The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-17
The Fayorite at the Rear Of the
Procession at GraVesend.
GREAT RACE FOR THE BROOKLYN
$4,000 HANDICAP.
Judge Morrow Won by Head-Passara
Would Have Stolen the Race Had Not
Morrow's Jockey Hammered Him Over
the Nose-Longstreet Tired Out in the
First Mad Rush.

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GRAvEsEND, L. l., May 16.-The OPEN
ing day of the legitimate racing season in
New York state was favored with perfect
weather, a fairly good track and throng
OF people estimated from sc, 900 to 35, ,0OO
The grounds of the Brooklyn Jockey
Club were taxed to their utmost to ac-
commodate the vast assemblage. The
attraction of the day was the great handi-
cap, won by Judge Morrow, to the bitter
disappointment of the hackers of
the favorite, Longstreet. The
first race of five furlongs Correction won; /;
time I'm. IS. The second race, one mile,
Coxswain won; time, I'm. 454s. The
the Expectation stakes, half mile, Bette
Colt won; time, 504s.
Then came the Brooklyn Jockey Club
handicap, the club to add the necessary
amount to make the value of the stakes
$25, 900, the second horse to receive $4,000
and third $4,000, a mile and quarter.
These were the starters: Judge Nor
row, Pesarra, Russell, Raceland, Claren-
don, Banquet, George W., Kingmaker,
Fairview, Maidstone, Portchester and
Longstreet. At the start, the favorite,
Longstreet, was the most prominent At
the quarter pole, the timers marked down
23 seconds, with Fairview leading, Russell
second, Longstreet having succumbed to
the hot pace and dropped back alongside
OF Raceland and Pessara, who were run
ming easily at Russell's heels. At the
three furlongs Fairview had increased
his advantage to ten lengths, and at the
half mile was still master of the situa-
ton, Maidstone, Kingmaker and George
w. trailing far in the rear, and hopeless
Iy out of it. At five furlongs, Russell
had chopped four lengths from Fair
views lead, and Judge Morrow began to
move up. When the end of the back
stretch was reached, Fairview had fallen
back in the ruck and Russell was leading
by half length. Judge Morrow was
now second. At the head of the home
stretch Russell led by a length, Long
street gradually falling back to the strag-
glers, and at the last furlong post, Rus
sell still had his head in front of judge
Morrow.
Covington. Judge Morrow's Jockey,
saved considerable ground by hugging
the inner rail while making the turn in
to the home stretch, and when he breast
ed Russell shortly before reaching the
last furlong post, which marked the end
of the mile and one furlong, Russell
threw back his ears and refused to run
further. Covington then became over
confident and began easing up on the
Judge. Taral, on Pessara, came up with
tremendous burst of speed and Coving-
ton discovered the danger just in time to
prevent Taral from stealing the race. A
sixteenth from the finishing point Pessa-
IA was slowly but surely gaining and un-
doubtedly would have passed the Judge
had not Covington begun to fog Morrow.
In reality, he was hitting Pessara
on the nose, and each time the
lash came down Pessara would draw
back his head to escape punishment.
The finish saw Judge Morrow the victor
by head. Three lengths away came
Russell, some distance in front of Race
land. Then came Clarendon, Banquet,
George W., Kingmaker, Fairview, Mad
stone, Portchester, and Longstreet a
disgraced last. The winners time was
2.099. Raceland's poor performance is
explained by the fact that his saddle
girth broke. Longstreet was run off his
feet in the endeavor to keep up with
Faiview in the first part of the race. The
fractional time: First furlong, % sec
onds; half, 47a, phenomenally fast time,
three-quarters, LA; mile, 1.42 1-2.