Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-13
KINGSTON NOT IN IT.
The Oriental Handicap Damages the Talent
at the Gravesend Track.

The Oriental Handicap Damages the Talent
at the Gravesend Track.
GRAvEsEND RACE TRACK, Sept l2-[Specidl1
The original programme for this afternoon
was q gem, but when the secretary's pen had
finished its labors there were 81 absentees.
The most damage was done in the Oriental
handicap. from which nine were withdrawn.
The racing. however, was good The talent
opened the meeting by making Kingston a
to 8 favorite for the first race at five fur
longs. The distance was a little too short
for him and Correction, 10 to l, beat him
head in desperate finish, after the mare
had made all the running. OF the four start
ers in the second race, Parvenue, to 8, won
from the start, galloping at the finish.
Then came the Prospect stakes and the
defeat of another redhot tavorite, Lady
Violet, / to 8, finished second to Prince
George, Is to l chance. Taral held the
mount and won the stakes for Father Bill
DAILY, from flag fall to finish. Ajax took sec
ond place from Lady Violet by two lengths.
Lamplighter ruled to favorite for the
Oriental handicap but was forced to finish
third. Pactolus; Thrope up, an to in the
/, in n red-hot finish. Lamplighter was only
a neck away. He would have won in q
couple of more jumps. Pactolus was quite
lame after the race.
The Zormetsa colt then set the talent right
by winning the fifth race at to i, and Dia-
bio made it an even break for favorites and
lOngShotS by capturing the last race cleVerly
at to 8. Weather fair. Track fast. At
tendance 5000. Summaries:
First race, five furlongs-Correcton 1l2 Little
eld, 10 to l, led from start to finish and won by a
head. whipping; livingston 122 Taral, to1, second
by length and half, whipping; Tormentor ITO.
Simms, 20 to /, third by two lengths. whipping.
Laughing Water l0l, also ran.
Second race, one mile-Parvenue ITO, Doggett 1
to 5. won gallOping all the way by two lengths;
Julien 10. Hamilton, to l, second by fonr lengths.
whipping: Acalde ITO. J. 6Lambey, 40 to ]. third
by rs lengths, whipping. Time. 1;424. Mad
Third race. the Prospect stakes. six furlongs-
Prince George 1l2, Taral- Is to l, led all the way,
won by length. whipping: Ajax Ill, Bergen,
25 to l, second by two lengths whipping; Lady Vio-
let l5, Simms, to 3 third by two lengths, whipping
Time, 1:15. st. Michael Ill, Corduroy Ill, and
Lady Balmopt los. also ran
Fourth race the Oriental handicap. mile and a
quarter-Pactous l06, Thorpe.S to l, won by head.
whipping; Fidelo 95. j. Lambley, TO /, second
by neck. whipping; Lamplighter liz, Hamilton,
to 5. third by three lengths, whipping Time. 2:ll.
The Pepper LOG, Raceand IL, and Dundee 104. also
ran.
Fifth race, five furongs- -Zeornesta colt 113, Dog
gett, to l. won by a length, whipping; Courtshp
lU. Narvaez, 6 to !. second by a length and a
half, whipping; Japonica 95, Penn, II 10 l, third
by head, whipping. Time, l:03H. Tar and Tar
tar Ios Raindrop lOo. Chattanooga i0l, Queen Enid
Silver Queen IS, Jordan SO, and Lady Richmond
lie. also ran.
Sixth race, mile and n sxteenth-Diabo 1l2.
Taral. TO ). won. driving by two lengths; Key
West 81, Midgley Is to /, second by head. whip
ping; Hydy 81; Reffe, to l. third by neck. whip
King Crab io7 King Mac 90, Kirkover 81, and Mo-
nopolist 81 also ran.