Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-25
THREE TURF TRIALS
At the Jockey Club Course Yesterday
Greenwood aud Brian BOrU
the Winners.
Full List Of the Horses in TraiaiRg
for the Coming spring
Meeting.

Yesterday the Memphis Jockey Club
made their first effort this season toward
awakening an interest in turf matters. Three
races had been arranged, in which sieeds In
training at the track were TO take part. They
were intended as an overture to The horse
opera called the "Spring Meeting" which
begins on the 18th Of next month. Owing
TO the fact that the amount realized Tor ad-
mission was 10 Be given TO the stables IN
training st the lracS, the usual rules were
not observed, only catch weights being
noted. and il was uudrrstOod that msIdeus
should not lose their advantage by enter
log, The weather wss 50 raw and misty
that many people who had intended
to be present stayed at home, and the crowd
was consequently smaller than Was expected.
Those who did attend, however, were fully
repaid for the trip, as the track Wss IN e1-
cellsnt condition and the time made above
he average. The judges were Capt. J. d.
Parker, of Cincinnati, End Capt. s. 1. Carne-.
Mr.. c. P. Hunt acted as time-keeper, and
Col. H A. Montgomery, OF course, msniPu-
lated the starting drum.
The First Race
was a dash of one mile. for which were
entered Tennessee Girl, Brian Boru, Bow
ling Green and Japonica. After half a
dozen Jsl5c BtdIls tue ttiD sOb away oiidI
Boru in the van, and followed closely by
Bowling Green and Tennessee Girl in the
order named. Jsponica got bad start and
lost go much ground that she was prscti-
calIy out of the race. AT the fret qusrter Ten
nessee Girl began to force the pace and
crept up to Brian tail, but the gallant con
of QuariermAster also quickened his stride
and at the hslf-mile led by two lengths
Just before the last quarter was
reached Bowling Green made fight Tor the
lead, under The impetus Of the whip, and the
three turned the corner almost together
Down the homeslretch they came, Brian
Boru's nose still showing to the fore, Bowling
Green forging ahead of Tenness ee Girl, sne
both the latter taking the timber freely. The
ssme positions were kept until Brian Bort
passed under the string an easy wioner, II
l :4S3.
Dash of one mile.
Memphis Stables ent. E.g. Brian Boru, aged -,
Quartermaster-Belle Memphis -;
Rosebud % sfs6Its entgs Sewns Green 1seu
Memphis Stables ent. ST Tennessee Girl aged
yrs. Quartsrmaster-Maid OF Mem phis..-......-
Rosebud Stables ent. b.f. Japonica, yrs Lever
Mai. Brady emit g. Willie B., yrs, by Hunters,
Lexington Time :4slj. ''''''O
The betting before the start was even oil
I Bowling Green against the field, and tn
knowing (?) ones were badly sc1oped.
The Second Race,
half.mil heats, was contested by The Joker
Msjor Hughes, Hadisco and Greenwood
The uns1 pected result of the first run mad
betters cautious, and very little money wa
s;aked, but the race WAS thought to Be be
tween Hughes and Greenwood, with chance
in favor of the former
FIRST HEAT.
The quartette went off with the Joker il
the front, Hughes second, Hadisco thIrC
and Greenwood last. Tne contest was uniu
teresting for the first hundred yards, wheI
Greenwood passed to the front and kept hi
advantage to the fiaish, though hard pressed
by Hughes on the first eighth of the home
stretch.
SECOND HEAT.
Hughes got away fret, Hadisco second
Greenwood third, and The Joker last. A
the fifty yards they strung out in the orde
named like the liaks OF a chain, skeepin.
about an equal distance until tue quartz
was nearly reached, when Greenwood N adj
a squirt Passing Hsdisco, he went up Il
Hughes's flank and then showed TO The front
At the turn they were neck snd neck
Hughes taking the wh!p, and so came o.
until within 100 yards Of the stand, whel
Greenwood again get the lead and sept il
winning by half length.
SUMMARY.
Hslf-mile heats, two IN three.
| Memphis Stables ent. s.h. Greenwood, 4 yrs,
Foster-Placid 80, 80 L
Ieyer-Irene Sheppard