St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-02
THE RYAN HANDICAP.
Prince FOrtunatus First and Out.
bound Second Under the Wire.

Prince Fortunatus First and Out.
bound Second Under the Wire.
''It's hard day to pick 'em," said
regular follower of the circuit yester-
day after he had dropped acouple Of
fiftieS OH Flora Mcdonald for the first
race and like amount on Anarchist for
the second. He voiced the sentiment
of the fancy. for all had found it hard
to select pets from the entries in the
various events. Especially, was this
true of the third race, the Hotel Ryan
handicap. The starters for this event
were the Cumberland tables Miss
Leon, J. w. Guests Doctor Nave, j. e.
Cushing's Longlight, w. r. Letcher's
Prince Fortunatus, the Park Ridge
stables Outbound, and J. S. O'Brien's
Longshot. Outbound was first favorite
at odds of to 2, L0ngShot and ,Fortu-
natus started at 8 to l, Longshot had
friends at 4 to l, and Miss Leon
and Doctor Nave carried some
respectively. The distance was
a mile and half, a race calculated to
show up the staying powers of the field.
Prince FOrtunatuS was first out, with
Porter up, and as he spun down past the
stand in his warming-up gallOp he
looked fit to run for his owners pile.
Then came Doctor Nave, Guests bay
three-year-old. and his action was good
enough as he passed down to secure
him any number of friends at the odds.
Outbound. the chestnut son of Blue
Eyes, came next, under Hollis, and the
fellows who play favorites all the sea-
son over went into ecstacies over him.
Well, he looked likely enough, but no
bn 80 In
post than LOngshOt, with Fill in the
leather, or Longlight under Sloan.
After fidgeting at the post. with
''Daphine," the invaluable assistant of
Starter Ferguson, whipping them into
line, they were found all in
row like the first form i'm a
Methodist Sunday school, every horse
jumped simultaneously, the drum rat
tied, down went the flag, and they were
off. AS they passed the stand. the bunch
could have been covered easily with
Ally Sloper's umbrella; there wasn't
two lengths of difference between first
and last. but the Doctor had what lead
there was, with Miss Leon at his withers
and Prince FortunatuS at hers. The
whole field was under pull, which re-
laxed little at the quarter, when Doc
tor Nave was leading by neck from
Miss Leon, Prince FOrtunatus third.
Longlight fourth, Outbound fifth and
Longshot last. The order continued the
same to the quarter, and had only
changed at the three-Quarters in that
Doctor Nave had increased his lead to
length. In the next quarter Hill called
OH LongShot for speed and went
through the others to first place,
with the Doctor running second,
Outbound third, and the field stringing
out, with Prince Fortunatus at fifth
place. "Letcher's horse is beat; the
Prince can't 90 the distance" yelled q
fat sport in the stand who had played
been running easily under Porter at
fourth place. and his rider had not yet
called upon him for hard work. Now
they are nearing the turn into the
stretch. Longshot is leading, but his
stride lacks elasticity. Hill is whip
ping right and left already, and Long
Shot is slowly but surely dying, so far
as his chances for this race are con-
cerned. They spread out at the turn.
and as they come into full view in the
stretch Hollis is seen whipping and
spurring the favorite. Porter still sits
quietly on Fortunatus and waits. Doc
tor Nave, Miss Leon, Longlight and
Longshot are all coming home under
mile and a quarter. Miss Leon, under
whip and spur, is making a
brave try for the hOnors
with Outbound, and fifteen lengths
from the finish they are length away
from Prince Fortunatus. POrter'S time
has come. He gives the brown horse
his head, swings the whip right and
left like lightning flash, touches Fort
unatus with the spur. and away he,goes.
Miss Leon is passed in the next three
strides, and the finish is between the
favorite and the pet of the Letcher
stable. If there is any rider who can
ride whipping finish any better than
Hollis that riders name is Porter. Now
they are three lengths from the wire,
both horses under severe punishment.
'.Outbound takes it," yell multitude
of voices whose owners stand to lose
money if he doesn't. ''FortunatuS in
walk" answer the stable gang in
chorus, and ere the echoes have died
away the race is won by FOrtunatus
with a length to spare, Outbound sec
ond, Miss Leon third, Longshot fourth,
Longlight fifth, Doctor Nave last. A
good start, as pretty race as any one
wanted to see, and the best horse won.
Summary: Third race, Ryan hotel stakes,
distance one mile and half.
w. r. Letcher's br Prince Fortunatus