St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-02
Yesterdays Events Rounded
Up Several Very Pretty
Finishes.
Prince FOrtunatuS Landed for
His Owner the Ryan Ho-
tel Handicap.
Jenny Gronrud, Anne Eliza
beth, Onlight and Chap
man Other Winners.


to-day's programme, after successful
run of ten days, during which the peo-
pie of st. Paul and Minneapolis have
had an opportunity to witness first-class
horse racing. Strictly speaking, the at
tendance during the greater part of the
meeting has not been so large as it
should have been, considering the ex-
cellence of the attractions offered. Yet,
taking into consideration the fact that
racing is in its infancy in this section of
the Northwest, the success of the
jockey clubs enterprise in the two
years which comprise its history has
been little short of phenomenal. 1t is
but very short time since that trotting
was the only form of horse racing in
which local sportsmen found interest
since the best field of runners that ever
were sent away would have failed to
turn out even corporals guard. Two
running meetings with the best horses
in the country making up the fields
have already created radical change in
the tastes of these Old-time sportsmen,
and now sulkies and toe weights are
relegated to the rear, while the former
devotees of trotting howl themselves
hoarse over close finish on the fiat.
Derby day is now regularly recognized
institution. Twenty thousand people
saw the son of Prince Charlie
win the honors and the money
this season. Thirty thousand will
witness the event in '91 and cOrre-
each meeting until eventually the grand
stand at Hamline will not hold the peo-
pie, and the erection of a structure
worthy the day and the crowd will be
begun under state and jockey club au-
spices combined. The seventh race on
the programme for to-day is the closing
event of the meeting. Within the next
two days the couple of hundred flyers
belonging to the various stables repre-
sented at Hamline will have departed
with their owners for other fields of
conquest. Good bye for another year to
the little jocks. the stable boys. the
touts, and all the other attractions that
go with race meeting. Farewell also
to the sporting journalist who develops
with the advent of the annual meeting.
talks horse with an air of profound
knowledge for couple of weeks, and
then subsidies for the balance of the
year into an ordinary routine news
hustler. All these characters, now en-
evidence at Hamline will have diSap-
peared ere to-morrow's sun has set, and
nothing will remain to mark their former
positions but the remnants of pool
tickets bearing the names of horses that
Failed to Win.
A long farewell, too, to the youths
from the country who shrek in wild
abandon as the horse they have backed
for a bill looks like winner in the
stretch, and who subside into sober
faced disgust as they see their champion
beaten out by nose in close finish.
Judge j. j. Burke, than whom
cooler-headed or better man in the
stand could not be conceived, leaves to-
night for Gutenberg. and will open
there on Wednesday. j. B. Ferguson.
than whom more careful or successful
starter does not exist, goes down to his
old Kentucky home for time, leaving
st. Paul on Monday.
The fourth race OH the programme yes
terday was delayed something like tif
teen minutes, from the fact that young
Penny. who had been employed hy
McGuigan to ride Onlight, was objected
to by the judges as being all en-
ploye of the Montana stables,
owning Rimini, also entered for
the race and ridden by Porter. The
fact that Rimini started first favorite,
and was easily beaten by Onlght under
young Sullivan. of the Hearst stable,
goes to show that the action of the
judges was we'll taken. Lord of the
Harem's finish under Brown in the
fifth race yesterday, was the best piece
of work the colt has ever done, and al
though be failed to land first, he made
things decidedly warm for Chapman,
and would have passed him had the
distance been three lengths longer.
Anne Elizabeth ran splendldIy in the
second race, won it easily. and showed
not the slightest trace of the poisoning
or collie from which she is said to have
been suffering. W. &. Deakin's Little
Joe came nearly stealing the finish from
Fosters Jennie Gronrud for the first
race, surprising both his owners and
hackers by the speed he showed in the
stretch. There will be two additional
races to-day, which will prolong the
programme somewhat. The indications
from sales last evening are that there
will be large attendance to-day.