The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-25
REouIrA1. TIE WINNER.
Great Crowd at tho Fusurity Race at
Sheepshead Bay Yesterday.

Great Crowd at tho Eusurity Race at
sheepshead Bay Yesterday.
% NEW YORK, August s4.-The great
crowd Of the futurity race to-day
watched the hrss three races with Inn
patience. although they were Interest,"
ing. and when the futurity was rum
every seat in the grand stand was filled,
and theirs were few vacant spots on the
lawn. while the root was filled, for there
che best places could be found to watch
the contest. IL was 4:45. o'clock when
the bugle called the horses TO the post,
and twenty of them psraded up the
stretch past the grand stand. tsl
They seem to be in good temper and
condition. with the exception OF Axiom,
who played badly. and in one of her
jumps injured Handspring. He was
race in spise of it. After a long DELAY
at the post, in wkicn there were several
breakaways. the red flag of Starter
Rowe swished through the air and there
was dull roar from the crowd. Taral
was alert and was first to show on Peep
o'Dsy. Then came Reqattsl, 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 quarter, Crescendo
uou eno Ao@o, ohAy manu- III Iront OF
Axiom, who WAS q head in front of
Requital, who leading Formal A
blanket would have covered all four
horses, but as early as that, 1t could be
seen that Requital 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 60
easily In the spring. Applegate came
next.
So close together were the twenty that
1t looked like charge Of cavalry in
parti-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 q
length. The half mile pole where the
futurity course comes into the main
track, is tho spot where the fsltering
usually comes and there 1T was that the
feet Ally Axiom had got enough. Cres-
cendo was still leading by half length
and Requital still hung on Handspring,
whose nose was not far behind in fourth
place. Formal was there too, and Sill
YER IL, Hastings and Apologize hung on
like grim death
The squadron Strengthened out for the
short quarter mile dash for the home
wire, but 1t was badly disordered. With
each stride the leaders widened the gap
between them and the main body. The
five eighths pole was close at hand as
the dark blue jacket of Griffin went
past Carr like whirlwind and Reuuital
was in first place. Then Carr began to
fog Crescendo. At the last pole, with
only furlong to go. Requital had
length the best of 1t and going easily.
Cresoendo was no longer dangerous,
hIIt &c.
bunch, while Handspring was fourth
with good bit OF life LETT. Hastings
had climbed up into fifth place. while
Formal was sixth, rapidly losing ground
to Applegate.
The squadron of cavalry had become
an irregular body, strung out over
sixteenth of mile with Requital GAL
Looping easily at the head and Crescendo
laboring along a length and q half
behind. Then came Silver H.. Hand
spring. Hastings and Applegate, with
no daylight between them; the rest
strung out, with Axiom at the tail end
Requital, and in one minute eleven and
two-fifth seconds after the fall of the
flag. he crossed the line amid the cheers
OF IL, 600 spectators, length to the
good, although he could have made 1t
much more had he chosen. Crescendo
was flogged into second place, four
lengths in front of the next horse, Sill
YER H., who only beat Handspring by
neck, with the high-priced Hastings
fifth and Apologize sixth
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 S53,75o
for David Gideon. who. by the aid OF
John Hyland, one of the best trainers
In America, landed his third futurity
and the aecond in succession, she But
teraies being the winner year ago and
His Highness in 1891. For running
second Crescendo got S5,33s, and Silver
II received $,.667 as third money. The
Brookdale gets S4,00 for breeding the
winner, $4,000 goes to the breeder of
Orescendo and $1,000 to the breeder of
Silver II.