The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07
RACING HISTORY OF 1890.
PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
Most Brilliant Season Ever known-RecOrds
Smashed East and West-The Trotters
Reach Shining A"Iarks-General
Sporting Notes.

Reach Shining A-IRrks-General
Sporting Notes.
To the turf world the year 1890 con-
tributed its most brilliant chapter OF his
tory. Never in any previous year was
racing, both in harness and under saddle,
carried on with such magnificent success,
such dazzling results and above ali with
such enthusiastic public support and APP
probation,
The general verdict has been that the
thoroughbred racing season of 1890 out
shines all past ones. The chief events In
the racing of the year were the Tenny-
Salvador battles for supremacy, the open
ing OF the new track at Monmouth and the
record-breaking achievements East and
West. The racing season proper began in
the East at Brooklyn, MAY 10, the first
great stake of the year, the Brooklyn
handicap, resulting very unsatisfactory
to the public in the victory of the despised
Castaway II over the favorites, Los An
geles, Badge and Sir Dixon.
The Great Salvador.
From Brooklyn the racing shifted to
Morris park, where in the New York
jockey club handicap Tenny showed such
form that the suburban was Tor a time
quite generally conceded TO him. How
Salvador won by a head from the light
weighted Cassius. with Tenny third; how
Tenny and Salvador were matched for
5000 a side, and how Salvador won by a
head in the grandest race ever seen be-
tween two horses in America. the winner
breaking the one and a quarter miles
record in 2:05-all this is fresh history.
They next met in the Champion stakes
at Monmouth, az one and u half miles.
where Salvador defeated Tenny in the the
most decisive manner, which was the
formers last appearance in public, except
ing in his dash against time over the
straight course at Monmouth, where he
lowered the worlds record at a mile to
1851. In short. Salvatore performances
in 1890 stamped him for what he Is gener-
ally conceded to be, the best racehorse
that America has yet produced.
F.renzi aud the Youngsters.
Alter him his stable companion Firenzi
was the champion of the year, her defeat
of Tournament and others in the Twin
| CITY handicap, and of Tenny In the Free
hold stakes, demonstrating that she is
still what she long agoproved herself-the
queen of the turf.
Turning from the alleged champions to
the younge division. senator Hearsts
Tournament, the son OF an Australian
sire. must be admitted to be by all odds
a. lo,f fbraa- taor-pl1 nf tho wear and
after him probably Sinaloa ii and Bur-
lington ranked the highest at the age. OF
the t~wo-vear-olds Russell was the un-
doubted champion in the spring, Sallie
McClelland being his chief rival, but IN
the fall the victories of Strathmeath in the
Junior Champion and Potomac i'll the Fu-
turitv brought these colts into greater
prominence, and the last named is gem
orally believed to rave been the best colt
OF his age seen in 1896.
The Runners of the West.
In the West the Two Thousand sweep
stakes at Nashville is the first OF the great
spring stakes, and it was run April 26,
| falling 10 R~obespierre, the promising son
Of Jils johnson, that later turned out 80
| disappointiDgly. Then came the Ken
lucky Derby, for which Robespierre. on
his form in the Nashville Two Thousand,
was favorite, but finished third TO Riley
and Bill Letcher. Riley was again vic
torious in the Clark stakes, and was then
clearly the best three-year-old in the
West, though he was beaten in the La
tonia Derby by Bill Letcher, to whom,
however, he was conceding liberal weight.
Then came the American Derby ut
Washington park, run i'll mud, Uncle Bob
winning, with Santiago second, but the
verdict was reversed a few days later in
the Sheridan stakes, run on a better track.
Uncle Bob showed nothing like his Derby
form thereafter until the fall meeting at
Louisville. where he beat Riley easily in
the st. Leger, and thereby proved better
than formerly rated.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
The wear was a remarkable one for
mountaineering on the running turf, new
| time being made at all distances. from
| hree-uuarters of a mile to one and one
| half miles. The new records established
are:
= mile, FideS, 1:lOI
~furlongs, Bella b., l03.....~~.......... 1887
/ mile, Salvador, 1:3319
| mile, Racine, 1891
mile 20 yards, Lizzie B., 1O4."........ l;45H
l LILO miles, Pr nee Royal. 1l6..--......... 1:46l2
l mile l furlong. Tenton. 1l3.......... 1929
/ 3-16 miles, Tristan, 10
Ia miles, Salvador, 2"....w"..... 2:o5
IL miles. Banquet, los .".....""......... 2:03A
l% miles, Ormie, 2:20Z
1T mills. Firenzi. 1888
OF these records, the dash OF Fides was
over the 'toboggan slide" at Morris park,
while the mile of Salvador and the n
and one-quarter mile of Banquet were
made over that lightning straight course
at Monmouth.
The Trotting of 1890.
The t%rotting of the year began at Wash
ington, d. c., April %, and OF course con-
tinued ceaselessly in all directions through
out the season. A bril- liant series OF trot-
ting events was %inaugurated as usual at
Detroit. where the blue ribbon meeting,
from July % to 20, proved successful be-
yond ali a~nticipations. Here Leopold
Rose, the PAGERS Cricket and Adonis, Nc
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