St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-16

afternoon in the presence OF $4,000 per-
sons. Lamplighter, the faVorite, car
rying a ton of money. was second and
LeonaWell third. The winners time
was 2:O9, made fractionRlly as follows:
Quarter, :25A; half, 81; three-quarters,
1:16; mile, :4215; mile and quarter,2:09.
The reason for the chilly silence with
which Diablo's victory was received is
rather difficult of explanation. Even
though the winner was an extreme out
slider, which fact, of course, had its eff
feet, the race-going public IS too gener-
Gus to allow that to weigh in the balance,
and generally gives applause where ap-
plause is due. The probabilities are
that the people felt inStinctively that
they had in measure been the victims
of what is termed
A Grand Coup
Diablo was regarded as being in the
first flight in his two and three-year-old
form, but aftet his third year his legs
became shaEy. Since then he has been
regarded simply as a high-class selling
platter that was likely to break down
permanently in any race in which he
started. The horse has raced three
times at the recent Elizabeth meeting,
winning one out of three starts. Race
land and Charade, two horses that ran
in the handicap today, were the win
ners of these races, and beat him easily.
His wonderful improvement in form
today was, therefore, all the more stun
ming in its effect,
The Brooklyn handicap run today
was the seventh in the history of the
event, and was guaranteed to be worth
s25 00G. Or this sum the winner gets
$4,000, the second horse $1,000 and the
hird $4,000. The day dawned bright
RnI fair, much to the delight of the
many thousands of persons that had de-
t,rmined to see the rich stake contested
for AS the day advanced and the
bright weather prospects of the morn
Ing were fully realized, people set their
faces toward the race course, and soon
the different driveways and railroads
leading there assumed
An Animated Appearance.
BY II o'clock a few hundred people
had reached the course, and these Gag
erly seized upon the best points of want
age, which places they retained at least
until the event ohthe day was decided.
BY noon several thousand lovers of the
sport of kings had entered the enclos-
ure, while the rapidly arriving trains
deposited thousands of others outside
every few minutes, who poured through
the gates in steady stream.
At this hour the scene inside the
track was ALREADY one of hustle and ami
nation. The grand stand was quite
comfortably filled with ladies and their
escorts, while on the lawn in the pad
dock, in the betting shed and in the
field, men and boys were leisurely
moving about, the men discussing the
merits of the various horses and
jockeys that were to engage in
the great race, the boys looking
eagerly around to satisfy their
gradually and steadily augmented until
when the bell rang for the first race it
was difficult TO move about with any de-
gree of comfort on the lawn or in the
betting ring, while the club house and
grand stand were filled to overflOWing
At least $4,000 persons had crowded
Into the track at this time. Still trains
were rapidly arriving with thousands OF
others. AT handicap time at least $4,000
persons We're present.
n Pretty Picture.
The scenes in and about the track
were both picturesque and exciting
Looking from the grand stand the pict-
ure was pretty one. Off in the dis
tance could He seen a blue haze, denot-
ing where the Atlantic lay, and from It's
broad eXpaIse' a cool breeze came,
pleasantly tempering the rays of the hot
sun. Just beyond the enclosure fresh
green fields Extended in every direction,
while the lawn just in front was one
black mass lof joking, bustling and
pleasure-seeking humanity. The stand
itself presented charming scene, the
bright and varied colored toilets of the
ladies showing in vivid contrast to the
somber and su5dued-looking clothing of
their escorts. The crowd moving about
the lawn was truly cosmopolitan one.
Bankers, merchants and lawyers
elbowed their clerks; grave auStere
Judges seemed to lose their dignity and
eagerly picked up words dropped by
dirty little stable boys or pinched and
weazen-faced jockeys. Touts, both
black and white, could be seen hobnob-
bing with the sons Of aristocracy, and
the horny-llanded mechanics stood in
earnest cohfab with the millionaire.
Everybody was anxious to hear opin-
ions as TO which horse would prove the
winner Of the big event, and nobody, at
least on haadlcap day, was too high or
too low to be consulted on the subject.
n he Betting Ring
presented a wild and boisterous scene.
The jam was something awful. A man
could go injsmiling and looking spick
and span, Tut he would come out still
smiling ana happy perhaps, but with
his linen w!lted and his clothing torn
and bedratgled. Men rushed madly
about looking for the odds they wanted
and shaking greenbacks in the faces of
the bookmakers when they found them,
Ii these talented individuals took
che money and gave in exchange for
It a bit qf pasteboard with illegi-
Bile characters traced on it, the