St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-25
TRACK AND STANDS.
The Course in Great Shape-How
the Racing TraDspired.


the Racing TraDspired.
On and about the track all was good
nature and content. The course yester-
day when the first race was called was
asserted by as able judges as ever wore
spur to be in tip-top condition, and
but second, if that, slower than the
track at Washington park, Chicago, was
last week. FOX'S win on Catalpa in
:42L was but two and one-half seconds
slower than Ten Broeck'S famous mile
in :39&, was fast thing, and brought
out the sympathies of the people. The
performance was greeted with pro-
longed cheering when the figures went
up announcing the time, and Noah
Armstrong, the owner of the
great Spokane, proclaimed in
a voice loud enough to be heard all over
the grounds that if it didn't rain before
this morning there wouldn't be faster
track in America than the one at Ham
line The time of Lillian LindSey's. win
in the race for the Ladies' stakes, with
Fox again in the saddle, was 1:0214, sur
prisingly fast time, and great race it
was. tOX'S riding yesterday was worthy
of note, and Messrs. Ireland and Talbot,
owners of the winning horses, made no
mistake when they put him up. TaraPs
win on Lotion, in the second selling
race, was a very pretty piece
of riding, the crack three-year-
ing down the entire length of the
stretch under a pull, whilst Eilke,
Wellington and Coleman were riding
hard and keeping up an incessant fusil-
ade of whip and spur from the turn
into the stretch to the finish. The bay
colt went by the Judges length to the
good, 1aral riding hands down and
back in tine saddle.
j. b. Foster, the official caller, sa
cOrker at the business, with cool head
and an eye for color like the proverbial
hawk. Foster has made the entire cir
cult this season in company with ID. L.
Baxter, of the Chicago Times, who says
he never knew him to make mistake
or get ratified on a close finish.
The last two rae e of yesterdays pro-
gramme were S ted with the whole
field in line, and as pretty a brace of
starts as ever were recorded. Much
difficulty was experienced in keeping
the colts in order at the post, and in the
first, second and third races poor starts
we're the rule. In the third race the
field were sent away in single file after
about dozen false starts and any
amount of cutting up at the post by
Westanna and Julia Magee. John
Campbell, of the Beverwick stable,
has done pretty we'll so far, though con-
trary to all expectation CassiuS failed
him for the sweepstakes yesterday.
This was looked upon by those who
knew the horse we'll as dead sure
thing for the bay three-year-old, and
the result of the race was surprise
both to the owner and touts who bet
their quarters on him.
A remarkable feature of the Jockey
club meeting thus far is the perfect
order prevailing throughout the entire
day and the absence of anything in the
shape of fight. The only arrest made
ON the grounds thus far has been that
of small boy, who was jugged for
breaking through fence. The vigilant
chase and lodged him in the cage. Not
shell man nor, in fact, fakir of any
kind, has been seen on the grounds,
and it is the intention of the manage
ment to exclude all such through
out the entire week. Secretary
Shaw was all over the. place
at once, and Ezekiel, the clerk of scales,
was kept hopping all day, though he
didn't get out of the scales room until
the jocks had weighed in from the last
race and each owner OF winning horse
had received his money and had his
name checked off the books. B. G.
Bruce, the clerk of the cOurSe,in speak
ing of the methodical manner in which
all the details of track management
were conducted, paid a neat compli-
ment to the official in charge, saying
that he had never found better methods
nor more perfect management.