| Show RED BOY WON WM 11 0 A great crowd of interested spectators at tile ilace the crouse horse won tile alie race 1 in one heat by two lengths the raco race which has boon been furnishing food for conversation during tho the past month occurred on tuesday about about ton tile tho crowd began to assemble a near the goal one half mile cast of tho the merkley corner the lucern fields in the vicinity were black with horses and vehicles and the fences on both sides of tho road resembled a clothes line on washday wash day A reasonable son estimate places the number present at 2000 they aliey came in every way ima imaginable t anable on foot horseback horse back bach in carria carriages g es buckboards buck boards road carts etc etc ad infinitum the crowd showed considerable patience during the wait that followed and there was a great deal of good natured attired guying indulged in from both sides of the road A few bets were made at the but it was hard to find any cauldwell money after considerable exercising tho the jockeying commenced at the Af merkley orkley corner bozzio hatch who was riding in g the cauldwell horse misunderstood a chance remark for the order to go and ho he rode the horse through at first this puzzled the crowd and red boy was at a discount but when the explanation was made the result was easy to foretell finally the word was given and tho the racers be began bean 0 an to burn tho the ground before the first quarter the sorrel was leading four long lengths alls and rod red boy was off the track then he got back and soon closed up tho the distance between them within a hundred yards of the wire the brown passed his antagonist and came in a winner by two lengths that settled it tho the cauldwell horse could hard hardly ly got get back to tho the starting place and was wisely withdrawn tile the judges were wm mccaslin L S holdaway and jno popo pope if any time was kept wo we failed to hear of it the raco race has been in course of preparation for about three weeks and the stakes stake camo came to 1000 a side while almost everyone in the valley bet something from a jacy jack knafo to a double eagle an unfortunate episode occurred on the track af after ter tho the raco was over don cauldwell and bezzio hatch who rodo rode tho the horse were on engaged in a discussion when the former 0 drew his gun and struck young hatch over the head inflicting a painful but not serious wound cauldwell who is as big as two of his hia victim was arrested and brought before justice parks who in consideration of his youth lot him off with some good a advice avi co a and n d a f ame ino of 25 and 1390 costs |
