The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-14
THE FAIR AT ToPsHAM.
Five Thousand People in Attendance
on the Second Day.
Good Trotting and Exciting Scenes
at the Races.

The second day of the Sagadahoc County
Fair, in which the Cumberland county
towns of Brunswick and Harpswell take
prominent part, proved highly successful.
The weather was bright and mild and the
| people turned out in great numbers Tor 'ne
sights and scenes Of a well organized anu
well conducted fair. favored with exception
ally good facilities for such an eXhlbltloh'
The forenoon was occupied in the examih-
alton of stock, display Of horses, etc. on 'ne
grounds, and the halls were well niieu W sec
the fine displays which have been spoken Oh
in these columns.
The races in the afternoon drew large
audience. some five thousand people being
present. The Brunswick Juvenile band dis
coursed music in a creditable manner. Two
races were on the programme-one for the
soeiety's purse in three minute class, and
the other for two thirty-six horses. The
Judges for the day were Messrs. w. r. Field,
Brunswick; S. n. Carr, Bowdoia; and John
May, Augusta.
The first race called was the 2.96 class, for
which fourteen horses had been entered.
Ten appeared for the race, viz Lady Inde-
pendence, Kate Hamlet, Clara c., Flash
Fred B., Remember. Cameress, Aspasia and
Robert d. With such large field of horses
there was much difficultyin getting an i'm
partial start but one was finally affected af-
ter half an hsur's scoring
The first heat proved an eventful one.
They got the word well together, and Rob
ert d. forged ahead Of the fleet Of flyers,
sharply pursued by Lady Independence and
Aspasia. AS they were nearing the second
turn of the first half the Bath horse. Aspa-
ii. 20 ndt Ind
ence when the latter broke and the two sui
kies were swung together. There was a rat
tling of wheels and then a smash and down
came the driver Of Aspasia and one Of the
wheels of his sulky wreck. The driver
held on to his horse for moment, but was
kicked away, and off dashed the runaway
horse to the excitement of the thousands OF
spectators.
The driver of Robert D., hearing the crash
looked over his shoulder and took in the sit
uation. The Bath horse behaved remarka-
bly, we'll with wrecked sulky dangling at
his heels, and actually settled into trot at
one time. Robert d. kept to the 'front.' even OF
the driverless horse running behind, and
half mile further on Aspasla was stopped.
The driver escaped with few bruises and
the horse was uninjured. 1t was as an ex-
citing heat as the crowd could care to see,
but decidedly interrupted matters so far as
trotting speed was concerned. The horses
were strung out for quarter OF mile at the
finish, but under the circumstances the
judges decidedluot to distance any, and they
were placed as finishing the held in the fol-
lowing order: Robert d., L; Kate, 2; Flash,
3; Clara c., A; Remember. 4; Hamlet, 8;
Fred B.: Z; Lady independence, s.; GARNER
ess, o; Aspasia, 10. Time, 2.36.
The whole field in due course OF time ap-
peared to contest the second heat, another
sulky having been found for the Bath horse.
and the driver pluckily desiring to take the
ribbons again, although the veteran Ira
Woodbury. volunteered to do so. The heat
was a fighting one and it was hard to tell who
would be the winner to the very close. Rob
ert ID. did finely at first, but made bad slip
up and then Kate. Remember and Lady In
dependence struggled for the mastery In
of changing positions and sharp work done
in the heat, and the judges were some time in
consultation before deciding, but they final
iy did so as follows: Kate, L; Remember.
2; Lady Independence, 3; Flash, 4; Clara e
5; Hamlet, s; Cameress, z; Robert D., s;
Fred B. and Aspasia distanced. Time
1854.
The third and fourth heats were also won
by Kate in 2.A and 2.343.
In the three minute race there were SIX
starters, ciz: Daisy Patchen, Arthur s,
Leona R., Creeper, Kittie G., Daisy r.
The latter drew the inside for the start
with Arthur second and Daisy Patchen
third.
The first heat of this race was enliyened
by Creeper running away with his driver.
The horse seemed to be quite unmanageable,
taking the bit in his teeth and running ike
stag. 1t looked at one time as though he
would twist the wheels out of his sulky in
his drivers efforts to control him, hut the
driver finally steered this frisky Creeper into
the fence to cool off. The heat was wen by
Daisy r., with Arthur s. second and Leona
b. third. The other three horses were dis
taneed Time, 242t
The black stallion Arthur S, owned by G..
II. Nichols, of Bath, VOL the minute race.
Best time 2.43.
During the afternoon the stallion DR..
Franklin with two four year old sons OF his,
Lawrence and Col. Dyer were exhibited on
the track.
The racing sport was much enjoyed yester-
day, and that no serious results attended the
mishaps was most fortunate.
Today if the weather holds fine there will
probably be another large assemblage. The
attraction is the 2.40 class race and the 2.29
class. A dozen good trotters are in the
former and half that number in the latter.