The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

animals in the classes we desire, and we
came here, all of US, where there are big
stakes and we put on the creatures Tor
what they are worth and let 'em go.
There is no pulling back or impairing the
speed in any way 1t is a pure race for
blood in nine cases out of ten. / have not
seen such an honest set of races this season
as have here in the last two days at
Wichita and know what is coming. /
tell you if a man wants to see real races,
where the animals are given the rein. he
wants to keep his eye on the Wichita track
the next two days"
This is the concensus Of all the horse
men present The crowd, who are not
skilled in the wiles and guiles of the pig
skin, seem to understand this, for they
exhibit the closest interest in every heat
and the enthusiasm over a victorious
horse or a broken record is very great.
There was a great deal of kicking aud
claiming fouls among the drivers yester-
day, which was also significant of the real
strife in the contest. But all objections
were amicably adjusted and the judges
and starter settled everything to the salts
faction of the spectators and the apparent
concurrence of the drivers.
The most exciting episode Of the day was
the mad runaway of Honesty, Kan
sas City horse belonging TO l.. German.
Honesty is a nervous horse and 40 the
finish Of the first heat Of the PHI pace,
Honesty pushed under the wire with a
vicious leap and defied all efforts Of his
driver to stop him. Madly he sped around
the ring. This made the second mile and
u. - Ivfy- -r,rrfI ,F.fr,
control Of him. But down the home
stretch he came rs unmanageable as ever.
Harry Lopez, the starter, told every
body to keep quiet and he
would ring the bell just as II
he was scoring and maybe that
would stop him. But the experiment
failed. The crazy horse sped onward as
wild and uncomfortable as ever. The
driver was almost exhausted when he
came under the wire for the fourth time
and il was almost An accident that be was
not injured One Of the men tried 70
throw blanket over the horses head but
Il MISSED its mark and dropped over the
drivers face, completely binding him lie
managed, however, 70 get II Of, but the
horse still fed precip itateiy He was on his
dfth mile now. One man tried % 50 p him By
catching his bride. bat vas knocked down
and run over 81 the sUlky. Another
horsernsu took after him and struck 81
him in front with long whip trying 10
stou him. But this failed. Finally, when
Honesty entered on tie sixta mile. his
driver got him down. The excitement
during al this was intense. Very few
had ever seen anything Ike IL Nearly
everybody thought Ho1ssty's wind was
broken AID maybe be was = dead horse.
Bus az the next heat he showed up. littls
tagged TO be sure. but great many were
Of the opinion that be would have wen tie
race. IL it had not been for lis Wild runs-
waT.
The first race Of $50 foais f5r a stake o.
So. was given TO Blue Stem n the second
heat. Il was 4 pretty race throughout
The time was PIX. which breaks the
state record for 2-year-oldz-
TIE secoud race, stake S3oo. was the 2-f7
mace. which was won b. HIlkie Russell
In z.Islx. This race was attractive, and
was the most exciting as II = Honesty
made his Wild run
The third race was tke 30 pace sEaks
sf.09a This was the rzee OF tie aftsruooa.
six heats we're run. Eiae ssga getting tvo
heats storm one ard Black Dick 0suniag
fn z.I76 L Wa VERY ciose, and duriag
every ns1t gTeAs excitement pssTz-.s9-