The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-28
TIE RACING EVENT
Description of the Great Amer
lean Derby.
TWAS A FIGHT TO THE FINISH
The JOstling Eager Crowd Good Naturally
Lose Their Money-The Weather Was
acknowledgements Races.

CHICAGO, June EFT WAS a great day
for goers. both for tue talent and for the
upper ten, including the four hundred, for
everybody was there-at Washington park.
Jupiter Pluvius, vino had been holding
full sway for the last forty days. seemed
all at once to become ashamed of himself,
and gave Old Sol chance 10 show his
heaming face once more The temperature
was just right-not too cool nor too warm
and right royalty did the $4,000 Chicago
ans enjoy the whole card, but more espe-
cially the third event. the great American
derby, the racing event of the year.
To return to the crowd. What great
and imposing gathering of people, what a
splendid, inspiring picture of the work-a-
day Nineteenth century for brief mo-
ment
ALTERED IN ITS OUTING CLOTHES
for short spell, forgetful of toll and CON-
mercial gain, tor once unmindful of the
traffic of u metropolis, with its long and
almost ceaseless hours Of business-house
devotion. The time was when such an i'm :
posing assembly of human beings in one
enclosure would have been the theme OF
the historian.
Derby day in Chicago is one of the sound
achievements Of the century. Nor was
the great crowd that gathered within the
gates OF the Washington Park CLUB simply
the ningling OF people OF the same social
standing. Not a bit of it. The millionaire
stands next to the pauper and bets on the
same horse, either losing with equal ease;
the arlstocrat and the clerk sat side by
side and shouted with voices well attuned
10 hope and satisfaction; the paryenue and
the pedant were equally content with the
scenes about them; the swell and the boot
black waded together through the paddock
aud wero
cHuMs FOR THE TINE BEING,
and the simplicity of it all, every body
knew all about everything. or thought he
did, and made his neighbOr believe he knew
it. The thousands who converted their
staid personalities into nervous heart
throb Tor the hour were apparently con-
tent and showed their Ignorance and their
knowledge of every thiRg about them with
the unaffected candor Of childhood.
Chaos and the ring were synonymous.
Men who attempted to reach 1t from the
stand began TO appreciate the horrors de-
scribed by Poe in his Descent into the
Maelstrom.n Strong men were carried
from one part of the ring TO another IN the
rushes that were as relentless as the waves
OF q storm-tossed sea, pushing, showing,
croWding, lifted from their feet men who
were anxious to patronize their fayorite
bookmakes gave 1t up in disgust aid placed
their money where they happened 20 pause.
The man who wrote about the maddening
throng must have gone into the betting
ring at Washington park on Derby day.
THE ROAR WAS SOMETHING DEAFENING,
and high above it could be hoard the voice
of big Dan Hogan, shrieking:
Come on: lll lay agin EN-"
That veteran bookmaKer, William Riley,
made his appearance yesterday for the first
time in four years so dense was the
crowd in the ring that the pencilers had
more business than they could do. They
made q killing, for none Of their favorites
won.
Men who fought like beasts to place
their money and failed TO get into the ring,
thanked their stars that they had not
backed ''cinch" AS they rubbed their
backs the consoling thought came that
they we're money ahead of the game.
People who placed their money on the
great event of the day gave up trying to
see the races and stayed to cash their
tickets.
The nine colts that paraded past the
stand in front of the betting ring break,
and canter slowly to the post, where
Cicero awaits them, Oyerton mounting at
over yonder mounting his box and ad-
dressing few words of advice and in
struction to the boys, accentuated by
sundry iourishes of his furled red flag.
THE TRACK ENSIGN WAVES OUT
In front of the field and the timers flag
fiutters at the inner rail. There are few
false starts. and every jockey seems to be
looking for a shade the best of 1t.
stTinV'' Williams and ''MOnk'' OVertOn
as cunning pair as ever bestrode a race
horse, are out in front every break. They
gather and break again, it looks like q go,
but il isn't. Sheridan sends them back.
They wheel and break again. The specta-
tors feel instinctively that it is start.
The field passes the starter well punched
and all in motion A bresthless moment, g
flash of red cloth moved at arms length
from the starters box, down goes the track
flag, and
''THEY'RE OFF"
The cry like the roar of hundred cannons
I gives place to a suppressed mu rmer, which
becomes roar as the horses round the
upper turn and come into the stretch
Chief Justice SHOWS in front at the flag
fall, with Prince OF Darkness second, close
up. and Azraathird The colors shift on
the turn Carlsbad moves up from fourth
place on the outer rail, closely followed by
Emperor Regent, who comes through from
eighth place, and he and ARA and Chief
Justice are heads apart at the next point
in the journey. Zaldivar, the Californian,
makes q grand run down the stretch and
his head shows IN fro 1t of Carlsbad, sec
ond passing the stand, with Cicero third
and coming under Overton's vigorous rid
ms. No horse in the race can afford to let
another open up gap in this kind of going
and they are oil riding. Carlsbad has the
path on the rail and Williams is keeping
him there. Zaldivar hangs on gamely and
is but half length behind the leader at
the tbree-quarters. Barns is riding
Gslindo and the gray colt closes up a dig
gap, dislodging Zalcivar from second place.
Cicero is fourth and working hard, but
dropping back, Overton goes TO the whip
and the maiden answers gamely At the
mile he is fifth, but coming again under
punishment Carlsbad is still in front and in
no apparent danger though Zaldivar is
second Two lengths back, at the mile and 8
quarter. Here's where
ARA MAKES HIS RUSH.
A dozen strides and the Kentucky Derby
winner is almost on even terms with Zal
divar, with Cicero still in the race The
telling part of the race is on, and Carlsbad
skillfully managed and mssterfully ridden
throughout, is equal to it. Williams is not
looking for nose finish. He is taking nc
chances. he is riding Carlsbad with hands
and feet. Overton is working like demon
on Cicero, and Zaldivar is hanging to 1t on
his courage. Azra too is knocking at the
door, Gaindo has quit and gone back. Jus
tice. Forester and Prince of Darkness
were never seriously in it, II is a case oil
the survival of the fittest The cream
has come 10 the top and the topmosi