St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-25

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good temper and condition, with the
exception of Axiom, who played bad
ly, and in one of her jumps in
jured Handspring. He was badly
cut in the hook, but ran a grand
race in spite of it. After a long
delay at the post, in which there
were several breakaways, the red
flag of the starter swished through
the air, and there was dull roar
from the crowd. Taral was alert,
and was first to show on Peep-o'-
Day. Then came Requittal, followed
by Formal, Crescendo, Silver II. and
the others close up to an excellent
start. They did not vary much in
position in the run to the eighth
pole, but when they reached the quar-
ter Crescendo had the lead, only a
head in front of Axiom, who was
head in front of Requittal, who was
leading Formal.
HOLDING CLOSE TOGETHER.
A blanket would have covered all
four horses, but as early as that it
could be seen that Requittal was
strongest. Silver II. was running
we'll in the fifth place. Handspring
was sixth in spite Of his injured leg,
but he was not striding true, and
| was far from being the great colt
who disposed of his opponents so
easily in the spring. Applegate came
next So close together were the
twenty that it looked like charge
of cavalry in part-colored uniforms.
AS they flashed past the three
eighths pole, with nearly half the
distance run, Crescendo had in
creased his lead over Axiom to half
length At the half-mile pole, where
the Futurity course comes, into the
main track, is the spot where the
faltering usually comes, and there 1T
was that the fleet FLY, Axiom, had
gotten enough. Crescendo was still
| leading by half length, and Re
! uuittal still hung on. Handspring
| white nose was not far behind, in
fourth place. Formal was there, too,
| and Silver IL, Hastings and Apple
| gate hung on like grim death. The
squadron Strengthened out for the
short auarter-mile dash for home,
but it was badly disordered. With
each stride the leaders widened the
gap between them and the main
| body.
REQUITTAL IN FRONT.
The five-eighths pole was close at
hand as the dark blue jacket of Crit
fin went past Carr like a whirlwind,
and Reuuittal was in first place Then
| Carr began to fog Crescendo. At the
last pole, with only a furlong 10 go,
Requittal had a length the best OF
it and was going easily. Crescendo
was no longer dangerous, but silver
II. was coming fast out of the bunch,
while Handspring was fourth, with
good bit of life left. Hastings had
climbed up into fifth place, while For
NAL was sixth, rapidly losing ground
to Applegate. A hundred yards was
left to run, and only two were left.
The squadron of cavalry had broken
in to an irregular body, strung out
in to a. sixteenth of a mile, with Re-
quittal galloping easily at the head
and Crescendo laboring along length
and a half behind. Then came Silver
IL, Handspring, Hastings and Apple
gate, Will HO DSSWSCAi NiAOAii,
the rest strung out, with Axiom at
the tail end of the procession. Still
Griffin steadied Requittal, and one min
ute, eleven and two-fffth seconds after
the fall of the flag he crossed the
imaginary line, amid the cheers of
Is, COO spectators, a length to the good,
although he could have made it more
had he chosen. Crescendo was flogged
into second place, four lengths in front
of the next horse, Silver IL, who only
beat Handspring by a neck, with the
high-priced Hastings a fifth and APP
plegate sixth.
GIDEON'S THIRD FUTURITY.
Thus Griffin won his fourth consecu-
tive race of the day and was hoisted
into the Jockeys chair while the crowd
cheered. BY this ride he made $53, $50
for David Gideon, who. by the aid
of John Hyland, one of the best train
ers in America, landed his third Flu
turity and the second in succession,
The Butterflies being the winner a
year ago, and His Highness in 1891.
For running second, Crescendo got
S., 1893, and Silver II. received 50, 667 as
third money. The Brookdale stud gets
$4,000 for breeding the winner, $500
goes to the breeder of Crescendo, and
81 600 to the breeder of Silver II.
In the first race there was some
brisk betting, Religion being the favor
ite Kamsin won easily, while Re
ligion could do not better than second.
Domino was an odds-on favorite for
the second event. The long delay at
the post told on him with his heavy
weight and when Tarel called upon
him he could only get within a hands
breadth of The Butterflies It was a
| pretty race, for three-eighths of a mile
| from home they were all driving and
| Griffin managed to get The Butterflies
| home in front by desperate work. Out
| of fourteen entries in the third race
| eleven went to the post, with Hugh
| Penny as favorite. Walter took the
| lead soon and was never headed, al
| though Doggett drove Weinberg hard
| There was close fight for third
| place, when at the last instant Arapa-
hoes nose got in front Griffin thus
| landed the third successive race of the
| day, and with a new record for the
| distance. Griffin rode Dorian to vic
| tory in the fifth race, making his fifth
successive win. Dorian was an. odds
on favorite for the race, and at no
| time was in danger.
SUMMARIES.
| First race, five furlongs. selling