The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-10
Wins Her Second Race Of the Week
With Wonderful Ease.
8. |. C. LIKEWISE HAD A SOFT THING
Winning Three Consecutive Hents-
Corbet Sprung q Sensation In tho
@:io Eveni, Making tho Fastest
limo of tho Moeting-The Race
wiIi he Concluded To-day.

weather the attendance at the races was
not SO large yesterday as expected. but
the gathering was OF quite respectable
| proportion and the grand stand was
comfortably filled. One frequently
hears of horses winning In a walk. but
rarely sees the feat actually performed.
In the first race yesterday however.
| that was exactly what Tiddlewinks did,
| coming under the line the first time in a
jog, and finishing the other two heats
| IN an easy walk, winning first money
| with wonderful ease. Nina Noble COM
| ing In second for three consecutive
heats with Hi Noon close to her neck in
the last two.
| the 2:2O event. which followed. winning
three successive heats without difficulty
Maggie Campbell coming i'm for second
| money and Clipper for third. Nc
Cleary's dun. Lille D., was apparently
| in poor form and did not show up we'll
In the first heat OF the initial event,
Esther stumbled and fell ut the last
| quarter, throwing her driver out and
GRIPPING the Suky Neither man nor
| beast. though. suffered serious injury.
The principal event OF the day was
| the 2lO pace for a purse OF $500 between
| Corbet. MiGnon, Neta and Smith. Be
| fore the start it was announced that Mr.
| Mariner had offered IL. purse of S125 to
| the horse that would lower the State
record of 2:11H. In the first heat Veta
won easily. though it is not improbable
| that Corbet would have secured and
held the lead had he not broken so
badly. In the next two heats, both of
| which We're won by Mignon, Corbet be-
havcd very badly, forcing himself to the
last place. When he did keep his feet,
| however. it was easy to see that he had
| as much claim on first money as any
| of them, and no one was surprised in the
fourth heat to see him take the lead and
| hold il To the end without a single break
! finishing in PIG the lowest record made
| during the meeting. 1t was IL beautiful
| exhibition OF speed and ELECTED i'm
| mensc applause. 1t being too dark to
continue it was announced that the race
would be concluded to-day at 10 O'clock
when everybody would be welcomed to
| the grounds free. AS Corbet is Il Nir-
glnia horse, he is quite a favorite. and
great things are expected Of him to-day.
In the second heat OF this race u de
| lay Of half an hour was Occa stoned by
Smith running into Vcta's suky and
tearing wheel off. No one was in
Iured by the accident and new vehi-
Gle was procured as soon as possible
the accident happening in false start
having no effect upon the race.
| MIR. Mariner drove his bay gclding
Ilundley, which had been out on pasture
all summer. and which was entirely un-
shod. against time in an effort to make
the half in lilo. He succeeded In do
ing 1t in l:li. the horse breaking on the
home stretch.
Owing To the lateness of the hour the
Consolation" running race could not he
pulled off.
| The only disasrceablc feature about
the races yesterday was the ineXcusahly
indifferent manner in which the results
were announced, Mr.. Fancher. who en-
deavorcd to perform that duty, not us
ing the trumpet and calling OFF the
names of the horses without their mum
bers, so rapidly ana so indis linctly that
1t Is doubtful If his associates in the
judges stand could hear him The re-
suit was that the hundreds; of people
who purchased score cards for the pur-
pose of keeping Il record Of the events
found them utterly useless and their
money wasted. AS for the press, which
is compelled To make an accurate record
IT got the announcements the best way
it could Aside from this and The un
usually long time between heats to-
ward the last. there was nothing to
mar the pleasure of the crowd which,
was the most enthusiastic and apprc-
ciatiVc of the week.
The summary follows:
FIRST RACE. 2:24 CLASS. PACING;
BANKERS STAKE. $500.
Timc--2:l2i4. 2:22A. 2:22.
Tiddlewinks. b. m, Cottage Farm
Norfolk. Va. .............1l
Esther. III. y. Morehead, Cleve-
| itii, -. .......-. .................D
Crawford, IT.. b. E., c. Pred
more. T.. Liberty. Pa ..6 ID
Princess Eulalie. CHI. m, George
Med. Blake. Richmond, Va. ..5 .
Oakley r.. br. H.. W. c. Gregory
| Richmond, Va. ..............3 :
Nina Noble. b. III. ...........2
III Noon. b. s., |. NJ. Channon,
Clarion. Pa. .................43
SECOND RACE, 2:2O CLASS. TROT
TING, RAILROAD STAKE. $500.
Time-2:23A. 2:21. 2:2l%.
Lille D.. dun m, T.. i. McC,eary,
| NpfiO ok, va.