The American thoroughbred . nt favorite, was the thirdstarter. In all the running of the Cup there hadbeen no such contest as this. There was ten toone on Miss Woodford, and ten to one was laidagainst Barnum, with fifteen against Eole. Eolenever counted in the race at all. Barnum, the oldreliable, went out and made the pace, and madeit so good that when Miss Woodford tried tomove up to him she found the utmost difficultyin closing the gap; and in a wonderful finish, withboth horses showing remarkable gameness, theyflashed across the wire head and head, and thejudges announced it a dead heat. T
The American thoroughbred . nt favorite, was the thirdstarter. In all the running of the Cup there hadbeen no such contest as this. There was ten toone on Miss Woodford, and ten to one was laidagainst Barnum, with fifteen against Eole. Eolenever counted in the race at all. Barnum, the oldreliable, went out and made the pace, and madeit so good that when Miss Woodford tried tomove up to him she found the utmost difficultyin closing the gap; and in a wonderful finish, withboth horses showing remarkable gameness, theyflashed across the wire head and head, and thejudges announced it a dead heat. The track wasvery heavy, and yet they ran the mile and three-quarters to which the cup distance had been cutin The owner of Barnum wanted to runthe stake off, but the Dwyer Brothers wereunwilling to send Miss Woodford for anothersuch gruelling, and they yielded the stake to oldBarnum. All in all, it was a year of brilliant racing inboth the East and the West, and not for manyseasons had so many good horses come to the. In Hanovers Time 419 front. Miss Woodford was the acknowledgedchampion of all the mares of that time. Tre-mont stood just as high above all the two-year-olds. Among the horses there was no dominantcharacter, but there were not less than a dozenracing in the East and in the West that mighthave been called horses of exceeding high class. In 1887 the Brooklyn Jockey Club came intoexistence, and gave its initial meeting on thatsame Prospect Park track on which the ConeyIsland Jockey Club had given its first meeting witnessed the first running of theBrooklyn Handicap, and furnished the finish inwhich Hidalgo was mixed up. It was a rattlinggood field which went to the post in that firstBrooklyn. The track was fast. The race, fromstart to finish, was one of the exciting kind wherethe field was closely packed all the way. At theseven-furlong pole Dry Monopole and Blue Wingwere running head and head, with Hidalgo alength back. The excitement at this poin
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