St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-03
On the Track.

At two O'Clock yesterday afternoon, the
hour set for beginning the races, there were
about 1000 people in the grand stand and
1000 more were in the vicinity of the track,
with still another 200 wandering about the
grounds viewing the exhibits and discussing
racing prospects. A very large part of the
spectators had been drawn to the fair
grounds for the purpose Of seeing the great
trotter, Jay Eye See, and a few expected to
see the little wonder break his record, 210,
but those who were best acquainted with the
conditions necessary for fast time were fully
convinced that the wonderful racer would
fail to equal his previous record, If, indeed,
he came within several seconds Of it. Bith-
ers, Jay Eys Sees driver, said he couldn t
get the horse over the track in anything like
good time, and Splan, driver of Com
modore Kittson's horses, remarked
that if he make 2:14 the
time would be excellent for the state OF
things under which he was worked. AS the
afternoon wore on the wind, blowing gently
at first, increased in velocity so much that
the audience gave up hope of good time, and
the disappointment when the time made,
2:1S14, was announced was not so great as
might have been expected. The ''warming
up'' mile was trotted in 2:22%. After the
trial Of speed Bithers was presented with sew
eral floral offerings, among them beautiful
horseshoe. The other races were full of in
terest to lovers of fast-traveling horse flesh,
but the time made was In all cases slow, OWN
to the wind. In the pacing race Commodore
Kittson's Gem came under the wire last in
two heats, and then pricked up her ears and
distanced the bunch in the third. In the $3.50
race Rosa Bemis, after trotting dead heat
with Lottie Smith, took the next three with
ease. 1t was nearly O'Clock when the last
race was called, and darkness interviewed to
stop the sport at the end of the third heat,
| the first going to Flora Belle and the other
| two to Wallace.
$3.50 RACE.
| The $50 race was started az 2:1U Star
Bashaw drawing the pole, Rosa Bemis COM
| ing second and Lottie Smith third. Starter
A. G. Hancock, of Kansas City, after deliv-
ering little lecture to the drivers on the
necessity for perfect fairness in starting and
driving, ordered the horses off. Star Bashaw
led to the quarter mile, when he broke badly
and fell to the rear, Lottie Smith going to
| the front and Rosa Bemis following very
close. Star Bashaw continued to lose ground,
while the other horses made a pretty race
At the distance stand the driver urged Rosa
Bemis little, and she answered the whip by
moving up on even terms with Lottie Smith,
and in this position they dashed under the
wire, the judges being unable to decide which
was ahead, aud calling the heat dead in 2:41,
with Star Bashaw third, some ten or twelve
lengths behind. Billy Lambert was drawn
before the race.
| SECOND HEAT.
The second heat proved a procession
throughout, with the exception of an instant
at the third quarter, when Star Bashaw got
into second place on account of break by
Lottie Smith. The latter quickly recovered.
| however, and was soon in second position
again. Rosa Bemis took the heat by four
lengths in 2:44, Lottie Smith second, Star
Bashaw third.
THIRD HEAT.
| Rosa Bemis took the lead and was never
headed, although Lottie Smith worked hard
to go to the front from the three-ousrter
pole to the wire, and but for break at the
Star Bashaw acted badly all the way around.
and failed to pass the distance flag in time.
FOURTH HEAT.
Rosa Bemis and Lottie Smith had the next
heat all by themselves, and Rosa was too
much for Lottie all the way around, and the
spurts of the latter had no perceptible
| effect.
/ SUMMARY.
Trotting, $50 class, purse $500:
E. A. Parkers CHI. m. Rosa Bemis....0 1 1 I
| VIM Parkers b. m. Lottie Smith.....0 2