Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-18
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The Eastern Turf.

SARATOGA, August 17.-Fourth race..one
mile, Ada d. won. Red Girl second, Port
land third. Time, 1:4Sk.
Fifth race, Z OF a mile, Islette won.
Bankrupt second, Shamrock third. Tim:,
1:21. Track very heavy. iirst race z Of 81
mile, Krepps won. Bessie June second,
Blessed third. Time, 1:l9h.
Second race, one mile and furlong, Bess
first, Lady Wayward, second, MiddeseA
third. Time, 2 minutes.
Third race, one mile and five furlons3.
Solid Silver won. Inspector &. second,
Elkwood third. Time, 3t..
MONMOUTH PARK, August II First race.
Handicap Z mile, Blackstone first, Mink
second, Psricles third. Time, Lie.
Second race, Malt and Chandon, Cham.
pagne stakes for 2-year o!ds; z OF a mile.
Lady Primrose won by four lengths. False
step record, Montrose third. Time, l:l1.
Third race, choice stakes for 3-year oltis,
IL miles, Bard won. Dewdrop second,
Benai third. Time, 2:39l4.
Fourth4ace, Handicap, l miles, Roman
"a won. Hidalgo second, Hell! and Toe
third. Time, 2:11h.
Fifth race, selling purse, : OF II mile,
Marsh Redon won. Queen Esther second,
Edgetield third. Time, 1:3O1s.
Sixth race. Hurdle, \ miles over six,
Hurdles Menmore won. Endeavor sec; nj,
AFfll FOOl C0lfO. lime, Z.0O.
There was an immense gathering at Mon
mouth Park track to-day to witness the
contest for choice stakes in which The Bard
and Dew Drop, the $4,000, tlly OF the
Dwyers, were to prove which was entitled
to the Blue Ribbon OF the turf as 2-year
old for 1856. Bards settled the question
by winning ny a short head, Hayward,
who rode him, being bent on giving Ne
Laughlin, on Dewdrop, the kind OF a finisi,
which Mclaughlin always seems to like,
namely, a close one. The excitement as
the horses entered the straight stretch was
tremendous. Cheer upon cheer resoundei
through the air. Ladies stood up on
benches and railing, and by voice and grs-
ture urged their favorite to victory, and
when, at the close, The Bard passed the
line winner by a short head, thousands
sighed that the race was so ended. The
race in itself was really one-horse affair,
for from the start to the finish The Bard
was held steadily in hand for he
great final struggle at the stand. After
the start Bepl lAli, Dewdrop, The Bard and
Blue Wing swept past in the order named.
On entering the back stretch Mclaughlin
put Dewdrop on her good behavior, and
succeeded in heading The Bard; but this
let The Bard loose again and Dewdrop
was lett. Ben Ali, all this time, was rae
ing as ii for dear life. In the turn on the
railroad side Mclaughlin again moved the
filly up, but found that it would he very
injudicious to force her just ut that time
and SO he reserved all her force until well
in straight, when he tried one OF his splen-
did strategic moves, by forcdg the pace in
the last furlong, but The Bard was still
there and casting a look at Mclaughlin the
rider of the winner of the choicestakes and
the greatest 2-year-old in the country went
past the judges stand In the time OF 2:3?'l.
There were sixty-nine entries and the
time one-quarter OF second slower than
the best previous record for the distance.