, 1891-09-13
CLOSED BRILLIANTLY.
The Weeks Racing Season Ends
In Great Shape.
About the Two Best Races of the
Meeting Run.
Master Kildare, to the Surprise of
All, a Great Winner.

1t was not generally expected that the
races yesterday would amount to very
much. although the attendance was re-
markably good. The early afternoon was
cloudy and rainy, although the weather
5000 cleared up, and besides nothing
very great is expected at the flag end of
a racing week. As a matter of fact the
half mile race, best two in three, and the
two mile running race We're in many re-
spects the best OF the entire week. In
the first named race Dan Hogan's hurdle
jumper. Adam, sold ~tavorite for the first
heat but Judge was far and away favorite
for the race. 1t was Adam against the
other two and in the first heat the big
boned sorrel was run lively
race against Hark. while the
Judge just escaped being distanced and
that was all. Adam won the heat in a
manner that warmed the hearts OF his
hackers, with Hark a close second. The
interest. however, mainly conferred in the
second heat. What would Judge dor 1t
was believed that he had been purposely
held in and there was considerable doubt
of Adams ability to hold his own in case
of a race for blood with Judge. it was
this feeling that held a great many in sus
pense. The second heat was undoubtedly
the prettiest exhibition of the week. Both
the other horses had slightly the advan-
tage of Adam in the start but he was at
their heels before the turn into the back
stretch was reached. This position he
| maintained until the horses were about
halfway down the homestretch.
1t looked as if he was in a
pocket and salt could not save him.
At this point he began TO clear his way
between the two horses In front 0f him-
His great strength and stride shen did IBIS
business. He forged between Che horses
like an .anter:ss r-esse, AID. as the three
compositions went tearing under tie wise.
Adam had barely a head the beat of it.
The shout that went up vas something
tremendous. Adam had won the heat
and race, contrary to the expectation oil
many OF his friends. and in spite OF q
combination on the track which would
have beaten a less hardy horse. The time
was remarkably good, 0:5O in the first and
O.: 500 in the second heat.
THE Two-MILE RACE.
The meek and lowly ~plungers who .loat
about the pool rooms and buy a pool
horse with the odds tremendously against
him in the hope that he will win through
some lucky accident. were strictly in it in
the two-mile running race, gentlemen rid
ers. Master Kildare had appeared sew
eral times on the track. When he showed
up in the hurdle race on the opening day
of the meeting it was quietly whispered
that while he wasn't much of a runner
he was a holy terror in clearing the hur.
dies. This treasured many cautious in
v~estors, some of whom qnietly placed O
few modest bets on the horse with a repu'
tation for hurdle jumping. In the hurdle
race Master Kildare sustained his reputa.
ton as a not very fast runner. but shook
public confidence in his ability as a
hurdle jumper when he deliberately re.
fused to take the second hurdle himself
but permitted his %genteel English rider to
take it for him. In any subsequent event
in which Kildare appeared he ~undeniably
failed to arous popular enthusiasm by
the brilliancy of his actions, and in the
popular mind he was set down as a well
meaning but irredeemable plug. But. as
events proved, this was a popular
delusion. Kildare was a good enough
horse, but his special aptitude wasn't dis
covered until he struck the two mile race,
and then he came to the front in a man
ner that amazed all spectators and filled
with disgust and chagriu the gentlemen
who thought they knew something of the
capabilities of horseflesh.
The entries for this race were Master
Kildare, b. e.. Oxford Horse company,
with Mr.. Woodruff up; Fizzle. b.. M, T.
W. Brooks rider; Rambler. b.. g.. ridden
by @. G. Logan, and the Oxford Horse
%compauy's blk. G. Joker. with Mr.. Stokes
in the saddle. Rambler was the general
~favorite and Kildare sold in the field.
The first named horse practically led the
race for a mile and a half. In the next
quarter it was discovered that Kildare
was in it. About this time Kildare