St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-26
RACING IN Rain.
Heavy Thunder Showers Mar
the Third Day Of the
Meeting,
And Efectually Trim Down
the Crowds on the Ham
line Course.
Though Running in Deep Mud,
Four of Five Favorites.
Win,
Making a Heavy Draft on the
Bank Rolls of Book
makers.
Laura Davidson Lands the
Oaks and a Big Pot Of
Money.
Kidnap, Oarsman, Willie M
and Castaway II. the Other
Winners.

Early yesterday morning Ominous
clouds rolled up from the northwest
and obscured the sky, threatening to
spoil the attendance at the third days
programme of the jockey club meeing.
AS time passed on the weather outlook
did not improve, and the 5000 people
who were present at the track yeSter-
day went there fully realizing that they
would probably get a soaking. Despite
the unprOmising appearance OF things
generally, there was a fair turnout OF
carriages, and when the rain came,
which 1t did in torrents, sheets and cas-
cades, lust before the third race was
called, the girls sat under the lee OF
their parasols and beauX, and made the
best Of it. A noticeably large proper
ton of the people present yesterday
were from Kentucky and the South gem
orally. The only reasonably dry place
about the grounds after the rain came
was the betting ring and several ladies,
who had sought shelter from the driV-
ing sleet meath the sloping roof, looked
with puzzled eyes at the myriad figures
displayed on the bOOkies' states and
tried to make out how the Paris mutuals
were manipulated, with no better sue
cess than had attended the efforts OF
their escorts earlier in the day.
AS a matter of fact, there wasn't a
dry plank on the ground. Ezekiel
the clerk Of scales. sat quietly and took
his medicine in the shape of good,
healthy stream of rain water which
leaked through the roof of the scales
room and down the shirt collar of the
track ink singers. Clerk OF the Course
Bruce stood up like the old timer he Is.
ana never Squealed, with his pockets
full of water and the wind whistling
wildly through his pet WhiSkerS. Every
one was wet and muddy, yet good
nature and joviality prevailed every
where, and the day wasn't such dis
nal failure after all as it seemed bound
to be at the outset. The first bell
rung at exactly 8 o'clock, and from
that time on the programme
was given as printed in spite of rain,
thunder, lightning and everything else.
Considerable Gelay was occasiOned by
the action of the crazy brown filly We
mango, who cut up all manner of unman-
nerly capers at the start. and came near
killing her rider. Crockett is plucky
'un. and would have mounted the dan
gerous animal for the third time, injured
as he was, but for the refusal of the
had better work her under wheat sack
for a while before he asks another man
to back her. The filly is good one
and can go without doubt, but has the
temper of the devil, and the stubborn
ness of a rocky mountain mule. Things
were pretty quiet round the boxes
during the entire day, and although
half of the stalls were paid for, there
were but few of them occupied. After
the third race yesterday, W. A. Brown
who had been starter thus far, yielded
up his post to j. B. Ferguson, of Louis
vile, KY, who officiated in a very
satisfactory manner during the re-
mandPr of the day. Yesterday was Fred
TaraPs day, and he made the most
of it. His first mount hadn't the stuff
in her to win, or she must have won
with the handling she got. In the sell
was perfect, and he brought the brown
horse home an easy winner of a waiting
race on as heavy track as could be
found in a season.
In the third race, for the S400 purse,
Taral rode Willie NJ, and whispered to
a brother jock as he got up that the
boys who followed him through the day
would make money. 1t developed
that he knew what he was
talking about, and when he
was successful in landing Castaway
safely past the post a good first for the
fourth race, purse of 5000. The peo-
pie in the stand went wild over him,
and backed Brown Princess for the
Oaks, though it was foregone conciu-
sion she couldn't win. Altogether the
favorite jockey had good day, and
made pot of money backing his own
mounts. Davidson was a pretty hot
favorite for the Oaks, and won the race
in a canter, with little Ray sit
ting down in his saddle, his
whip under his arm, his cap
pulled down hard over his eyes, and
light rein on the filly all the way down
the stretch. Coleman made good run
on Kldnap in the first race of the day,
and the favOrites had it all their own
way from the first bell to the weigh out
from the last race.