STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. HI 



REPORT OF RACES. 



From tue " Bref.dkr and Sportsman. 



FIRST DAY. 



The racing at the State Fair commenced on Monday at noon. In 

 the Judges' Stand were H. M. La Rue, John Boggs of Colusa, and J. 

 McM. Shafter. The timers were Messrs. Babcock and Carroll, and G. 

 W. Hancock acted as starter for the running races. In the first race, 

 Introduction stake, there were four entries — Aunt Betsej^, Premium, 

 Major Whitesides, and Jim Renwick, who were started in the order 

 named. Pools sold: Renwick, sixty dollars; Premium, thirty dol- 

 lars; field, fifteen dollars. The horses, on the second attempt, were 

 started, with Premium and Aunt Betsey fully thirty yards in advance 

 of Renwick and Whitesides. This gave the race to the big mare — a 

 bit of poetic justice, for last year, in the same race on the same track, 

 she was sent off fifty feet behind, and had to run through her field 

 to win. Betsey fell back when they had gone a couple of rods, and 

 Renwick went for the race, but could not catch Premium, who won 

 by half a length, Jim Renwick second, Whitesides third. 



SUMMARY. 



Agricultural Park Course, Sacramento, September lO, 188.3. — Running race — Introduction 

 stake. Three quarters of a mile dash; $35 entrance; $10 forfeit; $200 added; $60 to second 

 horse, and third to save stake. 



John Mackey's ch. m. Premium , 1 



Levi Knott's ch. g. Jim Renwick 2 



F. Dupoister's b. h. Major Whitesides 3 



F. Dupoister's b. f. Aunt Betsey 4 



Time—'i-.Ui. 



Jim Renwick was a hot favorite for the race, and his backers felt 

 sore at being beaten out of their money by the advantage given to 

 Premium at the start. To be sent off thirty yards behind ihe flag 

 meant that Jim Renwick had to run the three quarters of a mile in 

 a trifle better time than 1:13 to win the race, and that he did so well 

 proves him to be a horse of marvelous quality. No excuse could be 

 made for the starter. He clearly lost his head, and convinced every 

 one that he was not the man for the place. 



The second race was the California Derby stake, for foals of 1880; 

 one and one half mile dash; fifty dollars entrance; play or pay; thirty 

 dollars added; second horse, one hundred dollars; third horse, fifty 

 dollars. There were eleven entries, but only two started — Geo. How- 

 son's Augusta E, and J. B. Haggin's Young Flush. Pools sold: Au- 

 gusta E, one hundred dollars; Young Flush, thirty-live dollars. 

 Augusta had the pole. The horses got a very even send-off on the 

 first start. The last quarter of the race the animals went round the 



