The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-01
THURSDAYS RACES.
Mauaie O. Creates a Sensation on
the Track.

Excitement reached it's climax on
the fair grounds about six o'clock
Thursday evening, when the fourth
heat in the 2:35 class was on. The
race had already furnished its series
of intesesting moments, when three
kings of the turf, trotted neck heats
and passed under the wire under close
and intensely exciting finishes. But a
scene never before witnessed on the
tracks of the agricultural society, or
in this city, was to eclipse these excit-
ing heats, and for several moments
there was deep fear that one or more
fatalities would occur as result OF
the incident.
The four horses in the 2:35 class
got off under splendid start, with j.
M. Thompson's magnificent black
stud, General Grant, in the lead. He
was closely followed by Dick Turpin
and Maggie o, and the three animals
kept we'll together all the way round to
just past the quarter pole. Then
they became badly punched, although
General Grant lead. At critical per-
iod, or when Dick Turpin was half
length ahead of Maggie O, Driver
Cannon of the latter animal, attempt
ed to get the pole by crowding in on
Turpin. The driver of Turpin crowd
ed closely to the pole, resulting in
Cannon locking wheels with him. In
the tenth portion of a second Gannon's
sulky was overturned, Cannon was
thrown in the air, and his horse came
running down the track on wild run.
The tire had been torn from one of
the wheels. She came down past the
grand stand, turning off the track be-
fore an excited mob, few rods east
of the stand, striking buggy wheel
with one of the sulky wheels, causing
it to take another tumble. Then she
passed on down towards Paul Ander-
sens residence, going around his house
and coming back to the track amid
the greatest furore. Teams and peo-
pie scattered, allowing her to get on
to the track with just grazing carri-
age. On she went down the track to
the stable. 1t was impossible to stop
her. she rushed into the stable and
was only stopped by the sulky refus-
ing to follow her into the door. The
sulky was badly smashed but the mare
came up for the fifth and final heat.
jerks had a tire taken from his sulky
by the locking of wheels.
The first heat of the race was won
by Dick Turpin and the second by
Maggie O. Jesse Thompson's Gen.
Grant, driven by Mathers, was third in
both heats. The stallion needed
warming, and judging from the after
heats, the two heats was all that he
required to get in proper condition for
winning out. In the third heat he
forged to the front, at the half mile,
and his competitors we're trailing in
his dust to the finish, Gen. Grant
winning by a length. Grant secured
the fourth heat easy, on account of the
accident above stated. The fifth heat
was the prettiest of all. Grant, Tur-
pin and Maggie o we're all punched all
the way around, Turpin getting the
lead at the first eighth. The drivers
of Turpin and Maggie we're evidently
bent on crowding Grant out of the
heat and on two occasions they pock-
eted him completely, making it i'm
possible for him to show his full speed.
But coming down on the home stretch
on the last half, Grant was worked
out of the pocket, and under one of
the finest feats of horse driving ever
seen on the local track, was brought
under the wire just nose behind Tur-
pin. The judge considered the jock
eying on the part of the other drivers
and gave Grant the heat and race.
They also gave Maggie O second mon
ey on account of fouling by Turpin.
The score:
j. M. Thompson's br. b.
Gen. Graut (Mathers) ..3 3 l l
Maggie o., s. m. Gan
nOn) ................. z l 2 4 2
Dick Turpin, br. G..
(Jenks) ...............1 2 3 3 4
Humwood, b. g. (Sen-
escoD. ...............4 4 4 2 4
Time 2:33a; 2:35a; 2:29a; 2:43; 2:33.
Gen. Grant, the winner of the race,
was sired by Star of the West, one of
the leading stations of his day. Gen.