St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-01
The RACE IS RUN
And the Jockey Clubs Great
Inaugural Meeting Is
Over.
its Reputation Is Made, and
Next Year Will Bring
the Cracks.
Yesterdays Half Dozen Races
We're Well Worth Your
Money.
Catalpa, Hindoo's Great
Daughter, Wins the Mer-
chants Handicap.
Entry, Angelus, Brown Prin-
cess and Morse Were
Four Winners.
Linguist, a Sure Cineh, Gets a
Linguist, a Sure Cineh. Gets a
Fall and Nettie Watkins
Takes a Race.

There was larger attendance yester-
dayat the race grounds than upon any
day since the opening, except Derby
dav. All the trains arriving at the
grounds were packed to the guards, and
bv the time the last one had deposited
Its human freight at the depot there
were fully 5000 persons present, anX-
lous to witness the running of the great
last day event-the Twin City Mer-
chants handicap. There was pretty
fair box attendance, and the number of
carriages in the inclosure was an i'm
provement over Tuesday. The week
has been noted, for its close finishes,
about three out of five races having
been won by from nose to
neck, and no one can complain
that the sport nasn't been exciting
enough. There was not horSeman on
the grounds yesterday but had good
word for the management of the meet
ing. and was loud in his praises of the
wav the horsemen had been treated
during their stay at Hamline. John
Campbell, of the BeverWyck stable,
said last night that he, and to the best
of his belief every other horSemap on
the grounds, was not only surprised at
the perfect way in which the meeting
had been conducted but that the excel
lent condition of the track, shown by
THE FAST TIME
of Tuesday, the promptness with which
the stake money was handed over to
each winning owner, the enthusiasm OF
the people of the Twin Cities had all
been unexpected, and therefore omuch
more satisfactory to the horsemen.
GkXv NoI,
the owner of Jou Jou, "that all the
cracks will be here next season, and
though there couldn't be much better
racing than we have had here this
meeting, all the big cracks whose names
are famous and whom the people want
to see will come" l.. P. Ezekiel, the
clerk of the scales, has proved himself
to be the best man who could pos
sibly have been chosen for
the place, everything in the de-
partment of which he had charge hav-
ing worked like charm, and without
hitch since the meeting opened. One
feature of the meeting has been the re-
markable freedom from rowdylsm: Not
a tigh or disturbance of any kind call
ing for police interference took place
during the entire eight days. Not
solitary fakir was seen on the grounds,
not even the almost irrepreSsible three
shell man. There was no bagatelle, no
roulette, no anything in the form of a
gambling device, barring the legitimate
bookmaking, Paris mutualS, and the
usual furniture of the ring.
A GOOD DEAL OF ENTHUSIASM
was evlnced by the occupants of the
stand. at the appearance OF the famous
couple, the Beverwick stables entry for
the Twin City Merchants handicap, La
vina Belle and Clay Stockton. Both the
flyers looked to be trained too fine when
they showed up for the preliminary yes
terday, and as we'll known horSeman
remarked at the track side, they looked
"worked to death' Catalpa'S perform
ance was no surprise to her owners,
Ireland Bros, one of whom remarked
after the race, that the black mare had
never done her best yet.
Entry'S win in the first race was
slow enough one. but she won, and
that is all to McGuigan, who has been
backing her to win every race for which
she has been entered, though she never
before succeeded in running better
than second. Zulu was running the
race of her life when Fox fell off with
out apparent reason or cause twenty
lengths from the finish. Tarals riding
of Roderick Dhu was great piece of
WOIk, anu IllOuSu hS COulu SCG hllu HO
closer than second, he deserves the
credit of very pretty piece of riding
in the finish. 1t is pretty safe to assert
that Entry never was punished as she
was under Ray in the finish of the
first race. Her shoulders showed the
traces of terrible whipping when the
race was over, but she won. and that's
everything. The Jockey club manager
announces that they regard the meet
ing as having been
A MOST SUCCESSFUL ONE.
st. Paul has been thoroughly estab-
ished as racing center. and every one
who was present during the past eight
days will have good word TO say to
those who were not present at the Twin
City meeting. This morning the flyers
will begin leaving the grounds. most of
them going to Saratoga, though there
are some who will not go further than
Chicago.
Linguist, the crack steeplechaser, sus-
tanned a severe cut in the near Stifie as
a result of his tumble at the first hur-
die Yesterday, though it is not appre-
hended that the injury will be perma-
nent, nor that it will prevent his further
running this year.
Altogether the Twin City Jockey club
meeting of 1889 has been grand sue
cess. and when Bugler Tillman blew
the last blast to mount for the last race
there was hardly man, woman or child
present to whom the knowledge that it
was the last call of the meeting did not
bring a shade of regret. The success of
the meeting of 1890 is as sure as that the
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