Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-06
TWAS A GRAND FINISH
Montana, With Garrison Up. Wins
the Labor Day Handicap.
FAIR WEATHER AND FINE RACING.
The Labor Day Crowd at sheepshead Num-
bers Fifteen Thousand People.
RESULTS AND INCIDENTS OF THE DAY

| SHEEPSHEAD BAY RACE TRACK, Sept.
6-The Labor Day crowd exceeded all ex:
pectations, the fair weather and excellent
programme of seven races proving an attrac-
tion strong enough to fill the grounds to
overfowiug. 1t was far and away the
largest crowd of the meeting, there being
fully IL, 900 people present when the bugler
| summoned the horses to the post for the first
race.
| Spartan, Taral up, was made the medium
of terrible plunge Simmons, the second
choice at Z to 1. cleverly ridden by Blake,
beat Spartan on the post by a head and regis
tered the first of six defeats for first choices
in the betting
Then came the Woodcock stakes, a mile
race over the turf for 2year-olds Tar and
Tartar ruled a top heavy favorite at to s.
He was never prominent, Emin Bey, to 1,
taking the stakes from Wormser, 10 to 1,
after hard fight, in which Doggett out
rode Midgley.
There was practically no betting on the
third race, it being conceded TO be Stone
nell's, who ruled q prohibitive favorite at 1
to 10. As indicated by the odds, he won in
gallop.
The Labor Day handicap was then de-
cided and it was rattler. Strathmea.h
was favorite in the betting at IL to 8, while
Montana was heavily supported at 2H to !.
Stratbmeath was the better horse, but Gar
rison, as was to be expected, unfinished
Major Covington and won, the handicap
with Montana by short head
Fred Taral, 5 to 1, ran away with the
fifth race from flag fall to finish. Fairy, 8
to 2, took the sixth easily, and Watterson,
2 to 1, followed suit in the last race. Sum-
maries:
First race, five furlongs-Simmons 1oo Blake,
even second by a neck. whipping: Halcyon ITO,
Porter 10 to /. third by two lengths, whipping.
los skadi i1o Silver Queen o. Girode colt 100 Law
less lis, Rghtaway 100 and Indigo 100. also ran.
turf-Emin Bey lO6 Doggett to j, won by a neck,
whipping; Wormser "a, Midgley, to /. second by
THIRD sMG eR O
Time. l;42 s,5 Esino colt 1ls. Tar and Tartar lO6
Third race. futurIty course-stoneneli rs. Garri-
sO1 tR 10 S won gGIng BY ensta snoa5 and a. half
aeisss ais6 ran ETPene TRe i:i4 i bergen " 10
, Fourth race, Labor Day handicap. one mile and
BY short head whDPpng m Gov.
driving Time. 2:sa IS ~ Demuth lisS. 1lahc
u9. Cleaning l0e and Best Brand 9S also ran.
Fifth race, seven furlongs-Fred Taral 113 Nc
Alcalde les. Lambley TO l. second by length and
half. John Cavanagh Ill, Hamilton "A to 8, third
Batsman los. The Sheriff lii, Industry IS. Kings
County 122 also ran.
Sixth race, one mile-F.iry 100 Narvaez, sto ?.
won, driving, by two lengths Candelabra 100. HAM
ilton. IL to l. second by two lengths whipping;
Lowinnder liz Chambers. 10 to ], third by neck,
whipping. Time. 1:4l. Fagot 95 Miss Dixie 100,
Adelbert. Reckon Ito. Van Buren no. Merry Mon
arch 100 Anna 100 and Miss Hawkins 9O also ran.
Seventh race. one and one-sixteenth miles on the
turf-Walterson lS3, Anderson; to won. driv-
ing by a length and half; Hydy 40, McCafferty,
% to ], second by length. whipping; Nomad 12S.
Garrison. Gar even third oy a neck whipping Time,
King Grab 49, Silver Prince 1.s and Uno Grande
10 also ran.