St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-27
Larger Crowds and Good
Races Mark the Fourth
Day of the Meet.
The Track Is Not Too Heavy
to Throw OFF the Winner
Pickers.
Oracle. BIantyre, Miss Belle,
st. Ledger and Bridge
light Win.
Linguist Lands the Hurdle
Race Easily--Notes Of
the Day.

The deft gentlemen who wager varI-
Gus amounts that you cannot pick the
winners at the Jockey club races are
gaining experience. When the races
were inaugurated on Derby day there
were an even score of these gentle
manners OF odds, and they balanced their
books with a very handsome sum to the
desirable side of their ledgers; but last
night found only nine of them ready to
continue the sport and run the risk OF
playing even. The races are too one
sided for their satisfaction. and the
crowd of sporting Twin Cityites knows
too much for their comfort. TO pick a
winner has been comparatively easy
thus far, and the auction pools OF the
preceding night have almost invariably
settled the vietOrS of the following day.
One booking firm closed out its slate in
the midst Of the races and an
nounced it had "gone to see AL
phOnse win" which AlDhOnse sadly
failed to do and the presumption is the
booking firm failed likewise. With the
winners reasonably sure, the books are
forced to rely on the place buyers and
on the small fry who take chances on
a short hOrSe:" but both are very un-
certain and 90 only short way toward
reimbursing the heavy and direct losses
on the faYOriteS. When Yesterdays
races opened. the books made play on
AlphOnse for favOrite. but the crowd
knew better and placed Bon Air and
Oracle d. backing them heavily. On
Charlotte alone did the books win, for
when the other races came on, the IA
vOriteS carried all the money and plenty
of it. Four out of six faVOriteS were
easy winners, and the popular horses
for place seemed generally the correct
ones. 1t was very rough on the books.
but the mutual men sailed through it
all.
THE FOURTH DAY
was quite a successful one, from the
main point OF view. After the rattling
thunderstorm of Thursday the air was
pure and clear, and warm enough to
thoroughly oil up the supple joints OF
thoroughbred. whether on the track or
in the ring. The trains to the course
were run to some purpose and carried
out what must have been very graft
fying crowd OF people, including very
many ladies. The paddock was well
filled with fancy equipageS, including
one tally-hO with its stylish and fash
ionaDle freight. and the boxes were
comfortably filled. In the line of preyi-
GUS estimates there were over 1900 per-
sons present.
The rain had left the track in very
poor shape, in spite of the hard work
done upon it in the morning. Where
the horses had broken up the clOds it
left it Iumpy in parts and cuppy in
others, while generally the stiff mud
robbed it of the springy character so
necessary to fast time. This condition
told forcibly on the time made, but it
upset no calculations on the winners, as
the books can sadly testify. The races
were unusually good ones, and interest
was high throughout. The intrOduc-
ton Of the hurdle race to vary the fat
events proved a success. but it came too
near the close of the day to gain full
effect. Though six races were run. the
day was concluded reasonably early,
but there was again that long, unrea-
sOnable and disgusting delay at the sta
tion in getting off the trains for the
city,