Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-17

OC8rEer pOW6 uaQ uOG ConploC6 COQCrOl of the jockeys, who by their efforts to beat the flag delayed the start for fully ten min utes. There were several long breskaways. At the next attempt they were in fairly good order and Rowe dropped his flag with the favorite, Longstreet, the most promi- nent of the bunch. The lightweight Fair view was hurried in front of Longstreet to make the running. His riders orders were to take the lead and keep it as long as pos sible.
 Doggett obeyed his instructions and on the opening furlong gave the bac kers of the other candidates bad scare by open ing up gap of three lengths from Long, street. The pace was killing, and at the quarter pole the timers marked down 23 seconds, with Fairview now five lengths in front of Russell, Longstreet having suc- cumbed to the hot pace and dropped back alongside of Raceland and Pessara, who were running easily at Russell's heels. The jockeys on all the horses behind Fair view were taking matters easy, they being satisfied that the leader was making his run too soon to be a contender at the finish.
 Around the lower turn, or at the end of creased his advantage to ten lengths.
 Russell headed the second division, half Tapped by Raceland, Pessars and Long street all heads apart. Judge Morrow was right at their heels. At this point it was seen that Longstreet, like Fairview, was already beaten. Judge Morrow and Pes sara were running easier than any of the others and good judges predicted that the race lay between them. At the end of @ half mile Fsirview was still master of the situation, but then Russell's rider went on to cut Fairview's lead Long, street and Pessara were still running in a hnhS S~I Maidstone, Kingmaker and George W. were trailing far in the rear and hopeless ly out of it.
 At the end of five furlongs Russell had chopped four lengths from Fairview's lead and the spectators knew .Fairview was losing his speed. Pessara then psss- ed Raceland and Longstreet and Judge Morrow began to move up. At the end of the backstretch Fairview had fallen back iu the ruck and Russell was leading by half a length. Judge Morrow was second, Tapped by Pessara, Raceland and Fairview.
 Mclaughlin had felt Longstreet going from under him and sensibly refrained from trying to get speed where there was none.
 At the head of the homestretch Russell came out and led by length, and his packers gleefully shouted that it was his race.
 Judge Morrow had shaken of Pessara and Racelsnd, while Longstreet was grad ually falling back to the stragglers. At the last furlong post Russell still had his head in front of Judge Morrow, but Covington's horse was running we'll within himself, while Russell was laboring hard and receiving punishment. Covington the inner rail while making the turn into the homsstretch, and when he breasted Russell shortly before reaching the last furlong post, which marked the end of mile and furlong, Russell threw back his ears in cowardly fashion and re- fused to run further. Covington, seeing that he had the race at his mercy, became | over-confident and began easing up on the Judge. This performance nearly cost him | the race, as Taral, on Pessara, who had | been unable to get through the bunch be- speed under the most vigorous kind of riding. Covington turned in his saddle l and discovered his danger just in time to prevent Taral from stealing the race. 1 A sixteenth from the finishing post he began to ride tho Judge with his hands. l The crowd was spellbound with excite | ment. Pessara was slowly but surely 1 gaining and undoubtedly would have passed the Judge, because he was being | 1luucu tuo stIoueeEs AdIsuOG SoSAASeoAA begun to fog Morrow. In reality he was hitting Pessal on the nose and each time the lash came down Pessara would draw back his head to escape punishment. Taral shouted to the younger lad to stop, but the youngster kept right on smashing Pessara over the nose with his whip. The finish saw Judge Morrow victor by head.
 Three lengths away came Russell, who l was tho same distance in front of Race | land Then came Clarendon, Banquet,
 George w., Kingmaker, Fairview, Mad
 stone, Portchester and Longstreet, dis.
 tanced last.
 The winners time was 2:084.
 Covington rode a really clever race on
 the winner, and when he was placed in the
 floral chair and horseshoe presented to the
 winning jockey the vast assemblage favor
 ed him with a grand salvo of applause.
 Racelapd's poor performanceis is explained
 by the fact that the saddle girth broke
 Longstreet was run of of his feet in an en
 deavor to keep up with Fairview in thu
 first part of the race. The fractional tim.
 was:
 First furlong, 2S seconds; half the half
 47a; three-quarters in 1:14; the mile ir
 :424, and the mile and a quarter in 2:064