Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-28
EASTERN RACING.
The American Derby Won by Baldwin's
Silver Cloud.

by Telegraph
CHICAGO, June 26th.-This was Baldwin's
day on the turf, and no mistake, and the
colors of the rival, Haggin's stable, are in
the dust OF the $4,000 people who locked
to Washington Park to take in the Derby
this afternoon probably three score thought
Baldwin's Silver Cloud would win it. The
remainder were champions of Haggin's Ben
Ali and the Kentucky Blue Wing. Those
of the three score who backed their judg-
ment with the bookmakers and in the
poolbox are wealthy tonight, for Silver
Cloud won in gallop by four lengths.
The race was a brilliant one from the be-
ginning to the finish. Ban Fox, another
Haggin horse, was scratched, ana only ten
horses started They were, with their
weights and Jockeys: Porter Ashes Ed.
Corrigan, 11S pounds kelly; Clifton Bells
The Dude, l2l pounds (Corrilla); William
Cottrills Lewis Clark, i Ii pounds IL. jones';
j. B. Haggin's Ben Ali and Preciosa. The.
former, as penalty for winning the Ken
lucky and st. Louis Derbys, carried 123
pounds to Preciosas Ill w. Hayward
rode Ben Ali and Duffy sat Preciosa. W.
S. Barnes Il Co.'S Blue Wing, III pounds
(Withers), and the Bourbon, 121 pounds
(StovaD; Lucky Baldwin's Silver Cloud,
III pounds (Murphy); Lijero, lis pounds
(Conking), and j. and J. Swigard's st.
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The stake was worth to the winner S10,-
600. In the betting Ben Ali and Blue
Wing struggled for supremacy. The last
| auction pools showed them SIPS each, with
| $50 on Ed. Corrigan and $40 for the field.
The despised Silver Cloud was among the
latter. In the books it was seven to five
against each Ben Ali and Blue Wing, while
Silver Cloud went begging at twenty to one
and few takers.
The Derby was the third race of the day
the first two were tiresome and of no
consequence. 1t was few minutes past
o'clock before the judges bell called the
horses to the track. ALI looked in first-rate
form except Silver Cloud and The Dude.
The former was lazy in movement, and
Murphy had considerable trouble in keep
ing company with his stable mate, Lijero.
Ben Ali looked:well and Blue Wing was in
fine trim. The distance was mile and
half, and it took long while TO get around
to the opposite side of the track and start
1t required four false starts before the ten
were finally moved in bunch, each time
Silver Cloud tagging behind and delaying
the procession.
Finally the flag fell and away they went,
with Ben Ali slightly in the lead of The
Dude. The remaining eight were punched
In the first quarter Preciosa moved to the
second and The Dude third, forcing Ben
Ali to fourth.
This position was unchanged at the half,
except that Ben Ali exchanged places with
The Dude. Here Ben Ali did his running
He forged ahead and led until completing
the first mile, closely followed by Bourbon.
The pace was terrific, however, and he
seemed to have run himself out
Just after he finished the first mile one
of the Baldwin horses was observed to
leave the bunch behind Ben Ali and the
Bourbon. He shot ahead, and in a hun
dred yards had passed the Haggin horse,
and was leading by three lengths. For a
moment the spectators were in doubt as to
whether be was Silver Cloud or Liiero, but
then Murphy was recognized and cheers
went up for Silver Cloud.
Blue Wing and Sir Joseph also drew out
of the bunch and passed Ben Ali and the
Bourbon. But they were unable to over
take Silver Cloud He led round the turn
into the stretch, and Murphy brought him
in with hands down.
Blue Wing finished second, Sir Joseph
third Ed. Corrigan fourth, The Dude fifth,,
Ben Ali sixth. Preciosa seventh, Lijero
eighth, The Bourbon ninth and Lewis
Clark tenth.
When Murphy weighed out it was amid
cheers of both yictors and vanquished.
French mutuals paid SOL on Silver Cloud.
The other races were as follows:
The mile race May Lady won, Buchanan
second, Modesty third. Time, LAO. The
mutuals paid $50 so.
The three-quarters of mile race Spal-
ding won Finality second, Skobelef third.
Time, 1:154. The mutuals paid $40 so.
The one and one eighth miles race Tax
gatherer won, Bootblack second, John Sui
Ivan third. Time, 1:55. The mutuals
paid ST. 80.
The hurdle race, one mile and quarter,
Foxhound won, Guy second, Worth third.
Time, 2:19l. The mutuals paid $50 80.
AT sHEEPsHEAD BAY.
SHEEpsHEAD BAY, June 26th.-There was
an average attendance at the races to-day,
with nothing of special note. For two
year Odds, three quarters of mile was won
by Agnes. Drynwood second, Jennie June
bird. Tine, 1:1Sl. For three year Odds
and upwards, one mile, was won by Swift,
Tom Martin second, Elizabeth third. Time,
1:43i. Great Poet stakes for two-year-olds,
three-auarters of mile, fremont won, Ia
Juive second, Red Prince third Time,
1:193 Handicap, one and one-half miles,
Tecumseh won, Favor second, Drake Carter
third. Time, 2:444 The handicap, one
and one-eighth miles, Brambleton won,
Pilot second, Pasha third. Time, 2:031.
The sporting stakes, one mile MARYLAND
won by half length, Strathspy second,
Pontice third. Time, 1:4S.
A POINTER TO PRIZE FIGHTERs.-W Wounds
are quickly healed by st. Jacobs Oil.