but hopelessly A better jockey nobody ever saw. He sits as lightly as feather, and he knows hoE to lift e horse at every stride. But the race was not in Dutch Over Shotoyer the winner of the Two Thousand Guiness a couple of weeks ago, was in the lead, and running well un- der a pretty rider named Cannon. Then came Quicklime, struggling along under the whip, and, some distance behind, the oth- CTS all in a bunch. Suddenly, half way down the stretch, chestnut colt, as clean of limb as a statue, and with a coat as glossy as piece of satin, dashed out of he crowd with bound lide the spring of an antelope. Not hair had he turned, and not @ vein was swollen from the exertion up to now, in spite of his cumber- some rider. As Sachem dashed ahead. with that rare burst of speed, I thought he had the race. But the jockey had given him his head too late, and he finished a length be- hind Shotover, and head behind Quickliue. Fifty yards more would have brought the blue ribbon again into Mr. Lorillard's stable It was a race lost through miscalculation and bad riding, but lost just the same. All the Americans lost heavily. They backed LoriI- lard to man. If Lorillard had supplied himself with riders to compare with his horses he would have furnished @ great many of his countrymen with their Derby day expenses. am told the day cost him Il -rENfN NrrNd