The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-06-27
While His Most Dangerous Foe. High
Tariff. D%isparingly Lays
Down and Dies.
Incidents of the Race The BETTING
The Start, and the
Time -.
THE AMERICAN DERBY.
StrrutI,m meath Wins Race and None, and
High Tariff Dies.

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horse and $4,000 to another; that was
the American derby of 81. 4 scarlet
flash on the horizon; a half hundred
thousand people brrathless, a CLEAN of
stake race ever run in the west was at
an end. 1t was 10y Strathmeath, New
York's fayorite, the battle royal was won.
Half a mile off where had been the thick
of the fight lay m~otionless on the track
the corpse of his foe in death High Tar
if, Tom Kiley. the gallant beasts rider,
twice the derby victor ON that very
course had this time pushed the limit of
equine endurance. There was a sudden
plunge. IN upward queer stagger of
twenty yards and High Tariff sunk down
into the mud ~lifeless.
Whether in point Of great horses; ia.
nous jockics' magniiiccnce; of fashion
able display and marvellous outpouring
of the people as well us in sensational
incidents and the lucky purse. probably
no such race was ever witnessed this side
of the Allcghenies, certainly not in Chi
cago. No one of the seven derbias that
in preceding years have made Washing
ton Parks Burkes celebrity more than
fringed in the interest of the classic
event of today. Just enough brilliancc
shone through the partly overcast sky to
light up the hundreds of gay bonnets
and bright-hued parasols that necped
out everywhere from the club
house to the gate. Such Il multi
tude of the fair sex as put in an
appearance was something wholly
unprecedented mere and SO great was
the crush that hundreds of them were
wedged helplessly in an m mob
of heterogeneous male sports that packed
the lawn solid in front of the betting
ring. But for the jam of humanity the
day would have been the perfection of
temperature for spectators. Once within
the confines of the park, however, faces
speedily flushed and perspiration dripped
as eager thousands pushed each other
backward and forward in huge waves.
No aisle or stairway in the grandstand
afforded an inch of unused standing
room. Its galleries and roof were black
with people. While the approaches from
end to end of the stretch including even
the club house grounds. reserved for
members and friends, were full almost to
sutfocation. In the field showed line
after line of vehicles, tallyhos, victorias
and cabs all loaded down with people,
stretching in bewildering succession far
beyond a point to the rear whereby any
possibility of glimpses of the course
could be had. Stable tops,
telegraph poles and fences to each point
of the compass seemed literally fcstOoned
with would-be luOkers-on hanging to
pickets or other points of vantage as if
life depended on the result. Everybody
agreed that despite the yielding, dustless
condition of the sol that the recent rains
had left, the race with the array Of
powerful animals entered was to be a
struggle fit for Kings to see, or for that
matter a worthy spectacle for the vast
throng of American sovereigns that had
gathered on the course.
OF the ten noble brutcs that were to
make the contest, unbcaten Kingman
not to mention High Tariff, F%orerunner,
Valera and Michael had in many a hard
western race under similar track con
|, ditions given evidence of remarkable
form. On eastern tracks Pessara and
;, SNOWFALL were no less notable. Lud-
owic was looked upon by C%alifornians
VINO were supposed pest aple " Ju,S'
HIM as me most certain 10 Prov d SUI,
prise While Stratnmeath Regarded dis al
around me pest OF iast years 'Wo!ca,
olds' had peeh reserved al 'nn piescn,'
season solely loI inns race napl'
? Garrison, iarai' Co'ingloh ana ri,HP"a
rick, probably iouf as crack Jockeys az
! as almost an! equal hnllper now on VIZ
! turi' mao peen rough esPrciall! lor ~,
l race IRON new n9rk. anu 1t Mas tu,'r,'
GOSSIP 'i,a' ''airisohs PEI a;npi'.o" ""'
? To rae an american oerp! winner iml
Kelly, too me winning Jockey OF 'h'
Two latest OF the great Chicago conl'siS
was to have ouhte ana WIN ~ =