The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-10
TWO RIDERS GET
SPILLED IN THE
HORSE HURDLES"
Parade of Prize Stock
Before r a c e s Holds
Things up for a While,
But all Runs Smoothly
Then.
By ARTHUR w. PERKINS.

nothing else to do yesterday after
noon, VIC betook ourselves out to the
fair grounds for the NTH time this
week, and blew over 10 the grand
stand 70 watch some Of the horses
that inhabit the stables at the
north end of the track run around
and kick up their heels,
OF course we are burdened with
one Of those cute little rosettes al
brown and fandangles, printed in
silver, that says p RESS' on them.
We bravely stick this on our coat
lapel before bracing the gent who
holds down the pass gate, and try
tn look as little like "a criminal As
possible After we get by him We
gently take sixty-five cents out OF
one pocket and stick It in the other
Then we wander over to the grand
stand and show the gent dressed up
like a mail carrier there the same
thing. walk brazenly by and take |
out another four bits from one
pocket and drop 1t into the other
That's the easiest way we have seen !
Of making money
Yesterday there was not Such /
gang waiting to see the same things
we went out TO see, and we could |
enjoy 1t more. We wonder where !
they got the expression The more !
the marrier''9 Must have been some |
dude winning in poker game. but
even that has It's limitations on the /
enjoyment OF numbers,
The races yesterday were as good !
SIS could he asked for There was
the usual bunch Of "hSh hanging :
over the fence around the track. and I
some of them got so enthusiastic
that they had to pick themselves up
out cf the track. the fence giving
way Under the stress
Along about : o'clock bunch OF +
horses, cattle, heifers and miscel-
laneous other animal products were
seen coming around the south effd
OF the track They were pretty
healthy looking bunch and we care
fully noted that they were all there.
Each seemed to be possessed with
the requisite number OF legs pair
u. eyes, couple of ears ana all OF
the other requirements that go 70
make up a healthy animal, 1hey
must have stretched out about zen
miles. moro or less, and reminded
us If the lengths OF some OF the
trains We have seen roaming over
the praries OF the west one END
here, the other anywhere. .-., .-=-- st. ~
Vaudeville Gets Started.
After all this display OF food and
wha,not Pop" Driscoll, announcer
extraordinary and a singer who MIS-
In when the other, acts are not
ready. grabbed up his uusty mega
phone and announced that the hrs'
ruvrber on, the, vaudeville bill Nhs
ready for the public eye 10 see. The
ac,ors and actresses, animals and
vhatnot, rambled on through the
hill. The Judges stepping on the
hell every once in while 70 eau
the attention OF the jockeys that II
was getting time for race 10 De
gin.
The races were 1--WE In uumoer'
four fat and steepie chase inc
arst was a six-furlong ramhle with
FIVE entries, Maliowmot. E Smith up.
coming down the stretch couple or
lengths in front and enough left 10
have gone around the track again
Ne came near to doing this thinS,
and would have undoubtedly been
.razzed" by the powers tha' De,
for races that are not on the caro-
90 barred Racarat +. King up.
and Horneward Bound. W. Himphy
came In second and third, Moses
Chaff,u and Waking Dreams were
among those present on Inc tFAN -
hut VIC failed to note which or them
was last. -.
The second fracas was also SIX
furlong bout, with fLat'erF"e to'"
ing home with the na'"'' w..
this time we heard somebody in tht
something like this.
xxx Katy, Beautiful Katy
ri be waiting at the finish me
for you. 49,,
when t-t-thc sun shines over the
race track,
IN be waiting for you to win ana
cop the dough.
We did not go over to investigate
whether this was the owner oil the
horse, or the guy the owner owed
money to, but IL might have been
duet for all that,
Planterede finished easily, with
omerrc and Prince easy coming in
next in company of another plug
whose name we do not recollect at
the minute Time on this was l.l6,
two-fifth Of Il second better than the
previous one. If they had had
few more races for six furlongs the
horses would have been able TO do
the distance in nothing nat
We OfYer IL Suggestion.
The third scramble was for
mile. AS there were only four en-
tries we think it would have been
advisable to have had relay race,
each horse doing one-fourth or
mlle. TINS would be interesting ana
novel and we feel sure the audience
would have appreciated this,
The horses hit the same stretch all
in bunch and as they got near the
inish we heard somebody yell: Hey,
youse guys. hang Off that fence, Do
yuh think this is a barr" We looked
up In surprise to see that it was
Pop" Driscoll Deckhand was the
recipient of $400 after this fracas for
coming in first, playing a mean trick
on the others. for possibly they
wanted that four hundred them
selves. Scylla was second and
Early Sight third. This was a handi=-
can affair for three-year-nlds and