Show THE RACE k The Season Closes and the Result Re-sult r The race which took place on Tuesday between Bateman Ewing and Mary Emery resulted re-sulted in the success of wing and a considerable amount of ill feeling The track was in a earful condition and while it had been scraped there still was a great deal of snow on it and a little mud under which were frozen spots on which the animals would slip but and of it was a pay or play race course it had to go There was only a small crowd present as might have been anticipated from the weather the snow falling steadily all the morning and for a long time after the race commenced Swing won the first heat and Bateman took the second The mare broke badly all through the race but showed good mettle at times In the third heat it was nip and tuck for a distance and Ewing fell far behind by a bad break He gathered gath-ered up however with remarkable speed but when on the outturn of the back stretch while the mare was right at his heels he broke and ran quite a distance making a visible gain and coming down shot ahead rapidly He won the heat butit was claimed that he should be setback set-back on distanc for running The rule plainly states that unless a horse when he breaks is immediately immedi-ately brought to the gait which rules the race he shall be distanced while if he breaks often and is immediately immedi-ately brought to his gait he shall beset be-set back double the distance he gains by breaking Under the rule Ewing should have been declared distanced but after a protracted discussion the judges declared it a dead heat While the backers of Ewing were satisfied the decision was generally condemned and horsemen declared that under the rules and in justice according to them the least the judges could do would be to give the heat to the mare if they did not wish to distance Ewing The heat was trotted over again and Ewing won The fifth heator fourth heatwas won by the mare in 248 The last heat was given to Ewing The mare broke but trotted when she held her feet better than any of them She was gaming on Bateman but Mr Travis whipped his horse into a run thus keeping the mare out of the place she could have taken and putting her at a great disadvantage Bateman by dint of good running came in ahead but the heat was given to Ewing who thus won the race I I It is true that all persons cannot and will not be satisfied with a race I however fair it may have been but had the mare have been givn the heat to which she was entitled and which was declared a dead heat the result might have been very different Whether it would have affected the result or not the mare should have been dose justice It might have thrown the race over tilltomorrow it could have clone Ewing no injusticeand would have been only fair to Bate man as well as to the mare The decision in this race andthe fact that it is probably the last race this fall caused horsemen to talk considerably considera-bly last Bight and the result of it was the expression of the opinion that Mr Carrington while he has done as much or more than any other individual in the shape of making races the season justclosed has had a very hard road to travel In every race he has been in in which questions of technicality and rule have arisen he has yet failed to get the benefit of a single doubt It has just happened to result so even when liberal minded horsemen stoutly and emphatically declared he was wronged Jt was so in the Utah bred colt race so in the recent BatemanEmery race so yesterday yester-day and so on other occasions He has been very unfortunate and the goortnatured way in which he has borne what are generally deemed injustices have won for him the sympathy of sporting men and those who admire fair sports It is to be hoped next seasons races will be characterized by less cause or show of cause for complaint com-plaint |