. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. February 26, 1898] ®pj£ gveebev aaii &p0vt&man* 131 SPECIAL DEPARTMENT EDITED AND CONDUCTED SOLELY BY JOSEPH OAIRN SIMPSON. Write the Storx ! âAfter the great race on Saturday laBt in reply to laudations of the race Judge C said s 1 Write the story in the old-fashioned way Mr. S Commence it as soon as you get home while eserything is forcibly impressed on your mind, all the shifting scenes vividly ; An easy taBk from one point of view, plenty of material, not only a " foundation of facts," but a peries of truths to construct
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. February 26, 1898] ®pj£ gveebev aaii &p0vt&man* 131 SPECIAL DEPARTMENT EDITED AND CONDUCTED SOLELY BY JOSEPH OAIRN SIMPSON. Write the Storx ! âAfter the great race on Saturday laBt in reply to laudations of the race Judge C said s 1 Write the story in the old-fashioned way Mr. S Commence it as soon as you get home while eserything is forcibly impressed on your mind, all the shifting scenes vividly ; An easy taBk from one point of view, plenty of material, not only a " foundation of facts," but a peries of truths to construct the tale upon, plenty of incidents for as long a chapter as Wm. T. Porter took to give his history of the meeting between Wagner and Grey Eagle nearly sixty years ago, a chapter that will be read with interest as long as the "high-mettled racehorse" is kept in remembrance, But if that past-master of horse literature could have witnessed the California race, in some respects far superior to the battle fought on the " dark and bloody ground," and was in hiB very best form, endowed with all of his former capacity to portray the scenes, as graphically asjwords could picture, would scarcely feel the enthusiasm necessary to reproduce his masterpiece which has never been excelled, in fact never- equalled in all the years of race reporting. Enthusiasn not entirely absent, it is true, bnt not of the kind that inspired the cheers that caused "women to faint and strong men shed tears" when the pride of Kentucky was beaten. "Not a Kentucsian on the ground laid a dollar on Wagner," writes the "Tall Son of York," and it is safe to say that there was a more potent stimulant than the excitement of money wagered, the desire to see the "home horse" vic- torious, a sorrow over his defeat that money won could not ameliorate. ... , Then again there is the feeling that long descriptions of races that were read with avidity in the "
Size: 2311px × 1081px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjecthorses, bookyear1882
