St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10
AMONG THE HORSES.
To-Day to be Marked One at Monmouth
Park, Where Two Great Races
Will be Run.
Commodore Kittson to Have One Horse In
Each, the Great Rataplan
Being One.
The Southern Minnesota Fair Asso-
citation Preparing for an I'm
usual Display.
State Fair--Maud 5 and Her Great
Feat--Suspension of Kilt
sons Jockey.
Grent Day at Monmouth.

To-day will be the most important one of
the season at Monmouth park. 1t will be
the first day of the second summer meet
ing, and the character of the champion
stallion stakes, and the champion stakes
and the renOwn of the horses engaged in
them will undoubtedly attract very large
attendance In all probability it will be
one of the greatest racing days ever wit
messed in America. From the horses
named one may understand that all the sec
tons of the republic will be represented.
In all there will be seven races. The two
principal ones are named above, and
special interest is felt in these two races DIV
MinneSOtianS for the reason that Commodore
KittSOn has horses in each of them. The
champion stallion race is for two-year-
oldS, three-quarterS of a mile, and it is the
greatest of the two-year-Old races. Last
season when Wanda won it, the value was
over SIS, 600, and it resulted in a race that
will long be remembered by all who wit
messed it. This season it will be equally
interesting, and is destined to be very hot
race, for it is expected that representatives,
Will compete from California, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and
Missouri. There are fifteen stations sub
Scribed at $500 each, making 50, 600. The
association adds $1,000, and the starters
pay $3.50 each. The two named by Com.
mOdOre KittsOn are Brown Duke and Re
frain by Reform. After giving the names
OF all the colts in the race the Spirit of the
Times remarks:
The above field should make a race mem
orable in the annals of the turf. Never be-
fore has so great field of good ones met
u dispute so great racing prize. BanfOx
has won the hOrSe-traders' stakes at st.
Louis. Hyde Park stakes at Chicago. and
the Saratoga stakes at Saratoga. Portland
won the juvenile at jerome park, surf and
great post stakes at Sheepshead BAY. and
tyro stakes at Monmouth. Electric has won
the July and Seabright; Ben Ali the Hope
ful; Refrain the Atlantic; Bluewing the
Runnymede at Louisville and Mechanics at
st. Louis; Savanac the Sapling; Quito the
Brentwood at Washington, Patapsco at
Baltimore and foam at Sheepshead Bay.
Besides these there is Fleetwing, who is
said to be better than Electric. Brown
Duke Is one of the most highly-tried colts
ever bred at Erdenbeim. HOuSatonic is
supposed to be the best of the Rancocas lot.
though sickness has made him perform most
mdifferently. Enright is said to have been
better than Bankrupt, while Ed Corrigan
comes from California with the reputation
OF being a wonder.
Following the above great stake is the
champion stakes for all ages, one mile and
half. In speaking of it the Spirit of the
Times saws:
This race, instituted in 1879, is i'm imita-
ton of the championship stakes at New
market, and, like it, represents the cham
pionShlp OF the country. 1t is stake so
valuable as to attr act the best horses in
training, and its annual recurrence is looked
forward to with the utmost interest. There
are thirty-Seven engaged, of which the fol-
lowing are among the likely starters:
Z. Corrigan's Freeland, 6 years old; sire,
LOngfellow; jockey, Murphy.
n. w. Kittson's Rataplan, years old;
sire, Reform; jockey. Fitzpatrick.
RancOcas stable, Wanda, years old;
sire, Mortemer; jockey, Olney.
Dwyer Bros Miss Woodford. years old;
sire, Billet; jockey, Mclaughlin.
G. L. LOrillard's Louisette, years old;
sire, Glenelg; jockey, Blaylock.
IL is long time since such a field of
cracks were brought together, and the ex-
element will rage at fever heat, not only
on account of the reputation of the contend
ing horses, but the intense rivalry they rep
resent. Freeland hasfOr the past two wears
been the real champion of the West. Miss
WOOdford is the champion of the all-aged
class in the East, while Wanda is the cham
pion three-year-old; Rataplan is the cup
horse par excellence, and LOuisette was the
best of last seasons three-year-olds. Not
since the Parole-Ten Brock race at Balti-
more in 1877 has race of such purely sec
tional cast been fought out in this country,
and the feeling will run very high. Free
land has not met Miss WOodford. nor has
Wanda when she was herself, and we may
confidently expect such a race as will arouse
the feelings of the multitude to the highest
pitch.