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Show GENERAL. Louisville Races. - Louisville, 8. It is estimated that the attendance at the race to-day exceeded 6 000. First race, dash 1J miles '"Harkaway" and "Belle oi .Nelson" btarted, the former winning with great ease. Time 2.4tJ. Second race, mile htata "Jo Rhodes," "Stella" and "GleLdalia" started, each heat resulting in the order named. Time 1.21, Last race, dat-h 1 mileo ' Tolo-uu," Tolo-uu," ''John R. Sweeney" and "Jim Bell" started, and the race resulted The three winners were tbe favorites. favor-ites. Louisville is ablaze with decorations and wild with enthusiasm over to Oiorruw'ij grett coliuji, aud the timing ti-ming uncertainty uf tbe result renders the excitement unparalleled before, not even when the g eat "firay Kan" "Wagner" contest wae raging- Strangers have been pouriDg in on every train, and thousands more will arrive to-night and in tbe morning. Cnicago, 3. Tribune's Louisville: Tbe excitement regarding the fnur mile race cannot be pictured. U,l Con ley says il it is pleBHDt iu njurrnw tHhe race will bu run depute tue lu . heavy snowere 'whu-li (ell this evening. Every tute! is crowded vitb. men from every section of tbe country to see tbe representative-horses representative-horses of Kentucky and tbe Pacific fllope. Two things are certain, tbe Kentuccians do not doubt tbe abilu, ol "Tenbrotjck" to defeat the more, and that tbey have not lost faith iu the honesty of Walker, bis Jockey, and ixjieton the colored man, who trains bim. One excited individual told Walker to day, that if be lost the rare, and was caught alter it, be wouid be bung to tbe nearest tree. Hundreds talked in a similar vein, and so geoeral was the belil tl at Walker nud Colaton wre goiac -to-hrw Uu race, that tbe jockey club has stationed sta-tioned detectives around "Ten broeck" and hia owner, Frank Harper, Har-per, is sleeping by his side to ntgbt. Neither rider nor trainer have heen allowed to approach the stable since noon , a ad tbe fuod nd w a ter ot tbe horse is guarded. Your reporter talked with Harper to mgbt, but he is uncommunicative and very nervous over the race. He however, denied that "Tenbroeck" ran two milee recently in 3.84, as reported. Winters, owner of "Mollie Mc Cftrthy," haa with him quite a dele nation of Calitornians, nd all are confident that the mare will win. They boot all ideas of any crooked oees on the part of Walker, but owing to tbe feeiiDg against bim it is inn mated that either Keloo or MoClellan will ride "Tenbroeck" to-morrow. In case Walker rides and "Tenbroeck" "Ten-broeck" is beaten there will be bo me trouble. |